An un-elected South African immigrant is illegally taking control over US #government agencies:
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An un-elected South African immigrant is illegally taking control over US #government agencies:
#ElonMusk is undermining the US Constitution's separation of powers and its system of checks & balances.This is the beginning of 5th Elon Musk thread.
Here are links to previous threads:
1st thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113934284003400421
2nd thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113951618453636625
3rd thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113963233763918473
4th thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113980599958766875
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Crime #Trump #Politics #US #News #USA
Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws
Govt watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the Presidential Records Act, which shields its work from public disclosure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-foia-public-records.html"In October, #ElonMusk preached...
“All #government data should be default public for maximum transparency”
...White House designated...#DOGE... insulated from public records requests"
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Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws
Govt watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the Presidential Records Act, which shields its work from public disclosure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-foia-public-records.html"In October, #ElonMusk preached...
“All #government data should be default public for maximum transparency”
...White House designated...#DOGE... insulated from public records requests"
D’oh!: Musky Clown Show Temporarily Disrupts Firings at TTS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doh-musky-clown-show-temporarily-disrupts-firings-at-tts"And they couldn’t easily ask their supervisors what was up since their supervisors hadn’t been looped in on the fact that members of their teams had been fired...
... #ThomasShedd, the #Musk associate appointed as the new head of #TTS, sent a message this afternoon to the whole team that it turns out … well, they’re not quite fired yet. “We don’t yet have the go-ahead from HR”
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D’oh!: Musky Clown Show Temporarily Disrupts Firings at TTS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doh-musky-clown-show-temporarily-disrupts-firings-at-tts"And they couldn’t easily ask their supervisors what was up since their supervisors hadn’t been looped in on the fact that members of their teams had been fired...
... #ThomasShedd, the #Musk associate appointed as the new head of #TTS, sent a message this afternoon to the whole team that it turns out … well, they’re not quite fired yet. “We don’t yet have the go-ahead from HR”
WTF Was Elon Musk Doing Meeting With India’s Modi?
#ElonMusk appeared to have a conversation with India’s prime minister about how to make himself richer.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191521/elon-musk-meeting-india-narendra-modi"If the #tech mogul is meeting leaders like #Modi in Washington, D.C., he is effectively acting like a diplomat... but in his own interests rather than those of the country...
Modi is meeting with #Musk before #Trump"
#Coup #Corruption #GOP #Politics #Fascism #News #US #USA #USPol #USNews
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WTF Was Elon Musk Doing Meeting With India’s Modi?
#ElonMusk appeared to have a conversation with India’s prime minister about how to make himself richer.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191521/elon-musk-meeting-india-narendra-modi"If the #tech mogul is meeting leaders like #Modi in Washington, D.C., he is effectively acting like a diplomat... but in his own interests rather than those of the country...
Modi is meeting with #Musk before #Trump"
#Coup #Corruption #GOP #Politics #Fascism #News #US #USA #USPol #USNews
Say what this is: a coup.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/say-what-it-is-a-coup"Elon Musk’s meddling into the machinery of #government is a part of the #coup. #Musk & his muskrats have no legal right to break into the... sensitive #data systems they’re invading...
#Americans have entrusted our private information to professional civil servants who are bound by #law to use it only for the purposes to which it is intended. In the wrong hands... it could be used to control or mislead Americans."
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Say what this is: a coup.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/say-what-it-is-a-coup"Elon Musk’s meddling into the machinery of #government is a part of the #coup. #Musk & his muskrats have no legal right to break into the... sensitive #data systems they’re invading...
#Americans have entrusted our private information to professional civil servants who are bound by #law to use it only for the purposes to which it is intended. In the wrong hands... it could be used to control or mislead Americans."
How John Roberts Teed Up Elon Musk’s War on the Court
https://newrepublic.com/article/191528/elon-musk-judicial-crisis-roberts"Musk’s strategy w/ #DOGE appears to be to create enough on-the-ground damage... that #Congress, the #courts... can’t readily reverse things. A certain amount of lawlessness is baked into this approach...
