Margot Cleveland
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Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
Senior Legal Correspondent @FDRLST, Of Counsel @NCLALegal, ~25 yrs 7thCir law clerk, former full-time univ. faculty, Catholic conservative, wife to DH/mom to DS

Elon Musk: Trillionaire Jeff Bezos: Billionaire Public School Teachers: Can anyone help me get some pencils for my students?

After livestreaming all day and night trying to see Trump’s name being removed from the Kennedy Center building, Jim Acosta exclaims: “This is very much like watching the Berlin Wall coming down." "It is a sign that humankind can stand up against tyranny." Holy hell. Just absolutely incredible journalisming.

Imagine if Elon Musk did something to benefit others with his trillion.


. . . like bring home stranded astronauts?


Too much, "Where's Waldo," too little Ralph Lauren.

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015. didn't even know what SpaceX was. they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions. that stake is now worth $880,000. and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

Meet the USAID of Article III. The Federal Judicial Center is supposed to educate judges, not launder left-wing activism into the federal courts under the banner of “science.” As I've long said on FJC, Congress needs to clean house. x.com/FDRLST/status/…

This hit my feed & I was nodding along thinking "so true" & then saw who posted it & realized he really believes when federal government takes wealth & spends it, it make America prosperous & productive. Reality proves him wrong though . . . that's what private investors do!

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would have to earn a dollar a year for a trillion years straight to have that much money.





