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Judd Legum
Personal blog · muskwatch.compoliticsbusiness
Judd Legum writes Oligarch Watch, a personal blog at muskwatch.com about politics and business. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Senior State Dept. Advisor "BigBalls" Ran Image Host with Racist/Pedophilic URLs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Judd Legum's Muskwatch posts cover Elon Musk and DOGE. Commenters link its reporting on Edward Coristine, a young DOGE engineer, including his background in running an image-sharing site.
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Accountability journalism for the world's wealthiest people.
Most-linked posts?
- Senior State Dept. Advisor "BigBalls" Ran Image Host with Racist/Pedophilic URLs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-13
What Hacker News says?
But doge doesn't want to improve fraud, it only wants to make the department efficients by somehow firing their workers, how does this improve fraud detection? Furthermore, why should i trust a billionaire who has spouted lies more and more times? What about data protection? We're giving billionaires and their team access to federal workers data. Project 2025 emphatizes replacing federal workers for loyal one, why s…
Comment linking /p/musk-associates-given-unfettered
on “The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE”Submitted Senior State Dept. Advisor "BigBalls" Ran Image Host with Racist/Pedophilic URLs as a story · 26 points
HN discussionEdward "Big Balls" Coristine's prior experience is mainly in websites. https://www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-ran-image-sharing-site
Comment linking /p/doge-teen-ran-image-sharing-site
on “Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website”Submitted Who Owns SpaceX? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttps://www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-ran-image-sharing-site He has a lot of relevant experience in criminal behavior, actually.
Comment linking /p/doge-teen-ran-image-sharing-site
on “DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data”Submitted Musk's Neuralink falsified federal forms, claims to qualify for DEI program as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Social Security Administration is dodging a federal court order as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Russian money slipped into SpaceX's orbit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How SpaceX satellites interfere with astronomers' view of space as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Government-linked Chinese firm claimed ownership stake in SpaceX as a story · 2 points
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