Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of.
In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac!
Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada).
In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people.
FROM PARNAS PERSPECTIVE, AARON PARNAS (video on link):
And then there’s Elon Musk. The New York Times found that most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign in Texas traces back to him, $158 million and counting. I heard Musk fans are mad at me, so I’m interviewing Alex Gibney, the director of the new Musk documentary he wants you to never see. Musk can spend hundreds of millions trying to buy elections and drown out the truth, but he can’t buy this newsletter, and he can’t buy you.
Musk Documentary Paints a Damning Portrait as His Money Props Up Ken Paxton in Texas
Alex Gibney’s new documentary “Musk” paints Elon Musk as a man who sees other people as characters in his own video game, according to a review in The New Republic. The film, from the director of “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “Going Clear,” runs nearly four hours with an intermission. Musk refused to be interviewed and instead called Gibney a “douche” on X, so Gibney built a database of Musk’s recorded interviews and created a computer-generated Musk avatar that “answers” questions using things Musk has actually said. The device plays on Musk’s long-held belief that life is probably a simulation, and the film portrays him as the main character in a digital world where everyone else is a “non-player character.” Reviewer David Klion describes the portrait that emerges as one of “an empty, hateful, emotionally stunted man” whose two superpowers are shameless self-promotion and an ability to exploit weaknesses in government regulation. The central question of the film, Klion writes, is how someone like Musk gained such immense power and “what does it say about the rest of us that we allowed it to happen?”
The documentary traces the damage Musk has done, from Tesla’s self-driving crashes to the dismantling of USAID, and includes his power over Ukraine’s battlefield through Starlink. Gibney interviews more than a dozen people, including Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard, Musk’s ex-wife Justine, Ashley St. Clair, former USAID chief Samantha Power and members of Musk’s own family. The film highlights a Florida lawyer suing Tesla over its self-driving cars, which have been involved in at least 60 deaths. It also covers Musk’s gutting of the federal government through DOGE, and Power chokes up on camera describing the suffering caused to the world’s poorest people when USAID was dismantled. Gibney shows how Musk built ties with Trump, Argentina’s Javier Milei, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to expand businesses like Starlink, which lets him “sway the battlefields of Ukraine by denying or granting access.” St. Clair, the mother of one of his 14 known children, says on camera that she refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement she claims Musk has offered other women and details the harassment she has faced since speaking out.
Most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Texas Senate campaign can be traced to Musk, who gave $158 million to a super PAC that immediately sent the same amount to a pro-Paxton group, according to the New York Times. Campaign finance filings show Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $75 million on Sept. 9 and $83 million on Sept. 23. Each time, the very next day, the super PAC sent a check for the exact same amount to Texas PAC, a group it set up to support Paxton. Musk also gave $10 million to a separate pro-Paxton super PAC that started running TV ads in late August, and his midterm donations now total at least $276 million, making him the biggest known donor this cycle. Musk, who lives in Austin, has long been allied with Paxton, who as Texas attorney general regulates Musk’s businesses in the state. The money has kept Paxton competitive even though he has been vastly outraised by Democrat James Talarico, who has criticized billionaires like Musk on the campaign trail and has been the target of several recent attacks from Musk on X.
Musk settled the last two lawsuits over his $1 million voter giveaways from the 2024 election, ending a two-year legal fight, according to CNN. In the final stretch of the 2024 race, Musk’s America PAC gave away $1 million a day to registered voters in battleground states while Musk urged people to vote for Trump. Voters later filed proposed class-action fraud lawsuits claiming Musk tricked them into thinking they had a fair shot at the money, which required handing over their personal data to his political group. Musk had said the winners would be picked “randomly,” but his lawyers later admitted in court that winners were “not chosen by chance” and were instead picked based on whether they would make good spokespeople for the pro-Trump super PAC. The terms of the settlements were not disclosed, and Musk and America PAC deny wrongdoing. The Justice Department warned Musk in 2024 that the giveaways could violate federal vote-buying laws, and Wisconsin’s bipartisan election commission concluded this year that he likely broke state law with similar giveaways in a 2025 judicial race, though prosecutors declined to bring charges.
