Fresh photos reveal the scars left behind after a SpaceX rocket stage slammed into the moon at a mind-boggling 5,400 mph.
South Korea’s Danuri spacecraft captured the first look at the cosmic crash site after making multiple orbits above the freshly carved crater. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute released the before-and-after snapshots, showing a noticeably darkened space where the rogue Falcon 9 upper stage plowed into the moon on Wednesday, blasting dust and debris across the landscape.
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The 45-foot-long, 8,800-pound upper stage was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spacex-rocket-crashes-into-the-moon">originally launched</a> by Elon Musk’s aerospace giant back in January 2025 to deliver private lunar landers. While lower-orbit rocket parts usually burn up harmlessly in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, high-energy deep-space missions require complicated disposals. Over time, gravitational pulls and solar radiation knocked the hulk off course, putting it on a collision trajectory with the moon near the Einstein crater.
Scientists estimate the high-speed impact blasted out a brand-new crater spanning up to 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The flash of the violent crash lasted roughly one second, but the ejected lunar dust could scatter hundreds of miles across the surface.
Unlike NASA and European space agencies, which operate under strict regulatory mandates for spacecraft disposal, commercial operators follow a looser set of rules. Experts warn that unguided space debris poses a potential threat to historical lunar heritage sites, such as the iconic Apollo landing grounds.
But researchers are seizing on the accidental impact as a massive scientific opportunity. Because astronomers already knew the exact mass, velocity, and trajectory of the Falcon 9 stage, they are treating the crash as a controlled experiment so they can better understand how planetary surfaces absorb severe impacts.
South Korea&#8217;s orbiter got the jump on the action by photographing the initial impact zone, but NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is scheduled to make its own flyover next week. Researchers plan to spend months analyzing the before-and-after imagery to study the freshly exposed lunar soil. That will offer critical data as NASA pushes forward with its Artemis program.

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Elon Musk warned he will “come after” radical Left-wing activists and “finish the job” in response to a report exposing troubling statements made by a former volunteer videographer for then-NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The social media firestorm erupted after The Free Press published an <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/mamdani-videographer-china-eric-hovagim">exposé</a> on Eric Hovagim, a 28-year-old leftist content creator who previously helped film and edit campaign media for Mamdani. Hovagim, an Arizona-born industrial engineer-turned-radical-influencer, previously labeled Musk a &#8220;valid military target&#8221; after footage surfaced showing an alleged downed U.S. drone fitted with Starlink satellite tech.
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Musk pledged, &#8220;If they come after me, I will come after them and finish the job.&#8221; Musk made the comment on X in response to investor Joe Lonsdale, who shared the investigation into Hovagim&#8217;s history of extreme rhetoric.
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If they come after me, I will come after them and finish the job
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Hovagim built a social media following by peddling insane conspiracy theories and violent anti-American manifestos. Among his most unhinged claims, Hovagim reportedly called the United States the &#8220;Fourth Reich,&#8221; described Israel as the &#8220;most dangerous threat to humanity,&#8221; and claimed both nations are run by &#8220;Zionist pedophiles.&#8221;
In another horrific post, he glorified the 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly referring to the Midtown Manhattan street where Thompson was shot in the back as &#8220;hallowed ground.&#8221;
Hovagim attended UC Berkeley, where he dropped out to launch a million-dollar sports gambling startup called Pogbet. After the platform folded, he pivoted to full-time radicalism, working for the leftist think tank behind the Green New Deal and producing content for Hasan Piker, including Piker’s recent documentary trip to Cuba.
Mamdani&#8217;s campaign quickly sought to distance itself from Hovagim, emphasizing that Hovagim was merely an unpaid volunteer and not an official staffer. &#8220;As the mayor has said, any and all political violence is unacceptable and must be condemned to the fullest extent,&#8221; Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec stated.
Hovagim recently fled the United States. In late 2025, he relocated to Shanghai, where he now churns out pro-Beijing propaganda aimed at Western audiences. Writing on Chinese-controlled media, he reportedly routinely defends the Chinese Communist Party, dismisses the U.N.-documented genocide of Uyghur Muslims as &#8220;CIA propaganda,&#8221; and posts photos posing beside portraits of dictator Mao Zedong.
Musk has recently faced threats, including from a former Tesla employee who was arrested by Texas police in 2024 after <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-tesla-employee-threatened-to-kill-joe-biden-elon-musk/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">allegedly threatening</a> to kill Musk. In February 2025, a Southern Indiana man was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/indiana-man-charged-threatening-elon-musk/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">arrested</a> on felony charges after allegedly posting life-threatening statements against Musk on social media. Police found an AR-15-style rifle, a handgun, ammunition, and a ballistic vest at his home.

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A decommissioned SpaceX rocket that got off course is expected to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour on Wednesday morning. 
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will likely crash into the moon at 2:35 a.m. ET on Wednesday after drifting for 19 months in a moon-crossing high-Earth orbit. Typically, the upper stage of the rocket would enter a highly elliptical orbit of the Earth before eventually being brought down and catching fire before it landed in a remote part of the ocean. But gravitational pulls from Earth, the moon, and the sun gradually altered the rocket&#8217;s trajectory. The rocket was used to launch commercial moon landers into space before it was decommissioned.
