Lily Jamali Reporting fromSan Francisco Reuters Tesla boss Elon Musk says he will cut back his role in the Trump administration as the company’s profits and revenues plunged during the first three months of the year. Sales slumped and the brand has faced backlash as Musk became a political fixture in the White House. On...
A labor board worker received a threatening note after he became a whistleblower on the all-out raid of the agency by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” during which Musk’s minions apparently stole a huge amount of sensitive information about workers and union organizers, a new bombshell NPR report finds. The whistleblower, Daniel Berulis, works...
Staff with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fear that billionaire and presidential adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is spying on them using artificial intelligence, according to reporting from Reuters, The Guardian, and Crooked Media’s newsletter What a Day. According to Reuters reporting published Tuesday, Trump administration officials told some managers at the EPA...
From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service — and the nation’s largest union employer — against privatization and DOGE attack. “Whose Postal Service?” workers chanted in New York: “The people’s Postal Service.” “U.S. Mail Is Not for...
The Social Security Administration (SSA), an irreplaceable lifeline for 73 million people, is only the latest venerable U.S. institution to be hit with a campaign of media falsehoods and startling internal sabotage efforts, all on the orders of Trump and the reactionary right. This has taken its most visibly outrageous form in the bureaucratic pillaging...
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s Thursday announcement that the independent United States Postal Service is partnering with the Department of Government Efficiency on a cost-cutting crusade that includes a planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that one of America’s most trusted and relied-upon federal agencies is on a path toward privatization. In a letter...