Sophie Alexander
@sooophie.bsky.social
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Reporter covering the uber wealthy, climate, philanthropy and more at Bloomberg and Businessweek
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Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
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America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
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Sophie Alexander
@sooophie.bsky.social
· Feb 20
Trump Hiring Freeze Spurs Hundreds of Cuts in VA Health Research
President Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze is forcing terminations at the US Department of Veterans Affairs research office, jeopardizing projects that advance treatments for cancer, drug withdraw...
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Sophie Alexander
@sooophie.bsky.social
· Feb 15
Musk’s DOGE Begins Firing Workers at Federal IT Department
Elon Musk’s DOGE team is sending termination notices to staffers at the US Digital Services Office, a group of federal IT workers that Musk’s group is taking over, according to two people who were aff...
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Sophie Alexander
@sooophie.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Sophie Alexander
@sooophie.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Musk’s Top DOGE Staffer at VA Worked Quietly Before Its Layoffs
Justin Fulcher, co-founder of telemedicine startup RingMD, is leading Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, according to two people familiar ...
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Reposted by Sophie Alexander
Reposted by Sophie Alexander
Reposted by Sophie Alexander