influencing

Old money was more cautious, influencing from behind the scenes.

Musk isn’t influencing everything so far—his preferred Senate majority leader, Rick Scott, lost that bid to South Dakota’s John Thune—but it’s clear who’ll be wearing the pants at DOGE.

But he is rapidly inching closer toward influencing the federal response to infectious disease, vaccines and public health — which many scientists say would be detrimental to the nation.

High pressure, or an anticyclone, is currently influencing our weather.

I honestly cannot tell you what exactly was my justification for maintaining a Twitter/X presence, even as I explored other social media outfits and publicly acknowledged that Musk’s regime was repelling masses of tweeters, boosting easily debunkable disinformation, shedding all of X’s remaining utility for journalists, bullying transgender users, spreading straight-up white-supremacist rhetoric, and influencing CEOs in every other field to become as domineering and unapologetic as Musk is, whatever the backlash.