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Watching Tesla tumble further overnight in the Futures market while listening to “Do you Hear the People Sing?” is strangely satisfying.
April 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
April 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
April 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
After years of Republicans falsely accusing Dems of buying elections, Musk running most brazen scheme in modern US history to quite literally buy Wisconsin Supreme Court

This is why today’s election huge referendum on whether oligarchy or democracy prevails

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk is running the most brazen scheme to buy an election in modern US history
After years of falsely accusing Democrats of buying elections, Musk is actually trying to do it in Wisconsin.
www.motherjones.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The markets from day to day pinball between REALLY wanting to believe our economic policy is not dictated by a psychopath and grudgingly accepting the mountain of evidence to the contrary.
March 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So … the State decides what’s “proper ideology” for museums now?
Trump targets 'improper ideology' at Smithsonian museums in new executive order — NBC News
The order states that Vice President JD Vance will be in charge of efforts to prohibit federal funding for Smithsonian programs that are not in line with the administration's goals.
apple.news
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Turns out having a Cabinet composed entirely of incompetent fools is a bad idea.
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Mar 18
So WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

“In no uncertain terms is this an audit,” claims the second auditor. “It’s a heist, stealing a vast amount of government data."
'It's a Heist': Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
www.wired.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling

a) a single weapons contract or
b) a single Elon Musk contract?
March 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The government email address of powerful unelected bureaucrat Elon Musk is now publicly available.

erm71@who.eop.gov
Here’s Elon Musk’s Government Email (Do With This What You Will)
Elon Musk’s government email address is now public.
newrepublic.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Never been more ashamed to be an American than today, after watching how Trump just treated Zelensky. Trump is vile and depraved. Sickening.
February 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
50501 today.
February 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
February 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
oig.usaid.gov
February 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
February 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Seems like the American people once threw Tea into Boston Harbor for less than what’s happening right now RE: Musk
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM