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Why is Elon Musk Throttling the Signal App?

Links to a popular encrypted messaging app used by federal workers are being blocked on X.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191601/elon-musk-anti-trump-whistleblowers-x-twitter-signal-federal-workers

"Self-professed free speech crusader #ElonMusk seems to be trying to #censor users on his own platform...

“Signal, the encrypted messaging #app, has recently become a major tool for #government workers looking to blow the whistle on #DOGE.” #Journalists also using #Signal to solicit tips from unhappy federal workers."

#Musk #News #USA

FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company. DOGE just fired them.

At least 20 staffers reviewing #Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing #DOGE purge of federal workers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/17/fda-elon-musk-neuralink-doge-trump/79000197007/

"“It’s intimidating to the #FDA professionals who are overseeing Neuralink’s trial,”...

#Musk has been leading a sweeping effort to cut #government spending, including at agencies that regulate his companies, such as #Tesla & #SpaceX"

#News #USPol #USA

Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-ridiculed-a-blind-person-on-x-then-a-mob-went-to-work/ar-AA1zcoHB

"Musk’s ...ownership of a #SocialMedia platform... & his position heading a #government entity with access to private #data, give him a unique ability to threaten those who question him...

“People do not feel safe speaking out in this country against the govt,” said Ryan Calo, a law professor... "the govt in the form of #ElonMusk & #Trump himself will catalyze retribution.”"

#StochasticTerrorism #USA

Elon Musk’s DOGE Wants to Seize Your Private Tax Data

The Internal Revenue Service is the next agency in the tech mogul's crosshairs.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191594/elon-musk-doge-taxpayer-personal-data-irs

"The #Trump administration... would allow #DOGE employees to infiltrate IRS programs like the Integrated Data Retrieval System... which gives #IRS employees access to bank information & personal identification numbers. DOGE also plans to send its own software engineer, Gavin Kliger [25 yrs old] to the IRS"

#Musk #GOP #Tax #News #US #USA

Elon Musk's DOGE asks for access to IRS taxpayer data, sources say

If granted, DOGE would have personal financial details on millions of Americans.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musks-doge-asks-access-irs-taxpayer-data/story?id=118883475

"The #database includes such #private information as a person's #SocialSecurity number and address, as well as details on how much they earn, how much #money they owe, properties and even details related to child custody agreements."

#Privacy #IRS #Data #Musk #ElonMusk #Doge #Politics #Coup #Corruption #News #US #USA

Washington Post opted not to publish anti-Musk ad campaign after initially being open
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/media/washington-post-anti-musk-advertising/index.html

"The #ads come as #Trump has given Musk’s #DOGE apparent free rein to bulldoze the federal workforce..

When the advocacy group asked the #JeffBezos -owned outlet whether there was anything they could do to alter the wrap to make it more suitable, they were simply told that the Post could not run it"

#WashingtonPost #Newspaper #Musk #ElonMusk #Corruption #Coup #Politics #News #US #USA

Washington Post Caves to Elon Musk and Scraps Ad

The newspaper was all set to run a print ad critical of the tech mogul, but then balked.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191588/washington-post-elon-musk-ad

"The #WashingtonPost —owned by #billionaire and #Trump inauguration attendee #JeffBezos— [agreed to print, then] spiked a print ad critical of Elon Musk & his increased influence on the federal #government...

spokesperson for the Post declined to comment"

See #ads here: https://www.commoncause.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MuskAd_LaughingElon_2025_FINALPRINT.pdf

#ElonMusk #Musk #News #Press #USA #US

Elon Musk Threatens to Imprison Entire News Agency

President Elon Musk has set his sights on a new target.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191591/elon-musk-imprison-news-agency-60-minutes

" #ElonMusk is pushing for a massive crackdown on #FreeSpeech...

“...They deserve a long prison sentence.”

Musk’s #fascist threat to imprison #journalists was a deflection written in response to a post from #60Minutes that criticized his efforts to gut #USAID."

#Musk #Trump #Coup #Corruption #Politics #FirstAmendment #FreePress #Press #Media #News #US #USA

"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

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

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

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"

#IRS #ElonMusk #Doge #Coup #GOP #Politics #News #US #USA

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

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."

#Corruption #Trump #Politics #News #US #USA

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 #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #News #USA

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?"

#Coup #News

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

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."

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #USPol #News #World #USA

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"

#Musk #News #US #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