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How Musk is leveraging Trump to move us from crony capitalism to thug capitalism—just out from WSJ www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Spoke to @democracynow.org about the history of strange bedfellows between cost-cutters and Leviathan-tamers and the glimmer of hope in Germany pushing back against Musk's aspiration to be global kingmaker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIPW...

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I'm loving reading Wired.

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Bezos' Wash Post canceled this ad. Was it “because we’re critical of... Elon Musk?” fair.org/home/the-wor...

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Did WaPo kill @ourcommoncause.bsky.social & @splcactionfund.org ad b/c “we’re critical of what’s happening with Elon Musk?” asks @virginiaksolomon.bsky.social. “Is it only OK to run things in the Post now that won’t anger the president?” From me @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/the-wor...

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My latest...

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From a business perspective—the only perspective that really matters to Jeff Bezos—pissing the temperamental Elon Musk off at a moment when he commands unprecedented power in the public and private spheres is a bad idea. So Bezos is being careful not to—as is his paper. fair.org/home/the-wor...

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To be an expert in Washington all you have to do is learn the name of whatever presidential palace or building the leadership works out of and refer to that instead of the country itself. Losers say Russia, JV experts say Moscow, the pros say the Kremlin.

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Top of WaPo's homepage right now...

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What Elon Musk is doing isn’t "fraud patrol," nor is it "a noble cause," regardless of what Wash Post says.

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A picture's worth a thousand words

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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

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As they should be. And the statute of limitations is five years, well into the next presidential term.

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I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about a line in my story for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social yesterday. I’d mentioned an exchange on CNN, but didn’t get a chance to say why it made for some of the best television I’ve seen. petetucker.substack.com/p/if-tv-were...

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Having spent nearly $300 million to purchase the US presidency for Donald Trump, Elon Musk now feels entitled to do with it as he pleases. fair.org/home/wapo-pr...

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A billionaire president hands the reins over to a billionaire Nazi saluter, while the billionaire Washington Post owner sidles up next to both. My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/wapo-pr...

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My latest...

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The Washington Post is famed for opposing a prior Republican president with an expansive view of executive power. These days the paper’s higher-ups are careful not to offend the president or Musk, and even call on the Constitution-defying billionaire duo to push further. fair.org/home/wapo-pr...

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Congratulations to Maryland Matters founding editor Josh Kurtz, who was honored in the Maryland Senate today for his upcoming retirement from the news business.

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Cc DOGE - I hear you’ve only cut $2 billion so far. FYI here’s a quick $400 million in savings.

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I bet the Doge gang will be all over this sleazy corruption www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

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They have. That’s why I subscribed and you should too.

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My latest roundup looks at Elon Musk (who else), Trayon White, the DCA plane crash and Maryland Matters. petetucker.substack.com/p/the-roundu...

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"These self-imagined libertarians want government for all sorts of things. The small grain of truth to the story is that they don’t want government social programs that help people who are not rich. Musk’s view is that the govt should only be there to make him and his fellow billionaires richer."

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Elon Musk lies when he says he wants to get rid of government regulation and no one should be so stupid as to take this seriously. He just wants to get rid of regulations that benefit non-billionaires cepr.net/publications...

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"As Musk and Trump continue to behave like kings, it’s incumbent upon news media to not just report on their actions, but put them in the proper context for the public to understand the threat level they represent," writes @jhollar.bsky.social

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Top of today's WaPo homepage. See if you can spot coverage of the constitutional crisis underway? It's like playing Where's Waldo? This comes as Post owner Jeff Bezos is busy prostrating himself to Trump and his chief patron Elon Musk 🫤

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NPR, being publicly funded and all, can’t write Trump a check for millions of dollars like other Big Media organizations are lining up to do. But that doesn’t mean NPR can’t do the big fellow a favor now and then! fair.org/home/with-ze...

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Why is Trump a "populist," according to NPR? He “made a show of working a shift at a McDonald’s last fall.” And he “popularize[d] a fringe theory about then-President Obama being foreign born." That's pretty much it! fair.org/home/with-ze...

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Remind me what election this guy won?

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SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say System controls disbursement of trillions of dollars per yr www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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NEWS: Amid pressure from Senate Rs over funding freeze, Russ Vought held emergency meeting Tuesday w/ baffled/exasperated staff Vought said they needed to clarify the memo only applied to funds affected by Trump EO "Anybody who could read English" could see it didn't, one U.S. official told me

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It is sort of striking that we can have this big national conversation about RFK Jr. and his allegations of corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and the issue of government-granted patent monopolies NEVER gets mentioned. Speaks to corruption of the media.

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It should learn to code

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All of this tracks

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They’re on to us

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Profile in Cowardice: How one Senator up for re-election next year gave us a thoroughly unfit Defense Secretary www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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It’s only been a week of Trump 2.0 and it’s already hard to keep up. Here are a few important stories you may have missed. petetucker.substack.com/p/the-roundu...

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This is how it starts. Awkward Gesture Exuberant Speech. It's never Just.

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great billboard, and story

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"'Mr. Breslau said Mr. Musk reminded him of a teenager. 'In that way,' Mr. Breslau added, 'he is a true gamer.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/t...

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“If all the different sectors that make it work can demand a little bit more, have more control, have more of a voice in the workplace — that could be a start of chipping away at the power that Amazon has, or at least putting it in check." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/b...

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funny I was astonished by how insanely hard legacy media pretended Musk's Nazi salute was merely an "awkward gesture" fair.org/home/musks-n...

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The #NYTimes presents #ElonMusk ’s influence on the new administration as something “Democrats…have suggested,” and the role of Trump’s billionaire allies as something Democrats “plan to invoke” in the fight over tax cuts. fair.org/home/for-eli...

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Elon Musk threw up a Nazi salute for all the world to see. Then did it again. Yet the only one to face consequences is a meteorologist who called him out. My latest for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social fair.org/home/musks-n...

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