Elon Musk
June 24, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on the Rita Panahi Show, and the conversation was lively as usual. We talked about the Karmelo Anthony case, the bizarre situation in Iran, the Democrats’ rush to socialism, Elon Musk’s threatened libel suit against Ro Khanna, and the Supreme Court’s most recent immigration decision. All good stuff. I come on following the video clips at 4:30, but you shouldn’t miss Lefties Losing It:
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June 21, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This, from Rasmussen, is depressing with the midterms just a few months away: The question of which party is more trusted to handle taxes now slightly favors Democrats, less than five months ahead of the midterm elections. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters trust Democrats more to handle taxes, while 41% trust Republicans more and 15% are not sure. In
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June 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Governments are the greediest institutions in our society. So it was no surprise when the news that Elon Musk had become the world’s first trillionaire caused liberals to salivate at the thought of getting their hands on his money. Elizabeth Warren was perhaps the worst, but she had plenty of company. Democrats visualize Musk as a sort of Scrooge McDuck, skiing down mountains of gold: In fact, of course, the
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June 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
John notes below the launching of the SpaceX IPO (ticker symbol: SPCX), which makes Elon Musk (on paper) the world’s first trillionaire (with a “t,” quatro commas in Silicon Valley speak.) And he made a lot of other people, rank-and-file workers, first-time millionaires (dos commas). I am weak in the face of many of the cardinal sins, but envy is not among them. Not so America’s leading Democrats. Elizabeth Warren:
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June 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker
SpaceX’s initial public offering hit the market today, with shares priced at $135. The stock closed at $160.95, up 19% on the day’s trading. So as of this evening, the company’s market capitalization is $2.1 trillion, making it the sixth-most valuable company in the U.S. Elon Musk, who owns 46%, is, on paper, the world’s first trillionaire. But a lot of other SpaceX employees became wealthy overnight. For example, a
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June 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the Associated Press (AP), Wall Street inches to more records thanks to booming AI stocks. Indeed, the S&P 500 index closed at an all-time record high above 7,609, after hitting a new all-time intraday high above 7,620. The index is up almost 11 percent for year-to-date 2026. SpaceX is on the verge of joining the party. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports, SpaceX eyeing roughly $1.75 trillion valuation in
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March 5, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Serial-Tesla-vandal/MN-government-employee Dylan Adams was given a one-day suspension from work as “punishment.” One day. I wrote a column for the New York Post back in April about the incident, under the headline, Minnesota DA’s woke two-tier justice prizes Tesla violence above all My angle was the soft-on-crime local prosecutor Mary Moriarty declined to charge Adams criminally for his vandalism spree, but did charge another hapless young gal for a lesser
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February 16, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This is one of the more optimistic things I have read in a while. I hope it is true–Elon Musk has redirected American engineering to the physical world: Katherine Boyle just identified Elon Musk’s most important contribution to America, and it has nothing to do with the products he shipped. Boyle, General Partner at a16z: “I think Elon’s most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers
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December 1, 2025 — Bill Glahn
That didn’t take long. The employee whistleblower Twitter (X) account @Minnesota_DHS has been suspended. [Update: back up! With some additional signifiers. The blue check mark has vanished, though.] In my last conversation with them (yesterday) they expressed fear over retaliation regarding their explosive post placing the blame for fraud in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz. When I last checked that post before the account suspension, it had received more than
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November 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
On Saturday, X briefly revealed data that it has for every account, but that is not normally public: the location from which the account originates. The results, which I wrote about here, were revelatory. Those American Indian accounts that routinely disparage white people? They come from Bangladesh. The “bombs are exploding next to me here in Gaza” accounts? They are fake, posting from London, Poland, and so on. I think
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July 10, 2025 — Bill Glahn
In the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill’s passage and signing over the July 4th holiday, billionaire and former DOGE head Elon Musk launched his third-party bid, The America Party. There was a lot of attention early in the week when it was first launched, but I haven’t heard as much in the past few days. I agree with many commentators who see a third party as a repeat
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June 6, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday’s sudden war between Elon Musk and President Trump was bizarre, and, sadly, represents a setback for the administration and the conservative movement. It is hard to understand how their relationship can have unraveled so suddenly. Here are a few thoughts: * I blame Elon. His attack on the “big beautiful bill” was ill-informed and over the top, and his subsequent attacks on Trump were embarrassing–to Musk, not to Trump.
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May 3, 2025 — Bill Glahn
As of tonight, the state of Texas has a new city, Starbase, population 283. NBC News reports, A vote Saturday to decide whether to turn part of south Texas into a new city centered around Elon Musk’s SpaceX delivered a victory to the tech billionaire and his rocket company. As expected, the measure passed with broad support, paving the way for a newly incorporated city made up almost exclusively of
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March 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the video below Elon Musk introduces his colleague Antonio Gracias — profiled here by the Times earlier this month — to talk about what he has discovered inside the Social Security Administration. This is the transcript included in the X post: GRACIAS: “In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1M non-citizens got social security numbers. We went in to find fraud and found this by accident.
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March 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Following up on his interview with Elon Musk and the senior leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency, Bret Baier has posted what I understand to be his full one-on-one interview with Elon Musk on X (below). As always, it conveys a far different impression of Elon than the one might pick up from the media. The Democrat/media alliance has a genius for turning opponents into villains. If they did
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March 29, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Apparently, the protests against Tesla car dealerships are a nationwide phenomenon. Politico reports, Protesters rebelling against Elon Musk’s purge of US government swarm Tesla showrooms. To paraphrase that old Marlon Brando movie, “What are they rebelling against? What do you got?” Politico elaborates, The Tesla Takedown movement Saturday attempted to surround all 277 of the automaker’s showrooms and service centers in the U.S. in hopes of hitting Musk’s bottom line.
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March 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday’s Special Report included at least some of Bret Baier’s interview with Elon Musk. The interview with Musk must have taken place either before or after the sit-down with Musk and senior leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency team that I posted here yesterday. The clip below shouted out to me. In it Musk nails the case of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz: “What a creep. What a jerk.” As
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