"Musk’s fire first & ask questions later approach to purging the federal workforce has created havoc, jeopardized critical #government functions, upended the lives of federal employees, likely incurred large financial liabilities for violating the #law, & has been riddled with outright blunders...
#DOGE is anything but a dept of efficiency"
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-…
Here begins the 9th Elon Musk thread.
List of links to previous threads:
newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/11398694…
#ElonMusk #Threads #Musk #News
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As President Donald Trump’s front man, Musk’s fire first and ask questions later approach to purging the federal workforce has created havoc, jeopardized critical government functions, upended the lives of federal employees, likely incurred large financial liabilities for violating the law, and has been riddled with outright blunders. In short, [Double underlined] DOGE is anything but a department of efficiency. [End double underlined]
At the Department of Agriculture, for example, employees working to respond to the H5NI avian flu outbreak were mistakenly fired, forcing the department to rescind the termination letters. The same thing happened at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the organization responsible for overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, where more than 300 employees were abruptly fired and then called back to work.](https://social.fingerprintsoftware.ca/photo/preview/640/143336 "Text from article:
As President Donald Trump’s front man, Musk’s fire first and ask questions later approach to purging the federal workforce has created havoc, jeopardized critical government functions, upended the lives of federal employees, likely incurred large financial liabilities for violating the law, and has been riddled with outright blunders. In short, [Double underlined] DOGE is anything but a department of efficiency. [End double underlined]
At the Department of Agriculture, for example, employees working to respond to the H5NI avian flu outbreak were mistakenly fired, forcing the department to rescind the termination letters. The same thing happened at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the organization responsible for overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, where more than 300 employees were abruptly fired and then called back to work.")
The Department of Government Ineptitude
Elon Musk's DOGE team is violating every basic principle of good management.The Contrarian
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Bombshell Report Reveals How Much Money Elon Musk Got From Government
Elon Musk is a greedy welfare billionaire.
newrepublic.com/post/192001/el…
" #ElonMusk... owes much of his wealth to #government funding, even as he pledges to slash billions with his #Doge initiative...
the #tech mogul/ #fascism enthusiast built his fortune from $38 Billion in govt contracts, loans, subsidies... going back more than 20 yrs...
and this is likely an undercount."
#Musk #Corruption #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #US
Bombshell Report Reveals How Much Money Elon Musk Got From Government
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •DOGE Cites ‘DEI,’ LinkedIn Profiles It Doesn’t Like In Killing Off HUD Contracts
DOGE cites contractors’ #DEI programs, not performance, to cancel work
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dog…
"It’s a stunning & candid admission of what #DOGE is doing at #HUD: taking contracts away from organizations not because of the quality or substance of their work, but because of unrelated #political issues...
escalates the use of govt action for explicitly partisan, often retributive, ends."
#Musk #Corruption #News
DOGE Cites ‘DEI,’ LinkedIn Profiles It Doesn’t Like In Killing Off HUD Contracts
Josh Kovensky (TPM - Talking Points Memo)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Art of the Steal:
This Is the Biggest Trump-Musk Scandal That No One’s Talking About
#DonaldTrump & #ElonMusk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, & #corruption to American #politics.
newrepublic.com/article/192008…
"The new #Trump administration wouldn’t just be open for business. With the aid of Musk’s #DOGE wrecking ball, the administration would create the perfect environment for graft, self-dealing, & lucrative influence-peddling. And it would be legal, at least some of it"
#USPol #News
This Is the Biggest Trump-Musk Scandal That No One’s Talking About
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •" #Trump signed an executive order putting the #DOGE team in charge of creating new #tech systems to review all payments from the US #government & then giving the head of DOGE the power to review all those payments...
Make no mistake: This order transforms federal spending by taking it away from #Congress, where the #Constitution placed it, and moves it to the individual who sits atop the Dept of Govt Efficiency."
heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #USPol #News #USA
February 26, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •When They Come for the Judges
joycevance.substack.com/p/when…
"Calling for judges to be impeached just because you don’t like their decisions is nothing short of anti-constitutional. Judicial review, the power of the courts to declare laws passed by Congress or actions taken by the president unconstitutional, is a deep-seated part of our rule of law system."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Congress #Politics #USPol #US #Constitution #ChecksAndBalances #Law #RuleOfLaw #USA
When They Come for the Judges
Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Musk said Ebola prevention funding was restored. USAID officials reportedly say otherwise.
msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ma…
"senior USAID official... saying, “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’ anything in prevention” of #Ebola & other diseases...
Are Musk's many missteps the result of rampant #incompetence, or is #Musk engaged in mis- & #disinformation campaigns intended to deceive the public?"
