Groundbreaking Immersive Documentary Explores the Untold Story of a D-Day Combat Cameraman https://petapixel.com/2025/05/27/groundbreaking-immersive-documentary-explores-the-untold-story-of-a-d-day-combat-cameraman/ #immersivedocumentary #applevisionpro #timemagazine #documentary #timestudios #Interviews #Technology #worldwarii #Spotlight #immersive #visionpro #history #apple #targo #News #dday #wwII
#TimeMagazine
#Trump 's mind is going...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNsKFEg5kWo&t=808s
More incoherent, babbling by the prez. He's losing it!
Trump just threw all of his lawyers and the DOJ DIRECTLY under a bus marked #ContemptofCourt in a BREATHTAKINGLY stupid #TimeMagazine interview, including claiming that he has no idea what is happening in the cases before the SCOTUS, but that he would NEVER disobey the Court
youtu.be/bcGPmjORy6c?...
Trump SCREWS his OWN LAWYERS a...
China Rejects Trump Claim of Tariff Talks With Xi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LvvHJ7nLJ0
5.38 min mark: #GeorgeClooney does not give a fuck what far right Trump says about him.
🚨 8.25 min mark: #Connecticutt Please be aware that there might be a serial killer on the loose.
🚨 11.15 min. mark: USA: #BirdFlu #H1NI , starting to shift from birds to cattle. FYI: No vaccine for this flu either.
16.10 min mark: Petition to remove a #SuperRichBully from #TimeMagazine's list.
19min. mark: #Signalgate, get rid of #PeteHegseth !! #KKKarolineLeavittIsABootlicker
22.31min mark: #OrangeMussolini's #TariffPlan. It just gets worse. #RyanGrim discusses the lack of light at the end of the tunnel.
Trans trailblazer #RaquelWillis was named by #TimeMagazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2025. Others in the list include Trump (with a highly unflattering photo), Vance, and Musk. I hope her inclusion pisses them off.
https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273756/raquel-willis/
Bollywood Stars Miss Out on Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People List 2025
#Bollywood #celebrities #hollywood #influentialpeople #timemagazine
https://blazetrends.com/bollywood-stars-miss-out-on-time-magazines-100-most-influential-people-list-2025/?fsp_sid=14309
TIME quotes me about DOGE and VA, gets stuff wrong
The TIME article contains two substantive errors, several minor errors, and a curious omission.
https://blog.kamens.us/2025/03/19/time-quotes-me-about-doge-and-va-gets-stuff-wrong/
#politics #USPol #DOGE #VA #journalism #TIMEMagazine
659. TIME SPECIAL EDITION - MARIO 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/time-sp... #Mario #SuperMario #TimeMagazine #Gaming #Booksky #SMB #Nintendo #VideoGames
Something reeks....#kingoftheturds AI generated #timemagazine
By Simon Shuster and Brian Bennett
February 7, 2025 8:00 AM EST #FWakeFebruary7 #FWake20250207
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“Is Time magazine still in business? I didn’t even know that.”
— President Trump, quoted by CNN after being asked about Elon Musk being on the cover of this week’s issue.
#TimeMagazine #PresidentMusk #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Lazy Caturday Reads: Pangur Bán (Antidote to Trump/Musk Horrors?)
