For residents concerned about SpaceX operations in Cameron County, Texas, the year opened with a familiar feeling of regulatory impunity. But with apparent MAGA embrace of the Mars mission even these performances may soon be a thing of the past.
Reflections from 70 feet above Port Isabel, Texas, on why Elon Musk’s MAGA alignment—including his support for long promised mass deportations—will forever change the meaning of his rocket launches.
Fueled by extreme climate denial, this Texas-based fracking billionaire has the support of JD Vance, Trump’s VP pick, to rewrite the Constitution for a number of far-right priorities.
Sure, political violence is wrong; but also: it doesn’t work. Even the conspiratorial obsessing over Trump’s behavior under fire is time lost countering actual campaign threats and the vision of Project 2025.
A Carbon Brief analysis suggests a victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4B tons of US emissions by 2030—enough to tank global climate efforts and erase last five years of gains from renewables.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final dispatch from a group called Choose Democracy, who we introduced to readers in an October post just before the historic (and traumatic) 2020
