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"Judge Chutkan has granted a request by several state attorneys general for discovery on DOGE — namely the identities of DOGE personnel and the “parameter’s of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”
-K Cheney

#Courts #DOGE #Discovery #USPol
A page from a legal doc featuring case details, including references to discovery requests regarding the authority of DOGE and Musk, discussions on interrogatories, and the court's response to the defendants' arguments. The document includes specific instructions for identifying federal agencies involved…


The way Trump has turbocharged everything the globe dislikes about the United States is almost his super-power.

#uspol #trump


One of the big clues that you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere is when you find yourself banning rainbows. #USpol
New Utah law would allow for Nazi and Confederate flags to be shown in schools but not Pride flag

A Utah Republican said the Nazi and Confederate flags could be displayed as part of schools’ curriculum


#ai #palestine #usa #uspol

Besides the fact that Doutaghi says she is not a member of Samidoun, she attended events it sponsored that support Palestinian causes, #Yale Law School said the allegations against her reflect “potential unlawful conduct.”

Jewish Onliner is vague about how it uses AI to produce its articles, but the technology is known for making lots of mistakes and hallucinating information that is not true. It is quite possible that Jewish Online….

https://gizmodo.com/yale-suspends-palestine-activist-after-ai-article-linked-her-to-terrorism-2000575148


"Please add your name to join #RashidaTlaib and her colleagues in Congress demanding the immediate release of political prisoner #MahmoudKhalil. He should be back home safely with his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant with their child."

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-mahmoud-khalils-immediate-release-from-dhs-custody/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine @israel


Interview: "Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests"

Khalil’s unprecedented arrest is to punish antiwar student activists & is part of Trump’s racist & fascist agenda.

~Murad Awawdeh

If the intent was to silence free speech, it's not working.

And, as the US anti-genocide movement is mostly made up of Americans, the administration can't deport its way out of this situation.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/11/mahmoud_khalil_ice_columbia_university_palestine

#FreeSpeech #Trump #Autocracy #Racism #USPol #Columbia .


How long before DOGE has access to the emails sent to Congress by constituents (to feed into an AI correlation machine, to ID individual political opposition)?

Do they already?

One way to find out: FOIA.

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/114148443569500472

#uspol


I'm calling for #ExportTaxes or #ExportQuotas on #AustralianGoods going to Trumpland until the dick pulls his head in.

#AusPol #USpol


"Trump buys a Tesla" is meaningless fluff with zero impact on anything.

but this headline will get far more attention than anything any Democrat has done in the last 10 years.

In this media environment RWNJs swim like dolphins while Elected Democrats drowned and got eaten by crabs years ago.

#Jeffries #Schumer #Durbin #Pelosi #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #MakeThemFight #Hardball #impeach #impeachment #DoSomething #tesla


Maybe newly-minted House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries will in 2027 bring back the fabulous "That fascist? Oh, he's self-impeaching" strategy that Nancy used to totally crush Donold back in 2019.

#Jeffries #Schumer #Durbin #Pelosi #Clark #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #MakeThemFight #Hardball #impeach #impeachment #DoSomething


"the people who spent years warning us about an imaginary #DeepState have built an actual one. The people who claimed to fear unaccountable bureaucrats have installed literally unaccountable bureaucrats. The people who insisted they would drain the swamp have filled it with their own particularly toxic sludge.

Their accusations weren’t warnings — they were spoilers."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/doge-has-become-what-it-claimed-to-destroy/

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Politics #Tech #News #US #USA
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...DOGE has emerged as the genuine embodiment of the “deep state” we were warned about — except instead of civic-minded career officials, we now have nihilistic power-mad adrenaline junkies running the show.

This matters because DOGE isn’t just another example of hypocrisy in action — it represents a fundamental threat to the systems and institutions that actually make government work for people.

