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56 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

So Elon is getting his tentacles into our personal identity information, federal payment and disbursement systems, assets and tax information, disability and health information, got some agencies to already adopt xitter as their official government communications channel, shut down the servers (is he trying to move where they’re hosted?) and shut down public facing web sites with policies and regulatory information. 
 

Nothing to see here. 

it's absolutely incredible.

i mean... seriously, how does everybody feel about this? is anybody going to even try to explain this away? 

30 minutes ago, mchookem said:

it's absolutely incredible.

i mean... seriously, how does everybody feel about this? is anybody going to even try to explain this away? 

Most of us are pissed about it, but there’s a whole lot of people who will look the other way because they can’t believe it’s happening.

I’ve passed this along to a few older relatives and asked why Elon needs to know how much they collect from Social Security and Medicare 

https://www.kxan.com/news/political-news/ap-elon-musks-doge-commission-gains-access-to-sensitive-treasury-payment-systems-ap-sources/

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The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation. 

The move by DOGE, a Trump administration task force assigned to find ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations, means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data, among other things.

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The New York Times first reported the news of the group’s access of the massive federal payment system. The two people who spoke to The Associated Press spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

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The news also comes after Treasury’s acting Deputy Secretary David Lebryk resigned from his position at Treasury after more than 30 years of service. The Washington Post on Friday reported that Lebryk resigned his position after Musk and his DOGE organization requested access to sensitive Treasury data.

 

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49 minutes ago, mchookem said:

it's absolutely incredible.

i mean... seriously, how does everybody feel about this? is anybody going to even try to explain this away? 

 

I'm not going to go into great detail over what my wife has told me the past week or so; and how much chatter she is having with her various friends in the same agency as hers that are in offices from coast to coast.

I will say this; she left here a bit ago to go to work to download her entire personnel file (every review, commendation, salary history, job applications throughout her 20 years as a fed, you get the idea) because there are some in her agency who are unable to access their personnel file now and others are finding things in the file missing or vandalized.  

 

 

 

 

Well I’d been disappointed as fuck in my fellow mankind thinking about leaving my kids a planet with the possibility of irreversible climate change.  Guess I’ll throw about 40% of my fellow Americans on the pile for the possibility of irreversible fuckatude to the fabric of our country as well.  

11 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I'm not going to go into great detail over what my wife has told me the past week or so; and how much chatter she is having with her various friends in the same agency as hers that are in offices from coast to coast.

I will say this; she left here a bit ago to go to work to download her entire personnel file (every review, commendation, salary history, job applications throughout her 20 years as a fed, you get the idea) because there are some in her agency who are unable to access their personnel file now and others are finding things in the file missing or vandalized.  

 

 

 

 

Heard some shit about contracts being changed. Deliverables, payment terms, etc. For now have not seen anything direct. Well except for halting entire large projects in place, firing off the work force, and telling the leads they might have a job so don't go get another one, but then they might not.

 

1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Heard some shit about contracts being changed. Deliverables, payment terms, etc. For now have not seen anything direct. Well except for halting entire large projects in place, firing off the work force, and telling the leads they might have a job so don't go get another one, but then they might not.

 

 

My wife's agency is 24/7, so there is always someone on staff in the evening and overnight.   She called one of the guys working who was able to access his stuff, so she decided to go in and see if hers was available.  He told her that nearly everyone in the office who was off has either called in or is coming in to get their stuff as well.

 

 

35 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

My wife's agency is 24/7, so there is always someone on staff in the evening and overnight.   She called one of the guys working who was able to access his stuff, so she decided to go in and see if hers was available.  He told her that nearly everyone in the office who was off has either called in or is coming in to get their stuff as well.

 

 

With the size of a team needed to do this, a real review of actual people vs. wiping it all clean, you know some dumbass IT fuck is going to try and impress some Hot chick (a surly3) and tell her everything.

54 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

My wife's agency is 24/7, so there is always someone on staff in the evening and overnight.   She called one of the guys working who was able to access his stuff, so she decided to go in and see if hers was available.  He told her that nearly everyone in the office who was off has either called in or is coming in to get their stuff as well.

 

 

Would you look at that.  Federal employees actually going to the office.

(That's a joke.)

59 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

My wife's agency is 24/7, so there is always someone on staff in the evening and overnight.   She called one of the guys working who was able to access his stuff, so she decided to go in and see if hers was available.  He told her that nearly everyone in the office who was off has either called in or is coming in to get their stuff as well.

Saw this just a bit earlier

also this of note

 

2 hours ago, mchookem said:

it's absolutely incredible.

i mean... seriously, how does everybody feel about this? is anybody going to even try to explain this away? 

NSIAP

https://www.kxan.com/news/political-news/ap-usaid-security-leaders-on-leave-after-trying-to-keep-musks-doge-from-classified-info-officials-say/

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, eventually did gain access Saturday to the aid agency’s classified information, which includes intelligence reports, the former official said.

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Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Voorhees and deputy Brian McGill — believed themselves legally obligated to deny access.