Sadhbh (aka JJ) suggested I look into medieval Irish cats for today’s post, and she shared a website to get me started. It turns out that cats were highly valued in medieval Ireland–both for their rat and mouse hunting abilities and for companionship. There’s a beautiful poem from the 9th century about a cat named Pangur Ban. Here’s the poem, in modern translation:Pangur Bán
By Anonymous Translated By Seamus Heaney
From the ninth-century Irish poem
Pangur Bán and I at work, Adepts, equals, cat and clerk: His whole instinct is to hunt, Mine to free the meaning pent. ** More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove. Happy for me, Pangur Bán Child-plays round some mouse’s den. ** Truth to tell, just being here, Housed alone, housed together, Adds up to its own reward: Concentration, stealthy art. ** Next thing an unwary mouse Bares his flank: Pangur pounces. Next thing lines that held and held Meaning back begin to yield ** All the while, his round bright eye Fixes on the wall, while I Focus my less piercing gaze On the challenge of the page. ** With his unsheathed, perfect nails Pangur springs, exults and kills. When the longed-for, difficult Answers come, I too exult. ** So it goes. To each his own. No vying. No vexation. Taking pleasure, taking pains, Kindred spirits, veterans. ** Day and night, soft purr, soft pad, Pangur Bán has learned his trade. Day and night, my own hard work Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.Notes:
Source: Poetry (April 2006)
This is what the poem sounds like in the original medieval Irish:
Now do I really have to think about politics news? I suppose I do.
Here are the latest stories on Trump and Musk and their efforts to destroy the U.S. government.
Wired: A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
Members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team have had access to the US Treasury Department’s payment systems for over a week. On Thursday, the threat intelligence team at one of the department’s agencies recommended that DOGE members be monitored as an “insider threat.”
Sources say members of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s IT division and others received an email detailing these concerns.
“There is ongoing litigation, congressional legislation, and widespread protests relating to DOGE’s access to Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service,” reads a section of the email titled “Recommendations,” reviewed by WIRED. “If DOGE members have any access to payment systems, we recommend suspending that access immediately and conducting a comprehensive review of all actions they may have taken on these systems.”
Although Treasury and White House officials have repeatedly denied it, WIRED has reported that DOGE technologists had the ability to not only read the code of sensitive payment systems but also rewrite it. Marko Elez, one of a number of young men identified by WIRED who have little to no government experience but are associated with DOGE, was granted read and write privileges on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: the Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System at the BFS, an agency that according to Treasury records paid out $5.45 trillion in fiscal year 2024.
“There is reporting at other federal agencies indicating that DOGE members have performed unauthorized changes and locked civil servants out of the sensitive systems they gained access to,” the “Recommendations” portion of the email continues. “We further recommend that DOGE members be placed under insider threat monitoring and alerting after their access to payment systems is revoked. Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
The recommendations were part of a weekly report sent out by the BFS threat intelligence team to hundreds of staffers. “Insider threat risks are something [the threat intelligence team] usually covers,” a source told WIRED. “But they have never identified something inside the bureau as an insider threat risk that I know of.”
Wow.
The Washington Post: Federal judge blocks Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Department material.
NEW YORK — A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.
U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer’s decision also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”
The conditions are in place until another judge hears arguments on the matter on Feb. 14.
The ruling came hours after attorneys general from 19 states sued to stop Musk’s team from dealing with sensitive files during its review of federal payment systems — an unprecedented effort that skirted firm security measures that permitted access to systems only to trained Treasury employees.
In a four-page order, Engelmayer said the states that sued the Trump administration “will face irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief.”
“That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking,” Engelmayer wrote.
He adopted arguments by the states that Treasury records from the agency’s Bureau of Fiscal Services can only legally be accessed by specialized civil servants “with a need for access to perform their job duties.”
Under the order, the Trump administration is prohibited from giving access to political appointees, special government employees or government employees that are not assigned to the Treasury Department. The White House has said that Musk has been designated a special government employee.
The lawsuit, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), says DOGE, a group operating under the direction of President Donald Trump, had no authority to access the Treasury Department’s systems and that doing so was a potentially massive cybersecurity and privacy risk.
A judge halts Musk’s efforts to completely destroy USAID. NBC News: Judge pauses Trump administration effort to gut USAID’s workforce by thousands.
A federal judge on Friday paused a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols issued a pause on efforts to place 2,200 staff on administrative leave and to expedite evacuations for personnel abroad until next Friday at 11:59 p.m
He also rescinded leave for 500 workers already put on leave.
“All USAID employees currently on administrative leave shall be reinstated until that date, and shall be given complete access to email, payment, and security notification systems until that date, and no additional employees shall be placed on administrative leave before that date,” Nichols wrote.
