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Musk/DOGE is a widely exposed single point of failure for international security. All it takes is for a state to overcome the personal security of inexperienced barely-post-tweens to essentially access all American information. There is no oversight on how the people's data is being handled. This is the worst kind of attack surface possible.
#infosec #doge #maga #uspol #privacy #data #attacksurface #trump
Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.
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The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.
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The used Tesla market is crumbling | CNN Business
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#BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #SissySpaceX #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
"Many Americans are watching their retirement savings melt away because of President Trump’s disastrous trade policies. In normal downturns, they could at least reassure themselves that Social Security would always be there. The program was created during the Great Depression precisely because it was clear that the market would not provide for retirees."
~ Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan
#Musk #Trump #tariffs #SocialSecurity #DOGE
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As Savings Disappear, Social Security is Also Under Threat
A two-pronged attack on Americans' financial securityPamela Herd (Can We Still Govern?)
"There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment still running and hazardous materials left unattended."
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#PublicHealth #HHS #CDC #InfectiousDiseases #STI #chlamydia #gonorrhea #HIV #hepatitis #syphilis #laboratories #testing #surveillance #DOGE #USpol
RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs and hepatitis
CDC officials are warning of delays and disruptions due to cuts to laboratory staff.Alexander Tin (CBS News)
👉Masernepidemie in den #USA--wird es nicht Zeit, die Grenzen zu schließen?!? 👈
In den USA gibt es bereitd mehr als 600 #Masernfälle in 22 Bundesstaaten, so die von #DOGE personell dezimierte Bundesbehörde #CDC.
Darunter sind 481 Fälle allein in #Texas. Das Land hat 👉in diesem Jahr bereits mehr als zweimal so viele Masernfälle gemeldet wie im gesamten Jahr 2024.👈
Laut CDC gab es in diesem Jahr bisher 6 #Masernausbrüche.
#Gesundheit #Impfstoffe #Medizin
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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
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DOGE cuts to Social Security: Millions of records have already been deleted
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is pushing forward with its federal cleanup initiative-this time taking on the Social Security Administration&aposTBS (Marca)
#Layoffs by the federal government drove job losses last month to the highest levels in the pandemic.
What do federal workers actually do? From business exports to veteran care, a law professor looks at the 35,000 federal workers in Philadelphia region: buff.ly/AzBpHC2
From business exports to veteran care − here’s what some of the 35,000 federal workers in the Philadelphia region do
Over a dozen federal agencies have offices in the Philly area. Understanding what they do can highlight how mass layoffs and cutbacks might affect the region.The Conversation
The largest federal program helping low income households pay their energy bills no longer has any staff.
Someone working for that agency said most of their payments are to widows.
#CrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #DOGE #USPOL
Trump’s single most aggressive attack on immigrants is now before the Supreme Court
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#MassDeportation #Immigration #PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump’s single most aggressive attack on immigrants is now before the Supreme Court
The president claims he can deport people without due process under a wartime law, even though we aren’t at war.Ian Millhiser (Vox)
You’d think they bring him back, but "Fuck you! Make me!"
White House admits it sent innocent man to brutal prison in El Salvador
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#PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
White House admits it sent innocent man to brutal prison in El Salvador
President Donald Trump campaigned heavily on the promise that he would lock up and ship out dangerous MS-13 gang members. But when ICE started sending Venezuelans and Salvadorans to El Salvador’s ...Daily Kos
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Most employees at US Institute of Peace mass-fired via late-night email
Congressionally created and funded thinktank taken over by ‘Doge’ seeks to prevent and resolve global conflictsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#Musk / #DOGE fires nearly all staff at US Institute of #Peace HQ
The #Trump admin summarily fired the staff of the #USIP late Friday night, <2wks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded org’s president & installing in his place an agent of #tech billionaire #ElonMusk’s DOGE….
#law #USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #democracy #diplomacy #fascism #tyranny
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A DOGE employee is put in charge of the US Institute of Peace, a court filing alleges - EUROPE SAYS
WASHINGTON (AP) — An official allied with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been put in charge of the U.S. Institute of Peace, aEUROPE SAYS
Intense layoffs have begun at HHS.
The agency “as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed.” — former FDA commissioner Rob Califf
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#hhs #fda #cdc #health #publichealth #healthcare #medicine #doge #layoffs
RFK Jr.'s HHS layoffs begin; thousands of FDA, CDC workers axed
As many as 10,000 employees — one-quarter of the department's workforce — are expected to be let go as part of the process.Sarah Owermohle (STAT)
Motherfuckers!!!!
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
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#DOGE #BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #SissySpaceX #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up
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Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.
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#News #Consumer #Business #Law #Meta #Tech #Trump #DOGE #Musk
Because peace is for suckers?
US Peace Institute Lays Off Staff After Dramatic DOGE Standoff
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#PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
US Peace Institute Lays Off Staff After Dramatic DOGE Standoff
USIP employees have been fired from their positions.Kenneal Patterson (The Daily Beast)
Elon #Musk pressured #Reddit’s CEO on content #moderation
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It's all about free speech, isnt it Elon? (But only the way you want it ...)
#censorship #freespeech #freedom #usa #politics #doge #news #internet
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
While Elon Musk was publicly calling out Reddit users for banning X links and threatening DOGE employees, he was also privately pressuring CEO Steve Huffman.Alex Heath (The Verge)
Whoa, yesterday, #Trump illegally stripped #CollectiveBargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers in 18 different departments across multiple #FederalAgencies.
The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *#war* on President Trump’s agenda.”
Is he going to use #wartime powers against #union members now?
#law #LaborLaw #labor #Musk #DOGE #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #propaganda #Trumpaganda #gaslighting #NaziState #MafiaState
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements – The White House
PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act ofThe White House
"I just hope that people realize that it’s not because we don’t want to serve you. It’s because we have people in power right now who want to break this system and who want to get rid of the fact that #education is an equalizer."
