32 m. ago It might be a small consolation, but Elon Musk is getting poorer by the day | John Naughton

As his goons root through the innards of the US government, Tesla sales are plummeting, the cars are being defaced and owners are ashamedExtreme wealth has always played a role in democracies. Money has always talked, especially in the US. Years ago, Lawrence Lessig, the great legal scholar, calculated that most of the campaign funding for members of Congress and aspiring politicians came from one-twentieth of the richest 1% of Americans – about 150,000 people. This is about the same number as those who are named “Lester” and explains the title of his book: The USA Is Lesterland.But that particular corruption of American politics only involved billionaires like the Koch brothers playing organ-grinders to congressional monkeys. The obscene wealth generated by the tech industry has catapulted a new organ-grinder into the heart of the machine. He was able to pay his way in with a spare quarter of a billion dollars that he happened to have lying around. And now the wretched citizens of ...

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4 h. ago Elon Musk confirms he has fathered another child with Neuralink exec Shivon Zillis

The couple have also shared the name of their third child, which has until now had not been known

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8 h. ago Elon Musk has '14th child' as Shivon Zilis announces strange name of baby

Elon Musk has seemingly announced he has a fourth child with baby mama Shivon Zilis, just weeks after it emerged MAGA influencer Ashely St. Clair had his child

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9 h. ago AI predicts FA cup results as Manchester United's 'relegation form' strikes again

EXCLUSIVE: We turned to Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence powered large language model called Grok for predictions for the FA Fifth Round after its Premier League predictions fared well

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9 h. ago Supercomputer predicts FA cup results as Ruben Amorim's Man Utd have chance to bounce back

EXCLUSIVE: We turned to Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence powered large language model called Grok for predictions for the FA Fifth Round after its Premier League predictions fared well

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10 h. ago Second Musk email arrives ordering all federal employees to justify their roles

New round of emails from ‘Doge’ department begin appearing as early as Friday

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11 h. ago Elon Musk's baby mama Shivon Zilis reveals DOGE head's 14th alleged child and his very unusual name

Elon Musk and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis have welcomed their fourth child together, revealing his unique name via a social media post. This marks Musk's alleged 14th child.

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11 h. ago Elon Musk sensationally insists his 'Nazi salute' was meant 'with positive spirit'

Elon Musk caused ire when he appeared to p erform a Nazi salute at Donald Trump's inauguration in January, accusations the SpaceX CEO had claimed were part of a "dirty tricks campaign" against him

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14 h. ago Elon Musk accuses rival billionaire of trying to ‘destroy’ Trump to stop ‘Epstein List’ from coming out

‘Why was Reid Hoffman so intent on destroying Trump?’ Elon Musk asked Joe Rogan before agreeing with Rogan’s claims that it was to prevent the ‘list from coming out.’

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15 h. ago Elon Musk appears to confirm the birth of his likely 14th child after tweet by partner

The tech billionaire, 53, responded to a post on X by Shivon Zilis, with whom he already shares three children

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16 h. ago Trump administration to slash funding for enforcement of fair housing laws

The Associated Press obtained information that says President Donald Trump’s administration has begun terminating federal grants to organizations that enforce the federal Fair Housing Act's anti-discrimination laws

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17 h. ago Elon Musk had done ‘no preparation’ for DOGE ahead of Trump’s win so adopted a ‘spaghetti against the wall’ approach

SpaceX billionaire reportedly needed civics lessons to be brought up to speed on how US government works

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17 h. ago Firings at US weather and oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn

The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy

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18 h. ago Trump administration says DOGE records aren’t public after Elon Musk promised ‘maximum transparency’

The billionaire says all government information should be public — but the administration says FOIA doesn’t apply to his agency

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20 h. ago Elon Musk cowers in silence amid Donald Trump and Keir Starmer's 'bromance' after bashing PM

The two UK and US leaders met earlier this week in Washington but tech billionaire Elon Musk has been more interested in promoting his upcoming appearance on a popular US podcast

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22 h. ago Federal workers will get a new email demanding their accomplishments, with a key change

Federal employees should expect another email on Saturday requiring them to explain their recent accomplishments

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23 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: We must learn from Trump and take the pruning shears to the vast undergrowth of State spending. And do it with all the zealotry of Elon Musk

A momentous week began with Keir Starmer going to the House of Commons and announcing a big boost to defence spending - and the yippees could be heard in every officers' mess in the country.

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24 h. ago Elon Musk Grok 3 AI has adult 'sexy' and 'unhinged' modes sparking fears for children

The newly-released Grok 3 chatbot is more risqué than any of its rivals and has told one user: 'I can feel the heat between us already. Why don’t we dim the lights and make it extra cosy'

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25 h. ago How Katy Perry snubbed Elon Musk to join Jeff Bezos' space mission

After years of lobbying Musk to try and take her to Mars, Katy Perry has switched sides to explore space with Jeff Bezos

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26 h. ago Elon Musk’s DOGE homes in on new target: Weather forecasters

The cuts will ‘endanger American lives,’ lawmaker says

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