November 16, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China
At Wuxi Craft College, a random knife attack happened, and several people were injured and collapsed.  

According to online reports, the attacker was upset because a factory owed him unpaid wages, and he had to work 16 hours every day. Additionally, the school refused to give him his graduation certificate, which prevented him from graduating.  

The attacker said:  
"I hope my death can help improve labor laws."  
"Don’t think I’m a pushover; some debts must be settled."  

A witness said:  
"They’ve been rushed to the hospital, but there are too many injured people."   view all

Yunnan High School Student Publicly Criticizes School:
"The principal has money to build office buildings but no money to fix student dormitories."
 
 





On November 15, at the opening ceremony of the Cultural and Arts Festival at Funing County No. 1 High School in Yunnan Province, a student went on stage, took the microphone, and said:
"The school has taken away our things without permission... They have money to build office buildings but no money to fix the student dormitories. Go see for yourselves what the dormitories are like—10 people crammed into one room!"

Shortly after, he was forcibly removed from the stage. view all

On November 14, in Guangdong, a lawyer with 20 years of experience in criminal law shared a video saying: “No one can withstand torture during interrogation—not even police officers, let alone ordinary people.”
 
 



 
He described examples of such methods, including suffocation by covering the head with a plastic bag, electric shocks to private areas, and shining bright lights to prevent sleep.
 
 
 
He also pointed out that places without audio or video recordings are hotspots for such abuse, and victims often face enormous difficulties seeking justice later. view all

 
 



 
Elon Musk Q&A With Pennsylvania Voters 
 
0:00 Elon Musk Q&A With Pennsylvania Voters 
0:38 Elon Musk talked about SpaceX to Pennsylvania voters 
4:58 The federal debt's growing by a trillion dollars every three months. our defense budget is pretty gigantic. We have to do something about that or the country's going to go bankrupt. 
7:09 The debate between Biden and Trump, everyone on the media was saying Biden was sharp as a tack. 
9:13 Elon Musk see really a deliberate attempt to import as many people as possible into swing states like Pennsylvania in order to ensure that there is a permanent one state -- that America becomes a permanent one-party state. 
11:04 Elon Musk said Kamala is just a puppet of a larger machine. 
14:03 Elon Musk shared the reason that why he acquire Twitter 
15:44 Elon Musk said it is very rigorous on the X platform about being a fair playing field, a level playing field, being fair to all sides. 
17:15 Elon Musk Q&A, what are your ideas on things Trump can do to drain the swamp without being overwhelmed by their dirty trick? 
19:22 Elon Musk think too many people in the government sector and they could be more productive elsewhere. 
19:44 Elon Musk’s advices for young entrepreneurs to conquer a challenge that seems almost impossible from the beginning. 
23:19 Elon Musk think individuals should own their own data. You know, I think that's really important. 
24:42 Elon Musk feel like America is like Gulliver, tied down by a million little strings. And we need to cut those strings and free the giant. 
29:54 Trying to make sense of these incredibly complex laws and regulations where, you know, a law gets passed that's like longer than Lord of the Rings and no one's actually read the thing
 
 

 
 
Full Q&A Session:
 
As you can see, I'm obviously here in person. This is me, not a clone of me. The reason I'm here in person is because Pennsylvania is so important to the future of the world. You show what matters by your actions, not your words. And my actions are I'm here, I'm in Pennsylvania, and I'm here for a very important reason, which, yeah. It's which is, I can't emphasize enough that Pennsylvania is, I think, the linchpin in this election. And this election, I think, is gonna decide the fate of America, along with the fate of America,

the fate of Western civilization. The two should be upheld. Told at times that these are like right-wing values. I'm like, are you insane? This is literally the fundamental values that made America what it is today. And anyone who's against those things is fundamentally anti-American. And the hell with them. (audience cheering) Yeah. So I actually lived in Pennsylvania for three years, by the way. I'm no stranger to the state.

I lived in this city for three years. I went to school here. I know the state. I'm not some just-arrived situation. I've been here, spent three years of my life here. It's a great state, love it. And yeah, it was also, the thing is, I was talking to friends of mine who, like when I went to Penn, it was very dangerous at the time. But everyone thought it would get better over, it would get better as the years went on.

And one of the issues was there were students who would get killed from time to time. And that was pretty bad, obviously. And I was talking to someone who recently graduated from Penn and they said, "Actually, it's worse." And I'm like, "It's worse? "What the hell is going on?" Yeah, yeah. The reality is that if someone is a violent criminal where they either are unable to control their violence or they like it, if you do not incarcerate them, they will hurt people. That's what it comes down to. So if you don't put hardened criminals in jail, they will kill people. That's what it comes down to.

And that's, unfortunately, the situation we have here is that the Democratic Party will not put hardened criminals in prison. And so they roam free and they prey upon you and your kids and your family and your friends. This is insane. How can we be the most powerful country in the world and it's not safe to walk around our cities? What the hell is going on? - George Soros! - Yeah, George Soros, honestly, misanthropic. For someone who has claims to be doing good, but actually he is not. He is tearing down the fabric of society.

Terrible. Yeah, but I think it's just unbelievable that we, like you should be able to feel safe walking around American cities. And it's not just Philadelphia has a challenge. New York has a challenge. Every major city in the US, like my mom lives in New York, for example. Three of her friends have been assaulted on the street this year. And it's getting worse. And now when she takes her dog for a walk, she has to stay inside of the building so that she can call for help if need be.

This is not the future we want. And if we get four more years of this, then we're gonna be fully Mad Max. And it's nice to watch a Mad Max movie, but we don't wanna be in the Mad Max movie, okay? So yeah. And then the whole border thing is just insane. I always wanna try to figure out what is the truth of the matter? What's really going on? With on the border situation, is it real or is it not real? So I went there in person and I just literally live streamed what I saw.

And our border looks like World War Z, okay? It's like zombie apocalypse. It's insane. This is, if you don't have a border, you don't have a country. Yeah. I mean, we're just saying we have to have real borders. And if you don't have real borders, you don't have real country. And obviously as someone who's an immigrant, I'm pro-immigrant. I just wanna make sure that people who come here are gonna be assets to society. And that they're gonna raise our standard of living. I think the sort of sports team analogy is a good one.

Let's say you're a pro sports team, you wanna win the championship, you want to win your team, obviously, 'cause they help the whole team win. So same is true for immigration. If we have this sort of equivalent of Kobe Bryant or Steph Curry or LeBron or something like that, they wanna join the team. Absolutely, of course. They'll, do you like winning? Yeah, okay. But if they can't play basketball, they shouldn't be joining. That's real important.

And yeah, and then something that doesn't get a lot of attention is the fact that the federal government is spending America into bankruptcy. The, which is crazy. And that's really what leads to inflation is that when the government spends more than it brings in, that's what causes inflation. Yeah, so it's just a pernicious tax. So there has to be, we have to radically reduce the amount of government spending so that we don't rack up a debt that is impossible to repay and drive the country to bankruptcy. (audience applauding) I mean, just basic stuff, really. They shouldn't be controversial topics.

Common sense, exactly. And are you seeing all these attacks on freedom of speech? And they're like attacking me for freedom. Yo, that's the first amendment, like literally the first one. It was a, tells me it's a high priority. And the reason they had the first amendment was because the countries people came from, if you spoke your mind, you'd be imprisoned or killed. That's why you have it. That's really important. And then the right to bear arms is also really important.

That's there to protect. The second amendment is there to protect the first amendment. As soon as the government can disarm the people, they can do anything they want. We've seen this in one country after another. They take the guns away from the people, then they do fake elections, and then the people try to protest and they just get shot. That's what happened in Venezuela recently. That a fake election, Maduro lost, like massively lost, 70% loss. And he's like, "Oh no, I won." (laughing) And everyone's like, "Oh, you didn't win."

There were big protests in the street. But the thing is that Chavez, when he came into power, took away everyone's guns. So now you're facing soldiers with assault rifles, where you're gonna throw some sticks at them or something? Use finger guns? It doesn't work. So Maduro, even though he lost the election, he's still in power. And that's the kind of risk that we face. But we gotta do everything possible to protect the Constitution. And I think this is, yeah.

So for all those reasons, that's why after thinking about it hard, it was very clear to me that Donald Trump has to win this election. It really does. I think the most important thing that you can do, and what I'm asking everyone to do, is make sure that you're registered to vote, that you, and then vote early. And then talk to your friends and family and everyone you know to make sure that they're registered to vote, 'cause Monday is the deadline for voting registration. And honestly, this is, if there's ever a time to be a pest with your friends and family, this is the time.

Just, yeah. This is the time. Everyone you know, everyone you meet, everyone you run into, register them to vote, and then get them to vote immediately. And we only have until Monday night to register to vote. The next, basically, three days are essential. And I think we see this election decided in Pennsylvania by, it could be 10,000 votes, it could be 1,000 votes, it could be 10 votes. It could be some very tiny number. So every incremental person is a huge difference.

I haven't been politically active before. I'm politically active now because I think the future of America and the future of civilization is at stake. - Yeah, please go all out registering people. We have three days, let's go. Anything you can possibly do. With that, I'm happy to answer questions or take comments from the audience. Yeah, thank you. - Does this mic work? - We'll do one question per person, okay? - Yeah, I have a mic.

- Yeah. - First of all, welcome to Ridley Township. - Thank you. - Delaware County. And welcome to Ridley School District and our beautiful high school. Because you made this your first stop, we'd love to make you an honorary Ridley Raider. - Thank you. (audience cheering) - Sports is big in Ridley, big in Delaware County. This is must, 67 counties in Pennsylvania. We gotta turn every one of them red.

- Great, sounds good, thank you. - Thank you very much. - What can all of us here, everybody in this auditorium, everybody watching the live stream, what can we do now to make sure we get Donald Trump across the finish line in Pennsylvania and everywhere else in this country? - Yeah, it's fundamentally for the next three days, just everyone needs to focus on registering, friends, family, acquaintances, everyone you know. 'Cause if you're not registered by Monday, that's why I'm being repetitive about this and really emphasizing this,

anyone not registered by Monday evening or if they're registered incorrectly, their vote won't count. They won't be able to vote. We got three days, it's all about registration every single day and like I said, this election could be decided by a handful of people. It could just be that a little bit of extra effort on voter registration decides the entire future of civilization. So that's why I'm saying, man, if there's ever a weekend to spend going hog wild on registration, this is it. Yeah, Qua. - Thank you so much for being here. It means so much and I think it's really in line with your character as I've come to know you from listening to you speak in interviews.

In addition to voting for Donald Trump, what can the average citizen do to help train AI to be truth-seeking? - Well, I think definitely publicly pushing to ensure that AI is truth-seeking and is not politically correct or which means factually incorrect. That's a big deal. You can't just speak out on social media and certainly complain loud when other companies attempt to essentially program their AI with a dystopian San Francisco Berkeley philosophy. And if you wanna know where that philosophy leads, just walk around the streets of San Francisco. But be careful because do not get killed by a violent drug zombie because they're all over this downtown SF. It's insane.

So we can see where does that philosophy lead. And unfortunately, I think a lot of the AI is already programmed, at least implicitly, with that misanthropic, dystopian philosophy, yeah. - Right here on your-- - Sorry, with the lights in my eyes and stuff, it's hard to see. - Hi, my name is Jasmine. I'm originally from Malaysia and I've been here 20 years. I came here legally. I see a lot of immigration and a lot of immigrants who came here legally.

Trump and they want a strong economy. Oh, by the way, I came here because my daughter goes to school here. She told me to come over. I used to be really active in promoting Trump campaign four years ago and I got burned out and I'm so frustrated. And it's all because of the cheating. So what are we going to do with that? - There is, I think, some amount of cheating that takes place. It's hard because when you have mail-in ballots and no sort of proof of citizenship, it becomes almost impossible to prove cheating is the issue. So a lot of people in the Dems say, "No cheating."

And I'm like, "You've made it impossible "to actually prove that there's cheating." But statistically, there's some very strange things that happen that are statistically incredibly unlikely. There's always this question of, say, the Dominion voting machines. It is weird that the, I think they're used in Philadelphia and in Maricopa County, but not in a lot of other places. Doesn't seem like a coincidence. So I think that is, you know. (audio cuts out) It's too easy to add just one line, paper ballots. So in-person voting, yeah, with the, which by the way, every country has.

I mean, almost every country that has democratic elections requires in-person voting with voter ID. This is weird, it's super weird to not have that. I think that's the only way to effectively address fraud. Given that we are where we are today, I think we just need a very big margin of victory. Yeah, if the margin of victory is big enough, then it, as they say, it's gotta beat the cheat. Yeah, so that's it. - First off, you're my hero and I love your sneakers.

- Thank you. - If you do choose to be the head of the Department of Government Efficiency. - Yeah, DOGE. - Yep, what do you think about we stop giving money to other countries such as Israel, Ukraine, and we stop funding forever wars, most likely it's going to the deep state anyway. - Yeah, I think in general, the amount of waste that happens with the federal government is really staggering. It's a staggering amount of waste of taxpayer money. And if we're, if for any given expenditure, we have to say, well, what does this do

for the citizens of America? Like, how is this good for the people of America? That's, it's their money. For some weird reason, a lot of people in the sort of state or whatever the politicians, they seem to forget that the money being spent is your money. And if it's not being spent in a way that is beneficial to the American people, it's a misuse of the funds. So yeah. And there's a lot of money that's being spent where sort of illegals are getting more benefits than citizens. What the heck is that?

That doesn't make any sense. Yeah. - So as we bring government spending and look inward to our country, I am a government employee. I care about innovation and efficiency. With your vision for a department of government efficiency, what can we do? How can we support you? And also how can we spotlight the needs of people in North Carolina? The body count is abnormally underreported. What can we do to press on that and to support people within our country?

- Sure. I do think that government efficiency is not something about reducing the size of government, but making sure that there are incentives for excellent work. And so if somebody's, whatever you incent will happen. So if you have incentives for excellent work, by the same token, if someone's not doing excellent work, they're exited, just like normal. It's really what happens in a properly functioning company is that you reward, or think of a sports team. The players that are doing well, they get rewarded, and the players that are not doing well, they exit the team.

And that should just be how it works. And I think that'll have a profound effect on the effectiveness of government. 'Cause whatever you incent will happen. So if the incentives are aligned with saving people in North Carolina, then that's what'll happen. If you have a failed response to the disasters, to the hurricane disasters, and no one even gets fired, well, okay, what do you expect? No one's gonna take action. If there's a track record of failure, you have to exit the people who failed.

Otherwise, people will look around, I guess I don't need to do anything, 'cause nothing bad happens to you, even if you do a terrible job and people die, which is insane. (audience applauding) (audience applauding) - Hey, Ron. Can you tell us about your trip to Israel? - My moving trip. Definitely one of the toughest regions to, like how do you, what set of actions result in the greater good in Israel? And obviously, you obviously cannot have people who, if they wanna slaughter everyone in Israel, you gotta stop that.

There's no way. Yeah, those people either need to be killed or incarcerated, or they will simply try to kill more Israelis. This is what it amounts to, obviously. And they wanna kill Americans too, by the way. Generally, Israel is referred to as the little Satan and we are the big Satan. That's what the Ayatollah calls us. So I think a lot of what's happening there is people are being taught to hate in Gaza from when they're children, they're taught to hate. And that's really the thing that needs to stop for there to be long-term peace, hopefully, is that you just cannot have the kids be taught to hate from the moment they can talk.

That's fundamental. So I think there's a three-step process there, which is, you've mentioned one has to do the difficult thing, which is to-- - Eliminate Hamas. - Yes, eliminate Hamas, exactly. And then, I think also, going forward, anyone who's teaching hatred in Gaza or elsewhere, they need to stop doing that. That can't be acceptable. - And we have to stop that. - And we have to stop, yeah, kids being taught to hate America in America. So-- (audio cuts out) Prosperity in Gaza.

So this is very difficult. It's like, how do you, after terrible things have been done, you then have to bring prosperity to Gaza. And that's the thing that will ensure, provided kids are not taught to hate and there's long-term prosperity, I think there will be peace in Gaza. And we see an example of that after World War II, where with Germany and Japan, they were defeated, they obviously did terrible things, but changed the education system. And unlike World War I, we helped rebuild Japan and Germany.

The Marshall Plan. Instead of exacting vengeance, America insisted, "We're gonna help rebuild Germany. "We're gonna help rebuild Japan." And now they're our allies. And there's been no war ever since. (audience applauds) - Welcome to Delaware County. And I wanna say congratulations on the successful re-docking of your-- (audience applauds) - Thank you. (audience applauds) - Thank you. (audience applauds) - I mean, honestly, it was a great week. We had the Tesla sort of cool autonomous car and robot stuff, which I think is gonna be really great.

You know, I think, who wouldn't want their own personal C3PO R2D2? (audience laughs) It'd be awesome, you know? So I think that we're gonna build some awesome, helpful robots and autonomous cars. And then, I mean, this is a good day. Faye, Faye, just smiling upon us here. Thank you. We caught the rocket, which is just totally nuts. (audience applauds) You see that rocket booster? It's the largest, heaviest flying object ever made. And it just got caught by Mechazilla arms.

Karate Kid, but bigger. I catch him in the fly with the chopstick. - So my question is, do you think there is a shadow government behind the Biden-Harris administration? - It's, we want it this way. It's not Biden. We know that for a fact. Okay. (audience applauds) The dude's like barely got two functional neurons. And he just seems to be at the beach a lot. And he's obviously not in charge.

So when the polls started going low on Biden, he was saying, "Oh, he's staying in the race, "he's staying in the race." But then I guess the real power is that he told them he's not. - So who is it that's behind him? We know Obama, okay? But Obama-- - He's the only one. - I'm just as curious as you are. It is, as far as I can determine, there isn't any one sort of puppet master. It's more like there's a thousand or a lot. So I'd like to talk to them to understand more about,

listen, what are your goals, puppet masters? I'm just curious. I mean, maybe, I agree with some of them. It's possible. It's just obvious that Biden's not in charge. It's obvious that Kamala's not in charge. Kamala's, they just replaced the Biden puppet with the Kamala puppet, very obviously. And so you can tell, if the teleprompter stops working, then the puppet stops. And it's like, "Oh, the puppet just starts looping "'cause the teleprompter broke."

I don't have a teleprompter. I can just talk like a normal human. Yeah, I think it's not, from what I can tell, it's not one puppet master, it's many. But it'll be interesting to see the crossover between the Epstein client list and Kamala's puppet masters. I bet there's a lot of names that appear in both lists. Yeah, Diddy too. Diddy did it. - Elon, my name is Gregory Stenstrom. I'm from here, Delaware, Conn. Two people who know me. In my hands, you asked earlier, you'd like to go to a hand count.

We have three federal suits right now. One, because we know for a fact, and we have proof that the election code and the machines in Dominion and Harland Pacific are fraudulent here, right here in Delaware County. Jonathan Marks admitted this in court last week. - Wow, he did? - In court, on a transcript. - I didn't read about that. - Well, of course you didn't. - For some reason, the-- - How many people here know me? - But the legacy media didn't forgot to report about that one.

