#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction

#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/

#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction

#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/

The #shutdown is the first since Jan 2019, & the 4th of #Trump’s 2 terms. Admin ofcls this time, though, have signaled plans to use the closed agencies as a way to vastly reshape the #FederalGovernment & consolidate #power under the presidency.
#OMB dir #RussVought ordered agencies to consider #MassFirings rather than #furloughs.​ His instructions to agencies include guidance on rewriting #regulations surrounding federal #grants & challenging #Congress’s constitutional #power over spending.
#law

The #HeritageFoundation hopes to steer #funding for #childcare AWAY from programs like #HeadStart & toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents [wives] to stay home & rear children.

And the group wants #Trump to issue #ExecutiveOrders requiring ALL proposed policies & #regulations to “measure their positive or negative impacts & marriage & family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly [whose metrics?].

#pronatalism #law #policy#USpol #heterosexism #misogyny

I Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_WDzPyoqU

We went to a small Texas town where one Bitcoin mining facility uses as much power as the entire city of Austin.
Everyone is town is affected by the constant noise from the crypto facility, even the animals.
One resident told us: "Every person here is sick.”

#Bitcoin#ClimateKiller#HealthDanger#Texas#Energy#Regulations#Politicians#Crypto#Sick#TrueCost

I Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_WDzPyoqU

We went to a small Texas town where one Bitcoin mining facility uses as much power as the entire city of Austin.
Everyone is town is affected by the constant noise from the crypto facility, even the animals.
One resident told us: "Every person here is sick.”

#Bitcoin#ClimateKiller#HealthDanger#Texas#Energy#Regulations#Politicians#Crypto#Sick#TrueCost

…#Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics: his visit to the US–Mexico border; the war in Ukraine; his frustrations w/govt #regulations hindering his rocket company, #SpaceX; & Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the #FederalBureaucracy.

Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a #technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter,…the key was gaining access to the…servers.

#law#Technocracy#Trump#USpol