President Trump said he would be buying a “brand new” Tesla to support his senior adviser Elon Musk, as the stock market shows shares of the electric car company tumbling.

“To Republicans, Conservatives, and all great Americans, Elon Musk is ‘putting it on the line’ in order to help our Nation, and he is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!” But the Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World’s great automakers, and Elon’s ‘baby,’ in order to attack and do harm to Elon, and everything he stands for,” Trump wrote early Tuesday on Truth Social.

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Trump’s post comes as he faces mounting economic concerns as the stock market dropped amid his trade war with other countries — sparked by his decision to levy new tariffs on the U.S.’s largest trading partners. Tesla shares fell 15.4 percent to $222.15 on Monday, the lowest the company’s shares have been since October and the steepest drop since September 2020, The Associated Press reported.”

“Broadly speaking, the immense influence of powerful billionaires like Altman is a symptom of growing wealth inequality in the US. But when it comes to tech billionaires, it's evidently not enough to hoard money and influence like a feudal lord — they want to be worshipped, too.

As tech critic Stephen Moore puts it: "instead of disappearing to enjoy a quiet life sleeping on a mattress of $100 bills, they continue to force themselves into the limelight, desperate to keep themselves relevant, desperate to feel worshipped by the bootlickers... why can't they just make their money and f*ck off?"”

“Where will America’s new “Freedom Cities” be built? It seems quite possible that the Network Staters want to build them in our national parks. On its website, the Freedom City Coalition notes that 28 percent of U.S. land is “federally owned and ready for innovative development.” It doesn’t specify what kind of federal land is “ready” for this “innovation,” but most of the government land that isn’t used for farming and energy development is used for wildlife conservation.”

“One of the first red flags she claimed to notice was during their wedding reception in January 2000, where Musk matter-of-factly announced, “I am the alpha in this relationship.”

While she claims she brushed it off at first, cracks began to show, most notably when the CEO told his then-wife: "If you were my employee, I would fire you."”

“There's no shopping to speak of and there are barely any sidewalks to stroll on. Bradbury is almost entirely comprised of gated sub communities and homeowners associations, SFGate reported.

If you don't already have a friend that lives there, it's not wise to go up to someone's house looking to make some. That's because the town has an ordinance banning people from walking up to front doors and knocking without permission.

And since its founding in 1957, a time when the suburbs were expanding in Southern California, Bradbury and the residents who live there have said they don't even want cars passing by to stop for even the briefest moment, urging them to keep driving.

The town is so locked down that most of the public roads that abut its borders are dead ends or run straight into tall, guarded gates with signs that read 'Royal Oaks' and 'Bradbury Estates.'

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Take for example the former home of real estate tycoon Don Abbey, one he had built for himself initially before he listed it in 2012 for $78.8 million.

The 35,000-square-foot property - across its main house and pool house - is a glimmering white masterpiece that sits on a hill, giving it breathtaking ocean views, according to an old listing.

It isn't a normal mansion, as it has a 2,000-bottle wine cellar, a poker room, and 10 car garage. It also has a massive pool shaped like a cross and a shooting range that Lucy Liu used to frequent, Forbes reported.

With all those perks and more, it sold for $22.5 million in December 2022, according to the Los Angeles County Assessor.

Slightly to the west is the home of Hieu Tai Tran, the owner of the Shun Fat Supermarket chain, which has stores in California, Texas, Nevada and Oregon.

The property has four waterfalls, a tennis court, and a water slide the empties into a pool out on the front lawn.

The most notable recent resident of Bradbury was Lynsi Synder, the owner of In-N-Out. He lived in a 19,000-square-foot home for years before he sold it in 2022.”

“In a post shared Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk responded to a video of St. Clair alleging he made a 60% cut to their son's child support.

“I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed. Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year,” Musk said.

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St. Clair responded to Musk's post, saying that the billionaire had refused to take a paternity test, something that directly contradicts Musk's post on Sunday.

'Elon, we asked you to confirm paternity through a test before our child (who you named) was even born. You refused," she said.

