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Alan Ohnsman

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Former baby, future ghost. Writing about transportation & cleantech for Forbes | ❤️ LA

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Kyle Khan-Mullins @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social · 18h
NEW from me for @forbes.com: Ever wondered who the biggest data center investors in Congress are? We combed through every disclosure so you don't have to. Part 1 of 2, the Senate—and there's a big name in the top 5: www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...
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The 5 Senators—Including Maine's Susan Collins—With The Biggest Investments In Data Centers
Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting Senator. We found 26 Senators with at least $7 million in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse an...
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 15h
"Hackers: We Stole Data From 3,615 Trump Mobile Customers" @michael-kan.bsky.social for @pcmag.com
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Hackers: We Stole Data From 3,615 Trump Mobile Customers
Three customers in the leaked file confirm they interacted with Trump Mobile at some point.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 17h
A New Crop of Solar Panels Is the U.S.’s Best Hope of Catching China www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
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US Solar Panel Makers Try to Catch China With a Big Leap in Technology
Manufacturers say they are close to perfecting a new, more efficient solar panel that could help the United States reclaim ground it lost.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 06/10/2026
Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles, San Diego during campaign rally
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Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally
Trump made the remarks during a rambling speech in which he said gas prices would be lower soon, touted his ouster of Venezuela’s dictator, and made attacks on news outlets.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great question 👇
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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In this week's edition of The Prototype, I take a look at the expensive debt behind the AI boom, and how it connects with AI safety issues. I also take a look at a few of the cool space infrastructure projects that launched last week. Check it out. www.forbes.com/sites/the-pr...
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The Money Behind The AI Boom Is Getting More Expensive
The pricey debt behind the AI boom, infrastructure projects in space and more in this week’s Prototype.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the latest Current Climate: ⚡️ The electric power grid logjam may soon break 🚛 Chargers are a big limiting factor for Tesla’s Semi 🌊 Boyan Slat on The Ocean Cleanup’s funding push to deploy hundreds of plastic trash interceptors #electricpower www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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The Power Grid Logjam Could Soon Break
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at a limiting factor for Tesla’s Semi and The Ocean Cleanup’s push to deploy hundreds of plastic trash interceptors.
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Giacomo Tognini @giacomotognini.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New for @forbes.com: America's AI billionaires showed a unified front at Trump's White House lunch on Tuesday, but their political spending tells a more complicated story. Here's how Musk, Dario, Brockman, and co. have spent $145 million on the midterms: www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...
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How The Billionaires At Trump’s AI Lunch Are Spending On The Midterms
At the president's event, AI moguls presented a united front on the raging battle over AI regulation. Their $145 million of political spending tells a different story.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Giacomo Tognini @giacomotognini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New for @forbes.com: The U.S. is racing toward an AI data center boom that could cost upwards of $10 trillion and surpass the railroad mania of the late 1800s by as early as 2028. Here’s where all that money is being spent on land, power, water and cement: www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...
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Where Trillions Are Being Spent On The AI Data Center Buildout
U.S. spending on AI infrastructure could top $10 trillion and eclipse the 1800s railroad boom. Here's where the money is being spent on land, power, water and cement.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this AI slop Trump looks like 30 Rock Alec Baldwin 🤔
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is cool, right? Ken Paxton’s Lavish Travel Has Cost Texas Taxpayers $1.9 Million—Masters, Napa, Europe Among Trips www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
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Ken Paxton’s Lavish Travels Have Cost Texas Taxpayers $1.9 Million
Since taking office in 2015, Paxton has taken over 275 out-of-state trips.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: Is Corning shatterproof? Business is booming at the 175-year-old company, driven by insatiable data center demand for its optical fiber. I talked with CEO Wendell Weeks about how it will keep growing when the AI bubble pops www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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How 175-Year Old Corning Makes Itself Shatterproof
Corning is flying high thanks to the data center craze and insatiable demand for optical fiber. CEO Wendell Weeks is trying to ensure growth won’t stop when the AI bubble pops.
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo started ChronicleBio to find treatments for complex chronic conditions (including her own POTS) using AI and lots of biological data. So far it has ID’d 13 diff subtypes of illnesses, + plans a 1st clinical trial this year. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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Former OpenAI Exec Fidji Simo’s $20 Million Plan To Solve Her Chronic Disease And Others
Sufferers of complex, chronic diseases like POTS and long COVID often spend years searching for relief. The longtime tech exec started ChronicleBio to find treatments using AI and lots of biological d...
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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John Paczkowski @pczki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
with the average price of diesel spiking, Tesla would seem perfectly positioned to sell as many units of its long-delayed electric Semi as it can crank out. There’s just one problem: The company still hasn’t built enough of the high-powered chargers the truck depends on.
