Notices by Joshua Holland (joshuaholland@mastodon.social)

Good piece. #elonmusk is such a grifter.

“The lesson here is that SpaceX somehow needs to make Starship significantly more robust and lighter by well over a hundred tonnes if it is to conduct even one successful mission, let alone achieve constant reuse — which, let’s be clear, is basically impossible. All flight 9 has proven is just how much of a dead end Starship is.”

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-dead-end

#elonmusk spent $290 million to elect a fascist crackpot and will be spared around $2 billion in potential liability.

#Corruption brings in a helluva roi.

#trump #tesla
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musks-regulatory-issues-begun-melt-away-trumps-second-term-rcna202848

In the coming days you’ll see headlines like, “ICE Can Now Come Into Your House Without a Warrant.”

They will be false.

Trump’s Attorney General, who once accepted a bribe from him when she was FL AG, instructed her agents to ignore the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution.

That’s the story. It’s a bad one.
#trump #media #fascism #immigration

Looks like Tesla joined the #Tesla boycott
#elonmusk #doge #fascism

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2025/04/09/tesla-dealers-are-now-refusing-cybertruck-trade-ins-sources-report/

"I never thought leopards would eat my face", sobs man who spent $270 million electing the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
#elonmusk #tariffs #trump

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/business/musk-tariffs-us-europe/index.html

I weigh 186 pounds and my dogs weigh 186 pounds. We have achieved on-leash parity.
#dogsofmastodon

I bought some dried fruit which looks like and is packaged like my dogs’ favorite treats.

This is what happened when I tried to eat them.
#dogsofmastodon

"You can support a lawyer’s right to represent unpopular clients and causes against powerful forces — essentially the oath we all took when becoming members of the bar. Or you can sit back, check your bank balance and watch your freedoms, along with the legal system and the tripartite system of government we should not take for granted, swirl down the drain."
#trump #fascism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/opinion/perkins-coie-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.704.9VUx.pgkjYo4B6N9s&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare#

This is election bribery under Wisconsin law. It's a class I felony punishable by up to 3.5 years in jail.

He deleted the twoot.
#elonmusk #fascism #corruption #electionfraud #maga

“'What I’m saying is hang on to your stock,' Musk said."

And while he was saying this to the rank-and-file, board members and other insiders have been cashing out in a big way. (https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-board-members-executive-sell-off-100-million/story?id=119889047)

Exactly the same thing happened at Enron when things started to go south.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/elon-musk-asks-tesla-employees-to-hang-on-to-stock-despite-40-drop
#elonmusk #tesla #trump

Focusing on the 20 or so unknown people who have burned #Tesla s rather than the remarkable success of a grassroots campaign to devalue Musk’s brand is dishonest and just amplifies the right’s propaganda.

The right response is, ‘when you let a deranged billionaire buy and rampage through our gov causing massive harm to the American people you should expect outrage. In a country that venerates violent opposition to tyrants, you should expect a few to take it to extremes’ #doge #elonmusk

It would be good if the press mentioned that fentanyl deaths are declining "in large part due to concerted efforts to curb trafficking by the Joe Biden administration in cooperation with other countries, namely China and Mexico." And that Canada is responsible for almost none of the US supply.

#media #trump #tariffs #canada #mexico #china #trumprecession https://www.cfr.org/article/how-does-fentanyl-reach-united-states

It's especially galling after they spent years spinning these ludicrous conspiracy theories about a cautious, law-abiding, norm-respecting administration "weaponizing" the government against conservatives.

Every time I see a media outlet refer to Musk’s ideological purge of public servants as a “cost-cutting” exercise my blood pressure just spikes. #media #trump #fascism #elonmusk

During a previous administration, I was led to believe that this—and voters’ feelings about it—was the only story that really matters.
#trump #media #inflation

Any member of the House can file articles of impeachment under a privileged resolution against Trump for selling the federal government to the biggest donor of all time and shirking his duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. It would be tabled, but it would also be covered.

In BC, they're pulling booze produced in red states from liquor store shelves. I like the targeting.

#trump #maga #tariffs #inflation #canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-us-tariffs-1.7448307

No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, drugged-up, unelected fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.

#democrats #trump #fascism #elonmusk

It doesn't matter how egregious or obviously racist Trump's lies are, they just write down whatever the guy who averaged 20.9 "false or misleading statements" every day during his first term says and print it.

#trump #media #fascism

Trump wasted no time violating the Constitutional requirement that he “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

Pardoning the seditious thugs who rioted as part of your failed coup attempt would certainly be an impeachable offense in South Korea.
#trump #fascism #Jan6