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Democrats Say Musk Showed Social Security Is a Target

Billionaire calls safety net program a 'Ponzi scheme'

(Newser) - The world's richest man has called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," drawing outrage from Democrats while possibly undercutting his boss. "There are fewer babies being born," Elon Musk told Joe Rogan on his podcast Friday, "and you have more people who are retired that...

Mark Cuban Has Advice for Workers Fired by DOGE

Billionaire suggests tech staffers become consultants 'to fix the mess' now being created

(Newser) - Billionaire Mark Cuban has some advice for government workers laid off by fellow billionaire Elon Musk. "Group together to start a consulting company," he wrote on Bluesky . "It's just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create." As...

Elon Musk Has Terse Response to Mike Myers' Impersonation

'Humor fails when it lies,' he tweets after SNL sketch

(Newser) - Elon Musk appears not to have been amused at Mike Myers' impression of him on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, reports Unilad Tech . "Humor fails when it lies," Musk tweeted .
  • In the show's cold open, Myers as Musk crashed a meeting of President Trump and Ukraine'
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Musk Welcomes Another Heir
Musk Welcomes Another Heir
Mar 2, 2025 11:30 AM CST

Musk Welcomes Another Heir

Seldon Lycurgus apparently makes 14 children for the billionaire

(Newser) - Shivon Zilis has announced the arrival of her fourth child with Elon Musk, a boy they named Seldon Lycurgus. He's thought to be the billionaire's 14th child overall, the Telegraph reports. "Built like a juggernaut, with a solid heart of gold," the 38-year-old Canadian executive, who...

Report: Musk's Starlink Is Close to Taking Over FAA Contract

Insiders say agency plans to cancel Verizon's $2.4B air traffic communication upgrade

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a massive Verizon air traffic control project and handing it to one of Elon Musk's companies, insiders tell the Washington Post report. Verizon was awarded the $2.4 billion contract in 2023 to upgrade the country's air traffic communication system....

Daily Show Accepts Musk's Terms to Appear

Billionaire said he'd sit for interview if it was aired 'unedited'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart has plenty of ideas for how DOGE could save trillions of dollars without indiscriminately firing thousands of workers and it appears he may get the chance to inform Elon Musk directly. After the Daily Show host became so angry in his rant against DOGE's cost-cutting measures on...

Man Faces Terror Charge After Threat to Musk Facility

Tennessee man told friend he wanted to burn down xAI data center

(Newser) - A Tennessee man was charged with an act of terrorism after he threatened to burn down an xAI facility because he was upset with Elon Musk and President Trump, authorities say. Ethan Paul Early, 25, of Ashland City, was arrested and charged on Feb. 20 after he spoke with a...

Big Moments From Trump's First Cabinet Meeting

Non-Cabinet member Elon Musk dominated the early part of the meeting

(Newser) - President Trump held his first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Tuesday—and a lot of the talking was done by somebody who wasn't seated at the table. Trump asked Elon Musk, who is not an official Cabinet member, to discuss his work with DOGE. "Is anyone...

Trump Shares AI Video of His Gaza of the Future
Trump Shares AI Video
on Gaza That's an Eyeful
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Feb 26, 2025 10:00 AM CST

Trump Shares AI Video on Gaza That's an Eyeful

Clip shows ruins of the region reinvigorated, complete with Trump statues and dancers

(Newser) - Earlier this month, President Trump first floated the controversial idea of permanently relocating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and having the United States take over the region to turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East." He doubled down on that "spectacular" concept days later, and...

FAA Puts Musk's Starlink to the Test

Agency said it's testing internet platform at 3 sites; Musk claims Verizon's current tech 'is not working'

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration says it's having connection issues in US airspace, but it thinks it knows just the company to remedy it. The agency announced on Monday that it will be testing three satellite internet terminals from the SpaceX-owned Starlink at three sites in the United States: one...

Musk's Email Demand Got 1M Responses

But that's less than half of federal workers

(Newser) - More than 1 million federal employees have responded to the controversial email asking them to explain five tasks they accomplished in the last week, according to the White House. That's a significant number, but one that represents less than half of the 2.3 million civilian federal employees, per...

21 Tech Staffers Resign From DOGE Office

As Musk issues another ultimatum to federal employees

(Newser) - More than 20 civilian employees resigned in protest of the Department of Government Efficiency on Tuesday—the twist being that they technically worked for DOGE itself. The 21 staffers shared a resignation letter with the AP in which they said they would no longer use their tech skills to "...

One-Third of Canceled US Contracts Won't Yield Savings

DOGE's 'wall of receipts' may be a little misleading

(Newser) - News accounts continue to challenge Elon Musk's claims of major savings thanks to the Department of Government Efficiency he runs. On Monday, DOGE published an updated "wall of receipts" list of about 2,300 contracts that have been terminated across the federal government. The problem? The AP reports...

Ramaswamy Avoids DOGE in Launch of Ohio Run

Tech entrepreneur is running for governor

(Newser) - Vivek Ramaswamy has formally launched his bid to become the next governor of Ohio, reports CNN . And the Cincinnati native quickly earned two big endorsements in the 2026 race—that of President Trump and Elon Musk, reports the Hill .
  • Trump: "I know him well, competed against him, and he
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Atop El Capitan, a 'Signal of Dire Distress'

Frustrated staffers at Yosemite hang upside-down American flag to protest Trump workforce cuts

(Newser) - An upside-down American flag is meant as "a signal of dire distress" —and that's exactly what visitors found at California's Yosemite National Park over the weekend. It seems staffers upset about the Trump administration taking a hatchet to the federal workforce draped a giant flag from...

AI to Determine Federal Workers' Fates

Elon Musk suggests employees could still be fired for not responding to email with 5 bullet points

(Newser) - DOGE will use artificial intelligence to analyze the email responses from some of the estimated 2.3 million federal employees asked to justify their jobs . The responses will be fed into a large language model, an advanced AI system that can process huge amounts of text data, which will then...

Canadian Petition Seeks to Yank Musk's Citizenship

More than 215K people have signed it

(Newser) - Elon Musk was born in South Africa, resides in the US, and is a Canadian citizen thanks to his mother, who hails from Saskatchewan. But a number of his fellow Canucks apparently want to boot him from their ranks. More than 215,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition that...

Prank Video Mocks Trump, Musk at HUD Headquarters

Somebody apparently hacked the federal building's monitors

(Newser) - It looks like someone in the federal government took some revenge on Elon Musk and President Trump by hacking TV monitors at HUD headquarters in DC and running a bogus video of the two of them, reports the Hill . The fake video depicted Trump kissing the toes of Musk's...

Trump Calls Musk's Order to Employees 'Ingenious'

But some federal departments tell staffers not to comply

(Newser) - Elon Musk's emailed ultimatum that federal workers justify their jobs in five bullet points in a return email by midnight Monday was "ingenious," President Trump said Monday. He endorsed Musk's threat, saying, "If you don't answer, you're sort of semi-fired or you're...

Judge Rules Against DOGE Access to Personal Data

Ruling temporarily prohibits 2 federal agencies from sharing info

(Newser) - Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting in the federal government ran into two more legal challenges on Monday:
  • A federal judge temporarily barred the Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to sensitive employee information held by the Office of Personnel Management and the Education Department, reports Reuters . OPM is essentially
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