Government Cleaners Find Nasty-Looking Brickweed After DOGE Leaves Building

Following his departure from the White House, billionaire Elon Musk's legacy as the unofficial head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is marked by unprofessional chaos, a litany of lawsuits, and a collapse of international aid that left children to die in the streets. His ragtag group of teens and 20-somethings, most of whom were severely underqualified to pick apart agency budgets, let alone access highly sensitive information, has left swathes of the federal government in ruins. And what exactly they were doing behind the scenes, besides infiltrating classified networks and unjustly cutting people off from social security, remains pretty hazy — in a very literal way. As The Economist reports, cleaners found marijuana at the think tank United States Institute of Peace that was "apparently thrown out by DOGE staffers" after they left the building. An image shared by reporter Daniel Knowles shows a pair of gloved hands holding sizable nugs of the plant, strongly su ... Read full article.