DOGE job cuts shake Trump-voting West Virginia town | REUTERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9LHUPTMU7w
"Jennifer pigot voted for Trump...
in February she was fired from her civil service job...
"conversation now, it's like you knew this was coming.
But we didn't.
Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives."" ["OUR lives." Leopards... faces]
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Cruelty #Trump #GOP #USPol #Jobs #News #US #USA
Trump Rushes to Do President Elon Musk’s Dirty Work With South Africa
#DonaldTrump attacked South Africa right after the country refused one of Elon Musk’s #business projects.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192469/donald-trump-elon-musk-south-africa-starlink
"“ #Starlink is not allowed to operate in #SouthAfrica, because I’m not black,” Musk [lied]...
policy stipulates that all companies that do business in the nation must have at least 30% of their ownership or economic involvement owned by #Black South Africans."
Elon Musk's "affinity for Nazi salutes have also called into question his racial ideology, especially as a descendant of #Nazi sympathizers. That is according to his father, Errol Musk, who told the Podcast and Chill Network in November that the billionaire’s maternal grandparents supported #AdolfHitler and were members of the #German Nazi Party in #Canada before moving to #SouthAfrica in support of #apartheid."
https://newrepublic.com/post/192469/donald-trump-elon-musk-south-africa-starlink
Is Elon Regulating His Own Rockets Now?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-elon-regulating-his-own-rockets-now
"One of Elon Musk’s #Starship rockets exploded over the #GulfOfMexico early yesterday evening, creating a spectacular #fireworks -like display and disrupting commercial air traffic...
#Musk had claimed repeatedly that he was over-regulated by the #FAA, especially after the agency fined #SpaceX $633,000 for launching rockets with unapproved changes."
#ElonMusk #Explosion #Crash #Tech #Space #Corruption #Coup #USPol #News #US #USA
" #Musk has been in de facto control of the #FAA through #DOGE for the last 6 weeks. He appears to be on the verge of taking a major contract away from #Verizon & giving it to his company #Starlink...
FAA announced that it had issued #SpaceX a new license to authorizing Starship Flight 8 despite the fact that the investigation into the January explosion was still ongoing...
Musk’s de facto control over the FAA has led to more lax oversight of his rocket launches."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-elon-regulating-his-own-rockets-now
The Diseases Are Coming
Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government tear will have lasting effects on global health.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/diseases-doge-trump/681964/
"DOGE’s slash-and-burn campaign has hit everything from the #NIH to the National #Weather Service. The cuts to global #health, however, are especially alarming...
Undermining even one of these institutions would have posed a serious threat; gutting them all at once is an invitation for future outbreaks."
In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/in-affidavit-former-social-security
"detailed how deputies for #ElonMusk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive #databases...
also warned that careless actions by Musk’s #Doge could lead to interruptions in #SocialSecurity payments."
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Data #Privacy #News #US #USA
In an affidavit filed in federal court on Friday, a former senior civil servant at the Social Security Administration (SSA) detailed how deputies for Elon Musk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive databases.
Musk's Tesla facilities in US face 'Takedown' protests
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvze9dzq8vo
" #Tesla facilities across the #US are facing protests and vandalism in response to the political role #ElonMusk... has played in the #Trump administration.
Most #TeslaTakedown protests have been peaceful, but a few have been destructive with fires intentionally set at Tesla showrooms and charging stations in #Colorado & #Massachusetts last week."
#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Musk #GOP #USPol #News #USA #USNews
Your weather app could miss the next big storm. Blame DOGE.
Legendary TV meteorologist Tom Skilling says targeting the National Weather Service puts us all in jeopardy.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/your-weather-app-could-miss-the-next
"The US #government ‘s stellar #weather info service is being torn apart & likely sold for parts [by] #ElonMusk & #Doge... experienced #scientists fired... The loss of expertise is profound... We’ll all be less safe, the #economy will suffer"
OPM Watchdog Says Review of DOGE Work Is Underway
The acting inspector general says the Office of Personnel Mgmt is investigating whether any “emerging threats” have arisen as Elon Musk’s #DOGE works to rapidly transform #government systems.
https://www.wired.com/story/opm-doge-review-underway/
"In addition to #OPM, #Democrats have pressed for similar #security assessments at five other agencies...
