Welcome to 🤡town, where:
-An $8b cut is really just an $8m cut
-3x $655m cuts are actually a single $18m cut
-A $232m cut was only worth $560k in the end
-the largest cut of all—$1.6b—was made by Joe Biden last fall, before DOGE even existed
Govt spending under Trump has so far averaged $30bn/day. Compare that to $26bn/day in the same period last year under Biden.
“No matter how aggressive doge is, its actions are focused on barely more than a tenth of the overall federal budget.”
In a 2013 interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference, @elonmusk brother, Kimbal, confessed that in 1995 he and Elon were working as illegal immigrants in the US while seeking funding for their startup company, Zip2. Start @ 9m10s
Giving a high school graduate managerial control of a govt agency is worth criticizing. And youre going to have a hard time convincing anybody that age is not directly correlated to knowledge/experience, especially in this case. Suggesting that we ignore that fact to appease young people is silly
@wired is not and should not be a partisan news organization.
And journalists should not be expected to frame narratives around party platforms or be beholden to party objectives. Kowtowing to a voter block should not be any journalist’s or news org’s obligation when reporting a story.
A must-read @propublica.org piece, outlining the disastrous effects of the Trump administration’s international aid freeze, exposes the administration’s lie that the ban has been relaxed/lifted and gives a voice to the brave doctors and staffers who intend to defy the ban for as long as possible.
What are the odds that during the exodus from the info cesspool that is X, I randomly snagged #Afireuponthedeep at my local bookstore? Little did I know I'd found a #scifi classic that warned readers about the "Net of a Million Lies" over a decade before the major social media networks were founded.
