Fourteen states have filed a lawsuit which begins with the words:
It explains the law and details illegal and unconstitutional actions by Elon Musk.
You might want to read the court filing for the details.
https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/NM%20v.%20Elon%20Musk.pdf
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Where to find reliable information about Elon Musk's sustained assault against Americans and their government?
The Big Lie is the method of dictators. Personality cults and massive disinformation campaigns are something Hitler, Stalin, Trump and Musk have in common. How to get accurate information at a moment when government websites with decades of data are being disappeared and so much of our prestige press is cowering?
Here are publications that have been outstanding in their fearless, in-depth reporting on the Trump-Musk coup.
This is a tech led coup so it's not illogical that the best source of information is a tech publication. The journalists and the editorial staff have really stepped up. A subscription to WIRED is about the best investment you can make in getting accurate and timely information today.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
Archive: https://archive.ph/YAmss#selection-553.0-557.132
Propublica has been doing excellent reporting and investigations for a long time. A lot of crucial background to the players we are now seeing is already in Propublica (like this piece on the family funding so much of the effort to make Republicans believe the lie that Trump won the 2020 elections). Propublica is a great publication and deserves every support
See also:
🔗 Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public: (The New York Times)
🔗 AI Slop of Musk and Trump on TikTok Racks Up 700 Million Views: (404 Media)
🔗 How Elon Musk and His DOGE Goons Are Following the Private Equity Playbook: Anna Merlan smartly views DOGE through a private equity lens. (Mother Jones)
DOGE and Musk face three more lawsuits over "brazen ransacking" of private data.
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See also Youtube
Brian Tyler Cohen: The Legal Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/@briantylercohen
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"The system is responsible for paying Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to contractors and grant recipients, and tax refunds, among tens of thousands of other functions."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/01/elon-musk-treasury-payments-system/
"The system run by the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service controls the disbursements of around $6 trillion in federal funds to American households, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax refunds, and payments to U.S. federal employees and contractors, according to a letter written by Wydenand sent to Bessent a day earlier. Access to the payments system was historically limited to a few staff because it contains personal information about millions of Americans who receive payments from the federal government, per the Times."
Read more about this unprecedented and illegal action by an unelected private individual at
Reuters:
Washington Post mentions Tom Krause, "a Silicon Valley executive working in concert with Musk".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/01/elon-musk-treasury-payments-system/
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"dramatiquement drôle" - L'Express
"Une fraîche et amusante satire du monde de la recherche." - Le Monde des Livres
