Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa, and husband. His death by hyperthermia is absent from a Tesla report required as part of a Travis County tax deal.
Elon Musk
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Elon Musk Shows How Oligarchy Poisons the Speech Commons
Free speech is not when one rich guy gets to shout 1,000 times louder than anyone else.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Elon Musk’s Twitter Debacle Shows the Problem With Billionaires
One person should not control nation-sized pots of resources.
Posted inWorking in America
Tech Company Workers Should Unionize Immediately
What happened to Twitter could happen to any Silicon Valley company.
Posted inTAP
Fellow Journalists (and Our Academic Friends), It’s Time to Leave Twitter
Today on TAP: Well, provided some of the sacked Twitterati and alternative funders establish a non-Elonized forum.
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Elon Musk, American Oligarch
Today on TAP: It’s a billionaire’s world, everyone else just lives here.
Posted inBooks
Hucksters on Parade
Today’s CEOs are essentially carnival barkers, induced to yell louder by a corroded business culture.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Elon Musk Pumped Dogecoin Into a 50 Percent Gain. Who Cashed In?
If a single tweet can wildly move prices, maybe there’s a problem with our financial markets.
Posted inCabinet Watch
Rahm Emanuel for Transportation Secretary? For Anything?
Should Biden nominate the former Chicago mayor, the Democratic base is sure to revolt.