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  Turns out DOGE can't beat FOIA by shouting NOT AN AGENCY Judge tells Musk to cough it up! Liz Dye Mar 12 Musk and Trump in a Tesla yesterday during Trump’s promotional event for Musk’s company. (Andrew Harnik/Getty) 🚘 💨 🛣️  With corporate outlets  obeying in advance , supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever. Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers. If you aren’t one already, please click the button below and become one to support our work.  🚘  💨 🛣️ Back in November, Elon Musk professed his abiding belief in open government. “There should be no need for FOIA requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency,” he  tweeted . “We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website,” he boasted in the Oval Office last month as his young child wandered randomly around the room full of reporters. “I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transpare...

  Trump Is Stumbling And Already Course Correcting, My Discussion W/Heather Cox Richardson, Fighting Trump's Rancid Embrace Of Putin We had some important wins this week, and need to keep fighting all..... Simon Rosenberg Mar 8 Morning all. As  I wrote yesterday  Trump had a terrible week of full of embarrassing retreats, losses and surrenders. He looked weak, unstable, deeply unreliable and yes even idiotic. Pressure forced him to abandon his reckless tariffs on Canada and Mexico and begin the hard process of reining in Musk’s lawless attack on the US government. With his poll numbers way down, the economy slowing and inflation rising, losses mounting in the courts including with his allied SCOTUS, Tesla crashing and SpaceX rockets exploding (again) , there is a growing sense that this Trump 2.0 thing despite the bluster and the blather simply isn’t working for him or America. And thus Trump and his team began to change course this week. Congratulations everyone. Our wor...