ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.
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#Musk Seeks to Put $100M Directly Into #Trump *Political Operation*
#ElonMusk has signaled he wants to make donations not just to his own #superPAC, …but to an outside entity.
It is unheard-of for a WH staffer, even one w/*part-time* status, to make such large contributions to support the agenda of the boss. But there has never been someone in the direct employ of an admin like Musk, the world’s richest person, who is leading Trump’s #DOGE.
#law #democracy #oligarchy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=DFBA3C3D-559A-4CDE-A0FB-ECD75001BA03
There’s a Term for What #Trump & #Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in #America
Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. #DOGE & its boss, #ElonMusk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal #CivilService, along with its culture & values, & its replacement with something different. In other words: #RegimeChange.
#purge #TrumpCoup #law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/
#Appeasement, Thy Names are Chuck #Schumer and Neville #Chamberlain.
"A shutdown would allow #DOGE to shift into overdrive. Let me repeat, a shutdown will allow DOGE to shift into overdrive. It would give Donald #Trump and DOGE the keys to the city, state and country," he said. "Donald Trump and Elon #Musk would be free to destroy vital government services at a much faster rate than they can right now and over a much broader field of destruction that they would render."
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Judge Blocks #Trump Administration From Terminating $14 Billion in 'Green Bank' Grants
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three #climate groups by the #Biden administration
#law #ClimateCrisis #DOGE #TrumpPurge #EPA #Citibank #ClimateUnitedFund #ClimateSolutions
https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-zeldin-climate-trump-380000b014480350b35b7b53bd14e277
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I've been here since the 2022 Great Twitter Exodus, and I've apparently never posted an #introduction, so…
I'm a #GenX techie who's lived in #Boston since the late 80's.
My 15 minutes of fame were being fired by #DOGE from #USDS early in 2025 and sounding the alarm in every media outlet that'd listen since nobody else was doing it. I'm not a fan of limelight, so I stopped when others took up the baton.
My politics are aggressively progressive and antifascist, and I post about them a lot.
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Y’all, I don’t want to cause alarm, and I may be the only one affected,which seems unlikely, but I just checked my social security statement, and my entire history is blank. #Doge is fucking shit up, y’all.
I’ve been working and paying taxes since I was 14, and I’m less than a decade away from being old enough to collect SS, and my statement shows no work history. None. I’ve been told I need to fill out a form for every year missing to send to the irs, and then send those forms from the irs to SS, so I can prove to SS I worked. None of this can be done online, and each year is a separate process.
Check your statements. We are being robbed in broad daylight.
#socialsecurity #doge #taxes #WellFuckWeAreDoomed
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/personal-finance/2025/04/03/67ee79c6ca47416f308b4597.html
AMERICAN PANOPTICON
The #Trump admin is pooling #data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
by Ian Bogost & Charlie Warzel
If you were tasked with building a #panopticon, your design might look a lot like the #information stores of the US federal govt—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from #citizens.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #AmericanAutocracy #tech #DOGE #Musk #surveillance
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxc3WqSyzCi3gasJ-au_BC9g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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#Trump admin overrode #SocialSecurity staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
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The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-michigan-lab-toxic-algae-blooms-great-lakes-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Michigan #Ohio #Environment #Trump #DOGE #NOAA #Water #Science
This has to be a #DOGE Easter Egg.
#IRS “improperly” [accidentally-on-purpose] disclosed #confidential #immigrant tax data to #DHS
The #tax agency only recently discovered the “mistake” & is working with other federal agencies on a response.
#law #privacy #immigration #InfoSec #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/11/immigrants-irs-dhs-tax-data/
#Whistleblower details how #DOGE may have taken sensitive #NLRB data
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from #Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair #labor practices.
#law #InfoSec #privacy #NationalSecurity #Musk
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
#News #Trump #DOGE #Data #Climate #Health #Environment #Immigration #Science #Education
Y’ALL
the #FDA under the Trump regime waited for 14 people to die before putting out a #listeria warning with these frozen supplements; ―which are usually used to treat people in a variety of medical recovery situations like #cancer treatment, feeding problems, eating disorders, #dementia and elder care.
this didn’t even happen during Trump 1.0. this is #DOGE and #Project2025 #MAGA fascism
🚨"Update: DOGE removes 31 more incorrect claims -- and $122M in savings -- from its "Wall of Receipts" after we identified they were wrong.
