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Lora Kolodny

@lorak.bsky.social

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reporter at cnbc.com. email: [email protected] - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla (some climate tech startups). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · Nov 11

I report on Elon Musk & his companies at CNBC. If you work/ed for him and want to share your POV on his becoming "co-president," or anything else- let's talk on or off the record. Happy to answer q's about working w/ reporters. On signal: lorakolodny.55 (or DM me here and lmk how to get in touch.)

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 9m

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12m

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has previously said...that government shutdowns are on the president and all you need to do is get everyone in a room and have a serious conversation. And they're refusing to do that. They are holding people's healthcare hostage."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16m

fwiw - 2 of my faves are about guys claiming to be psychics— testing scully’s belief or non belief… beyond the sea ep. & clyde bruckman’s final repose ep.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 21m

some episodes more than others

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 28m

So Elon Musk using the language “only solution” when joining Marc Benioff in the call to send federal troops into the city of San Francisco. (Musk doesn’t live in SF. Some of his immigrant employees probably do.)

10/10/2025 Elon Musk tweets: “It's the only solution at this point.
Nothing else has or will work.” He is sharing a post that says, “Pretty much 80% of San Francisco wants federal intervention on deporting drug dealers. That's how insane it's been here.
90+ kilos of fentanyl seized in one year by
SFPD. 4,300 OD deaths since 2020…”

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 33m

tweet by elon musk 10/10/2025: “Elon Musk
@elonmusk • 15h
It's the only solution at this point.
Nothing else has or will work.
T Wolf
@Twolfrecovery • Oct 11
Pretty much 80% of San Francisco wants federal intervention on deporting drug dealers. That's how insane it's been here.
90+ kilos of fentanyl seized in one year…”

elon musk replies to post by susan dyer: “"I've got San Franciscans walking around scared. Too fearful to drop their kids off at school, to go to work...because they don't know what's to come." Because of drug dealers, drug users, and the violent mentally ill, not ICE, @BrookeJenkinsSF”
reply by musk: “many such stories.”

a user named “@iamnoblefx” writes: “Elon just accused San Francisco's NGO scene of running an addiction business model.
He's basically saying the city cleans up for Xi Jinping but won't clean up for its own citizens, because chaos pays. If what he's implying is even half true, that's not "compassion," that's a cartel with paperwork.” and Elon Musk replies with a 100% red emoji

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 33m

some of the screenshots from X follow below…

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 49m

health restrictions in & around Fremont, Calif. were fascism but in Shanghai far stricter covid measures were a huge help to Tesla. Remember?

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 5h

quite a take from someone who called COVID restrictions "fascism" and "a violation of constitutional rights," and argued that SEC penalties for announcing a fake leveraged buyout of Tesla trampled on his first amendment free speech protections

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 5h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3h

elon said?

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3h

deep cut

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

no arrest no crime is a helluva take

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I hear you. Whistleblowers here alleged Tesla had "improperly categorized repairs and had poor control over internal systems used to capture data that later rolled up to financial reports." Etc. bsky.app/profile/lora...

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

I broke news of a whistleblower complaint alleging Elon Musk’s car co. had likely violated securities law and flouted accounting standards. The complaint was largely ignored by Gensler's SEC. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/t...

Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here's what the complaint said

Two whistleblowers' complaint to the SEC about Tesla alleged that Elon Musk's automaker may have run afoul of securities laws and flouted accounting standards.

www.cnbc.com

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

Musk is likely to score a pay package that could top $1T.... even if he and Tesla don't make these "Mars-shot" goals. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

Musk's Tesla package pays him billions even if he misses 'Mars-shot' goals

Elon Musk could collect more than $50 billion by hitting a handful of the board’s easier goals that won’t necessarily revolutionize Tesla’s products or business, a Reuters review found.

www.reuters.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

In August this year, a judge said a class action against Tesla could move ahead "drivers who said Elon Musk misled them for eight years about the self-driving capabilities of his company's electric vehicles." via Reuters / Jonathan Stempel-
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Tesla drivers can pursue class action over self-driving claims, judge rules

Tesla must face a certified class action by California drivers who said Elon Musk misled them for eight years about the self-driving capabilities of his company's electric vehicles.

www.reuters.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here's what the complaint said

Two whistleblowers' complaint to the SEC about Tesla alleged that Elon Musk's automaker may have run afoul of securities laws and flouted accounting standards.

www.cnbc.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

I'm just presenting perspectives on this company. I do not give investment advice and am not a judge or regulator who could make a legal determination about a company, etc.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

"TSLAQ" is a decentralized online group of Musk / Tesla critics who do crowdsourced investment research. Many held short positions in TSLA thru the years. Wrote about them here way back -https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/tesla-shorts-who-take-aerial-pictures-of-parking-lots-launch-web-site.html

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

California's DMV has accused Tesla of false advertising around driverless techn. And California's Dept. of Insurance more recently accused the company of "
repeated failures to comply with long-standing claims handling laws, including delaying claims payments and not timely responding to consumers"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 5h

Martin Shkreli concludes that Tesla is not a "fraud" because nobody's ever been arrested for fraud there...

Martin Shkreli post on X (twitter): "This week I learned that there is a community called 'TSLAQ' who thinks Tesla is a fraud [three laughing crying emoji faces]. They are a bunch of failed Wall Streeters who obviously lost their mind. As a life-long short-seller, I will explain this phenomenon through psychiatry! (1/3)" The tweet shows a Tesla revenue since inception bar graph.

Martin Shkreli tweets about Tesla (TSLA) stock. 1. "i'm not saying it's not a short. i'm saying you need professional help if you think the company is a 'fraud'" 2. "fraud is whatever gets you arrested for fraud." a user with the handle "@GiveUsArms" confronts Shkreli and says "logical fallacy. Simply because nobody was arrested, it doesn't mean it's not a fraud" 3. Shkreli replies, "i think that is the law."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a suit and tie is smiling

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking more and more about Dead Internet Theory - especially every time I see someone who means well posting gen-AI slop by mistake... www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Is most of the content on the internet fake? Here’s what the dead internet theory really means – and why we should be warier of how we’re manipulated for profit and political gain.

www.unsw.edu.au

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 7h

"....is it not worth asking why a pious man would dream of slashing welfare programs and firing government workers? Why he would be so obsessed with the free market that he 'even named his dog Milton for Milton Friedman'?"

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 7h

this thread is so valuable. I used to cover edtech and a lot of these issues were true even just pertaining to SaaS in schools.

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