KEY POINTS

  • Elon Musk said SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” because of threats by Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
  • Musk’s announcement on his social media site X escalated a war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.
  • A SpaceX Dragon capsule brought two NASA astronauts back to Earth in March after they were stranded for months at the International Space Station by a Boeing Starliner capsule.
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    25 days ago

    Money is political and economic power. You CANNOT have one without the other.

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      24 days ago

      doesn’t need to be

      go get money out of politics

      remove citizens united and all that

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          There is no magic system that will allow us all to live in a world where we don’t have to be ever vigilant against corruption. That will ALWAYS be the price of freedom. FOREVER. But we can make it easier on ourselves. Good laws can’t solve all our problems, but they can keep them manageable.