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IS ELON MUSK THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
FROM ADAM PARKHOMENKO ALT MEDIA SAM YOUNGMAN:
Note 17: Sexy Patriots, we implore you to never ever ever ever ever get into one of Elon’s flying cars. Also, don’t drink the green shit you keep under the sink.
Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of.
In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac!
Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada).
In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people.
Buying Texas
Trump totally crashed out yesterday about the Texas Senate race, preemptively blaming John Cornyn and Karl Rove for Ken Paxton losing. So all those polls must be pretty accurate. The only thing working for Paxton right now is Elon Musk, who has given $158 million to super PACs to try and save the scumbag who put a pedophile back on the streets. Elon is basically the only donor to this PAC so it’s not an exaggeration to say that Elon is trying to buy a U.S. Senate seat. Let’s hope this goes like his foray into Wisconsin.
Thanks for the update on the Ohio voucher situation. I’ve been so worried my nieces’ and nephews’ kids would be affected by this scheme. I live in AZ now and this Republican legislature has decimated public education. So many of us are trying to claw it back, but what an uphill battle. Education is the foundation for everything else. And with the ignorance of so many in the magasphere, it’s never been more apparent.
Both my parents were mired in drug and alcohol abuse throughout my childhood. Public school teachers gave me the life I have today. I owe them everything.
My high school years were some of the most difficult years of my life for reasons I won’t go into, but if you look up deeply dysfunctional family, my family’s picture is symbolically there.
I didn’t make it to school all that much- I honestly don’t know why I wasn’t thrown out or my parents cited for truancy 🤷🏻♀️.
My English class had a newer to the school teacher who had us journal for ten minutes each class day. (Note that my parents refused my request for counseling because “they didn’t want anyone to know our business”, so things like journaling were completely foreign to me.)
I started writing things that didn’t actually say what was going on, but showed my viewpoint of the world at that time. Imagine my shock when the teacher, Ms. King selected journals to read anonymously and started with mine. I don’t recall how many of mine she read, but every class I attended, and I tried to consistently attend after that, she shared something I’d written.
I was walking by the school office one day and heard a student saying she’d gotten early acceptance. No one in my family had gone to college, but I read a lot and suspected this was college acceptance. I met with Ms. King to clarify, then the principal. When I asked him if they would help me get into college early, they said they would.
This is a time before Internet- a phone book, yellow page, college guide in the library era. So I researched colleges and called to ask for info & applications. I scheduled myself for GED exams. I drove myself to colleges that said they’d work with me. I figured out my financing in a away that’s a much longer story…
End of story, instead of killing myself, thanks to Ms. King, a public high school principal, and other school staff, I completed my last 1 1/2 years of high school at college, away from my family. I just celebrated my 63rd birthday- and I also celebrated the public school system that helped keep me alive to do it.
Thanks, Scott, for allowing me to share this memory. 💕💕💕
Aw, Ellyn, what a resourceful teen you were and guided by good teachers. This made me cry but also made me another layer of grateful. My parents were public school teachers who, of course, really valued education. I had many good teachers in my life. And I am so very happy you were able to change the trajectory of your life! Congratulations! I’m sure that resourceful, driven teen still lives inside you. Thanks for sharing your story. 💕
Scott, I was a public school teacher for 32 years. During that time I had an opportunity to see the incredible work done by my colleagues. Teaching was never an easy job and today it’s even more difficult. I was an effective teacher because of those wonderful teachers that educated me.
Yesterday, attended a No Kings Rally event, last night attended a stop oligarchy rally with our soon to be new Senator Angie Nixon (ousting Moody) with Bernie Sanders (EPIC), and now, on the way to a flag waving. We have 16 days and I will spend each one of them in motion! Thank you for reminding us every day that WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER to bring forth the change in Washington. Every Republican must go as they (more than trump) are the responsible party because they could have stopped all of it. ONWARD!
I was impressed by the number of people voting at that sight on only the 2nd day of Early Voting. Let’s be optimistic and think that people want to be sure there is a radical change and our country returns to what it is meant to be.🤞🏼
I am thrilled to hear the so-called press secretary did not last in office very long. She sounded ridiculous.
