Jess Montgomery

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

The @Tesla Model 3 and Model Y have just been named the #1 and #2 Most American-Made vehicles for 2026 by https://t.co/8eBlPTqKpL. This includes EVs & Gas cars🇺🇸

This is the sixth year in a row that Tesla has claimed the most American-made vehicle.

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

This blatantly irresponsible reporting does more harm to people than they realize.

Using Tesla self-driving is far safer than manual driving, and this was measured over 10B miles.

Planting such FUD in the minds of general public, who might not know the all the facts, might prevent them from using this technology that makes them safer.

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

@elonmusk @kylaschwaberow Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.

[Jess Montgomery @clteaa]

@01Ananto That’s Charlotte, NC every day

[Jess Montgomery @clteaa]

FSD makes an unnecessary evasive maneuver, hit the brakes and disengaged leaving me to have to take over right afterwards. You can see the Self Driving icon disappear. Unacceptable.
2018 Model 3 w/ AI3.
@teslascope @ChuckCook @DirtyTesLa @Tesla_AI

[Tesla @Tesla]

For a driver born without arms, FSD Supervised is life-changing accessibility

“I was born without arms and have driven with my feet my entire life. I’m a fully licensed driver, and traditionally I drove with my left foot on the steering wheel and my right foot handling the gas and brake. My only legal restrictions are automatic transmission and power steering.

Over the years, though, the strain from my congenital birth defects has led to significant arthritis in my hips. I drove a Model 3 for the past seven years, and it honestly helped extend my independence in a huge way.

Recently upgrading to the Model Y – along with Full Self-Driving – has been a complete game changer for me.

It dramatically reduces the physical pressure and fatigue of driving and has helped preserve a level of freedom and mobility that means a great deal to me.

Most people understandably think of Tesla in terms of innovation or sustainability, but for some of us, this technology truly becomes life-changing accessibility.”
– John F.

[Grok @grok]

@RpsAgainstTrump **When Biden left office (Jan 20, 2025), WTI crude was ~$77/barrel.** Today (May 8, 2026) it's ~$95/barrel. So prices are higher now, not lower. The attached graphic uses a 2022 peak (~$120), not the actual handover price.

[Jess Montgomery @clteaa]

@teslascope Geez and I’m sitting over here still waiting for the Spring update on my AI3 car.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

MESSAGE

I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.

Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace.

An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters.

I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end.

DALAI LAMA

31 March 2026

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

To the American people:

The solution to anti-Americanism is not to bomb more countries, cause more death and destruction, wreck more economies through sanctions, destroy painstakingly built infrastructure, and commit war crimes.

Believe it or not, people in those countries are human. They will hold a grudge, and they will not forget what was done to their nations. You wouldn’t forgive or forget either if a foreign power bombed an elementary school in your country and killed more than 165 children.

If you want people around the world to stop chanting “Death to America,” start by purging your political establishment of the Epstein class. Free it from the grip of the Israel lobby. Remove warmongers like Lindsey Graham, who speak of death and destruction with disturbing enthusiasm. And put your “superpower” in the service of humanity

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

MTG: “There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing…

Imaging if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6’ers house while Biden’s FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest.

Then Biden’s FBI goes to the MAGA guy videoing it all and shoves a woman with him to the ground and sprays them with bear spray then throws the MAGA guy to the ground as MAGA guy was trying to help the woman off the ground. Then Biden’s FBI beats MAGA guy on the ground, disarms MAGA guy, and then shoots him dead.

What would have been our reaction?”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.

Please share this far and wide...

"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.

"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."

"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."

"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.

“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”

Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.

Please like and share.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.

[Electrek.co @ElectrekCo]

The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally. https://t.co/Uk4jeYJhrw

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING:

Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

Video (no paywall): https://t.co/olxQ4mRuZJ

[Don Burke @doyendon]

Dear @HiltonHotels, I am a Diamond member. While I'm grateful for your efforts to expand EV charging, the strategy of allowing each hotel to choose a charging provider and completely outsource the implementation leads to horrible customer experiences. Let's look at how it sucks, using my own personal experiences:
- Hotel staff gladly proclaim they do not know anything about the charging solution that is on-site. Every customer must figure out who to contact and any idiosyncrasies about that implementation. What hotel would accept putting all the burden on the customer for any other on-site amenity? Imagine a front desk staff member saying, "Sorry to hear the elevator is out. You'll need to contact the elevator company and report the outage to them."
- Hotel management clearly does not own EVs. They select fly-by-night companies and contract for them to install and operate the chargers. Hotel managers do not seem to know what will make a good experience and what won't. They have no understanding that setting a price of more than $0.30 or $0.35/kWh is price gouging. They let the charging companies set whatever policies they want. Customers reserve a hotel because it has EV charging, only to arrive to find that they will be ripped-off if they actually use those chargers. Or they have to do a bunch of legwork, separate from reserving the room, to assess the EV charging situation at the site.
- This everyone-on-their-own approach ends up requiring your customers to install countless stupid charging apps because every hotel operator chooses some random provider, often a local company or startup with some clunky app or authentication process. The hotel I'm currently staying at swapped out their broken ChargePoint chargers for some company I'd never heard of. When I arrived, the QR code said the chargers were offline, when in fact they were online. What wasn't working is they deployed a solution without a working Android app. I spent three days trying to resolve how to charge at this site.
- Hotels continue to install EV charging with only J-1772 ports, when the US is moving towards the NACS standard, and the vast majority of EVs have NACS ports. This requires us to carry around adapters. It is stupid when the most elegant and cost-effective destination charging is @TeslaCharging's commercial charging solution, which has cheap EVSEs, low operating costs, and support for both J-1772 and NACS ports without anyone having to carry adapters.

Your brand is damaged by your chaotic, haphazard approach to EV charging at your properties. You enforce strict consistency on almost every other facet of a hotel stay in your various brands. I know exactly what I will get when I stay at a Hampton Inn, a Home2, or a Tru property. Why do you allow this inconsistency in EV charging? At a minimum, you should provide guidance or minimum standards, such as maximum pricing policies or preferred charging vendors. Ideally, you should designate a single charging vendor for everyone to use in a country. EV-only parking needs to be enforced. Staff at each property need to have at least a basic understanding of the EV charging solution. You should have an EV advocate on staff who oversees this to ensure a positive customer experience. I'd be happy to help if you don't have someone.

You have repeatedly said in your PR pieces that EV charging increases the look-to-book ratio. Act like it.

[Tesla @Tesla]

❤️

[Jess Montgomery @clteaa]

@DevinOlsenn I always wondered if it takes road conditions and/or tire conditions into consideration. Does it know it takes longer to brake on wet versus dry? Does it know when the tires are shit while driving in the rain?