- How many people here know me? - I usually keep up with these things and I did not know that. - We're also co-defendants, Leah Hoopes and myself, also from Delaware County, we're co-defendants with President Trump and Rudy Giuliani in a defamation suit, where we proved over 952 days that there was massive election fraud in 2020. We proved that in court, it's a matter of public record. We also have the proof that the election machines that are currently being used are fraudulent. We have videos right now that I can show you of ballot boxes being stuffed here in Delaware County, Montgomery County, Chester County, and across the state. We have that video.

We have submitted this to the federal-- A SCOTUS case right here, and the SCOTUS case is just simple. It asks the DOJ to rescind their policy not to investigate election fraud. - Which seems crazy. - We are being blocked-- - This DOJ is doing a great, I don't know what, just take the J out of the name. Department of Injustice. - What I'd like you to do, Elon, is I don't want to take too much time, and I know this is a shock, but we have a book here, "Parallel Election." I have a Supreme Court case, and I have the federal suits here.

We've called your people, we've called the people who are supposed to be helping. We have hundreds of people right now, ready. They're out taking videos, they're training poll workers, and we are not getting support from many of the people in the first front rows here. And their pictures, if you want to know who they are, are in this book. (audience cheering) - What I recommend is to post content on the X platform, and then people can argue and say it's right or wrong, or if you have video or evidence, then post them publicly on social media, and then people can judge for themselves exactly. Okay, great, excellent, thank you.

But anyway, let's not get contentious. I think teamwork makes the dream work here. Whatever the situation, I don't want to dissuade anyone from voting. It's very important to vote. Any actions with respect to voting machines or whatnot, we simply want to put them under intense scrutiny, but nonetheless, everyone needs to vote, and like I said, if you leave here with one thing, the goal is to register as many people as possible to vote. That is the goal, and we only have until Monday night.

That is the goal. One mission, bam. - Being here, first, I want to thank you as somebody with a spinal cord. Beat it because not many people are. I won't take up the time, but 18,000 people a year are injured, so thank you. - Absolutely, and I'm hopeful that Neuralink can do a lot, actually, initially providing the ability for anyone who's lost the brain-body connection to be able to interface with their phone and computer faster than a human with working hands, which is, I think, really cool. And then, but down the road,

I think it'll be possible to restore a whole body functionality. If you have a Neuralink in the motor cortex that then shunts past where the neurons are damaged in the spine, I'm confident that long-term, you can actually restore people's ability to walk and use their hands. - Well, I would love, I appreciate it. I would love to work with you on getting support around here, but-- - Yeah, in fact, well, one of the things, and to be fair, the FDA has been, within the context of their current rules, has been actually quite supportive. They've given us Express Lane, 'cause they've seen the quality of the work and the sophistication of the technology.

They have given us a fast-track approval, but still, our progress is limited by regulatory issues, and that's the same thing that's happening with SpaceX. SpaceX can build a giant rocket faster than the license can be processed by the government, which is insane. I should mention, like, one of the most fundamental things about me supporting the biggest showstopper of all, for me, in terms of why I feel Donald Trump must win is that we have to have sensible regulations. We have so many regulatory, last time I checked, we have 428 regulatory, 428 agencies.

So there's more than an agency a year has been created since America was a country. Like, we've got almost twice as many agencies as years that America's been a country, which means an agency has been created, sometimes two new agencies per year created, which is just madness. So America is being smothered by overregulation. I call it slow strangulation by overregulation. That's the, yeah. - I would like to ask about natural gas and lithium. That's, you know what, Pennsylvania's rich of natural resources and fracking gas and lithium,

which could benefit not only our state, but our entire country. However, many residents, and I have to be honest, along 350 miles of Pennsylvania, had real challenges like eminent domain and the destruction of water sources, such as what happened with the Mariners Pipeline. How can we ensure that while utilizing these resources, we work closely with local governments and residents without the federal government overreaching and forcing land from homeowners? Effective communication with citizens and their involvement in these decisions is crucial. What role do you see for technology or private industry in making sure that this process is transparent and fair? Because believe you me, lots of people were forced with eminent domain and aquifers poisoned all across Pennsylvania,

including our veterans. And this has been a real problem since 2016. So we wanna support our workers and use our gas. And I want it, but we need to be careful of what we're taking from people who've lived here, families for centuries. - Certainly, I believe in sensible regulation, but what I see happening is that there are all sorts of, there's a mountain of rules that actually don't benefit people. And then there's missing rules that do benefit people. So it's this bizarre Kafka nightmare of regulations where ultimately the good of the people is not served.

And we get regulatory delays for things that are fake. Meanwhile, bad things are allowed to happen simply because someone filled out the paper book and gamed the system. So that's what I mean. It's when I say like Department of Governance is in addressing any issue which is not in the interest of the people. And we do need to, at times, fight against what large corporations are pushing for, 'cause some of them are very short term and some large corporations do bad things. And corporations are like people. Like some people are good peoples. Some corporations are good, some are meddling,

and sometimes some corporations are bad. And it's just like people is the way to think of corporations. So we've gotta stop the corporations that wanna do bad things, make sure they're doing things that are in the interest of the people. And then corporations that wanna do good things, they shouldn't be slowed down by smothering regulation. - And we all need to be responsible. - Yeah, absolutely. And I think these things should be done very much in the interest of the people. - Thank you.

(audience applauding) - Hey, Elon, how are you? I'm Brad. These are two tough acts to follow here, but my question's a little more simple. What are some of the first courses of action you plan to take as the head of government efficiency if Trump gets elected? And do you have any areas of concern in particular? - Yeah, well, that's a good question. I definitely focus right now is making sure that Trump wins the election. Otherwise, it doesn't matter. And I think if Trump loses, we're gonna see our cities are gonna get less safe, the borders are obviously gonna be wide open,

we're gonna see government spending go ballistic, it's inflation going nuts, it's gonna be just bad on every level. Fundamentally, the current trend of strangulation by overregulation is not turned around. We will never get to Mars. It just will be illegal. And then we'll be a one-planet civilization. There won't be a space-faring civilization, and stuff will never be real. And we want stuff to be real. - Yeah.

- Now, I've had quite a bit of interaction with the government, because SpaceX is the biggest NASA contractor, actually. There's a lot of work for NASA. And I'm a big fan of the agency, by the way. But there are expenditures that don't make a lot of sense, that are wasteful. And we need to put a stop to that. Honestly, there's so much government waste that's going on that I would call it a target-rich environment. It's hard, in every direction, there's just mad waste. And I think simply, if people simply know

that if they waste a ton of taxpayer money, they're gonna get fired, that will immediately improve the situation. Immediately. Yeah, it's just literally, and I think, but actually, it's gonna be both carrot and stick. If a government official is very effective in spending your money, 'cause taxpayer money is your money, if they're effective in spending your money, they should be promoted, they should be rewarded. And if they waste your money, or do something that's basically corruption, they should be fired.

Obviously. They have a duty to spend your money well. Yeah. - Hey, Elon. As a veteran who was deployed because of a lie that was told 21 years ago. - A lot of lies, man. This is a lot of lies. - With harassment laws running on a campaign to make disinformation illegal, what would you say to-- - Yeah, disinformation just means information they don't like. - So what would you say-- (audience applauding) What would you say to an administration and a candidacy that is spreading lies or disinformation about the troops that are currently in combat, my friends? - Yeah, can you believe that was said?

- Steve Adubato's day, and 100 minus laptop presence decline and so on. - Yeah. During the Trump-Kamala debate, she said there was no active duty soldiers out there. I'm like, I know a whole bunch of them. What are you talking about? That's a shameful, terrible lie. Shit, and she wasn't even fact-checked. And I'm like, are you kidding? Yeah, thank you.

Yeah, and I just like to say, for the people, for the Americans out there who are serving in dangerous places right now, unlike what Kamala said, thank you for your service to the country. (audience applauding) - For stepping up to help America when you don't have to. You could be on an island right now. - Yeah. I could be-- - He doesn't seem timid. - Yeah, he does not seem timid. - Yeah, I have a lot of jobs. No, it's true. There are a lot of people I know who are on a yacht,

sipping a Mai Tai, whatever, on an island. There's a thing I could be doing. I can't if I think the future of the nation is at stake, which I do. (audience applauding) - You know Alberto Congauala? He's the system manager for Europa Clipper. - Oh, that's a cool mission, by the way. - Which you sent into space on Monday. - Yeah, yeah. - Thank you very much. - Absolutely, in fact, that was a mission where I talked to SpaceX. That mission's important, but this mission's excellent.

Yeah, 'cause I think like you, like I think most people, I want a future where you look forward to it and you're excited about what's gonna happen, that we're gonna learn new things, that it's gonna be better than the past, and a future where we're a space-faring civilization, and we're out there among the stars, where Star Trek is real. That's exciting. Can't just be about solving one problem after another. There have to be things that inspire. (audience applauding) That's a hard one to build, but at some point we should build a warp drive.

But even without the warp drive, the Starship, the rocket made by SpaceX, is capable of building a city on Mars and a city on the Moon. That's what it's designed to do, but we're being massively slowed down by regulatory molasses. And I'll tell you a crazy thing. We got fined $140,000 by the EPA for dumping fresh water on the ground, drinking water. It's crazy. I'll just give you an example of just how crazy it is. And we're like, we're using water to cool the launch pad during launch.

We're gonna cool the launch pad so it doesn't overheat. And in an excess of caution, we actually brought in drinking water, so clean, super clean water. And the FAA says, "No, you have to pay a $140,000 fine." And we're like, but we let Starbase is in a tropical thunderstorm area. Sky water falls all the time. That is the same as the sky. So we didn't actually, there's no harm to anything. And they said, yeah, we didn't have a pump for fresh water. Are you, what?

It's just totally crazy stuff like that. They said, if we don't pay the fine, they're not gonna process any of our future applications. So they're like, this is the kind of crazy stuff we're dealing with, yeah. - Hi, Yilong. My name is Sarah. I'm from Philadelphia. I have a whole team here. First, I'm really excited about your real recapping of the rockets and your Hyperloop program.

We actually, at this critical moment, have a proposal to turn the blue to red quickly. I would like to sincerely like to accept our protocol in the proposal. And we want to have some further discussion with you. And really thank for putting everything you have, risking everything you have to support President Trump to take our country back. - Well, thank you. Sure, thanks. Hey, all right. - Yeah, we shake the hand.

Last week, I also fly to the Austin to find you. So glad you are here. I'm used to be having a busy day. - Great, all right, sounds good. All right, yeah. I'll take a few more questions and then wrap it up. But yeah, so go ahead. - Elon, hi, my name's Kevin and I grew up right here right in Springfield close by. And I want to thank you for all you've given up. You were the media darling and you've sacrificed everything for freedom right now.

I want to thank you for my family and everything. I also want to thank you. I want to thank you for all the lives that have been saved with your full self-driving and all the future lives will be saved with that. That is one of the bravest things you've put through. I use that every day. - You must have all given many lives and many serious injuries and also give people their time back so they can just be in their car and do whatever they want and watch movies or do great. - Absolutely great. My question for you is, and this is a very confusing thing in Pennsylvania. Do you think that we should, as a voter, vote in person, wait until voting day to vote in person

or do a mail-in ballot right now? - I think you should vote immediately right now, yes. - Can you explain real quick why? - Should you have a pen? I don't know if somebody has a pen or something. Nice to meet you. All right, yeah, where were we? Oh yes, vote, yes. Register and vote early. And yeah, I would say vote immediately.

Yeah, you're welcome. All right, I'll take one more question and then we'll call it a wrap. - Elon, this is Matt from EastWest IT Services here. I'm the chairman for the Pennsylvania Chinese Coalition. We have more than 40 Chinese groups and also different kinds of association. And I'm from Philadelphia. We are a team and I want to know, could you give us like a Pennsylvania swing state, especially Philadelphia, there's a lot of Democrats. Could you give us three top reasons why people should vote for Donald Trump? - Sure, well, the reasons that resonate

are gonna be different depending on who you're talking to. But I think the ones that resonate, for me at least, are we want safer cities, we want a secure border, we want sensible government spending, we want support of the constitution and the freedom of speech, right to bear arms. And that's what Donald Trump is gonna do. (audience applauding) The other thing I think is maybe a little bit of a joke, the other thing I think is maybe a concern is that I think if there's four more years of the puppet regime, they're actually gonna legalize so many illegals in the swing states that there won't be swing states anymore. And this will be the last election in that case.

And we'll be a permanent one party state like California. Here in California, which is mind blowing, they passed a law banning voter ID for any election in California whatsoever. Now they're gonna try to do that nationwide. In fact, if they can, they will do it nationwide. If the Dems win, they'll ban voter ID nationwide. So that's why I think if Trump doesn't win, this is the last election. Yeah, thank you.
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Elon Musk Takes Multiple Questions From Voters At Campaign Event In Pennsylvania (Full 60 Minutes Q&A Session) Timestamp 
 
00:00:00 Elon Musk Takes Questions From Voters At Campaign Event In Pennsylvania 
00:01:09 Elon Musk think teaching kids critical thinking is very important. 
00:02:07 Elon Musk believe in the sort of physics approach to thinking. 
00:02:52 X(former twitter) platform really has the sum of the voice of the people. 
00:04:00 Five people that control all the news in US. 
00:04:16 The cumulative voice of the people should decide what is news worthy，not a small number of publications and media companies. 
00:07:52 What Elon Musk sees being done with a lot of the major AI companies is not truth-seeking. 00:08:56 Elon Musk said we can't have an AI built on a throne of lies. 
00:10:15 NGOs in US actually funded by the government. 
00:11:17 Elon Musk has been waiting two years for a permit for a simple tunnel under a river. Because it's a federal river. 00:13:11 Elon Musk’s prediction on eduction integrated with Ai. 
00:15:47 What's the best advice for your children? Be a good man. 
00:16:27 Elon Musk think that the dangers of nuclear power are greatly overstated. 
00:17:43 Elon Musk gave some discussions on Space Force and spy satellite. 
00:19:07 The challenge of falling global birth rates and American birth rates. 
00:20:57 We definitely want to get rid of this ridiculous notion that there are too many humans on Earth. 
00:22:29 Elon Musk gave answers why he so involved in politics this time? 
00:27:05 Elon Musk recommend posting any evidence that you have for voting fraud or irregularities or causes of concern, just post it on the X platform. 
00:27:41 Elon Musk think we should not have computers do voting tabulation at all. 
00:28:03 We should have paper ballots only. It should be in-person voting with ID and a story. 
00:28:21 Some people claim that you're hurting Tesla's brand and sales by supporting Trump. 
00:29:13 Elon Musk sure hope we don't have to make a X phone, the idea of making a phone makes me want to die. 00:32:26 what I see on the left is a lot of shallow empathy, sort of empathy that's skin deep, essentially, very thin empathy. 
00:32:36 Elon Musk wanna fix issues on homeless and violent drug zombies on street 
00:33:32 How to face war and peace in this world? 
00:40:54 How can we better use our funding federally to make sure our students in public school receive a proper education that prepares them for the workforce without the misallocation of taxpayer federal funding that the students seem to not be benefiting from anyway? 
00:41:28 we need to have an incentive for excellence where there's reward for excellence and there's punishment for failure. 
00:44:48 What advice do you have for young men today? 
00:45:16 Elon Musk points out the only thing that causes inflation is government overspending because the checks never bounce. 
00:52:46 Elon Musk strongly believe with respect to any kind of gender surgeries, there should not be any permanent changes to children. 
00:53:26 Allowing a child to do something crazy during their teenage years that affects them for the rest of their lives is not doing good for that child at all. 
00:53:52 What Elon Musk think education and college in particular is the best. 
00:59:14 What's the Elon Musk you want to build? How can a young American prepare themselves and inspire others for a rapidly evolving political and social world? 
01:00:08 Why hasn't Tesla bought Rivian?
 
 
 
Full Speech and Q&A Session:
 
[Cheering] Hello everyone! [Cheering] Welcome! Welcome to the Team America rally! [Cheering] So... And, uh... I love you too. Um... [Chuckles] Alright, so, uh, let's see. Um, what should I say? SpaceX does rock! [Chuckles] Indeed. Um, actually I'm pretty excited about the possibility of SpaceX, you know, and just generally becoming a space-faring civilization,

going beyond where we went in the past with the... where we went to the moon. It's crazy that we went to the moon, over 50 years ago was the last time anyone went to the moon. And a lot of people think we didn't go to the moon, but we did. We did. [Chuckles] The Soviets would have called us out on that one if we hadn't gone to the moon. They would have called bullshit on that one. A hundred percent. But... Yeah, yeah, we need to go back to...

We should not just go back to the moon, we should have a moon base. You know? Like, moon base alpha, you know, like an actual base with like a science station. That would be sick. You know, and like, I think we want to become a multi-planet species and be out there among the stars. We want to make Starfleet real. You know? So that like, I mean like, you should be able to go to Mars if you want to go to... I mean, go to Mars. It'd be like, amazing, you know?

Well, it'll take six months. [Chuckles] So, Mars is far. But we can do it. We can create a base on Mars. And ultimately build a city on Mars and make life multi-planetary. I think that would be super cool. Yeah, I mean... [Applause] I mean, you know, life can't just be about like, you know, solving one miserable problem after another. There have to be things that inspire you, that excite you about the future, that you look forward to, you're like, "Wow, that's going to be cool."

And I think being a space-faring civilization and, you know, having a city on Mars and going out there exploring the moons of Jupiter, ultimately getting to other star systems, would be incredibly exciting. And suddenly you're like, "Wow!" You could really look forward to that. That'd be like, I don't know, incredible. So, you know, go out there and find like, maybe alien civilizations. You know, like in Star Trek, you know, go where you've never gone before. So, yeah, let's make Starfleet real. Yeah. [Applause] Meanwhile, back here on Earth... [Laughter] We need to... I think we definitely need to get President Trump re-elected. [Laughter] [Applause] So, that is, I think, incredibly important.

And, I mean, I think America is great, but we want to be greater. And we want to do amazing things. And we don't want, like, the Apollo program to be our high-water mark. We want to do great things in America. And I think we also want to preserve what has made America great. You know, so things like freedom of speech, you know, like... [Applause] You know, the right to bear arms, these things in the Constitution that are actually, you know, important. You have to say, why did they add these amendments to the Constitution? It was because in the places that people came from,

if you said what you wanted to say, you'd be put in prison or you'd be killed. And they took everyone's guns away so that, you know, they couldn't rebel against oppressive government. That's the whole idea behind taking the guns away. So, I'm a big believer in the Constitution. Big believer in, you know, what makes America great. And then we also need, like, some obvious things. Like, we need actual secure borders. [Applause] It's like, you know, you're not a country if you don't have, like, a border. Like, what does it even mean to be a country at that point, you know?

And I went to the border just to see what my cell phone was like. And it was like, it's like World War Z at the border. You know, like, this is crazy, man. So, obviously, I'm in favor of immigrants that-- So, you know, the insane government spending is driving the country into bankruptcy. And, you know, just like a person, if you spend too much, you eventually go bankrupt. The federal debt's growing by a trillion dollars every three months. I mean, it's--our defense budget is pretty gigantic. It's a trillion dollars. But the interest that we owe on the debt is now higher than the defense budget.

