A new report shows that tech billionaire Elon Musk’s companies have sucked at least $38 billion out of the federal government’s coffers. The report, published by the Washington Post, makes the case that Musk’s corporate empire would not exist were it not for a flood of taxpayer money from the very government that the billionaire […]
Days After DOGE Lands at the Agency, the FAA Says It’s Testing Starlink Equipment in Its Systems
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is working with the Federal Aviation Administration, the very agency his DOGE organization is currently in the process of modernizing. According to multiple outlets, the FAA is currently testing the use of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network to improve its telecommunications in remote geographical areas. The relationship between Musk’s company and the agency […]
We Finally Know Who’s (Supposedly) Running DOGE
After weeks of the Trump administration giving everyone—the press, the court system, its own staff—the runaround on who is in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, we finally have an answer. According to a report from Semafor (and confirmed by government sources at numerous outlets), Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of DOGE. […]
IRS Employees Told They Must Respond to Musk’s Bizarre Email by Midnight
Federal workers at the U.S. Treasury, which includes the IRS, received an email Monday signed by a former Heritage Foundation analyst instructing them to answer Elon Musk’s bizarre email demanding to know what they’ve been working on. The deadline for responding is midnight tonight, and workers at several agencies have been told not to respond, […]
It’s a Republic of Shitposters, If We Can Keep It
The meme-addled brains of our leaders are collapsing in real time. Source link
Tesla Dealership in Oregon Gets Shot Up, Drawing FBI Scrutiny
The FBI and local police are investigating after gunshots shattered windows at a Tesla dealership in Oregon on Wednesday morning—the latest potential sign that Tesla’s CEO, billionaire-turned-“bureaucrat” Elon Musk, is stirring discontent throughout the nation. The dealership, which is located in the state’s capital city of Salem, was struck by gunfire and a car was […]
DOGE Staffer Known as ‘Big Balls’ Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy
Look, sure it’s not ideal that decisions that the federal government is being gutted agency by agency, stripped of purpose, funding, and staffing by Elon Musk and a team of 20-something-year-old edgelords who were sourced from a network of tech bro crypto-fascists and boost the messaging of white nationalists in their free time, but at […]
U.S. Government Removing EV Chargers From All Federal Buildings Because They Are “Not Mission Critical”
As part of its continued efforts to own the libs, or get rid of anything President Trump does not like or understand, the General Services Administration is moving to remove electric chargers from all federal properties nationwide. The agency says the hundreds of chargers and estimated 8,000 plugs available for federal workers to charge their […]
Musk’s Plan to Kill the ISS Early Is a Selfish, Shortsighted Move
The immediate future of the International Space Station is suddenly in doubt thanks to a single tweet. Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and unelected advisor to President Donald Trump on basically everything, wants the venerable station gone, and he wants it gone sooner rather than later. On Thursday, Musk posted on his X platform that […]
Kash Patel, Trump Media Board Member and QAnon Conspiracy Theorist, Confirmed as FBI Director
Kash Patel has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the FBI on Thursday in a vote of 51-49. The vote to confirm Patel was mostly along party lines, with all Democrats voting against it and Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine also voting no. Patel is a […]