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#politics #USpol #news #Trump #HumanRights #schools #Project2025 #ElonMusk #DOGE
'We're Not Just Some Bureaucrats': DOE Employees on How Their Work Helps Texas Students
Department of Education workers and union leaders in Texas say kids will pay the price for Trump’s decision to “break this system.”Josephine Lee (The Texas Observer)
#EdwardCoristine is among the most visible members of the #DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the U.S. government.
Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "#BigBalls," which became a pop culture punchline. #Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."
Exclusive: #DOGE staffer, '#BigBalls', provided tech support to #cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon #Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data & #cyberstalking an #FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
#USpol #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Trump
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My dad died in September 2022 with $400 to his name, which was used to pay for his cremation. I scattered his ashes in the ocean because we had fun at the beach when I was little.
To DOGE: it's not that a dead man is trying to get money from you, it's that YOU ARE TRYING TO GET MONEY FROM A DEAD MAN.
And to my dad: Happy Birthday Dad, love you, miss you
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Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. DOGE wrote me a letter this month. They want money back from him.
He had schizophrenia and was sometimes homeless. In his later years I was able to help him stay housed, and he received $180 of SSI monthly which went toward his rent in assisted living in a low-income bed.
But DOGE has realized that they overpaid him. So they sent a letter warning that some of that money may need to be returned.
The thing is, my dad is dead.
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Elon Musk Goes After Bunkers Full of Seeds
"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat"
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The #DOGE cuts so far aren't enough to make a dent in the nat debt or offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts for the wealthy. Nor do they make govt more efficient, which'd require a thoughtful assessment. No evidence of “fraud waste & abuse.”
But as a means to push the nation closer to mass privatization of services? Now the cuts make sense -little need of a robust NWS if forecasting is going to be farmed out to private companies. Ditto for the USPS...
Even Bloomberg...
#USPol
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DOGE's real goal is privatising government
The DOGE cuts so far are not enough to make a dent in the national debt or offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts for the wealthy. Nor do they make government more efficient, which would require a thoughtful assessment.Bloomberg Opinion (Deccan Herald)
Federal Judge Deborah L. Boardman has blocked #DOGE / #OPM from accessing large swathes of data at the Depts of #Education & #Treasury, ruling that DOGE has no right under the #Privacy Act to unjustified access to large-scale amounts of personal identifying information.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #InfoSec
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Elon and the board want to cash out on the backs of their employees. #DumpTeslaNow
Elon Begs Tesla Employees Not To Sell, Even As Board Dumps Stock
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#BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
Elon Begs Tesla Employees Not To Sell, Even As Board Dumps Stock
Tesla board members and executives have been dumping their Tesla stocks over the last 3 months.Ed Scarce (Crooks and Liars)
Tesla Likely Finished In Germany As 94% Surveyed Say They’d Never Buy Musk’s EVs
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#BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
Tesla Likely Finished In Germany As 94% Surveyed Say They’d Never Buy Musk’s EVs
In a new T-Online poll in Germany, 94% of respondents said they would not buy a Tesla car in response to Musk's actions.Forbes
So far this year @ProPublica has reported on who's working for #DOGE, the impacts of cuts on agencies like #USAID, and a lot more. Reporting on abuses of power matters more than ever before.
This is the last day of our spring member drive you can give as a member. As always, I would love the #fediverse to be represented in our member base. It matters.
If you have the means, please consider joining as a member through a gift of any amount: give.propublica.org/give/34642… #journalism
Elon Musk’s DOGE Prepares to Gut Your Local Library
The felon Trump swamp wouldn't actually want the American people to actually LEARN anything or gain any benefits from a library. The regime relies on a large supply of very stupid people so they an continue their #grift
#doge #fascistMusk #uspolitics #libraries #stupidity
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Move to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking
DOGE is seizing the Institute of Museum and Library Service.The New Republic
So anyways, looks like Tesla has a Q1 quarterly report due out on April 22nd I suspect this will be the first time key investors really come to terms with Elon Musk's Trump antics.
Major investors are already sounding the alarm. I've been around the startup scene long enough to know the VCs are absolutely looking to can Musk. Musk is not gonna be an easy CEO to fire so they'll wait till the very last minute I bet.
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#ElonMusk #VCDrama #Naziceo #DOGE
In a striking change of tone, Tesla mega bull Dan Ives warns Elon Musk that patience is ‘wearing thin’
One of the automaker’s most bullish analysts is urging the billionaire to return to his duties at Tesla.Jessica Mathews (Fortune)
The hits keep coming, yesterday it was reported that Tesla trade ins have increased 300%+ since this time last year. With the majority of that change occurring in the last few months since Elon Musk became the poster child of US far right politics.
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#Nazicar #Tesla #Musk #doge #freemarket
#doge failed to close the Department of Education after a court battle told him he wasn't allowed to do that in no uncertain terms.
Of course we have a pretty open double-presidency at this point, as Elon and Trump are financially invested, and corrupt billionaires with the only real goal of power, and selfish gain.
#trump now has another executive order to close it down as retribution for DOGE being brutalized in court.
#Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner is stepping down after #DOGE leader #ElonMusk called for the #transit service to be #privatized.
Amtrak, also known as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is the national passenger #rail service for the #US. It is nationally chartered, meaning the federal government is the majority stockholder. It also means Amtrak board members are nominated by the president & confirmed by the Senate.
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Amtrak CEO steps down as Musk insists ‘sad’ rail service needs to be privatized
Stephen Gardner left position to ‘ensure that Amtrak continues to enjoy the full faith and confidence of this administration’Katie Hawkinson (The Independent)