Over a trillion dollars and growing. This is not sustainable. So we have to do something about that or the country's going to go bankrupt. So that's an essential thing, too. Yeah, so that's why we need the Department of Government Efficiency. [cheers and applause] D-O-G-E. That's on a brass plaque on a desk. It's going to be amazing. So, you know, it's--yeah, exactly, as people were saying, it's just like it's common sense stuff.

And, you know, America really just needs--it needs to remain the land of opportunity, the land where your success is a function of how hard you work and your talent. Like, if you're talented and hardworking, that should be the only thing that determines whether you are successful. That's it. You know? And America's also supposed to be the land of freedom. That means personal freedom. Like, the government should not be imposing all these rules on people. And, you know, it's like--you know, yeah.

So government overreach is not cool. Freedom, freedom, yeah, exactly, Twitter files. I mean, it was just nutty. You know, people don't realize just how much government involvement there is in the media and, like, how much the government influences the media. I mean, it's crazy how, you know, you'll see--like, in fact, I think, like, whoever's manipulating the media should mix it up a bit because they're really not doing a great job. Like, you know, when they--a week before the debate between Biden and Trump, and, like, everyone on the media was saying Biden was sharp as a tack. Sharp as a tack, sharp as a tack, sharp as a tack, sharp as a tack.

Like, you should mix it up a little. Get a thesaurus. Okay? The NBC media puppets were just all saying exactly the same thing. So, you know, it's just kind of strange. Like, do they all just get the same memo at the same time? I don't know. My comment is--I want to see the group text, okay? Like, is there, like, an email copy list or what? You know, everyone say the same thing at the same time.

Yeah, just total puppets. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, totally. So, well, let's see. Like, you know, what I think--what I find is really engaging is when people are able to ask questions or make comments. And so if anybody wants to--you know, try to keep the comments, like, reasonably short. Any monologue should be ideally kept to, you know, less than a minute. So just far away, and I'll try to answer questions and, you know, respond to

comments. Well, yeah, sure. So, hi. My question is what makes you so interested in politics now? Why is this so important? Yeah, that's a great question. Okay, don't bring the mic that close. Whoa. Yeah, the question is why politics now versus in the past I really have not been meaningfully involved in politics.

So the reason is that I think we're at a crossroads. This time I think we're at a crossroads, a fork in the road of destiny. I mean, what I see happening under the sort of Biden-Kamala administration is a level of sort of government overreach and manipulation that is extremely troubling. And I also see really a deliberate attempt to import as many people as possible into swing states like Pennsylvania in order to ensure that there is a permanent one state--that America becomes a permanent one-party state. I mean, the numbers are truly staggering, and the sort of fake legacy media doesn't report on them. The only reason anyone knows about it is if you're on the X platform. But, like, it's crazy. [Applause]

But, I mean, you're seeing, like, basically increases--this is from the government website, by the way, which is run by Democrats. So, like, you're seeing, like, in some cases, like, 700 percent increases in the past three and a half years in illegals in swing states. What a coincidence. And when you're talking about elections that are won or lost by 10,000 or 20,000 votes, and then you bring in 200,000 people, and then you put them on the fast track to citizenship, this is without considering any cheating. This is legalized. If that happens over the next four years, there will be no swing states.

They're importing voters. That is my--I think that's obvious to anyone who looks. And we will have a situation like we have in California, where it's a one-party state. California is a super majority Dem state, and so it's one-party rule. And if you have one-party rule, that's not a democracy. So I think either action is taken now-- [Applause] If there's another four years for--and it's really, like, pointless to even sort of talk about--Cumala's just a puppet of a larger machine. If the machine--I'll just call it the machine--is able to run for another four years,

there will not be any meaningful elections in the future, just like there are in California. And the whole--all of America will be Californicated. Not in a good way. Yeah. Californicated. Ouch. So we don't want--that would be a bad situation. In fact, it will actually be worse than California. The reason it will be worse than California is the one thing that holds California back from being even worse than it is, is that people can move out of California and still be in America. Now, what happens when there's no place to move? It'll be way worse than California.

That's why I think--yeah, exactly. Well, and speaking of Mars, like, what we're seeing, you know, with SpaceX and Tesla and whatnot is that the sort of regulatory oppression year after year is worse and worse. And there's more regulatory agencies created every year, more rules and regulations every year, until eventually everything is illegal. You know, we had our rockets sitting on the pad for two months, ready to fly. How is it possible that SpaceX could build a gigantic rocket faster than the government could move paper from one desk to another? [Applause] So if that trend continues, which it will do unless there's a conscious effort to have deregulation and have sensible regulation, then Mars will be impossible.

We will be forever confined to Earth. So, you know, I definitely think that's a major showstopper, is being so heavily regulated that we are confined to Earth forever. And that would be a sad eulogy. If future aliens see us, they'll come back and say, "They almost made it. Too bad they regulated themselves." [Laughter] "They had the rocket and everything." [Laughter] So I guess, you know, the short answer is I think this is incredibly important. That ironically, you know, there's a lot of people on the Dem side that call Trump a threat to democracy.

I think, in fact, they are the threat to democracy. [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] Hi, Elon. I want to thank you for coming. I'm from deep blue northeast Philadelphia. And I just want to say thank you for all you've been doing, your contributions. And my question is, did you expect the impact that buying X would have on the world and the United States, free speech, even into the America PAC movement? Well, I mean, the reason -- I didn't realize it would have as big of an impact as it's come to have. But the reason I felt that it was important to acquire Twitter was because I could really -- I could feel the walls closing in.

You know, it was outrageous that they suspended the account of a sitting president. You know, I mean, that's insane. [Applause] And I think it was only a matter of time before they suspended my account, frankly. You know, and I'm sure, given the stuff I've said lately, they would have suspended me six weeks of Sunday. [Laughter] So, you know, I mean, really, Twitter and -- well, pretty much all the social media companies and Google and everyone are controlled by far left activists. That's the truth of it. You know, and so then how do you -- well, how do you know what's real when it's all

filtered through a far left San Francisco Berkeley lens? You know, they just manipulate the truth constantly. You can't even find the truth if you Google it, because Google's, you know, put it on page six. I mean, you know, I don't want to pick on Google too much. I mean, I have a lot of friends there. But, you know, it's very easy to tweak the results, because, you know, like the joke goes, like, what's the best place to hide a dead body? Well, second place at Google search results, because nobody ever goes there. So you don't really have to -- in order to, you know, hide information, you don't

have to delete it. You just move it to the second page, and it's just -- people don't go there. Yeah. That would be tough. That's a tricky one. But, hey, at least there's one place where you can find out what's actually going on and what's real, and that's the X platform. [ Applause ] And I want to say, like, you know, we're very rigorous on the X platform about being a fair playing field, a level playing field, being fair to all sides. There's not a single account on the left that's been suppressed.

Not one. No suspensions, nothing. I believe in being fair. You know, once in a while we do get, like, a request for something on the right that's, you know, would be slightly censorious, and we're like, nope, we're not going to do that. So, you know, we are rigorous about being fair. And unlike the prior regime, we are actually fair, and we want both sides to say their piece and to let there be a free debate and let the marketplace of ideas, you know, work and let the best ideas win.

And that's the right thing to do. [ Applause ] >> Hello, Elon. As an IT guy of 26 years, I think one of the smartest things you did was firing most of the Twitter staff. [ Applause ] >> Yeah. >> Everyone's talking about corruption in the election systems, in the DOJ and judicial system. I personally think a lot of that is because of blackmail data stored on government servers. I strongly feel that if we can't control the information that is stored by the three-letter agencies, we will never get control of the country. What are your ideas on things Trump can do to drain the swamp without being overwhelmed by their dirty trick?

>> Well, I mean, as the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant. So I think really just bringing -- making as much information as possible public, available to the public so that you can see what's going on. There's, like, you know -- I mean, I do have a top-secret clearance, but I have to say, like, most of the stuff that I'm aware of are top-secret. Like, the reason to keep it top-secret is because it's so boring. Yeah. I mean, so -- but I think, like, the strong bias with respect to government information should be to make it available to the public. Like, it should be -- let's be as transparent as possible, like, fully transparent.

Unless it's, like, a massive risk to the country, like, it's, like, you know, we don't want to give, like, say, exact instructions on how to make a nuclear bomb or something like that, you know. But unless there's a genuine risk to the country, all information in the government should be public. Yeah. [Applause] Hi, over here. I'm sorry. [Laughter] I know I look like the same girl who just asked. It's hard to tell because I just hear the speakers, so -- Okay. I am Denise's twin who just asked a question.

I'm also from Deep Blue, far northeast Philadelphia in Parkwood. What I would like to ask you is, in applying the same efficiency that you did to removing 80% of the staff at Twitter to the Department of Governmental Efficiency, would you consider hiring Scott Pressler, who is an amazing movement -- Yeah, sure. Absolutely. -- for that efficiency? Yes. And I should say, you know, hopefully if this comes to pass and the Department of Governmental Efficiency is able to take action, we will reduce a lot of government headcount, but we're going to give, I think, like very long severances, like, I mean,

like two years or something like that. Look, just go do something else is what we're going to say. And you'll get paid for two years, you know. So you've got a lot of time to go and figure out something else to do. You know, it's like the point is not to be cruel or to, you know, have people not be able to pay their mortgage or anything. It's just we've got to move people -- we just have too many people in the government sector and they could be more productive elsewhere. [Applause] Hey, Yulon. It is a pleasure. Me and my best friend started a company when we were 21 years old.

We're going to be the next biggest beef jerky company in the U.S., I promise that. But what advice do you have for young entrepreneurs like us to conquer a challenge that seems almost impossible from the beginning? Well, I mean, generally I think, you know, just try to make it a good product or service. And it's not -- it's really that, you know. It's like you have to say, like, what is a useful thing that you could do? Like maximize your usefulness. What is the -- if there's -- like what is that product or service that you want to make? Beef jerky. The best beef jerky.

Okay, great. So you want to make the best beef jerky, just go ahead and do it. And then, you know, you have to sort of just explain to people why it's -- well, first of all, you need to make sure it is in fact the best beef jerky. And then you just need to then explain to people why it is. And so if you have both the reality and the perception of something being the best beef jerky or whatever the product may be, then I think you'll find it will be very successful. And the company is open for review. Check us out. All right.
 


Sounds good. Hey there, Elon. My name is Josh. I drove down from Luzerne County today, which, by the way, has flipped red by registration. Yes. Nice work, everybody there. Excellent. Yeah. Another fun fact about the northeast part of Pennsylvania, July 3rd, 1778, the largest massacre that ever happened on American soil happened when the colonists, the French, and the natives all fought over that land. And I think it all circles back.

It's now, you know, fracking central. There's a lot of resources there, land, and just beautiful local communities. Yeah. And something that is happening at a rate that is inconceivable, really inconceivable, the centralization of power to global elites and far off, abstracted places that we can't touch. Yeah. What are the ways that we bring that back to local people that can actually have an impact on the ground? Speaking with some people here. Yeah. I totally agree. Do we move the departments around the United States so they're not all in D.C.?

How do we get people on the ground empowered to actually make everyday changes and get people's support? Well, I super agree with you. So I'm against globalist power. Like, I don't think -- I think we should -- like, the U.N. should not have a lot of power. And these, like -- these, like, you know -- He's from the U.N.! It's like, who voted for them? I didn't vote for them. You know, and it's like -- we want power to the people. The power should -- maximum power to the individual. And so, like, you know, if -- like, we should not have any sort of international

treaties that restrict the freedom of Americans. And we should minimize the amount of federal interference at the state level. So it should be, like -- so unless it's at the state level, which is something you can influence, then it really -- agencies at the federal and the national level should have minimal to zero power over you. Yeah. [Applause] Is there a way that we could decentralize data so that consumers own the data? What is the next step towards that? Because I feel like that is what actually gives us our sovereignty back. Well, I guess -- I'm not sure how to decentralize the data. If the data is at least in multiple places, at least you should be able to, like,

locally store the data. I mean, people -- I think individuals should own their own data. You know, I think that's really important. Like, if you want to separate yourself from a social media company, you should be able to take everything with you. So I'm -- basically, I'm in favor of any action that maximizes your freedom and liberty. So, yeah. [Applause] Hey, Elon. Tesla shareholder, owner since 2015. I own an S-Plaid.

Thank you for making that thing because it's awesome. It is fun. It's my daily driver. It's so much fun. But my heart is with SpaceX. And so my question is, how will you, with Trump, be able to deregulate so that we can get more launches and get to Mars? Well, absolutely. That is a major factor for supporting President Trump is that, you know, if the sort of, you know, Kamala puppet machine happens,

there's going to be just more and more regulations. And this over -- you know, slow triangulation by overregulation will continue. But Trump is very enthusiastic about deregulation, which is not to say we don't want any regulation. We just want sensible regulation. And I think if President Trump is elected, we can actually take those actions and we can cut the strings. Like, I feel like America is like Gulliver, you know, tied down by a million little strings. And we need to cut those strings and free the giant.

[Applause] Hey, man. Thank you so much for doing everything you're doing. Welcome. This is going to be a little long, but I think you're going to get a kick out of it. It's a sad story that turns into something funny you'll probably like. So I was mostly a lifelong liberal, sort of like yourself, working digital production marketing stuff. Yeah, I mean, I believe in freedom. Like, I mean, I believe in, like, empathy, like you should care about your fellow human beings, you know, and, you know, and that --

and I believe in, like, free speech, which used to be a thing on the left, and now bizarrely they want censorship. I'm like, what? And thank you for buying Twitter and saving free speech and Babylon B, too. Yeah. That was great, man. Anyway, so I sort of have a case to plead to. Sorry, a little long. Anyway, I can't get into the details because there are legal issues and stuff. But years ago I had my life destroyed by crazy woke people because I was injured. I lived in Los Angeles for about 13 years.

Yep. And when I wanted to seek out, you know, like a court case and stuff, I had someone in the legal system look me straight in the face and tell me, you know, you're not the right kind of white guy. This isn't going to play out well for you. And I immediately was like, what the -- Yeah, what -- that doesn't make any sense. I don't want to swear. Sure. Yeah. And I was like, is it because I'm from Pennsylvania or I'm also Ashkenazi and Jewish or maybe both?

I don't know. Yeah. But I was immediately like, what has happened? And so it put me in a bad spiral and it, like, lost me. I just went crazy. I'm always been an egalitarian person. Yeah. Right. I mean, racism in any form is bad, doesn't matter who it's directed towards. Yeah. [Applause] And I started, you know, becoming more center right instead of liberal, which is -- it's an identity crisis because -- Yeah.

Yeah, it's a big change. Sure. And working in an industry, it's sort of -- like, you understand in our industries, it's -- you feel like an outcast. You don't really know who to talk to, and so it's awkward. So anyway, as a catharsis of sorts, I made this app called Pooper. Okay. And so it lets you put animated pooping animals on your text messages. Okay. And it's been charting for years, so, like, since I made it. It sounds funny. Yeah.

So I think you'd like it just because, you know, sticking pooping animals on, like, Mark Cuban's -- if you're talking to him, you can, like, stick it on his face or his text messages and stuff. Yeah. Right. And so he gets, like, a gorilla pooping on his text message. Yeah. I mean, I saw an interview with Mark Cuban and -- what's her name again? Rachel Maddow. But I couldn't tell which was which. [ Laughter ] So my question is, would you, like -- because this destroyed me, I was really badly injured.

I'm not saying you have to do it. I don't mean to put you on the spot. Would you consider implementing that kind of thing on the Twitter where you could, you know, use -- have a dinosaur monkey throwing poop and put it on top of Mark Cuban's, you know, like, new stupid look that he has? Or a business insider. About probably 5 million people have now heard about the pooper. [ Laughter ] Maybe 10 million. There's a lot of people that are going to watch this. So I think that's some solid publicity right there.

Thank you. >> Thanks for coming. You're going to help us win Pennsylvania and the entire -- [ Applause ] >> Well, I mean, I should say, like, it's incredibly important that everyone here and everyone listening, watching, that you go and get -- make sure your friends, family, yourself are registered to vote. Because the voting registration deadline in Pennsylvania ends at midnight on Monday. So there's only a few days left. And so you just got to be a pest and, like, hound everyone you know to make sure they're registered to vote and the registration is good.

Because it's sort of, you know, a shot clock ends at midnight on Monday. So... >> Go! [ Applause ] >> Now you're going to be the head of the doge. Have you thought about whether AI and blockchain can be used to track every dollar that the government spends, makes people accountable to the very last person, and we know exactly who agreed to a $400 toilet seat? >> Yeah. >> Can we do that? Is that in the set of possibilities? >> Actually, that's a good idea. Because actually trying to make sense of these incredibly complex laws and regulations where, you know, a law gets passed that's, like, longer than Lord of the Rings and no one's actually read the thing.

Like, literally not -- there's not actually one human who's read the whole law. And then that law gets amplified by, you know, 100 times by the regulations that follow. I think the only thing that could comprehend that is an AI, basically. So I think that would actually be a good idea, is, like, saying, okay, AI, just tell us what's actually going on, where is the money getting spent, what does this law actually mean, and simplify it, really. So, yeah. I mean, the amount of government waste that happens is truly staggering. I mean, if you've been exposed to government contracting, it's pretty nutty.

It's, like, beyond -- it's so crazy, it's hard to believe. So, yeah. So I think there's basically a lot of room for improvement there. And the net result will be a significant improvement in, like I said, personal freedom and the standard of living in America. [ Applause ] >> Hi, Mr. Musk. It is such an honor to be here with you. I am actually a former mainstream media journalist. I now teach martial arts in the city of Philadelphia to kids and also in Camden. And I find that the character skills that they need, they get through martial arts,

not so much through the education they're getting. And with my journalism background -- >> That's great. I did martial arts, too. It's great. It is -- it is a very healthy thing for kids to do, I think, yeah. And adults, too. >> Yeah, I will spar you any time. >> My question is I have such, like, a strong desire for truth that I feel like looking at X but also coming to events like this is the only way that I can truly feel that I confidently know what you're saying and how you're saying it, which I appreciate.

What do we do for kids so that when they get older, they can see through it? Because what they're learning now, I think, falls short of not just the character but also their ability to discern their own opinion. >> Well, yeah. That's a good point. I think teaching kids critical thinking is very important. They should be taught critical thinking. It's like a mental firewall. If you teach kids critical thinking at a young age and just, you know, teach them the types of fallacies that they're likely to encounter, the sort of forms of trickery,

like, you know, straw man fallacy or, you know, sort of -- there's, like, the various ways that information -- like, media or people will trick you. And just kind of immunizing kids effectively against that, I think, early on would be a very good thing to do. Basically, just teach kids, like, don't -- be a little -- be skeptical about what you're told. It may be true. It may not be true. Or it may be that often there's a certain percentage chance that it is true. And you want to consider the evidence, you know, weigh the evidence to decide what

is the probability that a certain thing is true or not true. And then when -- obviously when you hear more evidence, then you change the probabilities. I mean, generally, like, I believe in the sort of physics approach to thinking, which is that you're always, like, weighing the probabilities that something is true or not true or that there may be a third explanation. And be very open to new facts changing your mind. [ Applause ] >> For free that helps to promote, like, true journalism through anything, I'd be happy to -- >> Well, thank you.