Julianna Scheiman, the director of NASA science and Dragon programs at SpaceX, <a href="https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/a-spacex-rocket-will-crash-into-the-moon-this-week-why-is-it-on-a-collision-course">said</a> that the company performed &#8220;a different maneuver [than deorbiting] to ensure that the second stage itself is safe per the appropriate rules and regulations.&#8221; 
&#8220;What has happened is, essentially, a mixture of solar activity and gravity forces have put it on a path towards the moon,&#8221; Scheiman added. 
Astronomer Bill Gray, who first predicted the date and time of the collision, <a href="https://time.com/article/2026/08/04/spacex-moon-crash-what-to-know/">estimates</a> the crash will release energy equivalent to 15,000 sticks of dynamite and will create a considerable debris plume. Despite the power and scale of the impact, scientists say the crash will be too dim and too fast to spot with the naked eye from Earth. NASA says the collision poses no threat to Earth and that the agency “will continue to track the booster for training purposes, as well as later observe the impact site for scientific purposes.”
Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Benjamin Fernando said that the collision &#8220;provides an opportunity to test pipelines for measuring flash properties to locate impact events seismically, and to better understand the multi-modal hazards posed to future lunar infrastructure and astronauts from space debris impacting the moon.” 
The crater caused by the collision is expected to be 90 feet wide and 16 feet deep. NASA will point its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a robotic spacecraft that maps the moon, at the site before and after the strike. 
Wednesday&#8217;s impact will mark just the second time a spent rocket has hit the moon accidentally. In 2022, a Chinese rocket booster collided with the moon’s far side. In that crash, researchers initially suspected it was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket before realizing it was China’s Long March 3C rocket that had launched a trip around the moon in October 2014. 
As NASA prepares to establish a sustained human presence on the moon, managing space debris in lunar orbit will become increasingly important. Future collisions could eject debris from the lunar surface, creating potential hazards for astronauts, spacecraft, and nearby operating infrastructure.

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AI companies are turning to a George Soros-funded organization to provide users with election information ahead of the pivotal midterm elections. 
Both OpenAI and Anthropic announced that they&#8217;re partnering with Democracy Works, a nonprofit that received money from Open Society, the liberal billionaire&#8217;s primary funding mechanism. The group also discloses funding from Pierre Omidyar, another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-leftist-billionaire-vowed-to-reimagine-capitalism-then-he-colonized-a-federal-agency">liberal billionaire</a> who has spent millions of dollars to fight President Donald Trump politically. 
Anthropic <a href="https://www.democracy.works/news/democracy-works-partnering-with-anthropic">said</a> the partnership is to help ensure that “generative AI users are safeguarded from mis-and-disinformation about voting and elections.” Open AI similarly <a href="https://openai.com/index/election-safeguards-2026/">said</a> it will “partner with Democracy Works to display reliable information about voting and registration processes, including voting locations and other election logistics, when people ask about those topics.”
The group&#8217;s funding from Soros is consistent with its partisan activity. In recent years, the Brooklyn-based Democracy Works has championed Left-leaning policies and positions, including support for expanded mail-in voting. Its CEO, Luis Lozada, openly supported the antisemitic college protests, describing fines issued to Ivy League universities for failing to control the pro-Palestinian encampments as a &#8220;challenge to democracy.&#8221;
“Universities are punished for allowing students to organize protests on campus, individuals are removed from public spaces solely for expressing their opinions,” Lozada wrote.
In 2025, the universities settled with the federal government after protests on their campuses were deemed antisemitic. Columbia and Harvard University reached <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-settles-two-anti-semitism-lawsuits-after-trump-sworn-in">settlements</a> with the Trump administration. Columbia’s fine was historically high — the federal government directed Columbia to pay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-retreats-as-trump-scores-historic-220m-settlement">$200 million</a> to the government and $20 million to its Jewish employees “who were unlawfully targeted and harassed.&#8221; 
Democracy Works is a tool that labels itself as the “connective tissue” that helps “millions of voters navigate a complex system.” One of its products, TurboVote, aids in voter registration, sends election reminders, and requests mail-in ballots. In a section describing the legislative process to potential voters, it puts a peculiar focus on the legislative branch’s impeachment duties, one of the obvious duties that will be used by Democrats to get out the vote in the midterm elections. 
&#8220;Senators serve six-year terms and are responsible for crafting federal legislation, approving presidential nominations, and conducting impeachment trials,&#8221; the platform says, for example, in its description of what a U.S. senator does.
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Anthropic and OpenAI could pull from this information and other Democracy Works resources to inform their users when they ask about voting. Anthropic, which runs Claude, told ABC News that a visual banner with information from Democracy Works will be shown to users who ask questions about the election. OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT will do similarly. Both Google and Meta told the outlet they would prioritize pulling information on elections only from official sources.
Both OpenAI and Anthropic have been repeatedly accused of leaning Left in political outputs. Trump&#8217;s former AI czar David Sacks has said that Anthropic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/are-biden-era-ai-ties-behind-pentagon-showdown-in-trumps-war-department">became</a> a landing spot for staffers in the previous administration.
“Guess where those Biden AI staffers went to work as soon as the admin was over,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Anthropic.”
