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The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat...

Handing over ceremony and McCarthy speech.

UPDATE posted around 12:36 am EST: Kevin McCarthy won the House speakership during the 15th round of voting this week which began late Friday night and spilled over into Saturday after the clock struck midnight. He earned 216 votes. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, and Matt Rosendale of Montana, who had previously voted against McCarthy in the first 14 rounds, each voted present in the 15th round, which lowered the threshold McCarthy needed to secure victory — Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Matt Gaetz of Florida, who had switched to present in the...

Elon Musk became the most influential CEO in the world this year. Some people will even go so far as to say that he is the most powerful boss in the world. He is involved in companies that are at the heart of technological innovations such as Tesla (TSLA) - Get Free Report and SpaceX. And He is the owner of Twitter (TWTR) - Get Free Report, considered the town square of our time. Musk is simply the star of CEOs. He is one of the few bosses who can claim more than 100 million followers on Twitter. The personality...

Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, joined others in the media business who lost their jobs this year after publicly taking on their employers. In the middle of a workday, Sasha Solomon, a 34-year-old software engineer in Portland, Ore., put her French bulldog, Bosworth, on a leash and walked down a leafy street to a favorite coffee shop. It seemed like an ordinary November afternoon, or as ordinary as it could be for someone working at Twitter under its mercurial new owner, Elon Musk. Ms. Solomon ordered a latte for herself and a drip coffee with cream for her husband. Then...

It appears that my friend @LauraLoomer is back on Twitter

Comedy sketch From Tallu's album Give My Regards to Broadway! Originally recorded on The Big Show, 1951 Really funny. Worth listening to. Only 6:30

Apple has returned to advertising at its normal level on Twitter, according to Elon Musk, who also confirmed Apple is Twitter's biggest ad client. On November 28, Twitter CEO Elon Musk engaged in a tweet-storm against Apple, including claims Apple had "mostly stopped advertising on Twitter." One week later, and Musk has changed his tune. During a Twitter Spaces conversation caught by Bloomberg on Saturday, Musk said Apple has "fully resumed advertising on Twitter." Musk didn't say how much the advertising spend was for Apple, and didn't go much further on the topic, other than to say that Apple was...

We’ve seen some bombshell revelations in the Elon Musk Twitter drop about the suppression files including those surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop story. There are freakouts underway on the left and we see a fascinating take by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) who expressed concerns about the First Amendment. Twitter should have paid attention to that because it looks like they went far over the edge with what they did. As the records showed, the Biden team was reaching out and getting people suspended from Twitter. Among the revelations was an incredible record that indicated the DNC had asked Twitter to...

French President Emmanuel Macron met Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday in New Orleans, and said they discussed environmental issues and freedom of speech in the context of content moderation on the global social media platform. I'll say it here, on Twitter, because it’s all about the blue bird. This afternoon I met with @elonmusk and we had a clear and honest discussion: — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 2, 2022 "We will work with Twitter to improve online child protection," Macron tweeted. "Elon Musk confirmed it to me today. Let’s better protect our children online!" To which Musk tweeted, "Absolument,"...

<p>Even on Elon Musk’s Twitter, there are red lines for permissible content, and Kanye West, who now calls himself Ye, crossed one of them with a late Thursday night post that prompted the network to suspend his account.</p><p>The artist tweeted an image combining the Star of David with a swastika, which got removed by the social media service. In its place was a message saying the post violated Twitter Inc.’s rules and a link to its policy page explaining enforcement actions. Since then, the entire account has been suspended, with all of its tweets now obscured. Ye had 32.2 million followers before the suspension.</p>

Tesla Model Y Is 1 Top Selling Car In China, 1 Top Selling EV In Europe — Why? Without a doubt, the Tesla Model Y is in high demand. It's similar to the Model 3 in a lot of ways, but a bit bigger, falling into that much loved 'crossover' category that adds

The relentless attacks on Elon Musk since he purchased Twitter should be familiar to most Americans. It’s exactly what Democrats and their media and corporate allies did to demonize Donald Trump. The McCarthyite formula is simple: Claim you are defending high-minded principles (Democracy! The rule of law! Civil discourse!) to justify efforts to delegitimize someone you’ve identified as a political opponent. Democrats denied Trump’s presidency from day one; Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden themselves declared for years that he had stolen the 2016 election. In the name of election integrity, Democrats turned a bogus conspiracy theory cooked up by Clinton’s...

The head of Morgan Stanley (MS) - Get Free Report has been heaping some very heavy praise on Elon Musk -- at the Reuters Next forum in New York on Dec. 1, chief executive James Gorman called the Tesla (TSLA) - Get Free Report founder who recently acquired Twitter (TWTR) - Get Free Report for $44 billion "an extraordinary executive." "Who would not want to do business with a person who has that kind of capability?" Gorman said as first reported by Bloomberg, referring to Musk's leadership of Tesla and SpaceX. "Shame on an institution who'd walk away from that."...

(Reuters) - Silicon Valley leaders welcomed Elon Musk's management of Twitter, with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings going so far as to call the billionaire "the bravest, most creative person on the planet." Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said he was keen to see how Elon Musk's management of content moderation on Twitter would fare, arguing it was good for platforms to take different approaches. "You can agree or disagree with what Elon is doing, or how he's doing it, but I do think it's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out," said Zuckerberg, speaking...

Mr. Musk, who had said the company was trying to sabotage Twitter, met with Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, on Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO — In a series of tweets on Monday, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, accused Apple of sabotaging his social media company by cutting back advertising and threatening to remove the Twitter app from the App Store. By Wednesday, any potential feud appeared to have been avoided. On Twitter, Mr. Musk posted a video of himself being shown around Apple’s campus in Cupertino, Calif., on Wednesday, walking past a meditation pool. While the video did not show...

The Twitter owner’s latest fight is a big one: the market dominance of Apple’s App Store. Elon Musk has been unafraid of picking fights, whether with prominent politicians, political whistle-blowers or his own employees. But in taking on Apple on Monday, the Twitter owner was trying to start a brawl that could have ramifications stretching from Silicon Valley to Washington. Mr. Musk complained that Apple had paused most of its advertising on Twitter, continuing his berating of companies that have done so. But it’s his allegation that Apple “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store but won’t tell us...

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol said that Tesla would get “tailored” incentives if it decides to establish its next gigafactory in the country. Elon Musk recently noted that South Korea was a top candidate for the next Tesla gigafactory location. “If Tesla, SpaceX or other companies are considering more investment in [South] Korea, including constructing a gigafactory, the government will do our best to support the investment,” President Yoon told Reuters. President Yoon also provided a brief overview of the advantages Tesla would have if it chose to build in South Korea. “We are preparing a tailored approach to grant...

I reported previously about the effort Alyssa Milano made to do a group think and attack Elon Musk. She claimed that she’d given back her Tesla (whatever that means) and gotten a Volkswagen electric vehicle to rebuke Musk. Musk laughed at her in response, given that she was buying a vehicle from a company founded by real Nazis to be anti-Musk. It was particularly funny given that she’d previously been swooning all over him before the leftist edict that he was “bad.” She even had him as one of the top four people she’d like to have dinner with, along...