Well, I think -- I actually think that what we want to move to is really systems like X and other social media platforms, too, hopefully, where you really have the sum of the voice of the people. You know, in times past, we didn't have the technology for this. So the only way to learn news was for it to be filtered through a small number of news organizations and then to be printed in newspapers or broadcast. There wasn't really any way that people could speak to each other or communicate with each other. But now there is. So if -- because people can be online. And I'm a big believer in sort of citizen journalism. And actually being way better.

Way better than -- because, you see, like -- At first citizen journalism may sound like, well, isn't that -- doesn't that mean just a whole bunch of amateurs are doing journalism? No, actually it's way better. Because if you have actual experts in the field saying things, that's way better than a journalist. If you have people who are actually at the event live -- I mean, look at, say, the attempted assassination of President Trump. People are actually at the event live, video. People are reporting it.

That's the kind of thing that is actually far better information than filtering it through a small number of publications, which ends up being controlled by maybe five editors-in-chief. There's like five people that control, you know, the news. And even though there are multiple newspapers, it's, you know, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, you know, a few others. And they decide what is newsworthy. But that should not be how it works. It should be that the voice of the people -- the cumulative voice of the people should decide what is newsworthy. [Applause] Thank you. First off, I want to thank Nicole here.

She's the one that's holding the mic. Really awesome. I know you said you were a little spectrum autistic. I mean, little, sure. Yes. So the only reason I say that is out of every successful person I've ever seen, you are the one person that I can relate to the most. So I'm sorry if I'm over-replaced a little bit. I remember you had stated that you hate the fact that every single time you hire someone for their talent instead of their passion. So I want to be able to say the Galileo test I passed, Xavier passed, Don Lemon

passed, Dark test, SpaceX test, A12, I passed that one. The '95 test, that's the year '95, what you did to be able to do Zip2, I've done that. Slave test, Steve Jobs test, reality goodness test, the reality of actually doing something good instead of just talking bullshit out their ass. The Reid Hoffman test, which he scoffed at you because you were going to be the first man to be able to put life on Mars, but it was going to be a turtle. So now he kind of is walking back on that. But anyways, you guys were good friends. So I want to, I would classify myself, the easiest way is PNS quantum engineer and

my friend Brandon and my wife, Pheo, and Brandon's over there. I want to give you my business card. If you have five seconds. Five seconds. We have to move on to questions. So to answer the question, just to be clear, the goal of the questions is to ask questions that you think the public would be interested in hearing the answer to. To be clear, that is the, that's what we're after. So, you know, it's you want to ask like, well, you're interested in a particular question, but probably there's a lot of people in America and in Pennsylvania that

are also interested in that question. And that those are the kind of questions we're aiming for here. But thank you. I was wondering if you can bring, instead of going to Pittsburgh, to be able to bring to Bethlehem, to Lehigh Valley, to be able to bring that up again. Steel? Bethlehem steel. Sure. The US. Sure. And I know you're looking between, at Pittsburgh. I was wondering if you can look at Lehigh Valley to be able to grow what was, what

made America great. Okay. Well, I mean, I think we do need a lot more local production of steel. There's not enough steel made in America. That is for sure. So, yeah. So let's move. With the emergence of AI and robotics, you've talked a lot about a possible age of abundance. What are some of the steps that you believe should be necessary to lay the foundation that it's more of a utopia for humanity than a dystopia? And why you answer that, would you mind signing an unauthorized biography written by

my six-year-old son and possibly a copy of my Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy? Sure. Sure. If it's a first six-year-old, sure. So the biggest thing for development of AI is that it be maximally truth-seeking, which sounds like an obvious thing. But what I see being done with a lot of the major AI companies is not truth-seeking. They're aiming to be politically correct, which means lying, essentially. So I think this is absolutely fundamental. And I mean, like an example being, for example, when Google came out with Google Gemini and people asked which is worse, global thermonuclear war or misgendering Caitlyn Jenner.

And it said misgendering Caitlyn Jenner, which even Caitlyn Jenner said that is not correct. So that is an insane thing for an AI to say, because if you have some sort of omnipotent AI, it could conclude logically that the best way to avoid misgendering is for there to be no humans, because no humans equals probability of misgendering equals zero. So you could get some very dystopian outcomes if you do not have a maximally truth-seeking AI. I think that's very important. That's the reason for xAI. So you can't have an AI built on a throne of lies. Hi, Mr. Musk. My name is Dave Cochran.

I am so ecstatic to be here. I do have the uttermost respect for you, sir. Thank you. I'm going to try to keep I wanted to bring in my sketchbooks. I'm an inventor. They would have been stacked this high, but I'm not here to pitch my ideas. I really want to know, are you going to play a part in the office once we get Trump in there and do things and maybe incorporate the space program in other areas of the country? I tried to move to Florida. My mother's 90. I want to be part of it.

I want to do it right here. I want to bring manufacturing here and the space program. But I'd like to see you involved. That's for sure. Yes, I intend to do a lot of work to improve government efficiency. So I believe this is a very doable, very achievable. So like I said, it's really like we need sensible regulations, but we can't have insane regulations. I mean, when I looked it up, I think there was something like 428 agencies, federal agencies that exist.

That's almost two agencies created per year since the founding of the country. So yeah, exactly. Not to mention the NGOs that -- what's weird about a lot of these NGOs is they're actually funded by the government. So it's like it's a government-funded, non-governmental organization, which is like -- it just ends up being a self-licking ice cream cone. It's like bizarre. How do you shut it off? You have to shut it off at the government level. So yeah, I think there's -- I do intend to -- assuming the President is probably willing, and I think he is,

I intend to play a significant role in making government efficient. I tend to be quite literal, you know. [Applause] And I think it would free up -- I think it would allow for so many things to be done that are incredibly difficult to get done. You know, like the boring company was trying to dig a tunnel, just a road tunnel, under the Colorado River in Texas, and has been waiting two years for a permit for a simple tunnel under a river. Because it's a federal river, it takes two years, and still no end in sight. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Can't get anything done. It's illegal.

On the subject of transparency, January 6th, there were two -- well, there was a single act of -- attempted act of violence where the two pipe bombs at the Democrat and Republican headquarters. The government released a picture of the pipe bomber sitting on a bench, talking on a cell phone. It was time stamped. We know there's video cameras probably every five feet in D.C. Why haven't they announced who the pipe bomber is? Well, maybe he's a federal employee. [Laughter] Maybe. Maybe.

We were clear on Twitter -- some detectives on Twitter, I think, were pretty clear that it was obvious who it was. Can't they just tell the truth? Yeah, I mean, well, I think if President Trump is elected, we're going to get to the bottom of a lot of these things. [Applause] I think it's going to be, like, massive data dump and have at it. Take a look at all the information, you know? So, yeah, so, I mean, maybe there's an innocent -- maybe there's an innocent explanation. Maybe there isn't.

Let's find out. [Applause] Hi, Elon. I know you're a bit busy, but were you to start another company, what would it be? Would it have anything to do with helping more schools be like Astronova? And what is the future of Astronova? Well, I have to say I'm not chomping at the bit to start another company. [Laughter] I have 17 jobs, and then another one, I suppose, with the Department of Government Efficiency. Although I think improving government efficiency will be really helpful in advancing space and a bunch of other things and just freeing, you know, people around the country to, you know, do what they want to do. I think, as far as education is going, I think, actually, AI is going to potentially be a very good educator, you know,

because AI basically will know all the facts and is infinitely patient and can move as fast as you'd like. And I think there's a lot of opportunity for AI teachers to be extremely good. So, thanks. [Applause] Elon, thanks for all you do, and congratulations on getting Booster 12 back to the megazilla. Thank you. [Applause] You know, the SpaceX team is just an incredibly talented team. It's an honor to work with them. Very impressive.

And relating to ECKT, would it be possible to train XAI on federal, state, and local regulations and financial data so that the citizen journalists can investigate and analyze all the finances and all the laws and regulations so that they can help identify the discrepancies that exist? Yeah, absolutely. I totally agree with that. [Applause] I mean, there is this fundamental challenge that happens, which is that laws and rules and regulations are immortal. And so, every year, there's more rules, regulations, and laws, and they don't die because they're immortal. But we're humans. We're immortal, and we do die. So, you get this accumulation over time.

Historically, what has caused a reset of laws and regulations has been war. Now, we'd like to ideally avoid war, but we still need this massive reset of regulations and reduction of regulations, ideally without the forcing function of war. But it is an interesting thing that the longer that there is peace and prosperity, the more rules and regulations will accumulate until eventually everything is legal. So, that's why I think it is essential that we have a very conscious effort to reduce the laws and regulations, or eventually no one will be allowed to do anything. [Applause] Hey, Elon. I'm Lucas, and I have a question for you. What's the best advice for your children?

[Laughter] Best advice for the kids. Well, generally, my advice is just to try to be as useful as possible to society. You know, be a good person and just try to give more than you take. You know, that's a big deal. [Applause] Hi, Elon. I'm curious, with the explosion of AI and ML, what your thoughts are on reforming the Nuclear Regulatory Commission so that we can provide all the electricity needs not only for hyperscalers, AI and ML, but also to make electricity more affordable for citizens. Yeah. In fact, I think that the dangers of nuclear power are greatly overstated. You know, so I think that we should, especially with the latest technologies,

I mean, you can actually make a nuclear reactor where it is literally impossible to melt it down if you tried to melt it down. Like, if your goal was to melt down this nuclear reactor, the new designs, you will not succeed. You know, you can go in there with a flamethrower and whatever. It doesn't matter. And bomb the place. It doesn't matter. It's still not going to melt down. So if you're in a situation like that with advanced nuclear reactors, then there shouldn't be any regulatory issues with that. Because what really matters is the safety of the public. So I think that there should be significant reform on the nuclear front.

Mr. Musk, my name is Dave. Excuse the patch. I had Mohs surgery a couple of days ago. It's super embarrassing. It took a lot to get up here with that. I integrate AI into businesses and we have to use open AI right now because they're the only API. And so we have to train it like crazy to get it not to do woke things. Hoping that Grok has an API soon. We'll be releasing the API very soon. Oh, awesome. Okay, great. My cyber truck drove me here this evening, my son and I. So thank you for that product. And my question is Space Force. I'm assuming there's been some discussions with President Trump about Space Force.

And I'm just curious if he does win. Obviously, Doge. Yes. Awesome. But secondly, what do you think Space Force might look like in 10 years? I think Space Force should really aim higher. I think when the public hears Space Force, you sort of think Star Trek, Starfleet Academy. You don't think let's make a slightly better spy satellite. But the way that Space Force is interpreted by the military currently is let's make a slightly better spy satellite. That's like 5% better. I'm like, no, that's not what people want. People want Starfleet Academy. We want the Star Trek Enterprise.

And that's what people want. A real Space Force where it's like we're actually in space. So that's why I mean like we want to aim to have like a permanently crewed base on the moon. We want to have the city on Mars. We want to be exploring the moons of Jupiter, the asteroid belt, the entire solar system. And if you decide that you want to go to Mars, you should be able to go to Mars. That would be super exciting. A real space-faring civilization would be fantastic. [Applause] Hi, Elon. You've spoken about the challenge of falling global birth rates and American birth rates.

Is that something you've spoken to Donald Trump about? And it seems like the richer we get, the worse it gets. And you can't really pay people to have more. Nothing seems to work. What ideas do you have for that? And is that something that you have spoken to him about? Thank you. I have mentioned it to him. And it is a quandary. Like as you know, if you look at the sort of the rise and fall of civilizations, you realize that actually what ended up--what ended most civilizations was a low birth rate. That is just an extended period of prosperity seems to cause birth rates to plummet.

And it is somewhat counterintuitive. When a society is under stress, birth rates increase. So if you look at, say, ancient Rome, the birth rates were super high when they were fighting the Carthaginians. And Rome's very life was at stake. Birth rates were all-time high. After they defeated Carthage and ruled the Mediterranean, the birth rates plummeted. And to such a degree that Julius Caesar even tried to pass laws like in 50 B.C. or something like that to give an incentive for any Roman citizen that would have a second or third child. So they were having birth rate issues in 50 B.C., which is pretty wild. And that was also true of really basically every civilization throughout history. It says how do you avoid this birth rate collapse, the trap of--it's a sort of

prosperity trap. I don't have a great answer for that, except I think if we can at least bring it to conscious awareness that we need to continue as a civilization, like no humans, no humanity. And at least it's a topic of conversation. It's like, hey, it's something we should do something about. And we definitely want to get rid of this ridiculous notion that there are too many humans on Earth. This is false. You know, there's a lot of people who think that the environment can't sustain this number of humans. It's totally untrue.

We could double the population of birth and still not have a significant environmental impact. So, you know, it's--like, you could fit all of the humans on one floor in the city of New York. So that's--like, 8 billion humans sounds like a lot, but actually, you know, if you're--say, take-- if you're in an airplane and you're going from here to L.A. or wherever, and you look down, how often do you see a human? You know, if your goal was to drop a ball on a human while flying from here to L.A., you'd have a hard time. So the actual density of humans is very low, and Earth's capable of easily having far more humans and should, in my opinion. [Applause] Hi, Elon. It's an honor to speak with you, and I just want to personally thank you for buying Twitter and saving free speech.

You're welcome. [Applause] So a couple months ago, I was tired of being a keyboard warrior. I signed up to be a Trump Force 47 captain. [Applause] And I knocked over 200 doors, just trying to get people to get out and vote for our president. Great. Thank you. That's super important. I mean, you know, as was asked to me at the beginning of this talk, you know, why am I so involved in politics this time?

It's because I think this time it's a fork in the road, and it's--I think--frankly, I think we're doomed. If Trump doesn't win, I think we're doomed. We're in the doom loop at that point, so he's got to win. And I think for those who are in areas that are, you know, sort of normally these, like, deep blue areas, if you think you won't get assaulted, put a Trump Vance sign on your lawn. I mean, a lot of it is, like, people are, like--they need social proof. They need evidence that other than--that they're not alone. And so probably a lot of people in these, like, normally blue areas would actually

vote for Trump if they thought someone else was voting for Trump, too. And so if you just put the sign on the lawn and be sort of loud and proud, then I think people will be like, you know what, I think I'll vote for Trump, too. [Applause] So I have a rhetorical question. Can you buy Disney and fire David Muir? [Laughter] Now, that's a real interesting idea. [Laughter] So DEI has become a cancer in our corporations. It really has. And I was wondering if there's anything realistically that the federal government can do or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to put a stop to this. Yeah, I think the government should be actively saying that it is illegal to

discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or anything else other than merit. It is illegal. That's--it's not right. [Applause] It's not morally right. It's not legally right. And it doesn't matter who you're discriminating against. The point is not to have discrimination but a different type of discrimination. The point is to not have discrimination. That's the whole idea. [Applause] Elon, first of all, thank you for all you're doing and thank you for being you. [Applause]

I appreciate the kind words. Thank you. In the book, All the Glitters, the mystery behind the glitter conspiracies is revealed and the details of Mission X is exposed, where SpaceX is utilized to deposit a layer of glitter above the atmosphere which deflects the red and infrared light away and cools the planet. My understanding is that this is sort of being kept secret because you don't want environmentalists or other people to come in and regulate and stop it from happening. Why isn't the public being made aware that it is essential that Donald Trump be elected for this to happen because Trump will not have to ask permission to save the planet, he'll just do it. I'm just wondering if you feel the same sentiment. There's also been some rumors on the internet that you're going to not only do this but then you're going to use it and charge the other countries of the world to support it. You're going to lower the deficit and other sources of income and there'll be no more wars between electric vehicles and oil and fossil fuels.

Why won't you tell people, "Elect Trump and this will happen," because if it's just anybody but Trump, regulations or... It only takes one person to complain and it won't happen. I think it's for sure true that when we've got so many regulatory agencies and there are so many rules and regulations, basically Washington, D.C. is like a sea of brake pedals. Everyone's got a brake pedal but nobody's got an accelerator. We're going to add some accelerators. All they want to do in D.C. is stop anything. I just call it a sea of brake pedals, brake pedals in all directions. How can you make progress if you've got a sea of brake pedals?

It's not possible. We're going to get rid of a bunch of the brake pedals and add accelerators. My question was how do we stop the steal? Is there a way to have a database on X where we can track all the votes? We all send our votes to you to track it and then we can tell who wins? There's so much, even down in Georgia right now, they're already flipping votes on the machines. How do we stop the steal? I recommend posting any evidence that you have for voting fraud or irregularities or causes of concern, just post it on the X platform and then people can support it or say either support it or debunk it, one of the two.

I do think there's generally an issue that we have, a fundamental issue, which is unless we have voter ID-- [applause] My opinion is we should have no-- I say this as a technologist who likes technology and I like computers, but we should not have computers do voting tabulation at all. [applause] It's far too easy to hack a computer. I know how to hack a computer. Government software is the easiest thing to hack. It's not the best software. In my opinion, we should have paper ballots only. It should be in-person voting with ID and a story.

[applause] Hi, Elon. Thank you for everything you do. Feel free to answer this question in three words. Some people claim that you're hurting Tesla's brand and sales by supporting Trump. What do you say to those people? [laughter] Well, I mean, you know, Tesla's sales are actually doing great. [applause] We're hitting all-time highs. I think, you know, really people care about the quality of a product as opposed to whether they agree or disagree with the CEO's views. I mean, the CEO of any given company is going to have political views. But at the end of the day, what matters is that Tesla makes a great product

and people like buying great products. So that's it. [applause] Hello. Hi. Thanks for coming and being here. I think I understand your vision for challenging the existing cell phone syndicate. But I want to know when the X phone's coming out. [laughter] Man, I sure hope we don't have to make a phone. That's a real--that's a lot of work. I mean, if, you know, if there's like--I mean, yeah, well, the idea of making a phone makes me want to die.

[laughter] So--but if we have to make a phone, we will, but we all aspire not to make a phone. You know, I do think that, you know, the various companies, you know, Apple and Google, Android and whatnot, you know, they need to make sure they don't have a heavy hand in, like, the App Store and whatnot, or they will create a forcing function for there to be a competitor. So--but man, I sure--the idea of--I dread the idea of making a phone. But if that turns out to be necessary, we'll do it. But hopefully it is not necessary. Yeah, so--all right.

Hey, Elon. First things first is that JCal is on my cap table. All right, great. And my question is, I grew up in Spain, right near where your brother got married. Oh, cool. And--in Empudias. And comparing cities back home to cities here, it's incomparable. How does one fix--you know, I go to our great city of Philadelphia. How does one fix the problem of people living on the streets? It's not talked about enough. It isn't. No, I agree.

