NEW: The @nytimes confirms that ICE deliberately electronically "disappeared" tens of thousands of people in detention and ordered contractors to refuse to reveal where they're held to family or lawyers.
30% of all immigrants detained in ICE jails now have their location hidden.
At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other “prognosticators” who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid R for much of the campaign cycle. They made it much more difficult to fundraise and are part of the reason the South has been neglected for so long.
They’re only a reflection of the past and mysteriously avoid any accountability when they’re wrong. One of their “analysts” was extremely condescending to me (not Jessica) when I tried to make my pitch for why they were wrong about my rating like he knew something about MS politics when he’s never been to the Sip. This attitude hurt Jaime Davis & others so much.
Hey @60Minutes, Trump just said he’s the only president who hasn’t taken his salary. JFK gave every penny of his salary to groups such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and the United Negro College Fund. He did the same thing with his House and Senate salaries.
1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
Everyone should watch this new Musk documentary. Available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, & Fandango. After watching, you will understand (1) how Elon Musk is the biggest conman in U.S. history & (2) there needs to be immediate Congressional hearings about him. @alexgibneyfilm@AOC
2028 Senate Primaries that need to happen:
IN - Todd Young
OK - James Lankford
SD - John Thune
AR - John Boozman
ID - Mike Crapo
ND - John Hoeven
SC - Tim Scott (if Mark Burns runs)
The old guard needs to go.
Let’s see if the russian musk bots are back online.
I just watched the Musk Movie. It was 4 hours long. (@alexgibneyfilm) TY for putting in an intermission.) There was so much information. Its genre is documentary, but it could easily be put under horror also. It was a very good movie, but also psychologically terrifying.
I have to say the first hour of the movie, brought back memories of the old Elon. The one that my husband and I really liked. He was quirky, funny, smart, the first spacex successful launches were awesome, when Tesla was new, and everyone was excited about the electric cars, him working with Obama and him saying that AI was an existential risk. It was like he truly cared about the human race.
But then, he flips and turns into a villain. 😩 The last 3 hours he morphs into a psychotic megalomaniac. It was like an evil storm. The Tesla auto pilot starts crashing cars, killing people and then he lies about it & says how safe it is. He lost his shit during Covid with the lockdowns. His son transitioned into Vivian, and he said the woke mind virus needed to be destroyed. He went from AI being an existential threat & said it was summoning demons, to wanting to put an AI robot in every home. The government was regulating his businesses due to environmental concerns and he does not like being told what he can and cannot do.
I really believe part of the reason he went after our govt, to control it, was because of regulations they were putting on him and his companies. He realized to remove these regulations he needed to control politics. This is why our govt should not be able to be bought by the richest man in the world. The Ashley St. Clair part of the story is crazy! I’m glad she is exposing all these details. It was brave of her to tell her story. She could have easily signed the NDA and been rich, she decided to do the right thing. We need more people like this.
The doge part of the movie is devastating. Gutting really important humanitarian efforts, so many people, including children, around the world have died because of this. Halting scientific research projects, such as cancer research, that some have been working on for years. The purge of a lot of brightest and best from our govt departments, leaving dept frozen. Putting all our personal info in the hands of young kids who had idea what they were doing, who knows what will happen in the future now that all of info has been exposed. Cutting back at the EPA, surely helped his companies, but at what cost to our environment?
Watching the first quarter, he really could have been an amazing part of America’s history, but then he threw it all away and chose to be a villain. Why risk the future well being of America, especially when you have so many children? He says children are the future, yet the administration HE installed is dangerous and threatens our future. It makes no sense.
It’s like he has lost all empathy for others. Maybe he’s high all the time, which means we have a drugged up psychopath, who doesn’t care about anything but his own personal endeavors, no matter the consequences, and that same person is in charge of our government. What could go wrong? We left the movie scared about the future of the whole world.
"I don’t want Jared Kushner to be investigated because he’s the president’s son-in-law. I want him investigated because he’s potentially laundered and embezzled $2 billion dollars in funds from the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. I don’t want Stephen Miller investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who’s at the center of the Trump brain trust. I want him investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who has violated the due-process rights of millions of people and, potentially, directly violated court orders. I don’t want Pete Hegseth investigated because he’s a toxic psychopath who is unqualified to lead America’s military forces. I want him investigated because he’s a fucking murderer who needs to spend the rest of his life in jail, either in this country or The Hague." https://t.co/SACQ9F5F7o
ProPublica has a new investigation into the Trump administration’s push to open public lands to private AI data center development. And the financial connections are worth paying attention to. While these officials have financial connections to the industry, they’re also overseeing policies that could make its expansion easier.
Lee Zeldin, EPA administrator, disclosed buying and selling shares in Datavault AI in May 2025. Zeldin’s EPA has proposed eliminating federal minimum public-notice and comment requirements for certain air pollution permits. That means states could decide whether communities even get an opportunity to weigh in on qualifying projects.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has between $18.1 million and $64.4 million invested in AI companies through Arthur Ventures, the investment firm he co-founded. He retained those financial interests when he joined the administration. Burgum, meanwhile, has met with representatives of Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet more than 20 times. He also attended a private dinner with UAE AI officials and investor Amos Hochstein before signing an AI cooperation agreement with the UAE.
Here’s the scale of what’s happening:
A USGS report identified 91.3 million acres of Interior-managed public land as potentially suitable for data centers. The BLM is reviewing approximately 15 data center applications and 17 associated infrastructure projects across six Western states.
Steve Pearce, director of the Bureau of Land Management, has held investments in Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet. He also has an investment in Titan Development, which has managed land acquisitions for data centers in the Southwest. He pledged to divest many of his AI holdings, but not Titan.
Michael Boren, USDA undersecretary overseeing the Forest Service, reported $1.5 million to $6.1 million in financial interests in Elon Musk’s xAI and up to $500,000 in Valar Atomics. Valar is pursuing a massive Utah data center project powered by more than 450 proposed small nuclear plants.
And we still don’t know how much taxpayers will actually receive for allowing these private companies to use public land. Interior says the primary payment will be annual fair-market-value rent.
ProPublica also found hundreds of administration appointees and their spouses have financial ties to major AI companies, including Nvidia, Alphabet and Meta. The officials involved say they are complying with federal ethics requirements. Doesn’t look like it. The overlap between personal financial interests, government policy and private development on public land raises some very legitimate questions.
We can’t make it any clearer than we did on Tuesday. We don’t want this shit. We don’t care that your buddies and you want to make money. Stop it.