Pentagon officials presented concerns about using Anthropic&#8217;s products for military technology, arguing the company could turn off the technology if the Pentagon went against guidelines.
“If they’re willing to impose red lines that limit lawful military use, what’s to stop them from enforcing a shutdown if they disagree with how we’re applying it,&#8221; an official said in March during a dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the company&#8217;s military work.
In 2024, Sacks <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFk40AbO94&amp;t=6161s">admitted</a> that OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT is &#8220;programmed to be woke.&#8221; Billionaire Elon Musk, who also has his own AI company, <a href="https://www.wired.com/llm-political-bias/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">attributed</a> the politics being pushed by AI models to the people building them.
“A lot of the AIs that are being trained in the San Francisco Bay Area, they take on the philosophy of people around them,&#8221; Musk said. His AI company is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk plans to re-enter the political arena by backing a major ground operation to boost Republicans ahead of the November midterm elections, according to a new report.
Musk plans to relaunch America PAC, the same political group that spent hundreds of millions helping elect President Trump in 2024, with a heavy focus on battleground states, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/29/musk-pac-midterm-election">reported</a>. The revived operation will prioritize door-knocking, digital advertising, and direct mail aimed at turning out conservative voters who typically skip midterm elections.
It is not yet clear how much Musk plans to spend or where the resources will be deployed.
&#8220;America PAC was an essential partner for our historic GOTV operation in 2024, and their return for 2026 is a huge boost for Republicans across the country,&#8221; James Blair, President Trump&#8217;s senior political adviser, told Axios. &#8220;We will again outsmart our opponents and ruthlessly execute our mission for the GOP between now and Election Day.” 
It&#8217;s a striking reversal for the X owner, who just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-goes-after-trump-over-epstein-files-time-to-drop-the-really-big-bomb">last year accused Trump </a>of covering up convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s crimes and implied the president himself was implicated.
“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” Musk said in June 2025, before adding a follow-up: “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”
“This is an unfortunate episode from Elon,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-responds-to-elon-musk-epstein-claims-an-unfortunate-episode-from-elon?utm_source=chatgpt.com">The Daily Wire</a> at the time, saying Musk was “unhappy with the One Big Beautiful Bill because it does not include the policies he wanted.”
Musk, who also threatened to financially back a third political party, later de-escalated the feud and deleted several of his most inflammatory posts — including his Epstein allegations — and publicly acknowledged that some of his attacks on Trump &#8220;went too far.&#8221; 
Following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Musk and Trump publicly reconciled at <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1969870768201777180?s=20">Kirk&#8217;s memorial service</a> in Arizona, where the two shook hands and spoke for the first time since their bitter falling out. The reunion fulfilled a promise made by the late conservative activist, who also helped elect Trump and transform an entire generation of young conservatives. 
“I know both these guys… I am hopeful, optimistic, and will do everything I possibly can to try and bring this back together,” Kirk <a href="https://www.wral.com/archive/22170145/">said</a> in June of last year.
Since then, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has been a social media advocate of the administration’s policies despite recently acknowledging he got “carried away” with his brief stint at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 
“I think I got a little too involved in politics,” Musk <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5988248-doge-initiative-shut-down/">told</a> The Economist. “I got carried away, frankly.”
Nonetheless, the Musk&#8217;s cash infusion will add to Republicans&#8217; already formidable financial advantage heading into the midterms. President Trump&#8217;s super PAC has amassed a roughly $400 million war chest, while the Republican National Committee has another $130 million on hand. In contrast, the Democratic National Committee is reportedly about $2 million in debt, as previously reported by The Daily Wire.
With control of both the House and Senate up for grabs, Republicans face significant headwinds heading into Election Day, including <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">elevated gas prices</a>, the lingering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-iranian-protests-intensify-as-citizens-demand-end-to-ayatollah-rule?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=U.S.+Hammers+Iran+After+Tehran%E2%80%99s+Attempt+To+Take+Out+American+Troops">war with Iran</a>, and President Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5997864-trump-approval-rating-low/">low approval ratings</a>. The latest <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/state-of-the-union/generic-congressional-vote">RealClearPolitics </a>polling average gives Democrats a roughly five-point lead on the generic congressional ballot. Republicans&#8217; biggest asset may be the Democratic Party&#8217;s tarnished national brand, with one polling guru saying voters increasingly see the leftist party as &#8220;weak.&#8221;
&#8220;The Democratic Party in the minds of the American public are weak, weak, weak,” CNN’s Harry Enten <a href="https://x.com/ThomasMHern/status/2081723610549383250?s=20">said</a>, noting how voters still trust the GOP more on handling Iran. &#8220;The Democrats in Congress, simply put, are not well-liked.&#8221;
“Donald Trump and Republicans may not be liked, but Democrats in Congress are really hated,” he added.

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For the last few weeks, Christopher Nolan’s &#8220;Odyssey&#8221; movie has been a more divisive topic for conservatives than the war with Iran. Is it woke or secretly based? Is it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-christopher-nolan-couldnt-bring-himself-to-do">unfaithful to the original</a> (and if so, is that good or bad)? Is anyone who <a href="https://x.com/IMPERATORAUS/status/2078594683832541671">sees it</a> “an enemy of Western Civilization”?
