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05/10/2021 09:28 AM EDT
THE BUZZ MAGA MANIA: As the Republican Party nationally wrestles with its allegiance to Donald Trump, California Rep. Devin Nunes gathered thousands in Tulare Saturday at a “Freedom Fest” that waved the #MAGA flag. He offered full-throated support to the former president and drew a pair of high-profile California Republicans whose very political survival may depend on their ability to appeal across the aisle.
May 9, 2021
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in a dispute with NASA over whose private spaace exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion US government contract to return to the moon. I gleaned this annoying piece of information by way of an obnoxiously sycophantic
Atlantic puff piece titled “Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing”, subtitled “From his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality whatever the cost.”
The Atlantic
The Atlantic Daily: SpaceX Really Might Change American Spaceflight Forever
It’s a busy time on Planet Elon. Plus: Here are five suggestions for how to spend this first weekend in May.
May 7, 2021
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It’s a busy time on Planet Elon. Twitter’s favorite billionaire space-entrepreneur provocateur continues to draw both ire and awe, depending on the day.
This week, his company SpaceX drew applause for successfully landing a prototype of its Starship spacecraft, which Musk wants to use to send people to the moon and Mars someday; this weekend, he has a controversial hosting gig on a classic American television show.
Last Call for 5.6.21 â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics
Last Call â A prime-time read of whatâs going down in Florida politics.
First Shot
Gov.
Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping elections bill into law Thursday at a closed-door event at the Hilton at Palm Beach International Airport.
The measure, which goes into effect immediately, mainly changes rules surrounding mail ballots. It limits when voters can slip their mail ballots into drop boxes to voting hours. It also requires election officials to guard or monitor drop boxes during the hours they are available to voters.
Additionally, the new law aims to curb so-called âballot harvestingâ by blocking anyone from dropping off ballots from more than two people who are not in their immediate family.