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Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX

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Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 20h

[execs too]…even out of…office…lose security clearances…
*Musk has…access to classified info…*
Tesla private at $420/share…“funding secured”…$40 million [SEC fines] &…2 [new] independent board 💊
www.wsj.com/business/elo...

Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies.

Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX

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Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 20h

DRUGS 2/2
incomprehensible…
*slurred…words & rambled…*
“Big F—ing Rocket”...Shotwell…took over…meeting...board…duty to shareholders to oversee management…drug-free workplace… 💊
www.wsj.com/business/elo...

Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies.

Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX

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Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 21h

*SpaceX & [prior*
*Tesla board member*
Steve Jurvetson…$1 trillion in assets held by investors
*tens of thousands of jobs…*
only US company [for] NASA astronauts [&]…ISS…Musk [hour late] was strangely 💊
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Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies.

Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 21h

*multiple tabs of acid*
@ [his LA] party…partied on magic mushrooms…in Mexico…ketamine recreationally w/…
*Kimbal…*
@ [Miami] house party [for] Art Basel…illegal drugs w/… 💊
www.wsj.com/business/elo...

Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies.

Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 21h

DRUGS 1/2
*LSD, cocaine, ecstasy &*
*psychedelic mushrooms*
often @ private parties [worldwide]…
*[guests] sign NDAs*
or give up…phones…[prescribed]
*psychedelic-like ketamine…* 💊
www.wsj.com/business/elo...

Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies.

Exclusive From The Electric: How China's CATL Keeps Trouncing Its Battery Rivals

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Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 21h

[Shenxing Pro’s] cathode…(range &…charging)...from Shenghua…
*CATL owns…17% stake…*
CATL [& Chinese EV makers bought]…
*Shenghua’s production thru 2029…*
*Tesla’s] stuck w/ [older] batteries…*
exporting [cathode] machines…&…[methods is prohibited] ⚡
www.theinformation.com/articles/exc...

Lingbo Zhu was scribbling on a sheet of paper last week, sketching out a lineup of batteries that no other company could match. Zhu is international chief technology officer of China’s Contemporary Am...

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Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 21h

world’s largest battery maker…Shenxing Pro…
*400 mi…range &…[can]*
*+210 mi…in 20 min…*
ultra cheap [battery w/] modest range & [1] that costs more but goes farther…
*owns]…lithium mines…*
*most] global…battery gigafactories…* ⚡
www.theinformation.com/articles/exc...

Exclusive From The Electric: How China's CATL Keeps Trouncing Its Battery Rivals

Lingbo Zhu was scribbling on a sheet of paper last week, sketching out a lineup of batteries that no other company could match. Zhu is international chief technology officer of China’s Contemporary Am...

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Yesterday the Trump administration announced it would pay furloughed troops by using funds Congress appropriated for research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDTE) for fiscal year 2026.

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 21h

MIT History Prof Prior ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16...

October 16, 2025

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Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 2d

…95% of…[sales are] Model 3 & Y…built on…
*promise of [crazy] margins*
*[that] price cuts will [shrink]...*
gross margin [@]…17% Q2 [&
*car] sales [were 3/4]…total revenue…*
Q4 ‘21…gross margins [no carbon credits @]...30%…
*valuation [needs] to [drop* 🔻
www.ft.com/content/b3d1...

Can Tesla stay a trillion dollar company on just two models?

BYD is competing directly with Elon Musk’s carmaker in the midsize electric SUV market

www.ft.com

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 3d

*Mars [requires] space suit &…*
*redesigned thermal…system…for…*
*dust [& -80°…*
*5K robots in 2025…*
Optimus [replacing Tesla]…
*scientists* 🤖
www.theinformation.com/articles/elo...

As Elon Musk Preps Tesla’s Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain

When Elon Musk takes the stage at Tesla’s annual meeting next month, one of the centerpieces of his plan to impress shareholders will be a dancing troupe of Optimus bots, the humanoid machines that he...

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Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 3d

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[Advantage Over Tesla?
“A Working Product”
🤖
Bernt Børnich, 1X CEO]

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 3d

[Nationless Corporations [Help]...
CCP [Hide] Genocide
Marco Rubio (Twitter 2022)
🙅‍♀️
*Tesla & Uyghur Camps in Xinjiang*]

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 3d

www.nickiswift.com/1975899/elon...

[If We Don't Hang Together
*We Will Surely Hang Separately*
⚖️
Musk to Trump (9/21)]

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 4d

“many”…[Chinese on] “investor lists”...[Chinese are] *not to [note]…SpaceX...*
*in] regulatory filing…*
In 2019, Chinese premier [gave] Musk…a “green card”...China…[reclaiming] Taiwan [is fine] 💰
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 4d

*if] funds [go] thru…*
*offshore secrecy hubs*
[Cayman Islands]…SpaceX…is built on [govt] contracts…
*China…[gets new] tech…*
*[unknown] percent…*
*of] Chinese investors…* 💰
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 4d

*SpaceX has no…policy…*
[for US rivals]…Shanghai company [offered]…
*development [updates], visits to*
*SpaceX & [CFO] interview* 💰
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 4d

Musk’s…42% stake…[is]
*$168 billion…*
China…[invests] in sensitive industries [for] espionage...contracts or supply chain…rare…direct investors...include…funds…(Peter Thiel)…
*Qatari royal family*
[indirectly] invested…💰
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

Well Being ♥️🕊️ @helloellee.bsky.social · 4d

…ownership in…military contractors…is heavily regulated &…a [big]
*national security*
concern…SpaceX…
*ownership structure [is] secret…*
*making Pentagon] spy satellites…*
*launching [NASA] spacecraft…*
*US embassies & White House*
[use] Starlink internet…💰
www.propublica.org/article/elon...

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...