Congressional #Republicans have committed to little, if any, formal oversight of DOGE’s work"
FAA Halts Flights as Elon Musk’s Rocket Blows Up Yet Again
Passengers had to deal with flight delays thanks to #ElonMusk playing #space.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192472/faa-halts-flights-musk-spacex-rocket-blows-up
"Yet again, one of Elon Musk’s #SpaceX rockets exploded... grounding #flights across #Florida as fiery debris fell from the sky...
This is the 2nd consecutive #explosion of a SpaceX rocket. On Jan 16, a rocket failed shortly after launching, also diverting dozens of flights as #debris fell from the sky"
Marco Rubio Finally Loses It at Elon Musk in Trump Cabinet Meeting
The two advisers got into a heated argument over DOGE-backed firings.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192493/marco-rubio-elon-musk-fight-donald-trump
"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, alongside other miffed agency heads, laid into billionaire bureaucrat #ElonMusk during Thursday’s meeting of Donald Trump’s #Cabinet...
In the end, #Trump defended #Rubio"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #Government #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
Trump Flips Out When Asked About Testy Musk and Rubio Clash
#DonaldTrump shut down a reporter who dared ask about the growing feud between Elon Musk and his Cabinet officials.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192506/trump-reaction-musk-rubio-fight-cabinet-meeting
"Donald Trump got upset when a reporter asked him about “clashes” between #ElonMusk and members of his #Cabinet...
“No clash, I was there. You’re just a troublemaker, and you’re not supposed to be asking that question""
#News #Media #Press #TrumpLies #Musk #Coup #Corruption #GOP #USPol #USA
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
...Elon Musk has wanted a #government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-has-wanted-the-government-shut-down/
“You know none of this is about saving #money, right?” says a 3rd #Republican familiar with the behind-the-scenes push from #Musk. “It’s all about destroying a liberal power base.”
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #Press #US #USA
The DOGE Helpline
Comms from Armageddon
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-doge-helpline
"The scene: an office in the #WestWing ... with a "DOGE Helpline" sign on the door. Four consumer relations specialists take phone calls.
Rep 1 "...The point is to create the conditions for the survival of the fittest. That's #American, right?"
Rep 2 "We... create an #environment of desperation and hatred of Americans. #Americans will show their best side in these situations"
"Rep. 1 "...such a competition is rigged from the beginning, since it is organized by an #oligarch who controls the govt. He is fit. You are not. That is natural."
...
"Rep. 1. “...yes, the point is to make the #government entirely dysfunctional for the rest of you. But, right, we will keep the govt functional for us..."
Rep. 4 "Of course we lie. Lying is good. Let #science & the #humanities compete with other opinions in a free market of ideas."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-doge-helpline
Are Trump and Musk Breaking Up?
A conversation with Politico's Jonathan Martin
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/are-trump-and-musk-breaking-up
"Nota Bene four things: (1) #Trump World is rattled and in CYA-mode about Musk’s cuts; (2) Trump gave a green light to cabinet members to go after #Musk, blame him for reckless cuts, and call him a liar; (3) Trump may have clipped his fellow megalomaniac’s wings; and (4) the whole story leaked out."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #Podcast #USA
A conversation with Politico's Jonathan Martin
The Fascist Tech Bro Takeover Is Here
https://www.theindex.media/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here-2/
"Musk's $277 million campaign contribution secured him unprecedented access to the levers of #Government & cemented his grip on the #political machine... Musk's influence has infected every arm of Govt. And he is using his #wealth, his control of Twitter's husk, & his presence in the #Trump orbit to steer the country away from #democratic principles & toward oligarchic rule."
"At the core of this "movement" lurks #CurtisYarvin, whose political ideology... has provided the intellectual framework for dismantling #democracy. His #DarkEnlightenment philosophy promotes a #world where governments serve only the Superior (defined, of course, by Yarvin), a select few inherit #power, and the #public exists to obey...
his masturbatory notions of hyper-fascism now resonate among maladjusted, incellionaire #tech executives"
https://www.theindex.media/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here-2/
The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk & Corruption
A ‘naïve’ #SupremeCourt delivered lawless #greed & #cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court
"The court’s 5–4 #CitizensUnited decision, allowing unlimited corporate, interest-group, & individual spending on elections, did trigger dire predictions... But even the most pessimistic among them fell short of imagining #American reality today."
