Musk says Tesla's affordable EVs coming next year Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered an outline of the company's plans to move forward with a lower-cost EV compared to its current platform next year, with production to start in early 2025. 04/24/2024 - 9:04 am | View Link
Tesla shares under pressure after carmaker announces price cuts CEO Elon Musk postpones India trip ahead ... with the investment community on Tuesday, when Tesla’s latest quarterly figures are expected to reveal its worst performance in seven years. 04/21/2024 - 10:25 pm | View Link
Elon Musk wanted Tesla to slash its headcount by 20% because its quarterly vehicle deliveries fell by that much, Bloomberg source says Back in January, Musk had told investors in an earnings call that Chinese automakers "are the most competitive car companies in the world." Tesla's growing troubles have raised questions about ... 04/21/2024 - 6:27 pm | View Link
Elon Musk prepares for key Tesla update Elon Musk will be presenting perhaps the most important set of quarterly earnings tomorrow since he took charge of Tesla, the electric car group, in 2008. On Friday, the company was forced to ... 04/21/2024 - 12:03 pm | View Link
Tesla announces Cybertruck recall at the worst possible time for Elon Musk Tesla, Elon Musk’s tech and car company, is recalling nearly 4,000 C ybertrucks after reports of a faulty accelerator pedal — and the news couldn’t have come at a worse time for Musk. 04/20/2024 - 7:23 am | View Link
Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant.
That sergeant went on to work for another police department until this year, when he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and misconduct and was sentenced, more than four years after the assaults and retaliation against Rees.
She testified to the state’s House Judiciary Committee this week that, even after her attacker was exposed, her complaint about still being listed as a problem police officer “is falling on deaf ears every time.”
Rees’ testimony, echoed by other frontline police officers from Colorado Springs and Denver about retaliation they faced after reporting misconduct, is driving state lawmakers’ latest effort at police oversight.
While the completely unqualified Lara Trump (Eric’s wife) takes over the RNC and turns it into a cult of loyalists, the just as unqualified sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are trying to do the same with the Trump transition. Please God, may this remain a family dream only.
From Axios:
Donald Trump Jr.
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and DAVE COLLINS (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction, reversing a landmark ruling of the #MeToo era. The court found the trial judge had improperly allowed testimony against the ex-movie mogul based on allegations that weren’t part of the case.
Weinstein, 72, will remain in prison because he was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape.
In a little-noticed court filing recently, feds described sleazy former Trump advisor Steve Bannon as a “co-conspirator” in a massive criminal fraud and racketeering case against a flamboyant, far-right Chinese fugitive -- you know, the guy with the yacht where Bannon was hiding out? Via Mother Jones:
FBI agents in March 2023 arrested Guo Wengui, a self-styled anti-Chinese government activist Bannon once advised, charging him and two associates with using a series of fraudulent investment opportunities to defraud thousands of Guo’s supporters in the Chinese diaspora of more than $1 billion.
Guo used the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle for himself and his family, including a $3.5 million Ferrari, a $26 million mansion, a $140,000 piano, and two $36,000 mattresses, the Justice Department alleges.
One of my lawyer friends has been predicting for months we would see Amy Coney Barrett gradually moving toward a partial alliance with the liberal justices on the court, and yesterday, we saw her back up Justice Sotomayor's argument in the Iowa abortion case before the court.
"The U. S. Supreme Court sounded divided yesterday during oral arguments in a case concerning access to emergency abortions.
Maybe Lara Trump will give her a raise! After all, clearly she's willing to do just about anything! Via American Oversight:
Christina Bobb, a former Trump attorney and far-right television presenter who was a fervent supporter of efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is now the Republican National Committee’s senior counsel for “election integrity.”
Bobb’s RNC appointment came shortly after Trump secured the party’s 2024 nomination, and signals the RNC’s focus on continuing to push lies about voter fraud and election security.