https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/elon-musk-iran-ambassador-un

Elon Musk reportedly met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday. The meeting was a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States, according to two Iranian officials who spoke with the New York Times. One of the Iranian officials said that the Tesla executive requested the meeting and that the ambassador picked the site.

Earlier this month, Musk reportedly made a guest appearance on a call between Trump and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who thanked Musk for the satellites he had been providing Ukraine through his company, Starlink.

“He’s now engaging the Iranians,” said Sina Toossi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, about Musk. “And the Iranians have not engaged Americans in direct negotiations since before Trump left the nuclear deal, so this could be a very big deal.”

“Whether America can have successful negotiations with Iran under Trump really will have to do with Musk or whoever is going to lead these negotiations, and a team that is dedicated to a negotiating process, that is willing to do the hard work that actual diplomatic process and international relations entails,” Toossi added.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-2024-11-13/

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk and Ramaswamy "will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies," Trump said in a statement.
Trump said their work would conclude by July 4, 2026, adding that a smaller and more efficient government would be a "gift" to the country on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The appointments reward two Trump supporters from the private sector.
Musk leads electric car company Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab, social media platform X and rocket company SpaceX, while Ramaswamy is the founder of a pharmaceutical company who ran for the Republican presidential nomination against Trump and then threw his support behind the former president after dropping out.
Musk gave millions of dollars to support Trump's presidential campaign and made public appearances with him. Trump had said he would offer Musk, the world's richest person, a role in his administration promoting government efficiency.

https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2024/11/fate-of-great-adventures-kingda-ka-roller-coaster-coming-very-soon-park-says.html

Democrats are drowning in their own identity politics. Dem politicians are afraid that wrongthink will result in them being "canceled or primaried". Democrat donor advisors are telling the party to ditch their platform of identity politics, and to “begin with a complete rejection of race- and group-based identity politics".
Democrats are unsure, as their entire platform ceases to exist once identity politics are removed from the equation.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/13/democrats-2024-defeat-identity-politics-message-column-00189118
Democrats Wonder: Are We Too Correct?
The depth of the 2024 defeat brings tough questions about a base built around identity groups

the scale of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat may double as a silver lining. By losing all seven battleground states, suffering their first popular vote loss in two decades and, most importantly, watching President-elect Donald Trump prevail with a working-class coalition that was once their own, Democrats have an opportunity to turn despair into action.

Unlike 2016, when they won the popular vote while losing by a sliver in the swing states, or 2020, when they rebounded and won both, Democrats now have a mandate for change. And not just on tactics or points of emphasis: the breadth of their defeat, and the number of voters who abandoned them, present the party an opening to rethink their orientation around affinity group politics.

The question is whether they’ll be emboldened or cower when one of “the groups,” as identity-based organizations are invariably called, speaks up.

But the reward is alluring. Whoever can retain the party’s traditional commitments to the most vulnerable and appeal to those voters who just rejected Harris will emerge as the Democrats’ strongest 2028 nominee and perhaps the next president.

https://www.fox9.com/news/43-monkeys-escaped-south-carolina-update-rhesus
This is literally the plot of Planet of the Apes.
if you live in or near south carolina, please do not have sex with the monkeys

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/10/politics/musk-trump-influence-transition/index.html

Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club has been brimming in the last 48 hours with two kinds of people: those angling for a job in the president-elect’s incoming administration, and those trying to influence him into hiring their picks for the top spots.

But the one person who has loomed over it all and has exerted a great deal of influence is Elon Musk, according to multiple sources. The tech billionaire has been seen at the resort in Palm Beach, Florida, almost every day since Trump won the election last week, dining with him on the patio some evenings and hanging out with his family Sunday at the golf course.

Musk has been in the room when multiple world leaders have phoned Trump, and he’s weighed in on staffing decisions, with the SpaceX and Tesla CEO even making clear his preference for certain roles.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at an election night watch party, on November 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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In one instance, Musk was with Trump at Mar-a-Lago when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called to congratulate the president-elect the day after the election, according to a source briefed on the call. Trump put the call on speaker, and Zelensky thanked Musk for his help providing communications to Ukraine through the billionaire’s Starlink internet service.

On Sunday, Musk waded into the GOP Senate leadership fight, endorsing Sen. Rick Scott after the Florida Republican swiftly backed Trump’s demand that anyone vying to be leader support recess appointments for his nominees — a way for presidents to attempt to bypass Congress that Senate Democrats could essentially block.

>Two Milwaukee women charged after toddler shoots 8-year-old
>Nakia M. Piggee, 27, and Vanta'Jah Theresa Latrish Westmoreland, 21, are accused of leaving the children alone for approximately 40 minutes in a one-bedroom apartment described by police as "filthy."
guess the race

>Detailed police reports described the apartment as littered with food, dirty clothes, and cigarette ashes. In the bedroom, liquor bottles and diapers were found. A 2-year-old child who is severely disabled was found in a crib with arm casts connected to a feeding tube and oxygen tank.
H.F.C.

>The 8-year-old victim was shot in the back and transported to Children's Hospital. Preliminary statements from the child's mother indicated the 4-year-old boy had accessed the weapon and fired the shot.

https://www.wisn.com/article/two-milwaukee-women-charged-after-toddler-shoots-8-year-old/62898322

https://www.nj.com/news/2024/11/gun-dealers-in-nj-sold-ar-15-ammo-without-asking-for-id-permits-ag-says.html
this doesn't even make any sense. state law says you need to show ID and FID to buy handgun ammo. AR-15s aren't handguns and their ammo is not handgun ammo
The AG is suing under the "Gun Industry Public Safety Act " saying selling ammo in accordance to state and federal laws is a "public nuisance"
this is why dems should never be voted for ever. this is literally the shit clinton and cuomo did in the 90s that got the PLCAA passed that even that commie fuck bernie sanders voted for
oh also
>Matthew Platkin announced lawsuits against two New Jersey gun dealers that sold “highly lethal AR-15” ammunition without checking ID.
good thing I only own standard lethal AR-15 ammo and not "highly lethal" AR-15 ammo