President Donald Trump held a bizarre press conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, ostensibly to wave goodbye to the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But both Trump and Musk essentially admitted that the billionaire oligarch wasn’t really going anywhere, at least when it comes […]
Billionaire Man-Child Elon Musk Gives His Most Petulant Interview to Date
Elon Musk gave an interview to Bloomberg News on Tuesday, appearing remotely to an audience at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. And while the billionaire oligarch has given plenty of whiny and childish interviews over the years, his latest is one of the most juvenile to date. Musk repeatedly insulted the interviewer for asking […]
Bill Gates Accuses Elon Musk of ‘Killing the World’s Poorest Children’ With DOGE Cuts
Bill Gates is not impressed by Elon Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency. In an interview with the Financial Times, he described Musk’s work as hurting the most vulnerable people on the planet. “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” He repeated that […]
‘Most Transparent Administration in History’ Is Shredding Documents and Ignoring FOIA
The Trump administration has given itself the moniker “The Most Transparent Administration in History.” It seems like it’s an “in name only” kind of thing, because the New York Times reports that a senior administration official at the U.S. Agency for International Development—the agency that has been stripped for parts by Elon Musk and the extremely […]
USAID Workers Reportedly Believe They Were Recorded by Google’s Gemini AI
As if the employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) weren’t under enough scrutiny from Elon Musk and his team of edgelord posters, it turns out another set of unwelcome eyes seem to be on the department. According to a report from IT Brew, USAID staffers were warned by leadership that Google’s […]
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 […]
Unelected Billionaire Elon Musk Is Shutting Down the Government Agency USAID
In an unprecedented flexing of the power of the executive branch, unelected billionaire Elon Musk is shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. On Monday morning, employees for USAID got an email telling them to stay out of their headquarters. The email was signed by Gavin Kliger, one of the young engineers working with […]
USAID Website Goes Offline as Trump Continues to Dismantle Government
The website for USAID, the U.S. government agency that distributes foreign aid, went down on Saturday, and it’s unclear when it may return. The outage comes as every federal website has been ordered to erase forbidden words, though USAID’s outage could related to reports that Donald Trump plans to put most of the agency under […]