I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?

Does everyone’s follow list look like this, or am I just “lucky”?

A good example of how an over-clever inversion/contrarian headline can produce bad journalism. We generally know the reasons why Americans' health outcomes are in relative decline vs other countries. Virtually none of them are tied to RFK Jr's big hobbyhorses.

Here's Trump directly claiming Mexico will begin stopping migrants "immediately," even though it's already been happening. Indeed, it's partly responsible for the drop in crossings.

As I argue in that piece, you can read entire articles about Trump/Mexico mess that don't tell you this basic fact.

Ways you can give money legally to the president-elect:
*$1M for a Mar-a-Lago membership — more than double the president's salary
*Buy his crypto token
*Stay at his resorts/Golf
*Trump Bibles
*Assorted knickknacks including digital ones
We are not in the era of presidents selling peanut farms.

It never stops being weird watching homophobes dance to YMCA, the most popular gay anthem of all time.

Anyone, any entity, anywhere in the world can just pay him any amount (for anything he promises in return), and there's no disclosure of the payments, no oversight of any of it by anyone, and of course no potential bribery prosecution (of him) because... immune.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

Trump has definitely nominated the rapiest Cabinet in American history. I guess that's some kind of accomplishment.