A man walks a dog in front of the Governor’s mansion in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico on April 7, 2020. (Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)

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UPDATED 5:25 PM PT – Thursday, December 15, 2022

The U.S. House has passed a bill that would allow Puerto Rico to hold its first binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain independence on Thursday.

Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) commented on the subject.

“It is crucial to me that any proposal in Congress to decolonize Puerto Rico be informed and led by Puerto Ricans,” said Grijalva.

The bill passed 233-191 with some Republican support. If voters on the island are to approve it, Congress would be committed to accept Puerto Rico into the United States as the 51st state. Voters, however, do have the choice to vote for outright independence or independence with free association. The terms for that would be outline following negotiations over foreign affairs, U.S. citizenship and use of the U.S. dollar.

This proposal has exasperated many people on the island which already has held seven non-binding referendums on its status with no overwhelming majority on any of them. The last of which was in November 2020 with 53% of votes for statehood and 47% against.

Puerto Rican attorney, Pablo Jose Hernandez Rivera, said that approval of the bill by the House would be “inconsequential” like previous bills of 1998 and 2010.

“We Puerto Ricans are tired of the fact that the New Progressive Party has spent 28 years in Washington spending resources on sterile and undemocratic status projects,” Rivera said.

 The bill will now go to a split Senate where it would need to be passed before the end of the year deadline.

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Elon Musk and son X Æ A-12 on stage TIME Person of the Year on December 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIME)

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UPDATED 4:39 PM PT – Thursday, December 15, 2022

A stalker has scaled Elon Musk’s car that was driving his 2-year-old son X.

The deranged stalker targeted Musk’s vehicle, thinking that the billionaire was inside. In response to this incident, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO announced his plans to take legal action against ElonJet creator Jack Sweeney as well as against other organizations. Musk claimed that they “supported harm to [his] family.”

Musk announced that accounts on Twitter will be suspended if they publish “real-time location info,” otherwise known as doxxing, to protect user safety. However, if it is not a real-time update, then it is not a physical safety violation that would endanger others.

A month prior to this incident, the Twitter CEO said that he would not ban ElonJet even though the account was sharing his real-time jet location. After the stalker incident, Sweeney’s Twitterbot and personal accounts have been suspended.

Musk is currently taking action to protect himself and his family’s safety, as well as other the safety of users on the platform.

Musk has called on fans and supporters alike to help him “recognize” the person or car. This has received backlash for violating Twitter’s platform’s. On Twitter’s Help Center, it is stated that users are not allowed to post “private media, such as images or videos of private individuals, without their consent.”

Commenters also strongly feel that this post from Musk is now taking part in doxxing. A topic he has spoken about.

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