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Tesla’s Big Rig Bet Has A Big Problem
The company has booked thousands of orders for its electric Semi. But without enough high-powered megawatt chargers, it may deliver only about 250 this year.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Tesla’s big rig rollout has a charger problem The company has booked thousands of orders for its electric Semi. But without enough megawatt chargers, it may deliver only about 250 this year, despite surging diesel prices #Tesla #electricvehicles www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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Tesla’s Big Rig Rollout Has A Charger Problem
The company has booked thousands of orders for its electric Semi. But without enough megawatt chargers, it may deliver only about 250 this year.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In this week’s Current Climate: ☀️ Al Gore is a climate optimist: ‘We have urgency. But we also have agency’ ✨ Using star power to raise funds for nature at THE NAT 💡 Can Amazon curb its rising carbon footprint www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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Al Gore, Climate Optimist: ‘We Have Urgency. But We Also Have Agency’
Climate Week Edition: This week’s newsletter also looks at using star power to raise funds for nature and whether Amazon can curb its rising carbon footprint.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026
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US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%
The new LFP battery charges from 10 to 70% in 4.5 minutes at just 65˚C.
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Rashi Shrivastava @rashis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I would dread to do this in the first place.” People are using Meta’s Muse and other personal AI agents to uncover forgotten funds, negotiate bills, cancel subscriptions and chase refunds—recovering hundreds or even thousands of dollars. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
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People Are Turning To AI Agents Muse And Instinct To Save Them Thousands Of Dollars
Meta’s viral new AI agent Muse’s number one use case is helping people recover money lying around in old, forgotten accounts, which would be hard to find manually.
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peptides like “tesa” and sermorelin are landing fitness fans in the hospital with allergic reactions. *NEW* from @iainmartin.bsky.social and me for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
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Peptides Like ‘Tesa’ And Sermorelin Are Landing Fitness Fans In The Hospital With Allergic Reactions
A class of peptides that are meant to stimulate human growth hormone has been linked with a spat of severe allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock-like symptoms.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
just horrible: Young boy killed after father backs Cybertruck into him www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Young boy killed after father backs Cybertruck into him, police say
A California man accidentally hit and killed his 6-year-old son while backing a Tesla Cybertruck out of the family’s driveway near Temecula, according to police reports.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alice Walton on why she’s funding a big new Arkansas hospital, the biotech billionaire versus the physician in the Ohio governor’s race and more in this week’s @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter www.forbes.com/sites/innova...
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Alice Walton On Her Plans For A Major New Arkansas Hospital
Alice Walton talks about why she's funding a major new Arkansas hospital in this week's Forbes innovationRx newsletter.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Federal judge rules against Trump administration over canceled Solar For All grants insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...
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Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration Over Canceled Clean Energy Grants - Inside Climate News
The Solar for All program was intended to provide dozens of grants for clean energy programs in underserved communities. The Trump-appointed judge said the program’s termination was unlawful.
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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨NEW🚨 In an astonishing cyberattack, a Chinese-speaking hacker told AI agents powered by DeepSeek and Anthropic's Claude to go breach a bunch of retailers and hospitality companies. Within five days, the agents hacked 30+ websites and stole over 600,000 credit cards. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
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Massive AI-Fueled Hack Hit 100 Companies In Days
Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI agents carried out a wide-ranging cyberattack, obtaining 600,000+ credit card numbers in just a few days. It’s a worrying new milestone in cybercrime.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Waabi said it completed the first fully autonomous truck run without the system previously practicing the 300-mile drive in simulation or relying on new real-world data #selfdriving www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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This Robotrucker Says Its AI Drives Highways Without Advance Training
Waabi said it completed the first fully autonomous truck run without the system previously practicing the 300-mile drive in simulation or relying on new real-world data.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026
The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.
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The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Climate Week! In the latest Current Climate newsletter: ⚛️ Nuclear reactors are shrinking. Bluecore Energy's are going to float 🚖 The economics of Tesla’s Cybercab aren't so appealing ♨️ Mazama Energy on the benefits of super-hot-rock geothermal power www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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Nuclear Reactors Are Shrinking. Some Will To Float
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at the economics of Tesla’s Cybercab and Mazama Energy's CEO on the benefits of super-hot-rock geothermal energy
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Professor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm far from a military strategy expert, but don't you usually hide tempting targets, not put gold statues on them and place them in flight paths?
Screenshot from news story reading "proposed triumphal arch will double as military complex with snipers and drones.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
He forgot the shark moat and lasers www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Press releases no longer come from the U.S. Transportation Department, but "Trump's Transportation Department" 🙄 www.nhtsa.gov/press-releas...
