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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

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SUMMARY

Anthony Armstrong, 57
Senior Adviser to the Director
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Worked on Musk’s purchase of Twitter

Riccardo Biasini, 39
Senior Adviser to the Director
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Former engineer at Tesla, executive at the Boring Company

Brian Bjelde, 44
Senior Adviser
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Vice president of people operations at SpaceX

Akash Bobba, 21
Senior Adviser to the Director
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management

Nate Cavanaugh, 28
Connected to: General Services Administration

Edward Coristine, 19
Expert
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Interned at Neuralink

Steve Davis, 45
Musk link: Longtime Musk lieutenant, CEO of the Boring Company

Marko Elez, 25
Connected to: Treasury Department
Musk link: Worked as an engineer at X and SpaceX

Luke Farritor, 23
Executive Engineer in the Office of the Secretary
Connected to: Department of Health and Human Services
Musk link: Former SpaceX intern

Stephanie Holmes, 43
Human Resources

Gautier “Cole” Killian, 24
Federal Detailee
Connected to: Environmental Protection Agency

Gavin Kliger, 25
Senior Adviser to the Director
Connected to: U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Personnel Management

Tom Krause, 47
Expert
Connected to: Treasury Department
According to the Treasury Department, Krause leads a team of people who have been granted “read-only” access to the code for the agency’s Fiscal Service payment system, which processes payments for major programs such as Social Security and Medicare. The department has clarified he is designated as a “special government employee.” The New York Times reported that Krause is affiliated with Musk’s DOGE team.

Katie Miller, 33
Spokesperson

Justin Monroe, 36
Adviser
Connected to: FBI
Musk link: Senior director for security at SpaceX

Nikhil Rajpal, 30
Expert
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Former Twitter employee

Rachel Riley, 33
Senior Adviser in the Office of the Secretary
Connected to: Department of Health and Human Services

Michael Russo, 67
Chief Information Officer
Connected to: Social Security Administration
Musk link: Former chief technology officer of Starlink payment processor Shift4 Payments. Russo is a top-ranking technology official at the SSA, which disburses over $1.5 trillion in benefits annually. Russo’s office will oversee the SSA’s over $2 billion IT budget.

Amanda Scales, 34
Chief of Staff
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Previous employee of xAI
Scales worked in the human resources department at xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, prior to OPM. Before that, she worked in recruiting at ridesharing company Uber. She is reportedly an integral part of OPM’s sweeping efforts to restructure the federal workforce.

Thomas Shedd, 28
Federal Acquisition Service Deputy Commissioner and Director of Technology Transformation Services
Connected to: General Services Administration
Musk link: Software engineer at Tesla

Brad Smith, 42 he is a friend of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.

Christopher Stanley, 33 Senior director for security engineering at X and principal engineer at SpaceX

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The Ruble doesn’t find support. It entered into a fee fall. Now Russia has stopped trading. This means that the exchange rate will just SEEM to have stabilised, but that’s not the case. The Ruble has become a ‘black market only’ currency.
What’s a free fall? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1862438508721209698.html
So this means that nobody will transact in Rubles anymore for international trade. They will have to accept Yuan, Rupee or barter trade just like in the 50s and 60s. This will make their life miserable and evading sanctions a whole of a lot harder. They are printing money to finance their war spending. In addition to other factors such as the sanctions and changed regulations for export companies it is shifting the balance between supply and demand.
Russian economy collapsing. Ruble now “worth” less than a cent, but you can’t trade it except on the black market.
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