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lorak.bsky.social
reporter at cnbc.com. email: [email protected] - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla (some climate tech startups). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

perfect

So to review: 1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that. 2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied. 3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

“a pivot toward a public-transit model without public accountability…”

open.spotify.com/track/5UcAW3... you’re too weird - fruit bats (song to serenade myself?) soooo tired & wanna stay up anyway listening to music

they’re trying to blame it on Sergio Gor

take me to the weekend…

f*ng horrifying. preventable.

A very well-liked VP at Tesla, Milan Kovac, resigned to go spend time with his family today. Musk thanked him publicly. He was heading up the company's Optimus humanoid robotics effort, previously was director of Autopilot software engineering. Hard to replace talent. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/t...

Many lefties will not come back to Musk or Tesla. But I bet some will. Tesla fans and Musk are hoping for it. Betting some politicians don't care about his conduct if they smell a chance to get funds from the world's richest man. Consumers' and voters' memory is short even among the informed.

I thought Elon Musk was good enough at managing his relationships with those who wield political power that he wouldn't cross Trump while Trump could still be useful to him and vice versa. Look at how he's managed Xi in China. I was wrong. Effects of his feud and provocations may not be reversible.

“Brooke Lierman, comptroller of Maryland, told CNBC in an email that the company’s board ‘is not doing its job to ensure that there is a CEO at Tesla who is putting the company’s interests first.’” Genuinely wonder what Tesla and the broader EV industry would be like if Tesla had a real CEO.

Tesla already had problems - then Elon Musk made one more, feuding with Trump. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/t...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court *limits* discovery into the Department of Government Efficiency’s internal workings in a dispute that asks if the initiative must comply with public records requests, and orders D.C. Circuit to narrow requests for info. Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson dissent. #SCOTUS

“At least I know what is going on and I can somewhat enjoy it, but I want them to stop. I've had it. I don't want to see my parents fighting.” www.wired.com/story/100-st...

FEMA has lost staff + cut back on grants. Its current top boss lacks emergency management experience. As hurricane season opens, "it is a disaster waiting to happen," one expert told @bloomberg.com. Story w/ the excellent @zhirji.bsky.social (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

general and usually accurate sentiment.

Musk chopping it up with Medvedev on X

“.. And, by the way, he’s a Republican.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Tesla shares are up 6%+ rebounding from yesterday's market reaction to the Trump-Musk feud... by Ryan Browne at @cnbc.com -- www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/t...

straight into my neurotransmitters please - “just let me play my guitar alright?” open.spotify.com/track/5HtClg...

🚨New: Trump Org applies for sweeping trademark for tech products. Items include— 💰 crypto wallets 💰 virtual civics training 💰 virtual cologne 1/

More measles exposures are happening at AIRPORTS -- ugh. Here's what travelers need to know. (via CNN) www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/h...

We have an official ruling

Lawsuit: Pres. Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE and HHS used "hopelessly error-ridden" data to fire 10,000 workers - arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...