Center bottoms out: Ticket sales plummet, no donations, cancellations.
Trump thought he could lord over it. Instead, he killed it.
DEBT REDUCTION
Did you know that according to the GAO, each time President Trump goes to Mar-a-Lago, it costs taxpayers $3.4 million?
Raise your hand if you think that’s the kind of government waste that could *actually* use scrutiny.
MUSK TESLA FIASCO
@TalbertSwan
If burning Teslas make you furious, but watching thousands of federal workers get stripped of their jobs, healthcare, and pensions doesn’t move you—YOU are the problem.
If scorched cars spark more outrage than billions being slashed from cancer research, humanitarian aid, education, and support for the most vulnerable—your moral compass is broken.
This ain’t about Teslas. It’s about twisted priorities, cold-hearted politics, and willful ignorance.
Silence in the face of suffering is complicity. Miss us with your fake outrage.
ANON – We can have a non-violent revolution, it’s pretty easy. All everyone has to do is starve the elite of their addictions. They own businesses – boycott them. Rise up and stop giving in to these assholes who do not give a shit about you and want to strip away your rights.
Top Tesla investor Just officially asked Elon Musk to step down as head of the company for destroying the electric vehicle maker’s reputation. Top Tesla investor Ross Gerber has officially called for Elon Musk to step down as the head of Tesla. Top Tesla investor Ross Gerber: “I think Tesla needs a new CEO.”
Police and SWAT teams are providing security for Tesla dealerships nationwide. If only schools received the same level of protection. Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will result in people dying.
Cutting medical research and funding will result in people dying.
Cutting foreign aid, FEMA and NOAA will result in people dying.
A few cars on fire is considered violence, but somehow the rest isn’t.
BREAKING – TESLA INSIDERS DUMPING THEIR STOCK
Board members:
– Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal – sold $27 million
– Rupert Murdoch’s son James – sold $13 million
– Board chair Robyn Denholm – sold $75 million
Plus CFO Vaibhav Taneja – sold $5 million
$TSLA down 53% since December
@PrezLives2022
Elon is now only about 90.00 away from a margin call as he loses another 12% today. I’m getting giddy.
A margin call by banks against Musk (who used his Tesla stock as collateral for his mega loan to buy Twitter) would be WAY WAY more painful to Elon than folks burning a few Tesla cars. In a margin call, Musk will have to put up more stock or cash by selling billion more stock.
@DrEricDing
A margin call by banks against Musk (who used his Tesla stock as collateral for his mega loan to buy Twitter) would be WAY WAY more painful to Elon than folks burning a few Tesla cars. In a margin call, Musk will have to put up more stock or cash by selling billion more stock
BREAKING: Elon Musk’s DOGE hires ex Ken Griffin staffer from Citadel. Is he about to spill their dirty secrets?
A used car dealership put remote kill switches in the cars they sold — it shut off one car’s engine while the driver was on the highway, with her kids. The lawyer who prosecuted that crime? Fired by DOGE.
SPACE X WELFARE QUEEN
@jimstewartson
SpaceX is a 25 year long con by the Russians and Elon Musk to infiltrate the US government and take over our satellites & space program on the ridiculous premise that humanity must be “multi-planetary.”
No one will go to Mars. It’s a radiated frozen rock. This is a HOAX.
Great News European Starlink competitor “EUTELSAT” has revealed that they already have complete coverage of Ukrainian territory, and are ready to replace Starlink in case Trump pulls the plug.
The true genius of Elon Musk is his ‘subsidy harvesting strategy,’ political science professor says.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood is stunned as the crowd at his own town hall rejects his defense of Trump, Musk, and DOGE and drowns him out with chants of “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
Mark Cuban @mcuban
Got to give Doge credit for being the first to cut entitlements. End telephone support for Social Security, cut dozens of SS offices and make Grandma and Grandpa finally get online to confirm their payments.
What an amazing back door way to cut payments! Gonna be some upset seniors at town halls!
What To Know
Beginning on March 31, benefit claimants will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those who cannot properly verify their identity using the agency’s online service will be required to visit an agency field office in person to complete the verification process.
Mark. They are NOT entitlements. It’s MY money they took it out of my paycheck since I was 17 and it saved my life.
I’m 80 years old. I decided to call #SocialSecurity “If you are calling about a disability application due to staffing reductions, our average processing time for disability applications is 200 to 230 days. The estimated hold time is greater than 120 minutes”.
Tell us what happens after March 31, Mr. Belch !!!!!!!
@mr_bletch
Yes, you can still call Social Security offices. The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides a national toll-free number,
1-800-772-1213, which you can use to reach them Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time. Automated telephone services are available 24 hours a day for certain tasks, but if you need to speak with a representative, calling during those business hours is recommended. Wait times may vary, with shorter waits often reported early in the morning (8-10 a.m.), later in the afternoon (4-7 p.m.), or later in the week (Wednesday to Friday).
You can also find the phone number for your local Social Security office using the SSA’s Office Locator tool online by entering your ZIP code. While some services require appointments or are handled online, phone support remains an option for assistance. Posts on X and other sources may highlight frustrations with long hold times or office closures, but the SSA continues to offer telephone contact as a primary service channel.