Of course, DOGE’s defenders claim they’re just “cutting red tape” and “eliminating waste” — as if they discovered government employees whose sole job was to light taxpayer money on fire. In reality, they’re dismantling the systems that protect us from everything from food poisoning to financial collapse.

When you replace expertise with ego and public service with personal enrichment, you don’t just get bad policy — you get the systematic dismantling of the infrastructure that supports innovation, protects civil liberties, and maintains the guardrails that keep power in check. The deep state they imagined never existed. The one they’re building is all too real.

So here we are: the people who spent years warning us about an imaginary deep state have built an actual one. The people who claimed to fear unaccountable bureaucrats have installed literally unaccountable bureaucrats. The people who insisted they would drain the swamp have filled it with their own particularly toxic sludge.

Their accusations weren’t warnings — they were spoilers.


DOGE Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/10/doge-has-become-what-it-claimed-to-destroy/

"DOGE is the #DeepState. Wired’s Brian Barrett made this crucial observation last week & I can’t get it out of my mind. For all the talk during the last decade of the supposed “deep state” of #unelected bureaucrats controlling the #government, which was never actually true, #DOGE has become the very deep state they falsely claimed existed previously."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #USA
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Headline: 
DOGE Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy

from the every-accusation dept
Mon, Mar 10th 2025 03:00pm - Mike Masnick

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There’s that old saying that every accusation is a confession. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Musk/Trump administration, everything is projection. While claiming to champion free speech and fight government censorship, they’ve become the most aggressively censorial administration in modern history.

After years of performative outrage about campus speech restrictions, they’re systematically dismantling academic freedom.

They’re “rescuing” what they called a terrible Biden economy (which was actually remarkably strong) by… implementing policies that have economists screaming about an inevitable recession (or worse).

But here’s where the projection becomes almost perfectly aligned: DOGE is the deep state. Wired’s Brian Barrett made this crucial observation last week and I can’t get it out of my mind. For all the talk during the last decade of the supposed “deep state” of unelected bureaucrats controlling the government, which was never actually true, DOGE has become the very deep state they falsely claimed existed previously.


Trump, an E.V. Naysayer, Gives Tesla and Musk a White House Exhibition

#Trump has spent years bashing electric vehicles. But with #ElonMusk by his side, he said he would buy a bright red one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-buy-tesla-elon-musk.html

"Trump hosted an exclusive #car show at the #WhiteHouse on Tues afternoon.

The only company represented: #Tesla. The only purpose: helping Elon #Musk...

a president using the backdrop of the White House to boost sales for a... top donor."

#Coup #Corruption #GOP #USPol #News #US
Headline: White House Memo

Trump, an E.V. Naysayer, Gives Tesla and Musk a White House Exhibition

President Trump has spent years bashing electric vehicles. But with Elon Musk by his side, he said he would buy a bright red one.


Trump & Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the #Authoritarian Playbook

The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of #Corruption
https://lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and-musks-power-sharing-agreement

" #Trump has a novel power-sharing arrangement w/an unelected private citizen who is essentially executing a #HostileTakeover of the US #government to capture #data... & use our country as a laboratory for a new form of #authoritarian techno-governance that requires the wrecking of #Democracy"

#Musk #Tech #Coup #USPol #News #USA #US
Headline from Lucid:
Trump and Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the Authoritarian Playbook

The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of Corruption

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Mar 10, 2025


Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Directly Into Trump Political Operation

#ElonMusk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own #superPAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on Trump in the past...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html

"Elon Musk has signaled to Trump’s advisers in recent days that he wants to put $100 million into groups controlled by the #Trump political operation."

#Musk #Trump #Corruption #Coup #GOP #CitizensUnited #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
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Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Directly Into Trump Political Operation

Elon Musk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own super PAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on President Trump in the past, but to an outside entity.


The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk & Corruption

A ‘naïve’ #SupremeCourt delivered lawless #greed & #cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court

"The court’s 5–4 #CitizensUnited decision, allowing unlimited corporate, interest-group, & individual spending on elections, did trigger dire predictions... But even the most pessimistic among them fell short of imagining #American reality today."

