- Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker breaks down the purported savings into three categories:- DOGE Claimed Total Savings ($105 billion)
There is no relationship between this number and the actual data on the rest of the website. - DOGE Itemized Savings ($29.9 billion)
The lack of information means these savings cannot be verified. - Verifiable Canceled Funding ($8.6 billion)
Musk Watch calculates the savings by taking the “Current Award Amount,” and subtracting the “Obligated Amount.” This results in a significantly lower estimation of savings. Here is an example of an EPA contract with Endyna Inc that was canceled by DOGE:
DOGE takes the “Potential Award Amount” of $134 million and subtracts the “Obligated Amount” of $64.7 million and calculates a total savings of $69.3 million. Musk Watch substitutes the “Current Award Amount” — the actual value of the contract — and finds a more realistic savings of $5.4 million.This more accurate methodology reduces the total savings from the 4083 contracts canceled by DOGE from $14.9 billion to $8.1 billion.
- DOGE Claimed Total Savings ($105 billion)
- Musk Literally Gave Trump a Script for Desperate ‘Tesla Ad’
WHO’S AT THE WHEEL?
“They gave me notes,” Trump said as he participated in a stunt to boost the crisis-hit company of his billionaire buddy.
Donald Trump was quite literally handed a scripted sales pitch by Elon Musk during his Tesla-buying stunt Tuesday, part of a desperate attempt to boost the flagging electric car manufacturer as angry customers revolt against the CEO’s involvement in a chaotic restructuring of the federal government.Photographers captured Trump holding note cards that listed the price and specs of each car in bullet points as he inspected a series of Teslas that had been brought to the White House.
Trump turns White House lawn into car lot for megadonor Musk
It’s easy to get inured to the corruption, but hawking Teslas on the South Lawn was among the most obscene events in White House history.Democrats Want to Break Elon by Making Him Poorer
The Tesla Takedown movement has been a success. Dems want it to grow even bigger.“Knowingness” and the Politics of Ignorance
Much ink has been spilled about “polarization.” Most of it ignores a major cause: the widespread, misplaced faith that we already know that which we do not know.One of the strangest dynamics of modern politics is that the richest man in the world chooses to get his information from grifting ignoramuses on social media.
Turns out DOGE can’t beat FOIA by shouting NOT AN AGENCY
Judge tells Musk to cough it up!Back in November, Elon Musk professed his abiding belief in open government. “There should be no need for FOIA requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency,” he tweeted.
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But the jello against the wall strategy has largely failed in court, and Monday a federal judge ordered DOGE to pony up and begin complying with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). - Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office
CNN — As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for a side hustle: aspiring Instagram fashion influencer.
Elon Musk: The Reluctant Machine
For years, Elon Musk played the part of the unstoppable force — a walking, talking tech-industrial complex with the audacity of Tony Stark, the stubbornness of Howard Hughes, and the public relations finesse of a blender on “liquefy.”
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But now, the machine is breaking down.Buttigieg Calls Out GOP’s Hypocrisy After Musk Says Cutting Social Security Is ‘The Big One’
White House in Damage Control Mode After Musk Talks Social Security Cuts
NOT QUITE…
Musk had seemed to suggest he was planning to take the DOGE chainsaw to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. - Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American – March 11, 2025
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Unable to admit that he might be wrong, President Donald Trump is doubling down on the policies that are crashing the economy. In addition to his tariff threats, he also reiterated that “the only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State,” an outrageous position that he suddenly began to advance after the 2024 presidential election and which has Canadians so furious they are boycotting U.S. goods and booing the Star-Spangled Banner.Europe Hits Back at Trump Tariffs by Targeting Republican States
The European Union has responded with retaliatory tariffs of its own, with a special focus on products from red states.Our Brave President Goes to War with [Checks Notes] Ontario
EU Will Go Full Sledgehammer Because They Are ‘So Fed Up with Trump’
Fed up with the Republican President, the EU will go full “sledgehammer” on Trump with 2-stage retaliatory tariffs that they note are bad for business and consumers. - This Is How Measles Kills
Measles is known for its characteristic rash, but it can have serious respiratory and neurologic complications.