#Musk #Trump #Coup #GOP #Corruption #USPol #Politics #News #US
Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Directly Into Trump Political Operation
#ElonMusk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own #superPAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on Trump in the past...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html
"Elon Musk has signaled to Trump’s advisers in recent days that he wants to put $100 million into groups controlled by the #Trump political operation."
#Musk #Trump #Corruption #Coup #GOP #CitizensUnited #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
Trump & Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the #Authoritarian Playbook
The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of #Corruption
https://lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and-musks-power-sharing-agreement
" #Trump has a novel power-sharing arrangement w/an unelected private citizen who is essentially executing a #HostileTakeover of the US #government to capture #data... & use our country as a laboratory for a new form of #authoritarian techno-governance that requires the wrecking of #Democracy"
Trump, an E.V. Naysayer, Gives Tesla and Musk a White House Exhibition
#Trump has spent years bashing electric vehicles. But with #ElonMusk by his side, he said he would buy a bright red one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-buy-tesla-elon-musk.html
"Trump hosted an exclusive #car show at the #WhiteHouse on Tues afternoon.
The only company represented: #Tesla. The only purpose: helping Elon #Musk...
a president using the backdrop of the White House to boost sales for a... top donor."
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for #schools to buy food from nearby #farms.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796
"State officials were notified Friday of USDA’s decision to end the LFS program for this year...
“Donald Trump and #ElonMusk have declared that feeding #children and supporting local #farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’""
#Musk #Trump #Corruption #Coup #GOP #USPol #Agriculture #News #US #USA
Musk Has Triggered A Corporate Deregulation Bomb
A #Delaware bill would award #ElonMusk $56 billion, shield corporate executives from liability, and strip away voting #power from shareholders.
https://www.levernews.com/musk-has-triggered-a-corporate-deregulation-bomb/
"If lawmakers don’t enact the #law, which was written by Musk’s own lawyers, the billionaire mogul and his allies are threatening a mass exodus of companies out of the state."
#Musk #Corruption #Coup #Business #Deregulation #Politics #Money #USPol #News #US #USA
Veteran Chains Himself Outside White House to Protest Trump and Musk
The 80-yr-old veteran said #DonaldTrump and #ElonMusk are “killing veterans.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/192559/veteran-chains-white-house-protest-trump-musk
"locked himself to a metal post... a pipe around his hands reading “King #Trump and Pres #Musk are killing #veterans”...
he & his fellow veterans “are marshaling on [March] 14th at noon & marching all over the country to say one simple thing: Veterans will not stand for this any longer.”"
DOGE Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/doge-has-become-what-it-claimed-to-destroy/
"DOGE is the #DeepState. Wired’s Brian Barrett made this crucial observation last week & I can’t get it out of my mind. For all the talk during the last decade of the supposed “deep state” of #unelected bureaucrats controlling the #government, which was never actually true, #DOGE has become the very deep state they falsely claimed existed previously."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #USA
"the people who spent years warning us about an imaginary #DeepState have built an actual one. The people who claimed to fear unaccountable bureaucrats have installed literally unaccountable bureaucrats. The people who insisted they would drain the swamp have filled it with their own particularly toxic sludge.
Their accusations weren’t warnings — they were spoilers."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/doge-has-become-what-it-claimed-to-destroy/
#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Tech #News #US #USA
From US Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/
"The US District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction commanding #DOGE to comply with citizen requests under the Freedom of Information Act. This #law encompasses the Federal #Privacy Act of 1974, which entitles any citizen to access personal #information held in any US #government records system."
Privacy Act request form link:
https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/images/Raskin_DOGE_Privacy_Request.pdf
Fill it out. Send it in.
Judge Delivers Massive Blow to DOGE Quest to Keep Everything Secret
A federal judge has just ordered the release of DOGE records.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192581/judge-doge-release-records
"Elon Musk’s #Doge must open its #records to the #public under federal #law.
#US District Judge... said the DOGE office has so much #power & “unusual secrecy” that its internal documents should be urgently released under the Freedom of Information Act."
