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Inhaltswarnung: (Article) All the ways Elon #Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor // #USA #USGov


Weiteres Gericht schränkt Zugriffsrechte von US-Gremium DOGE ein

In den USA hat ein zweites Bundesgericht die Befugnisse des Gremiums DOGE eingeschränkt. Dabei geht es um Zugriffe auf Zahlungssysteme. Die neue von Tech-Milliardär Musk geleitete Behörde will mit umstrittenen Methoden die Staatsausgaben senken.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/doge-musk-justiz-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #DOGE #ElonMusk


Hat #Elonmusk mit #Doge schon Zugriff auf die amerikanischen Atomraketen ?
Der #staatsstreich in den #USA, Scrptkiddies mit Zugang zum Code jeder amerikanischen Behörde. Die können dort absolut alles machen.

Gutes Interview mit #AnnikaBrockschmidt :

https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Sehen-in-den-USA-einen-administrativen-Staatsstreich-article25546764.html

#coup #Demokratie #faschismus #musk #Thiel #zuckerberg #Meta #Trump #bürokratieabbau


These aren't Alpha males. Theye entitled white male post-adolescent schmucks. There's a difference. They tak it #DOGE style from the Alphas🤣

#doge


"The greatest threat we've ever faced": US Treasury division classifies #DOGE staff as extreme danger https://www.salon.com/2025/02/07/the-greatest-weve-ever-faced-us-treasury-division-classifies-doge-staff-as-extreme-danger/
#doge


"Krause is a private equity looter. He's the guy who basically invented the playbook for PE takeovers of large tech companies, from Broadcom to Citrix to VMWare, converting their businesses from selling things to renting them out, loading them up with junk fees, slashing quality, jacking up prices over and over, and firing everyone who was good at their jobs. He is a master enshittifier, an enshittification ninja.

Krause has an unerring instinct for making people miserable while making money. He oversaw the merger of Citrix and VMWare, creating a ghastly company called The Cloud Software Group, which sold remote working tools. Despite this, of his first official acts was to order all of his employees to stop working remotely. But then, after forcing his workers to drag their butts into work, move back across the country, etc, he reversed himself because he figured out he could sell off all of the company's office space for a tidy profit.

Krause canceled employee benefits, like thank you days for managers who pulled a lot of unpaid overtime, or bonuses for workers who upgraded their credentials. He also ended the company's practice of handing out swag as small gifts to workers, and then stiffed the company that made the swag, wontpaying a $437,574.97 invoice for all the tchotchkes the company had ordered. That's not the only supplier Krause stiffed: FinLync, a fintech company with a three-year contract with Krause's company, also had to sue to get paid.

Krause's isn't a canny operator who roots out waste: he's a guy who tears out all the wiring and then grudgingly restores the minimum needed to keep the machine running (no wonder Musk loves him, this is the Twitter playbook)."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/

#USA #Musk #DOGE #Plutocracy #Fascists


"It’s ironic that Trump finds himself unable to control Musk, as Musk is doing to Trump what Trump did to the Republican Party. Trump gained control of the GOP by pushing the outer limits of what behavior the GOP would tolerate. Trump’s grip on the MAGA base eventually made it impossible for the establishment to rein him in. Musk has a similar psychic hold over his massive fan base, which gives him significant leverage over Trump. Trump also knows that Musk is willing to out-crazy him.

“Elon is autistic and that scares people. He’s unpredictable and prone to tantrums,” another Trump ally said. (In 2021, while hosting Saturday Night Live, Musk disclosed publicly that he had a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder.)

That said, the longer the “President Musk” memes continue, the more Trump might be motivated to act. It’s been a truism since Trump descended the golden escalator in 2015 that there can only be one star in the Trump show. “Trump has a limit to others getting credit,” a prominent Republican strategist told me. Musk’s falling popularity could also hasten Musk’s defenestration. An Economist/YouGov poll recently found that Musk’s Republican support has dropped 21 points since shortly after Election Day.

“Elon is going to blow himself up,” the Trump ally said."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/is-donald-trump-afraid-of-elon-musk

#USA #Trump #Musk #RepublicanParty #DOGE


“The US National weather Service, housed within NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.”
-D Swain

#NOAA #NationalWeatherService #DOGE #TrumpMusk #USPol
A tweet from Senator Chris Van Hollen discussing concerns about potential targeting of NOAA by individuals associated with Musk, mentioning the importance of NOAA's work in weather forecasting and scientific research.


