"This is not about personal liberties or free markets. It’s about making the Post more amenable to the Trump administration so that Jeff Bezos’s businesses will not be punished."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
/9
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Liberalism is afraid to take its own side.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for billionaire babble.
When they talk of 'personal liberties and free markets' they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into greater economic insecurity and fear."
~ Robert Reich
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
/8
"At key moments, Leavitt visibly seethed at the media. And we think we know why: On Tuesday, consumer confidence registered another big drop, and Leavitt was simply unable to defend the glaring Trump-Musk failures we’re seeing."
#Musk #Trump #media #KarolineLeavitt #economy
/7
"At Tuesday’s media briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House will now decide who attends briefings, an effort to insulate President Trump from tough scrutiny. She also offered awful spin about the developing Elon Musk fiasco."
#Musk #Trump #media #KarolineLeavitt #economy
/6
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As press secretary Karoline Leavitt snaps at tough questions over the Elon Musk fiasco, an MSNBC writer discusses how Leavitt’s display pulled the curtain back on Trump’s hidden vulnerability.The New Republic
"The Opinions section is being told what their opinions are to be, from now on. And they seem to align with current thinking by the Trump regime’s current scumbag leaders. …
From a very quick survey by me of Wapo staffers: This is the worst thing to happen to The Washington Post ever in its 147 year life, including the Janet Cooke scandal."
~ Gene Weingarten
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/5
"The message could not be clearer: editorial independence is dead at the Washington Post. Opinion editor David Shipley, recognizing this fact, has already resigned rather than oversee this ideological narrowing. ...
Democracy dies in darkness? No, it dies when billionaires decide they want their media properties to serve their personal ideological agendas rather than the public interest."
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/4
"The audacity of claiming that free market ideas are 'underserved' in American media is staggering. Has Bezos somehow missed the existence of The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC, and countless other outlets that have spent decades championing free-market capitalism?"
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/3
"In a stunning announcement today, Jeff Bezos declared that The Washington Post's opinion section will now exclusively focus on 'personal liberties and free markets.' …
Today's announcement takes things to an entirely new level of billionaire meddling."
~ Parker Molloy
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/2
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With its new "free markets and personal liberties" mandate, democracy dies not in darkness but in billionaire ideologyParker Molloy (The Present Age)
Interview: "Federal workers are staging mass protests to Save Our Services"
“They’re trying to immiserate the working class, & they’re doing it through the federal workforce.
"It’s about gutting the services that create a safety net... because the more miserable we are, the easier it is for them to exploit us.
“The whole public sphere is at stake.”
~Chris Dols
democracynow.org/2025/2/20/dog…
#USPol #SaveOurServices #Trump #Musk #Oligarchy #GeneralStrikeNow #ResistFascism .
Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back.Democracy Now!
Da der Staat sowieso kaum mehr als eine Exekutivgewalt für Big Business ist und der Staatsapparat sowieso längst mit Konzernen verschmolzen ist, ist es nur konsequent, dass ein Organ namens Staatsschutz tätig wird, um Konzerne wie Tesla und Elon Musk gegen lästigen Aktivismus zu verteidigen.
zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deu…
#Musk #Tesla #Protest #Repression #Antireport
Noch ermittelt der Staatsschutz gegen unbekannt. Doch Aktivisten geben sich bereits als Urheber einer Protestaktion gegen die viel diskutierte Gruß-Geste von Elon Musk zu erkennen.ZDFheute
Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
#Musk #doge #Trump #coup #uspolitics
Poll result: Who loves Elon in government?
On the question of who wants "Musk to have less influence over government spending & operations," nearly half of respondants said yes.
However, "nearly three-quarters of Republicans surveyed said Musk & DOGE should have 'a lot' or 'some' influence."
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
#DOGE #Musk #Trump #USPol #PollResult #CapturedState .
Imagine that: Americans don't want an unelected billionaire running the government.Mother Jones
ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative.
Here’s what we know about them: propublica.org/article/elon-mu…
#News #Law #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #DOGE #ElonMusk #Musk #USPolitics
Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.ProPublica
Unbelievable
#ElonMusk’s US #DOGE Service are feeding sensitive data into #AI software via #Microsoft’s #cloud
#Musk’s US #DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the #Education Dept into #ArtificialIntelligence software to probe the agency’s programs & spending…. The AI probe includes data w/personally identifiable info for people who manage grants, & sensitive internal financial data…
#law #security #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #Trump #TrumpCoup
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Interview: I Was Fired by Trump in his Anti-DEI Purge, Gutting of Agencies
Karla Gilbride from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was fired by Trump along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the workplace.