As always, trillionaire entrepreneur and anti-woke crusader Elon Musk is an <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/elon-musk-gets-dragged-saying-173742252.html">eager participant</a> in these debates. This time, though, Musk isn’t just complaining. He’s proposed two ways to make a more conservative-friendly &#8220;Odyssey&#8221; and offered to put real effort behind making them happen.
 The first is a nonstarter. “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,” Elon <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2079758604656316619">posted</a> to X last week.
I’m sure that’ll be technically possible, but it’s certainly not desirable. Replacing a creative process that involves real actors in real places where real light strikes real lenses with a guy at a keyboard entering prompts would not be a victory for conservative art. It would be the abolition of art itself. If anyone can, with a few keystrokes, make the exact movie he wants to see, then cinema ceases to play its role as a cultural artifact. It no longer emerges from and shapes the zeitgeist. 
The proliferation of AI-generated &#8220;Odyssey&#8221; adaptations Elon proposes might be aesthetically impressive, but these movies would not bring people together the way Nolan’s has — not even to hate them. They would be pieces of worthless slop that took no effort to create and leave audiences more isolated and demoralized than ever. AI can supplement filmmakers’ efforts, as Ben Affleck’s half-billion-dollar start-up <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/netflix-paid-587m-for-ben-afflecks-ai-filmmaking-startup/">InterPositive</a> promises to do. It cannot replace them.
Elon’s other <a href="https://x.com/martianwyrdlord/status/2079640327170728085?s=20">idea</a>, which he <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2079756091232227665?s=20">got</a> from pseudonymous Substack blogger <a href="https://americanreformer.org/2025/06/we-can-fight-the-left-without-repaganizing/">John Carter</a>, is more interesting: “give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.”
Gibson is a political conservative and an able director who has proven his ability to handle epic material (&#8220;Braveheart&#8221;), make blockbusters that appeal to the religious right (&#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221;), and successfully immerse audiences in a wholly alien culture (&#8220;Apocalypto&#8221;). But if Elon wants to fund a mega-budget project for him, the Odyssey is the wrong choice.
Making Gibson’s &#8220;Odyssey&#8221; as a direct response to Nolan’s would seem reactive, derivative, and petty. Audiences would perceive a rushed-out remake funded by Elon’s money and motivated by his resentments as a political stunt and would understandably avoid it. Too many conservative artists seem content to make “conservative art” that appeals solely to committed conservatives. Instead of winning back the culture, they preach to the choir. Gibson is living proof that it doesn’t have to be this way, and saddling him with a project doomed to languish in the conservative ghetto would be a tremendous waste of his talents.
Fortunately, there’s a far better candidate for an Elon-funded, Mel-directed, swords-and-sandals epic poem adaptation: Virgil’s &#8220;Aeneid.&#8221; This masterpiece, written soon after Rome transitioned from republic to empire, follows a band of Trojans who escape the fall of their city, wander the Mediterranean for years, fight to win a new homeland in Italy, and fulfill their destiny by becoming the forefathers of Rome.
Virgil borrows settings, plot elements, and even his protagonist — the Trojan prince Aeneas — from the &#8220;Iliad&#8221; and &#8220;Odyssey,&#8221; but his poem has a different “vibe” than either of Homer’s epics.
In Homer, time is a flat circle. Odysseus failing to make it home would be bad news for Telemachus and Penelope, but it would have no world-historic consequences. Neither would Troy’s defenders driving the Argives into the sea. No matter what happens, things will go on as they always have. Men strive to win glory in battle, the gods engage in their petty squabbles, and Fate hands down its mysterious, arbitrary decrees.
Everything in the &#8220;Aeneid&#8221; bears the weight of history, and history itself has an end toward which it is progressing. For Virgil, this telos is Roman dominion. Rome’s divine calling is to “rule with all [its] power / the peoples of the earth.” Aeneas’ journeys and wars are sowing the seeds of universal empire, and Virgil constantly reminds us of the growth they’ll one day produce. 
Aeneas himself struggles under the burden of this lofty destiny. In some ways, his sense of duty makes him more human. C.S. Lewis <a href="https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files4/2cf71f4fa9ccbe4bbcd655eea8c822e6.pdf">describes</a> him as a “grown-up” compared to whom Achilles seems like a “passionate boy.” In other ways, it has the opposite effect. Edith Hamilton argues that, by the end of the poem, Aeneas “is not a man,” but “something strange and portentous.”
In the hands of most Hollywood directors, an &#8220;Aeneid&#8221; adaptation would probably lean toward the latter. Aeneas would have much in common with Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve&#8217;s &#8220;Dune&#8221; trilogy: an initially relatable hero swept up in prophecy until he becomes indifferent to the suffering he inflicts while trying to fulfill it.
But with Mel Gibson behind the camera, we could expect a very different &#8220;Aeneid.&#8221; For 2,000 years, Westerners have viewed the &#8220;Aeneid&#8221; as, in some sense, their own origin story. If Aeneas hadn’t succeeded, then our civilization — so profoundly shaped by Rome — wouldn’t exist.
The stakes are even higher for Christians. If God willed for his son to be born under Caesar Augustus, for the gospel to spread initially within the Roman Empire, and (in Catholic teaching) for the Church to be governed from the Eternal City, then Rome’s founding and rise must have been providentially ordained. 