#Musk #Trump #Coup #GOP #Corruption #USPol #Politics #News #US
Headline from The Bulwark:
The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk, and Corruption

A ‘naïve’ Supreme Court delivered lawless greed and cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.

by Jill Lawrence
Mar 10, 2025


"At the core of this "movement" lurks #CurtisYarvin, whose political ideology... has provided the intellectual framework for dismantling #democracy. His #DarkEnlightenment philosophy promotes a #world where governments serve only the Superior (defined, of course, by Yarvin), a select few inherit #power, and the #public exists to obey...

his masturbatory notions of hyper-fascism now resonate among maladjusted, incellionaire #tech executives"
https://www.theindex.media/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here-2/

#Musk #Coup #USPol #News #US
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Musk's authoritarian fantasies aren't pipe dreams; he is constructing them, forcing them into being. His social media platform spreads rightwing propaganda, disinformation, and lies, his companies serve political interests... Every statement, every action, every so-called defense of "free speech" is another ham-fisted Muskian attempt to normalize extremism and undermine democratic governance. The man is a Nazi in all but name, a walking, talking, tweeting, sieg-heiling argument against his own master race musings. But he is not alone.

Peter Thiel may not stand beside Musk, but he stands aligned, financing a political machine intended to entrench corporate rule and feed humanity into the meat grinder. Thiel has spent decades working to dismantle democracy, viewing it as a roadblock to elite power, himself the elite personified...

At the core of this "movement" lurks Curtis Yarvin, whose political ideology - if it can be called such - has provided the intellectual framework for dismantling democracy. His "Dark Enlightenment" philosophy promotes a world where governments serve only the Superior (defined, of course, by Yarvin), a select few inherit power, and the public exists to obey. Considered fringe by anyone who still maintains contact with reality and decency, his masturbatory notions of hyper-fascism now resonate among maladjusted, incellionaire tech executives... a set of men who believe themselves above and better than the concept of democracy.


The Fascist Tech Bro Takeover Is Here
https://www.theindex.media/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here-2/

"Musk's $277 million campaign contribution secured him unprecedented access to the levers of #Government & cemented his grip on the #political machine... Musk's influence has infected every arm of Govt. And he is using his #wealth, his control of Twitter's husk, & his presence in the #Trump orbit to steer the country away from #democratic principles & toward oligarchic rule."

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Tech #USPol #News #USA
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The Fascist Tech Bro Takeover Is Here

The future of America isn’t being written in Washington—it’s being coded, traded, and hoarded by tech billionaires who see democracy as a bug, not a feature.

by Joan Westenberg
10 Mar 2025

Photo: Some white male techbro's face

Text:
The future of the United States is no longer decided in Washington. That ship has sailed. It's now dictated in the bunkers, private jets, and compounds of an ideological Silicon Valley, by billionaires and wealth extremists intent on treating democracy as a nuisance that must be swatted away. These men - raised on a rabid press that mythologized their existence in their lifetimes, called them Wunderkind and treated them as something above and beyond mere mortality - have consumed a steady diet of libertarian and authoritarian fan fiction and conceived a new order, designed to elevate their lofty egos at any and all cost.


Are Trump and Musk Breaking Up?

A conversation with Politico's Jonathan Martin
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/are-trump-and-musk-breaking-up

"Nota Bene four things: (1) #Trump World is rattled and in CYA-mode about Musk’s cuts; (2) Trump gave a green light to cabinet members to go after #Musk, blame him for reckless cuts, and call him a liar; (3) Trump may have clipped his fellow megalomaniac’s wings; and (4) the whole story leaked out."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #Podcast #USA
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Trouble in MAGA Paradise

Nota Bene four things: (1) Trump World is rattled and in CYA-mode about Musk’s cuts; (2) Trump gave a green light to cabinet members to go after Musk, blame him for reckless cuts, and call him a liar; (3) Trump may have clipped his fellow megalomaniac’s wings; and (4) the whole story leaked out.

