He woke as if Elon Musk himself had grabbed him by the shoulders. Mr. Musk spent $44 billion of mostly other people’s money to buy Twitter, rebrand it to X and guarantee that he could continue to irritate people on a global scale. For Mr. Rangel, what was figurative for others had become literal: When a tycoon stomps, the earth shakes. Mr. Musk’s company SpaceX had launched a new iteration of its Starship rocket about 25 miles away. But Mr. Rangel still couldn’t go back to sleep.

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Persons: Noel Rangel, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Donald Trump —, —, Jeff Bezos, Musk, Rangel, stomps, couldn’t Organizations: Twitter, SpaceX Locations: Gulf of Mexico, Brownsville , Texas, West Texas