Nichols also paused the administration’s plans to impose a 30-day deadline for USAID personnel abroad to return the the United States, saying “such short notice disrupts long-settled expectations and makes it nearly impossible for evacuated employees to adequately plan for their return to the United States.”
Nichols said he would not impose a pause on the funding freeze and scheduled an in-person preliminary injunction hearing for Wednesday.
A spokesperson for Democracy Forward, a progressive nonprofit group that filed a lawsuit against the Office of Management and Budget that resulted in a judge temporarily halting the Trump administration’s freeze on most federal grants and loans, said the organization is confident it will demonstrate standing.
“We are confident our clients will be able to demonstrate standing with more fulsome briefing and are committed to continuing to use the legal process to protect the privacy of the American people and to uphold the rule of law,” the spokesperson said.
Krebs on Security: Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com.’
Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.
Since President Trump’s second inauguration, Musk’s DOGE team has gained access to a truly staggering amount of personal and sensitive data on American citizens, moving quickly to seize control over databases at the U.S. Treasury, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Resources, among others.
Wired first reported on Feb. 2 that one of the technologists on Musk’s crew is a 19-year-old high school graduate named Edward Coristine, who reportedly goes by the nickname “Big Balls” online. One of the companies Coristine founded, Tesla.Sexy LLC, was set up in 2021, when he would have been around 16 years old.
“Tesla.Sexy LLC controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains,” Wired reported. “One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market. While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review.”
Mr. Coristine has not responded to requests for comment. In a follow-up story this week, Wired found that someone using a Telegram handle tied to Coristine solicited a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022, and that he worked for a short time at a company that specializes in protecting customers from DDoS attacks.
Internet routing records show that Coristine runs an Internet service provider called Packetware (AS400495). Also known as “DiamondCDN,” Packetware currently hosts tesla[.]sexy and diamondcdn[.]com, among other domains.
DiamondCDN was advertised and claimed by someone who used the nickname “Rivage” on several Com-based Discord channels over the years. A review of chat logs from some of those channels show other members frequently referred to Rivage as “Edward.”
From late 2020 to late 2024, Rivage’s conversations would show up in multiple Com chat servers that are closely monitored by security companies. In November 2022, Rivage could be seen requesting recommendations for a reliable and powerful DDoS-for-hire service.
Read more complex stuff at the link. Basically this kid is a cybercriminal and he could have access to our social security numbers.
There’s lots of creepy news about creepy Elon Musk today.
Greg Sargent at The New Republic: Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?
In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed to safeguard national security despite being deeply entangled with the military and intelligence bureaucracy. These included a failure to provide details to the government of Musk’s meetings with foreign leaders, the Times reported.
Those lapses had triggered a number of internal federal reviews, according to the Times. Perhaps most interestingly, the Defense Department’s inspector general had opened a probe of the matter sometime during 2024. The Air Force and the Pentagon Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security also launched reviews in November.
Now that Trump is president and controls the executive branch—including the Defense Department—it’s time to raise what appears to be a forgotten question: What exactly is going on with these government reviews into Musk? Have they continued? Or are they effectively dead?
When Trump fired over a dozen independent inspectors general last month, one of them was the Defense Department IG, Robert Storch. We don’t know whether the Musk probe was a reason for this firing, but it now seems awfully convenient for the SpaceX billionaire, who is known to be enraged about having to face regulations and oversight while enjoying immensely lucrative contracts with the federal government.
Now Democrats fear that Trump’s firing of the Defense Department IG has had the effect of closing down the IG’s investigation into Musk. And they’re demanding that the Pentagon clarify its status.
“I want to know, where is this investigation?” said Representative Adam Smith of Washington State, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), in an interview with me. “My deep concern is that it’s just basically been shut down and buried—and will not be pursued.”
Smith told me that Democrats on the HASC are asking the Defense Department for an update on the IG investigation. It will certainly be interesting to see if the agency clarifies this point, though Smith said there’s “no reason to expect a response anytime soon.”
