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Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push

Elon Musk has quietly financed a major canvassing operation to help Republican candidates in the midterm elections that rivals his effort in the 2024 presidential election, according to federal filings posted Thursday night. To monitor the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that pulls federal…
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October 16, 2026
Blockers: Michael Lewis’ ‘rollercoaster’ exposé of Elon Musk’s Doge Elon Musk

Blockers: Michael Lewis’ ‘rollercoaster’ exposé of Elon Musk’s Doge

“After a career spent getting readers excited about credit-default swaps (‘The Big Short’) and sabermetrics (‘Moneyball’)”, the American journalist Michael Lewis “decided to try to help people understand the importance of civil servants”, said Sam Freedman in The Guardian. He did this first in “The Fifth Risk”, his 2018 book…
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October 15, 2026
What is Starshield, and who limited Ukraine’s access to it? Elon Musk

What is Starshield, and who limited Ukraine’s access to it?

Ukraine’s military Starshield satellite connection has been restored, a Ukrainian Ministry of Defence source says, just days after the United States reportedly restricted the service. The Reuters news agency, quoting a source, reported that Kyiv is still seeking clarifications from Starshield’s parent company, SpaceX, as to why its service was…
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October 15, 2026
What is Starshield, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink? Elon Musk

What is Starshield, SpaceX’s military version of Starlink?

The claims drew renewed attention to the distinction between Starlink – SpaceX’s commercial satellite internet service – and Starshield, ​a military version developed for the Pentagon. While Musk has said the two systems are separate, in many cases they share the same underlying satellite technology. “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by…
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October 14, 2026