Gibson is the perfect director to emphasize this angle, not only because he’s a conservative and a Catholic, but also because he’s done it before. For most of its runtime, &#8220;Apocalypto&#8221; is a thrilling chase film set in a society so alien that, as far as the typical viewer is concerned, it might as well take place on another planet. That all changes in the film’s final minutes, in which the chase is interrupted by the arrival of Spanish ships with cross-emblazoned sails. Their arrival signals the end of human sacrifice and the eventual conversion of the Americas.
This ending, in which world-historic forces impinge upon human drama in a way that foreshadows the providential triumph of the viewer’s own civilization, is positively Virgilian. 
Gibson could do something similar with the &#8220;Aeneid.&#8221; Begin with the unfamiliar: foreign language dialogue, Bronze Age brutality, strange gods, and mysterious portents. Maybe even show the Carthaginians engaging in human sacrifice — a practice not mentioned in the poem but well attested historically. Then, amid all that unfamiliarity, drop hints that Aeneas’ predicament is our predicament, that his virtues are those to which we should aspire, that the hearth-fire he carried out of Troy still burns for us — until finally, an &#8220;Apocalypto&#8221;-style climax reveals him as a founding father of Western Civilization and Christendom. All that he suffered, he suffered on our behalf.
An &#8220;Aeneid&#8221; like this would be unmistakably conservative without sacrificing mainstream appeal. It would be original rather than derivative. And for Elon Musk, it would be $100 million well spent.
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Grayson Quay is the author of “The Transhumanist Temptation” and a former editor at the Daily Caller.
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Elon Musk has become the world&#8217;s first former trillionaire after steep declines in Tesla and SpaceX shares wiped roughly $200 billion from his net worth.
Musk joked about becoming the world&#8217;s first former trillionaire on Friday after his fortune briefly dipped below $1 trillion.
At the height of the SpaceX IPO frenzy, Musk’s fortune hit $1.3 trillion as shares surged from their $135 IPO price to as high as $225 before retreating to <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPCX/">$112</a> on Monday. 
The massive swings are consistent with past IPOs, with new stocks often swinging 30-50% as the market digests excitement and volatility. However, the former trillionaire’s automaker also experienced a massive swing on Wednesday. Tesla <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-price-loses-year-gains-6acf48c3">erased</a> a year of gains when shares fell 18% after the company reported a second-quarter operating profit of $400 million that was well below Wall Street’s expectations of $1.72 billion. 
Stocks tied to Musk tend to be especially volatile because investors are betting on the companies&#8217; potential rather than their current standing. 
Tesla&#8217;s valuation reflects expectations that it will dominate autonomous driving while expanding into robotaxis, Optimus humanoid robots, and artificial intelligence. SpaceX, while a rocket company, is also promising to establish data centers in space, with the company now owning xAI. 
The swings are compounded by the fact that Musk is an unusually active public figure, often posting multiple times a day on his social media platform, X. His comments, product announcements, and political statements can quickly shift investor sentiment and trigger sharp moves in his companies&#8217; stock prices.
Despite the sharp drop from his trillionaire peak, dramatic swings in Musk&#8217;s fortune are par for the course. On June 29, his net worth jumped by more than $60 billion in a single day, and on October 24, he added another $30 billion after Tesla reported stronger-than-expected earnings. With a majority of Musk&#8217;s wealth tied to the market value of his companies, small percentage moves in their stock prices can translate into tens of billions of dollars gained or lost in a matter of seconds.

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Innovation is a good thing, so naturally, the Left is very much against it.
The Left wishes to freeze the economy, shrink the economy, and redistribute everything. Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to make the case that we should oppose data centers because they&#8217;re making people sick.
Making people sick? Based on what?
“There&#8217;s no control over the radiation that&#8217;s happening here. But what we see is that these plants produce that ash, and then they have to do something,” she bloviated. “All they&#8217;re trying to do is dump it places. Where do they dump it in places? Rural areas, poor areas, disenfranchised areas, black and brown areas.”
“Meanwhile, all these folks are getting sick,” she continued. “Guarantee you we&#8217;ve got a high Medicaid population over here. And so now they they&#8217;re profiting off of all of this, and they don&#8217;t have to pitch into the cost at all for the health care burdens that they&#8217;re —&#8221;
Does she have a single bit of evidence that data centers are making people sick? Does she have one iota of evidence about this?
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Of course not.
The idea that they are disproportionately dumping data centers in black and brown areas is nuts. They&#8217;re putting data centers in proximity to areas where people can work on the AI, and you think they&#8217;re just going to build the data center in the middle of midtown Manhattan or something similar?
Let us look at a map on how we use our land, because we&#8217;re being told that all of our precious farmland is being eaten by the data centers. A map of the United States where each square represents roughly one million acres shows nearly the entire map is either pasture and range, cropland, or forest. There are a few special use areas and diminishingly small urban areas. The vast majority of America is population-empty. Based on the <a href="https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-center-land-use-issues-are-fake">analysis</a> of data analyst Andy Masley, by 2028, data centers will take up exactly how many squares of the map?
3.5 squares.
