The Trump Presidency Is Going Great

Well, well, well—another loudmouth “anti-grooming” crusader turns out to be the real predator. Aaron Craig Gleason, a 39-year-old middle school teacher, soccer coach, and right-wing writer, has been arrested and charged with molesting a child under the age of 12.

Yes, you read that right. The same Gleason who spent years accusing LGBTQ+ people of “grooming” children—writing for The Daily Wire, The Federalist, and The Imaginative Conservative—has now been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a child. Funny how it’s never the drag queens, but always the guys screaming the loudest about them.

Of course, The Daily Wire wasted no time scrubbing his author page from existence, as if that’ll erase the fact that he helped push their anti-LGBTQ+ hysteria. But the Internet Archive never forgets, and screenshots show he spent his time writing about Brett Kavanaugh and defending Trump supporters from accusations of being racist, sexist, and homophobic—because of course he did.

Gleason was arrested in Florida, because where else? He had been working as a teacher at Rocky Bayou Christian School, a fundamentalist conservative institution, where he had been on paid leave for two weeks before his arrest. The school’s superintendent sent out a vague email to parents asking for “prayers” for the school—because naturally, they care more about their reputation than the actual child who was harmed.

And let’s not forget: this is the same guy who posted a video of queer protesters chanting “We’re coming for your children” as a joke, and insisted it was proof of LGBTQ+ “grooming.” Turns out, he was the only predator in the room.

So here’s a fun question for all the right-wing media outlets that spent years screaming about drag queens, rainbow flags, and school library books corrupting kids: when are they going to start talking about the epidemic of child molesters in their own ranks?

A federal judge just smacked down DOGE’s data grab, blocking Musk’s operatives from rifling through the Treasury Department’s payment systems like a bunch of tech bros snooping through their boss’s email. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that Treasury can no longer provide access to its Bureau of Fiscal Service records, which Musk’s handpicked cronies had been poking around in—because, apparently, national security is just another open-source project to these guys.

The lawsuit—brought by unions representing retired Americans and federal employees—accuses Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of handing DOGE workers “full access” to systems containing millions of Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses, and even bank account details. Because why not just upload the entire federal payroll to Twitter while they’re at it?

While the judge allowed two DOGE-linked figures, Tom Krause and Marko Elez, to retain “read-only” access, that’s cold comfort when the entire scandal started with Musk’s people being given near-unrestricted access in the first place. Notably, Elez has since resigned after being outed for racist social media posts—because, of course, these guys come with bonus baggage.

And the backlash isn’t just coming from lawyers. On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Treasury Department, waving anti-Musk signs that read “America: We’ve Been Hacked” and “Impeach President Musk”—a phrase that’s sounding less like a joke and more like a warning.

Democratic lawmakers aren’t letting this slide, either. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Ed Markey, and Ron Wyden joined the protests, with Wyden delivering the message loud and clear: “Tell Elon Musk to take his hands off your money.” Meanwhile, Congress is demanding answers about who these DOGE employees actually are, what systems they’ve accessed, and what Trump’s administration is doing to stop them—which, let’s be honest, is probably absolutely nothing.

This isn’t just a data breach—it’s a full-scale government takeover, and Musk is looting it in real time. The only question left is how much damage he can do before someone finally stops him.

Another stellar DOGE hire bites the dust. Marko Elez, a 25-year-old staffer at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has resigned after being linked to a deleted social media account that promoted racism and eugenics—because vetting isn’t part of the efficiency plan.

Elez, who had been granted access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment systems, was reportedly tied to posts advocating for white supremacist ideology. His departure comes amid growing concerns over how DOGE is staffing federal agencies with young, unqualified Musk acolytes who somehow keep getting access to sensitive government infrastructure.

This resignation raises more questions than answers about who’s actually overseeing DOGE’s hiring process and how many other extremists have been slipped into federal positions under the guise of “efficiency.” But don’t worry—nothing to see here, just another totally normal day in the Trump-Musk dystopia.

Trump’s war on competent governance continues—now with mass layoffs of federal health workers. The administration is reportedly preparing an executive order to slash thousands of jobs at HHS, the FDA, and the CDC, because "efficiency" meansgutting the agencies responsible for managing viral outbreaks, drug safety, and public health.

The plan? Force agencies to cut a set percentage of their workforce, leaving officials scrambling to decide who’s “essential” and who gets the boot. This follows Trump’s buyout scheme, where workers were pressured to resign while still getting paid until September—because why fire people when you can trick them into quitting first?

HHS employs over 83,000 people, handling everything from disease response to medical research, but sure—let’s just start slashing jobs and see what happens. And, of course, the White House is denying it’s happening, because transparency is for losers.

So if you thought the government’s response to the next pandemic couldn’t get worse, just wait—we’re about to find out what happens when you fire the experts and replace them with Musk’s Twitter followers.