Read the rest at TNR.
The Washington Post: Lawmakers flooded with calls about Elon Musk: ‘It is a deluge on DOGE.’
Constituents have flooded the phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk “feeding USAID into the wood chipper” and his access to government systems.
Senators’ phone systems have been overloaded, lawmakers said, with some voters unable to get through to leave a message. The outpouring of complaints and confusion has put pressure on lawmakers to find out more about Musk’s project, heightening tensions between the billionaire tech mogul and the government.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said the Senate’s phones were receiving 1,600 calls each minute, compared with the usual 40 calls per minute. Many of the calls she’s been receiving are from people concerned about U.S. DOGE Service employees having broad access to government systems and sensitive information. The callers are asking whether their information is compromised and about why there isn’t more transparency about what is happening, she said.
“It’s asking for a lot of clarification,” Murkowski said, noting that Alaska has a high concentration of federal workers.
“It is a deluge on DOGE,” said Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota). “Truly our office has gotten more phone calls on Elon Musk and what the heck he’s doing mucking around in federal government than I think anything we’ve gotten in years. … People are really angry.”
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said he’s been hearing from constituents “constantly” on DOGE and Musk. “We can hardly answer the phones fast enough. It’s a combination of fear, confusion and heartbreak, because of the importance of some of these programs.”
Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair: Is Donald Trump Afraid of Elon Musk?
During Donald Trump’s transition, it appeared that Elon Musk wouldn’t survive in Trumpworld much after the inauguration. Multiple leaks left the impression that Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO and X owner who staked a fortune on reelecting the president, had already outlasted his welcome at Mar-a-Lago, like a houseguest who comes for the weekend, stays for a month, and decides to rearrange the furniture. Musk dropped in on one of Trump’s calls with a world leader; publicly lobbied to install billionaire Howard Lutnick as Treasury secretary; and feuded with Trump ally Steve Bannon over H-1B visas, later writing to critics of the program, “Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.” Republicans I spoke to at the time said it was inevitable that Musk’s meddling and outbursts would cause a blowup with Trump.
That still may happen. But since Trump was officially sworn in back on January 20, Musk has increased his influence in the White House to unfathomable levels, even as his behavior has at times been erratic. Musk is now leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency as if there are no limits to his power. His band of teenage and 20-something programmers is burrowing into federal computer systems at breakneck speed, and it’s unclear if Trump has a full grasp on what Musk is doing. For instance, there were conflicting reports this week about whether DOGE staffers had read-write access to the Treasury Department’s vast payment system, which would allow Musk to potentially cancel disbursements he didn’t like. Musk has since plugged into the FAA, the Department of Education, and the Office of Personnel Management. According to one Trump ally, Musk is not fully briefing White House chief of staff Susie Wiles about his plans and the White House is effectively in the dark. A White House official disputed this: “The chief of staff is very much involved, and there is no daylight between Elon Musk and anyone in the administration about executing the president’s agenda.” (Musk did not immediately reply to a request for comment for this article.)
Meanwhile, Musk is using his X account like a personal White House pressroom podium to dominate the news cycle. In recent days, Musk has claimed to have “deleted” a division of the General Services Administration and to have fed USAID “into the wood chipper.” He’s also spread conspiracy theories, such as one falsely alleging that DOGE staffers discovered $84 million given to Chelsea Clinton by USAID. (Musk later deleted his tweet that promoted the claim.) Musk has even criticized his ostensible boss. On January 20, Musk undercut Trump’s announcement that the White House had secured a commitment from OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank for an investment of up to $500 billion to build data centers and AI infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote on X a few hours after Trump revealed the plan. “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”
More at Vanity Fair.
Shawn McCreesh at The New York Times: Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk?
The president did not look amused. He was meeting the Japanese prime minister for the first time on Friday when a reporter shouted out to ask if he had a “reaction” to the new cover of Time magazine. The cover, the reporter told Mr. Trump, depicts “Elon Musk sitting behind your Resolute Desk.”
