Trump has a soft spot for those types.
God this administration is so fucked up…
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Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes
Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes - sh.itjust.works
> It’s been almost exactly one year since Trevor Milton, the founder of now-bankrupt electric truck startup Nikola, was pardoned by President Trump. Now the Wall Street Journal has published one of the first deep dives into Milton’s new effort: trying to build autonomous planes. > Milton and an “investment group” purchased a downtrodden aviation company called SyberJet Aircraft late last year and he has spent the time since trying to turn the company around. That involves bringing in “dozens” of former Nikola staff, soliciting possible investors from Saudi Arabia, and spending a few hundred thousand dollars on lobbying, according to the report. Oh this sounds perfectly safe. What could possibly go wrong?
The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out
The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out - sh.itjust.works
> The Giving Pledge’s numbers, reported Sunday by the New York Times, trace a steady decline. In its first five years, 113 families signed the Pledge. Then 72 over the next five, 43 in the five after that, and just four in all of 2024. The roster includes Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Elon Musk — some of the most powerful people in the world, and yet, in Peter Thiel’s words to the Times, it is a club that’s “really run out of energy . . .I don’t know if the branding is outright negative,” Thiel told the outlet, “but it feels way less important for people to join.”
I don’t totally hate it, personally. More media for the same price, plus physical vs. digital.
How the Rapture Explains the Rupture Over Israel on the Right
How the Rapture Explains the Rupture Over Israel on the Right - sh.itjust.works
> For decades, one of the most reliable pillars of pro-Israel sentiment in the United States was not just Jews but conservative Christians. That support had a theological motor: Israel mattered not just as an ally on a Cold War map, but as a central actor on the map of the End Times. Put simply, Christians needed Jews to return to the homeland of Israel to usher in the second coming of Christ. But now, that theological motor is sputtering.
Kristi Noem Gave Huge Contract to Company Accused of People Smuggling