In a rather reverse way, the public school teacher who affected me most was being. in his homeroom where he was also my guidance teacher. He told me that I should forget about being a teacher because people of my religion and sex would not stand a chance of ever being hired as a public school teacher myself. Five years later, I had offers from three boards of education to teach and their municipalities. 30 years of successful,teaching, reaching the highest standards possible followed. I later learned that the offensive teacher who gave me that terrible information was removed from his position for practicing the spread of improper information. His union protected him from being fired outright, which should have happened. He also told me at one time when I took a test that was supposed to outline my personal strengths and weaknesses, that because I scored so high n mechanical abilities that I surely must've cheated. Yes, his influence on me was profound, I always strove to prove how wrong he was about everything. His school board at that time, also accused him of spreading communist propaganda. Hearing that he was removed from any personal contact with students until he retired warmed my heart.
My freshman year English teacher taught me to write in simple declarative sentences. Her influence on my writing stayed with me through college, law school and my career as a judge. There were many other teachers who helped me develop critical thinking skills. Public education created the middle class.
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IS ELON MUSK THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of.
In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac!
Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada).
In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people.
Couldn’t agree more! 🔥
Have you seen the MUSK DOCUMENTARY?
FROM PARNAS PERSPECTIVE, AARON PARNAS (video on link):
And then there’s Elon Musk. The New York Times found that most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign in Texas traces back to him, $158 million and counting. I heard Musk fans are mad at me, so I’m interviewing Alex Gibney, the director of the new Musk documentary he wants you to never see. Musk can spend hundreds of millions trying to buy elections and drown out the truth, but he can’t buy this newsletter, and he can’t buy you.
Musk Documentary Paints a Damning Portrait as His Money Props Up Ken Paxton in Texas
Alex Gibney’s new documentary “Musk” paints Elon Musk as a man who sees other people as characters in his own video game, according to a review in The New Republic. The film, from the director of “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “Going Clear,” runs nearly four hours with an intermission. Musk refused to be interviewed and instead called Gibney a “douche” on X, so Gibney built a database of Musk’s recorded interviews and created a computer-generated Musk avatar that “answers” questions using things Musk has actually said. The device plays on Musk’s long-held belief that life is probably a simulation, and the film portrays him as the main character in a digital world where everyone else is a “non-player character.” Reviewer David Klion describes the portrait that emerges as one of “an empty, hateful, emotionally stunted man” whose two superpowers are shameless self-promotion and an ability to exploit weaknesses in government regulation. The central question of the film, Klion writes, is how someone like Musk gained such immense power and “what does it say about the rest of us that we allowed it to happen?”
The documentary traces the damage Musk has done, from Tesla’s self-driving crashes to the dismantling of USAID, and includes his power over Ukraine’s battlefield through Starlink. Gibney interviews more than a dozen people, including Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard, Musk’s ex-wife Justine, Ashley St. Clair, former USAID chief Samantha Power and members of Musk’s own family. The film highlights a Florida lawyer suing Tesla over its self-driving cars, which have been involved in at least 60 deaths. It also covers Musk’s gutting of the federal government through DOGE, and Power chokes up on camera describing the suffering caused to the world’s poorest people when USAID was dismantled. Gibney shows how Musk built ties with Trump, Argentina’s Javier Milei, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to expand businesses like Starlink, which lets him “sway the battlefields of Ukraine by denying or granting access.” St. Clair, the mother of one of his 14 known children, says on camera that she refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement she claims Musk has offered other women and details the harassment she has faced since speaking out.
Most of the money behind Ken Paxton’s Texas Senate campaign can be traced to Musk, who gave $158 million to a super PAC that immediately sent the same amount to a pro-Paxton group, according to the New York Times. Campaign finance filings show Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $75 million on Sept. 9 and $83 million on Sept. 23. Each time, the very next day, the super PAC sent a check for the exact same amount to Texas PAC, a group it set up to support Paxton. Musk also gave $10 million to a separate pro-Paxton super PAC that started running TV ads in late August, and his midterm donations now total at least $276 million, making him the biggest known donor this cycle. Musk, who lives in Austin, has long been allied with Paxton, who as Texas attorney general regulates Musk’s businesses in the state. The money has kept Paxton competitive even though he has been vastly outraised by Democrat James Talarico, who has criticized billionaires like Musk on the campaign trail and has been the target of several recent attacks from Musk on X.