The EEOC was created as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is tasked with investigating discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex & other characteristics.
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#TrumpPurge #Musk #BoughtGovernment #USPol .
We speak with Karla Gilbride, the former general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who was fired by President Trump in late January along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the wo…Democracy Now!
#Musk says he's working to shut down #USAID as employees told to stay home
Musk does not have the authority to shut down a government department and the legality of such a move is in question.
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The international aid agency's website is down and security officials were put on leave, US media reports.Kayla Epstein (BBC News)
Unless you don’t mind Elon Musk, and his team of unelected, illegitimate techbros sifting through all your social security personal/financial data, CALL YOUR THREE CONGRESS MEMBERS TODAY AND TELL THEM TO STOP DOGE!
Find your House Member: house.gov/representatives
Find your two Senators:
senate.gov/senators/index.htm
#musk #elonmusk #doge #trump #AI #government #techbros #hackers #coup #congress #senate #resist #fightback #america #USA #US #USAID
« #Italian gov’s possible adoption of #Starlink satellite comms system would b politicl & economic error, domestic & #EU legislators have warned, as gov doubled down on decision & #Musk revelled in the debate
If deal→signed, #Italy→1st EU country 2 formally engage w/ Musk’s #SpaceX. But would raise ?? abt its alignment w/ #European strategic priorities, including setup of EU’s #IRIS2 constellation, while potentially costing Italy jobs, sovereignty, & strategic autonomy»
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Musk hinted that others will follow Italy's lead in working with his satellite communication service.Alessia Peretti (EURACTIV)
"Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars"
It's great to see someone FINALLY mention the magnetosphere issue, in the very first sentence no less, but this article rips into the idea so much more thoroughly than that, and with admirable gusto.
Der Messenger #Telegram ist für eine sichere Kommunikation nicht geeignet - standardmäßig sind die Nachrichten nicht einmal Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselt. Besser geeignet sind #Signal oder #Threema. Übrigens: Elon Musk ist das Paradebeispiel eines Trolls. Einfach ignorieren. 😉
Wer eine Entscheidungshilfe für einen Messenger sucht: messenger-matrix.de/messenger-…
#sicherheit #security #schwachstelle #e2ee #vulnerabilty #musk #durow
Gegenüberstellung sicherheits- und datenschutzrelevanter Eigenschaften von Messengernwww.messenger-matrix.de
Call me old-fashioned, but if a car kills people at ten times the rate of other cars,
the company covers up the data,
and the CEO lies to the public and says the cars are safer…
I think that CEO should go to jail on fraud charges.
#Musk #fraud #DOJ #WhiteCollarCrimeSpiking
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Elon Musk’s automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers.Ryan Cooper (The American Prospect)
So I understand that the bird site has started blocking links to common/known Mastodon instances, and that doesn't seem like free speech to me. So... I did a thing.
If you go to spacekaren.sucks it is now a URL shortener that blocks the twitter user agent. That means you can share that link that will redirect to your Mastodon account without the pouty baby stopping you. If you find this helpful can you boost so others can find it? #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Musk #introduction
Free speech really should be free. To bypass the new censorship regime at twitter, use this URL shortener to link to Mastodon or other censored destinationsspacekaren.sucks
Can't figure out what's more unnerving:
#Musk owning #Twitter, or the people at #hive (#hivesocial) thinking star signs are on equal footing to #pronouns.
Did you hear the news about Mr #Musk's suggested changes to the "blue tick" (a.k.a. "verified badge")? If not, you'll be delighted to know that we are finally turning it into a paid feature, making that green check mark extra special! ✅
As a symbol of our transparency at #Twitter Inc., we will also introduce semi-transparent verification badges. The opacity of the badge will depend on your selected Twitter Verified plan.
For only $10 a month, you can get a verification badge with 20% opacity!
Elon Musk, environmentalist, “wants to build his own airport … flies around 150,000 miles a year … over 6 times the earth's circumference … currently owns four private jets”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to build his own airport just outside of Austin, according to reports.inkl
