Elon Reportedly Orders Government to Stop Feeding the Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
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As Elon Musk's DOGE continues to plunder the federal government, even the TSA's bomb-sniffing K9 units aren't safe.

Summary

A leaked TSA email suggests funding for bomb-sniffing dogs has been halted under Elon Musk.

The email states that vet visits, kenneling, and food are “put on hold” until further guidance.

TSA deploys over 1,000 canine teams, with training costing $33,000 per dog.

The funding freeze contradicts Trump’s “tough on crime” stance and coincided with the White House celebrating “K9 Veterans Day.”

  • earphone843@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    344·
    10 hours ago

    It started with Gerry Springer, really. We started celebrating the most awful qualities of humanity and normalized them.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      32 minutes ago

      MTV becoming a viral “reality” TV show hosting things like “The Real World” I think brought awful qualities to the mainstream, then social media gave everyone the opportunity to be THAT viral reality tv star. It may have started with Jerry, but MTV spread it to the masses. At the end of the day it was all driven by the pursuit of profits. All roads lead to capitalism, after all.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      7 hours ago

      I’d say that Springer was influenced by Oprah Winfrey, whose show about abuse, neglect, crime and vice was influenced by her harrowing childhood, a product of racism, and capitalist-induced poverty.

    • overcooked_sap@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      9 hours ago

      Didn’t he apologize for that and said had he known what was unleashed he would have shut it down?