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#ElonMusk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, & raised in a #wealthy family under the country's #racist apartheid laws. #Musk's family history reveals ties to #apartheid & neo-#Nazi politics. #DemocracyNow speaks w/Chris McGreal, reporter for The Guardian, to understand how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview, as well as that of his South African-raised colleague #PeterThiel, a right-wing #billionaire who co-founded PayPal alongside Musk.

#USpol
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In an especially strange twist, the case — against #TownstoneFinancial, a small Chicago-based lender — was brought during #Trump’s first term by Kathleen Kraninger, the director he appointed to run the #CFPB.

#RussVought, who became the agency’s acting director last month, said it had “used radical ‘#equity’ arguments to tag Townstone as #racist with zero evidence, & spent years persecuting & extorting them.”

Americans’ safety is in the hands of unqualified amateurs, who clumsily invited The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief to join a chat about a military strike. Putin must be shitting himself with laughter...

Team Trump accidentally shared war plans with a journalist, sparking scandal
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MSNBC · Team Trump accidentally shared war plans with a journalist, sparking scandalBy Steve Benen