#Musk appears hostile to the idea that he can be constrained by a judge at all. He does not seem to know or care how the #Constitution works... After all, he grew up in apartheid-era #SouthAfrica"
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How John Roberts Teed Up Elon Musk’s War on the Court
https://newrepublic.com/article/191528/elon-musk-judicial-crisis-roberts"Musk’s strategy w/ #DOGE appears to be to create enough on-the-ground damage... that #Congress, the #courts... can’t readily reverse things. A certain amount of lawlessness is baked into this approach...
#Musk appears hostile to the idea that he can be constrained by a judge at all. He does not seem to know or care how the #Constitution works... After all, he grew up in apartheid-era #SouthAfrica"
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website:
"These 'experts' left their database open."
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/"The doge.gov website... is insecure & pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone...
doge.gov is seemingly built on a #Cloudflare Pages site that is not currently hosted on government servers...
#DOGE has secured administrator access to the codebases at various #government agencies, including the Dept of Treasury."
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website:
"These 'experts' left their database open."
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/"The doge.gov website... is insecure & pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone...
doge.gov is seemingly built on a #Cloudflare Pages site that is not currently hosted on government servers...
#DOGE has secured administrator access to the codebases at various #government agencies, including the Dept of Treasury."
Musk Watch: Depress the workforce and increase attrition
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/157114830/depress-the-workforce-and-increase-attrition"The plan is simple: Browbeat workers into resigning by simultaneously banning remote work and closing federal office buildings, ensuring that many civil servants are truly incapable of performing their jobs. Their intended replacements? AI, of course.
"The end goal is replacing the human workforce with machines""
#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #Tech #Technology #AI #Government #Politics #US #USA #USNews #USPol #News
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Musk Watch: Depress the workforce and increase attrition
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/157114830/depress-the-workforce-and-increase-attrition"The plan is simple: Browbeat workers into resigning by simultaneously banning remote work and closing federal office buildings, ensuring that many civil servants are truly incapable of performing their jobs. Their intended replacements? AI, of course.
"The end goal is replacing the human workforce with machines""
#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #Tech #Technology #AI #Government #Politics #US #USA #USNews #USPol #News
Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?
Uncertainty About Access & Authority Will Worry Allies and Tempt Adversaries
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/elon-musk-does-doge-pose-national-security-risk"what the #intelligence agencies of US allies & adversaries see when [ #Trump] grants sweeping access... to a team of young people who have no #government experience... and who work for an unelected figure w/extensive personal financial interests... American adversaries surely see an espionage & blackmail bonanza."
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Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?
Uncertainty About Access & Authority Will Worry Allies and Tempt Adversaries
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/elon-musk-does-doge-pose-national-security-risk"what the #intelligence agencies of US allies & adversaries see when [ #Trump] grants sweeping access... to a team of young people who have no #government experience... and who work for an unelected figure w/extensive personal financial interests... American adversaries surely see an espionage & blackmail bonanza."
What Will DOGE’s Moves on Government Agencies Mean for OSHA?
Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-will-doges-moves-on-government-agencies-mean-for-osha"Occupational Safety & #Health Administration, a branch of the #Labor Department... has repeatedly fined Musk’s companies for serious #safety violations...
#SpaceX... had an injury rate 6 times higher than the industry average...
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What Will DOGE’s Moves on Government Agencies Mean for OSHA?
Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-will-doges-moves-on-government-agencies-mean-for-osha"Occupational Safety & #Health Administration, a branch of the #Labor Department... has repeatedly fined Musk’s companies for serious #safety violations...
#SpaceX... had an injury rate 6 times higher than the industry average...
How Elon Musk’s crusade against government could benefit Tesla
https://apnews.com/article/musk-trump-tesla-investigations-doge-crashes-f0c49a8fdf900d72eac541e4f699c5ac"On the potential chopping block: crash investigations into Tesla’s partially automated vehicles...
safety advocates... credit the federal investigations & recalls with saving lives...