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #Propaganda #USPol #News #US #USA #World
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Musk & Bezos again remind us oligarchs control the #US -when will the people take back the power?!
The anger towards the #oligarchs is building!
deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/…
" #ElonMusk... speaking at Trump’s first cabinet meeting even though he is not a member of the #cabinet. In fact, the #Trump administration’s latest tale is that #Musk doesn’t even head #Doge rather the boss is someone named “Amy Gleason”—which we must assume is simply Musk’s #drag queen name."🔥
#Coup #Corruption #News #USPol
Musk and Bezos again remind us oligarchs control the US-when will the people take back the power?!
Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money & killed contracts meant to boost efficiency
Many of the receipts published by Elon Musk’s #DOGE aren’t receipts at all — they’re negotiated deals w/vetted vendors who might do future govt work.
nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doze…
"known as blanket purchase agreements (BPAs)... more like a catalog of things the #government might buy than a placed order... they create a wildly exaggerated & #false impression of govt spending."
#Musk #Trump #Lies #USPol #News #USA
Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency
Jane C. Timm (NBC News)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon
thebulwark.com/p/mike-murphy-t…
"The not-so-shadow president's largest #Tesla plant is in #Shanghai, but the People's Republic of China has the pink slip and can take it back at any time. Meanwhile, #China—the world's largest automaker—is working hard to eat into our car #industry, and #Trump... is happily talking about killing subsidies in the critical #EV market—except for Tesla of course."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Corruption #Coup #Politics #USPol #World #News #USA
Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon
Tim Miller (The Bulwark)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk got caught lying and Donald Trump made the lie bigger
msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/…
"Elon Musk is an utter ignoramus about American #history & #American govt. With his brain warmly bathed in that ignorance, #ElonMusk said... [big fat lies].
He's not from around here, so, there's things he doesn't know...
having Elon Musk in the cabinet... #Trump might not be the most ignorant person in the cabinet about American govt"
#Resist #Resistance #Musk #Corruption #Coup #USPol #News #Press #US
Lawrence: Elon Musk got caught lying and Donald Trump made the lie bigger
MSNBCZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk’s Genius Plan to Solve FAA Worker Shortage Is Beyond Belief
Concerns around air traffic #safety have increased dramatically following several plane crashes.
newrepublic.com/post/192093/el…
"Musk’s desperate call to bring #retired federal employees back into the fray after single-handedly undermining the security of every single #government job is inane on its face. It gets even more so when considering the actual requirements for the job..."
#FAA #ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #USPol #News #USA #US
Elon Musk’s Genius Plan to Solve FAA Worker Shortage Is Beyond Belief
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •VA Suddenly Backtracks From DOGE Move to Strip Veterans’ Health Care
The Dept of Veterans Affairs has backed away from gutting some critical programs—for now.
newrepublic.com/post/192089/va…
"the 875 contracts on the chopping block dealt w/everything from assessing #veterans’ exposure to toxic materials to #cancer treatment...
how many lives have been ruined by #Musk and #Trump just a month into this presidency."
#ElonMusk #Doge #Coup #Republicans #GOP #USPol #Health #Healthcare #News #USA
VA Suddenly Backtracks From DOGE Move to Strip Veterans’ Health Care
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •MAGA Loses It as DOGE Staffer Identities Revealed
#MAGA is furious that #public employees were identified.
newrepublic.com/post/192086/ma…
"The #NYT identified several dozen employees working for #DOGE, but conservatives were surprisingly unhappy about the #transparency...
knowing who’s behind the seismic cuts is apparently not a priority for #conservatives, who would seemingly rather keep DOGE’s operators in a literal #DeepState"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #USPol #News #Press #Media #USA
MAGA Loses It as DOGE Staffer Identities Revealed
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •DOGE Is Not Here to Help With Your Taxes
The financial #data of millions of #Americans is at risk as #Musk and his "team" bring their unlawful breaches of privacy to the IRS
contrarian.substack.com/p/doge…
"the #Privacy Act and the #IRS tax privacy laws were enacted in the 1970s...
If a private sector #accounting or #tax preparation firm behaved this way, they would (rightly) get dragged into #court by their customers."
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #Press #US #US
DOGE Is Not Here to Help With Your Taxes
The ContrarianZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk’s Open Corruption Revealed in New FAA Plans
The Federal Aviation Administration is now going after one of Starlink’s main competitors.
newrepublic.com/post/192077/el…
"The #FAA is reportedly planning to ditch a $2.4 billion contract with #Verizon in favor of a deal with Elon Musk’s #Starlink.