"The Fagin figure leading #ElonMusk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"🤣

#TomKrause... gained global renown this week after The Washington Post identified him as (having)... 'illegally accessed Treasury Department payment systems,'

"The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of #DOGE" - American Prospect
https://prospect.org/power/2025-02-06-private-equity-hatchet-man-leading-lost-boys-of-doge/


Liz Goodwin & Hannah Knowles: Lawmakers flooded with thousands of calls per hour as constituents demand answers about Elon Musk: “We can hardly answer the phones fast enough,” one senator said.

"Constituents have flooded the phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk “feeding USAID into the wood chipper” and his access to government systems."

#elonmusk #DOGE #USAID #privacy #ussenate
https://archive.ph/KEZpP


Elon Musk Demands Firing of WSJ Reporter Who Uncovered DOGE Employee’s Racist Tweets

Marko Elez, the Musk operative who had unfettered access to private data in our Treasury Department, was forced to resign after his racist past was uncovered.

"I was racist before it was cool"
- Marko Elez
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #doge #socialmedia #Twitter #x #SpaceX #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-demands-firing-of-disgusting-and-cruel-wsj-reporter-who-uncovered-doge-employees-racist-tweets/
Musk and his operative Marko Elez


Technocratic #GEEKS in charge! The #DOGE Bois. They ARE all boys... ie. Male, and these are the people with access to the nuclear codes, your Social Security number, and your tax returns.🤣 #Technocrats #Technocracy

May they all find their personal #LuigiMangione-s😎


Neue Regierungsstelle DOGE: So radikal geht Musk mit seiner Behörde vor

Die neue US-Regierung unter Donald Trump ist noch keinen Monat im Amt und hat schon weitreichende Entscheidungen gefällt. Eine zentrale Rolle im Staatsumbau spielt die undurchsichtige Behörde DOGE, die von Tech-Milliardär Musk gesteuert wird.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/musk-doge-faq-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#ElonMusk #Trump #USA #DOGE #FAQ


🧵1/Ω @ProPublica is reporting that Gautier Cole Killian, the 24 year old engineer on the #DOGE team, worked at #JumpTrading.

This seem to not be entirely correct - Cole Killian is a crypto bro who apparently worked at Jump's crypto subsidiary (cleverly named #JumpCrypto), a company which was notorious among traders for market manipulation and ended up getting whacked for over a hundred million dollars for financial crimes before having its CEO forced out (which is possibly why Mr. Killian has time to DOGE).

Among other things Jump Crypto was intimately involved in the spectacular collapse of the $40 billion Terra/Luna ponzi scheme, a financial cataclysm that ruined tens of thousands of people's lives.

Put less gently, no one who worked at Jump Crypto should be anywhere near any financial job ever again, period.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge

#uspol #uspolitics #elonmusk #Trump #TerraLuna #crypto #NerdReich #networkState




The 2 #OPM ofcls said the level of access granted to #DOGE agents means they could copy SSNs, phone numbers & personnel files for millions….

“They could put a new file in someone’s record, they could modify an existing record,” one said. “They could delete that record out of the database. They could export all that data about people who are currently or formerly employed by the govt, they could export it to some nongovernment server, or their own PC, or a Google Drive. Or to a foreign country.”
#doge #opm


At least 6 #DOGE agents were given broad access to all personnel systems at the #OPM on the afternoon of Jan 20, the day of Trump’s inauguration, acc/to 2 agency ofcls. 3 more gained access ~1 week later, they said.

The data that the DOGE team can access includes a massive trove of personal info for millions of federal employees…. It also includes personal info for anyone who applied to a federal job through the site USAJobs, the people said. Last year alone… there were 24.5M applicants.
#doge #opm


The #Trump admin has suggested that members of the #DOGE team have the authority to review sensitive govt files but has refused to provide details about whether #security clearances have been issued. The speed w/which any clearances would have been supplied suggests they may have skipped customary precautions, including #FBI background checks, US ofcls said.
Trump issued an #ExecutiveOrder last month that bypasses the normal procedure for White House staff security checks, DOGE went unmentioned.


Meanwhile, morale has plummeted, said 3 #OPM ofcls, as #DOGE agents have clashed w/senior career personnel. One official recalled a recent meeting in which a young DOGE team member began screaming at senior developers & calling them “idiots.”

A halt to IT upgrades — along w/fresh access by outsiders w/the power to install new programs — could create novel vulnerabilities at an agency that has been repeatedly #hacked by foreign #intelligence services.

#security #law #Trump #ElonMusk


The #DOGE team’s demand for access to #OPM files & networks came as #ElonMusk deputies arrived at the agency promising to wipe out 70% of its staff…. A senior OPM ofcl, during a team meeting Wed, said that core units focused on modernizing the agency’s network & improving accountability are “likely to go away,” acc/to a recording of the session obtained by The Post. Those who have been reassigned at the agency include the chief information officer & the chief financial officer.

#security #law


Records obtained by The Post show that several members of #ElonMusk’s #DOGE team — some of whom are in their early 20s & come from positions at his private companies — were given “administrative” access to #OPM computer systems within days of #Trump’s inauguration last month. 🚨That gives them sweeping authority to INSTALL & MODIFY SOFTWARE on government-supplied equipment &, according to 2 OPM officials, to ALTER internal documentation of THEIR OWN ACTIVITIES.

#law #TrumpCoup


*Agents* of #billionaire #ElonMusk’s #DOGE have gained access to highly restricted government records on millions of federal employees — including #Treasury & #State Dept officials in sensitive #security positions — as part of a broader effort to wrest control over the government’s main personnel agency, according to 4 US officials with direct knowledge of the developments.

#law #USpol #NationalSecurity #Trump #TrumpCoup


#ElonMusk’s #DOGE agents access sensitive #OPM data, alarming #NationalSecurity officials

The highly restricted data includes personally identifiable information for millions of federal employees maintained by the Office of Personnel Management.

#law #USpol #security #Trump #TrumpCoup #Gestapo #SecretPolice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-access-personnel-data-opm-security/


#WSJ is surprising us again another w this news - #DOGE Staffer Resigns Over #Racist Posts. Employee has links to a deleted #socialmedia account that advocated for #racism and #eugenics. The #DOGE young persons who have no expertise, no professional experience and yet have unfettered access to and control over #classified #data #documents #PII are not surprisingly, just like #musk but younger and not yet #billionaires #Shame on #america for permitting this #shameful s##t https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93


With mainstream media failing the test, the AFL-CIO will try to report on how President Musk's policies are effecting working people.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/6/2301689/-Labor-giant-trolls-Musk-with-excellent-mockery-of-DOGE
#Journalism #AFL-CIO #Liz Shuler #Musk #NaziNepoBaby #DOGE


Ziegenbock soll selbst darauf achten, kein Grünzeug zu fressen.

#ElonMusk #DOGE


Trump-Berater: Musk soll Interessenkonflikte selbst vermeiden

Elon Musk ist seit Trumps Amtsübernahme Regierungsberater für Ausgabenkürzungen. Mögliche Interessenkonflikte soll der Milliardär selbst im Blick behalten. Für sein DOGE-Gremium gibt es jetzt erste Beschränkungen.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/musk-doge-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#ElonMusk #USA #Trump #DOGE


"They have no relevant experience.

Most of them aren't old enough to rent a car.

And you're going to let them mess with airline safety that's already deteriorated on your watch?"
-H Clinton

Republicans will be complicit until there's a disaster or crisis in their states that was caused by #TrumpMusk -or because the Trump admin refuses to compensate, or fund the recovery.

#USPol #AI #DOGE #Sabotage #DOT #AirlineSafety #PublicSafety #Betrayal #GOPDeathCult
DOT Sec Duff:

Big News - Talked to the Doge team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.


Privacy? Data Protection? Respect for Civil Liberties? "404 Not Found" when it comes to scumbags who love scifi dystopias...

"Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration would need help altering login.gov, a government login system, to further integrate with sensitive systems like social security “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud,” which employees identified on the meeting as “an illegal task.”

Shedd, who is a former Tesla engineer, said the government should “try to get consent,” regarding login.gov changes but that “we should still push forward and see what we can do.”

WIRED and the New York Times previously reported on aspects of the meeting. 404 Media has now obtained audio of the full meeting and quotes it extensively below. Shedd told TTS workers that the administration would need help making radical changes to various government systems: “Things are going to get intense,” he said."

https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/

#USA #Musk #Surveillance #DOGE #AI #Privacy #DataProtection #TTS


#Trump #Elon #Musk #doge
Huge Treasury Dept (DC) protest against Trump raises "lock him up!" chant

On the 4th of February, a big crowd gathered outside the US Treasury Department to oppose Elon Musk's "DOGE" takeover and penetration of large parts of the Federal government

The takeover of many Federal agences by Elon Musk and his "DOGE" thugs is getting some serious pushback in DC. For Musk's goons to gain access to the personal data of everyone who ever filed taxes online is raising hackles. So is handing over disbursement of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security payments to the man who destroyed Twitter.

The civil servants whom Trump dismisses as "Deep State" are among the few people who can get a leash on Trump from the inside before he forces serious fighting for everyone else. Between that and the Social Security/Medicaid/Medicare situation this is not just an "inside the Beltway" issue. In fact, the threat to Social Security makes it a "bread and butter" issue.


"It’s worth noting that not all of Musk’s attacks on the administrative and liberal state are equally pernicious. There are real issues with USAID and its role as a soft power arm of meddling US imperial bureaucrats, as well as a political shield for U.S. atrocities, from Yemen to Gaza, as I’ve noted here and elsewhere. But USAID also does objectively useful work because many countries grow dependent on them, and it’s very clear that, based on recent statements made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, what is most likely going to happen is the sinister activity USAID does will simply be folded back into the State Department directly or the CIA (as it used to be) while the Incidentally Good Stuff USAID does will be be eliminated. Despite his faux libertarian posturing, Musk, of course, doesn’t care about the anti-imperialist argument. He hates USAID because he thinks it helps keep black and brown people alive, which—by virtue of the US being a largely unipolar empire—it very much does, regardless of motives.

The Times, Washington Post and CNN were not alone in having a blasé attitude about DOGE in the run up to Trump taking office. As I noted at In These Times, many Democrats indulged the patently false “cost savings” premise, and made no effort to paint it as a far right coup on the liberal state—which it clearly was. Pod Saves America’s Tommy Vietor treated DOGE as a good-faith effort that was simply misguided, and establishment journalists frequently mocked or downplayed its potential to disrupt our government.

This is part of a much larger media regime that, above all, must assume good faith from those in power, no matter their past lies, far-right ideological beliefs, or brash and illegal behavior. Let us call it the “Inverse Power-Skepticism Principle, which can be seen here:"

https://www.columnblog.com/p/us-medias-credulous-depiction-of

#USA #Propaganda #Journalism #Media #MediaManipulation #Trump #Musk #DOGE #Plutocracy


"Democratic leaders in both chambers on Monday vowed to introduce legislation to “stop unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems.”

Democrats have been sounding the alarm over reports that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire tech investor Elon Musk, was given access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payment systems.

“We must protect people’s Social Security payments, their Medicare payments, tax refunds, from any possible tampering by DOGE or any other unauthorized entities,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters at a press conference on Monday.

David Lebryk, who was the Treasury’s highest-ranking career official, resigned following a clash with Musk over access to the systems, a source familiar with the matter told The Hill on condition of anonymity.

Reports also emerged over the weekend that officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) also blocked Musk’s allies from gaining access to secure systems.

President Trump said on Monday that Musk “can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval,” but he added that his administration will “give him the approval where appropriate.”"

https://thehill.com/business/5124133-democrats-bill-treasury-system-musk/

#USA #Trump #Musk #USTreasury #DOGE


Via #PoliticalWire @ 7:42pm ET on Feb 02, 2025

"#Musk, the #billionaire adviser to President #Trump who runs the Department of Government Efficiency, oversaw a successful effort by his representatives to get direct access to a payment system that distributes trillions of dollars to #Americans each year. And individuals working for #DOGE accessed the U.S. Agency for International Development following a clash with security officials.”

#USAID

https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/02/elon-musk-moves-with-lightning-speed-to-exert-control/


Deferred #Resignation Email to #Federal Employees, January 28, 2025 OPM - Fork in the Road - Some #socialmedia sleuths were quick to point out that the title of the OPM memo, "Fork in the Road," was also the subject line of an email the new #DOGE head #ElonMusk sent to #Twitter employees in 2022 asking them to pledge to being "extremely hardcore" or resign. #democracy #legalresearch #govdocs ##trump #politics #government https://www.llrx.com/2025/01/deferred-resignation-email-to-federal-employees-january-28-2025/ So #Elon co-dictator?


A core part of every Crypto scam is the story. Quite often it is an elaborate one. It all started with the Bitcoin story, but others, such as DOGE, have their own stories. Quite often people will defend these stories as being true. All the other Crypto currencies and NFTs are a scam, but not this one. Some will just point at high valuations as indicators that it is not a scam, but rather it is just indicators of rather successful scams.

Whatever the story is, the results are the same. The damage done is not small. The idea that Crypto now uses more energy than many countries, when we should be conserving energy, is crazy.

We all have a choice when it comes to Crypto. I decided years ago not to get involved. If I had gotten involved, I would have made a bundle, but I would have been part of the problem and I did not want to do that.

Lets stay away from any products and services that include Crypto. Lets not support this "industry" in any way.

#Vivaldi #browser #Crypto #Bitcoin #DOGE