Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — got prized positions alongside Trump on stage.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has apparently decided to let bygones be bygones. And he’s ready to help Trump with his dark vision for America.

In our news wrap Thursday, Blue Origin sent its first rocket into orbit with a successful test of the uncrewed New Glenn system, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed state Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill Marco Rubio's Senate seat,

According to China Central Television, the Tiandu-1, Tiandu-2 and Queqiao-2 satellites have successfully tested communications from moon orbit to Earth. Credit: Space.com | Footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta

Like the oil and railroad tycoons before them, America’s tech bros now have a seat at the president’s table. |

Republican governors were relegated to watching President Donald Trump’s inauguration from an overflow room Monday, while a clique of increasingly MAGA-friendly tech billionaires were granted coveted seats at the Capitol Rotunda ceremony.

Trump's inauguration drew several business and tech CEOs, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew.

Billionaire tech CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sundar Pichai of Google, Tim Cook of Apple, and Elon Musk got prime seats at President Trump’s inauguration in the Capitol

The most self-serving, venal, greedy, and entitled members of Silicon Valley are hoping to reshape American governance in their image, with the help of a willing and pliant Trump. The enshittification of America has begun.

Major tech companies like Meta, Apple, Google and TikTok were represented in the front row at Trump's second presidential inauguration.

Klein: Right. A big part of everything right now is Trump persuading his own people, the demoralized and dispirited Democratic opposition and the rest of the world that he is strong. That he is coming in with momentum. That they are doing a lot all at once. And whether or not you see anything changing, the vibe will be that things are changing.

The program allows companies to bring in educated foreign professionals for “specialty” occupations that are hard to fill with U.S. workers, but critics say it costs Americans jobs.