I go to Kensington a lot, and it's just--it is such a horrible sight, seeing these poor people. At what point do you have the freedom to slowly carry yourself like that on the streets, and how do you fix that? Well, I think there's not an easy answer to that. But I think you cannot have open-air drug bazaars because obviously that's going to be a magnet. And, you know, while most people can resist the lure of drugs, some people cannot. And, you know, you just cannot have--that there be easy access to drugs and have it just be open--they're on the street. Then there are also situations where somebody is just fundamentally mentally ill, like not a little bit, you know, like I mean mentally ill in a dangerous way,

dangerous to others. And I think if somebody is incurably mentally ill and a danger to others, we need to have some kind of asylum for them. There's no--it has to be done. The word "homeless" is a misnomer. Because "homeless" sounds like someone who got a little behind on their mortgage payments, and if they just got a job offer, they'd be back on their feet. That does not describe the people in Kensington, okay, at all. So if the issue is--like, basically if there are violent drug zombies, they must be taken off the streets, and they want to go willingly.

So there's no choice. Now, I'm a big believer in empathy. I think we should have empathy for our fellow human beings. But what I see on the left is a lot of shallow empathy, sort of empathy that's skin deep, essentially, very thin empathy. They have empathy for what they term "homeless people" when they're actually violent drug zombies, but they lack empathy for the victims of the violent drug zombies. And so we should have deep empathy for everyone, not shallow empathy. Have empathy for the victims of the criminals, not just the criminals. [applause] Hi, Leon. My name is Hans Moyer.

I brought some plans here to solve all our problems. I'm going to give them to this young lady here. I have some good news. The Washington Times, the most conservative voice in our capital, endorsed President Trump for another term, so that's good news. Great. My question today to you is when your children come to you and they ask you why is so much war in our world, what do you answer them as far as where does peace begin? Well, the reality is actually, if you say war per capita, it's actually quite low. It's not that there's no war, it's just that we now hear about war anywhere at all.

But if you compare where we are today versus, say, last century with World War II and World War I, where millions of people were dying per year, we actually have on a global basis, it's actually very peaceful. That does not say there aren't some terrible things happening somewhere. There are 8 billion people on Earth. In fact, what the legacy mainstream media tends to do is try to answer the question, what is the worst thing that happened on Earth today? That's generally what the newspaper tries to answer. What's the worst thing that happened on Earth? It's a big world. There's some pretty bad things.

So actually, the reality is that there is only a small amount of war occurring in the world compared to the past. And historically, humans have had a lot of war, of course. But I think actually for countries, say, like the United States, the issue is that we've had peace for such a long time that we are a victim of prosperity. When you have peace for such a long time, you have this accumulation of rules and regulations that binds society. That's why I call it the slow strangulation by overregulation is what happens in peacetime, and a dramatic decline in the birth rate. And the decline in the birth rate,

it's not something we've ever evolved to react to. If you said that there was like a Thanos situation where somebody would snap their fingers and half of people would be dead, you'd be like, "Well, that's terrible." That's what's happening with the birth rate. Yet there is no reaction. Why is there no reaction? At the end of the day, you still have half the people. I mean, look at, say, South Korea. Birth rate is one-third replacement. One-third. That means, if you fast-forward to the future, two-thirds of South Korea is gone. Poof, gone.

More than Thanos. Why is there no reaction? Why are we not reacting to the absence of children? We should have, in my opinion, just as strong a reaction to the absence of children as to the death of humans. Because in both cases, the people are gone. [applause] Hey, Elon. How are you doing? Great job saving Twitter from the woke mind virus. And I don't know if you're a gamer, but-- I am. What gave it away? [laughter] Because I do post frequently on the subject. Yeah. Very nice to meet you.

I do actually love it. People ask me, "What are your hobbies?" Well, I talk to my friends and family, and I play video games. Yeah, I left my Diablo 4 to come here. Yeah, exactly. But the gaming industry is starting to see some results, too, of being a victim of the woke mind virus. Yeah, totally. I agree. And so I was wondering, with recent flops like-- Make video games great again. Yeah, yeah, exactly. With recent flops like Concord and Dustborn,

games are prioritizing pronouns and things like that. That's annoying. Gameplay, yeah. So I was wondering, have you ever thought about making your own gaming studio and making an impact in the industry? You know, if there's one thing I could say that would be a fun thing to do, it would be to start a gaming studio. Because I do actually intrinsically love video games. And I think, actually, if you apply sort of AI to video games, you could really make it to some incredible-- make incredible video games.

So, yeah, I think just generally for content, the problem with the sort of DEI and the woke mind virus is that it kills the art. It's just-- Like, as soon as-- When you can see something that is forcibly imposed on the story and it's discordant, it destroys the art. And now it's hard to enjoy the story. It kicks you out of the story. Because you can just feel that you're being lectured. And movies and TV and all that kind of stuff. It's like, let me just enjoy my video games. Exactly.

I know, come on. Not video games, too. [laughter] All right. Hi, Elon. As a child of science fiction and being raised on Asimov and the grandeur and the beauty that came through his stories, I'm teaching my daughter the same thing. She's six years old. Yeah. And we've had conversations watching all of your rocket launches. And she's asked me, "When can we go for a walk on the moon?" So I have to ask, what's a realistic timeline

for me to take my wife and my daughter to the moon and go for a walk? Well, that's a great question. Well, our goal with Starship is to enable anyone to go to the moon or Mars or elsewhere if they want to. And I think that is actually genuinely possible with a fully reusable rocket. The fundamental breakthrough that's needed to make life multi-planetary and for us to be a space-faring civilization is full and rapid reusability, which is what we have for every other form of transport. We've got--our cars are reusable, our planes are reusable, bicycles, horses, they're all reusable. But rockets historically have not been reusable.

They've been single-use. And that means you've got to have a whole new rocket every time you fly, which obviously makes it extremely expensive. But with Starship, we're close to achieving full and rapid reusability. And that then drops the cost of space travel by literally 10,000%, like no exaggeration. It's like 10,000% improvement. It's insane. Well, it's the difference between, you know, if you have to refuel your car or get a new car, that's a really big cost difference.

And the current situation historically with rockets is like if you went on a journey, if it was a car, you'd have to get a car and then tow a smaller car behind you to leave the other car there and then come back in the little car. [laughter] That's--which is insane. You need a second car just for the return journey. So that has made space insanely expensive. But once it's fully reusable, now the cost is simply whatever it takes to refill the rocket. That's it. And that's a massive change. So thanks.

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 Hearing on "Rule by Law: China’s Increasingly Global Legal Reach" 

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406, and Webex
 
Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Carte P. Goodwin and Commissioner Jacob Helberg

9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks
 
9:40 AM – 11:10 AM: Panel I: The CCP’s Promotion of Rule by Law

Moritz Rudolf, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center [Testimony]
Vivienne Bath, Professor of Chinese & International Business Law and Associate Director International of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, Sydney Law School [Testimony]
Dan Harris, Partner at Harris Bricken [Testimony]

11:10 AM – 11:20 AM: Break

11:20 AM – 1:05 PM: Panel II: The CCP’s Violation of International Laws and Norms

Isaac Kardon, Senior Fellow for China studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [Testimony]
Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning for Secure World Foundation [Testimony]
Paul Scharre, Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security [Testimony]
Yu-Jie Chen, Assistant Research Professor at Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica and an Affiliated Scholar at NYU Law's U.S.-Asia Law Institute [Testimony]

1:05 PM – 2:05 PM: Lunch Break

2:05 PM – 3:35 PM: Panel III: The CCP and Foreign Legal Systems

Donald Clarke, David Weaver Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School [Testimony]
Diego Zambrano, Associate Professor of Law at Stanford University [Testimony]
Mark Cohen, Asia IP Project Director at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology [Testimony]

3:35 PM – 3:40 PM: Closing Remarks

3:40 PM: Adjourn view all

自由亚洲电台报道：
 
美国纽约布鲁克林最高联邦检察官周一（4月17日）表示，两名纽约居民因涉嫌在曼哈顿唐人街附近经营一个中国“秘密警察站”遭到逮捕。这两位分别是纽约长乐公会前会长卢建旺和秘书长陈金平。

美国执法人员表示，他们接受中国政府指使，在纽约唐人街建立海外警察站，在没有管辖权或外交批准的情况下开展调查行动，调查在加州的一个中国异议人士，并在联邦调查局调查前销毁罪证。本台记者致电现任长乐公会会长、卢建旺胞弟卢建顺，他表示不知情卢建旺遭到逮捕一事，同时强调长乐公会仅是一个替中国侨胞服务的组织。

此外司法部还宣布对中国一个专门部门的 34 名成员提出指控。 美国称该部门由中国公安部管理，据称创建了包括推特在内的虚假社交媒体账户，以骚扰在美国的中国持不同政见者，并促进来自中国的宣传。在司法部新闻稿中的另一起案件，有10名被告遭指控骚扰与中国持不同政见者，其中包6名中国公安部官员、2位中国网信办官员和一名前中国公司雇员。

美国联邦调查局纽约办事处官员在周一下午的记者会表示，美国相信这个非法海外警察站的目的，是为了压制、骚扰和威胁那些表达与中国政府相反观点的人。联邦调查局局长克里斯托弗‧雷（Christopher Wray）去年11月17日曾证实，该局正在调查中国在美国所设立的海外警察站。 view all

五十年前，最后一批美国作战部队离开南越。周六，美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯试图加强与旧敌河内的联系，以应对中国在印太地区日益增长的自信心。

布林肯和越南总理范明钦承诺将关系提升到新水平，在美军撤出标志着美国直接参与越南战争结束50周年仅两周后会面。

这也是布林肯在越南首都举行了一个耗资12亿美元的庞大新美国大使馆项目奠基仪式。拜登政府希望通过此项目展示其致力于改善双方关系，并利用越南传统上与其更大邻居中国之间的竞争来扩大美国在该地区的影响力。

尽管存在有关越南人权记录的担忧，但华盛顿认为河内是其该地区战略中不可或缺的组成部分，并试图利用越南与其更大邻居中国之间传统上存在竞争来扩大美国在该地区的影响力。
 
我们认为现在是提升我们现有合作关系的吉祥时机，”布林肯在与越南外交部长兼共产党领袖阮春会面后告诉记者。

“这一直是一种非常全面和有效的关系，未来我们将继续加深联系，”阮春说。“我们高度赞赏美国对亚太地区或更大范围内印度-太平洋地区所承担的角色和责任。”

他补充说，越南共产主义政府热切希望“进一步提升我们双边关系到一个新高度”。

除了中国的几个邻国之外，在南海问题上也存在着海上和领土争端。美国通过提供外交支持并加强与菲律宾和自治岛屿台湾（中国声称其为叛逆省份）的军事合作来回应此类问题。

布林肯指出，美国目前正在最后确定向越南转移第三艘海岸警卫队巡逻船，并补充道已经自2016年以来向河内提供了24艘巡逻艇以及其他装备和培训等方面进行了海上安全合作。

他说：“所有这些元素都增强了越南在维护南海海上和平与稳定方面的能力。”

就在上个月，美国海军第二天驶过有争议的西沙群岛时，中国威胁要采取“严重后果”，北京声称这是对其主权和安全的侵犯。西沙群岛被中国占领，但台湾和越南也宣称拥有主权。
 
尼克松政府于1973年3月29日撤出越南战斗部队五十年后，布林肯表示美国正在寻求与该国更具战略性的定位。

布林肯此次访问正值担心自己在军队撤离方面的记录，并面临着国会批评和要求解释两年前混乱的美国从阿富汗撤离事件。

一些人将其比作越南经历，特别是涉及支持20年军事任务但被拜登政府在2021年从阿富汗撤走时留下的阿富汗人命运。 view all

唐纳德·特朗普起诉前律师迈克尔·科恩索赔5亿美元。诉讼指控科恩试图从公开贬低前总统中获利。
 
唐纳德·特朗普于周三对迈克尔·科恩提起诉讼，指控他的前个人律师通过频繁的播客、书籍和媒体露面违反了他对前总统的职业义务。

该诉讼在佛罗里达州南区联邦法院提起，要求超过5亿美元的赔偿。诉讼声称，特朗普“因被告人的违约而遭受了巨大的名誉损害”。

诉讼称，从2006年开始，科恩担任特朗普的个人律师，并担任其公司——特朗普组织（Trump Organization） 的顾问。它指控科恩签署了一份协议，禁止他分享机密信息，包括有关特朗普组织商业事务方面的信息。即使在代表他之后，科恩也有向特朗普履行信托责任的义务。

这项诉讼指控科恩试图从公开贬低特朗普中获利。2020年, 科恩出版了《不忠：一个回忆录：唐纳德·J· 特朗普总统正式个人律师真实故事》(Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Formal Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump)。
 
 
特朗普先生表示，该书包含他与科恩先生互动的虚假描述，并披露了机密信息。

“他对法官撒谎。他对检察官撒谎。他欺骗了雇主。他欺骗了自己的律师，”特朗普先生的律师克里斯·基斯说。“所以在某个时候，有人需要让这个连续撒谎者承担责任。”

科恩先生的律师拉尼·戴维斯表示，前总统正在利用司法系统来骚扰和威胁他的客户。

“科恩先生不会被吓倒，并且相信根据事实和法律，诉讼将失败。”戴维斯说。“除了一小部分信仰者之外，在美国还有谁会认真对待特朗普提起这些无聊的诉讼？
 
诉讼加剧了特朗普先生和科恩之间已经紧张的关系。2018年，科恩承认犯有竞选资金罪和其他刑事指控，并告诉联邦法官，在2016年竞选期间，特朗普指示他购买两名声称与他有染的女性的沉默。特朗普否认这些事件。

上周，曼哈顿地区检察官阿尔文·布拉格公布了一项34项起诈骗商业记录的起诉书，指控特朗普支付封口费用并伪造商业记录。 特朗普表示不认罪。

科恩在州大陪审团前作证，并可能成为审判中的关键证人，在媒体露面时谈到了自己在此案中所扮演的角色。 view all

美国消费者通胀在三月份有所缓解，油价和食品价格的下降为那些已经忍受了近两年高涨物价压力的家庭提供了一些缓解。
 政府周三表示，消费者价格从二月到三月仅上涨了0.1％，较一月到二月的0.4％下降，并且是自去年12月以来最小的增长。

与去年同期相比，3月份物价仅上涨了5％，大幅下降自2月份6％的同比增长率，并且是近两年来最小的涨幅。许多商品价格下跌导致这种情况发生，例如汽油、二手车和家具等，在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后一年前曾飙升。

不过排除波动性较大的食品和能源成本后，所谓核心通胀率仍然高企。核心物价从二月到三月上涨了0.4％，并且在去年同期上涨了5.6％。美联储和许多私人经济学家认为核心物价更好地衡量潜在通货膨胀水平。3 月份同比数据首次在六个月内微升。

经济中广阔服务业（包括租金、餐厅用餐、理发和汽车保险等）中价格上涨使得核心通胀率目前保持高位。这种趋势被普遍预计将导致美联储在5月份会议上第十次加息。

不过，周三的报告中也有积极迹象表明通货膨胀压力正在降温。房租成本从二月到三月上涨了0.5％，仍然很高，但是这是一年来最小的增长率。杂货价格下跌了0.3％。这是2年半以来首次出现此类下降，并为饱受高昂食品成本困扰的美国人带来了喘息机会。
 
 
二手车价格曾是高通胀的早期推动因素，下降了0.9％，连续第九个月下降。汽油价格从二月到三月仅下降了4.6％，过去一年已经暴跌17％。

联邦官员预计，在明年加息一个季度点后 - 这将使其基准利率达到约5.1％，为16年来最高点 - 他们将暂停加息但保持关键利率升高至2023年。但官员们警告说，如果认为有必要抑制通货膨胀，则可能进一步提高利率。

当美联储通过收紧信贷以冷却经济和通货膨胀时，这通常会导致抵押贷款、汽车贷款、信用卡借款和许多商业贷款的利率上涨。风险在于不断增长的借贷利率可能会削弱经济甚至引发衰退。

周二，拥有190个成员国的国际货币基金组织警告称，在全球范围内持续高企的通货膨胀以及包括美联储在内的中央银行打击通货膨胀势头将很可能在今年和明年放缓全球经济增长。

即便如此，未来几个月通货膨胀压力有缓解的迹象。不幸的是，通货膨胀下降的一个原因是经济学家预计美国今年晚些时候增长将放缓，部分原因是银行业动荡可能导致银行限制贷款。

美联储一年来加息潮也开始冷却热门劳动力市场，最近数据显示公司发布职位较少，并且工资增长从历史上高水平开始放缓。

租金成本上涨是核心通货膨胀的最大推手，在未来几个月内很可能继续放缓。根据政府措施，过去一年租金已上涨约9％。

尽管如此，“公寓列表”跟踪新租赁变化的实时数据表明与一年前相比租金以2.6％的速度上涨。随着越来越多公寓以这种更小幅度调整重置，政府发布的通货膨胀数据应该会在未来几个月内呈现出温和增长。

美联储还专注于服务成本问题，其价格正在以历史性快速率上涨。中央银行的官员们表示，他们认为提高工资虽然对工人有好处，但也促成了这些价格上涨。

尽管如此，上周三月份的就业报告显示过去一年工资增长稳步放缓。企业发布的职位较少，并且美国人辞职以接受新的、大多数是更高薪水的工作数量正在下降。

一个更令人担忧的趋势是银行可能会急剧减少贷款以节省资金，在上个月两家大型银行倒闭后引发了美国和海外动荡。许多小型银行已经失去客户存款转向被视为太大而无法失败的全球巨头银行。 view all

国家公共广播电台在社交媒体平台Twitter上退出，此前该平台由埃隆·马斯克拥有的标记了NPR主账户，新闻机构表示这些标记旨在削弱其信誉。
 
NPR周三在一份声明中说: NPR的组织账户将不再在Twitter上活跃，因为该平台正在采取行动，通过错误地暗示我们缺乏编辑独立性来削弱我们的信誉。” 

上周，Twitter在社交媒体网站上将NPR的主要账户标记为“国家附属媒体”，这个标签也用于识别受到威权政府控制或严重影响的媒体机构。 Twitter后来将标签更改为“政府资助媒体”，并向至少一个其他公共新闻机构BBC提供了此类标签。
 
我们不会将新闻发布在已经表现出有意削弱我们信誉和公众对我们编辑独立性理解的平台上，” NPR 的声明说。

自4月4日以来，NPR 的主要账户没有发推文。周三，它发送了一系列推文，列出其他可以找到其新闻的地方。
 
 
该公司表示，NPR的记者、员工和会员电台可以自行决定是否继续使用该平台。

NPR的首席传媒官伊莎贝尔·拉拉在一封电子邮件中表示，“NPR的记者和员工将自行决定是否愿意留在该平台上，同样适用于独立拥有和运营的NPR会员电台。”

