The Musk staffer who broke into the Treasury Dept system has quit after the discovery of racist Twitter posts (gift link): advocating repealing the Civil Rights Act, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity”, and “Normalize Indian hate”.
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must feel weird to get fired for the same reason you were hired
https://bsky.app/profile/alibreland.bsky.social/post/3lhjy2beexs2g
Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.
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