Of more than 600 claims Musk has made:
He achieved what he said he would only about 19% of the time.
He was late or did not deliver on his goals about 35% of the time.
For about 33% there's no public update or they were too vague to evaluate.
And 13% came with dates still in the future.
A coalition of D.C.-area preservation and cultural heritage orgs have sued the Trump admin over Trump's plan to remake national parkland with a massive statuary garden.
The groups said Trump's planned 'National Garden of American Heroes' must be halted until Congress authorizes the project.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov In other words, Donald is again violating congressional budgeting mechanisms in order to fund his discretionary project.
US District Judge Richard Mark Gergel just issued a historic reality check to the regime, ruling that federal agencies cannot ignore Congress to kill climate grants. He completely erased their illegal memo. Read the full judicial smackdown: 👇
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...
He's been saying this thing about how easy it is to walk over the Qatar-Iran border for many months now. Clearly no one around him is brave enough to correct him. That's pretty terrifying.
Holy shit, this is a terrible answer. The issue with her and Kavanaugh, IIRC, was her claim that he promised to respect precedent, including Roe v. Wade, and then didn't. She's just flat-out telling everyone (if it wasn't already obvious) that she never actually cared if he was being truthful.
The power data centers use has made utilities go through the roof.
Data centers use 5 to 8 million gallons of water a day, Virginia is under an extreme drought.
Fauquier County is under a severe water shortage.
Thank you @repsuhas.bsky.social .
The president wants to remake West Potomac Park to build a statue garden that would honor 250 American heroes. A suit argues Congress must authorize the project and that several proposed statues may v...
'Favors for friends’ is the flip side of the slide into authoritarianism.
Authentic MAGA racism.
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As of today, over 14,000 people have signed SAG-AFTRA’s open letter urging Congress to pass the #NoFakesAct, a landmark piece of federal legislation that would establish the first-ever federal, individual property right over one’s own voice and likeness. Read more: https://ow.ly/JCvv50ZcrE4
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NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that?
SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.
Scott Dworkin
As always, this is less damning about Musk himself than it is about the degraded and dysfunctional sociopolitical systems around him, which continued to elevate him despite his endless grifts.
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Trump: "Qatar is the closest to Iran, physically. With other countries, I noticed they had to travel about 45 minutes to get there. With you, you could walk right across the border."
There's no land border between Iran and Qatar. They're separated by the Persian Gulf.
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The billionaire has stated many plans for his businesses, but has delivered only some of what he said he would, when he said he would, according to a Times analysis.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump Justice Department's senior leadership closed an investigation of Paramount's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Exclusive: A detailed project summary of the ballroom prepared for the White House by a contractor estimated the total construction cost at $600 million — with more than half coming from taxpayers, according to a copy obtained by The Post.
I told the Secretary of Energy that data centers double our utility costs in Northern Virginia and he had no intelligible response.
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Department staffers investigating the Warner acquisition were leaning toward recommending a challenge to the merger, people familiar with the matter say.
An internal cost estimate in March by the project’s contractor ran $200 million more than Trump has said publicly and counters his claims that no taxpayer money will be spent.