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Jae @jaehanley.social · 15/09/2026
We fucked over domestic EV production and banned the Chinese ones, only to make oil changes unaffordable in less than a year.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The rich are worried about an AI apocalypse—but it’s already hurting the poor (and new college grads) www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
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Fears Of An AI Apocalypse Are Growing—But It’s Already Hurting The Poor
How artificial intelligence is already making community decisions in marginalized neighborhoods.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
any idea where we could find one? 🤔 Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Trump Rejects Talk of A.I. Regulation and Calls Out Anthropic’s CEO
The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In the latest Current Climate: 🔋R3 is turning old batteries into new refined lithium 🥵 Threats to pregnancy from a changing climate ☀️ Corning’s plan to turbocharge solar power #recycling #solar www.forbes.com/sites/curren...
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Turning Old Batteries Into New Refined Lithium
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at the threats to pregnancy from a changing climate and Corning’s plans to turbocharge solar power.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump administration to roll back carbon emission rules for fossil fuel power plants www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But Hunter’s laptop!: Russian oligarch bankrolled Don Jr’s wedding www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In rare sighting, whale shark spotted between Malibu and Santa Barbara Island www.latimes.com/california/s...
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In rare sighting, whale shark spotted between Malibu and Santa Barbara Island
Carl Sbarounis was flying his plane over the ocean, scouting for fish as a commercial fisherman, when a friend called him with news of a rare sighting: A giant whale shark cruising through the blue Pa...
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?’ Perhaps at some point governments will remember that their voters prefer not to be dead.”
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Why the AI race has its creators fearing human extinction
Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream
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John Hyatt @johnhyatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Went From 9/11 Hero To 'Most Hated Guy On Wall Street’ www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
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Howard Lutnick Has Doubled His Net Worth To Over $7B As Commerce Secretary
Lutnick is worth an estimated $7.3 billion.
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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨NEW🚨 Apple slams Meta for its role in getting the DOJ to launch an antitrust probe into smartphone industry monopolization, previously-unreported court filing shows. It's also after Mark Zuckerberg's communications, potentially including those with Joe Rogan. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
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Apple Slams Meta’s Role In DOJ iPhone Antitrust Investigation
Apple alleges Meta is refusing to provide documentation in the DOJ’s iPhone monopoly suit, despite being a key player in helping the Justice Department put together its case in the first place.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump keeps promising cash to Americans—but they haven’t received any www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
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‘Trump Dividend’ Is Fourth Check He’s Promised Voters—But None Have Ever Been Issued
The so-called “Trump Dividend”—a possibly illegal form of voter coersion—is the fourth time the president has suggested giving checks directly to Americans, but not a single one has ever been issued.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
File under: No Shit Sherlock
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Forbes @forbes.com · 09/09/2026
Richard W. Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer, said Trump’s $45,000 gifts to Natalie Harp and other employees are a “classic case of supplementation of government salary,” which he argued violates federal law.
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Do Trump’s $45,000 Cash Gifts Violate The Law? Some Legal Experts Think So
Richard W. Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer, said Trump’s $45,000 gifts to Natalie Harp and other employees are a “classic case of supplementation of government salary,” which he argued violates federal law.
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Glad that "not a war" thing with Iran is over 🤥
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Kyle Khan-Mullins @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW from me for @forbes.com: The president has a very different approach to his own debts versus the country's. I catalogue all his properties that are newly debt free. www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...
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Trump Runs Up National Debt While Paying Off His Own
Crypto sales to supporters and cozy deals with Middle Eastern monarchs have poured more than $1 billion into the president’s pockets. A previously unreported $5.7 million mortgage payment is a clue to...
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Unlike Apple & Google @apstylebook.com is clear on what to call a certain Great Lake: "Lake Ontario has carried that name for more than 400 years. Refer to it by its original name. If it is relevant to the story, acknowledge and explain the name Trump has chosen." ckpgtoday.ca/2026/09/08/t...
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The Associated Press says it will still refer to Lake Ontario, not Lake America
The Associated Press says it will continue to refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, and not Lake America. It says that as a global news agency, it must ensure place names are easily recognizable...
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Alan Ohnsman @aohnsman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's the attention to the small details that matters: "The seats are not particularly comfortable. The back part is completely flat with no lumbar support” www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesl...
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Tesla Cybercab First Ride: What It’s Really Like to Use Tesla’s New Autonomous Taxi
We took five rides in Tesla's new Cybercab in Austin to see how the robotaxi works, what it costs, how it rides, and where it presently falls short.
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