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ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.

He got them all.

Read the full story: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#ElonMusk#SpaceX#Texas#Law#Business

Table titled "Bills Musk companies took a stand on during the 2025 Texas legislative session." It shows how 2 Texas House and 2 Texas Senate Bills that SpaceX supported all passed. These bills urge Congress to make spaceports eligible for tax-exempt private activity bonds, ban/criminalize drones over spaceports, give the Texas Space Commission power to close highways/gulf beaches near SpaceX's launch site, and define spaceports as critical infrastructure. At the bottom of the graphic are the logos of ProPublica, Texas Tribune, and KUT News.
Table titled "Bills Musk companies took a stand on during the 2025 Texas legislative session." It shows how 2 Texas House and 2 Texas Senate Bills that SpaceX supported all passed. These bills urge Congress to make spaceports eligible for tax-exempt private activity bonds, ban/criminalize drones over spaceports, give the Texas Space Commission power to close highways/gulf beaches near SpaceX's launch site, and define spaceports as critical infrastructure. At the bottom of the graphic are the logos of ProPublica, Texas Tribune, and KUT News.
Table titled "Bills Musk companies took a stand on during the 2025 Texas legislative session." It shows how 2 Texas House and 2 Texas Senate Bills that SpaceX supported all passed. These bills urge Congress to make spaceports eligible for tax-exempt private activity bonds, ban/criminalize drones over spaceports, give the Texas Space Commission power to close highways/gulf beaches near SpaceX's launch site, and define spaceports as critical infrastructure. At the bottom of the graphic are the logos of ProPublica, Texas Tribune, and KUT News.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica

This land is my land. It is not your land. If you don’t get off it, I’ll use the government…

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@Tooden@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica What't the status now that he has burned down the launch pad?
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HL
@ab78702@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica "best government money can buy" :(
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CrazyDogLadysezPEACE
@heartofcoyote@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica “Spaceport” 🙄
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Robert Taylor
@allynkhine@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica Betcha Abbott will do whatever the Orange Freaky felon says here in TexBanistan
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troy_friz_zell
@troy_frizzell@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica

It's not exactly a "space port".

It's more of a "rocket pieces and flames generator."

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Astrobach :breadified:
@rorystarr@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
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"Defines space ports as critical infrastructure"?

That's insane. What about society breaks if a rocket isn't launched on time?

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jamespthomas
@jamespthomas@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica seeing trump and elon covering for each other twould be laughable if not absurd
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2xfo
@RnDanger@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
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I wonder how the border land Cards Against Humanity bought before SpaceX showed up is doing. (Last i heard they were suing Elon for trespassing and using i the land for storage)
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Timo
@timo21@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@ProPublica oligarchs and their fiefdoms
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