According to Masley, by 2030, data center buildings will take up 1/15 of the land we use to grow Christmas trees in America. That’s roughly 0.3% of the land that we use for prime farmland.
This is just silly. The catastrophism is designed to kill the innovation. The point is not to save our precious farmland. The point is to destroy the innovation. That&#8217;s what this is all about.
Elon Musk was pointing this out. He was speaking with Zanny Beddoes of The Economist about a wide variety of issues, and he pointed out that the socialistic redistribution scheme is nonsense, and so is the envy that suggests that he isn&#8217;t paying his taxes.
“For my stock options, I pay 40% income tax on a national basis,” he revealed. “And then because I spend about 30% of my time in California, I pay another sort of roughly a third of the California state taxes, which is now around 15%. So I pay about 45% in taxes, just so people know this &#8230; it&#8217;s quite roughly half. And then when I die, there&#8217;ll be another sort of 45%, roughly half, that will be taxed. So at the end of the day, I&#8217;ll have a quarter of what I have.”
She then went after him and said people really, really hate him, clucking, “But do you see why this makes people think that this man who has all this power, he&#8217;s the world&#8217;s richest man, he thinks he has a right to influence our politics. We started this conversation saying superlatives. It&#8217;s why people loathe you. I mean, some people do loathe you.”
“Yes, some people do,” he responded.
“But do you understand why?” she continued. “Do you think what you&#8217;re doing is helpful for Western democracies?”
“Maybe some people do loathe me,” he answered. “That&#8217;s probably true. I don&#8217;t care. But the fact that, as you pointed out, a quarter billion people follow me is that I think a lot more people actually like me than don&#8217;t. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize.”
He is not wrong.
This is one of the points that is worth making. It turns out that normie, rational Americans like things like free markets and American strength. We do.
That&#8217;s why the DSA program and those who subscribe to it, like Ocasio-Cortez, are too online.
Innovation is a hallmark of America.
We cannot let them hinder it.

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Elon Musk lit the fuse and didn’t look back.
In a blistering face-off with The Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, the world’s richest man brushed off claims he’s widely despised and flipped the script, insisting it’s the media that’s truly hated.
After Beddoes criticized him for his involvement in European politics, saying, “Why should you be able to shape European politics? You don&#8217;t even live there,” Musk responded mildly, “I think of it as sort of the West collectively.”
“But do you see why this makes people think that this man who has all this power, he&#8217;s the world&#8217;s richest man, he thinks he has a right to influence our politics,” Beddoes pressed. “It makes people, it&#8217;s why, you know, we started this conversation saying superlatives. It&#8217;s why people loathe you. I mean, some people do loathe you.”
Musk then took the gloves off: “Yes, some people do. &#8230; Maybe some people do loathe me, and that&#8217;s probably true. I don&#8217;t care. But the fact that as you pointed out, a quarter billion people follow me is that I think a lot more people actually like me than don&#8217;t. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize. Do you realize the media is despised?”
“The shoe is on the other foot,” Musk said, citing rock-bottom trust in journalism. “They hate you far more than they hate me.”
Beddoes had challenged Musk over his vocal support for what she described as far-Right parties across Europe. Musk rejected the label outright, arguing he’s simply backing “normal people” and mainstream policies like border security, safe cities, and controlled spending.
“What you call the far-Right falsely … these were completely normal positions 10 or 15 years ago,” he said, accusing critics of rewriting the political center.
He also took direct aim at journalists, warning that their portrayal of Right-leaning movements as extremist is “false and misleading and nonsense.”
The clash intensified over Musk’s repeated warnings about the United Kingdom — including his claim that “civil war in Britain is inevitable.” Beddoes pushed back hard, citing falling crime rates and her own experience living in London, calling Musk’s depiction exaggerated and harmful.
Musk stood firm.
“If current trends continue, it is,” he said, pointing to what he described as a growing population with values “antithetical to the West,” which he believes will inevitably spark conflict.
The two also sparred over free speech, with Musk condemning European governments for prosecuting social media posts and warning that censorship is a growing threat.
“That’s the sort of thing that I think is bad,” he said, while accusing the media of ignoring these issues.

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After criticizing Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; over its casting choices, billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk said he would be willing to bankroll an alternative adaptation of Homer&#8217;s epic. 
Musk, who previously <a href="https://deadline.com/2026/05/elon-musk-the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-cast-lupita-nyongo-helen-1236901704/">blasted</a> Nolan for &#8220;race-swapping&#8221; characters and suggested he was chasing awards with casting decisions, said he would be willing to pony up $100 million to produce an alternative adaptation directed by Mel Gibson.
It&#8217;s unclear whether Musk was serious, but the idea quickly gained traction after an X user suggested he bankroll Gibson&#8217;s version of Homer&#8217;s classic.
“I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek,” the user <a href="https://x.com/martianwyrdlord/status/2079640327170728085">wrote</a> on Tuesday. 
“I’m down,” Musk replied.
The original poster was blown away by the response, and even if nothing comes of it, there are already alternative “Odyssey” projects in the works. 
Later Tuesday, Musk posted that his artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Grok, would take a stab at it.
“Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,” Musk wrote, sharing a clip of a dialogue scene posted by another X user.
