🔥BREAKING: Media Matters is on the brink of collapse.
After two decades of smearing conservatives, the Soros-funded attack dog is under siege—from lawsuits by @elonmusk, FTC probes, & state AG investigations. Why? Donor fraud, defamation, & LYING to destroy Twitter.
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@elonmusk 2/ Media Matters, founded by David Brock in 2003, has spent 20 years using dark money, fake “fact checks,” advertiser boycotts, and weaponized media hit jobs to cancel anyone the Democrats hate.
Now they’re drowning in $15 million in legal bills—and may have to shut down.
@elonmusk 3/ They’ve cut staff. They’ve begged donors. They tried to settle with Musk.
But the lawsuits won’t stop. Because they're guilty. And now they're caught.
Their donors—like Soros and Susie Tompkins Buell—are suddenly MIA.
One ally said: “Maybe it’s time to shut it down.”
@elonmusk 4/ How did this happen?
In Nov 2023, Media Matters manipulated X’s algorithm to show ads next to Nazi content.
It caused a massive $75M advertiser exodus from X. And it was all a lie.
Musk sued for defamation—and then came the avalanche.
@elonmusk 5/ Musk: “We will pursue not just the organization, but anyone funding that organization.”
Since then:
— Musk filed suits in multiple countries
— Trump’s FTC launched an investigation
— GOP AGs Paxton (TX) and Bailey (MO) opened probes
— Donors spooked
— Staff revolted
@elonmusk 6/ Even their law firm bailed.
Elias Law Group, Dems' go-to legal firm, demanded $4M in unpaid fees.
Media Matters was stunned. “This is how you treat people who have been clients for 16 years and are friends?”
But do Democrats really have friends?
@elonmusk 7/ Media Matters tried to settle with Musk.
X demanded:
— A full retraction
— Every penny left in MM’s bank account
— Shut down permanently
MM offered a “methodology explainer” and a donation to a charity.
No deal. Not a chance.
@elonmusk 8/ Now they’re under federal investigation again.
The FTC is probing whether Media Matters illegally colluded with other “watchdog” groups to blackball X from advertisers.
Remember: These people weaponized “misinformation” to crush dissent. Now they’re in the crosshairs.
@elonmusk 9/ This is BIG. It means the FTC might go after everyone involved for antitrust: "conspiracy in restraint of trade".
That's a BIG felony. People could go to prison. And not just at Media Matters: at the giant advertisers too. Like Disney.
@elonmusk 10/ Democrats built a censorship-industrial complex powered by fake nonprofits like Media Matters and GARM. Under Biden they weaponized government to enforce it.
Now it’s collapsing—under legal scrutiny and financial ruin.
You can thank Trump, Musk, and all seven swing states.
@elonmusk 11/ Media Matters wanted to cancel YOU.
They spent two decades silencing speech, smearing patriots, and rigging the media.
Now, for the first time ever… they’re losing.
Stay loud. Stay fighting. And follow @RodDMartin for the takedown they never saw coming.🔥
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🧵Treasury @SecScottBessent just laid out Trump’s vision for 21st-century American economic statecraft.
It remakes the global order of the last 80 years.
It’s a masterclass in disciplined power: using America’s economic strength to serve our sovereignty — not globalist elites. 🧵
@SecScottBessent 2/ For decades, we assumed openness had no downside.
We tolerated massive imbalances, supply chain dependence on adversaries, and unfair practices — all while believing integration would magically align interests.
Those assumptions failed. Bessent is correcting them.
3/ Bessent’s five core principles:
1. Economic security begins with national capacity — building what we need at home in semiconductors, AI, shipbuilding, critical minerals, and more.
2. Openness must be matched by reciprocity — no more one-way access to our markets.
3. America must write the rules of the next economy — standards for digital assets, AI, and emerging tech.
🧵The world is significantly greener than it was 40 years ago — thanks to rising CO2.
Satellite data shows almost all ecosystems have grown greener by about 15% in 33 years. Crop yields are up. Reforestation is accelerating. Even marine ecosystems are benefiting.
So why isn’t the “green” movement celebrating? 🧵
2/ This greening effect is massive — equivalent to adding an area of green vegetation about twice the size of the mainland U.S.
CO2 is plant food. With more CO2, plants grow faster, use water more efficiently, and thrive even in arid areas.
Commercial greenhouses pump in extra CO2 for this exact reason.
3/ Yet official “social cost of carbon” calculations outright ignore this benefit.
When properly included, the net effect of extra CO2 on crop yields flips from negative to significantly positive.
Higher yields mean less hunger, lower food prices, and less land needed for farming.
Trump is resurrecting the most important executive reform of his first term — and it’s aimed directly at the Deep State.
If the President can't fire policy makers, why'd we have an election at all?
This is about restoring power to the voters by restoring Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
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2/ Schedule F creates a new category for policy-making and policy-implementing federal employees.
These positions will no longer have near-ironclad permanent employment.
The President, as head of the executive branch, can once again hire, manage, and remove people who "resist" the agenda voters chose...or who are just bad at their jobs!
3/ The Founders vested all executive power in the President. They never intended an unaccountable fourth branch of government.
The modern administrative state — insulated bureaucrats who view elected leaders as temporary — is a 20th-century invention that inverted constitutional order.
The technology existed by the 1940s. The holdup wasn’t engineering — it was government regulation, spectrum hoarding, and cronyism.
What else are we missing today because of Washington? 🧵
2/ In 1945, the head of the FCC promised Americans would soon have “handie-talkies.”
But the FCC prioritized broadcast TV over mobile phones. They gave TV massive needless spectrum — most of it left unused — while starving “land mobile” services.
Cellular networks were proposed in 1947. Approved? Not until the 1980s.
3/ AT&T had the tech but was slow to push it — they liked their landline monopoly.
Motorola and small radio common carriers lobbied hard against cellular to protect their businesses.
Result: decades of delay, sky-high prices, and long waiting lists for primitive mobile phones.
🧵The SpaceX IPO isn’t overpriced. The future is underpriced.
Fourteen years ago, Facebook’s IPO was mocked as a failure. I called it a Strong Buy. Those who listened made a fortune.
SpaceX is the same story — only much, much bigger. It's the East India Company all over again.🧵
2/ Facebook dominated the social graph. SpaceX is organizing the economic graph of a multiplanetary civilization, and remaking intercontinental transport at the same time.
It launches ~85%+ of the whole world's payload mass to orbit. Starlink connects the planet. Starship slashes costs 95% and enables orbital data centers, lunar industry, Martian cities, point-to-point Earth transport, and military logistics at unprecedented speed.
3/ Wall Street will obsess over today’s revenue and tomorrow’s capex. That misses the point entirely.
SpaceX isn’t just a launch company. It’s building the transportation layer for the Solar System — mass, energy, process, and value on a scale that echoes the opening of the New World in 1492.
At any reasonable IPO price, this is a generational bargain.