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Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has spent the first month of President Donald Trump‘s second term in office working its way through the federal government like termites. DOGE has fired tens of thousands of employees, hollowing out everything from the Federal Aviation Administration to the Department of Veterans …

Over the past month, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have framed their senseless, openly corrupt crackdown on federal employees as a war on faceless, unpopular bureaucrats and the dreaded “deep state.”Meanwhile, the workers they are terrorizing if not firing include health care workers, working-class nurses at Veterans Affairs facilities, and …

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has already vowed to operate as a legal attack dog for Elon Musk and DOGE, and is now styling himself and those in his office as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers. “As President Trumps’ lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as …

As Donald Trump and Elon Musk prepare to bring their next round of arbitrary cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it seems like at least one employee is making their displeasure known. This morning, the first day of the Trump administration’s “return to office” ban on remote …

President Donald Trump has let tech billionaire Elon Musk run rampant through government agencies, instituting mass firings and structurally destabilizing teams in the Federal Aviation Association, the Forest Service, and the Department of Veteran Affairs, among others. Musk’s latest attempt to gut the federal workforce through the so-called Department of …

Elon Musk — who as head of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency spent Saturday threatening all federal employees with being fired if they ignore his email — is facing legal claims in New York from Ashley St. Clair. The right-wing influencer filed two petitions with New York …

Sen. Susan Collins is “very concerned” about how the Trump administration’s mass firings in the federal government will affect her home state. “I’m very concerned about the impact on the state of Maine, on everything from our national parks to biomedical research,” the Republican told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. …

Prior to Elon Musk’s takeover of X (formerly Twitter), the app was a wildly popular social media site known for throwing everything from the latest breaking news to the newest memes all on the same constantly refreshing timeline. Now, it’s an ad- and bot-ridden playground for far-right posters —and nothing …

This is an adapted excerpt from the new book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. “Christianity, the main religion of the Western world, always takes the side of the victim,” Peter Thiel said, adding, “you should think of wokeness as ultra-Christianity or …

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is taking a chainsaw to the US government and, at first glance, no one is standing in his way. Musk and his rogue’s gallery of minions are moving fast, dead set on breaking the things that hundreds of millions of people in this country …