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As Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues its punitive onslaught against government agencies in what he claims is an effort to reduce wasteful spending, his own companies continue to enjoy lucrative federal contracts. Tesla and SpaceX have been awarded some $230 million worth in contracts so far …

Kanye West is no longer tweeting. As of Monday morning, after an unfortunately characteristic several days of posting wildly offensive stuff, the rapper’s account was listed as deactivated. “This account doesn’t exist,” a message on his page now reads. It appears that West made the decision himself after spending most …

The new boss at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had a jarring message for staffers Monday morning, in an internal memo leaked to Rolling Stone: “Stand down from performing any work task.” The message came from Russell Vought — a Project 2025 architect who was confirmed by the Senate last …

David Schwimmer blasted Elon Musk on Saturday for allowing Kanye West to use his platform X, formerly Twitter, to make more “hate filled” antisemitic (along with more racist and misogynistic) statements. In the past week, West has recently taken to X to reiterate more of the hateful antisemitic rants that …

J.D. Vance has signaled the Trump administration may try to ignore judicial orders, which could trigger a constitutional crisis. The vice president wrote today on X, “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command …

A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive and confidential information within the Treasury Department. In a decision Saturday — which followed 19 state attorneys and unions suing the federal government over DOGE’s access to the Treasury’s payments system — …

Kanye West is tweeting again. Starting Thursday night, the once-noted musician took to his X account where he started spewing a lot of the same kind of antisemitic stuff that got him banned from the platform last time. There were also homophobic, misogynistic, and ableist posts — grim sign of …

The Trump administration has pulled the rug on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), bringing its humanitarian work abroad to a stop. USAID has been a critical component of American “soft power” since the JFK era, communicating the ideals of America as a force for good in the world …

The Vice President and Elon Musk, the de-facto head of government under Donald Trump, are tag teaming on social media to promote the reinstatement of Marko Elez, a key Musk deputy who departed his post inside the Treasury Department amid a Wall Street Journal exposé linking him to racist social …

Since the names of the younger, inexperienced people working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have become public, a flurry of reports have detailed their troubling histories of extremism and severe workplace infractions. One individual who resigned Thursday over revelations of racist posts on his X account …