Faiz Siddiqui

Hello bskyers, My upcoming book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk, is up for pre-order. It delves into the playbook Musk is using today, providing the definitive look at the 6 yrs that transformed his reputation. Out May 6! Use PREORDER25 at B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hubris-max...

🚨 Tesla posts a $400M profit, down 71% year-over-year. Revenue is down nearly $2B compared to the same time last year. Wow.

NEW: The 19-year-old Elon Musk surrogate known as “Big Balls” has a State Dept. email address and is listed as a “Senior Advisor” Role gives Edward Coristine, reported to have been fired from a prev. job for leaking info, broad visibility into State Dept data www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: The first excerpt from my book HUBRIS MAXIMUS details how Elon Musk raged over a Tesla death investigation in a 27-minute phone call, threatening to sue, eventually hanging up on the chairman of the NTSB. When the line went dead, investigators were stunned: "He hung up on us.” wapo.st/4jdONIx

“If you let takers vote, they will not only take more and more, they will make it more and more rewarding to be a taker...” Newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk:

My new book intro addresses what Elon Musk has been posting about relentlessly over the past several days: the dismantling of USAID. I wrote it in January 2026 and had no idea Musk would be on a tirade about the cuts the same week it published. I hope you'll read it in full.

🚨 My book Hubris Maximus is out in paperback TODAY with a new intro that delves into Elon Musk’s tear through Washington and the indelible stain on his life’s work that has resulted from wanton cuts to lifesaving aid. Pick up a copy wherever you get your books: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

SpaceX’s orbital data center plans are about as thought out as Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Take an existing problem and move it somewhere else. (Traffic: underground. Data centers: space). And the Mars colony? “[If] anyone else said it, they would probably have him institutionalized.” wapo.st/43Knxvm

New: Trump changed the requirements to allow Musk's Starlink to win subsidies for rural internet. Now it's boxing out competition that customers hoped would emerge. "They’re monopolizing the market and calling it doing us a favor," @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social tells me. wapo.st/3Si4g1z

If Elon Musk was really serious about his proposal for "universal high income," @scottsantens.com tells me, he could start funding it right now. But he isn't doing that, and in fact is spending his time complaining about the mechanism economists see for achieving it: taxation. wapo.st/4uYjCGE

NEW: SpaceX, on the verge of record-setting IPO, has posted $13 billion of losses since 2023. "The financial success of the business named and founded for operations in rocketry and space is now a huge bet on AI," which it says has a $26.5 trillion market, nearly the whole U.S. GDP wapo.st/4uH2mGp

SpaceX financial performance by year: 2023: ~$4.6B loss 2024: $791M profit 2025: ~$4.9B loss 2026 (through March): ~$4.3B loss this is on track to the biggest IPO in history

SpaceX believes it has a $28.5 trillion total addressable market (the U.S. GDP is about $32 trillion)

SpaceX prospectus is out www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...