The move would be a blatant favor to the #tech mogul... and further increase the #wealth and power of the [South African immigrant]"
#ElonMusk #Musk #Corruption #Trump #USPol #Politics #News #USA
Elon Musk’s Open Corruption Revealed in New FAA Plans
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Judge orders Trump administration officials to give sworn testimony on DOGE
The #Justice Dept fought the effort to put staffers involved in the controversial cost-slashing effort under oath.
politico.com/news/2025/02/27/d…
"While the bureaucracy-slashing #DOGE effort has sparked more than a dozen #lawsuits, the order from Bates is the first that would force people involved in the project to answer questions from #lawyers outside the #government"
#Resist #Resistance #Musk #Trump #USPol #Law #News #US
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •The Republican "Fraud" Lie
#Musk, #Trump, & the #GOP aren't even looking for fraud. They just want to destroy agencies & slash benefits.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the…
"What they won’t tell you is that we already investigate #fraud in these programs...
But they are going to say they’re not only looking, but finding fraud. It is a #lie. And it is going to be used in particular against #Medicaid, which they are targeting for enormous cutbacks."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Politics #USPol #News #USA
The Republican "Fraud" Lie
Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"This is the point where I issue the required caveat that yes... there is indeed #fraud that targets #government programs. But the crew of berserkers now demolishing the federal govt doesn’t care about any of it. Which is why it is impossible to have an honest discussion right now about improving the way govt works. The only task is to make sure everyone knows they’re lying, and mitigate the damage they’ll do."
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the…
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US
The Republican "Fraud" Lie
Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk Called Out for Glaring Lie in His Weak DOGE Defense
#ElonMusk whined that #DOGE would sometimes make mistakes.
newrepublic.com/post/192082/el…
“Bottom line: Elon’s vendetta against #USAID and the federal workforce is shredding all of the systems that the #USG has built up to protect the #US homeland against global #outbreak risks,” Konyndyk added. “Scrambling to recall a few staff & issue some belated funding is just window dressing”
#Musk #Trump #GOP #Lie #Ebola #USPol #Politics #News #US
Elon Musk Called Out for Glaring Lie in His Weak DOGE Defense
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •New DOGE/Elon Threat Email Incoming
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/n…
Sect of #Defense #PeteHegseth just sent an email to all #Pentagon civilian employees informing them that OPM/#DOGE will be sending a new “accomplishments” demand #email on Monday... they now must reply with their 5 bullet points of accomplishments within 48 hrs. “Non-compliance may lead to further review.”
This is #illegal, see🧵 beginning at: newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/11407082…
#Musk #Coup #Military #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA #US
New DOGE/Elon Threat Email Incoming
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk Gets His Most Brutal Smackdown Yet on #DOGE Firings
The judge slammed the #MassFirings as “illegal.”
newrepublic.com/post/192142/el…
"A federal #judge has ordered the Office of Personnel Mgmt to rescind #illegal instructions to cull the workforce of federal agencies...
““The #OPM does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the #history of the universe, to hire & fire employees within another agency”"
#Resist #Resistance #ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA
Elon Musk Gets His Most Brutal Smackdown Yet on DOGE Firings
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •USAID Was Promised Emergency Waivers for Ebola & AIDS. They’re Not Working
#ElonMusk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But #Ebola programs are still in tatters, along w/other livesaving efforts like #AIDS treatments for #children.
wired.com/story/the-usaid-emer…
" #USAID workers & other #PublicHealth experts have told WIRED that the waivers are useless...
#Trump admn terminated over 10,000 global #health grants"
#Musk #Coup #GOP #Politics #News #USA
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Trump administration & Musk's DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff & wind down agency...
In a trove of statements released late Thursday, federal employees said that the mass layoff was discussed in meetings they attended this month.
nbcnews.com/business/business-…
"Since #DOGE operatives first arrived at the #CFPB this month, the bureau has closed its Washington headquarters, initiated the first round of layoffs, and told those who remain to stop nearly all work."
#Musk #Coup #Trump #News #USA
Trump administration and Musk's DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff and wind down agency, employees say
Hugh Son, CNBC (NBC News)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US #government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
wired.com/story/doge-worse-tha…
"DOGE’s cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and #Project2025 ’s targets. They have found no #fraud, just #democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does."
#Musk #Doge Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of govt agencies.
#GiftLink
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli…
"Without ceding control of his companies, the [South African immigrant] has embedded his #engineers & aides inside the govt’s critical digital #infrastructure"
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #News #USA
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"Musk & his advisers... did not want to create a #commission, as past #budget hawks had done. They wanted direct, insider access to #government systems. They realized they could use the #digital office, whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix #technology problems, to quickly penetrate the federal govt — and then decipher how to break it apart."