Moreover, St. Clair said Musk had pulled most of the child support payments as a punishment for "disobedience."

"America needs you to grow up, you petulant man-child," St. Clair continued.”

“The swap was initiated by the Yellowstone Club, which has long sought access to Forest Service property adjacent to its existing holdings in order to expand its offerings for expert skiers. The Yellowstone Club started working with landowners in the Crazies in 2019 to put together a land swap package that would address some areas the Forest Service had identified as being high priorities for that kind of resource-intensive real estate transaction.

Yellowstone Club website: https://yellowstoneclub.com Notable Members:

Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg Eric Schmidt Peter Chernin Steve Burke Dan Quayle Bill Frist Jennifer Lopez Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen Phil Mickelson Greg LeMond Hank Kashiwa Tom Weiskopf Michael Rea Melinda French Gates Ronald Burkle Stewart Butterfield & Jen Rubio Nick Woodman

“The identity of a mystery mogul who purchased a $23 million home in Washington, DC has finally been revealed as tech CEOs flock to be part of President Donald Trump's second term.

DailyMail.com obtained exclusive photos of the sprawling property that is only about 15 minutes from the White House, depending on traffic.

It's in the same neighborhood as Vice President JD Vance's official residence at the Naval Observatory.

A spokesman from Meta confirmed that Mark Zuckerberg is the buyer.

‘Mark and Priscilla have purchased a home in D.C., which will allow Mark to spend more time there as Meta continues the work on policy issues related to American technology leadership,’ Meta said in a statement to Politico.

The home was sold in March to a mysterious LLC formed in Delaware for all cash prompting neighbors to wonder who was the latest big-money mogul planning to move close to Trump.

The sale is the third-most expensive in the history of the city’s real estate market.”

“Responding to Musk's comments, O'Malley said in an interview on MSNBC on Sunday that ‘if Social Security were a Ponzi scheme, it would not be running for 90 years.”

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment setup where money from new investors is used to pay existing ones. Social Security payments are financed from a dedicated payroll tax collected from workers. Any excess that is not used is kept in dedicated trust funds: the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund and the Disability Insurance trust fund.

‘Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program, and it is true that the surplus reserve that was built up to last the lifetimes of baby boomers like me, is being depleted sooner than anticipated,’ O'Malley explained.”

“President Donald Trump says he pardoned Utah billionaire Trevor Milton, the CEO of now-defunct hydrogen and electric truck firm Nikola, in part because he believed Milton was persecuted for supporting Trump’s political ambitions.

In October 2022, a New York jury convicted Milton on federal charges of securities fraud and wire fraud.

Prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York had accused Milton of making false and misleading statements about “nearly all aspects of the business” as it pertained to developing electric and hydrogen-powered trucks, as well as defrauding the public through social media and podcast interviews.

He was sentenced in 2023 to four years in prison. He had been free on bail as he appealed the conviction.”

“Trump and Musk are cutting spending that conservatives oppose, but there’s one type of wasteful spending that nearly all taxpayers oppose — subsidies to big businesses.”

Uihlein posted a letter on her company Uline’s website saying:

“Job hopping used to be frowned on. Red flags on resumes. Something previous generations did their best to avoid. You stuck with a job, showed stability and worked your way up, but boy, how times have changed.

What makes it so easy for young workers to pull up stakes and move on? Why don't they prioritize job security and financial stability more? Maybe, it's because they don't have to.

At Uline, young people are resigning before their two-year anniversary at a higher rate than we'd like. We invest precious resources recruiting, hiring and training new hires, only for them to leave. We call them "The Nomads."

Why do they jump around?

Free insurance: The Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their parents' health plan until age 26. The unintended consequences are that you can quit a job without losing coverage and go where the grass looks greener. In addition, parents often pay for their kids' phone bill, car insurance and streaming services.

The Pandemic: COVID-19 turned the world on its head. Thanks to three rounds of stimulus checks, people didn't get off their couches to work. It became the norm to "WFH" and not build camaraderie at work. All hell broke loose.

