While typically associated with Mazda, the first production car with a Wankel engine was the Bertone designed NSU Spider, produced from 1963-67. In 1969, NSU was acquired by VW to form Audi NSU Auto Union AG, now simply Audi.

Elon Musk changes X terms to steer lawsuits to his favorite Texas court
X terms specify Northern District, where Judge Reed O'Connor is a Tesla investor.

Elon Musk's X updated its terms of service to steer user lawsuits to US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the same court where a judge who bought Tesla stock is overseeing an X lawsuit against the nonprofit Media Matters for America.

#ElonMusk #Twitter

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/xs-new-terms-steer-lawsuits-to-texas-court-where-judge-owns-tesla-stock/

Trump’s Charity Toward None

...[Cardinal] Dolan suffused the impious Trump in the pious glow of Catholic charities. Dolan looked on with a doting expression as Trump made his usual degrading, scatological comments about his foils, this time cloaked as humor.
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Instead of telling Trump he was over the line, Dolan enabled him in his blasphemous effort to cast his campaign as a quasi-religious crusade and himself as a saintly martyr saved by God.

#Politics #Religion

https://dnyuz.com/2024/10/19/trumps-charity-toward-none/

How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again
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Basically, they still don't like Trump, but they like his policies and political access and they're dumping money into getting him elected.

#Politics /Nosanitize

https://www.12ft.io/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/28/how-republican-billionaires-learned-to-love-trump-again

@Alfred Which actress appears topless in the 1927 silent movie Metropolis?

A Candidate for U.S. Senate Says He Was Shot in War. Was He?
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On the issue of the later injury in Montana, Kim Peach, a park ranger who spoke with Mr. [Tim] Sheehy [R] that day at the hospital, said Mr. Sheehy personally told him that he had accidentally shot himself in the arm, and handed over a revolver with a spent round.

“I am 100 percent sure he shot himself that day,” Mr. Peach said in an interview.
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This guy, again.

#Politics #Election2024 /nosanitize

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/us/tim-sheehy-gunshot-wound-montana-senate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE4.RYFQ.P21fquaGTecX

He may be erratic and showing signs of mental deterioration, but Trump is closing the gap. This is going to be a nail biter.

#Politics #Trump #538

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

CNN tried to find the makers of Trump’s new ‘Swiss-made’ watches. We ended up at a shopping center in Wyoming
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While [Mark] Pierce defended the rights of his clients, including the makers of Trump watches and sneakers, to keep their details private, he said the former president’s track record as a businessman should lead to caution for those interested in purchasing a product he sells.

#Trump #TrumpWatches #Politics #Grifters

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/politics/trump-watches-wyoming-invs/index.html

Enough with candy corn. Will no one defend circus peanuts?

The Pipeline: How Russian disinformation reaches and influences the US
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The fake whistleblower videos started popping up last fall, the work of a small but prolific Russian group that researchers call Storm-1516.

#Politics #Disinformation #Russia #JDVance #TimPool #CharlieKirk #Trump #Election2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/russian-disinformation-2024-election-storm-1516/index.html