“No,” Mr. Trump answered pointedly. He looked down at the floor. The next few seconds stretched like an eternity as a translator related the exchange to the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, in Japanese.
Just in case any of the sauciness of the moment had been lost in translation, Mr. Trump waited until the interpreter had finished and then cracked: “Is Time magazine still in business? I didn’t even know that.” Everyone around him laughed gamely, if a bit nervously.
It is unlikely that Mr. Trump didn’t know whether Time magazine was still in business. His own face had, after all, stared out from its cover only two months ago, when the magazine anointed him its “Person of the Year.” As part of the rollout of that issue, Mr. Trump rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange in front of a blown-up version of the cover….
The last time he was president, a Time cover in 2017 featuring his adviser Stephen K. Bannon at the height of his powers — “The Great Manipulator,” it read — was believed to have annoyed Mr. Trump. Mr. Bannon left the White House later that year.
I have no doubt that Trump is pissed off about this.
ProPublica: The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks.
As members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fanned out across the government in recent days, attention has focused on the young Silicon Valley engineers who are wielding immense power in the new administration.
But ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who have also joined the DOGE effort.
Two are former Supreme Court clerks — one clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, another for Justice Neil Gorsuch — and the third has been selected to be a Gorsuch clerk for the 2025-2026 term.
Two of the lawyers’ names have not been previously reported as working for DOGE.
All three — Keenan Kmiec, James Burnham and Jacob Altik — have DOGE email addresses at the Executive Office of the President, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. Altik was recently an attorney at the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, but his bio page is now offline. Neither the White House nor any of the three lawyers immediately responded to requests for comment about their roles.
Referring to DOGE work, the White House told ProPublica in a statement earlier this week that, “Those leading this mission with Elon Musk are doing so in full compliance with federal law.”
However, DOGE’s aggressive actions across the government have already drawn lawsuits contending that the group has broken the law.
The legal challenges brought by several groups could ultimately reach the Supreme Court. This week, for example, more than a dozen Democratic attorneys general said they would sue to block DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems, and federal employee unions sued to challenge the DOGE-led dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“What’s striking is how contemptuous the administration seems to be of traditional administrative law limitations — in ways that might get them into trouble,” said Noah Rosenblum, a law professor at New York University. “When this stuff goes to the courts, one important question is going to be: How well-lawyered was it?”
One more from Garrett Graff at Doomsday Scenario: White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta. A second update on Elon Musk’s coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent. (I posted the precursor to this post last week, but you can find it on Graff’s Substack if you missed it.
Last week, I wrote a dispatch from Washington aimed at showing how the rise and return of Donald Trump would be covered by the media if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where US correspondents are more likely to call a spade a spade and more likely to make sweeping historical assertions.
Your response to that column was incredible, both from Americans who feel like they’re being gaslit by the tepid headlines and couched language most mainstream US news outlets are still using to describe grave assaults on our Constitution and legal system and also from readers overseas (including foreign correspondents who are writing about the collapse of our constitutional order) who agreed in dismay that my satirical portrayal was precisely how they were viewing the events in Washington from afar.
I thought — for now at least — I’d offer this as a weekly Saturday column, one that helps both to round up the firehose of news and events on multiple fronts that we’re living through each day as well provide some larger, clear-eyed context about the effects of these events. Without further ado, I give you William Boot’s latest dispatch from our troubled country:
Last week, I wrote a dispatch from Washington aimed at showing how the rise and return of Donald Trump would be covered by the media if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where US correspondents are more likely to call a spade a spade and more likely to make sweeping historical assertions….
I thought — for now at least — I’d offer this as a weekly Saturday column, one that helps both to round up the firehose of news and events on multiple fronts that we’re living through each day as well provide some larger, clear-eyed context about the effects of these events. Without further ado, I give you William Boot’s latest dispatch from our troubled country:
NEWS ANALYSIS: White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta
By William BootTwo weeks into a fast-moving coup by a South African tech oligarch, the United States — which was already deep into planning for its 250th birthday next year — hangs suspended this weekend in a liminal state somewhere between the constitutional republic it has been for 249 years and an authoritarian regime akin to Europe’s infamous fallen democracy, Hungary.
