Outside the Beltway

A low confidence Election Day forecast.

Elon is on record warning Trump supporters to be prepared for “temporary hardship”

Trump’s core policies will drive inflation

It’s the opposite of politics as usual.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

Bizarre conspiracy theories shared by powerful people are immune to fact checking.

There is a bit of a theme.

Sometimes the bird gives you the bird

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

Who did Nazi this coming?

Musk finds an alpha male-dominated “republic” to be “interesting.”

Trump on X.

Sometimes all we have is the choice of how we react to events.

Some interesting tidbits.

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

It’s just resting.

Never waste a tragedy.

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

BuzzFeed, Disney, and others are making big cuts.

Here we go again.

The controversial AI has some interesting programming quirks.

Why was it released to the public?

But did he ever really have it?

So proclaims American Greatness.

I don’t think that means what he thinks it means.

The launch of a new feature… featuring Drake!

The man is a dangerous nut.

Some links to peruse.

A few stories to consider.

The social platform beloved of the intellectual class is about to undergo radical change.

Planned staff layoffs concern those who fear a free-for-all.

Cleaning the slate for a new week.

Elon backs out.

The bubble may have burst.

It’s happened. What does it mean?

Unlimited dialog makes conversations harder.

He boldly went where no nonagenarian had gone before.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

SpaceX unveiled a model of the “starship” it would send to Mars but there’s still a lot of work to do.

A strangely under-publicized story.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

For the first time in more than thirty years, NASA is preparing to unveil a program to allow civilians to travel to the International Space Station.

Earlier this week, SpaceX deployed the first 60 satellites in a network that could result in Internet access from virtually anywhere in the world.

The first test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon appears to have been an all-around success.

A successful launch for SpaceX and NASA and a successful beginning to the return of American manned spaceflight.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.