A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams

“If you were to take what should be public transportation planning and turn it into a neoliberal nightmare, this is exactly what you would get,” says Ben Leffel, an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In March Leffel told legislators at a meeting of the Nevada Regional Rail Transit Advisory Working Group: “The Loop by the Boring Company is the biggest, most absurd transit scam I have ever heard of … The Boring Company has been lying to policymakers all around the world that their form, which is Teslas in tunnels, can transport more people more quickly than any kind of rail. And take it from me: that is physically impossible. So any policymaker that they’re saying this to should challenge them to provide even a shred of material evidence that that is true, but they cannot.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/17/neoliberal-nightmare-my-ride-on-vegas-loop-elon-musk-answer-to-traffic-jams

 

AOC rocks the crowd with viral moment

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dZs7gb1B4y8

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Building the Vegas Loop With Little Oversight — ProPublica

In 2019, the company discharged groundwater into storm drains without a permit, resulting in a state settlement and a $90,000 fine. In 2021, state officials sent a cease-and-desist letter to prevent Boring from taking actions that could "cause unpermitted discharge of groundwater," prompting Davis, Boring's CEO, to complain to the head of the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection that the state was "being fairly aggressive and that this was starting to hurt" the company, according to an email the head of the agency sent to several staffers. 

The following year, local officials cited Boring for illegally connecting to a sewer without approval, records show. In 2023, state environmental regulators found the company was dumping untreated groundwater into the sewer, with one official writing that Boring staff were "unsure of how long they have been bypassing the treatment system." Local officials said they investigated but did not find evidence to take further action... 

"What's the traffic control system going to be like down in those tunnels? How are they going to make sure that none of those cars crash into each other when they're going at 35 mph from one tunnel into an intersection with another tunnel?" said the expert, who requested anonymity because of concerns about professional repercussions. "All their answers are completely evasive. So there are significant operational concerns."…

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight 

 

Why is MAGA calling him an immigrant?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CsN0_TGuqdM

 

Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective

The man in control of the Utah-based rightwing militia Oath Keepers USA, a recent spinoff of the national organization first established by Stewart Rhodes in 2009, is a former Las Vegas metropolitan police department (LVMPD) homicide detective who left the force in acrimony after advocating "race war"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/oath-keepers-rightwing-militia-police

Republicans are TELLING THE SAME LIE About the Attacks in New Orleans & Las Vegas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8R6Ac9IWQk

 

Driver of Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas blast had spent years in US army | Las Vegas | The Guardian

Livelsberger served over 19 years in the army – 18 of which were spent with special forces, according to his LinkedIn profile…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/02/cybertruck-explosion-driver-las-vegas

 

One dead after Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump hotel

Cybertruck was stuffed with firework mortars and camp fuel canisters, with authorities working to determine the motive of the incident…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/01/tesla-truck-fire-trump-hotel-las-vegas

 

Family of 911 caller shot dead by Las Vegas police push for officer’s arrest

Brandon Durham was killed last week after reporting home break-in and trying to wrestle knife from hands of woman…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/20/las-vegas-911-caller-police-officer

Watch Crowd FALL SILENT as Trump SCREAMS AT NOTHING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVBn81-U4i8

LIVE: Kamala Speaks in PACKED ARENA in LAS VEGAS

https://www.youtube.com/live/MVbKqUQ0Qn0

Hotel Fined Nearly $11,000 After Hosting 'Evangelicals for Trump' Event Against Social Distancing Regulations

A hotel close to the Las Vegas Strip has been fined almost $11,000 after it hosted an "Evangelicals for Trump" event and a beauty pageant in early August in violation of Nevada's social distancing regulations.
https://www.newsweek.com/hotel-fined-nearly-11000-after-hosting-evangelicals-trump-event-against-social-distancing-1528890

Three ‘Boogaloos’ Wanted to Topple the Government by Throwing Molotov Cocktails at George Floyd Protests: FBI

Anti-government extremists allegedly plotted to incinerate a power station and cause flaming mayhem at Las Vegas protests.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-boogaloos-wanted-to-topple-the-government-by-throwing-molotov-cocktails-at-george-floyd-protests-fbi

Police documents about the Las Vegas shooter show he's a right-wing terrorist but no one will say so - Daily Kos

There is still "no motive" for the largest mass shooting in recent American history that took place in Las Vegas in October 2017 during an outdoor concert. White domestic terrorist Stephen Paddock, staying in a room overlooking the open-air festivities in a hotel suite stocked with legal weapons, opened fire killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more. Trump, the NRA, the Republican Party and local and federal law enforcement have been mum on what Paddock's possible motivation could have been.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1766015

Women’s March 2018 Is Heading to Las Vegas to Take Down Trump at the Polls -- Newsweek

After planning what's believed to have been the largest demonstration in U.S. history, Women's March organizers have their sights set on something even bigger and longer-lasting. ....
http://www.newsweek.com/womens-march-will-storm-las-vegas-trump-inauguration-anniversary-748110

Four weeks after Las Vegas, gun violence has killed nearly 900 additional Americans

On October 1, 58 people were murdered and hundreds more injured by a mass shooter firing from a 32nd floor Las Vegas hotel room. This was immediately followed by loud vows from the governing party to not do a damn thing about it, the usual ceremonial tossing of thoughts and prayers around the landscape as the cheapest possible payment to the families of the dead, and with the nation hurriedly moving on, the latest "worst" mass shooting by a heavily armed gunman who woke up on one particular morning believing that America Now Has It Coming now being brushed aside in the national conversation as, after all, old news.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/27/1710088/-Four-weeks-after-Las-Vegas-gun-violence-has-killed-nearly-900-additional-Americans

The stunning difference between Trump's reaction to the Las Vegas shooting and the NYC attack -- CNN

On October 1, a man shot and killed 58 people at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas — the largest mass murder in modern American history. ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/politics/trump-vegas-nyc/index.html

Stephen Paddock 'used to lie in bed screaming and may have been in mental anguish' -- The Independent

Stephen Paddock's girlfriend recalls the Las Vegas shooter lying in bed screaming to himself, reports claim. ....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stephen-paddock-mental-health-screaming-bed-claims-last-vegas-shooting-latest-a7987481.html

NRA: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses the way the NRA not only works to prevent gun control, they work to prevent an informed discussion about gun control.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ECYMvjU52E&feature=youtu.be

Why Do Conservatives Blame Gun Violence on a ‘Sick World’? The Bible. -- The Daily Beast

"This world is sick," wrote one of the performers at the Route 91 festival in Las Vegas, site of the horrifying mass shooting where at least 59 people were murdered and more than 500 were injured. Though of course the remark was uttered in a moment of pain and trauma, the sentiment behind it is widely shared by millions of Americans who lay the blame for such attacks on our diseased society, rather than access to weapons technology. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-do-conservatives-blame-gun-violence-on-a-sick-world-the-bible