An un-elected South African immigrant is illegally taking control over US #government agencies:
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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
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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
DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone
DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/doges-gov-site-lampooned-as-coders-quickly-realize-it-can-be-edited-by-anyone/"DOGE appears to have skipped #security steps that are expected of #government websites. That pattern is troubling some federal workers...
makes it possible for bad actors to alter official databases of government information."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Programming #Tech #Data #Fail #News #US #USA
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DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone
DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/doges-gov-site-lampooned-as-coders-quickly-realize-it-can-be-edited-by-anyone/"DOGE appears to have skipped #security steps that are expected of #government websites. That pattern is troubling some federal workers...
makes it possible for bad actors to alter official databases of government information."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Programming #Tech #Data #Fail #News #US #USA
Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles & employees in offices that protect equal rights...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/15/doge-fire-federal-employees-trump-dei/"DOGE aims to target staffers... who work in offices established by law to ensure equal rights...
#DOGE team members have identified swaths of #jobs & programs to eliminate that do not match Trump’s ideological views." [the #Nazi word for this is #Gleichschaltung]
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Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles & employees in offices that protect equal rights...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/15/doge-fire-federal-employees-trump-dei/"DOGE aims to target staffers... who work in offices established by law to ensure equal rights...
#DOGE team members have identified swaths of #jobs & programs to eliminate that do not match Trump’s ideological views." [the #Nazi word for this is #Gleichschaltung]
There’s a Term for What #Trump & #Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in #America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/DOGE’s true purpose...
The only thing these policies will certainly do, & are clearly designed to do, is alter the behavior & values of the #CivilService.
Suddenly, & not accidentally, people who work for the #American federal #government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation."
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There’s a Term for What #Trump & #Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in #America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/DOGE’s true purpose...
The only thing these policies will certainly do, & are clearly designed to do, is alter the behavior & values of the #CivilService.
Suddenly, & not accidentally, people who work for the #American federal #government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation."
"What the Lord established": Elon Musk is camouflaging a #ChristianNationalist takeover
Project 2025 was clear: First, #purge federal workers. Then replace them with theocrats & fanatics
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/14/what-the-lord-established-elon-musk-is-camouflaging-a-christian-nationalist-takeover/"Musk is following the #Project2025 playbook...
The explicit plan is to replace federal workers who #Musk forces out with people who pass "ideological purity tests," largely based on their eagerness to make #America something very much like a #theocracy."
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"What the Lord established": Elon Musk is camouflaging a #ChristianNationalist takeover
Project 2025 was clear: First, #purge federal workers. Then replace them with theocrats & fanatics
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/14/what-the-lord-established-elon-musk-is-camouflaging-a-christian-nationalist-takeover/"Musk is following the #Project2025 playbook...
The explicit plan is to replace federal workers who #Musk forces out with people who pass "ideological purity tests," largely based on their eagerness to make #America something very much like a #theocracy."
Trump Admits He Has No Idea Why Elon Musk Met With India’s Modi
https://newrepublic.com/post/191558/trump-no-idea-elon-musk-meeting-india-modi"Modi was flanked by his entire foreign affairs team... facing some of Musk’s children, while #Musk & #Modi sat in the head chairs that the #president and a foreign dignitary usually sit in...
fuels the perception of #Trump as a simple figurehead while the...[South African immigrant] actually runs the show... One can only wonder how far this will go."
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Trump Admits He Has No Idea Why Elon Musk Met With India’s Modi
https://newrepublic.com/post/191558/trump-no-idea-elon-musk-meeting-india-modi"Modi was flanked by his entire foreign affairs team... facing some of Musk’s children, while #Musk & #Modi sat in the head chairs that the #president and a foreign dignitary usually sit in...
fuels the perception of #Trump as a simple figurehead while the...[South African immigrant] actually runs the show... One can only wonder how far this will go."
Inside The ‘Bizarre’ Meeting Where DOGE Requested ‘Extensive System Access’ At IRS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-irs-extensive-system-access#DOGE staffer #GavinKliger
"Their interest... included the operation of enforcements, it included #taxpayer service in terms of function & the personnel footprint, & they wanted extensive system access...
Levels of data protection at #IRS are higher than other agencies. … Not only is improper disclosure #illegal, but improper inspection of #data internally is illegal"
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Inside The ‘Bizarre’ Meeting Where DOGE Requested ‘Extensive System Access’ At IRS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-irs-extensive-system-access#DOGE staffer #GavinKliger
"Their interest... included the operation of enforcements, it included #taxpayer service in terms of function & the personnel footprint, & they wanted extensive system access...