Musk settled the last two lawsuits over his $1 million voter giveaways from the 2024 election, ending a two-year legal fight, according to CNN. In the final stretch of the 2024 race, Musk’s America PAC gave away $1 million a day to registered voters in battleground states while Musk urged people to vote for Trump. Voters later filed proposed class-action fraud lawsuits claiming Musk tricked them into thinking they had a fair shot at the money, which required handing over their personal data to his political group. Musk had said the winners would be picked “randomly,” but his lawyers later admitted in court that winners were “not chosen by chance” and were instead picked based on whether they would make good spokespeople for the pro-Trump super PAC. The terms of the settlements were not disclosed, and Musk and America PAC deny wrongdoing. The Justice Department warned Musk in 2024 that the giveaways could violate federal vote-buying laws, and Wisconsin’s bipartisan election commission concluded this year that he likely broke state law with similar giveaways in a 2025 judicial race, though prosecutors declined to bring charges.
L.D.Michaels’s Substack
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IS ELON MUSK THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN?
FROM ADAM PARKHOMENKO ALT MEDIA SAM YOUNGMAN:
Note 17: Sexy Patriots, we implore you to never ever ever ever ever get into one of Elon’s flying cars. Also, don’t drink the green shit you keep under the sink.
Pop Base @popbase.tv
Elon Musk unveils flying car: the Tesla Roadster.
Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:29:39 GMT
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Trump's open and aggressive complicity in Russia's ongoing attempted destruction of Ukraine is the stuff that quick impeachment proceedings are made of.
In addition, any Republican Senator or Representative, whether or not running in the November 3rd elections, who refuses to voice their objections to Trump's open and notorious complicity with Russia must be voted down for their unprincipled cowardice in standing up to this self-glorifying and self-enriching megalomaniac!
Furthermore, if the reports are true that Elon Musk collaborated with Putin or his representatives to urge Trump to withhold Ukraine's access to the Starlink and Startrack intelligence network to defend itself against Russia's bombings, then the first order of business of the next Democratic administration must be to pursue legal options to prosecute Musk for failing to register as an agent of Russia and strip him of his U.S. naturalized citizenship and deport him back to South Africa, where he came from (via Canada).
In addition, given the national security interests that the U.S. has in the operation of Starlink and Startrack, the next administration should pursue the merits of exercising its eminent domaine rights to take over these entities, with reasonable compensation to Musk, who should henceforth be persona non grata in the U.S., or to put it more directly, recognized as an enemy of the people.
Buying Texas
Trump totally crashed out yesterday about the Texas Senate race, preemptively blaming John Cornyn and Karl Rove for Ken Paxton losing. So all those polls must be pretty accurate. The only thing working for Paxton right now is Elon Musk, who has given $158 million to super PACs to try and save the scumbag who put a pedophile back on the streets. Elon is basically the only donor to this PAC so it’s not an exaggeration to say that Elon is trying to buy a U.S. Senate seat. Let’s hope this goes like his foray into Wisconsin.
More: CNN, Politico
Thanks for the update on the Ohio voucher situation. I’ve been so worried my nieces’ and nephews’ kids would be affected by this scheme. I live in AZ now and this Republican legislature has decimated public education. So many of us are trying to claw it back, but what an uphill battle. Education is the foundation for everything else. And with the ignorance of so many in the magasphere, it’s never been more apparent.
I keep thinking about the people who didn’t show up and this community that ALWAYS does
Both my parents were mired in drug and alcohol abuse throughout my childhood. Public school teachers gave me the life I have today. I owe them everything.
Just got my mail in ballot yesterday. Filled out and going to drop it off today. Always enjoy your articles Scott. Thank you 👍🏻❤️🙏🏻👇🏻🗳️
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” - Shakespeare
Re:public school teachers
My high school years were some of the most difficult years of my life for reasons I won’t go into, but if you look up deeply dysfunctional family, my family’s picture is symbolically there.
