Following owner Jeff Bezos’ opinion section changes, the Post has lost more than 75,000 digital subscribers, NPR reports. More than 300,000 subscribers canceled their subscriptions between when Bezos reportedly killed the paper’s Kamala Harris endorsement and Election Day, NPR says.
CNN delves into the February 28th call to boycott Amazon, Walmart, and other companies — as an act of resistance in a time of political turmoil, but also an influencer-sparked, celebrity-supported viral phenomenon that’s taken on a life of its own:
The “economic blackout” effort is relatively uncoordinated and nebulous. ... But this boycott has gained strength online because it has captured visceral public anger with the American economy, corporations and politics.
The GOP big tent gets even bigger, but not everyone at CPAC loves the tech oligarch’s hold over Trump.
How much does MAGA really care about the tech industry?
It started with a handful of demonstrations that have now reached 65 cities. But can these rallies actually take down Tesla?
After questions were raised earlier this month about the line item proposing $400 million for “Armored Tesla (Production Units),” the State Department said the solicitation stemmed from a Biden-admin request. However, an NPR reporter says a document shows the Biden administration had approved less than $500k to look into armoring electric vehicles, while experts said the new figure would just about account for replacing the department’s entire 3,000-vehicle fleet with Tesla trucks.
Javier Milei, president of Argentina who appeared with Elon Musk at CPAC, will be investigated for his involvement with $Libra, which collapsed just hours after its launch. His sister appears to be involved — the token co-creator says he bought the president’s endorsement through her. The US’s putative president, Donald Trump, has meme coins of his own.
As shown in a clip posted by The Handbasket writer Marisa Kabas, people in the Department of Housing and Urban Development HQ were greeted on day one of their mandatory return to office with what appears to be an AI-generated video of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet. It is visible in the post, and they are both left feet, for some reason.
She writes that the video played on loop for about five minutes, until staff unplugged them.
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