#GiftLink
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli…
#ElonMusk #Musk #StephenMiller #RussVought #Coup #Tech #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"The team is now moving faster than many of the #legal efforts to stop it, making drastic changes that could be hard to unwind even if they are ultimately constrained by the #courts. Musk’s associates have pushed out workers, ignored #CivilService protections, torn up contracts & effectively shuttered an entire agency established by #Congress...
#Musk & his crew... now have about all the #passwords they could ever need"
#GiftLink
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli…
#ElonMusk #Coup #Politics #USPol #News
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •" #Musk would not be named the #DOGE administrator, but rather an adviser to #Trump...
secrecy...
If people filed #lawsuits seeking disclosure of his emails or the operation’s records under #FOIA, the arrangement would set the admn up to argue that such documents were exempt... FOIA does not apply to a president’s White House advisers or to #WhiteHouse entities that advise him but wield no **formal** power"
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli…
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Politics #USPol #News #USA #US
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"Allies of Musk also began arriving at tech hubs in the federal government before Inauguration Day — the first hint of the scope of his incursion."
#GiftLink
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli…
I recommend reading the whole article. You can do so even without a subscription by using the above link.⬆️
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Crisis #ConstitutionalCrisis #InsiderThreat #Tech #Technology #Government #Trump #GOP #RussVought #StephenMiller #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #US #USA
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
Jonathan Swan (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Being Aided by a Trumpworld Power Couple
Stephen & Katie Miller—he's “the prime minister,”...she’s DOGE’s comms guru—liaise between the #WhiteHouse & #ElonMusk, & are centrally involved as he tears the govt apart.
wired.com/story/katie-stephen-…
" #StephenMiller is the White House deputy chief of staff for policy & homeland security adviser... Katie Miller, is a special #government employee who functions as the top #communications official at #DOGE."
#Musk #Coup #News #USA
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk Wants to Use His Chaotic Emails to Track Federal Workers
Musk’s chaos-inducing emails are about to become a regular thing.
newrepublic.com/post/192148/el…
"Federal workers are expected to receive another #email ... from addresses that are associated with the chiefs of agency human resources departments, rather than from the #OPM...
While #Musk has tried to use the OPM as his chainsaw... change to the email plan reflects the limits of the OPM’s power."
#ElonMusk #Coup #USPol #News #USA
Elon Musk Wants to Use His Chaotic Emails to Track Federal Workers
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Two Good Reads.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t…
"Musk’s anger at federal regulators powered his dedication to the wilding spree...
the plain facts of what both pieces describe make clear that the best conceptual model for #DOGE is something between an #InsiderThreat action and a #terrorist operation. The emphasis on secrecy, misdirection and illegality is all there, the focus on seizing control of central nodes of #power & destroying things"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA
Two Good Reads.
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Judge Appears Skeptical of Claims That Musk Isn’t Driving DOGE
The judge prodded #government lawyers for additional clarity on Elon Musk’s role in a case that directly challenges the constitutionality of his operation and his part in the rapid reshaping of government.
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli…
"A federal judge said on Friday that it seemed “factually inaccurate” for the #Trump administration to keep insisting that #ElonMusk has no formal position in [DOGE]"
#Musk #Doge #Coup #USPol #News #USA
Judge Appears Skeptical of Claims That Musk Isn’t Driving DOGE
Aishvarya Kavi (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Musk & Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats
#Democrats say the calls to remove judges who block Trump admn initiatives amount to intimidation. Some senior Republicans were also skeptical of the effort.
nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/poli…
"another assault on the constitutional guardrails...
attempt by #Republicans to breach the foundational separation of powers barrier as #Trump allies seek to exert iron-fisted control over the full... #government"
#Coup #GOP #Fascism #News #USA
Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats
Carl Hulse (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •How we stop Elon Musk
Americans will not stand idly by as billionaires break the #law to destroy our vital services.
contrarian.substack.com/p/how-…
"a force exists w/the power & disposition to defeat #Musk: organized federal workers. Their refusal to resign en masse has already significantly slowed down Musk’s wrecking crew. And the willingness of a growing number of employees to speak out has already helped turn public opinion against #DOGE."
#Resist #Resistance #ElonMusk #Coup #Trump #News #USA
How we stop Elon Musk
Eric Blanc (The Contrarian)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Federal Workers Again Receive Email Asking Them to Detail Accomplishments
#ElonMusk sowed chaos across the #government just days ago by asserting that failure to comply with a similar directive would result in their dismissals.
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli…
"It is unclear what consequences, if any, there will be if employees fail to comply with the new directive.
...original email & threat of possible dismissal sowed chaos... & little clarity has emerged since"
#Musk #Coup #Trump #USPol #News #US
Federal Workers Again Receive Email Asking Them to Detail Accomplishments
Madeleine Ngo (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Motion for Sanctions filed for Govt Lawyers Who Lied to Court About ElonMail
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/r…
"DOGE/OPM made an official Privacy Impact Statement... specifically all #GWES emails would always be voluntary...
