In early 2025, staffers from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — a White House advisory operation, not a Congressionally created agency — were granted sweeping access to the Social Security Administration's (SSA) most sensitive databases.
Humanity has always found creative ways to gamble on its own misery. We bet on horses, on elections, on whether some foreign leader will still be breathing by Friday.
Congratulations, America. You fought for years to wrest TikTok from the clutches of ByteDance, waged legal battles all the way to the Supreme Court, and strong-armed a sale to a shining coalition of U.S.