I didn’t make it to school all that much- I honestly don’t know why I wasn’t thrown out or my parents cited for truancy 🤷🏻♀️.
My English class had a newer to the school teacher who had us journal for ten minutes each class day. (Note that my parents refused my request for counseling because “they didn’t want anyone to know our business”, so things like journaling were completely foreign to me.)
I started writing things that didn’t actually say what was going on, but showed my viewpoint of the world at that time. Imagine my shock when the teacher, Ms. King selected journals to read anonymously and started with mine. I don’t recall how many of mine she read, but every class I attended, and I tried to consistently attend after that, she shared something I’d written.
I was walking by the school office one day and heard a student saying she’d gotten early acceptance. No one in my family had gone to college, but I read a lot and suspected this was college acceptance. I met with Ms. King to clarify, then the principal. When I asked him if they would help me get into college early, they said they would.
This is a time before Internet- a phone book, yellow page, college guide in the library era. So I researched colleges and called to ask for info & applications. I scheduled myself for GED exams. I drove myself to colleges that said they’d work with me. I figured out my financing in a away that’s a much longer story…
End of story, instead of killing myself, thanks to Ms. King, a public high school principal, and other school staff, I completed my last 1 1/2 years of high school at college, away from my family. I just celebrated my 63rd birthday- and I also celebrated the public school system that helped keep me alive to do it.
Thanks, Scott, for allowing me to share this memory. 💕💕💕
Aw, Ellyn, what a resourceful teen you were and guided by good teachers. This made me cry but also made me another layer of grateful. My parents were public school teachers who, of course, really valued education. I had many good teachers in my life. And I am so very happy you were able to change the trajectory of your life! Congratulations! I’m sure that resourceful, driven teen still lives inside you. Thanks for sharing your story. 💕
Voting early. We even get a really cool sticker designed by public school kids in Milwaukee!!!
Scott, I was a public school teacher for 32 years. During that time I had an opportunity to see the incredible work done by my colleagues. Teaching was never an easy job and today it’s even more difficult. I was an effective teacher because of those wonderful teachers that educated me.
Yesterday, attended a No Kings Rally event, last night attended a stop oligarchy rally with our soon to be new Senator Angie Nixon (ousting Moody) with Bernie Sanders (EPIC), and now, on the way to a flag waving. We have 16 days and I will spend each one of them in motion! Thank you for reminding us every day that WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER to bring forth the change in Washington. Every Republican must go as they (more than trump) are the responsible party because they could have stopped all of it. ONWARD!
"Sixteen days. That’s all that stands between Trump and a Congress that answers to you instead of him."
Yes!! My husband and I did last week…100% blue!
I was impressed by the number of people voting at that sight on only the 2nd day of Early Voting. Let’s be optimistic and think that people want to be sure there is a radical change and our country returns to what it is meant to be.🤞🏼
I am thrilled to hear the so-called press secretary did not last in office very long. She sounded ridiculous.
In a rather reverse way, the public school teacher who affected me most was being. in his homeroom where he was also my guidance teacher. He told me that I should forget about being a teacher because people of my religion and sex would not stand a chance of ever being hired as a public school teacher myself. Five years later, I had offers from three boards of education to teach and their municipalities. 30 years of successful,teaching, reaching the highest standards possible followed. I later learned that the offensive teacher who gave me that terrible information was removed from his position for practicing the spread of improper information. His union protected him from being fired outright, which should have happened. He also told me at one time when I took a test that was supposed to outline my personal strengths and weaknesses, that because I scored so high n mechanical abilities that I surely must've cheated. Yes, his influence on me was profound, I always strove to prove how wrong he was about everything. His school board at that time, also accused him of spreading communist propaganda. Hearing that he was removed from any personal contact with students until he retired warmed my heart.
My freshman year English teacher taught me to write in simple declarative sentences. Her influence on my writing stayed with me through college, law school and my career as a judge. There were many other teachers who helped me develop critical thinking skills. Public education created the middle class.