Not only was that policy statement false but #government lawyers vouched for its accuracy...
So this evening the lawyer for the plaintiffs... filed a motion for sanctions against the government’s lawyers for deceiving the court."
#Musk #Coup #Lies #Law #USPol #News #USA
Motion for Sanctions filed for Govt Lawyers Who Lied to Court About ElonMail
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Nathan Tankus
On risks to #democracy nobody even thought about
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/mus…
"One person who did realize it, however, was #NathanTankus — an independent expert on the financial “plumbing” at the Federal Reserve & #Treasury Dept... His blog Notes on the Crises [ crisesnotes.com/ ] has become crucial reading — & he may have helped steer us, temporarily at least, away from the edge of the abyss"
#Musk #Coup #Tech #Money #USPol #News #US
Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Nathan Tankus
Paul KrugmanZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
newrepublic.com/article/192193…
"RUTF is widely hailed as an extraordinary innovation in feeding #children facing #starvation & #death.
...the cancellation of Mana’s latest contracts will mean that around 300,000 #kids... don’t get aid packets that #Congress intended for them. But we, too, are the losers"
#Musk #Trump #GOP #USPol #Food #Farm #News #USA
Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •In-House Gov Tech Unit for State of the Art Web Portals Disbanded by Doge
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i…
"18F, an in-house govt #tech consultancy focused on making key public-facing #government websites & services more effective & user friendly was finally disbanded last night... team who built the new free #IRS tax preparation portal...
18F actually didn’t cost the govt any money...
‘Trump and Elon wanted all you guys fired.’"
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Trump #Doge #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA
In-House Gov Tech Unit for State of the Art Web Portals Disbanded by Doge
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Skilled technologists are being forced out of government
18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/ski…
"Musk is not just destroying core #government functions, he is also destroying the actual #tech capacity of govt. Because there are, in fact, skilled #technologists who work in govt. They are not enough of them, & they lacked power to make big changes. They worked mostly in the US Digital Service and 18F... And now they are mostly gone."
#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA
Skilled technologists are being forced out of government
Don Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"18F was popular among the agencies; annoying to the contracting community; & frightening to the contractors & consultants who could charge unsuspecting agencies whatever they could get away with. Small, but mighty, #18F was the OG #DOGE, but with a mission to create actual efficiency...
Their dismissal with a late-night #email demonstrates that this admn either doesn’t know how to effectively enhance #government efficiency, or really doesn’t care."
linkedin.com/posts/dan-tangher…
#Musk #Coup #USPol
Dan Tangherlini on LinkedIn: GSA eliminates 18F | 73 comments
Dan Tangherlini (www.linkedin.com)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Cuts Ties with Elon Musk’s Starlink, Costing Musk $7 Billion After Controversial Tweet
msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-…
"Tensions between the two business moguls reportedly escalated after #Musk shared a controversial tweet implying #Slim had connections to organized #crime. Within minutes of the post, Slim canceled all collaborations with #Starlink in Latin America, causing Musk to lose an estimated $7 billion."
#ElonMusk #Business #Mexico #Twitter #News
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •GSA shutters 18F, possibly leaving agencies in the lurch
On early Saturday morning, the General Services Administration eliminated the program.
fedscoop.com/gsa-shutters-18f-…
"18F workers appear to have lost access to their #government email accounts immediately after Shedd’s announcement, which was sent around 1am. Employees then began calling each other in the middle of the night to discuss the news."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #GSA #18F #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA #US
GSA shutters 18F, possibly leaving agencies in the lurch
Rebecca Heilweil (FedScoop)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •A letter to the American People:
18f.org/
"18F was doing exactly the type of work that #DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated.
When former #Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd took the position of #TTS director... he acknowledged that the group is the “gold standard” of civic #technologists... He repeatedly emphasized the importance of the work, and the value of the talent that the teams bring to #government"
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #18F #News #USA
18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we're not done yet
18f.orgZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •‘It Feels Like It’s Chaotic on Purpose’
Elon Musk’s Dept of Govt Efficiency laid off a team whose purpose was to make the #government more efficient.
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
"Late #Friday night, the #Trump admn, as part of its push to modernize the govt with #software, laid off roughly 90 people from the General Services Admn—all federal technologists whose role was to **modernize the govt with software."**
#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #GSA #18F #Tech #Technology #News #Press #US
DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team
Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"some of 18F’s probationary employees, who typically have been in their govt role for only 1-2 yrs, had previously been terminated in the Trump admn’s mass firings, then reinstated this week, and then fired again Friday night...
