FTA:

Much of our traditional media is failing us, more worried about sobriety and balance than identifying vast threats that require a little bit of dot connecting to name and frame. It is fulfilling Bannon's prophecy, overwhelmed by too many things to tell us what matters most.

It is not presenting what Musk is doing for what it is: a coup. Rather, it is describing it in procedural terms and then leaving it to critics to denounce. This is the old model of reporting: stating what one party says or does and then giving the other party a chance to respond. But a coup is an actual thing with an actual meaning. Our news outlets have no problem naming this thing when it happens in a country far away. We need to grow comfortable describing it here. It is happening here. It is now.

Yes, it's really a coup:

Is It Really a Coup?

"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical."