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Ed Morrissey     10:00 PM | June 05, 2025 AP Photo/Evan Vucci Musking the tabs ... or Trumping them  ... Ed: I'm not sure what started this feud. However, Musk had already advocated for an end to green subsidies that would have impacted his businesses, and I don't think a place at the trough is what motivated Musk. On the other hand, though ...  === Tesla on Thursday suffered its worst single-day drop in more than four years as President Trump threatened to kill government contracts for Elon Musk’s companies as the feud between them went nuclear. Shares in the electric vehicle maker tanked $47.35, or 14%, to $284.70,  wiping out $153 billion in market value . Ed: Clearly, financial incentives and disincentives will be in play from this point forward.  === Ed: I'm not sure anyone "wins" this war. Trump may need Musk a lot less now, but the same has always been true the other way around. Musk isn't going to run for office after this, so he can just go back to...

John Sexton     10:40 PM | June 05, 2025 AP Photo/John Raoux, File Atlantic  staff writer Helen Lewis has a new book coming out titled " The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea ." The book itself won't be released for another two weeks but she wrote an article based on the book which gives a pretty good idea what it's about. I can't prove it but it feels like the motivation behind this had a lot to do with dunking on Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and any other Tech Bros who have veered off the  progressive plantation . I’ve been thinking about which people attract the  genius  label for the past few years, because it’s so clearly a political judgment. You can tell what a culture values by who it labels a genius—and also what it is prepared to   tolerate. The Renaissance had its great artists. The Romantics lionized androgynous, tubercular poets. Today we are in thrall to tech innovators and brilliant jerks in Silicon Valley. You can imagine how...