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TWO DEAD IN SMALL PLANE CRASH AT GEORGIA’S COVINGTON AIRPORT
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) February 16, 2025
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The Trump administration is expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles, according to a new State Department document detailing procurement for fiscal year 2025.
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk is a top White House official who has been leading the Department of Government Efficiency
, a unit focused on shrinking the federal workforce and ferreting out corruption (
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The document does not specify what Tesla vehicles will be purchased by U.S. officials (Interjection: No matter how much you hate journaloids, it isn't enough.) , but Musk's Cybertruck, with its militaristic design and stainless steel exterior, could be an option.
After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed.
Responding to a segment by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about the $400 million contract, Musk wrote on X on Wednesday night: "Hey @Maddow, why the lie?"
The State Department and Musk did not return requests for comment.
Musk, who spent more than a quarter-billion dollars to help elect Trump , has used an X account devoted to DOGE to highlight what he views as excessive or unnecessary federal contracts.
(HailVictory be seething)
As Musk's deputies have gained access to nearly two dozen federal agencies, ethics experts have raised concern about the billionaire running into conflicts of interest, since Musk runs six companies, some of which are under investigation by government authorities. Musk's companies, including Tesla and SpaceX , also have multibillion-dollar contracts with the federal government
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Most of the federal money Musk has received has gone to SpaceX, the rocket company, for projects including work for NASA to launch Musk's Starship with astronauts to the moon.
A new Cybertruck starts at around $82,000, and about 38,000 were sold last year, according to Cox Automotive. Since the vehicle's launch in 2019, the truck has faced complaints about rust, finger pinches and defective accelerator pedals.
The State Department document also shows that some Tesla competitors are set to receive lucrative, yet considerably smaller, contracts for armored vehicles, including from BMW, which is expected to supply about $40 million worth of SUVs to the federal government.
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If Trump and President Musk actually completely gut Medicare, Medicaid, corn subsidies and the defence budget, FEMA and even let their supporters die, MAGAcels deserve it.
This is highly misleading. The Tweet claims that an $880m cut is nearly the entire Medicaid budget and would eliminate the program. In reality the proposal was for the cut to be spread over 10 years. Source: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5144053-republicans-put-healthcare-cuts-front-and-center-to-advance-agenda/
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This is super fake, but here we are paying attention to it. So they're doing something right.
Twitter link:
Lily Phillips claims she’s pregnant after sleeping with 100 men pic.twitter.com/H3xjCQ5z4f
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) February 19, 2025
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A Reddit post of a 23 tweet long Xitter thread about how President Elon Muskrat (PBUH) is stealing elections all over the world (don't worry, I didn't read it either) has turned people who believe reality has a liberal bias into tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists Seriously, though, this subreddit has been getting more and more unhinged with each passing day. Even a few weeks ago, a post like this would have mostly been laughed off. Here are some of the funnier schizoposts in the thread:
I signed off of X when Canadian annexation was the big topic and people were outright calling for our conquest and to have our rights stripped away.
I feel like it's time for us and the EU to ban that shitass website. It's bullshit that the Trump Administration is threatening us with pulling out of NATO if we make the decision that his cronies propaganda site needs to go.
How dare America demand its allies support American interests like free speech! Things were much better when America enforced values like censorship and homosexuality in Botswana!
This freedom of speech thing is a very manufactured issue. I'm not too concerned about it because we Europeans legitimately don't want the type of 'free speech' you have in the US. There are reasons (genocide and war crimes) why we have restriction on some types of speech. I don't think that Musk and Trump understand the average European who is generationally affected by wars, unlike the US. There are collective memories that we have that Americans just don't have
Europeans have collective memories just like in my heckin Avatar movie!! Americans just don't get it!
Also, freedom of speech is a manufactured issue The European mind simply cannot comprehend anything other than censorship.
This is, in part, why I quit twitter
I genuinely have no idea how you can fight a mfr that owns the platform you're fighting on, besides burning it to the ground and making it irrelevant
Have these people ever tried simply being more interesting and influential? Maybe if they keep complaining on Reddit they will change hearts and minds!
Bros I think I'm tapping out, every single day my country self harms to the cheers and praise of cultist freaks. I just can't handle it anymore, I'm going to go touch grass and live in ignorance.
Another one bites the dust! Would be a good decision if he wasn't going to log off for a few hours then immediately come back.
I want to tune out but Im terminally addicted to my phone and the news, I need to go cold turkey
There will be massive election interference on Twitter as the German elections on Sunday approach.
There is absolutely 0 reason why the current ruling party would be ousted other than election interference… absolutely none…
can we get some eu social media replacements for once
Europe is a creatively dead and stagnant continent. This will never happen.
Librals are so fricking bad at social media and conspiracies. 23 screenshots and each has 1 paragraph.
Epic redditor moment when reality is too complicated to fit into a snappy meme with some wojaks for those with severe attention deficit.
Rdramabros… I don't like the way he just called me out like that…
Stay tuned for more because these people are only going to get more delusional by the day.
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Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.
Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.
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