#Resist #Resistance #FOIA #ElonMusk #Musk #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-staffers-amid-ongoing-federal-cuts/
"Elon Musk’s #Doge has fired more than a hundred employees working for the #US government’s #cybersecurity agency #CISA, including “red team” staffers...
affected employees were axed immediately when their network access was revoked with no prior warning."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Tech #Technology #Security #NationalSecurity #News #US #USA
Trump’s Crazed Midnight Tirade Over Musk’s Unpopularity Shows Weakness
#Trump hates #green energy—but he loves Teslas, which he’s now pathetically pleading with his followers to buy as a show of loyalty & devotion to #ElonMusk.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192609/trump-tesla-musk-unpopularity-shows-weakness
"Trump unleashed a wild rant endorsing Elon Musk’s signature #EV. Trump pledged to buy a #Tesla himself as a “show of confidence” in Musk’s so-called #Doge, whose actions have grown ever more... politically toxic"
Trump Turns White House Into an Elon Musk Marketing Gimmick
#DonaldTrump proves he’s totally subservient to #ElonMusk with his #Tesla stunt.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192586/donald-trump-subservient-elon-musk-tesla-stunt
"Elon Musk took such a massive financial hit Monday that ... #Trump is now moonlighting as a #car salesman...
It’s not clear why Trump’s spotlight would lend any help to #Musk now—the two are already publicly linked, and isn’t that part of the problem?"
#Corruption #CorruptGOP #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Cars #Sale #News #US #USA
Elon Musk and the the Threat of the Over-Mighty Subject, Part I
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-musk-and-the-the-threat-of-the-over-mighty-subject-part-i
"Trump isn’t able to manage #Musk in the way he abuses and brutalizes the other toadies who crowd around him. Musk is clearly driving this train, with #Trump perhaps excited by the pain and anguish he’s creating, but still at best only okaying things after the fact."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #Cruelty #Republicans #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
Trump Holds Bizarre, Rambling Tesla Commercial at White House
WTF were #DonaldTrump and #ElonMusk doing?
https://newrepublic.com/post/192623/donald-trump-elon-musk-tesla-commercial-white-house
"Trump claimed that the #boycott was unlawful...
Fact check: Boycotts are not illegal and are protected by the #FirstAmendment...
But #US regulations do prohibit federal employees from using their public office... “for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise.”"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #Business #Tesla #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/introducing-the-musk-watch-doge-tracker
"Most of these purported "savings," however, are not backed up with any details or documentation...
The #Musk Watch DOGE Tracker allows anyone to easily cut through the spin about #DOGE & see how much savings can be verified. It also allows the public to go deeper & see what is being cut & who is being impacted."
Elon Musk and His Doge Pals, in "Auto Graft"
- @rubenbolling
https://boingboing.net/2025/03/12/tom-the-dancing-bug-elon-musk-and-his-doge-pals-in-auto-graft.html
#Cartoon #Comic #Comics #ComicStrip #Humor #Funny #Politics #USPol #Elon #ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #US #USA
Elon Musk Finally Admits Social Security Is on the Chopping Block
The #DOGE chief has revealed his true goals in a #FoxNews interview.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192579/elon-musk-social-security-medicare-entitlements
"Trump has said he won’t touch #SocialSecurity or #Medicare, but Musk’s entitlement math makes it clear that both those programs, as well as #Medicaid, are on the chopping block. Millions of older #Americans—many of them red-state #Republicans—will lose the vital benefits"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #News #USA
Turns out DOGE can't beat FOIA by shouting "Not an agency"
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/doge-foia
"Trump signed an EO inserting #DOGE into the skin of an existing agency... then redesignating it as part of the Executive Office...
specified that DOGE is not a federal agency, a #legal distinction which turns out to be critical in at least 3 pending #lawsuits... But only an agency can claim authority to shut down great swathes of the federal bureaucracy — something #Musk brags about doing"
$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/42-5-billion-broadband-grant-program-being-rewritten-to-benefit-elon-musk/
"there are $42.5 billion in broadband #grants... courtesy of the 2021 #infrastructure bill. The #GOP voted against the bill, but have repeatedly... taken credit for its looming #benefits among our broadly misinformed electorate. And, as we predicted, they’re now redrafting key components of the program to the direct benefit of #ElonMusk"
Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyism
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new
"Trump, via #Musk, is engaged in #impoundment, which is #illegal & #unconstitutional. It also vastly weakens #Congress. & yet, the #Trump pitch to get Congress to pass appropriations is that he will ignore what they actually pass! Impoundment is a feature, not a bug, in their model for governing."
#ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #Coup #Corruption #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Politics #News
" #Republicans in #Congress are not being told that their appropriations will be ignored: they are being told that appropriations will be selectively ignored, and they will be protected.
#DOGE is accepting requests from Republican officials to reverse cuts in their jurisdictions. It is a form of #spoils system in reverse: your pet projects will be spared from elimination."
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-building-a-new
#ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #Corruption #Musk #Trump #Coup #GOP #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #US
Donald Trump Backs His Co-President; Says Attacks On Tesla Dealerships Will Be Treated As ‘Terrorism’
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/donald-trump-backs-his-co-president-says-attacks-on-tesla-dealerships-will-be-treated-as-terrorism/
"Only attackers of this one company will be treated as domestic #terrorists, even as the hundreds of literal #DomesticTerrorists who raided the #Capitol building for the sole purpose of preventing a #democratic election from happening now roam free, thanks to Trump’s blanket #pardon."
#Musk #Trump #Coup #Corruption #Tesla #GOP #Jan6 #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
The Nerd Reich podcast, episode 1: The Network State
A deep dive into how tech billionaires like #ElonMusk are trying to dismantle traditional #governance to create their own #power structures through #crypto and #ArtificialIntelligence.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-nerd-reich-podcast-episode-1-the-network-state-2/
"we share bold predictions about where tech #authoritarianism is heading & reveal strategies for #resisting the growing control of billionaire #tech elites."
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #Resist #News #USA #US
DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its #website, despite promises of #transparency. But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/doge-errors-funding-grants-claims.html
"The website is... revealing its [Doge's] struggles w/the machinery & terminology of #government.
If the group is now going to fill its site with uncheckable claims, then it loses its value."
They fly into hurricanes for NOAA – and still got caught in Doge's purge
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj679kyj6geo
"this week, the #Trump administration could consider axing more than 1,000 additional staffers at # NOAA...
"People take for granted how accurate the #weather forecasts are," said Andy Hazelton, a NOAA #climate scientist who modelled #hurricane paths & was fired... "Forecasts are going to get worse because offices are understaffed"
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
Elon Musk: The accidental sovereign?
#History shows us what happens when private industry becomes so deeply embedded in war that it starts shaping its outcomes.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/elon-musk-the-accidental-sovereign
" #Musk is not the first businessman to dictate the course of #war. A century ago, the Krupp family of #Germany played the same role, supplying the steel, artillery, & tanks that fueled Prussia’s wars, rearmed #Germany after #WWI, & built #Hitler ’s war machine."
Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE's Use of AI
Members of the #House Oversight Committee sent dozens of requests to federal agencies... about their use of #AI software—& how #ElonMusk could benefit.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-federal-agencies-ai/
“The #American people entrust the federal #government with sensitive personal info... on the basis that this #information will not be disclosed or improperly used... including through the use of an unapproved & unaccountable 3rd-party AI #software.”
Elon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy Agency
Meeting between #Musk & the National Security Agency’s leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul
https://archive.is/42Id5#selection-5689.0-5693.124
"meeting with leadership a week after saying the #intelligence and #cybersecurity outfit needed an overhaul.
The discussion with the #NSA, which hadn’t been previously disclosed, centered on staff reductions & operations"
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #Security #News #USA
Fire sale
A cartoon by RJ Matson
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/fire-sale
"RJ Matson is the editorial cartoonist at Roll Call, a newspaper covering Congress and Capitol Hill"
#Cartoon #EditorialCartoon #ElonMusk #Musk #DonaldTrump #Trump #Coup #Corruption #Tesla #WhiteHouse #GOP #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Humor #Funny #US #USA
Elon Musk’s DOGE Quietly Kills Affordable Housing Program
#Trump is making a massive cut to affordable #housing, as fears over the #economy grow.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192653/musk-doge-trump-cut-affordable-housing
" #DOGE has cut funds & programs across the federal #government without regard to the purposes they serve or the lives that depend on them. Many of the people who depend on this #HUD program are low-income #seniors or destitute #families who have little or no other options."
DOGE Is Pressuring Social Security to Make Another Massive Cut
#DonaldTrump & #ElonMusk want to make it harder for people to access their Social Security benefits.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192667/doge-pressures-social-security-cut-phones
"The #SocialSecurity Admn might slash the telephone service that millions of retired & disabled #Americans use to apply for & access their **earned** benefits...