NPR确实通过联邦机构和部门以及公共广播公司获得美国政府资助。该公司表示，这占其年度运营预算不到1%。

Twitter新标签经常出现任意指定的情况。它在马斯克（Elon Musk）参与了关于NPR的公开对话后，给予了“国家附属”的标签，并删除了提到NPR但保留BBC的网页，在其中描述为什么他们不应该得到这个标签。

此后，它给予了 NPR、BBC 和其他一些组织一个“政府资助”的标签，但没有为许多其他公共媒体机构做同样的事情，比如加拿大和澳大利亚等国家/地区。

周二，在 Twitter 旧金山总部接受 BBC 技术记者采访时，马斯克承认英国新闻机构“对附属国家的标签并不满意”，并请记者提供反馈。

马斯克说：“我们的目标只是尽可能真实和准确。因此，我认为我们正在调整标签，将其改为‘公共资助’，这也许不会引起太多反感。我们试图做到准确。 view all

我们所知道的关于肯塔基州路易斯维尔银行枪击案



警方表示，一名持有步枪的男子在周一在他工作的银行开火，致使五名同事死亡，并在直播过程中打伤了另外八人。
 
 
警方表示，一名25岁男子在周一在肯塔基州路易斯维尔市中心的银行枪击并杀死了他工作的五名同事。另有八人受伤，其中两人伤势严重。枪手使用步枪进行袭击，并通过直播记录下来，在与警察交火后被警方击毙。

据警方称，枪手名为康纳·斯特金。根据他的领英页面显示，他是Old National Bank的“证券化副总裁和投资组合银行家”。警方没有透露动机。

包括拜登总统在内的几位国家政治人物周一发表声明谴责暴力，并敦促制定枪支立法。肯塔基州民主党州长安迪·贝西尔表示，这一天应该关注“已经离开我们身边的朋友和亲人”。

以下是我们所知道的内容。
 
警方接到报告称周一上午8:38在Old National Bank发生枪击事件，路易斯维尔市警察局代理局长Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel表示。“我们的警官在三分钟内赶到现场，”她说。“嫌疑人向警官开枪，我们进行了还击并制止了这一威胁。”

Old National的客户经理Troy Haste周一早上正在会议室里时听到了枪声，并告诉当地ABC附属机构：“我们听到了一个响声，我旁边的女士转过身来问：‘怎么回事？’”Haste先生说，“然后他就开始射击。他拿着一支长步枪，子弹开始乱飞。”据这名持枪者描述。

官员们表示，在持续交火中至少有两名警察受伤，而持枪者最终被击毙。

自2020年杀死布雷安娜·泰勒（Breonna Taylor）行动失败以来，路易斯维尔警方备受批评。就在上个月，《司法部报告》发布了90页的报告谴责该部门存在广泛滥用和不当行为。因此本次事件中路易斯维尔市民和政府对该市警察快速反应表示赞扬。
 
受害者是谁？

警方确认四名受害者为Old National Bank的员工：Joshua Barrick，40岁；Thomas Elliott，63岁；Juliana Farmer，45岁；和James Tutt，64岁。第五名受害者Deana Eckert，57岁，在LinkedIn页面上也在那里工作。根据警方的说法，她最初在枪击事件中幸存下来了，但于周一晚上去世。

截至周一，八名伤者中有两人病情危急、三人因非生命威胁性伤势留在路易斯维尔大学医院治疗、还有三人已经出院。

Nickolas Wilt（26岁）是其中一个重伤员，在3月31日刚从警察学院毕业。Wilt需要进行脑部手术。

Elliott先生是该银行的副总裁，并且根据他的LinkedIn个人资料显示他是知名民主党筹款人以及肯塔基州州长Beshear的好友。

“Tommy Elliott帮助我建立了我的律师事业, 帮助我成为州长, 给我关于做一个好父亲的建议,” Beshear先生在新闻发布会上说。“他是我最常交流的朋友之一, 我们很少谈论我的工作. 他是一个不可思议的朋友。”

Beshear先生下令全州降半旗以纪念受害者，直到周五晚上。
 
谁是枪手？

斯特金先生是一名“综合银行家和投资组合银行家”，在区域性银行Old National工作。他曾在那里实习过几个夏天，全职工作了近两年。

Gwinn-Villaroel警长表示，她不知道枪手是否与警方有任何先前的接触。除了说这是“悲惨的事情被记录下来”之外，她没有透露关于他直播大规模枪击事件的更多细节。

我们对该银行了解多少？

发生枪击事件的Old National Bank分支机构与路易斯维尔芭蕾舞团共享一个街区，并位于小联盟Louisville Bats比赛场地路易斯维尔棒球拍场（Louisville Slugger Field）对面。周围市中心地区靠近俄亥俄河，充满公寓和办公楼。

贝西尔州长表示，他在该建筑物内进行2015年竞选州检察官活动时认识“几乎所有人”。 “那是我的银行，”他说。
 
 
 
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首个宗教特许学校可能要来到俄克拉荷马州。如果获得批准，这所在线天主教学校将由纳税人的钱资助，可能会引发一场备受关注的法律斗争。
 俄克拉荷马州教育委员会可能最早在周二投票，决定是否批准全国首个宗教特许学校，这可能引发一场备受关注的全国性法律争斗，争议焦点是纳税人的钱是否可以直接用于资助宗教学校。



俄克拉荷马城罗马天主教总教区和塔尔萨总教区正在寻求批准圣依西多福·塞维利亚天主教虚拟学校（St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School），这是一个在线课程计划，旨在为该州主要农村地区的学生提供服务，在当地公立学校之外没有其他选择。

该学校组织者正在寻求作为特许学校的授权，特许学校是一种由纳税人支付但独立运营和管理的公立学校。尽管少数特许学校可能与宗教组织有所关联，但圣依西多福将成为第一个明确以其课程和运营方式具有宗教色彩的特许学校。

圣依西多福申请得到了俄克拉荷马州共和党籍州长凯文·斯蒂特（Kevin Stitt）的支持，他认为排除宗教特许学校是违反第一修正案禁止宗教歧视的行为。

随着保守派大法官如今主导最高法院，圣依西多福的组织者希望这所特许学校能成为更广泛运动中下一个允许政府资金用于宗教学校的步骤。在美国，约有7% 的公立学校学生就读于特许学校。

代表天主教会处理政策问题并提出该提议的俄克拉荷马州天主教会议（Catholic Conference of Oklahoma）执行董事布雷特·法利（Brett Farley）表示：“我们正在努力激发法院对这个问题进行审查，并给我们一个最终答案。”

很多由共和党领导的州越来越推动家庭有权使用纳税人资金进行私人教育，包括普及性学区券制度，在过去一年已经在五个州得到批准。而且，在最近一系列裁决中，现在拥有6比3保守派多数席位的最高法院已经暗示其支持将纳税人资金用于宗教学校，同时也支持宗教在公共生活中的作用。

在2020年和2022年的关键案件中，最高法院裁定蒙大拿州和缅因州不能将宗教学校排除在允许家长使用政府资助奖学金或学费计划送子女上私立学校的州级计划之外。在这两个案例中，首席大法官约翰·G·罗伯茨（John G. Roberts Jr.）写道，这些裁决并不要求各州支持宗教教育，但如果一个州选择资助任何私立学校，则不得歧视宗教性质的私立学校。
 
洛瑞·艾伦·沃克（Lori Allen Walke）是位于俄克拉荷马城的基督教普世联合会五月花公理会教堂（Mayflower Congregational UCC Church）的高级牧师，她认为宗教特许学校的想法侵犯了宗教自由，这种自由“保护我们选择信仰和不信仰任何其他人所选择的信仰”的权利。
 
沃克女士与美国教会和国家分离组织合作，这是一个法律倡导团体。她对圣伊西多尔学校的申请感到震惊，该申请将天主教学校描述为参与“教会的传福音使命”。

她说：“他们非常透明地表达了他们在那里试图做什么。”

特许学校代表了一种混合型、不断增长的教育模式。像普通公立学校一样，它们由纳税人资助，并且不收取学费。但是，与传统学校不同的是，它们没有特定社区划分，在管理上独立，并经常设计用于创新和灵活性。例如，它们可能有更长的上课时间或以某个主题为中心。

据联邦数据显示，在2009年至2019年间入读特许学校的美国学生数量翻了一番以上。俄克拉荷马州约有60所特许学校，包括几所虚拟学校。

全国范围内推广特许制度曾经引起过激烈争议, 因为这些孩子被转移到其他社区公立或私立机构后, 也带走了他们的资金。与此同时，特许学校在寻求替代失败的公立学校时，往往受到黑人和拉丁裔家长的欢迎，并被一些民主党人视为共和党支持的纳税人资助凭证的替代品。

圣母大学法学教授尼古拉·斯泰尔·加内特(Nicole Stelle Garnett) 曾经为宗教特许制度辩护并向圣伊西多尔组织者提供了建议。她说，“潜在问题”是特许制度是否是“国家行动者”或“私营行动者”，尽管它们是公共资助机构。

她问道：“他们真正是政府代理商还是更像政府承包商？”并使用洛克希德马丁公司作为例子，这是一家为美国军方承包业务的私营企业。

如果他们是私营行动者，则有空间明确表达其宗教信仰，加内特女士表示。

但特许学校运动认为自己完全处于公共教育领域中, 国家公立、私立及其他类型都应该遵循相同要求, 如雇用员工以及接收无论宗教背景或性别认同的学生。她担心，如果宗教特许制度获得批准，这些保护措施将会消失。

法律问题——特许学校是“国家行动者”还是“私营行动者”——对来自北卡罗来纳州的另一起案件至关重要，最高法院正在权衡是否接手此案。

康涅狄格大学教育法专家普雷斯顿·格林(Preston Green)认为，如果这个问题被提交到最高法院, 他相信该法院的保守派多数可能会支持特许学校作为“私营行动者”，从而打开允许宗教特许制度存在的大门。
 
我们正在将俄克拉荷马州天主教学校一百多年来的做法搬到网上，以便将这些内容带给农村地区的人们，”俄克拉荷马州天主教会议的法利先生说道。他认为，虽然该提案代表了“创新”，但它“并不是特别异常”。

他说：“我们在许多方面都这样做。我们有医疗补助金流向天主教医院。我们有联邦紧急管理局（FEMA）的援助资金流向天主教慈善机构。”

当被问及是否接受LGBTQ学生或员工时，法利先生表示无法对假设情况发表评论。他表示，学校打算遵守州规定，并保持其按照宗教信仰运作的权利。

尽管批准宗教特许学校将为各种宗教——例如犹太和穆斯林特许学校——开辟大门，但美国分离政 church 和 state 的组织Americans United for Separation of Church and State 的总裁兼首席执行官Rachel Laser 表示担心俄克拉何马州此举“为政府支持多数派宗教铺平了道路”。

近几十年来，整个国家变得更加世俗化。

现在，在美国，认为自己没有宗教信仰的人比天主教徒还要多。根据皮尤研究中心2014年的一项调查，在俄克拉荷马州，天主教徒占人口的比例仅为8％，不到全国数字的一半。

提议成立天主教特许学校引发了俄克拉何马州高层共和党人之间的争论。今年新任命的司法部长与前任意见不同，认为有足够法律先例支持宗教特许学校——而斯蒂特州长最终发表了一封措辞强硬支持宗教特许学校和圣伊西多尔申请书的信件。

考虑该申请书的俄克拉何马州全州虚拟特许学校委员会包括由州长和共和党控制下的州立法机构领导任命的成员。 view all

拜登政府周一正式确定，被指控从事间谍活动的《华尔街日报》记者在俄罗斯被“错误拘留”。

这一认定将埃文·格什科维奇案件提升到美国政府层面，并意味着一个专门的国务院办公室将主导争取他的释放。

国务卿安东尼·布林肯周一宣布了这一决定，表示他谴责逮捕行为和俄罗斯对独立媒体的镇压。

该部门在声明中说：“今天，布林肯国务卿做出了判断，认为埃文·格什科维奇被俄罗斯错误拘留。新闻不是犯罪。我们谴责克里姆林宫持续打压俄罗斯独立声音以及其对真相进行的持续战争。”

俄方于3月29日在第四大城市叶卡捷琳堡逮捕了31岁的格什科维奇。他是自冷战以来首位因涉嫌间谍活动而被扣押的美国记者。
 
 
国务院表示，美国政府将为格什科维奇及其家人提供所有适当的支持，并再次呼吁俄罗斯释放他以及另一名被拘留的美国公民保罗·威兰。

布林肯周一发表声明是自俄罗斯新闻机构上周五报道格什科维奇被控间谍活动并正式否认以来的首次公开评论。

塔斯社和Interfax通讯社称，执法部门消息人士告诉他们联邦安全局（FSB）已经正式起诉这位美国记者。

这些新闻机构没有说格什科维奇是如何被正式起诉或者何时被起诉的，但通常犯罪嫌疑人会收到一份概述指控内容的文件。

在俄罗斯法律体系中，提出指控和被告方回应代表着刑事调查正式开始了，引发了可能漫长而神秘的俄罗斯司法程序。

塔斯援引消息来源称：“联邦安全局调查指控格什科维奇从事间谍活动。他坚决否认所有指控，并表示自己在俄罗斯从事新闻工作。”

由于此案被视为机密，该消息来源拒绝进一步评论。

这起案件引发了国际上的轩然大波，上周四，美国驻俄罗斯大使和一名高级俄罗斯外交官会晤讨论了这起案件。

在与美国大使林恩·特雷西会面时，俄罗斯副外长谢尔盖·里亚布科夫强调了对格什科维奇“指控的严重性”，俄罗斯外交部表示。

声明重申了早先的俄方说法，即记者“在试图获取秘密信息时被当场抓获，并利用其新闻工作者身份作为非法行动的掩护。
 
格什科维奇在俄罗斯被下令接受调查并被拘留两个月。莫斯科法院表示已收到其辩护律师对其逮捕的上诉，据俄罗斯新闻机构报道，该上诉将于4月18日进行听证。
 
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上周,在纳什维尔市政府投票后，被田纳西州众议院开除的两名黑人民主党人之一直接回归到立法机构，成为该州共和党领导下众议院中唯一一个被重新任命的议员。纳什维尔都会理事会一致通过了这项决定，让贾斯汀·琼斯代表他的选区重返职位，而共和党则在四天前剥夺了他的席位。琼斯在获得决定后不久开始向国会大厦进发。
 


由于两名议员在校园枪击事件后参与了针对枪支管制的抗议活动，因此共和党将其驱逐出境。另外一名议员贾斯汀·皮尔森可能会在星期三举行的谢尔比县委员会上重新任命。

上周四的开除使田纳西州成为美国民主未来争夺战中新的战场，并将这些被驱逐出境的立法者推向全国舞台。

琼斯是临时任命，在未来几个月内将进行特别选举。琼斯和皮尔森表示计划参加特别选举。
 
 
罗莎琳·丹尼尔提前到达并排队等候进入议会大厅。她说自己不属于琼斯的选区，但是作为纳什维尔市民和关心公民，她非常担忧。

“我在阿拉巴马州伯明翰长大，在民权运动期间生活过，所以我知道这有多么重要。” 她说。

共和党众议院发言人卡梅隆·塞克斯顿的发言人道格·库夫纳表示，由纳什维尔和谢尔比县政府任命的空缺职位将按宪法规定被填补。

众议院多数党领袖威廉·兰伯特和共和党核心小组主席杰里米·费森表示，如果这些被开除的议员恢复原职，则欢迎他们回来。

“田纳西州宪法为开除提供了一条回归之路。” 他们在一份声明中说：“如果任何被开除的成员重新任命，则我们将欢迎他们。像其他人一样，他们必须遵守众议院规则以及国家法律。”

琼斯和皮尔逊很快得到了支持者。总统乔·拜登与他们交谈，副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在纳什维尔拜访了他们。被开除的议员已经组建了自己的法律团队。曾任奥巴马前总统政府司法部长的埃里克·霍尔德现在代表琼斯。

“全世界都在关注田纳西州。”琼斯和皮尔逊的律师周一写信给塞克斯顿说。“任何针对选定官员的党派报复行动，或威胁或采取扣留政府计划资金等行动，都将构成进一步违宪行为，并需要得到补救。”

第三位被开除目标是来自诺克斯维尔的众议员格洛丽亚·约翰逊，也引起了国家关注。

当这三人与数百名示威者一起聚集在国会大厦要求通过枪支管制措施时，政治紧张局势加剧。

随着抗议者填满观众席，这些立法者走近众议院会场前面并参加了一个口号喊叫活动。此事发生于私立基督教学校Covenant School枪击案发生几天后，该事件造成6人死亡，其中包括3名儿童。
 
 
约翰逊还暗示种族可能是琼斯和皮尔森被驱逐而她没有的原因。她告诉记者：“这可能与我们肤色有关。”

共和党领导人表示，这些驱逐行动——自内战以来仅使用了几次的机制——与种族无关，而是必要的，以避免设立议员通过抗议干扰众议院会议将被容忍的先例。

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纽约市提供免费学前教育，为什么有3万个名额空缺？

疫情影响了学前和三年级的入学率。现在，一些人认为该市应加大努力吸引新生儿童入读。
 
 
自从上个月从厄瓜多尔来到纽约以来，格洛丽亚·克鲁兹一直在皇后区广场地铁站附近卖糖果，她的3岁女儿梅琳一直陪伴在她身边。

克鲁兹女士的侄女告诉她有一个学前教育选项可以让梅琳有一个地方去，而她自己也可以继续工作：这是市政府为3岁儿童提供的免费计划，无论移民身份如何都可参加。但是，克鲁兹女士担心没有梅琳的合法文件就报名入学，并最终选择不送孩子去上学。

“现在，她只是和我一起早上走路而已。”38岁的克鲁兹女士用西班牙语说道。
 
当纽约市在2014年开始为四岁儿童推出普及学前教育计划时，这是很难不注意到的。

外展工作者每周六天在理发店和洗衣房里分布。他们在500个社区活动中宣传该计划。他们打电话给13万个家庭，以解决他们可能对学前教育有的疑虑。他们下午去公共住房综合体逐户拜访，并在无家可归者收容所举办流动集会。

为了建立在学前教育成功基础上，该市于2017年扩大了目标，旨在将此倡议扩展到3岁儿童，并从少数几个社区开始实施。

几年后，在大流行病摧毁幼儿园和学前班的情况下，导致日托服务提供商和幼儿园大量关闭之后，家庭变得渴望获得负担得起的儿童看护服务。现在城市已经有足够多：近130,000个三至四岁免费或低价位幼稚园席位。

但其中近30,000个席位仍然空着。亚当斯市长政府搁置了进一步扩大3岁儿童计划的计划，削减了567万美元的预算，并认为前任政府更关注数字而非需求。

空缺席位的一个原因可能是城市儿童数量下降。但当选官员和学前教育领导人表示，如果官员们加强努力寻找并鼓励像Maylin这样的孩子家长申请，则差距将不会那么明显。
 
 
从某些方面来看，该计划的入学情况看起来很有前途：超过42,000名纽约市儿童已经申请参加即将到来的三年级K课程。这是历史最高水平，部分原因是该市自开始以来已经显着扩展了3-K项目。尽管如此，即使每个申请者都被提供了位置，仍然有四分之一左右的席位将无人报名。
 