Levels of data protection at #IRS are higher than other agencies. … Not only is improper disclosure #illegal, but improper inspection of #data internally is illegal"
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World
Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191580/elon-musk-doge-classified-us-intel-data-website"this incident doesn’t speak well of the pseudo-agency’s #security procedures. The website has already been hacked by Thursday evening thanks to #coding vulnerabilities. And since #DOGE has gotten into all kinds of sensitive #data, every #American could be at risk."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #Press #USA
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World
Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191580/elon-musk-doge-classified-us-intel-data-website"this incident doesn’t speak well of the pseudo-agency’s #security procedures. The website has already been hacked by Thursday evening thanks to #coding vulnerabilities. And since #DOGE has gotten into all kinds of sensitive #data, every #American could be at risk."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #Press #USA
DOGE Goes Nuclear and Fires DOE Staff in Charge of Our Own Nuclear Weapons
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-goes-nuclear-and-fires-doe-staff"another #DOGE mistake. They fired #nuclear staff without really knowing what they did, and then tried to rehire them. Outrageous!"
[ #video ]
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #Republicans #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #USNews #US #USA #Press
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DOGE Goes Nuclear and Fires DOE Staff in Charge of Our Own Nuclear Weapons
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-goes-nuclear-and-fires-doe-staff"another #DOGE mistake. They fired #nuclear staff without really knowing what they did, and then tried to rehire them. Outrageous!"
[ #video ]
#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #Republicans #GOP #Politics #News #USPol #USNews #US #USA #Press
The federal #tech workers facing down DOGE
What it's like to be a federal worker during the dark days of Elon Musk's DOGE campaign
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-federal-tech-workers-facing-down" #ElonMusk & #DOGE have infiltrated #government agency after govt agency... a brazen, extralegal effort to hollow out the state...
carried out with no congressional #oversight and often in stark defiance of judicial orders. It’s been called a #coup, or an #autogolpe, a coup from inside, or American #authoritarianism"
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The federal #tech workers facing down DOGE
What it's like to be a federal worker during the dark days of Elon Musk's DOGE campaign
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-federal-tech-workers-facing-down" #ElonMusk & #DOGE have infiltrated #government agency after govt agency... a brazen, extralegal effort to hollow out the state...
carried out with no congressional #oversight and often in stark defiance of judicial orders. It’s been called a #coup, or an #autogolpe, a coup from inside, or American #authoritarianism"
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can #Trump & his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people & un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo"the memo warns #USAID employees not to communicate w/the #press about the shocking disruptions in #humanitarian assistance that are... are already producing horrific consequences."
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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can #Trump & his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people & un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo"the memo warns #USAID employees not to communicate w/the #press about the shocking disruptions in #humanitarian assistance that are... are already producing horrific consequences."
The Worst and the Dimmest
https://www.the-reframe.com/the/"What he's doing is illegal, if you care about #law... It's a #NationalSecurity crisis, if you care about national #security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the #Constitution. It's likely to be devastating to the #economy, if you care about the economy... It's the most corrupt activity in the history of our country, if you care about #corruption."
- @JuliusGoat#Musk #Coup #Republicans #Trump #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Media
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The Worst and the Dimmest
https://www.the-reframe.com/the/"What he's doing is illegal, if you care about #law... It's a #NationalSecurity crisis, if you care about national #security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the #Constitution. It's likely to be devastating to the #economy, if you care about the economy... It's the most corrupt activity in the history of our country, if you care about #corruption."
- @JuliusGoat#Musk #Coup #Republicans #Trump #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Media
AP Describes Musk’s Coup as ‘Penchant for Dabbling’
https://fair.org/home/ap-describes-musks-coup-as-penchant-for-dabbling/"Musk locking federal workers out of internal systems...
Why, that’s just “Musk’s penchant for dabbling.” He’s been “tinkering with things his entire life,” the wire service says. He learned to code as a child in #SouthAfrica, you see, & “now #Musk is popping open the hood on the federal #government like it’s one of his cars or rockets.”
Popping open the hood of democratic processes to tinker with them?"
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AP Describes Musk’s Coup as ‘Penchant for Dabbling’
https://fair.org/home/ap-describes-musks-coup-as-penchant-for-dabbling/"Musk locking federal workers out of internal systems...
Why, that’s just “Musk’s penchant for dabbling.” He’s been “tinkering with things his entire life,” the wire service says. He learned to code as a child in #SouthAfrica, you see, & “now #Musk is popping open the hood on the federal #government like it’s one of his cars or rockets.”
Popping open the hood of democratic processes to tinker with them?"
Understanding the Taxonomy of DOGE
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-taxonomy-of-doge"took the #US Digital Service... and rebranded it as the US DOGE Service... same initials, USDS... rerouted their place in the executive branch org chart to go through the WH Chief of Staff rather than OMB... so it won’t be subject to #FOIA disclosure...