“Musk wants to run the Department of #Transportation... I’ve lost count of the number of investigations that are underway with #Tesla. They will all be gone.”
#Musk #Corruption #Coup #government #Politics #News #US #USA
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How Elon Musk’s crusade against government could benefit Tesla
https://apnews.com/article/musk-trump-tesla-investigations-doge-crashes-f0c49a8fdf900d72eac541e4f699c5ac"On the potential chopping block: crash investigations into Tesla’s partially automated vehicles...
safety advocates... credit the federal investigations & recalls with saving lives...
“Musk wants to run the Department of #Transportation... I’ve lost count of the number of investigations that are underway with #Tesla. They will all be gone.”
#Musk #Corruption #Coup #government #Politics #News #US #USA
Elon Musk’s #DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
The DOGE.gov website is such a #coding disaster that pretty much anyone can take over.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191540/elon-musk-doge-website-hack"unsurprising to anyone who has visited the DOGE.gov website since its inception—it looks like a high schooler could’ve made it...
“Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.”...
#Musk has yet to comment on the hacks as he continues promising “transparency.”"
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Elon Musk’s #DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
The DOGE.gov website is such a #coding disaster that pretty much anyone can take over.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191540/elon-musk-doge-website-hack"unsurprising to anyone who has visited the DOGE.gov website since its inception—it looks like a high schooler could’ve made it...
“Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.”...
#Musk has yet to comment on the hacks as he continues promising “transparency.”"
US Judge Extends Order to Block #DOGE From Treasury Department Data
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the #data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the #US Treasury Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-treasury-department-data-access-denied/"When Vargas asked... the #DOJ attorney representing #Trump... whether any DOGE-accessed information had been shared outside of the #Treasury Department, he said: “The short answer on that is we don’t presently know.”"
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US Judge Extends Order to Block #DOGE From Treasury Department Data
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the #data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the #US Treasury Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-treasury-department-data-access-denied/"When Vargas asked... the #DOJ attorney representing #Trump... whether any DOGE-accessed information had been shared outside of the #Treasury Department, he said: “The short answer on that is we don’t presently know.”"
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-s-doge-posts-classified-data-on-its-new-website/ar-AA1z4LWL"Elon Musk’s team... has posted classified information about the size & staff of a #US intelligence agency on its new website...
#Musk can’t claim he wasn’t aware that the National Reconnaissance Office is one of the nation’s #intelligence agencies. His company, #SpaceX, has a $1.8 billion contract with #NRO to build hundreds of spy satellites."
#ElonMusk #Data #Coup #Tech #Government #Politics #News #US #USA
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-s-doge-posts-classified-data-on-its-new-website/ar-AA1z4LWL"Elon Musk’s team... has posted classified information about the size & staff of a #US intelligence agency on its new website...
#Musk can’t claim he wasn’t aware that the National Reconnaissance Office is one of the nation’s #intelligence agencies. His company, #SpaceX, has a $1.8 billion contract with #NRO to build hundreds of spy satellites."
#ElonMusk #Data #Coup #Tech #Government #Politics #News #US #USA
DOGE Chaotic Cuts Have Locked Federal Workers Out of News Outlets
Foreign service workers are flying blind now.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191561/doge-locks-out-federal-workers-news-sources"The #Trump administration has cut news access to some #American foreign service employees, even as they clamor that the up-to-date #information is essential for their work."
#Musk #Doge #Coup #News #Media #Press #Government #Politics #US #USA
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DOGE Chaotic Cuts Have Locked Federal Workers Out of News Outlets
Foreign service workers are flying blind now.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191561/doge-locks-out-federal-workers-news-sources"The #Trump administration has cut news access to some #American foreign service employees, even as they clamor that the up-to-date #information is essential for their work."
#Musk #Doge #Coup #News #Media #Press #Government #Politics #US #USA
Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO
...DOGE’s Tom Krause is “currently” the CEO of the Cloud Software Group...
https://www.wired.com/story/musk-krause-treasury-bfs-conflict-of-interest/"That role was previously occupied by David Lebryk, who resigned after refusing to allow Musk’s... #DOGE access to sensitive systems w/in the #Treasury Department...
