Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.
Elon Musk becomes biggest donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent
Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024
Elon Musk threatens to sue lawmaker who suggested DOGE cuts led to death of 4.5M kids
Democrat Ro Khanna cited a 2025 study that estimated more than 14 million people could die without USAID resources by 2030
How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian Quinn Slobodian tells Byline Times that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems to be optimised
Musk Tries To Bribe Memphis So They'll Overlook His AI Data Centers Are Killing Black Toddlers
Elon Musk's business decisions routinely leave minority populations lodged squarely under his white supremacist bootheel.
People in This Mississippi City Faced Off With Elon Musk. They Lost.
Despite locals’ concerns about noise and possible pollution, Mississippi is allowing Mr. Musk’s company to operate gas turbines there that will help power its chatbot.
Stephen Colbert thinks Tesla CEO Elon Musk should run for president
But if that future includes a Musk run at the presidency of the United States, Musk has a lot of work still to do to change the rules.
Spend Elon Musk’s Money
What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
Robin Berjon (@robin.berjon.com)
Ok — I've seen enough. #WSocial is the politics of Elon Musk meets the accountability of Mark Zuckerberg.
The sanewashing of Elon Musk - Lawyers, Guns & Money
As Jamelle Bouie points out, Elon Musk spends a great deal of time on the social media site he owns both personally pushing and amplifying themes directly derived from prominent works of violent white supremacy, attracting very little attention from the mainstream press: Over the past month in particular, he has adopted the imagery of […]
Elon Musk’s Push for Free Speech Shows Clear Bias Towards His Own Interests
Musk is seemingly making calls on where to push back based on his own interests.
The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax
Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education
It’s Not Just Elon Musk — These Billionaires Are Also Neurodivergent
Some billionaires say their conditions helped them succeed in business.
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
Drew Harwell
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/e…
So I wrote a much longer thing explaining why Minnesota's anti-nudify tech law, while it might be well meaning, is TERRIBLY DRAFTED in a manner that almost guarantees it will be thrown out, giving Elon Musk a win. But also, I don't understand WHY MN legislators wrote such a bad law...
Techdirt
The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban There's been a bunch of news this... techdirt.com/2026/07/30/the-worst-person-y…
