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Tesla’s Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, Jody Kerns, is leaving the company to become Rivian’s Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois.

He’s the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this year. The head of Cybercab new product introduction walked out in April, before the vehicle ever carried a paying passenger.

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Many of the 4,782 checks Chuck Grassley released, purporting to show abuse from Jack Smith, instead tell poignant stories about the trust Trump's supporters put into a billionaire con man telling lies so he could take their money.

The post Chuck Grassley Provides Proof of the Terrible Fraud Trump Perpetrated on MAGAts appeared first on emptywheel.

One of the ways Musk fraudulently goosed SpaceX stock value during the IPO was by pretending that the company would very quickly (in just a year or two) grow from just 12 million global Starlink subscribers (just 4 million in the States) to something more akin to 300-500 million. The way Starlink claims they’ll do […]

“According to sources who spoke to WBTV on the condition of anonymity, the text thread between some Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has recently drastically reduced the number of religious affiliations recognized by the US military, and now higher-ups are heavily pressuring service members to choose from the drastically reduced list, or risk having one chosen for them -- l...

Bee expands its ambient AI family with two personal AI devices designed to remember the moments that matter most, plus new integrations with Alexa+ and Amazon.com.

Jeff Bezos-backed electric truck startup Slate Auto opened the doors to its first-ever brick-and-mortar “experience center” in Chicago’s Near West Side, offering midwest fleet buyers and automotive journalists (Hi!) their first real, up-close look at what promises to be the most affordable new vehicle in America.

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The failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee last month has thrust the death penalty, and the various flawed methods of enacting it, into the national spotlight. The number of people killed by the state has increased every year since 2022, when 11 executions were conducted, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. In 2025, […]

The post After Christa Pike’s Botched Execution, People in Prison Have Something to Say appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

A little more than a year ago I helped start a creative writing group here at Pleasant Valley State Prison in central California.

The post Why You Should Start an Unauthorized Prison Writing Club appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

About Tresco During our stay on St Mary’s, we couldn’t resist taking a day trip to Tresco, the second-largest inhabited island in the Isles of Scilly. Unlike the other islands, Tresco has no cars (apart from those needed for island services), giving it a wonderfully peaceful atmosphere where bicycles, golf buggies and walking are the […]

Travis Tritt's back on stage after beating pneumonia. The country star is ready to hit the road again following weeks of recovery. Continue reading…

Bobby McNeily, a reporter for Real America's Voice, was doing a live interview outside before a Trump rally in Ohio. That's when he met a man identified only as Brian, who openly admitted he wasn't a Trump fan. McNeily then made the mistake of asking Brian what he was hopi...

There’s no way to shift the blame this time

Once again, President Donald Trump has suffered a setback in his efforts to restrict press access to the White House. In a ruling late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. […]

The post President Trump’s losing streak versus the press continues appeared first on Poynter.

Photos by Stacie Joy  The Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that it has completed its redesign of Avenue B, including changes to traffic patterns, expanded pedestrian space and new cycling connections.  The project covers Avenue B from Fourth Street ...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  When Cresta Kruger moved to the East Village in 1996, it was to start a band.  Thirty years later, after playing electric flute and singing in several rock bands, raising two daughters in the neighborhood, working as a photogra...

After three years as a takeout-only restaurant, Kotobuki East Village has returned to full-service dining at its new home at 8 Stuyvesant St. at Ninth Street.  The Japanese restaurant, which previously operated at 56 Third Ave. between 10th and 11th Streets, closed th...

Bake Culture recently closed its outpost at 22 St. Mark’s Place between Second and Third Avenues. 

I’ve tested a lot of cargo e-bikes over the last decade-plus of reviewing electric bicycles. There are good cargo e-bikes. There are great cargo e-bikes. And then there’s Xtracycle.

More specifically, there’s the new Xtracycle Swoop ASM, which might just be a cut above every other cargo e-bike I’ve tested.

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Racist billionaire Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions of his personal funds in an effort to preserve the GOP’s congressional majority.

Through his America PAC, Musk has financed ads that have recently focused heavily on Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, transgender rights, and the domestic safety net.

Musk is the GOP’s biggest publicly identified donor in the 2026 midterms. In addition to his PAC, Musk has donated at least $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, which works to elect Republicans to the Senate.

So far, Musk has reportedly spent $366 million to prop up Republicans. Millions of those funds have been spent on ads on Meta’s Facebook, which allows advertisers to target specific states and congressional districts.

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