Krause retaining his job in addition to serving in the #government... a massive conflict of interest."
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Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO
...DOGE’s Tom Krause is “currently” the CEO of the Cloud Software Group...
https://www.wired.com/story/musk-krause-treasury-bfs-conflict-of-interest/"That role was previously occupied by David Lebryk, who resigned after refusing to allow Musk’s... #DOGE access to sensitive systems w/in the #Treasury Department...
Krause retaining his job in addition to serving in the #government... a massive conflict of interest."
Judge Who Made Life Hell for Trump Will Oversee Case on Elon Musk
A major lawsuit against Elon Musk just got assigned to his new nightmare: Judge Tanya Chutkan.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191559/judge-tanya-chutkan-case-lawsuit-elon-musk"Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presided over Trump’s federal election interference case, was assigned the federal #lawsuit filed by 14 states against [Trump] and #Musk, attacking the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s authority."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Trump #Doge #Politics #Government #News #US #USA
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Judge Who Made Life Hell for Trump Will Oversee Case on Elon Musk
A major lawsuit against Elon Musk just got assigned to his new nightmare: Judge Tanya Chutkan.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191559/judge-tanya-chutkan-case-lawsuit-elon-musk"Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presided over Trump’s federal election interference case, was assigned the federal #lawsuit filed by 14 states against [Trump] and #Musk, attacking the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s authority."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Trump #Doge #Politics #Government #News #US #USA
Elon Musk's #DOGE has worked quickly to cut federal agencies. Here's a list of what's been targeted so far.
https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-targeted-list-2025-2Dept of #Education
US Agency for International Development ( #USAID)
Federal Aviation Administration ( #FAA)
#Treasury Dept
Federal Emergency Management Agency ( #FEMA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( #CFPB)
the federal workforce
and #DEI initiatives.
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Elon Musk's #DOGE has worked quickly to cut federal agencies. Here's a list of what's been targeted so far.
https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-targeted-list-2025-2Dept of #Education
US Agency for International Development ( #USAID)
Federal Aviation Administration ( #FAA)
#Treasury Dept
Federal Emergency Management Agency ( #FEMA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( #CFPB)
the federal workforce
and #DEI initiatives.
Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, & fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-toxicity-could-spell-disaster-for-tesla/"“While #Musk might get away with a [Nazi-like] salute in some parts of the world, European markets reject such behavior,” Kraaijvanger tells WIRED... He may be right. #Tesla sales are in free fall in Europe"
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Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, & fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-toxicity-could-spell-disaster-for-tesla/"“While #Musk might get away with a [Nazi-like] salute in some parts of the world, European markets reject such behavior,” Kraaijvanger tells WIRED... He may be right. #Tesla sales are in free fall in Europe"
"Stop the coup" rally protesting President Trump and Elon Musk draws hundreds in Boston
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/rally-protest-donald-trump-elon-musk-boston/"Hundreds of rally-goers gathered on the icy #Boston Common Friday to voice their frustrations with #DonaldTrump and... [South African immigrant] turned White House official #ElonMusk...
Their hope is that the power of their voice will create change.
"At the end of the day, our founding fathers put the people in charge," said Bright."
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"Stop the coup" rally protesting President Trump and Elon Musk draws hundreds in Boston
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/rally-protest-donald-trump-elon-musk-boston/"Hundreds of rally-goers gathered on the icy #Boston Common Friday to voice their frustrations with #DonaldTrump and... [South African immigrant] turned White House official #ElonMusk...
Their hope is that the power of their voice will create change.
"At the end of the day, our founding fathers put the people in charge," said Bright."
DOGE software approval alarms Labor Dept employees
Elon Musk’s #DOGE subordinates received approval to use #software at the Labor Dept that could be used to transfer large amounts of #data...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583"The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed... #Labor Dept’s career employees...
“This is completely opposite of what we’d do to protect #privacy.”"
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Tech #Security #News #USA #US
