Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦

"Musk does not have the authority to shut down a government department and the legality of such a move is in question."

What a very BBC way of saying "Musk is staging a fucking coup against the US people"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjdmx12j9no

#Musk #Coup #USPolitics

Musk says USAID to shut down as employees told to stay home

The international aid agency's website is down and security officials were put on leave, US media reports

BBC News
Feb 3, 2025 at 4:47pmWeb
Show threadBruce MirkenFeb 3, 2025
@statsguy In the US, #NPR and others use similarly coy language. This morning NPR called it something like "an aggressive assertion of executive authority." That's like calling a beheading "an aggressive weight-loss program."