It's been a long century in the three weeks that
Donald Trump has been president again. We've rewound the clock to the 1800s, increased
attacks on transgender people, given tech oligarchs the keys to the kingdom, and awarded an unelected man,
Elon Musk, way more power than should have ever been approved by anyone. We're also, apparently,
outsourcing a lot of Musk's work to a group of young men BlueSky users have dubbed the "Hitler Youth."
Musk is now the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is a
non-existent government branch created by Trump that's seemingly meant to
wipe out everyone in the federal government and replace them with Trump loyalists. Over the weekend, Musk shockingly
managed to gain access to Treasury payment systems which essentially
allowed him to dig into things like people's Social Security and Medicare payment systems. This is a gross amount of power for an unelected official but it's made worse by the fact that an
exposé from WIRED revealed that
this access has also gone to engineers between the ages of 19 and 24, and most of them have been linked to Musk's companies.