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April 08, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Elon Musk
Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, bought his way into Trump world and now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE has illegally taken over the federal government, firing federal employees and canceling grants with little to no regard of any of the reprecussions.
March 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Paul, Weiss Appeased Trump. More Attacks on BigLaw Will Follow.
Fascists respond to capitulation with more aggression. Elon Musk has already started targeting firms himself.
March 25, 2025
Ezra Klein Said What?
Abundance co-author’s word salad about environmental review left us scratching our heads.
March 21, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 9: Trump’s Crypto Business Beats Keeping Contaminants Out Of Our Drinking Water
Among many instances of blatant corruption, this week saw huge gains for Trump’s crypto firm and huge losses for the EPA’s scientific research arm.
March 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCongressional OversightDOGEEconomic PolicyElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingTrump 2.0
DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
March 14, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week Eight: The White House Clown Car Dealership
While the lion’s share of this weeks’ news cycle surrounds a potential partial government shutdown (readers of this newsletter know that the government already is substantially shut down by DOGE), Trump and his lackeys continue churning the corruption machine for their own benefit. Trump, Musk, and their underlings shamelessly use the government to get even richer while decimating the government’s capacity to help poor people, farmers, students, women, and well, all of us.
March 14, 2025
DOGE Agent: Edward Coristine
Musk Connections: former Neuralink intern
DOGE Deployments: Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), General Services Administration (GSA), and the State Department
March 14, 2025
DOGE Agent: Joanna Wischer
Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Connections: Business Analyst at General Dynamics
March 13, 2025
DOGE Agent: Anthony Armstrong
Musk Connections: Advised Musk’s Twitter purchase
Other Corporate Affiliations: Morgan Stanley; Credit Suisse; Qatar Holding
DOGE Deployment: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
March 12, 2025
How Secretary Of Transportation Sean Duffy Is Crashing Inflation
February’s inflation report looks good at first glance. But dig deeper and you’ll see that Musk making flying dangerous is the cause.
March 12, 2025
DOGE Agent: Stephen Duarte
Musk Connections: Human Resources at SpaceX
Other Corporate Affiliations: Client relations specialist at CMG Financial
DOGE Deployment: Office of Personnel Management
March 12, 2025
DOGE Agent: Noah Peters
Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Partner at Brewer Attorneys & Counselors, Counsel at Bailey and Ehrenberg PLLC
DOGE Deployment: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
March 12, 2025
Revolving Door Project: New Laws Implicitly Sanction Trump and Musk’s Violation of Existing Laws
The public and the courts alike need to know that the U.S. Congress does not accept Donald Trump and Elon Musk shredding the core precepts of our Constitution’s separation of powers.
March 10, 2025
DOGE Agent: Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski
Musk Connections: HR Director at SpaceX
DOGE Deployments: OPM
Other Affiliations:
She appears to own a metal working company called MB Custom Metal LLC. The Better Business Bureau lists her as a “managing member”.
March 10, 2025
DOGE Agent: Christina Hanna
Musk Connections: 8 years at SpaceX, currently the Senior Human Resources Manager
Other Corporate Connections: HR at Amazon from 2013 to 2016; 1 year in HR at Target
DOGE Deployments: OPM