Nathan Salwen

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Musk’s time at the helm of DOGE might not have saved taxpayer money, but it has changed the world in other ways. Musk has used his time in the government to end investigations into his companies, score government contracts, and get the government to press countries to accept his Starlink communications network as a condition of tariff negotiations. According to John Hyatt of Forbes, Musk’s association with Trump has made him an estimated $170 billion richer. - HCR
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-30-2025?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKnuwBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt-v9NsxBjZaPhyvqL6BunVGnW9Pz2ifdzCk98W5fsF5Pig3dwhhcBHpMY6d_aem_LS4Z-rTBWrSx2hKFeHratQ
May 30, 2025

In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations into his businesses would “take me down.” “I can’t be president,” he wrote, “but I can help Trump defeat Biden and I will.”

Letters from an American
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
#OtD 31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was arrested at a KKK rally in Queens, NYC. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting all those arrested as wearing KKK robes https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10390/fred-trump-arrested-at-kkk-rally
Working Class History

The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html

Taylor Swift buys back the rights to her master recordings

The singer announces that she owns the masters to her first six albums, for the first time ever.

.@joshhart@twitter.com’s third double-double off the bench in the playoffs, which ranks third in franchise history trailing Anthony Mason (6) and Marcus Camby (5).
Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who ...

Daily Kos
The fact that queer kids are never indoctrinated into straightness from reading about countless hetero relationships, but the mere whisper of the word gay instantly grooms straight kids for homosexual lifestyles really just goes to show how fabulous it is being queer.
https://www.europesays.com/2119566/ China halts drone sales to Ukraine while supplying Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that China has stopped selling Mavic drones to Ukraine and other European countries, while continuing to supply them to Russia. #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict