Kevin Kortum

🏎️ Tesla makes it hard to get $50,000 Roadster deposit refunded after 8 years

tech

Tesla charged between $50,000 and $250,000 in deposits for the Roadster, depending on whether customers opted for the “Founders Series” or not. Some people had placed that money in Tesla’s hands for eight years without the automaker delivering anything.

Wild that they can just hold on to your money for so long without delivering anything or refunding people without them having to waste a bunch of time going through the hassle of dealing with customer service. I’m sure they are putting all of that money to good use.

📰 The Nerve

media

The Nerve

We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists.

New independent, female-founded news site alert! They’ll be covering politics, culture, and tech. I’ll be curious to see how things split between UK/US coverage given they are based in the UK, but have covered things like Cambridge Analytica and Silicon Valley.

🏈 Why Defector is intervening to make public a confidential document in the Tyreek Hill case

sports

Defector

Marks said he received threats from Schneiderman saying that if any financial harm came to Hill because of the court document, “his client will pursue all available remedies against me, my client, and my firm, and me, personally.” A second person on Hill’s legal team, Marks said, made similar threats to him as well.

Similar to the last one from 404, another example of these small independent outlets shining a light on things that the powers that be would rather have kept on the shadows.

🦹 Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence

politics

White House

This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

We obviously already have ICE acting like the gestapo in masks, and now the administration is literally putting us into a police state where being against fascism or not being Christian

◼️ ‘The Bear’ writer Alex O’Keefe says he was handcuffed & detained by police after “an old white woman” on a train complained about him

society

Deadline

O’Keefe, who is Black, says “an old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting.” He says he refused and subsequently was “pulled off, handcuffed, and detained” by police.

The article, Instagram post, and video are terrible enough as it is, then you scroll down to the comments… Sitting while black. Wonderful to see that this is where our tax money goes—sending four cops after a guy on a train who didn't break any laws.

🧊 We’re suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract

politics

404 Media

On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link.

How much do you want to bet they’ve utilized this and targeted people without getting the appropriate warrants? 404 continues to do the work of our lord and savior, Charlie Kirk /s

🏎️ Tesla makes it hard to get $50,000 Roadster deposit refunded after 8 years

📰 The Nerve

🏈 Why Defector is intervening to make public a confidential document in the Tyreek Hill case

🦹 Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence

◼️ ‘The Bear’ writer Alex O’Keefe says he was handcuffed & detained by police after “an old white woman” on a train complained about him

🧊 We’re suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract

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