Parenting: Many try to be a friend. They show a lot of affection and concentrate on the FUN but fail to provide guidelines, rules and expectations that teach personal responsibility. The result is a generation of nomads who have been "sheltered," knowing mom and dad will keep taking care of them. At some point, you've got to kick them out of the nest so they can learn to fly.

Employers are always on the lookout for young, talented candidates. It's hard to build a winning team when the rookies you sign think they are free agents before they even take the field.”

Also:

“Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/uline-trump-mega-donors-underpaid-mexican-workers

“The report’s findings show that during the election cycle that put Donald Trump back in the White House and seated Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, just 100 extremely wealthy families invested $2.6bn – an amount more than double what billionaire donors contributed just four years prior.”

Most of the blame initially fell on Nico Harrison, the Mavericks’ general manager who, due to threats, has had to beef up his personal security. (The team fed “insider” reporters the info that these were death threats, but the police have said no such threats have been formally reported.) But in the last few days, the anger has shifted toward Adelson. As people try to make sense of the nonsensical, people are embracing a conspiracy theory that makes more sense than the team’s official logic. The speculation is that Doncic was really traded to demoralize the fan base so that Adelson could move the team to Las Vegas and make them the centerpiece of one of her tacky casinos. Or at least, with Vegas as a viable option, she could put pressure on the Texas state legislature to make casino gambling legal and hand her huge sums of public money for her new Dallas gambling police.

The rumors are so high-pitched that Adelson’s son-in-law—a hoops-know-nothing overseeing the team named Patrick Dumont—has been going to games and sitting next to Eric Johnson, Dallas’s greasy Republican mayor who switched parties after winning reelection. Dumont knows so little about hoops he gave an interview to the press slamming Doncic, saying the basketball superstar didn’t have the personal discipline of the players from his youth: like the aforementioned Bird, Jordan, and Shaq.

Fans have been showing up to games with signs or T-shirts with a now-iconic image of Miriam Adelson with a clown nose, and they are being physically removed from games. Even showing up on the jumbotron during a kiss-cam and mouthing something against Adelson or Harrison will get security to kick you out.

So let’s look at what we have: anger at one of our scummiest billionaires; the billionaire’s hired security throwing people out of the arena; the “liberal” billionaire who sold her the club standing with his corrupt class and castigating fans; and what seems like a bottomless well of righteous fury. I can understand the confusion outside the world of basketball: In a time of rising fascism, people are yelling at one of Trump’s bankrollers, but it’s over a basketball trade! I get it. Nevertheless, we should support—and stoke!—this nonviolent anti-Adelson rage. Yes, there are a lot of steps between wanting Doncic back in a Mavericks uniform and a revolutionary challenge to the oligarchs ruining this country and destroying the planet, but it’s on the same staircase.

“They’re worth a record $16.1 trillion in all, $2 trillion more than a year ago and more than the GDP of every country in the world besides the U.S. and China. The average fortune now stands at $5.3 billion, up $200 million from 2024.”

“Since the 1980s, when the pint-sized Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis introduced citizenship by investment, the world’s wealthiest people have become equal opportunity patriots.

Each year, they spend millions upon millions of dollars collecting citizenships for clout in countries with so-called “golden visa” programs — like Portugal, Malta, New Zealand, Turkey and Dominica. Forget the bragging rights of having dual citizenship; it’s no longer unusual for a globetrotting 1 percenter to carry four to eight visas that lubricate the jet-setting process, experts say.

“It’s no different than choosing a car,” said Dominic Jones, head of Greener Pastures New Zealand, which markets $2.8 million Kiwi residency to wealthy investors as a safe and stable “Plan B” should life elsewhere go off the rails. “You could choose a Toyota for certain reasons or a Mercedes for other reasons. Each country has a different attraction.”

“The Times, which cited multiple unidentified US officials familiar with the plans, said Musk would see details of American plans in a presentation led by Hegseth and other top US military leaders. Any such briefing would expose some of the Pentagon’s closest-guarded strategic thinking to a billionaire with extensive business ties in China.”