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I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) <a href="https://x.com/martianwyrdlord/status/2079640327170728085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The idea of competing adaptations has already begun taking shape. Days before Nolan’s blockbuster debuted, content generator Ash Koosha announced plans to release an AI-generated version of &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; later this year.
Koosha is best known for debuting another AI-generated feature, “Dreams of Violets,” at this year&#8217;s Tribeca Film Festival.
“We very much hope that Christopher Nolan’s film, The Odyssey, is a raging success at the box office, and in some way that our version of the journey of Odysseus might further that success by bringing to theaters those who might not otherwise come out to see the film, simply because they are curious to see the ultimate in human creation and compare it to one man’s collaboration with AI,” Koosha <a href="https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/15/ai-slop-version-of-the-odyssey-announced-prior-to-release-of-christopher-nolans-epic-block">said</a> of his version.
Meanwhile, “The Odyssey” has become the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-had-concerns-about-the-odyssey-now-theyre-praising-it">biggest box-office opening of Nolan’s career</a>. 
While some conservatives initially criticized aspects of the casting before the film&#8217;s release, many have praised it despite those reservations. Others, however, continue to object to several casting choices, including the decision to cast Elliot Page, a transgender-identifying woman, as a male soldier.

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Hard-Left actor Mark Ruffalo got shellacked on social media over the weekend after taking a self-righteous swipe at tech billionaire Elon Musk, with critics blasting the wealthy star for his stunning hypocrisy and total lack of self-awareness.
The &#8220;Avengers&#8221; star ignited a digital firestorm when he posted a cartoon titled “Elon Musk dines alone.” The cartoon depicted Musk sitting before a lavish feast, asking a starving young child across the table, “What are you staring at, African kid?” To which the child responds: “Sorry, I don’t mean to be rude, but I haven’t eaten since you killed USAID.”
Ruffalo wagged his finger at Musk, writing, “Hello @ElonMusk. This is how you are perceived. Not too late to course correct but it’s getting pretty late. You certainly have the extra money on hand to really help the people of the world instead of the hellbent road of chaos and destruction you are ludicrously barreling down.”
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Hello <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElonMusk</a>. This is how you are perceived. Not too late to course correct but it’s getting pretty late. You certainly have the extra money on hand to really help the people of the world instead of the hellbent road of chaos and destruction you are ludicrously barreling down.… <a href="https://t.co/O5ndSZzz7Q">pic.twitter.com/O5ndSZzz7Q</a>
&mdash; Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) <a href="https://x.com/MarkRuffalo/status/2078555462174233038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Social media users weren&#8217;t buying the A-lister&#8217;s virtue-signaling and immediately ripped the multi-millionaire actor to shreds.
&#8220;Lecturing others while sitting on tens of millions yourself is peak Hollywood,&#8221; fired back one commenter, noting Ruffalo’s estimated $35 million net worth and his $7 million Manhattan penthouse. &#8220;You could donate $25-30 million tomorrow and still live an extremely comfortable life. &#8230; You need a basic economics lesson and a mirror, because your hypocrisy is matched only by your lack of self-awareness.&#8221;
Others brought cold, hard receipts to expose the actor&#8217;s lecture, pointing out that Musk’s personal charitable giving totals roughly $8.2 billion to $8.5 billion over the years. In 2024 alone, the Musk Foundation granted $474 million to causes like pediatric research and STEM education, while SpaceX donated tens of millions in Starlink satellite terminals to keep Ukraine connected during Russian attacks.
&#8220;What percentage of your $35M net worth have you moved to effective causes at similar scale? Or is drawing memes the contribution?&#8221; another user blasted.
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Hey <a href="https://x.com/MarkRuffalo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarkRuffalo</a> Cute cartoon, but facts:
Elon transferred billions in Tesla stock to the Musk Foundation (now over $14B+ assets). 
2024 alone: $474M granted, record year, heavy on STEM education and paediatric research ($55M to St. Jude). Also funded carbon removal tech via…
&mdash; Mor Edge Insight (@MorEdge_Insight) <a href="https://x.com/MorEdge_Insight/status/2078600735843889392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Ruffalo’s defense of USAID also raised eyebrows, given the agency&#8217;s notorious track record of wasteful spending before its functions were absorbed by the State Department.
Lists of dubious government spending by USAID have revealed taxpayer dollars flowing into absurd projects, including $20 million for an Iraqi version of &#8220;Sesame Street,&#8221; $1.5 million for &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; in Serbia, $68,000 for dance classes in Wuhan, China, and funds that paid for Ukrainian fashion models to attend Paris Fashion Week. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snIbxC-YhGs">revealed</a> that millions of dollars intended for humanitarian aid ended up diverted to terrorists in Syria, while other lawmakers raised concerns about funds going to terrorists in Gaza.
Critics left Ruffalo with a simple reality check: if he&#8217;s so concerned about global hunger, he should put his own millions where his mouth is.
As one user bluntly put it: &#8220;If you think people need to be fed who aren&#8217;t, why don&#8217;t you feed them?&#8221;
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You&#39;re worth 35 million dollars. If you think people need to be fed who aren&#39;t, why don&#39;t you feed them? Feel free to go into debt to do it, which is what you&#39;re asking the country to do&#8230;.and if you&#39;re saying, &quot;Why does it have to me?&quot; That&#39;s the same question we&#39;re asking.
