Mustache Pete

Entreproducer, Peace-seeker, LA partner & guide for @clubtengohambre & Gummy candy addict w/ a preference for #Haribo gummies.

[Mustache Pete @PeterABernstein]

From now on after each bathroom visit I’m gonna be like “this bowel movement is regular in form and authentic” ....and wait for a republican to object.

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

😂😂😂

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

It’s not a war unless it comes from the war region of France, otherwise’s it’s just sparkling combat.

[hattie @oh_that_hat]

There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born.

@eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do.

Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is.

A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?

[Jack @jackunheard]

I don’t think you guys are truly grasping how insane this is.

We might be doomed.

[Joey @JoeyMulinaro]

It’s the principle, Jerry

[The Spurs Express @TheSpursExpress]

🚨| Ange Postecoglou has released a statement on his sacking.

[V K @vkon1]

Credit Star Brick Studios on Reddit. Amazing. #COYS.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

This is drake vs kendrick for republicans

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I got no popcorn left at this point.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Watching Trump and Elon fight:

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."

Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."

German Chancellor:  "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Didn’t realize this was a prophecy

[Josh Sorbe @joshsorbe]

This messy Trump-Musk breakup is truly the gayest thing about pride month

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Wait... is this the best meme ever made?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I went to the Senate floor to lay out for my colleagues the stunning story of brazen, open corruption during the first 6 weeks of the Trump presidency.

I think it's a story everyone needs to know.

1/ So a🧵with the highlights from the speech.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I’ve had my team cataloguing Trump’s corruption campaign since the start. Here’s the chart I used in my Senate floor speech laying out the stunning graft from just the first 6 weeks of his presidency.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President.
https://t.co/TxQEMXDRpS