The team was tailor-made for govt efficiency & #technology... But as #Trump & his surrogates continue to centralize #power over govt operations, it makes sense that #DOGE would want to rein in, or simply bulldoze, #18F."
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
#Musk #Coup #Fascism
DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team
Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"The inefficiency is the point. Asking workers to resign or justify their work through scrambled, aggressive messages almost inevitably prompts exodus & collapse...
playbook that #Musk follows from #space programs for his company #SpaceX. Govt teams, their staff, & the citizens they serve are like test launches of rocket prototypes: Try a new ship design uncrewed, knowing it could well explode, and repeat.
But in this case, people are aboard."
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
#ElonMusk #Coup #News
DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team
Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Social Security has never missed a payment.
DOGE actions threaten ‘interruption of benefits,'...
nbcchicago.com/news/business/m…
"recent actions at the US #SocialSecurity Admn by Elon Musk's so-called #DOGE are putting monthly benefit checks for more than 72.5 million #Americans at risk...
"Ultimately, you're going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits," O'Malley said. "I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days."
#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #USA #US
Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten ‘interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says
Lorie Konish, CNBC (NBC Chicago)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk publicly supports call for US to exit NATO, UN
kyivindependent.com/elon-musk-…
"Both #NATO & the #UN were founded by the #US & other victors of #WorldWarII to promote #diplomacy and cooperation between nations as well as to prevent another global #war.
#Musk, an unelected official, currently heads the so-called Dept of Govt Efficiency, which has cut significant amounts of #government spending, including life-saving foreign aid."
#ElonMusk #Doge #Coup #Fascism #Trump #GOP #Politics #News
Elon Musk publicly supports call for US to exit NATO, UN
The Kyiv Independent news desk (The Kyiv Independent)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •USAID Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
The world is likely to see millions more #malaria infections & 200,000 cases of paralytic #polio each year...
nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/…
"blame for these potential #health crises on #political leadership at #USAID, the Dept of State, & #DOGE, who have...
blocked payment systems, created new & ineffective processes for payments, & constantly shifted guidance regarding which activities qualify as “lifesaving”"
#Musk #Trump #GOP #USPol #News
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
Apoorva Mandavilli (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •5 Ways #Trump Is Sabotaging the #UnitedStates
emptywheel.net/2025/03/01/the-…
" #USAID is just the most substantiated example of the sheer waste #DOGE is creating... similarly stupid decisions in the firings of critical personnel (some of whom get hired back), but also the elimination of long-term maintenance or #safety programs that will cost far more when those protections are gone...
possibility that Elon’s DOGE boys are doing something else w/the #data they’re accessing"
#Musk #Coup #News #USA
Five Ways Trump Is Sabotaging the United States - emptywheel
emptywheelZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk’s Starlink
The Federal #Aviation Administration directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a #Starlink deal...
rollingstone.com/politics/poli…
"these internal directives have mostly, if not entirely, been delivered verbally — which they say is unusual for a matter like this... it appears as though “someone does not want a paper trail.”"
#ElonMusk #Musk #Corruption #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #News #USA #US
FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk’s Starlink
Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •AOC calls Elon Musk a ‘leech’ on the public as their tit-for-tat feud continues
‘No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts & #government contracts, it will never be enough for him’...
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
“Now he’s going after the #elderly, the #disabled & orphaned #children so he can pocket it in #tax cuts for himself... It’s disgusting.”
“If you want to start with waste, start with Elon’s defense contracts at the #Pentagon"
#SocialSecurity #Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US
AOC calls Elon Musk a ‘leech’ on the public as their tit-for-tat feud continues
Kelly Rissman (The Independent)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •US may exclude govt spending from GDP, obscuring effect of Doge cuts
Howard Lutnick’s remarks echo #ElonMusk...
[lies]theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
"spending cuts pushed by... Elon Musk’s so-called “dept of govt efficiency” ( #Doge) could possibly cause an economic downturn...
Govt spending is traditionally included in the #GDP because changes in #taxes, spending, deficits & regulations by the #government can affect the path of overall growth."
#Economy #Economics #Musk #Doge #Coup #USPol #News
US may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring effect of Doge cuts
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Vulture Capitalism Comes for #Democracy
The playbook #Trump & Musk are following to dismantle govt resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
thebulwark.com/p/vulture-capit…
"Trump & #ElonMusk... are taking their chainsaws to the federal #government. Waiting in the wings are Trump’s #billionaire buddies—including 13 in his administration—who are salivating at the prospect of govt agencies being privatized"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #Press #USA
Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy
Justin Glawe (The Bulwark)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Trump Is About to Hide DOGE’s True Costs From the Entire Country
Trump’s commerce secretary is preparing to mess with the country’s economic statistics.
newrepublic.com/post/192216/tr…
"The #Trump administration might exclude #government spending from gross domestic product reports to cover up upcoming poor #economic reports, and to hide the true scope of #DOGE cuts.... [which] could have a negative impact on the #economy."