只有54,000名4岁儿童申请了学前教育，略微增加了去年的人数，但仍远低于疫情前的报名人数，当时约为70,000人。

早期儿童倡导者表示，如果更多家庭知道学前教育的好处并且没有面临入学障碍，则可能会有更多家庭注册。

他们说需要另一次像第一次成功推广活动那样的密集推广活动来填补更多席位。否则，这些计划的核心任务——服务最需要高质量早期儿童教育受益的高需求家庭——可能会受到影响。

数据显示，在空缺席位率最高的几个地区都是该市最贫困地区之一，包括布朗斯维尔、东哈莱姆和西南布朗克斯等几个社区。

自疫情爆发以来，在无家可归者中生活的4岁孩子参加学前教育的比例已经下降：从近三分之二降至约50％。

在该市教育部门内部，一个由四十几名工作人员组成的幼儿园外展小组近年来规模缩小，并将剩余的工作人员并入其他团队，两名现任雇员表示。

教育官员表示，他们已向约100,000个家庭发送了电话和电子邮件提醒以及有针对性的信息，并直接致电近7,600名父母。

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但该部门不再频繁进行实地走访。

“我觉得我们在外展方面失败了，”代表布鲁克林北部某些地区的市议员林肯·雷斯特勒（Lincoln Restler）说。“如果我们没有吸引移民家庭、边缘化社群并将其纳入其中，”他说，“我们将继续无法达到所需的最大招生人数。 view all

自从洛杉矶市议会成员发表种族主义言论并抱怨同事的泄露录音公开后已经过去了大约六个月，这给亚裔美国人提供了一个罕见的、未经过滤的机会来观察他们的政治家如何争夺权力。而他们不喜欢自己所看到的。

在这段秘密录音被首次报道于《洛杉矶时报》之后，活动人士和政治家要求辞职的有市议会主席、两名市议员和一位出现在录音中且都是拉丁裔工会领袖。

其中两人——工会领袖Ron Herrera和当时担任市议会主席Nury Martinez——屈服了。另外两名出现在录音中的市议员中，Gil Cedillo已经输掉连任竞选，而Kevin de León则在骚乱抗议面前保住了自己的席位。

本周，那场丑闻达到了一种不安定局面，并没有伴随着城市官员承诺从混乱中产生实质性变化。

试图罢免de León失败了，无法收集足够签名进入投票环节。（他已经回归正常工作状态。）周二，超过118,000名有资格选民中只有略多于9,000人投票，以填补Martinez的席位直到明年任期结束。她的缺席使得圣费尔南多谷地区大片地区没有代表。
 
从七名候选人中，其中几位得到了现任议会成员的支持，社区组织者Imelda Padilla以约26％的选票获胜。她将在6月份的决选中面对第二名候选人Marisa Alcaraz - 她是南洛杉矶地区代表Curren Price的顾问。

即使当时，围绕录音的争吵也只是城市中众多争议之一。还有2021年10月起诉洛杉矶最著名黑人政治家之一和Eric Garcetti长期徘徊于担任美国第二大城市市长和美国驻印度大使之间等问题。
 
最近几个月，这些戏剧以类似的紧张方式结束。

上个月，加西亚蒂被确认成为印度大使，这一提名已经有两年之久。他曾是拜登总统的重要政治盟友。任命被拖延是因为人们对加西亚蒂处理高级助手性骚扰指控的能力表示担忧。

这场漫长的事件给本来就充满分歧的市长任期增添了不适感，而政策专家则对美国在没有外交官促进该国最重要外交关系之一方面花费了多长时间感到遗憾。 view all

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中国承诺对台湾进行报复，此前美国众议院议长与该岛总统会晤。周四表示，美国正在走“错误和危险的道路”。

众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡于周三接待了台湾领导人蔡英文，并邀请了十多名跨党派的美国议员，以显示对这个自治岛屿的支持。中国声称该岛属于其领土范围内。
 
 
拜登政府坚称蔡英文的访问没有任何挑衅性，这是她第六次访问美国。然而，此时中美关系已降至历史低点，美国对台湾的支持是两个大国之间主要分歧之一。

但会议的正式形式和来自国会代表团中某些民选官员的高级别可能导致中国将其视为升级。自1979年美国与台湾断交以来，在美国境内未知有哪位演讲者曾与台湾总统会面。

北京方面在早上发布了一份外交部声明，回应了这次会晤，并表示将采取“果断有力措施捍卫国家主权和领土完整”。

它敦促美方“不要走得更远、更危险。”

去年12月，在表达对于U.S.年度防御开支法案中涉及台湾条款感到愤怒后，中国军队向台湾派出71架飞机和7艘船只进行24小时展示性力量行动。近年来，中国对台军事压力战略加剧，并且共产党几乎每天都向该岛屿派遣飞机或船只。

但截至周四下午，并没有明显的大规模军事反应。

“我们将采取果断措施惩罚‘台独’分裂势力及其行径，坚决维护我国主权和领土完整。”中国台湾事务办公室在周四发表的一份声明中称，蔡英文及其政党为分裂主义者。

据报道，中国船只正在台湾海峡进行联合巡逻和检查三天。福建海事局表示，其船“海巡06”将在运河水域内检查货船等。

台湾国防部周三晚间表示已追踪到中国山东号航母通过巴士海峡东南方向。周四早上，它又追踪到三艘解放军海军舰艇和一架战机在该岛屿附近地区活动。

过去一年来美国国会对台访问频率增加，并且美国驻台协会（AIT）于周四宣布另一个代表团的到来。德克萨斯州众议院外交委员会主席麦考尔率领其他8名议员进行为期3天的访问以讨论区域安全与贸易问题。

在他们周三的会面中，蔡英文和麦卡锡小心翼翼地避免不必要的加剧与北京的紧张关系。两人在加利福尼亚州罗纳德·里根总统图书馆并肩站立，承认了中国对该岛屿政府的威胁。
 
麦卡锡在新闻发布会上表示：“美国对台湾人民的支持将保持坚定、不动摇和两党一致。”他还说，美台关系比他生命中的任何时候都更加紧密。

蔡英文表示，“不动摇的支持让台湾人民放心，我们并没有孤立。”

蔡英文说她和麦卡锡谈到了维护自卫能力、促进强有力的贸易和经济联系以及支持岛内政府参与国际社会等重要问题。

但她也警告道：“毫无疑问，今天我们所维护的和努力建设起来的和平与民主正面临前所未有的挑战。”

“我们再次发现自己处于一个民主受到威胁、必须保持自由之灯火焕发光芒迫切需要注意”的世界中，她说。

麦考尔在抵达台湾后表态较为直接。

“我认为通过来这里向中国共产党发送信号：美国支持台湾，并且我们将加强对台防御。我们希望他们三思而行，不要入侵台湾。” 他告诉记者。

该团队计划于周六与蔡英文会面，并将讨论向台湾提供武器装备的问题，其中很多已经被推迟了。

美国于1979年中断与台湾的官方关系，并正式与北京政府建立外交关系。作为承认中国的一部分，美国同意“一个中国”政策，即承认北京对台湾拥有主权，但不支持中国的主张。美国仍然是台湾军事和防御援助的主要提供者。

华盛顿还采取战略模糊政策，在这种政策下，它并没有明确表示在与中国发生冲突时是否会帮助台湾。
 
 在台湾，蔡英文的访问并没有引起太大轰动，尽管其他政治家非常关注。

被认为有总统抱负的前台北市长柯文哲表示，他欢迎台湾与国际领导人之间的任何交流。

“台湾希望在全球范围内拥有更大的运作空间，而大陆不应因此感到慌乱。”柯文哲在Facebook上说。“它应该展示一个文明国家的态度，并停止通过军事力量进行压制。”

反对党国民党议员江啟臣表示，据当地媒体报道称，蔡英文与麦卡锡会面符合“一个中国”政策的限制条件。这表明虽然美国国会相对自由支持台湾，但白宫受到更多限制。

今年8月份时任众议院议长南希·佩洛西前往台湾会见了蔡英文。中国回应是数十年来最大规模实弹演习之一，并向岛屿发射了一枚导弹。

1949年内战结束后，台湾和中国分裂开来，并没有正式关系。但两者通过数十亿美元的贸易和投资联系在一起。 view all

白宫新闻秘书Karine Jean-Pierre和国家安全委员会发言人John Kirby将于周四举行新闻发布会，此前中国在众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡与台湾总统蔡英文会面后承诺采取“有力”措施。



众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡周三接待了台湾总统蔡英文，并邀请了十多名美国立法者组成的跨党派代表团，以显示对这个自治岛屿的支持。中国声称该岛屿为其领土之一。

拜登政府坚称，蔡英文此次访问并不具有挑衅性，这是她第六次访问美国。然而，在中美关系降至历史低点、美国对台湾的支持成为两个大国分歧之一之际，此次会晤仍可能被视为一种升级。自1979年美国与台湾断交以来，没有任何演讲者曾经在美国本土与台湾总统见面。

作为回应，北京方面早间通过外交部发表声明表示将采取“果断有力”的措施捍卫民族主权和领土完整。它敦促美国“不要走得更远，走上错误和危险的道路”。

去年12月，在美国一项年度国防开支法案中涉及台湾问题条款后，中国军方向台湾派出了71架飞机和7艘船只进行24小时的展示性力量行动并表达了愤怒情绪。近年来，中国对台湾的军事压力战略加剧，并且共产党几乎每天都会向该岛屿派遣飞机或船只。

但是到周四下午为止，没有明显的大规模军事反应迹象。

“我们将采取果断措施惩罚‘台独’分裂势力及其行径，并坚定维护我国主权和领土完整。” 中国台湾事务办公室在周四发表声明时称，蔡英文及其政党是分裂主义者。

据报道，中国船只正在台湾海峡进行联合巡逻和检查三天。福建省海事局表示，其船Haixun 06将在运河水域内检查货轮等其他船只作为此次行动的一部分。

台湾国防部周三晚间表示已经跟踪到中国山东航母通过巴士海峡东南方向，周四早上又在该岛附近的区域跟踪到三艘中国人民解放军海军舰艇和一架战机。
 
美国国会对台访问在过去一年中频繁增加，美国驻台协会（AIT）周四宣布另一批代表团的到来。德克萨斯州众议院外交事务委员会主席迈克尔·麦考尔率领其他8名议员进行为期三天的访问，讨论地区安全和贸易问题。

在他们周三的会晤中，蔡英文和麦卡锡小心谨慎地避免不必要地升级与北京之间的紧张关系。两人站在加利福尼亚州罗纳德·里根总统图书馆旁边，并承认中国对该岛政府的威胁。

“美国对台湾人民的支持将保持坚定、不动摇和跨越两党”，麦卡锡后来在新闻发布会上说。他还表示，美台关系比他生命中任何时候都更强大。

蔡英文表示，“坚定不移的支持使台湾人民放心我们并没有孤立。”

蔡英文说她和麦卡锡谈到了维护自我防御、促进强有力贸易经济联系以及支持该岛政府参与国际社会的重要性。

但她也警告说，“毫无疑问，今天我们维护的和我们努力建设的民主与和平正面临前所未有的挑战。 view all

中国周四宣布将采取“强有力的措施”应对台湾领导人蔡英文与美国众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡在加利福尼亚州会晤，此时一艘中国航母正在台湾附近航行，使得该岛的军方处于戒备状态。

同时，据台湾国防部消息称，美国“尼米兹”号航空母舰正在台湾东部海域航行，距离该岛740公里（400海里）。

一名台湾军事分析师表示，“‘尼米兹’号可能协助台湾在最坏情况下监视和防止中国的军事行动。”

蔡英文在美国停留期间与麦卡锡会面引发了多个中国主要机构的抗议，包括国防部、外交部、全国人民代表大会和共产党中央办公厅。来自台湾主要军事智库INDSR的沈明世告诉自由亚洲电台。

中国外交部发言人在周四发布的声明中谴责了这次“高调”的会晤以及蔡英文在美停留期间所做出的任何活动。

声明称：“这本质上是美国与台湾共同纵容‘台独’分裂主义者在美国进行政治活动，严重侵犯了中国的主权和领土完整。”

声明指责美国“越过界限，挑衅性地”对待中国。

它说：“这使得两岸关系陷入严重困境。”

外交部重申，“台湾问题是中国核心利益的核心，也是中美关系中不可逾越的第一道红线。”

“中国将采取强有力的措施捍卫我们的主权和领土完整。” 它警告。
 
在蔡英文和麦卡锡会面前的那一周，没有观察到中国在台湾附近的军事活动增加，因此台湾国家安全局长蔡明彦预测，“政府预计北京方面的反应不会像麦卡锡的前任南希·佩洛西去年8月访问台湾时那样严厉”。

然而，在周三蔡英文与麦卡锡在洛杉矶外会晤时，台湾国防部报告称，中国山东航母编队“通过巴士海峡进入了台湾东南部水域”。

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日本防卫省在周四发布的声明中确认，包括库兹涅佐夫级航空母舰山东、张凯II级护卫舰和扶余级快速战斗支援舰在内的三艘中国海军舰艇被发现正在西太平洋航行。

声明说这是山东首次驶入太平洋。中国媒体也表示，这是山东首次进行西太平洋演习，其常规作战区域为南海。

随同声明发布的一张中国航母图片显示甲板上有大量战机，包括J-15多用途战斗机、Z-18运输直升机和至少一架Z-9侦察直升机。

台湾国防部长邱国正告诉立法委员，截至周四上午，中国航母距离台湾南部屏东县200海里（370公里）。

邱说，舰载飞机应该会进行一些飞行训练，“但目前没有飞机起降”。他表示不能排除这艘航母正在为军事演习做准备。

“山东当前任务的主要目的之一是向台湾和美国发出警告”，国家安全与防御研究所代理执行长沈明仕说。

沈说：“当蔡英文总统的专机从洛杉矶飞往台湾时，中国航母可能会故意接近这条路线。”他补充道，在他看来，“这只是恐吓而不是实际攻击”。

分析人士对自由亚洲电台表示，台湾和美军已经为可能发生的事件做好了准备。
 
邱部长表示，台湾军方正在密切监视局势，并已派遣飞机、海军舰艇和陆基导弹系统做出相应反应。

几艘台湾海军护卫舰目前距离山东仅有10公里。

邱部长还说，美国“尼米兹”号航空母舰目前位于台湾以东400海里（740公里）处。

虽然他无法确认“尼米兹”号是否为了对付山东而来到这里，但鉴于当前的情况，“存在联系”。

这艘核动力航空母舰刚参加了4月3日至4日在中国东海与日本和韩国海军进行的三边海上演习。

美国海军在一份声明中表示：“‘尼米兹’号打击群的舰只目前正在美国第七舰队地区执行任务”，该地区覆盖大部分印度-太平洋地区。 view all

司法部已经与26名在2017年德克萨斯州一座教堂的大规模枪击案中遇害者家属达成了1.445亿美元的和解协议，此前政府声称其未能更新全国枪支背景调查系统并不承担责任，在激烈的法律争夺之后。

负责民事诉讼部门的副检察长Vanita Gupta已经签署了这项协议，该协议是与代表受害者家属和幸存者的律师谈判达成的。当时他们聚集在圣安东尼奥外苏瑟兰泉第一浸信会教堂进行周日礼拜。

这项和解是同类事件中最大规模之一，超过了先前司法部为防止大规模枪击而未采取措施所导致的其他赔偿金额。近年来，司法部向2018年佛罗里达州帕克兰学校枪击案受害者支付了1.275亿美元，并向2015年南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿教堂枪击案死伤者家属支付8800万美元。

2022年2月，在圣安东尼奥联邦地区法院Xavier Rodriguez法官的裁决中，空军官员未能提交关键记录，这些记录本应防止嫌疑人从持牌枪支经销商处获得他在袭击中使用的半自动步枪。这些文件包括一个由军事法庭判定的家庭暴力罪名。

但数月的谈判未能达成协议。去年晚些时候，在与遇难者和受伤者家属律师进行调解后，政府退出了谈判并上诉该裁决。这激怒了家属、律师和控制枪支组织，他们认为此案是拜登政府承担保护公众免于大规模枪击责任承诺的重要考验。
 
今年1月，司法部采取了非同寻常的措施，对罗德里格斯法官裁定向受害家庭支付2.3亿美元提出上诉。当时民事诉讼部门负责人布赖恩·M·博因顿承认，“毫无争议的是，美国空军人员未能向全国即时犯罪背景调查系统传递”有关凶手德文·帕特里克·凯利（Devin Patrick Kelley）26岁在第一浸信会教堂开枪事件中的重要信息。

“萨瑟兰泉家庭是英雄，”家属代表律师贾迈勒·K·阿尔萨法尔周三表示。“他们以最可怕的方式经历了如此多的痛苦和损失。但尽管如此，这些家庭为正义而战，在联邦政府面前进行了两次审判。”

据该部门发言人称，这些和解将解决75多名原告提出的索赔。虽然双方都预计法官会签字批准和解协议，但仍需等待其最终批准。

“没有任何语言或金钱可以削弱萨瑟兰泉大规模枪击案的巨大悲剧，”古普塔女士说。“今天的宣布结束了诉讼，为这起难以想象的罪行的受害者画上了一个痛苦的句号。”


凯利在袭击事件后死亡，在2012年因殴打妻子和孩子而被军事法庭判处12个月监禁，并获得“不良记录”的开除军籍处分，根据联邦法律规定，这应该防止他购买枪支或弹药。

空军后来承认官员未能将定罪入库到用于进行犯罪背景调查的联邦数据库中。

罗德里格斯法官命令空军向受害者支付损害赔偿金，以补偿其所遭受的“疼痛和折磨、精神困扰、毁容、伤残和失去伴侣”。 view all

彭斯一名助手周三表示：前副总统迈克·彭斯不会上诉联邦法官的裁决，该裁决强制他在一个大陪审团面前作证，调查前总统唐纳德·特朗普在2020年选举后阻挠权力交接。

彭斯先生的决定可能为潜在重要证言铺平道路，而联邦检察官长期以来一直在探索特朗普试图留任的行动。目前尚不清楚特朗普的律师是否也会上诉法官的裁决，他们曾经试图限制彭斯作证。
 
在一份声明中，彭斯的顾问德文·奥马利指出，彭斯成功地争辩说他的证言应该受到限制，因为作为2021年1月6日参议院主席，根据宪法的“发言或辩论”条款，在行政部门（包括司法部）的保护下免于法律审查。这项规定旨在保护权力分立。

奥马利先生表示：“法庭做出了具有里程碑意义和历史性质的裁决，首次确认‘发言或辩论’条款适用于美国副总统。” “在维护宪法原则之后，副总统彭斯不会上诉法官的判决，并将按照法律要求遵从传票。”

然而，在华盛顿联邦地区法院上个月闭门听取“发言或辩论”争议时听取此案件的詹姆斯·E·博阿斯伯格（James E. Boasberg） 法官在他所做出的裁决中表示：尽管如此，如果特朗普在1月6日或前几天犯有任何潜在非法行为，则仍需让彭斯作证。
 
