Steve Wozniak, perhaps the last of an old guard of tech guys who generally seem pretty chill, does not think particularly highly of Elon Musk or Donald Trump. The guy credited with sparking the personal computer revolution told CNBC during an interview that Musk and Trump are bullies who are taking a sledgehammer to the […]
CFPB Employees Want to Work—if CFPB Leadership Would Just Let Them
For all of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s supposed concern that federal employees doing nothing but collecting paychecks, they sure are going through a lot of effort to keep people who actively want to work from doing their jobs. As part of the back-and-forth of legal filings and testimonies in a case that could decide […]
DOGE Prepares to Cancel Lease for Vital Weather Forecasting Center
The White House is preparing to cancel the leases for important weather forecasting offices, including the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland, according to new reports from the Verge and Axios, citing officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And it’s just the latest bad news for Americans who […]
DOGE Just Keeps Deleting Its ‘Savings’
You would think the Department of Government Efficiency, the agency that is supposedly auditing the entirety of the federal government for “waste,” would know to keep its receipts in order. And yet, for some reason, the agency has repeatedly had to pull examples of so-called savings down after it was revealed that it actually didn’t […]
How to Find Your Local Protest Against Elon Musk
Elon Musk has spent the past month destroying the U.S. federal government with his team of DOGE goons, taking a chainsaw to USAID, NOAA, Social Security, and countless other vital agencies. And while President Donald Trump is ostensibly the guy in charge of the country, most Americans understand Musk has the real power. And there’s […]
Sam Altman Is Backing a SpaceX Competitor That Wants to Shoot Stuff Into Space With an Enormous Gun
Rockets are cool, but they’re also being fired into space by Elon Musk, who is cringe. You know what is cool, though? A giant cannon that shoots stuff into space. It might be cheaper, easier, and more efficient, too. That’s the pitch of Longshot Space, an Oakland-based company that’s constructing an enormous gun with the […]
Tesla Fires Manager Who Complained About Elon Musk’s Nazi Jokes
Tesla has fired a manager after he wrote a LinkedIn post criticizing Elon Musk’s jokes about Nazis, according to a report from the New York Times. And it’s a great reminder that not only is Musk currently destroying the U.S. government through massive cuts that will change America’s way of life for generations to come, […]
Under DOGE, America’s VA Finds New Government ‘Waste’ Target: Chemotherapy for Vets
A new report shows that, as part of the Trump administration’s DOGE mission, the Department of Veteran Affairs tried to cancel contracts that would have supported chemotherapy and other cancer treatment for veterans. The Associated Press notes that, after being confronted over the planned cuts by lawmakers and veteran services organization, the VA announced it […]
FAA Might Drop Verizon for Starlink as Elon Musk Controls U.S. Government
The FAA is currently “close” to canceling a major contract with Verizon in favor of Elon Musk’s Starlink, according to a bombshell new report from the Washington Post. In another era, one company winning a big government contract over another company wouldn’t be a huge deal. But in the era of DOGE, Musk is essentially […]
Elon Musk Suggests He Alone Decides What Gets Funded in the Government
Elon Musk appeared at President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday to talk about what the billionaire was doing with DOGE, the group that’s currently dismantling the federal government in an illegal powerplay that circumvents Congress. And while Musk repeated a line he’s said previously about how he would inevitably make […]