Police reported extensive damage to the Tesla hood, and assigned homicide investigators.
The driver of an electric scooter died on Tuesday after a crash with a Tesla in Miami Shores, according to authorities and video of the scene.
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said traffic homicide detectives responded to the scene at North Miami Avenue and Northeast 103rd Street and assumed the investigation before 10 a.m.
The CHP report suggests the Tesla locked onto the other car headed directly at it
According to the investigation, 30-year-old Shawn Borecha was driving a white 2021 Tesla Model 3 southbound on Highway 145 at an undetermined rate of speed… entering the northbound lane….
In an attempt to avoid a head-on collision, the Hyundai’s driver veered into the southbound lane, but Borecha simultaneously returned to the southbound lane, resulting in a head-on collision.
Axios published a real piece of work this week on Vice President JD Vance’s 2028 strategy. The sourcing tells you everything: “Vance aides,” “outside Vance allies,” “Republicans close to Vance,” “person familiar with Vance’s thinking.”
That’s not journalism. That’s dictatorship.
The headline discovery is how Vance plans to be a “voice of unity” against democracy. He says he will delay his “purity tests” until after he is in power. He says he will stay above the fray to take power while others do the dirty work for him.
This was published after Vance spoke at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, where he was asked to draw a line against antisemitism in the Republican coalition. His answer sounded like both an endorsement of antisemitism and a quote out of Mein Kampf:
When I say that I’m going to fight alongside of you, I mean all of you — each and every one.
All of you.
The rhetorical move Vance makes here is using the language of liberation to describe extermination. Freedom as the label for the death camp.
“Unity” as the label for welcoming antisemites. “Inclusivity” as the label for a coalition that includes those who want Jews eliminated. “All of you” when “all of you” means no liberals, Nazis are welcome.
The inversion is the technique. Use the opposite word. Call the thing by what it destroys.
“All of you — each and every one” SOUNDS inclusive. Yet when the question is whether to exclude Holocaust deniers, and the answer is no, then “inclusion” becomes the mechanism for targeting Jews. Welcoming the exterminators is expelling their targets.
That’s military intelligence doctrine, disinformation 101. And that’s the documented Nazi rhetorical method: weaponize the language of the thing you’re killing.
Historians refer to this as the Volksgemeinschaft playbook of Hitler. Inclusive language built his coalition, defined by who it targeted. Hitler campaigned on unity, like Vance, defining a People’s Community by targeting groups for extermination.
Vance’s “Unity” is Divisive
At that same AmericaFest, Ben Shapiro warned that the conservative movement was “in serious danger” from figures trafficking in “conspiracism and antisemitism.” Steve Bannon responded by calling Shapiro “a cancer.” The weekend featured open warfare over whether to embrace or exclude Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and obvious Nazi celebrating Nazism.
Vance’s position: diversity to the max. No exclusions. Unity as disunity.
When a Telegram chat surfaced showing Republican elected officials invoking Hitler and using racist slurs, Vance said it was welcome. The same man who earlier said liberal college group chats needed to be cleansed and regulated, suddenly normalized hate speech as acceptable like “anything said in a college group chat.”
Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, was direct about Vance failing to call out the Nazism of the GOP:
I’ll never vote for someone who is ambiguous in their stance against antisemitism…
Axios reported none of this.
They were too busy with access to a “five-pronged plan” of antisemitism to transcribe eagerly.
Vance’s Hitler Thing
Vance texted his 2016 Yale roommate Josh McLaurin:
I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.
Read that again.
Vance did not present good versus bad. He said Nixon was useful if not ideal, but hey, imagine America’s Hitler. More ideal? Vance is offering both options as on the table. Both are outcomes he can work with, and perhaps, arguably he even is leaning more towards Hitler.
The standard narrative is that Vance “evolved” or sold out for power. But the real pattern is actually easy to see:
2016: Floats “America’s Hitler” as acceptable.
2025: Won’t condemn people who actually invoke Hitler, and uses “All of you — each and every one” to explicitly make room for Nazis running America. Or as Fuentes put it recently, 40% of the White House already are Nazis.
Vance didn’t abandon a position to land on antisemitism as his voice. He found his voice could be louder among his people.
Coin-operated Vance
The transformation came with a price tag. Peter Thiel, the infamous tech billionaire who preaches ACTS 17 flavors of Nazism and believes democracy and freedom are incompatible, spent $15 million on Vance’s 2022 Senate race.
That’s the largest single-donor contribution to a Senate candidate ever recorded. Thiel’s $15 million wasn’t really campaign funding. It was an anti-democratic installation of an ideological product in government as part of a documented territorial sovereignty project (Nazi Lebensraum) that Thiel has relentlessly pursued through charter cities, defense contracts, and now the Vice Presidency.
Before the Vance installation came the trials: Thiel hired Vance at Mithril Capital in 2016. Then came the venture fund: Thiel backed Vance’s firm Narya Capital with roughly $100 million. Then came the introduction: Thiel personally brought Vance to Mar-a-Lago in February 2021 to connect with the man Vance had praised as America’s Hitler.