Kirsten Gillibrand @SenGillibrand
DOGE is closing nearly 50 Social Security offices across the country — including in White Plains — and now they’re limiting phone support.
Make no mistake, this is a full-blown attack on Social Security. Elon Musk is trying to take away benefits you earned.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/social-security-trump-doge
LAW
65,000 UK companies are unlawfully hiding their beneficial owner. We’ve just published an interactive map showing them all.
Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar
Watch this: the Federal Trade Commission was holding Amazon, Meta, and Tesla accountable.
Then:
– Amazon paid $40M for Melania’s documentary
– Meta gave Trump $25M
– Musk gave Trump hundreds of millions
Now Trump is trying to illegally fire FTC commissioners.
BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending $14 billion in climate grants.
What horseshit from @DeptofDefense that they “mistakenly” deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them. Then got caught and now they are scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.
Nazi Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act of 1798, for first time since WWII, in effort to achieve fascist state
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5246028/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-deportation
Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-federal-judge-trump-administration-bdc919a5d98eda5ab72a32fdfe2f147d
Trump fires Democratic FTC commissioners, in violation of 1935 Supreme Court decision
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/trump-fires-ftc-commissioners-setting-up-a-legal-battle/
Elon Musk is making the maximum allowable donation to GOP members of Congress who back impeaching activist judges, per NYT
Rep. John Larson @RepJohnLarson
It’s time for Elon Musk to testify in front of Congress UNDER OATH.
Trump and Musk want to privatize Social Security & pass the largest cut to Medicaid in our nation’s history.
Some of us may have been born at night, but not last night. Hands off our benefits!
@tribelaw
“If we live in a country where judges’ orders can be ignored by an Administration bent on amassing unchecked power, we no longer live in a democracy.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-trump-administration-nears-open-defiance-of-the-courts
Tristan Snell @TristanSnell
If ANY federal judge is going to be impeached, maybe start with the one who took over $4 MILLION in secret unreported gifts from parties with interests before the Supreme Court:
Clarence Thomas.
IRS New: The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.
Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts
US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking ‘human’ creator – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/
MAGAats MAKING RACISM GREAT AGAIN
‘Segregated facilities’ are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump
US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking ‘human’ creator – https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/
THREAD: @doge’s “Wall of Receipts” is one month old this week. But the largest item on that list has always been wrong.
Here’s how:
Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro
Pennsylvania’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for 16 years.
In that time, every single one of our neighbors has raised their minimum wage. It’s time to catch up — let’s raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The Federal Reserve cuts 2025 growth outlook, raises inflation forecast, raises unemployment projection to 4.4%
“It is rumored that Trump’s Press Secretary is having an affair with Steven Miller!”
A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.”
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1902344051766260192
BITCOIN
North Carolina Senators introduces a bill to invest up to 10% of public funds into #Bitcoin
BlackRock says Bitcoin’s Institutional adoption is NOT reflected in the price. The pace of institutional and wealth advisory adoption has accelerated.
A SITTING US PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS A #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO CONFERENCE TOMORROW
THE 1st TIME IN HISTORY. President Trump to speak at the Digital Asset Summit tomorrow.
JUST IN: Xapo Bank launches Bitcoin-backed loans up to $1 million.
SHITCOINS
SEC officially drops Ripple $XRP lawsuit.
PRIVACY PRIVACY PRIVACY
Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith
BAT SIGNAL: A law in France that would mandate a backdoor in end to end encrypted communications is set for a vote within the next day, after some start-stop skirmishes.
The French Narcotraffic law would require encrypted communications providers—like Signal—create a backdoor by giving the government the ability to add themselves to any group or chat they like. In the name of (checks notes) fighting drug trafficking.
While those hyping this bad law have rushed to assure French politicians that the proposal isn’t’ ‘breaking encryption’ their arguments are as tedious as they are stale as they are laughable. For those catching up, let’s review the basics: end to end encryption must only have two ‘ends’—sender and recipient(s). Otherwise, it is backdoored. Whatever method is devised to add a ‘third end’ —from a perverted PRNG in a cryptographic protocol, to vendor-provided government software grafted onto the side of secure communications that allow said government to add themselves to your chats—it rips a hole in the hull of private communications and is a backdoor.
Indeed, the ghost participant proposal was roundly rebuked (humiliated, even) when it was first proposed in 2019 in the UK. The technical community was united, and it was never implemented in law or otherwise.
We cannot accept any backdoor, however it’s dressed up. Communications don’t stay within jurisdictional boundaries. Which means a hole created in France becomes a vector for anyone wanting to undermine Signal’s robust privacy guarantees, anywhere. Instead of contending with unbreakable math, they only have to compromise a French government employee, or the vendor-provided software used to sideload government operatives into your private chats.
This is why, as always, Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written. At this moment especially, there is simply too much riding on Signal, on our being able to forge a future in which private communication persists, to allow such pernicious undermining.
We hope—WE HOPE—that this callow, dishonest attack will fail, and will be the last. We would love to get back to the work of maintaining and improving our core technologies, instead of fighting legislation which is distinguished in nothing as much as its refusal to listen to decades of expert consensus in its drive to imperil global cybersecurity and the human right of privacy.
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