How a Quack TV Doctor Made It to Washington
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/opinion/dr-oz-medicare-medicaid-trump.html
How a Quack TV Doctor Made It to Washington
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/opinion/dr-oz-medicare-medicaid-trump.html
Reitred Federal Judge: "What has happened with Elon Musk, well, I have called it a coup. If it succeeds, it will have been a coup. In other words, if the definition of a “coup” is a small group of people who are not elected — and there was Musk — who are taking over the power of the government, yes, I would call it a coup. I mean, he — there are challenges around the country to his authority, to Musk’s authority — Musk, who is not confirmed by Congress, who was selected by means that no one exactly knows, who was given powers that no one knows about, who is getting access to information that only government officials who have been appropriately selected can get. And if he’s successful in that — there are challenges to that. If he is successful, yes, I would call that a coup."
#coup #corruption https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/nancy_gertner_constitutional_crisis
"Recently uncovered government emails reveal that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), led by Dr. Theresa Tam, subjected Inuit babies to experimental drug trials without their, or their parents' consent." https://www.rebelnews.com/theresa_tam_emails_reveal_unethical_medical_experiments_on_inuit_babies_by_canada_s_public_health_agency #ethics #MedicalEthics #MedicalTesting #DrugTesting #racism #Inuit #Indigenous #corruption
They're casting out anyone who is not white & born American.. In 1930s/40s Germany that was done under the guise "For the Glory of the Reich", today in America it's "For the Glory of the Rich", an 'e' missing doesn't matter, fascism is fascism.. People seem to not realise that all it would take is the removal of DT and Musk to stop ALL OF THIS in an instant. Get to it!
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-student-republican-visa-ban-946e613a8dace3b0092580fa6fe4e50b
It's going to be an interesting read of @anticorruption.bsky.social's 2025 #Corruption Perception Index when it comes out
Wild punt that America's already poor score (65/100; down 4 since 2023; 28th place worldwide) will tumble like Tesla share prices
www.transparency.org/en/countries...
United States
Gutless #PostalService chief [appointed by #trump] bends to #DOGE with 10,000 job cuts #USPS #mail #ballots #democracy #medicine #healthcare #disabled https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/14/2310170/-Gutless-Postal-Service-chief-bends-to-DOGE-with-10-000-job-cuts #mail #prescriptions #government #corruption
ELON MUSK HIT WITH FIRST FORMAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST COMPLAINT OVER FAA-STARLINK DEAL
The Campaign Legal Center argues the FAA may cancel Verizon’s $2.4 billion contract due to Musk’s involvement in discussions about awarding Starlink a multibillion-dollar contract, violating federal law prohibiting officials from benefiting financially
DT & current ICC-War-Crime-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu have reached out to three African governments to discuss the planned forced-relocation of Palestinians to Africa
"Under DT’s plan, Gaza’s more than 2 million people would be permanently sent elsewhere. He has proposed the U.S. would take ownership of the territory, oversee a lengthy cleanup process and develop it as a real estate project."
Making DOGE Cuts Permanent Is Easier Said Than Done
Plus: #GOP town halls are scarce these days.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/making-doge-cuts-permanent-congress-funding-shutdown
"The prospect of ending these far-reaching programs—like #PEPFAR and, on a much larger scale, the foreign aid administered by the #USAID—remains distant. Beyond that, #DOGE ’s haphazard cuts are difficult to codify because they have a weak legal foundation & are hard to explain, let alone justify (hence the repeat un-firings)."
"Where do Elon Musk’s #business interests end & Donald Trump’s #political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one & the same.
How else do you explain the jarring sight of the #POTUS hawking #Teslas on the #WhiteHouse South Lawn?"
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-congress-takeover/
Here begins the 11th Elon Musk thread.
List of links to previous threads:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113986946321010763
Cartoon source: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/fire-sale
#lies #corruption #fraud #waste #abuse = Musk + DOGE - See How #Musk & #DOGE Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims - His "wall of receipts" for contracts cancelled is instead a mass falsification and fabrication of inflated savings, non existent savings and just big lies. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/upshot/musk-doge-changes-deletions.html #where is #congress #constitution separation of powers #democracy #courts #lawsuits #politics #maga #firings #federal #government
"Yesterday’s #WhiteHouse stunt had all the hallmarks of Trump #corruption, but there was something else, too—an air of desperation. It was a tacit admission that the #protests are working and that #Musk and #Trump are rattled...
These moments make clear that this time, Musk has wagered the only thing he can’t easily buy back—the very #myth he created for himself."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/
Elon Musk Looks Desperate
How to lose $148 billion in less than two months
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/
"But you ought not to overlook just how embarrassing the spectacle was for #Musk...
Tesla’s stock price has fallen sharply—almost 50% since its mid-December, post election peak—on the back of terrible sales numbers in #Europe...
And #Tesla isn’t the only Musk venture that’s struggling."
The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
The degree to which #DonaldTrump & #Elon Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented— & ultimately unsustainable.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-congress-takeover/
"Where do Elon Musk’s #business interests end & Donald Trump’s #political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one & the same.
How else do you explain the jarring sight of the #POTUS hawking #Teslas on the #WhiteHouse South Lawn?"
"I am the alpha in this relationship": What Musk's romantic history reveals about his hold on Trump
How #Elon love-bombed Trump's #MAGA cult
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/12/i-am-the-alpha-in-this-relationship-what-musks-romantic-history-reveals-about-his-hold-on/
"Musk's crashing brand reputation is just the free market in action, something #Republicans used to claim they supported. But... [ #Trump] talks about #Musk not like a valued colleague... Trump's plea resembles that of a lovesick woman angrily defending her worthless boyfriend"
Fire sale
A cartoon by RJ Matson
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/fire-sale
"RJ Matson is the editorial cartoonist at Roll Call, a newspaper covering Congress and Capitol Hill"
Elon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy Agency
Meeting between #Musk & the National Security Agency’s leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul
https://archive.is/42Id5#selection-5689.0-5693.124
"meeting with leadership a week after saying the #intelligence and #cybersecurity outfit needed an overhaul.
The discussion with the #NSA, which hadn’t been previously disclosed, centered on staff reductions & operations"
Elon Musk: The accidental sovereign?
#History shows us what happens when private industry becomes so deeply embedded in war that it starts shaping its outcomes.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/elon-musk-the-accidental-sovereign
" #Musk is not the first businessman to dictate the course of #war. A century ago, the Krupp family of #Germany played the same role, supplying the steel, artillery, & tanks that fueled Prussia’s wars, rearmed #Germany after #WWI, & built #Hitler ’s war machine."
They fly into hurricanes for NOAA – and still got caught in Doge's purge
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj679kyj6geo
"this week, the #Trump administration could consider axing more than 1,000 additional staffers at # NOAA...
"People take for granted how accurate the #weather forecasts are," said Andy Hazelton, a NOAA #climate scientist who modelled #hurricane paths & was fired... "Forecasts are going to get worse because offices are understaffed"