Some background:

- Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk - POLITICO

- Jonathan Lemire: Is DOGE Losing Steam? The Department of Government Efficiency lives. But Donald Trump is reining in Elon Musk.

- Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman: Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk


Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown

...Elon Musk has wanted a #government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-has-wanted-the-government-shut-down/

“You know none of this is about saving #money, right?” says a 3rd #Republican familiar with the behind-the-scenes push from #Musk. “It’s all about destroying a liberal power base.”

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #Press #US #USA
Headline from Wired:
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown

Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers. 

by Jake Lahut, Leah Feiger and Vittoria Elliott
Politics
Mar 11, 2025 1:21 PM


Trump Flips Out When Asked About Testy Musk and Rubio Clash

#DonaldTrump shut down a reporter who dared ask about the growing feud between Elon Musk and his Cabinet officials.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192506/trump-reaction-musk-rubio-fight-cabinet-meeting

"Donald Trump got upset when a reporter asked him about “clashes” between #ElonMusk and members of his #Cabinet...

“No clash, I was there. You’re just a troublemaker, and you’re not supposed to be asking that question""

#News #Media #Press #TrumpLies #Musk #Coup #Corruption #GOP #USPol #USA
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Trump Flips Out When Asked About Testy Musk and Rubio Clash

Donald Trump shut down a reporter who dared ask about the growing feud between Elon Musk and his Cabinet officials.

by Hafiz Rashid
March 7, 2025 / 5:27 p.m. ET


Marco Rubio Finally Loses It at Elon Musk in Trump Cabinet Meeting

The two advisers got into a heated argument over DOGE-backed firings.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192493/marco-rubio-elon-musk-fight-donald-trump

"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, alongside other miffed agency heads, laid into billionaire bureaucrat #ElonMusk during Thursday’s meeting of Donald Trump’s #Cabinet...

In the end, #Trump defended #Rubio"

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #Government #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
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Marco Rubio Finally Loses It at Elon Musk in Trump Cabinet Meeting

The two advisers got into a heated argument over DOGE-backed firings.

by Edith Olmsted
March 7, 2025 / 2:39 p.m. ET


OPM Watchdog Says Review of DOGE Work Is Underway

The acting inspector general says the Office of Personnel Mgmt is investigating whether any “emerging threats” have arisen as Elon Musk’s #DOGE works to rapidly transform #government systems.
https://www.wired.com/story/opm-doge-review-underway/

"In addition to #OPM, #Democrats have pressed for similar #security assessments at five other agencies...

Congressional #Republicans have committed to little, if any, formal oversight of DOGE’s work"

#Musk #Coup #GOP #USPol #News
Headline from Wired:
OPM Watchdog Says Review of DOGE Work Is Underway

The acting inspector general says the Office of Personnel Management is investigating whether any “emerging threats” have arisen as Elon Musk’s DOGE works to rapidly transform government systems.

by Dell Cameron
Politics
Mar 10, 2025 5:51 PM


Your weather app could miss the next big storm. Blame DOGE.

Legendary TV meteorologist Tom Skilling says targeting the National Weather Service puts us all in jeopardy.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/your-weather-app-could-miss-the-next

"The US #government ‘s stellar #weather info service is being torn apart & likely sold for parts [by] #ElonMusk & #Doge... experienced #scientists fired... The loss of expertise is profound... We’ll all be less safe, the #economy will suffer"

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
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Your weather app could miss the next big storm. Blame DOGE.

Legendary TV meteorologist Tom Skilling says targeting the National Weather Service puts us all in jeopardy.

Mar 07, 2025

By Jennifer Schulze

Photo: Weather radar showing a massive storm system.


Musk's Tesla facilities in US face 'Takedown' protests

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvze9dzq8vo

" #Tesla facilities across the #US are facing protests and vandalism in response to the political role #ElonMusk... has played in the #Trump administration.

