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TGIF: Be (My Limestone) Mine?
Will Scharf, Elon Musk, his son X, and Donald Trump appear for an executive order signing in the Oval Office on February 11, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
America’s the new Mexico, cocaine’s the new whiskey, and hospitals are where you go to be killed. Plus: DOGE vendettas, chicken nugget immunity, and more.
By Nellie Bowles
02.14.25 — TGIF
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Welcome back. With our USAID funding shut off, TGIF is barely hanging on. Let’s get to the news while we still have enough champagne to survive.

→ DOGE winning people over: Elon Musk’s team of savants are streamlining our entire government, and everyone is getting on board this week. After a brief resistance—a weak protest outside some office buildings—A…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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