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  "path": "/2026/06/16/the-spacex-ipo-sends-elon-musk-and-trumps-starlink-cronyism-into-the-thermosphere/",
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  "textContent": "Last week Elon Musk successfully conned America and U.S. regulators into signing off on his preposterous SpaceX IPO, which immediately generated Musk $75 billion by comically over-stating the value of SpaceX, xAI, and Starlink. Then bone-grafting the entire pile of bullshit to the U.S. economy and your retirement account under the pretense that space data […]",
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