Elon Musk is currently dismantling the U.S. federal government in an oligarchic coup, aided by President Donald Trump, an ongoing threat to the safety and security of the United States. The two billionaires claim to be battling “fraud” and “waste,” when it’s abundantly clear they’re just getting rid of federal agencies and programs they don’t […]
Group Claims Washington Post Wouldn’t Run ‘Fire Elon Musk’ Advertisement
Tuesday’s edition of the Washington Post was supposed to feature a very straightforward message: Fire Elon Musk. Two advocacy groups teamed up to buy an ad placement that would have wrapped the paper in the call for Musk’s outing. But, according to one of the groups involved in the ad buy that spoke with The […]
Elon’s Boring Company Is Planning to Build a 10-Mile Tunnel in Dubai for Some Reason
Jackass oligarch Elon Musk has a lot going on. As of this very moment, he’s leading an agenda to ruin the federal government (DOGE), he’s building rocket ships and fancy cars, he’s shit-posting his way through every day at a rate that seems basically impossible and, apparently, he’s planning to construct a 10-mile subterranean tunnel […]
Lawsuit to Stop Elon Musk From Decimating Government Gets a Tough Judge
Donald Trump’s administration has been hit with a flurry of lawsuits over the blatantly illegal actions it’s taken since the president was sworn in on Jan. 20. But one new case against Elon Musk, the billionaire who’s currently trying to dismantle federal agencies under the pretext of fighting “fraud,” may be a tough one for […]
Starlink-Starved Citizens Spark ‘National Emergency’ in the Falkland Islands
On Tuesday, February 4th, Starlink users in the Falkland Islands woke up with an email from the company saying they were about to be cut off. “You are currently using Starlink in an unauthorized territory. Local telecommunication authorities have instructed Starlink to disable your services,” the email said, according to reporting from the website OpenFalklands. […]
Elon Musk Offers to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion in Unsolicited Bid: Report
Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have made an unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion for a controlling interest in the non-profit that operates OpenAI, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. Musk and his attorney did not immediately respond to questions from Gizmodo on Monday but told the Wall Street Journal […]
Elon’s DOGE Attack on Financial Watchdog Coincides With X Pursuit of Digital Wallet
Elon Musk has sought to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which, as its name denotes, is dedicated to protecting consumers from scummy financial schemes. Bloomberg has pointed out the interesting timing of this effort, given that Musk’s platform, X (formerly Twitter), is currently pursuing a “digital wallet” feature that would ask users to […]
How Elon Musk’s DOGE Could End the U.S. Government as We Know It
Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory streamlining lies a troubling scenario. Musk has been appointed what is called a “special government employee” in […]
Elon Musk Rehiring DOGE Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Tweets
Elon Musk is rehiring the guy who resigned from DOGE yesterday. And we can’t say that we’re entirely surprised. Musk launched a poll on his social media platform X Friday to ask followers if he should rehire Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer who had been working on the DOGE project that’s currently ransacking the […]
DOGE Staffer Previously Fired From Cybersecurity Company for Leaking Secrets
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s DOGE, was fired from his previous job at a cybersecurity company for leaking company secrets, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Coristine was an intern at Arizona-based Path Network in 2022 when he was fired for allegedly sharing information about the company with a competing […]