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NEW: How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA
FAA employees were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA-SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risked losing their jobs.
A ton of scoopy news in this new report
bloomberg.com
The FAA’s telecommunications networks are instrumental to overseeing 29 million square miles of US airspace and ensuring the orderly and safe movement of 45,000 flights daily. They are aging and long overdue for an upgrade. In 2023, the agency awarded telecommunications giant Verizon Communications Inc. a contract worth $2.4 billion to do just that.
Now, just days after Malaska arrived at the FAA, the fate of Verizon’s contract is up in the air as the agency considers whether to cede part of it to SpaceX . . .
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Wendy Siegelman @WendySiegelman
It’s too on-the-nose that the 2025 Blockchain Forum will be in Moscow with several featured speakers tied to Trump’s crypto deals, including TRON founder Justin Sun who invested $75 million in Trump-backed World Liberty Financial and WLF advisor Sandy Peng
Andrew Tate is having a meltdown following the announcement that the Florida AG has opened a criminal investigation into him and his brother.
#MT GOX JAILBIRD ROSS ULBRICHT AT LAST NIGHT’S TRUMP STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
DOGE was never about saving money and eliminating fraud.
It was about eliminating all of the people and agencies who could prevent Musk, Trump, and their oligarchs from stealing money and committing fraud while they hijack the government. It’s a coup.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-doge-irs-cuts-will-cost-more-than-savings-trump-musk-deficit
Al Franken @alfranken
I didn’t hear any concepts for a healthcare plan.
@SDNYnews
10 Chinese nationals charged with large-scale hacking of U.S. and international victims on behalf of the Chinese government
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/10-chinese-nationals-charged-large-scale-hacking-us-and-international-victims-behalf
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/