#Musk #Coup #Economics #GDP #Trump #GOP #Corruption #USPol #News #US
Trump Is About to Hide DOGE’s True Costs From the Entire Country
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •USAID Whistleblower Boldly Drops Truth Bomb On Trump
INSIDE: Marco Rubio ... ABJ ... #ElonMusk
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-…
"senior #USAID official was placed on leave Sunday after he wrote a memo blowing the whistle on the #Trump admn...
The impacts on global #health outlined by Enrich are devastating, wide-ranging, and suggest hundreds of thousands of avoidable #deaths will result from Trump’s lawless destruction of USAID."
#Musk #Doge #Coup #DonaldTrump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA #US
USAID Whistleblower Boldly Drops Truth Bomb On Trump
David Kurtz (TPM - Talking Points Memo)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •USAID Official Ousted While Writing Scathing Memo on #Trump Cuts
Nicholas Enrich was preparing a 3rd damning #memo on #DonaldTrump... cuts to USAID before he was forced out.
newrepublic.com/post/192227/us…
"In his 1st memo, Enrich described severe staff reductions... in his 2nd, he noted 72... #USAID activities had no funding, leading to a #death toll that is “not known.” But in his 3rd memo, Enrich estimates how many people will die or get deadly diseases as a result of the cuts."
#Doge #News #USA
USAID Official Ousted While Writing Scathing Memo on Trump Cuts
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •DOGE's cuts are harming veterans
That's not efficient. It's cruel, it's wrong, & it's unAmerican.
contrarian.substack.com/p/doge…
" #ElonMusk... bought access to the president... so he could launch his #DOGE program... that is firing hard working, essential, middle-class employees, including #veterans.
Firing veterans who perform essential duties isn’t #government efficiency, it’s cruel...
The real Trump/Musk objective appears to be #cruelty more than efficiency."
#Musk #Coup #Trump #USPol #News
DOGE's cuts are harming veterans
The ContrarianZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •ElonMail, Take Two – Exec Branch Compliance Watch Update
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/e…
"One rumor or belief that’s been circulating for the last week has been about the part of the emails which says to write the #email and cc their supervisor. A lot of people think that that is to enable #DOGE to create a #government wide org chart"
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
ElonMail, Take Two – Exec Branch Compliance Watch Update
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •All of Trump’s Appointees Are Sick of #ElonMusk
Donald Trump’s appointees are growing frustrated with DOGE’s dangerous shenanigans.
newrepublic.com/post/192220/el…
"Musk’s #email just isn’t good for efficiency.
...if two million federal employees spent 15 minutes responding to emails, at their average wage of $35 per hour, they would ultimately waste 500,000 hours and cost the #government $17.5 million.
“That’s a conservative estimate""
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA
All of Trump’s Appointees Are Sick of Elon Musk
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Why shutting down the International Space Station could make Musk a fortune
muskwatch.com/p/why-shutting-d…
"White House advisor and SpaceX CEO #ElonMusk called for deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS)...
financial windfall for #SpaceX...
would pave the way for private companies to launch commercial space stations. Servicing commercial space stations is a key part of SpaceX's growth strategy."
#Musk #Corruption #Coup #Space #ISS #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA
Why shutting down the International Space Station could make Musk a fortune
Caleb Ecarma (Musk Watch)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •DOGE's Misplaced War on Software Licenses
DOGE claims that a #government agency has nearly three times as many #software licenses as employees. Experts say there are plenty of good reasons for that.
wired.com/story/doge-software-…
"licensing for the program is based on the number of devices on which it is installed, not the number of employees...
the #DOGE stuff... “has some salience but is done in a bombastic way to make it seem like they are having more impact.”
#Musk #Coup #Trump #USPol #News
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Senior USAID Leaders Warned #Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million #children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from #malaria & 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by #polio over the next decade...The programs were cut anyway.
propublica.org/article/trump-d…
"Elon Musk's #DOGE, pressed ahead with their plan to dismantle #USAID... even as the admn publicly insisted that those programs remained online"
#Musk #News
Trump Officials Thwarted Warnings of Death, Illness in Race to Cut Foreign Aid
ProPublicaZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Social Security & Sex Robots: Musk Veers Off Script With Joe Rogan
Elon Musk’s 3-hour interview with “The #JoeRogan Experience” offered a window into his worldview that was by turns crude & contradictory.
nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/poli…
“ #SocialSecurity is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time,” Musk declared...
