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Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. Apparently, it did not stop there.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-2-2025?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Paul Krugman  Trump Is Doing Exactly What He Said He Would. Who Could Have Predicted That?

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/trump-is-doing-exactly-what-he-said?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

https://youtu.be/AtO2L_ydO7A?si=bnDRW9e-G_VRS1r2

Under the new Trump administration, those who oppose his actions “do not have an incompetent opponent,” writes Paul Rosenzweig. “Trump’s team is savvy and has been planning for this for years. They came ready.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/trump-administration-strategy/681497/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYd-2OrTVjqM6z1PfQsND8A8&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Elon Musk and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere, @anneapplebaum writes. Can Europe stop their meddling?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence/681453/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZq-pqPhM0iW-kR2Toillmg&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Listening is a sign of strength, not weakness. @radiofreetom’s advice for the incoming secretary of defense:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/america-is-counting-on-you-pete-hegseth/681469/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTlaVTdPVwg8y8NSEqyyx30&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social