The listings were wrong b/c the contracts DOGE claimed credit for killing were not dead anymore: agencies had revived them."
-D Fahrenthold
#DOGE #Fraud #Fraudsters #Firings #Corruption #Trump #Musk #Austerity #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-trump.html
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Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X
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Records show that Chris Young is simultaneously working as a political adviser to Musk while serving in the Department of Government Efficiency, helping to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Judge #BerylHowell rules that #Trump / #DOGE's *entire takeover* of the U.S. Institute of Peace #USIP was unlawful—including the removal of board members & termination of programs.
Her order is very long—she not only reinstates the true board members but also boots DOGE's imposter board members & nullifies all of the illegal actions they took during their illegitimate takeover of the Institute of Peace.
#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #Musk
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.40.0_2.pdf
![DECLARED that the resolution adopted by 2 ex officio Directors of USIP's Board purportedly appointing Adam Amar as president of the Endowment of the USIP Fund & authorizing & instructing him to transfer any & all of the Endowment's assets to USIP was invalid, null, void, & w/o any legal effect; …plaintiff Board members duly appointed under 22 USC §2605(b)(4) shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4605(e) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out their duties…; …USIP Acting President Amb. Moose shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4606(a) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out his duties…; …defendants, except for the ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors to the extent their official positions allow, are ENJOINED from further trespass against the real & personal property belonging to the Institute & its employees, contractors, agents, & other representatives; …[&] are ENJOINED from maintaining, retaining, gaining, or exercising any access or control over the Institute's offices, facilities, computer systems, or any other records, files, or resources, & from acting or purporting to act in the name of Institute, & from using the Institute's name, emblem, badge, seal & any other mark of recognition of the Institute; it is further](/proxy/post_attachment/714874/9d5474216c.png "DECLARED that the resolution adopted by 2 ex officio Directors of USIP's Board purportedly appointing Adam Amar as president of the Endowment of the USIP Fund & authorizing & instructing him to transfer any & all of the Endowment's assets to USIP was invalid, null, void, & w/o any legal effect; …plaintiff Board members duly appointed under 22 USC §2605(b)(4) shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4605(e) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out their duties…; …USIP Acting President Amb. Moose shall continue to serve in accordance w/ §4606(a) & may not be removed or treated in any way as having been removed, or otherwise obstructed from carrying out his duties…; …defendants, except for the ex officio members of USIP's Board of Directors to the extent their official positions allow, are ENJOINED from further trespass against the real & personal property belonging to the Institute & its employees, contractors, agents, & other representatives; …[&] are ENJOINED from maintaining, retaining, gaining, or exercising any access or control over the Institute's offices, facilities, computer systems, or any other records, files, or resources, & from acting or purporting to act in the name of Institute, & from using the Institute's name, emblem, badge, seal & any other mark of recognition of the Institute; it is further")
What do cancer, Alzheimer’s, coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza, measles, malaria, tuberculosis, heart disease, HIV, ulcerative colitis, hepatitis, cancer, cancer, and cancer have in common?
We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.
His tool concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Egregious ruling: #SCOTUS lifted a lower court order blocking the SSA from granting access to the agency’s sensitive data to affiliates of the #DOGE.
The court separately paused a lower ct’s order that required DOGE to turn over docs as part of a lawsuit claiming the entity, like other govt agencies, should be subject to federal records requests.
DOGE will be able to access data on millions of Americans...
#SocialSecurity #Betrayal #Data #Resist #NoKings #June14 #USPol https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/supreme-court-restores-doges-access-to-sensitive-social-security-data
"Elon Musk’s goons at the Department of Government Efficiency transmitted a large amount of data—all of it undetected—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House, according to a new report"
I think this might be criminal...
Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts
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Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.
#News #DOGE #Veterans #VA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Government
Elon Musk gutted the federal government, dismantled key institutions, and cut off food and medicine to some of the poorest people on the planet.
By leaving DOGE, he’s trying to restore his reputation and rescue his struggling businesses. He should never be allowed to recover.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musks-reputation-must-be-beyond
#Musk Spread #Lies to Justify #DOGE Takeover of #SocialSecurity
#ElonMusk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin rally in March & rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the #SocialSecurityAdministration. Scammers, he said, were making 40% of all calls to the agency’s customer service line.
#SSA employees knew the claim had no basis in fact. After journalists followed up, staff began drafting a response correcting the record.
#Trump #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.DsQY.bU9UxVr8hOIf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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