@arstechnica

This also screws over the tens of thousands of #Americans that have already been working for a couple of years to design & create these advanced networks, of which *I* am one.

#Starlink is more expensive, slower & has a single point of failure. That failure of course being #elonmusk

Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 16, 2025
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16

#ElonMusk, #Doge & the #Trump administration are skewered in #Doonesbury #Comic strip.

"In just seven years, we shrunk the federal workforce by 426,000, consolidated 800 agencies and eliminated 640,000 pages of rules...

And you didn't notice because the process was carefully planned and responsibly executed.

It never disrupted essential public services. Compare that to now."

DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers & Safety Experts

Firings & buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Safety Admn amid a major effort to upgrade America’s #nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html

"Officials had initially expected that the nuclear agency’s #NationalSecurity mission would protect it from layoffs."

Top broadband official exits Commerce Dept with sharp #Musk warning

“Stranding all or part of rural #America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/16/official-exits-commerce-department-musk-warning-00232278

" #Trump administration is poised to unduly enrich #ElonMusk ’s satellite #internet company w/money for #rural broadband.

The #technology offered by #Starlink, Musk’s company, is inferior"

DOGE Is Making It Harder to Track Extreme Weather. What Could Go Wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/weather-service-doge-cuts.html

"These cuts threaten your budget, too. #Insurance companies rely heavily on #data gathered by #NOAA and the #US Geological Survey to assess wildfire, flood, wind and other risks. Some firms are warning that any interruption in data availability could drive insurance premiums for customers even higher."

Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide

The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/technology/elon-musk-x-post-hitler-stalin-mao.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.RW-P.VV-Qk7n8s5HK&smid=bs-share

"Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed it soon after users on X criticized the post, saying it was #antisemitic and dismissive of #genocide."

"Necessary": Musk calls for judge who blocked Trump deportations to be impeached

The billionaire shared a post from a #Republican congressman seeking to impeach the Obama appointee
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/16/necessary-musk-calls-for-blocked-deportations-to-be-impeached/

" #Musk shared Gill's post... announcing the planned #impeachment move, calling the action "necessary."

Musk's response comes shortly after a judge ordered the #Trump administration to reinstate scores of probationary workers fired using #DOGE 's blunt methods."

Team finding kidnapped Ukrainian children scrapped by Doge

Humanitarian Research Lab based at #Yale University is latest organisation to fall victim to federal budget cuts
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/14/team-finding-kidnapped-ukrainian-children-cut-by-doge/

"more than 20,000 #Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by the Russians since the 2022 invasion...

The Yale team located hundreds of #children who were unlawfully brought to #Russia...

In all, around 1,240 have been repatriated."

"I find it odious when the world’s richest man cackles about #America shoving programs for needy children “into the wood chipper.”

When you meet those dying #children and look into their eyes and hold their hands and feel faint heartbeats flutter, you can’t bear the gleeful laughter. You see children just like your own and hang your head in shame."

#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&smid=url-share

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut.
That Isn’t True.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&smid=url-share

“No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” #ElonMusk said. “No one.”

That is not true... the efforts by #Musk & #Trump are already leading children to die...

Peter Donde was a 10-year-old..
Achol Deng, an 8-year-old girl...
Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo...
[and more]"

Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts Hit Team Saving Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
https://www.newsweek.com/musk-doge-ukraine-children-2045330

"The #Ukrainian government has said that nearly 20,000 #children have been abducted by #Russia from the occupied territories of #Ukraine since the start of the war as part of a program to eradicate Ukrainian identity...

The decision to cut funding for the #US program could harm Ukraine's ability to reunite children with their #families."

Part 2 of those long-ago days of innocence when people just mocked the Incel Camino instead of trying to burn them all down (before nature did it anyway).