如果彭斯先生最终作证，这将标志着特朗普先生和几位与他亲近的证人在数月来进行的幕后战斗中的一个转折点，以阻止透露有关推翻选举计划的详细信息。前总统的律师经常试图通过行政特权主张限制重要证人作证，并一再失败。

周二，华盛顿联邦上诉法院拒绝了特朗普先生法律团队紧急请求停止大陪审团听取其他高级助手作证（包括其前幕僚长马克·梅多斯和梅多斯副手丹·斯卡维诺）。彭斯先生的两名首席助手马克·肖特和格雷格·雅各布去年被法官命令在大陪审团面前作证，而特朗普白宫内部两名高级律师派特里克·西波隆尼和帕特里克·菲尔宾也是如此。

随着选择越来越少，一些最近失去试图主张豁免权以避免回答问题的见证人可能会采取另一种方式并声称他们对自我指控的第五修正案权利，据知情人士透露。

彭斯先生一直是特朗普选举调查中潜在重要的证人，因为他参与了发生在国会山攻击前几周白宫内部的谈话。在那段时间里，特朗普多次敦促他使用自己作为主持选举团体计票认证仪式的礼仪角色来阻止或延迟对其失败结果的认证。
 
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拜登政府批准了一项耗资80亿美元的项目，在阿拉斯加国家石油储备中钻探石油，这是全国最大的未开发野生地区。但石油巨头康菲石油公司已经开始行动，集结设备并飞来工人和物资到这个位于北极圈以上250英里处的广袤冰原平原。

在Nuiqsut村庄（约500人）和钻探项目现场最近的城镇，唯一的酒店已经客满。它是Kuukpik酒店，由金属拖车组成，并提供作为该镇唯一餐厅——实际上也是数百英里内唯一一个餐厅——服务的自助餐厅。在最近一个星期三（Kuukpik牛排之夜），来自加利福尼亚、俄克拉荷马州和其他阿拉斯加州地区的石油工人表示他们对“柳树”计划所承诺多年就业机会感到兴奋，“我可能可以靠它退休”，其中一名男子说。
 


这种繁荣城市的心态与偏远地区形成了鲜明对比。人们在Nuiqsut的一间邮局里停留聊天，然后匆忙回到他们的皮卡车上以避免被呼啸而过的冰风吹打。为了娱乐，青少年们驾着雪地摩托沿着空旷的街道行驶，拖着绑在他们身后的滑雪板小孩。镇长前往小机场接收每天从Deadhorse运来药品和物资的6座位飞机。

尽管科学家警告国家必须停止批准新石油和天然气钻探项目，否则将面临一个危险加剧、气候异常变暖未来，但参与柳树计划的人都渴望开始工作。

康菲石油公司高管正在建立一个可持续发展数代人使用，并可能考虑在稍后时间内进一步扩大储备内部规模的业务。像其他在2022年获得创纪录利润的石油巨头一样，该公司押注任何转向非化石能源将发生在遥远未来。
 
康菲石油公司在北极钻探方面拥有多年的专业知识，这是几乎任何活动都难以适应的最恶劣环境之一。在最近的一次访问中，温度约为华氏4度，相比可能高达零下40度的冬季温度而言算是一个受欢迎的改善。
 
该公司在该地区的主要油田设施——阿尔派恩，从远处看起来像一艘冰上发光的宇宙飞船。它本质上是一个自给自足的城镇，包括一个机场、几条道路、一个加工设施、一个发电厂和一座三层高的操作中心，为工人提供了家园。




预计威洛最终也会像阿尔派恩一样。

但即使康菲石油公司正在积极建造威洛，他们仍然面临着这个因化石燃料燃烧而危险变暖的星球所带来的复杂问题。北极地区平均温度增长速度约为全球其他地区的四倍，并且永久冻土融化速度比预期更快。

这些影响可以在周围保护区内看到：淹没了无法再保存驯鹿和鲸肉等物品的冰窖；海岸边逐渐下沉并导致房屋倾斜；以及电话杆由于侵蚀而倾斜。同时，在石油公司行驶过去时可以看到冰路变得越来越薄，并且季节性融化的时间越来越早。
 
这样的变化将使在北极钻探成本更加昂贵，而北极已经是世界上开采石油最昂贵的地方之一。

全球变暖也带来了其他经济挑战。随着太阳能和风能等可再生能源变得更便宜、更普及，未来几年是否还会有对石油的需求？这或许是康菲石油公司面临的最大赌注。

最早情况下，原油需要约六年时间才能开始流动。到那时，拜登政府希望由于联邦投资鼓励使用可再生能源并促进向电动汽车过渡，对石油的需求将急剧下降。

阿拉斯加长期从事石油经济学工作的罗杰·马克斯表示，在开始新钻探时，需求达到峰值然后下降的威胁是所有石油公司都要承担的风险。

“青铜器时代不是因为缺乏青铜而结束”，马克斯先生说道，并指出他认为同样适用于石油。“这就是这些公司面临电动汽车、风力发电、水力发电和其他一切的长期风险，”他说。“即使还有一些石油可以开采，最终石油也将消失。”

康菲石油是唯一在美国国家石油储备-阿拉斯加内进行钻探的公司。该储备于1923年由联邦政府设立为海军的紧急石油供应。尽管其名称如此，但这个储备对候鸟、驯鹿和棕色熊等多种物种来说都是重要栖息地。其海岸外的北极洋则是白鳍豚、北极熊、海象和几种冰毛皮动物的家园
 
威洛油田将包括三个钻探场地，共199口井，该公司认为这些井可能在30年内生产近6亿桶石油。这将使其成为美国最大的石油项目。

高架管道位于地面上方7英尺处，将从钻探场地运输石油到阿尔派恩站点的现有管道，并最终连接阿拉斯加北坡长达800英里、延伸至南部的瓦尔德兹的跨阿拉斯加管道。

燃烧所有那些原油可能会释放近2.54亿公吨碳排放。按年计算，这相当于每年增加近200万辆汽车所产生的8.4百万公吨碳污染。

由美国国家海洋和大气管理局经营的巴罗大气基线观测站站长布赖恩·托马斯表示，温室气体排放正在上升进入“未知领域”，意味着海冰缩小和天气模式改变。
 
然而，威洛项目预计的排放量只占美国每年56亿公吨二氧化碳排放总量的一小部分。美国是仅次于中国的全球第二大污染国家。康菲石油和拜登政府都表示，如果不允许开展威洛项目，为满足需求的供应将转向其他地方进行石油钻探。

在春季温度融化冰路、使苔原变得湿泥难行之前，康菲石油还有约一个月时间迈出威洛项目的第一步——开采碎石和修建碎石道路。

环保组织称威洛是“碳弹”，正在起诉以阻止该项目。周一，联邦法官驳回了他们要求停工等待法律挑战结果的请求。“你何时才能摆脱化石燃料？”领导反对该项目诉讼团队Earthjustice 的总裁阿比盖尔·迪伦说，“在你毁灭世界上最重要、最脆弱野生动物栖息地之一之后？还是在此之前？
 
融化即将到来。石油经济学家马克斯先生表示，短暂的冬季建设季节使得阿拉斯加北坡成为全国最昂贵的原油钻探地之一。

康菲石油公司使用热虹吸管来保持多年冻土的稳定，这些高大的金属管子里装满了制冷剂，并被部分埋在地下以保持其冰冻状态。气候变化当然会加剧融化多年积雪层所带来的问题。

几十年来，人们一直在北极使用热虹吸管来保护道路和建筑物，现在也将安装在平台上供开采原油用的钻机上——而这些原油，在被燃烧后会产生科学家称之为导致地面更快融化的排放物。

马克斯先生说，在北坡盈利需要“巨型”油田。尽管拜登政府缩小了康菲公司最初计划中威洛项目（Willow） 的规模，但它仍占据近500英亩土地，并且在高峰期可产出约18万桶原油每天。
 
预计从柳树中提取的油将有助于46岁的阿拉斯加输油管道，该管道每天的流量已经从1988年的200万桶下降到不到50万桶，速度如此之慢以至于会导致管道内部周期性积冰和石蜡。

对依赖化石燃料收入而没有州级销售税或个人所得税的阿拉斯加来说，好处会受到一定限制。威洛位于联邦土地上，这意味着华盛顿将收取专利费，但阿拉斯加只能征收石油生产税，并且公司可以通过减免开支抵消这些税款。在原油开始流动之前的几年里，威洛甚至可能对州财政造成小幅负面影响。

康菲石油公司在阿拉斯加钻探了半个世纪，并表示该公司已经克服了恶劣条件带来的特殊挑战。“我们拥有现有基础设施和现有工作力量，这就是为什么这项业务具备经济效益。”邓恩先生说。

几位经济学家表示，在威洛项目中康菲必须要达到每桶30美元的价格才能获利。这与美国其他石油业务相当，过去20年中大部分时间内价格一直高于30美元/桶。
 
Willow项目最大的受益者之一将是北坡自治区，该自治区包括美国最北部的八个社区。该自治区年度410亿美元预算中约95％来自石油和天然气业务的当地税收。

石油资金用于各种事情，包括Utqiagvik娱乐中心新篮球场地板和Nuiqsut居民的供暖费用。石油收入还可能有助于支付海堤工程，以保护Utqiagvik免受因为燃烧石油和天然气导致的气候变化而快速侵蚀的北极海洋。

“我们既被祝福也被诅咒了，”55岁的Sam Kunaknana说道。他是Nuiqsut村庄少数居民之一，并与市长Ahtuangaruak女士一起加入了阻止Willow项目的诉讼。“当他在客厅里坐着时，他女友正在切割新鲜驯鹿肉制作肉干。Kunaknana先生表示，石油行业损害了渔业、改变了驯鹿迁徙模式、使得打猎更加困难并且影响村庄空气质量。“我最担心的是我的孙子孙女中有多少需要药物来帮助他们呼吸，”他说。 view all

州议会中的开除行为很少见，通常涉及刑事或性行为不当的指控。
 
在纳什维尔发生了一起校园枪击案，造成六人死亡后，上周三名民主党议员走上由共和党控制的田纳西州众议院讲台，呼吁加强枪支管制。

现在，这三名立法者——国会代表贾斯汀·琼斯（Justin Jones）、贾斯汀·J·皮尔逊（Justin J. Pearson）和格洛丽亚·约翰逊（Gloria Johnson）——面临被驱逐出众议院的处罚，这是一种戏剧性的政治报复行为。预计将于周四进行投票，并成为该州现代史上首次因党派原因而开除议员。

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州议会是如何达成这一点的？

自3月27日《圣约学校》枪击事件以来，数百名学生、家长和教师已经走上了国务院大厦，并在国务院举行示威活动，要求立法机构采取行动加强枪支法律。

上周四，代表琼斯、皮尔逊和约翰逊——他们的选区分别位于田纳西州三个最大城市：纳什维尔、诺克斯维尔和孟菲斯——在众议院地板上高呼“没有行动就没有和平”，打断了立法程序。立法程序被迫停止。

众议院发言人卡梅隆·塞克斯顿回应称，这三名议员与2021年闯入美国国会山庄的暴乱者相提并论。他称他们的行为“不可接受”，违反了众议院礼仪规则和程序。到星期一时，他已经撤销了他们进入州政府大楼的身份证访问权限，并剥夺其中两名议员的委员会职务。

针对枪支政策的抗议活动仍在持续进行中。周四早晨，在开除投票之前，示威者再次涌入大楼，外面响起了高声的呼喊和回应：“现在控制枪支”和“不再有一个”。里面，数十名抗议者举起拳头和标语支持枪支管制和三位民主党人，但他们保持沉默以避免被驱逐出观众席。
 
掌控州政府的共和党人，由比尔·李州长领导，拒绝了加强枪支法规的呼吁，并主要集中于加强学校安全。田纳西众议院在周四通过了一项法案，要求学校每年进行演习、保持所有入口门锁定并安装移动恐慌警报系统。

三名民主党立法者在周四发表声明反对这项措施，琼斯先生称其为“投降的白旗”，未解决枪支暴力问题的根源。

这三位立法者是谁？
 
约翰逊女士代表诺克斯维尔的部分地区，是三人中资历最老的；她于2013-2014年任期首次当选众议院。作为一名前教师，她在2018年再次当选，并在2020年普查后进行重新划分选区后搬家以避免争夺另一位民主党成员的席位。



琼斯先生27岁，是州众议院中最年轻的成员之一。他赢得了11月份代表纳什维尔部分地区参加竞选。毕业于纳什维尔菲斯克大学（Fisk University）的他，在本地作为社区组织者打出了名声。他曾在国会山举行静坐抗议，并在2020年夏季领导了一场长达61天反对种族不公正外围示威活动，要求撤下南北战争时期联邦将军半身像。

皮尔森先生28岁，在1月份赢得特别选举，以代表孟菲斯的部分地区。他是该市的本地人，毕业于缅因州鲍登学院（Bowdoin College），父亲是一名教育家，母亲是一名传教士。皮尔森先生在成功反对南孟菲斯原油管道提案时获得了知名度。

在采访中，这三位立法者都谈到了枪支暴力——有些情况下还包括他们个人经历——如何帮助塑造了他们走向政治的道路。皮尔森先生回忆起失去家人和导师的痛苦，并表示对加强枪支限制的推动“当你失去朋友、失去亲人时就变成了个人问题。”

琼斯先生回忆起特雷文·马丁（Trayvon Martin）被佛罗里达州一个邻居监视志愿者射杀后参加第一次抗议活动。“这个问题已经成为我们这一代人的一部分。”他说，“这是一个非常私人化的问题。”

约翰逊女士回忆起诺克斯维尔中央高中发生枪击事件时她仍然担任教师，“学生们跑下山坡进入我的教室时的恐惧表情。
 
驱逐如何进行？

周一，三名共和党州众议员安德鲁·法默、吉诺·布尔索和巴德·赫尔西分别提交了决议案，正式驱逐三名民主党人。几个小时后，尽管遭到民主党反对，程序性投票轻松通过。

在每项决议中，共和党指控该立法者“故意制造混乱和耻辱”，并“普遍参与无序和破坏性行为”。这些措施没有引用抗议活动的任何其他后果。

需要众议院三分之二的投票才能驱逐一名成员。共和党拥有必要的超级多数来通过这些驱逐决议。

被空缺席位会发生什么？
 


将举行特别选举以填补被驱逐立法者的席位。所有三名民主党人都有能力在特别选举中再次竞选，并重新当选为代表。

每个地区的地方政府机构可以任命暂时代表——甚至可能是被开除的立法者本身——来保持席位直到特别选举结束。

驱逐常见吗？
 
州议会驱逐议员在美国历史上很少发生。

1866年，即内战后不久，有六名议员因试图阻止通过授予前奴隶公民身份的第十四修正案而被从田纳西州众议院驱逐。此后，田纳西州众议院仅两次投票罢免了一名立法者。这两次投票都是跨党派的：1980年，在一位现任立法者被定罪勒索贿赂之后；2016年，在多数派鞭策面临在职期间性行为不当指控之后。

全国范围内，大多数开除案涉及到面临刑事指控或性行为不当指控的州立法者。2019年，阿肯色州立法者米基·盖茨因未缴税款而被开除；科罗拉多州立法者史蒂夫·勒布斯托克因面临多项性骚扰指控而于2018年被开除。

2021年，四届共和党籍的立法者迈克·尼尔曼成为俄勒冈众议院首位被开除出境的人士。他让武装示威者进入锁定的州议会大厦，并被控公职不当行为。

同年，俄亥俄州众议院开除了拉里·豪斯霍尔德。他在担任众议院发言人期间因涉嫌参与一起6千万美元的腐败案而被捕和指控。这是自1857年以来俄亥俄州立法者首次被开除，当时有一名成员因殴打另一名成员而被撤职。

1920年，纽约州议会驱逐了五名社会党立法者——该党的全部代表团。近一个世纪以来，在该州没有其他立法者被驱逐出境，直到2010年哈勒姆·蒙塞拉特因轻罪攻击罪名定罪后才遭到纽约州参议院开除。 view all

非营利性调查新闻组织ProPublica报道：最高法院大法官克拉伦斯·托马斯（Clarence Thomas）在过去20多年中几乎每年都接受共和党巨头哈兰·克罗（Harlan Crow）提供的豪华旅行，但没有在财务披露表上报告这些旅行。

在周四发布的一篇长篇报道中，这家非营利性调查新闻组织详细记录了托马斯乘坐克罗游艇和私人飞机以及前往阿迪朗达克山区的克罗私人度假胜地所进行的各种旅行。据ProPublica报道，该故事详细介绍了2019年前往印度尼西亚的一次旅行，如果托马斯自己包租飞机和游艇，则可能花费超过50万美元。

最高法院大法官像其他联邦法官一样需要提交年度财务披露报告，并要求他们列出收到的礼物。目前还不清楚为什么托马斯会省略这些旅行，在由美联社咨询的司法政策指南下，“任何个人提供的个人款待”作为“住在该个人或其家庭的私人住所”的不需要报告，但是，这种例外情况并不应涵盖“替代商业交通工具”的交通和由实体拥有的财产。

最高法院发言人承认了美联社寻求托马斯评论的电子邮件，但没有提供任何其他信息。ProPublica写道，托马斯没有回答组织提出的一系列问题。

上个月，联邦司法部加强了所有法官（包括最高法院大法官）的披露要求，尽管在朋友拥有的个人度假屋中过夜仍然免于披露。
 
去年，有关托马斯道德的问题浮出水面，当时披露他在2020年选举后没有退出与选举有关的案件，尽管他的妻子、保守派活动家弗吉尼亚·托马斯联系了议员和白宫，敦促对选举结果进行反抗。最新报道可能会增加呼吁大法官们采用伦理准则并加强旅行和其他礼品披露的要求。

克罗在一份声明中告诉《公共利益新闻》网站说，自1996年以来（即托马斯入主高院五年后），他和妻子就是托马斯夫妇的朋友。克罗表示，“多年来我们向托马斯夫妇提供款待，并不比我们向其他许多亲密朋友提供款待有任何区别”，而这对夫妇“从未要求过任何这样的招待”。

他说：“我们从未询问过正在审理或较低法院案件，并且托马斯大法官也从未谈论过此类事情。我们也从未试图影响托马斯大法官认为任何法律或政治问题。”

据《公共利益新闻》报道，托马斯几乎每年夏天都在克罗的豪华度假胜地Topridge度假。2017年的一次旅行中，其他客人包括“威瑞森和普华永道的高管、共和党主要捐赠者以及商业保守派智库美国企业研究所的领导人”，《公共利益新闻》报道称。

克罗写道，他“不知道我们任何一个朋友曾经游说或试图影响托马斯大法官处理任何案件，并且我绝不会邀请我认为有这样意图的人。”

这些奢侈之旅的披露与托马斯对其出行方式的喜好形成了鲜明对比。生长于佐治亚州贫困家庭中的托马斯谈到自己喜欢乘坐房车旅行，并更喜欢“沃尔玛停车场”而非海滩。 view all