Showing posts with label Elon Musk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elon Musk. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2025

As Trump-Musk Target Social Security, Seniors Share Stories of Benefit Cutoffs

"Elon Musk and Donald Trump are stealing seniors' hard-earned benefits. It's already happening, and it'll get worse if they go through with closing branch offices and cutting staff." more

Monday, March 10, 2025

Letters from an American March 9, 2025


Lately, political writers have called attention to the tendency of billionaire Elon Musk to refer to his political opponents as “NPCs.” This term comes from the gaming world and refers to a nonplayer character, a character that follows a scripted path and cannot think or act on its own, and is there only to populate the world of the game for the actual players. Amanda Marcotte of Salon notes that Musk calls anyone with whom he disagrees an NPC, but that construction comes from the larger environment of the online right wing, whose members refer to anyone who opposes Donald Trump’s agenda as an NPC.....MORE

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Elon Musk Demands CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION Into AOC


Elon Sinks Our Ships to Assure There Will Be No Going Back

As Musk and crew gleefully erase 250 years of accomplishment—by turns, glorious and imperfect—they are creating a seemingly irreversible path to their own ends by reducing to rubble the institutions that might save us. MORE

Friday, March 7, 2025

Why VA mental health workers feel Elon Musk's emails are psychological warfare


Elon Musk has called his "What did you do last week?" emails to the entire federal workforce "pulse check" reviews.

"Do you have a pulse and two neurons?" he said to laughter at a White House Cabinet meeting last week.

Some mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration do not find it funny. They liken the email campaign to psychological warfare: a blitz attack, with each email hitting like a flash-bang grenade aimed at discombobulating the federal workforce.


Thursday, March 6, 2025

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The Supreme Court Is Just One Vote Shy of Making Trump and Musk Kings

On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court issued its first decision in Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s escalating war on government agencies and Congress’ power of the purse. The result: the court is one justice shy of letting Trump and Musk do whatever they want—at least for now. more

Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 jobs from VA

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins answers questions during his Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee nomination hearing on Jan. 21, 2025.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is planning to cut 80,000 jobs as part of an “aggressive” reorganization of the agency this summer, according to The Associated Press, which cited an internal memo it obtained.....MORE

Friday, February 28, 2025

'Bloodbath': Social Security Administration Begins Mass Firings


What is being described as a "total annihilation" of SSA, say critics, proves that Trump's promises to protect Social Security "are a sham." more

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Green Group Sues to Expose Musk and 'Department of Government Evisceration'

"The public has every right to know what kind of rogue agency Elon Musk and his tech-bro army have created." more