“The PayPal Mafia”: Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump President Trump’s targeting of South Africa is clearly tied to his influential adviser Elon Musk and a coterie of wealthy U.S. oligarchs, “all of whom in some way or other grew up in South Africa...

"The PayPal Mafia": Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel

Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining

YouTube video by friendsofUSAID Save Foreign Aid

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

YouTube video by friendsofUSAID Save Foreign Aid

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how
we would’ve spent that $$: Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
🏈Shipped the 29K metric tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot
in a Texas warehouse. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

Trump acting like he is the CEO of the U.S. doesn’t mean he is. He literally is not allowed to do much of what he is declaring. He is neither the CEO nor king. Do not comply in advance.

It is a coup.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

Colorful sticker on a light post with a Black and Brown hand grasping in the center with the text "build shared futures"

But then I remember that they don't actually see social investment as a way to handle public safety. It's all about investing in increasingly militarized police. 2/2

Republicans can't stop railing about how unsafe DC, but that's mostly a racist dog whistle. I keep thinking about how the gutting of the federal workforce will decimate the local DC economy, which will inevitably lead to more petty crime and unsafe streets 1/2

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

The oligarchy is currently doing this.

Yes and no. Getting news from influencers is like ONLY reading the opinions section. Journalistic integrity is a thing you have to worry about. But you're not always going to find it in what people call 'news'. Yeah, PBS is one of the 'good' ones, but be judicious when consuming legacy media.