FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company. DOGE just fired them.
At least 20 staffers reviewing #Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing #DOGE purge of federal workers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/17/fda-elon-musk-neuralink-doge-trump/79000197007/
"“It’s intimidating to the #FDA professionals who are overseeing Neuralink’s trial,”...
#Musk has been leading a sweeping effort to cut #government spending, including at agencies that regulate his companies, such as #Tesla & #SpaceX"
Newsletter writers who use Substack should ask themselves whether they're comfortable supporting a platform where management thinks what Musk and Zuckerberg are doing is just fine.
Example (from CEO): "[Musk] deserves a lot of credit for advancing freedom of speech on X, before it was popular" --
If you know someone using Substack, suggest they find a better place to write.
🎶🎤 Mo’ sugar tonight in my coffee, Mo’ sugar tonight in Paczki 🎶
#TrueStory When I was extremely, extremely young, I thought "Three Wise Men" in the Christmas story was "Three White Hens"
I threw such a tantrum when there were no chickens that my grandparents that raised me had to add three ceramic chickens to the fireplace mantel's nativity set
To this day, 50 years later, many people in my family have three chickens in their nativity displays and have no understanding why except that is the way the family patriarchs of the 1970s 80's and part of the 90s did it and they followed suit.
If you run behind a car, you'll get exhausted.
If you run in front of a car, you'll get tired.