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The $400 Million Armored Tesla Story Is a Fake Scandal In a Sea of Real Graft and Horror

13 February 2025 at 08:45


The State Department does a lot of business with a lot of different companies and has bought Tesla's before. But freaking out and editing a spreadsheet when it’s pointed out is weird.

U.S. Military Abandons STEM Recruiting Conference Over β€˜Woke’ Concerns

11 February 2025 at 08:00
U.s. Navy Supports Beya Stem Conference

The 40-year-old Become Everything You Are conference was a place the Pentagon gathered hundreds of high level recruits. This year it's pulling out as part of a broader DEI purge.

How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?

9 February 2025 at 09:00
UNITED STATES – MARCH 01: Boeing and Silo of missile as house in United States in March, 1997 – Ed Peden in front of his former silo of nuclear missile. (Photo by Raphael GAILLARDE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

What was once ridiculous is now possible. Elon Musk, the richest person in the history of the world, has become President Donald TrumpҀ™s attack dog. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have unprecedented access to the governmentҀ™s data and computer system. Earlier this week, that came to include systems in the Department of Energy (DOE), which oversees AmericaҀ™s nuclear weapons. The news raised enough concern that Secretary of Energy Chris Wright went on the air to deny Musk and DOGE have access to atomic secrets.

It’s alarming to be at a point where someone has to make this kind of statement, especially because the Trump administration has reportedly lied about DOGE’s access levels before. DOGE’s placement at the DOE even raises a truly bizarre-sounding possibility: that a pseudo-department named after a shiba inu could get actual access to nuclear weapons. Fortunately, despite Musk’s ever-expanding power over government systems, it would take far more than barging into the right office to do this. But at a moment where all kinds of governmental norms are in flux, it’s worth looking at what exactly separates someone like Musk from perhaps the greatest d …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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