#DOGE showing up at a new federal agency... always includes a member of that original feral/incel group [19 - 25yr olds] in the lead."
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Understanding the Taxonomy of DOGE
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/understanding-the-taxonomy-of-doge"took the #US Digital Service... and rebranded it as the US DOGE Service... same initials, USDS... rerouted their place in the executive branch org chart to go through the WH Chief of Staff rather than OMB... so it won’t be subject to #FOIA disclosure...
#DOGE showing up at a new federal agency... always includes a member of that original feral/incel group [19 - 25yr olds] in the lead."
Musk pushes private financial interests in meeting with Indian Prime Minister
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-pushes-private-financial-interests"When #ElonMusk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra #Modi... the pair was seated in front of the #American & Indian flags, an arrangement that typically accompanies a meeting between #world leaders...
It was the most brazen example of how #Musk is leveraging his powerful position in the administration to advance his private economic interests."
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Musk pushes private financial interests in meeting with Indian Prime Minister
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-pushes-private-financial-interests"When #ElonMusk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra #Modi... the pair was seated in front of the #American & Indian flags, an arrangement that typically accompanies a meeting between #world leaders...
It was the most brazen example of how #Musk is leveraging his powerful position in the administration to advance his private economic interests."
Breaking Things Faster Than You Can Read About It
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-things-faster-than-you-can"Elon Musk, who reliable sources inform us is still not technically the president, wants to see reporters whose coverage he doesn’t like thrown in jail... he posted last night. “They deserve a long prison sentence.”"
#FreeSpeech #FreePress #Journalism #Journalists #News #Media #Press #ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Coup #Corruption #Politics #US #USA
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Breaking Things Faster Than You Can Read About It
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-things-faster-than-you-can"Elon Musk, who reliable sources inform us is still not technically the president, wants to see reporters whose coverage he doesn’t like thrown in jail... he posted last night. “They deserve a long prison sentence.”"
#FreeSpeech #FreePress #Journalism #Journalists #News #Media #Press #ElonMusk #Musk #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Coup #Corruption #Politics #US #USA
Day 77: DOGE's IRS Infiltration...
...At the Same Time It's Being Hacked
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/day-77-doges-irs-infiltration" #DOGE employees... sought access to the IRS’s Integrated Data Retrieval System, which houses the data of millions of #Americans... IRS officials are considering a memorandum of understanding that would allow access to some systems.
...reports are emerging that DOGE’s own systems are poorly constructed and easily subject to hacking"
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Day 77: DOGE's IRS Infiltration...
...At the Same Time It's Being Hacked
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/day-77-doges-irs-infiltration" #DOGE employees... sought access to the IRS’s Integrated Data Retrieval System, which houses the data of millions of #Americans... IRS officials are considering a memorandum of understanding that would allow access to some systems.
...reports are emerging that DOGE’s own systems are poorly constructed and easily subject to hacking"
DOGE at the IRS
https://www.thebulwark.com/i/157318856/doge-at-the-irs"DOGE fired—with no real review, no notice, and no transition period—one in five of the #federal employees who manage our #nuclear stockpile. Maybe we don’t need all those #employees currently working at the National Nuclear Security Administration? Maybe we need more? Maybe their duties should be reorganized in some way or another?
I don’t know. Neither does #DOGE."
#IRS #Data #Musk #Doge #GOP #Trump #Coup #Government #Jobs #US #USA #News
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DOGE at the IRS
https://www.thebulwark.com/i/157318856/doge-at-the-irs"DOGE fired—with no real review, no notice, and no transition period—one in five of the #federal employees who manage our #nuclear stockpile. Maybe we don’t need all those #employees currently working at the National Nuclear Security Administration? Maybe we need more? Maybe their duties should be reorganized in some way or another?
I don’t know. Neither does #DOGE."
#IRS #Data #Musk #Doge #GOP #Trump #Coup #Government #Jobs #US #USA #News
DOGE Mismanagement Principles
Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles"Sam Rayburn, the #Texan who served as House Speaker for 17 years was fond of saying, "Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one."...
Trashing #government agencies is easy. Making them work is hard...
failure of government systems has big and sometimes irrevocable costs"
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Trump #GOP #US #USPol #Politics #USA #News
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DOGE Mismanagement Principles
Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles"Sam Rayburn, the #Texan who served as House Speaker for 17 years was fond of saying, "Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one."...
Trashing #government agencies is easy. Making them work is hard...
failure of government systems has big and sometimes irrevocable costs"
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Trump #GOP #US #USPol #Politics #USA #News
"It is a fundamental error to believe that #DOGE is a government efficiency project. Cutting 1 in 4 federal employees would cut federal #government spending by 1%. Cost savings are incidental. DOGE is a #political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation of private interests and strengthening a personalist presidency."
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles#Trump #ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