RFK Jr. Makes Unhinged Claim About Measles Vaccine as Cases Rise
According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the vaccine is as bad as the disease itself.Vitamin A and Measles: What the data show (and how to talk about it)
RFK Jr. and a new form of germ theory denialism - Trump Is Cracking Down on the Colleges That Cave to Him
Columbia University complied with the demand to aid in Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest. It didn’t save it from the president’s wrath.What is happening to Mahmoud Khalil is chilling — and intended to chill all opposition
We know that because that’s exactly the message Trump and others in his administration have sent over the past three days since Khalil’s arrest.Columbia Activist Has Not Been Allowed to Speak Privately With Lawyers
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident who the Trump administration has claimed is a national security threat, is in immigration detention in Louisiana. - Ohio Republicans Are Ready to Wreck the Economy Over DEI
Conservative lawmakers in the Buckeye State are pushing a bill that could create a devastating statewide brain drain. - 4D Chess in Ukraine
A surprise agreement by Ukraine to a ceasefire deal looks like a win for Trump, but that’s probably intentional.This is war and diplomacy: Bullets and no words lead to words and no bullets which lead back to bullets and no words
All ceasefire negotiations favor the aggressor. In a nutshell, that’s what Ukraine is afraid of. The negotiations for the so-called ceasefire deal that came out of Saudi Arabia earlier in the week were conducted by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, and diplomats for Ukraine. Reports today said that while President Zelenskyy was in Jeddah for the talks, he was not in the room during the negotiations. Ukraine agreed yesterday to the ceasefire deal after Trump lifted his ban on intelligence sharing with Ukraine and restarted military aid to the beleaguered country.If that sounds to you like a partner to a deal being let in through the back door with a gun to his head, you are correct.
- Yes, Trump posted link that included Nazi symbol for gay men in concentration camps
Social media users shared screenshots of a post from the president’s Truth Social account in March 2025. - As Trump Courts Putin, Russians Keep Trying to Kill Americans
The “gray zone” war on America and its allies isn’t going to stop.
THE FLAMES SPEWED FROM THE PACKAGE and threatened to engulf the pallet of boxes as the forklift rolled down the loading dock. By sheer luck, the plane on which the package was meant to be loaded had been delayed, so when the bomb, camouflaged as an electronic massager, exploded, its fire was contained in the warehouse. Had the flight been on time and the package onboard, the plane might have gone down.
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Who was behind this plan that could have sent airplanes crashing to the ground after exploding in flames?It wasn’t al Qaeda, or ISIS, or Hezbollah, or any other designated terrorist organization.
It was Russia.
- ‘State Propaganda’: Anger Erupts Inside Univision Over Airing of Trump Ad
The network wasn’t the only one to run the controversial spots urging deportations. But unlike Telemundo, officials there were already on edge.
- The Nation’s Archivist Should Not Be Political
Trump’s clumsy partisan takeover of the National Archives and Records Administration recalls two consequential and troubling episodes from its history.
- Musk Email Reaches Italian Workers. It Did Not Go Well.
Employees at the Aviano Air Base who serve American forces got a familiar demand to list their achievements. Unions say Italy “is not the Wild West like the U.S.” - Trump lets his Jew-hating flag fly again
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“Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said while speaking to reporters during a White House visit with Micheál Martin, the taoiseach (or prime minister) of Ireland. “He’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian.” - EPA’S ENVIRONMENTAL BLOODBATH: TRUMP AND ZELDIN GO TO WAR WITH THE PLANET
In what can only be described as a state-sponsored arson of environmental policy, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the grim stewardship of Administrator Lee Zeldin, has unleashed an unprecedented assault on the planet. Zeldin announced the rollback of 31 environmental protections — a move he proudly declared as “the greatest day of deregulation in American history.”DRIVING A DAGGER INTO COMMON SENSE
Zeldin crowed that his agency was “driving a dagger into the heart of climate change religion,” a statement so mind-bogglingly ignorant it barely qualifies as language. This isn’t policymaking — it’s performance art for petrochemical lobbyists. Zeldin’s plan torches protections against coal plant emissions, tailpipe pollution, mercury regulations, and safeguards for waterways. Coal ash, that delightful cocktail of carcinogens and heavy metals, will now be regulated with all the rigor of a toddler’s lemonade stand.
Zeldin’s justification? He claims this is about lowering costs for American families — as if cheaper gas is going to feel great when you’re breathing soot and your drinking water glows in the dark.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE? AXED.
Among the bodies left bleeding on the EPA floor is the agency’s environmental justice program — an initiative designed to protect communities that have historically been treated like America’s toxic dumping ground. These areas — disproportionately low-income, Black, and Hispanic neighborhoods — were already drowning in pollution. Now, with Zeldin gleefully shutting down the offices that advocate for them, they’ve been abandoned to choke on corporate greed.
- USDA cuts over $1 billion in local food purchasing for schools and food banks
The School Nutrition Association said the USDA cut the Local Food for Schools program for 2025.
The U.S. Agriculture Department has cut two federal programs that spent over $1 billion annually to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches, according to a school group and a Politico report on Monday.
The School Nutrition Association, which represents cafeteria workers and directors nationwide, said in a press release that the USDA cut the $660 million Local Food for Schools program for 2025.