By then, Vance deleted what were being discussed as a pattern of divisive and critical tweets. The product was being recast and made ready for market.
The “evolution” wasn’t a change of heart. It was simply a Thiel project to refine Nazism into a coin-operated breach of American politics. David Duke used to be unelectable, as his campaign manager proved in 1996 with an “America First” platform.
Axios Complicit in the Antisemitism Campaign
Susie Wiles, Trump’s own chief of staff, acknowledged to Vanity Fair that Vance’s pro-Trump conversion appeared “politically expedient.”
Trump’s chief of staff said that. On the record.
Axios had access to the same information. They chose to publish this instead:
Vance aides say he’s focused on next November’s midterms, not thinking about 2028.
This is journalism failing to journal. Axios believes it needs “people familiar with his thinking” to return their calls. Axios believes real coverage ends the relationship. So they print a one-sided press release, format the “five-pronged plan,” and move on like they did something more than repeat lies.
The actual story was right in front of them. The Vice President of the United States, at a major conservative gathering, refused to draw any line against antisemitism in his coalition. The Vice President literally just said his version of unity is hate, is white supremacy, is where the “all” and “everyone” means a very particular form of unification.
He did this publicly, on stage, the same weekend Axios was taking notes from his allies about his “unity” message.
They had the story. They chose access to the antisemitism.
Real Unity
Vance’s “unity” isn’t despite the antisemitism. The antisemitism is the unity. It’s what holds the Vance coalition together with the explicit promise that there will be no exclusions to stop hate, no tests for safety. Holocaust deniers are now explicitly welcome. Hitler-invokers are explicitly welcome. January 6 rioters? All of them invited, each and every one, to attack diversity.
That’s the 2028 campaign. Axios just repeated it for you without questioning it.
They printed antisemitism of the Vance campaign for 2028 as his “voice of unity”.
Fortune just quoted ex-Palantir New York Assemblymember Alex Bores on deepfakes. He says fake faces made by AI are “a solvable problem” using the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) standard that cryptographically signs media files with tamper-evident credentials.
Bores’ cup is half full. That’s not a real solution, though. The half he’s missing is the half that matters most in deepfakes.
Abusing an HTTPS Analogy
Bores lazily compares C2PA adoption to the shift from HTTP to HTTPS in the 1990s:
It’d be like going to your banking website and only loading HTTP, right? You would instantly be suspect.
The analogy is instructive, and not in the way he intends. HTTPS works in very discrete ways:
For C2PA to work the same way, platforms would need to refuse to display unsigned content. That breaks the web, ending up the opposite of HTTPS, because it rises up to a digital rights management issue far above the infrastructure. It also creates a two-tier system where institutional media gets a pay-to-speak trust signal and everyone else gets suspicion and cancelled by default.
Even Bores acknowledges the adoption problem:
The challenge is the creator has to attach it.
Like, self-signed?
HTTPS succeeded because servers had to implement or get regulated out of existence. That’s like saying gas pipes can’t leak, rather than the gas has to be quality content. CardSystems was crushed for failures to stop leaks. PCI DSS dropped a hammer on all payment card transactions everywhere if they were leaky. HTTPS was mandated on the transit path with an absolute ban threat.
In 2009 Google called me into their offices and begged for help continuing use of broken and insecure SSL, because they thought I could lobby for them to stop PCI mandating strong HTTPS. They liked leaky pipes. Talk about regulatory authority forcing innovation. Google lost that argument, big time. And I certainly didn’t take their money for dirty work. I told Google to stop being a jerk and help PCI help them protect their own users. There’s simply no equivalent forcing function like this for individual content creators.
Verification Isn’t Perception: Age of the Integrity Breach
The deep problem is that C2PA solves for the wrong layer. Cryptographic provenance answers whether content is signed by a trusted source. It does nothing for the integrity of a viewer, whether they accurately perceive what they see.
As I wrote yesterday, the people who are most vulnerable to synthetic face manipulation are those with the least levels of perceptual training. Beware the isolated communities behind in the “face-space” race, who never developed the dimensions to distinguish unfamiliar groups.
They can’t detect fakes because they never learned to see the reals.
And a C2PA warning label ain’t gonna fix that.
A Tale of Two Problems
Bores is right about the obvious stuff, infrastructure matters. C2PA still should be the default in devices like cameras and even phones. Platforms should surface provenance data. Institutions should require it for evidentiary contexts.
But infrastructure solves an institutional problem related to journalism, courts, banking, and official communications. It doesn’t solve for the human problem.
The cup is half empty because the human problem is perceptual poverty. The solution isn’t going to be cryptographic. It’s exposure – structured, high-volume exposure that builds out the perceptual dimensions people need to see what they’re looking at.
C2PA answers: “Should I trust a source?”
Perceptual training answers: “Can I see what’s actually in front of me?”
Both questions matter, yet Bores is only asking the far less important one.