News - March 2, 2025

In the neon underbelly of the grid on March 2, 2025, Trump and Musk pulled off their joint coup against the state, and it’s a raw, ruthless dismantling of the government. Trump, that sleazy gonk of a former prez, unleashed a tariff probe on lumber imports—a dirty power play meant to cripple global trade and leave the bureaucracy gasping in the digital dust, all under the guise of patriotism while he lines his own pockets. Meanwhile, Elon, the tech overlord of DOGE, is running his crew into the ground with a brutal 120-hour workweek, treating federal workers like expendable cogs in his profit machine. These two corpo rats aren’t just tweaking policies—they’re hacking the very infrastructure of the state, shredding decades of public service and government accountability to feed their own egos and fatten their bank accounts. As the old order crumbles under the weight of their autocratic ambitions, netrunners and cyberpunks in the shadows are watching in disbelief, ready to jack into the mainframe and expose the carnage. This isn’t liberation; it’s the systematic dismantling of our digital future by the very figures who claim to lead us—so strap in, plug in, and get ready to start netrunning the ruins they’ve left behind.