Following the alarming purges of the security services last week and the successful capture of the national treasury and other federal agencies by technical junta forces loyal to centibillionaire Elon Musk, the country’s constitutional system seemed to awaken from slumber this week.
Although by Monday Musk reigned unquestioned as head of the government, he appears content to allow the country’s elected president, Donald Trump, to remain the ceremonial head of state, and overall the political situation seemed to stabilize as the week progressed. Amid widening protests by opposition leaders and the public, damning media reports, and a flurry of court orders that blocked or slowed some of the most controversial power grabs, the country even appeared — at least temporarily — to pull back from the abyss.
The capital’s limbo status was reflected in a bizarre power sharing arrangement—some agencies were directly controlled by Musk, while others remained led by ideologically aligned ministers appointed by the figurehead Trump. Many of those officials who support Musk’s white nationalist agenda went out of their way to pay homage to the oligarch. The transportation minister bragged publicly about inviting a Musk takeover of his ministry’s work on aviation safety, and the capital’s federal prosecutor posted a letter to social media putting his supposedly independent force at Musk’s disposal.
The small handful of correspondents whose news organizations have not been cowed into compliance by regime threats spent much of the week in the embattled capital trying to even identify the mysterious Musk-backed figures taking control of government systems. Many of the junta gang members, who would only identify themselves by first-names and were known locally as DOGE, adopted a standard uniform of t-shirts under blazers and appeared to be youths, some even in their teens — one went online by the moniker BigBalls.
Many of these child foot soldiers were apparently mercenaries pulled from the sprawling business empire run by Musk, himself a notoriously immature and boyish oligarch raised amid wealth and privilege in apartheid-era South Africa who has steadily built deep ties to far-right political movements around the globe in recent years.
Regime spokespeople refused to clarify for much of the week whether the DOGE operators deployed across Washington were officially employed by the government or just acting at the personal order of Musk.
Throughout the week, reports and rumors of surprise DOGE appearances at one government office or another spread like wildfire on social media and over text-messaging chains filled with nervous government employees. Members of the parliament’s opposition party tried to investigate some of the agencies under siege, but were blocked from even entering buildings occupied by DOGE forces; at the education ministry, for instance, they faced down an anonymous brown-shirted enforcer who refused to identify himself.
Read the rest at the link above.
That’s it for me today. The stress is really getting to me. I’m having even more difficulty sleeping than usual and I feel exhausted all the times. I do feel slightly better now that the courts are getting involved, but I fear what will happen when these cases reach the corrupt Supreme Court. I also think it’s quite likely that Trump and Musk will eventually clash the way Trump and Bannon did in Trump’s first term.
Take care everyone.
#Doge #insiderThreat #legalDecisions #MedievalIrishCats #PangurBan #TimeMagazine #treasuryDepartment #TrumpMuskCoup #USAID
Elon Musk pryder Time Magazines senaste omslag. På bilden sitter han i presidentens stol bakom skrivbordet i Ovala…
Elon Musk pryder Time Magazines senaste omslag. På bilden sitter han i presidentens stol bakom skrivbordet i Ovala rummet. – Finns Time Magazine ens kvar? Jag h#elonmusk #donaldtrump #timemagazine
Elon Musk på Time Magazines omslag – som president
#Trump was asked, "anything to say about #Musk the cover and said, "No" ....
Then added, “Is #TimeMagazine still in business, I didn’t even know that.”
Everybody knows (well, most people) Time USA, LLC. is still in business
This _might_ of been the first version
#TimeMagazine #Trump #Musk #WhoIsThePresident #DOGE #USA #ConstitutionalCrisis Thought this was a really great parody some artistic commentator cooked up but apparently it's the real time magazine cover; a really great parody some artistic (astute) commentator cooked up.
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