More: A veteran House Democrat is introducing new legislation to respond to billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk's overhaul of the federal government: Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday rolled out the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act, which would ban "special" government employees like Musk from having federal contracts.

"No government employee, Special' or not, should have any financial interest in who the government does business with," Pocan said. "Elon Musk is the poster child for this type of potential abuse. After more than $20 billion in federal contracts, there's no way Musk can be objective in what he's doing." Musk holds major federal contracts through his companies including SpaceX and Starlink.

Shut up, little man.

How many people did he just put out of work? I hope someone is keeping a running total of jobs he is destroying.

#69,

If I were a believer I'd be convinced Trump was the Antichrist.

Unless boaz shows up and says something even dumber, #4 will probably be the most ridiculous thing I'll read all day.

As terrible as this is - and it is unbelievably terrible - it's being done as a distraction from what Musk and his cronies are doing. Our country and it's wealth are being stolen from us.

If you voted for him you deserve what you get.

The worst idea in the history of ideas.

That's it then. The payment system is compromised and should never be trusted again.

Further proof that it's not drag queens or immigrants our country need to be worried about. Radicalized conservatives are an existential threat.

Blatant violation of the Eighth Amendment.

More: The ruling by the judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, effectively means that Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer legally use their own name or the group's traditional symbols without the permission of the church that was attacked, the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Freudian slip in the headline really says it all.

She made Trump back off and agree to crack down on guns without giving a single concession.

Considering that the 18th century was the 1700s WTF does the 1920-30s have to do with it?

"They call it Know Your Rights.' I call it how to escape arrest,'" -Tom Homan

I think that quote will probably sum up the 2nd Trump administration quite well when it's all said and done.

Someone must have explained how discovery works to him.

Too little too late, as usual.

More: A preliminary report on Wednesday night's plane and helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. contradicts Donald Trump's favorite DEI scapegoat.

An internal report from the Federal Aviation Administration found that in reality, the tower's staffing at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to The New York Times. There was only one air traffic controller to handle both helicopters and planes in the airport's vicinity, a job usually assigned to two people.

Having to handle both types of air traffic can be complicated, the Times report states, because air traffic controllers can use different radio frequencies for helicopter and airplane pilots. In such cases, while the controller is communicating with pilots of both kinds of aircraft, the pilots may not be able to talk to one another.

Staffing levels at the airport's control tower have been below adequate levels for years, like many of the U.S.'s other airports. DCA's tower only had 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, according to congressional reports. This is well below the FAA and air traffic controller union's preferred number of 30, and is due to employee turnover and budget cuts, according to the Times.

As a result, many air controllers at the airport work up to 10 hours a day and six days a week. Those levels probably have not been helped by Donald Trump's federal hiring freeze, his gutting of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and the FAA chief's resignation at Elon Musk's behest. As much as Trump and the right might try to blame DEI or something else ludicrous, perhaps they should look in the mirror.

NPR and PBS?! JFC

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) suggested Thursday that a fatal crash could have been caused partly by DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion in government hiring.

"I think you have to look at this with eyes wide open, see what happened," Ogles said on Fox Business. "Human error. Was it some sort of equipment failure? Did DEI play a role in this type of thing?"

Just take a look at the badges on Gen Milley's uniform. He can handle his own.

But after 43 years of dedicated service to our country he shouldn't have to.

I hope they sue over the blatant constitutional rights violation.

More: Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a "commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security."

The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry " including the airlines and major unions " as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group's recommendations were adopted over the years.

It wasn't immediately clear how many other committees were effectively eliminated Tuesday or whether other departments will take similar actions.

This will be a hellish camp and people are guaranteed to die there unnecessarily.