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May 20, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Crashes Out When Asked About South Africa Starlink Deal
South Africa is bending its own rules for Trump adviser Elon Musk.
May 20, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Elon Musk Wins Exception to Black Ownership Rule in South Africa
Musk is about to get a massive reward from the South African government despite his “white genocide” lies.
May 19, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
DOGE Loses Shady Battle to Take Over $500 Million Nonprofit Building
A federal judge just struck down DOGE’s attempt to seize the U.S. Institute of Peace.
May 16, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust
Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.
May 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
How Elon Musk Used State Department to Force Starlink on a Country
Elon Musk is turning the U.S. government into his personal P.R. firm.
May 15, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Can’t Stop Talking About White Genocide
Grok seems to have been programmed to defend claims of white genocide in South Africa. Now it’s all it can talk about.
May 14, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Turns Out Elon Musk Didn’t Pay Everyone Who Signed His Shady Petition
Elon Musk is about to be in a heap of legal trouble over that 2024 election petition.
May 13, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk Just Hijacked Trump’s Saudi Visit to Land a Major Deal
Elon Musk also managed to promote every single one of his companies during a speech.
May 12, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Chaos Breaks Out at Copyright Office With Supposed Trump Appointees
Two men claiming to be Donald Trump appointees were blocked from the newly gutted office.
May 12, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Public-Sector Workers Are Heroes, and Democrats Should Say So
A new memo shows how Trump is gunning to weaken Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s time to fight, Democrats.
May 11, 2025
Jason Linkins
The Democrats Have an Age-Old Problem
The party is stewing with tension between young blood and their decorated elders. But the real fault line may have more to do with vigor than with age.
May 9, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Makes Carveout in Refugee Ban—for White South Africans
The first Afrikaner “refugees” will soon land in the United States. And Trump is planning a welcome delegation for their arrival.
May 8, 2025
Felipe De La Hoz
Trump’s Sneaky Plot to Steal Your Data—and Weaponize It Against You
Under the guise of immigration enforcement, the administration is building a new, expanded surveillance state.
May 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
DOGE Staffer Fired the Lawyers Trying to Help Him Avoid Corruption
Lawyers warned one of Elon Musk’s DOGE cronies that his investments were a conflict of interest. He fired them.
May 4, 2025
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Sam Rosenfeld
Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE
While Elon Musk paints federal bureaucrats as inefficient or worse, Lewis and other literary essayists shine a light on the quiet heroes of the civil service.
May 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Is Poised to Get Another Huge Payday From the Government
Cuts to NASA mean that Musk’s SpaceX company is well positioned to reap in a billion dollars—at least—in government contracts.
May 2, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too
He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.
May 1, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk Freaks Out Over Report Tesla Is Trying to Force Him Out
Elon Musk’s relationship with Donald Trump has tanked the electric vehicle brand.
April 30, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Elon Musk Has Officially Left the White House
The world’s richest man is no longer right next to Donald Trump on the White House premises.
April 29, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Elon Musk Lost Boatload of Money in Trump’s First 100 Days
Here’s one thing to celebrate from Trump’s first 100 days in office.
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