Most #TeslaTakedown protests have been peaceful, but a few have been destructive with fires intentionally set at Tesla showrooms and charging stations in #Colorado & #Massachusetts last week."

#Resist #Resistance #Protest #Musk #GOP #USPol #News #USA #USNews
Headline and photo from BBC.

Headline: 
Musk's Tesla facilities in US face 'Takedown' protests

8 hours ago
by Regan Morris, BBC News
Reporting from Burbank, California

Photo: One woman stands and holds sign that reads "Where is congress", a second one woman next to her sits in wheelchair and holds sign that reads "F-Elon in Chief" while cars drive on a busy street in the background.


In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk

https://www.muskwatch.com/p/in-affidavit-former-social-security

"detailed how deputies for #ElonMusk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive #databases...

also warned that careless actions by Musk’s #Doge could lead to interruptions in #SocialSecurity payments."

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Data #Privacy #News #US #USA
Headline from Musk Watch:
In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk

by Caleb Ecarma
Mar 10, 2025


The Diseases Are Coming

Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government tear will have lasting effects on global health.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/diseases-doge-trump/681964/

"DOGE’s slash-and-burn campaign has hit everything from the #NIH to the National #Weather Service. The cuts to global #health, however, are especially alarming...

Undermining even one of these institutions would have posed a serious threat; gutting them all at once is an invitation for future outbreaks."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Coup #USPol #News #US #USA
Headline: Ideas
The Diseases Are Coming

Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government tear will have lasting effects on global health.

By Craig Spencer


Is Elon Regulating His Own Rockets Now?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-elon-regulating-his-own-rockets-now

"One of Elon Musk’s #Starship rockets exploded over the #GulfOfMexico early yesterday evening, creating a spectacular #fireworks -like display and disrupting commercial air traffic...

#Musk had claimed repeatedly that he was over-regulated by the #FAA, especially after the agency fined #SpaceX $633,000 for launching rockets with unapproved changes."

#ElonMusk #Explosion #Crash #Tech #Space #Corruption #Coup #USPol #News #US #USA
Headline:
Is Elon Regulating His Own Rockets Now?

Member Newsletter
March 7, 2025 12:25 p.m.


DOGE job cuts shake Trump-voting West Virginia town | REUTERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9LHUPTMU7w

"Jennifer pigot voted for Trump...
in February she was fired from her civil service job...

"conversation now, it's like you knew this was coming.

But we didn't.

Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives."" ["OUR lives." Leopards... faces]

#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Cruelty #Trump #GOP #USPol #Jobs #News #US #USA


Why Musk Isn’t Reined In

In a word, #Trump can’t rein him in because #Putin doesn’t want him reined in
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/why-musk-isnt-reined-in

"The head of #SocialSecurity has resigned and been replaced by a #Musk acolyte. We will see more of that.

...cabinet secretaries will have to face... if they will be blamed for what goes wrong. The answer is, short of resignation, they will be blamed, along with Trump.

Musk is universally despised."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #USPol #USPolitics #Russia #News #USA
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Why Musk Isn’t Reined In
In a word, Trump can’t rein him in because Putin doesn’t want him reined in

by Mark Mansour
Mar 10, 2025

Multiple reports are that virtually all of Trump’s cabinet secretaries are fed up with Musk, his stooges and his wildly careening chainsaw. It is becoming clear that, incompetent as they are, they’ve figured out that their departments cannot function with indiscriminate firings. Musk has offered ALL HHS employees $25,000 to retire. This would prompt a series of public health catastrophes that would exceed COVID in their long term impact.

The cabinet secretaries also have figured out that they and not Musk will be blamed for any ensuing disasters...

Trump is playing with fire, especially since he is now singing the fraud and abuse song along with Musk. The head of Social Security has resigned and been replaced by a Musk acolyte. We will see more of that.

