Ah yes, stupid ass programs like *checks notes* food for starving people, medicine for sick people, and severe weather alert infrastructure. I guess I can forgive home though — poverty, illness, and climate disaster doesn’t really impact him in his home state of *checks notes* California.

In an email to The Post, his father, Errol, said Musk and his brother were “not into political nonsense, & we lived in a very well-run, law-abiding country with virtually no crime at all. Actually no crime. We had several black servants who were their friends” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Judge puts EPA’s attempted de-banking of IRA grant recipients on pause for the time being because there was no proof of “waste, fraud, or abuse” as EPA had alleged.

"Elon Musk’s Tesla has been forced to halt sales of its electric Cybertruck pickup amid mounting concern about metal panels falling off the supposedly indestructible vehicles..." lmaoo

1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.

Pretty remarkable that the Fed’s General Counsel made these comments in the absence of a Vice Chair for Supervision, during a pause in rulemaking, and while the Board is still (ostensibly) majority Democrat. Via Capitol Account:

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

It remains INSANE to me that Musk is not the subject of shareholder litigation for how he is cratering a company he ostensibly runs while in reality running DOGE

Far be it from me to defend the CapOne-Discover merger, but this reads like a shakedown of a company with a merger pending before this administration. Also, banks aren't obligated to do business with entities that have attempted to overturn a free and fair election. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

The OCC, the regulator for national banks, rescinded its requirement that banks get the agency's approval before doing business with cryptocurrencies & crypto companies. Not surprising, but this'll bring a lot more risk into the banking system which is backed by the public. occ.gov/news-issuanc...

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

CapOne has a pending merger application before the banking agencies to acquire Discover and further consolidate the credit card/payments market. Dropping this enforcement action for cheating consumers out of interest payments eliminates a potential obstacle to that deal.

If you have a: - Credit card - Checking account - Savings account - Mortgage - Car loan - Student loan - Venmo account The fight to protect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is your fight.

As @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social said: Mike Johnson leads an NPC — Non Player Congress

Where is AARP?????? Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

UPDATE: We’re t-minus 30 minutes to midnight and the DOGE team has yet to bring the receipts.

The erosion of civil rights never stops at one group. In coming weeks, Trump’s DOGE plans to cut staff who investigate complaints of employment discrimination in the federal workplace as well as a VA office that works to ensure all veterans receive equal access to care.

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

Pope Francis' remarkable rebuke of JD Vance and Trumpism lays bare an essential truth: Trump is overseeing a massive and systematic abandonment of obligation to the global poor, and Vance's theological obfuscation can't make that disappear. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1914...

When Musk's minions forced their way into USAID's servers, they made themselves "super administrators" meaning they had access to workers' Social Security numbers, credit histories, and home addresses. They may have well broken the law. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Actual corruption

People are already dying because of what Musk and Trump have done in the last two weeks.

Elon Musk is very unpopular www.politico.com/live-updates...

Important to note: The CFPB would be X’s regulator as it rolls out its new payment service www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/...

True story: I worked on the law that help set up the CFPB. I’ve also needed their help. A few years ago my servicer didn’t return an escrow from when I refi’d. $3000. For over a yr would say they sent it but didn’t. 1 complaint to the CFPB & it was fixed. The CFPB fights for you!

Where’s Musk expressing concern about this doxxing?

Yep. And some of those actions have the potential for incurring serious liability.

EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.

If the 60 Minutes team doesn't all quit, their next piece should be on how Paramount bribed Trump to get favorable treatment on a merger.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

“Stopping the work of the CFPB means inviting scammers and swindlers into working families’ bank accounts,” said @jessevantol.bsky.social , President and CEO of NCRC. ncrc.org/ncrc-stateme...

HUD secretaries from both parties have agreed for decades: housing ends homelessness. But Scott Turner rejects the evidence, supports criminalization, and [checks notes] won't say whether he'd support sending people who can’t afford housing to detention camps. ⬇️

Make no mistake, the federal funding ‘temporary pause’ debacle was a trial balloon. Trump is testing the limits of what he can get away with and identifying where he needs to apply more pressure to break the remaining safeguards in our democratic institutions. Thankfully, we still have some.

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

🚨OMB sent a memo to federal agencies this evening, requiring all federal loans and grants be paused by 5pm tomorrow. 🚨 Financial assistance is defined here to include all federal grants/loans except those that provide direct assistance to individuals.

It has come to my attention that I have an impersonator on here. Please report and don’t follow! Here’s the fake profile with an extra L @jessevantoll.bsky.social

Gee what should we all call it when a president gets rid of an Executive Order that *de*segregated federal contracting?

Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.

Horrifying. For him and democracy.

Delete DOGE

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Despite Trump’s Tough Talk On PBMs, GOP House Lets Them Off The Hook www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

Yes, absolutely contemptible. And these outlets are choosing to do this. There is no requirement to cover it this way.

Trump is already undermining the strong economy he inherited.

It’s not inconceivable to me that the House ends up being so ungovernable that they can’t pass a tax cut extension or even a border bill. Never a good sign when you are threatening to primary people 2 years before the next election when you will literally need their votes many times.

The largest tract of unused land in DC is the 174 acre parcel at the edge of Capitol Hill that includes the old RFK Stadium. Things DC needs: Housing, green space. Things DC does not need: A giant concrete bowl surrounded by parking that is used 13 days a year.

Once again, the absolutely stupidest possible way to run the most important economy on the planet.

Government shutdowns (and then, reopenings) are expensive for taxpayers. You'd think the head of the new govt efficiency commission would know this

He did promise some pain for regular folks under Trump.

Trump has promised policies every halfway sane economist assures us will be inflationary - today the Fed announced that it will proceed with caution in cutting rates as it waits to see how it goes with inflation and today the stock market got real about the death of Bidenomics