#Musk defended his efforts with #Doge, alternatively casting it as existential & downplaying its scope, while expounding on not-safe-for-work matters like #AI sex robots."
#USPol #News #US
Social Security and Sex Robots: Musk Veers Off Script With Joe Rogan
Jess Bidgood (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •An FDR-Style "State of the Union"
Imagining What He Would Say Today, versus Trump/Musk/Putin
davidpepper.substack.com/p/an-…
"The actions of #Musk & his associates mirror those of the #economic royalists I warned about in prior years...
their dismantling of vital #government agencies & services and the bypassing of constitutional #ChecksAndBalances are not acts of #efficiency or savings, but attacks on the foundations of our republic."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Trump #Russia #GOP #Fascism #Politics #News
An FDR-Style "State of the Union"
David Pepper (Pepperspectives)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
The #DOGE -mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling #travel, & stopping employees from doing their #jobs.
wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk…
"At the #NOAA, scientists aren’t able to order equipment used to repair ships... At the #FDA, laboratories are experiencing delays in ordering basic supplies... employees are already unable to carry out the basic functions of their job."
#Musk #Coup #Trump #News
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"The credit card program allows federal workers to bypass the typical procurement process required to buy goods and services. A 2002 report from the Department of #Commerce said that, “by avoiding the formal procurement process, #GSA estimates the annual savings to be $1.2 billion.” It also enables federal employees to avoid paying sales tax on expenses that the #government is exempt from."
wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk…
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •"At the #FDA, labs that analyze samples to ensure that #food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics are #safe and meet regulatory standards are already facing shortages...
to keep ultra-cold freezers running. These freezers preserve samples of cells and other biological material that reflect years, and sometimes decades, of #research. Delays in getting liquid nitrogen tanks could destroy that material."
wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk…
#Musk #Coup #Trump #USPol #Science #Tech #Government #News #USA
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Wreaking Havoc on Nuclear Safety
DOGE has gutted the nuclear #safety agency.
newrepublic.com/post/192247/el…
" #DOGE pledged that the mass firing only affected noncritical employees... but that was little more than a bold-faced #lie.
...staffers forced out of his position incl acting Chief of Defense #Nuclear Safety James Todd, a senior executive official and the “top authority for all #NuclearSafety matters in the agency”"
#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News
Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Wreaking Havoc on Nuclear Safety
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s govt overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove #mistakes that inflated its success.
nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/poli…
"From its start, the list has been full of errors... claimed credit for contracts that had ended years or even decades before...
these mistakes raised questions about #DOGE ’s basic understanding of the federal #government"
#Musk #Coup #Lies #USPol #News
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
David A. Fahrenthold (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •DOGE Secretly Changes Receipts for Almost Half Its Supposed Savings
DOGE keeps quietly editing how much it has saved through its cuts.
newrepublic.com/post/192248/do…
"errors still persisted on the site. #DOGE still claimed that it had saved $106 million by canceling two contracts... but in reality, those contracts were completed during the #Bush admn.
This isn’t the first time that this has happened. DOGE’s website... has turned into a hall of humiliation"
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #News #US
DOGE Secretly Changes Receipts for Almost Half Its Supposed Savings
The New RepublicZhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •Tesla for Sale: Buyer’s Remorse Sinks In for Elon Musk’s E.V.-Owning Critics
The backlash against the electric vehicle company has intensified as the billionaire ally of #Trump exerts his power over the federal #government.
nytimes.com/2025/03/03/busines…
"Tesla, as stocks dropped by double digits in the last week... plummeting sales in #Europe... Recent protests outside #Tesla showrooms in the #US and some notable cases of vehicle owners being harassed have also made headlines."
#Resist #Musk #News
Tesla for Sale: Buyer’s Remorse Sinks In for Elon Musk’s E.V.-Owning Critics
Neil Vigdor (The New York Times)Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •DOGE moves to cancel #NOAA leases on key weather buildings
axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa…
"One of the buildings is the nerve center for generating national #weather forecasts.
It was designed to integrate multiple #forecasting centers in one building to improve operating #efficiency. It houses telecommunications equipment to send weather #data & forecasts across the #US & abroad...
Elon Musk's #DOGE has been working through the #GSA to cancel #government leases"
#Musk #Coup #Trump #USPol #News
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to Zhi Zhu 🕸️ • • •The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say
Federal employees are speaking out after the #Trump admn slashed staff & office space for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Admn.
theverge.com/news/622990/trump…
" #NOAA staffers are demonstrating today... calling attention to risks they see ahead as #DonaldTrump & the #ElonMusk led #Doge upend an agency that #Americans rely on to stay safe from extreme #weather events & flooding"
#Resist #Resistance #Musk #Coup #USPol #News
The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say
Justine Calma (The Verge)