#Doge is pressuring the agency... and in response, the #SSA is considering ending its #phone service"
"I am the alpha in this relationship": What Musk's romantic history reveals about his hold on Trump
How #Elon love-bombed Trump's #MAGA cult
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/12/i-am-the-alpha-in-this-relationship-what-musks-romantic-history-reveals-about-his-hold-on/
"Musk's crashing brand reputation is just the free market in action, something #Republicans used to claim they supported. But... [ #Trump] talks about #Musk not like a valued colleague... Trump's plea resembles that of a lovesick woman angrily defending her worthless boyfriend"
The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
The degree to which #DonaldTrump & #Elon Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented— & ultimately unsustainable.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-congress-takeover/
"Where do Elon Musk’s #business interests end & Donald Trump’s #political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one & the same.
How else do you explain the jarring sight of the #POTUS hawking #Teslas on the #WhiteHouse South Lawn?"
#Musk #Trump #Corruption #Politics #GOP #USPol #Tesla #StockMarket #News #USA #US
Outrage & exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mFpn8BJLV4
"Rep. John Larson channeling the outrage of his constituents at the anticipation that Donald Trump's top donor, #ElonMusk, is intending to destroy #SocialSecurity in order to privatize it... #Musk was planning cuts to Social Security's telephone customer service... Between the public outcry & the exposure in the #media, the pushback... appears to have worked."
Elon Musk Looks Desperate
How to lose $148 billion in less than two months
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/
"But you ought not to overlook just how embarrassing the spectacle was for #Musk...
Tesla’s stock price has fallen sharply—almost 50% since its mid-December, post election peak—on the back of terrible sales numbers in #Europe...
And #Tesla isn’t the only Musk venture that’s struggling."
#ElonMusk #Politics #Corruption #Tech #Trump #GOP #Politics #Business #StockMarket #USPol #News #US #USA
"Yesterday’s #WhiteHouse stunt had all the hallmarks of Trump #corruption, but there was something else, too—an air of desperation. It was a tacit admission that the #protests are working and that #Musk and #Trump are rattled...
These moments make clear that this time, Musk has wagered the only thing he can’t easily buy back—the very #myth he created for himself."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/
#ElonMusk #Politics #USPol #Trump #GOP #Doge #News #US #USA #Resist #Resistance #Protest
Who’s in Elon’s ear — and DMs
Musk’s most trusted advisers remain a tight-knit group of executives who have followed him from his companies but lack political experience.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/12/musk-influence-inner-circle-00227332
"his top #political advisor, Chris Young, the former #GOP field organizer who was originally brought in to advise #Musk...
Upon Musk’s request, Young procured a massive #TV for Musk’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Bldg so he could play #VideoGames"
The Hilarious Reason Why Elon Musk Is Panicking Over Tesla Stock Value...
https://newrepublic.com/post/192687/elon-musk-panicking-tesla-stock-value
"In a 2024 #SEC filing, #Musk was listed as holding... shares of #Tesla stock that were “pledged as collateral to secure certain personal indebtedness.”...
It’s unclear exactly how much of Musk’s shares are held in #collateral now...
If the #stock price goes low enough, the banks Musk borrowed from could force him to sell his shares"
#ElonMusk #Business #USPol #News #US #USA #Resist #Resistance
The next Elon Musk thread (the 11th) begins at this link:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/114158325564527521
List of links to previous Elon Musk threads:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113986946321010763
Attached: 1 image "Where do Elon Musk’s #business interests end & Donald Trump’s #political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one & the same. How else do you explain the jarring sight of the #POTUS hawking #Teslas on the #WhiteHouse South Lawn?" https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-congress-takeover/ Here begins the 11th Elon Musk thread. List of links to previous threads: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113986946321010763 Cartoon source: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/fire-sale #ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #Coup #Corruption #GOP #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #Threads #USA
Anyone know which banks? Does Deutchebank still “loan” hard currency to oligarchs ?
@ZhiZhu I'm not "low income" anymore, but i was able to buy my first house, in part, because of HUD's first time home buyer program.
if ever it was real, it isn't anymore. we're allowing unelected, unapologetic fascist to steal this country's future prosperity.
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