Elon Musk has exited the White House—physically, at least.

Donald Trump’s “special government employee” is no longer working within the DOGE offices as he prepares his exit from the Trump administration and focuses more on saving his floundering businesses from failure.

“Instead of meeting with him in person, I’m talking to him on the phone, but it’s the same net effect,” White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told the New York Post in an interview discussing the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

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    Thankfully rational people control the DNC again

    Is there a link or story or something about the DNC being changed out? Because afaik the DNC is the same as it ever was, funded by billionaires and PACs to push austerity, market economics and funding for Israel.

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      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin

      That’s the new chair, his track record is winning elections, not raising a bunch of money and still losing like prior chairs.

      He ran Minnesota’s state party for years and it’s a progressive stronghold because he didn’t stand in progressive candidates way.

      But you want a great sign the DNC isn’t in billionaires pockets anymore?

      Look at how mainstream media is treating the DNC now, there’s all types of talk about how voters don’t like the DNC, ignoring that a fresh guard took over in February.

      When neoliberals held control of the party, the big news media channels were never critical

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        I guess we will see. Since feb I’ve still gotten a bunch of fundraising txts for shitty candidates that have lost repeatedly in hopeless districts from the DNC. Example: Fl-6 and Fl-1
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida’s_6th_congressional_district
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida’s_1st_congressional_district

        Or Texts from Corey Booker, who has been shitty since before 2016 and yet the DNC keep trying to turn him into the next Obama.

        On Mar31 I got a fundraising text from “kamala,” yea, no comment needed there.

        If you want to win you need to back candidates that are more then just centrist dems who want to be bipartisan.
        If you truly believe the GoP are fascists, then you cannot work with them at all and that isn’t something I see from many of the current Dems. I guess the crop of candidates for 2026 will be revealing, but looking at Fl-1, the only dem candidate is the same one that has lost the previous 5 times, often by >10% of the vote.

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          If you want to win you need to back candidates that are more then just centrist dems who want to be bipartisan.

          Welp, again I’d recommend reading up on Martin:

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin

          And I’d be surprised if those texts were really from the DNC, if so it’s probably the zombie vestiges of the “victory fund” nonsense still running bots. That’s the only plausible reason anyways, for a decade the prior DNC was robbing local/state parties with that stuff, they don’t care about the candidates chances because none of it was going to be used for that race anyways