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“Taking seriously the notion that Musk was some sort of deficit hawk is part of the inanity of American political coverage.”
Reports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. We’ll talk about how to miss Musk when he won’t go away.
“They are doing some of the worst things we’ve ever seen, and the government is breaking as a result.”
Media seem ready to, if not embrace, to make respectful space for whatever hot nonsense is proffered by DOGE.
“Social Security, and Medicare and Medicaid. In my 50 years working on the programs, this is the most severe threat I’ve ever seen to them.”
Leading newspapers still push the pernicious myth that Social Security is struggling and nearing insolvency, with few viable options for its rescue.
All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.
Criticism of DOGE by major editorial boards has been weak, and often overshadowed by the boards’ support for the ideas behind DOGE or DOGE itself.
Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.
In the face of an authoritarian administrative coup, corporate media give cover to elected representatives whose duty is to uphold the Constitution.
Corporate media failed to foreground the authoritarian threat of Trump and Musk’s USAID takedown.
The Washington Post won’t say why it cancelled a six-figure ad buy calling for Elon Musk to be fired.
“Musk is popping open the hood on the federal government like it’s one of his cars or rockets.”
It wasn’t just Jeff Bezos’s company that threw Elon Musk a lifeline, but also his newspaper.
The New York Times and Washington Post largely downplayed the Trump administration’s earth-shattering break from democratic norms.
There’s something about the start of a Trump presidency that makes grown men do strange things, like heiling Hitler.
Elon Musk’s defiance of a Brazilian judge is a political campaign to use social media to reshape global politics in favor of the right.
Elon Musk has tried to use his wealth to crush free speech. Now his friends in government are joining his efforts to silence critics.
Dozens of accounts that are part of US overt propaganda networks are given special treatment from Twitter, violating Twitter’s own policies.
This piece reinforces the feeling among the paper’s left-wing critics that the New York Times is hopelessly devoted to protecting the 1%.
