Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.

He got them all.

Read the full story: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Table titled "Bills Musk companies took a stand on during the 2025 Texas legislative session." It shows how 2 Texas House and 2 Texas Senate Bills that SpaceX supported all passed. These bills urge Congress to make spaceports eligible for tax-exempt private activity bonds, ban/criminalize drones over spaceports, give the Texas Space Commission power to close highways/gulf beaches near SpaceX's launch site, and define spaceports as critical infrastructure. At the bottom of the graphic are the logos of ProPublica, Texas Tribune, and KUT News.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

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It's not exactly a "space port".

It's more of a "rocket pieces and flames generator."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social "best government money can buy" :(

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social oligarchs and their fiefdoms

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social What't the status now that he has burned down the launch pad?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social

    This land is my land. It is not your land. If you don’t get off it, I’ll use the government…

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social Betcha Abbott will do whatever the Orange Freaky felon says here in TexBanistan

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social
    "Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX..."
    This feels like LouisXIV, "L'etat, c'est moi". And I always thought the U.S. stood for democracy and freedom. But that was in the days of Roosevelt, when America was still great.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

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    I wonder how the border land Cards Against Humanity bought before SpaceX showed up is doing. (Last i heard they were suing Elon for trespassing and using i the land for storage)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social

    Hey closing beaches and highways to prevent deaths from musk space X self destructing crappy space rocket simulations makes sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

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    "Defines space ports as critical infrastructure"?

    That's insane. What about society breaks if a rocket isn't launched on time?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Nothing now.

    If we continue the way we have, the only resources left will be quite distant.

    We need those resources coming back to earth by the time we run out.

    Or we, as humans, need to die off as a species and get over ourselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @ProPublica@newsie.social seeing trump and elon covering for each other twould be laughable if not absurd

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