The male loneliness epidemic has struck once again, with tech oligarch Elon Musk and President Donald J. Trump going their separate ways after a roughly year-long friendship based on unprecedented political spending and mutual corruption. C’est la vie, n’est-ce pas? Supposedly, the cause of this bromance breakdown was the “big, …
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With the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team on dubious legal footing, congressional Republicans are quietly inching forward legislation to grant President Donald Trump new, lawful powers for razing the federal government: the unprecedented ability to propose to Congress, under reorganization authority, the abolition of executive departments, independent regulatory …
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As Elon Musk departs the Trump White House — at least officially — a new Senate report examines how the world’s richest man leveraged his access to the levers of federal power to boost his myriad personal businesses, including his electric vehicle company Tesla, aerospace contractor SpaceX, social media platform …
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Every year, scores of aspiring government employees have their applications for security clearances denied because they smoke weed recreationally. Every D.C. resident has a government or government-adjacent friend who won’t touch a poppy seed bagel lest they be subject to a randomized drug test. It’s a sacrifice plenty of federal …
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Bono and Joe Rogan clashed over the humanitarian impact of DOGE’s cuts — specifically the planned gutting of USAID — during the U2 singer’s visit to the podcast Friday. During the episode, Bono confronted Rogan — a friend of the now-outgoing DOGE head Elon Musk — about a study that …
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It’s Elon Musk’s last day as an official employee of the federal government, “but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way” — at least according to President Donald Trump’s announcement of his parting press conference with the billionaire. In an Oval Office presser that …
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Elon Musk’s time in the Trump administration was short, but by no means merciful. As the 130 days of Musk’s “special employee” status in the White House expire, the world’s richest man is leaving the government with shattered public approval, furious investors, and a to-go bag of grift and corruption …
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After spending months lying to the American public on behalf of the Trump administration, billionaire Elon Musk is now performing distress over Republicans passing deficit-increasing tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. In an interview with CBS News at the headquarters of SpaceX, Musk said that he was “disappointed to see …
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Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to maintaining the world’s largest collection of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and recordings. While the takeover has been framed …
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Elon Musk, the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, said “it’s an outrageous thing to claim that I’m a Nazi” in a clip from an interview with Fox News that was released Friday, slamming how he’s been covered by the media. He also said that if his …
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