&mdash; John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) <a href="https://x.com/johnhawkinsrwn/status/2078599381121470814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who routinely reprimands the rich for &#8220;hoarding wealth,&#8221; is actually filthy rich himself and apparently trying to hide that reality from the public.
Khanna lives in a $6 million D.C. home, complete with a four-story elevator; his wife drives a $190,000 Range Rover, and his young children own three high-end private golf clubs and a significant stake in a $65 billion wealth management firm, according to a bombshell report published by Washington Free Beacon reporter Andrew Kerr.
Between Khanna, his wife, and his two children, his family&#8217;s net worth could exceed a staggering $340 million.
Khanna has inherited much of this wealth through his father-in-law, Monte Ahuja, an Indian-born auto parts magnate, investor, and philanthropist, the report notes.
Mere days ago, Khanna engaged in his typical vilification of the rich, suggesting wealthy people &#8220;hoard&#8221; their money.
&#8220;I want America to be a country where it&#8217;s easier to build wealth than it is to hoard it, and where workers don&#8217;t have to worry about medical debt and grocery costs when they should be enjoying time with their families,&#8221; he posted. &#8220;An economy that works for everyone is possible.&#8221;
&#8220;Speaking of hoarding wealth, Khanna’s two young children are the proud owners of THREE private golf courses in Ohio, where member initiation fees run upwards of $45k. Khanna’s children — still in elementary school — earned up to $2 million from their golf courses in 2024,&#8221; Kerr pointedly captioned the rep&#8217;s post.
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Speaking of hoarding wealth, Khanna’s two young children are the proud owners of THREE private golf courses in Ohio, where member initiation fees run upwards of $45k
Khanna’s children — still in elementary school — earned up to $2 million from their golf courses in 2024. <a href="https://t.co/Wjq82CarXK">https://t.co/Wjq82CarXK</a>
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) <a href="https://x.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/2072032101067620833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
What&#8217;s more, Khanna evidently doesn&#8217;t want the public to know how wealthy he actually is. Kerr&#8217;s report not only highlights Khanna&#8217;s massive wealth but also how the Democrat reports his finances, arguing that Khanna&#8217;s filing method makes the disclosures difficult to follow.
&#8220;The vast majority of House lawmakers file their financial disclosures in the digital format (left),&#8221; Kerr explained, captioning two examples of financial disclosures. &#8220;As you can see, this is actually legible.&#8221;
&#8220;Khanna [chooses] to file his in these ridiculous illegible analog checkbox tables (right),&#8221; he noted. &#8220;Much of what I reported today has been hiding in plain sight for years. Khanna chooses to file his disclosures in this manner.&#8221;
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The vast majority of House lawmakers file their financial disclosures in the digital format (left)
As you can see, this is actually legible.
Khanna choses to file his in these ridiculous illegible analog checkbox tables (right).
Much of what I reported today has been hiding… <a href="https://t.co/jTFZzZNvRC">https://t.co/jTFZzZNvRC</a> <a href="https://t.co/0oRlk3oKMr">pic.twitter.com/0oRlk3oKMr</a>
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) <a href="https://x.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/2072126684971589911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2026</a></blockquote>
Kerr gave an example of how Khanna reported his young children&#8217;s ownership of three private golf clubs &#8220;on page 126 of his 2024 financial disclosure,&#8221; using that analog checkbox-style. &#8220;Good luck finding this on your own,&#8221; he emphasized. &#8220;The document isn&#8217;t text-searchable and these tables are designed to be unreadable.&#8221;
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Ro Khanna reported his children&#8217;s ownership in three private golf clubs &amp; the income they received from them on page 126 of his 2024 financial disclosure.
Good luck finding this on your own. The document isn&#8217;t text-searchable and these tables are designed to be unreadable <a href="https://t.co/wzdysKYa63">pic.twitter.com/wzdysKYa63</a>
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) <a href="https://x.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/2072123961853235701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2026</a></blockquote>
Earlier this year, Khanna denounced the &#8220;lack of fairness in America,&#8221; speaking about wealth disparity. He later called wealth disparity and the concentration of billionaire wealth evidence of a &#8220;failed social contract.&#8221;
&#8220;My allegiance is with the working and middle class,&#8221; Khanna <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-ro-khanna-weekend-interview/">vowed</a>.
Folks online were quick to react to the report, including a target of Khanna&#8217;s, billionaire Elon Musk.
&#8220;Four-story elevator … wow,&#8221; he reacted. &#8220;Real &#8216;man of the people&#8217; he is.&#8221;
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Four-story elevator … wow
Real “man of the people” he is <a href="https://t.co/aDMG3ctYXo">https://t.co/aDMG3ctYXo</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2072086313160040675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
Others called Khanna a &#8220;fraud&#8221; and linked him to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who notably owns three homes while he denounces the rich for not paying their &#8220;fair share.&#8221; It&#8217;s unclear if Sanders or Khanna has ever offered more money to the government than the taxes they owed.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ro-khanna-plays-an-awkward-game-of-race-based-footsie">Ro Khanna Plays An Awkward Game Of Race-Based Footsie</a>

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