The question the cabinet secretaries will have to face is how they will manage their departments without highly skilled staff and if they will be blamed for what goes wrong. The answer is, short of resignation, they will be blamed, along with Trump.

Musk is universally despised... he is a nasty, immature and ignorant man-child. Just the sort of person Putin would foist on Trump to destroy the American government. The fact that it is working, and that Trump is purposefully tanking the economy and making enemies of all of our friends seals the unholy deal.


Federal judge calls out Trump administration for mischaracterizing Musk's role
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/158555627/federal-judge-calls-out-trump-administration-for-mischaracterizing-musks-role

"As for the #Trump administration’s continued insistence that #Musk is not leading #DOGE, the president’s own words were used to refute that argument on Tuesday. "I have created the brand new Dept of Govt Efficiency, DOGE... headed by Elon Musk..." Trump said... filed the remarks in #court as “new evidence” of Musk’s leadership role."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
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Federal judge calls out Trump administration for mischaracterizing Musk's role

Last Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang contested the Trump administration’s claim that Musk has no formal role in DOGE. Chuang, who is overseeing a lawsuit from plaintiffs who worked with or for USAID, said the characterization appeared to be “factually inaccurate.”

Joshua Gardner, a Justice Dept lawyer defending DOGE in the case, struggled to explain who exactly has been leading DOGE....

Gardner also claimed that USAID had not been shuttered and was instead undergoing “a reorganization in consultation with Congress,” another claim Chuang did not appear to buy. “The wood chipper isn’t usually reorganization,” the judge replied. (Early last month, Musk announced that DOGE was "shutting down USAID.")

As for the Trump administration’s continued insistence that Musk is not leading DOGE, the president’s own words were used to refute that argument on Tuesday. "I have created the brand new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Perhaps. Which is headed by Elon Musk, who is in the gallery tonight," Trump said during his congressional address. Kelly McClanahan, a public interest lawyer handling a lawsuit challenging the legality of DOGE, filed the remarks in court as “new evidence” of Musk’s leadership role.


Judge orders DOGE member to testify
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/158555627/judge-orders-doge-member-to-testify

"Judge John Bates ruled last week that a member of #DOGE must testify in a case challenging the group’s access at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Departments of #Labor and #Health and Human Services...

#Musk has repeatedly called for Bates to be impeached"

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Lawsuit #Judge #Law #CFPB #HHS #Government #News #US #USA
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Judge orders DOGE member to testify

Judge John Bates ruled last week that a member of DOGE must testify in a case challenging the group’s access at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services. A federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Bates said the deposition would be “necessary to determine the contours of the agency actions that plaintiffs challenge.” Musk has repeatedly called for Bates to be impeached, describing him as an “evil judge.” Andy Ogles, a House Republican from Tennessee, heeded Musk’s request, introducing articles of impeachment last month against Bates, whom he described as a “radical LGBTQ activist.”


DOGE fires government efficiency team
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/158555627/doge-fires-government-efficiency-team

"Among the team’s achievements was an #IRS program that allowed #taxpayers to file directly with the agency for #free instead of paying for filing software from Intuit TurboTax. #18F employees were also responsible for maintaining the government’s #weather alerts and #forecasts service. It’s unclear if IRS Direct File or weather.gov will continue to operate."

#Musk #Doge #Coup #Tech #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
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DOGE fires government efficiency team

The Trump administration terminated 90 technologists last Friday at the General Services Administration (GSA) who were working to modernize the software the federal government runs on, according to Reuters. The Atlantic reported that members of the GSA team known as 18F were informed their roles had been “abolished as part of an agency reduction-in-force.”

Among the team’s achievements was an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) program that allowed taxpayers to file directly with the agency for free instead of paying for filing software from Intuit TurboTax. 18F employees were also responsible for maintaining the government’s weather alerts and forecasts service. It’s unclear if IRS Direct File or weather.gov will continue to operate.