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Musk on Sunday responded to an X post about the news by saying, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.” He followed with multiple additional posts on X about the aid agency.

Kate Miller, who serves on an advisory board for DOGE, said in a separate post that no classified material was accessed “without proper security clearances.”

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It comes a day after DOGE carried out a similar operation at the Treasury Department, gaining access to sensitive information including the Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems. The Washington Post reported that a senior Treasury official had resigned over Musk’s team accessing sensitive information.

Musk formed DOGE in cooperation with the Trump administration with the stated goal of finding ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations.

By the way, as part of Musk's effort to eliminate USAID

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The Trump administration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have imposed an unprecedented freeze on foreign assistance that has shut down much of USAID’s humanitarian, development and security programs worldwide — compelling thousands of layoffs by aid organizations — and ordered furloughs and leaves that have gutted the agency’s leadership and staff in Washington.

The U.S. is by far the world’s largest donor of humanitarian aid, with USAID administering billions of dollars in humanitarian, development and security assistance in more than 100 countries.

That's a whole shitload of American agricultural production that won't be bought and sent overseas.  Which means a whole shitload of American food that will be sitting in silos in Texas and elsewhere in the US.  But going by Musk's tweets, he's jacking off non-stop over getting access to destroying USAID.

Musk is absolutely going to town and God only knows who these people he picked for this are and what they are doing

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Peter Marocco, a returning political appointee from Trump’s first term, was a leader in enforcing the shutdown. USAID staffers say they believe that agency outsiders with visitors badges asking questions of employees inside the Washington headquarters are members of Musk’s DOGE team.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a post on Sunday that Trump was allowing Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding.

 

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When I'd read about the Spanish invading Mexico or Peru, sure there were some fights, but there were also stretches where the locals would just watch them come on in, doing little or nothing to stop them.

I always wondered how that happened.

4 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

When I'd read about the Spanish invading Mexico or Peru, sure there were some fights, but there were also stretches where the locals would just watch them come on in, doing little or nothing to stop them.

I always wondered how that happened.

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3 hours ago, Chopper said:

Saw this just a bit earlier

also this of note

 

We got a lot of lawyers here. Which one of you fucks is this?

One deputy counsel, Clayton Cromer, has experience working for a white shoe law firm and in the Austin AI and tech scene, TPM has learned. It’s not clear what he and other appointees bring to the table in terms of personnel law.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/x-expands-lawsuit-over-advertiser-boycott-to-include-lego-nestle-pinterest-and-others/

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X is now suing more advertisers in an antitrust lawsuit focusing on what the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has claimed is a “systematic illegal boycott.”

 

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X subsequently added advertisers including Twitch as defendants in the suit. Now, as initially reported by Business Insider, an amended complaint has expanded the suit even further to include Nestlé, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate, Lego, Pinterest, Tyson Foods, and Shell.

The complaint alleges that the WFA “organized an advertiser boycott of Twitter through GARM, with the goal of coercing Twitter to comply with the GARM Brand Safety Standards to the satisfaction of GARM.” And it claims that these efforts succeeded in harming Twitter/X, with “at least” 18 GARM-affiliated advertisers stopping their purchase of ads on Twitter between November and December 2022, and other advertisers “substantially” reducing their spending.

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“The majority of X’s advertising revenue today comes from small- and medium-sized businesses that are not GARM members or clients of GARM-member advertising agencies,” the complaint says. “As demand for advertising on X has declined as a result of the boycott, the price X’s remaining advertisers are willing to pay has declined as well.”

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In fact, the lawsuit claims that ad prices on X “remain well below those charged by X’s closest competitors in the social media advertising market,” so “by refraining from purchasing advertising from X, boycotting advertisers are forgoing a valuable opportunity to purchase low-priced advertising inventory on a platform with brand safety that meets or exceeds industry standards.”

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"Brand safety"

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https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/x-expands-lawsuit-over-advertiser-boycott-to-include-lego-nestle-pinterest-and-others/
 
X is now suing more advertisers in an antitrust lawsuit focusing on what the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has claimed is a “systematic illegal boycott.”
 
X subsequently added advertisers including Twitch as defendants in the suit. Now, as initially reported by Business Insider, an amended complaint has expanded the suit even further to include Nestlé, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate, Lego, Pinterest, Tyson Foods, and Shell.
The complaint alleges that the WFA “organized an advertiser boycott of Twitter through GARM, with the goal of coercing Twitter to comply with the GARM Brand Safety Standards to the satisfaction of GARM.” And it claims that these efforts succeeded in harming Twitter/X, with “at least” 18 GARM-affiliated advertisers stopping their purchase of ads on Twitter between November and December 2022, and other advertisers “substantially” reducing their spending.
“The majority of X’s advertising revenue today comes from small- and medium-sized businesses that are not GARM members or clients of GARM-member advertising agencies,” the complaint says. “As demand for advertising on X has declined as a result of the boycott, the price X’s remaining advertisers are willing to pay has declined as well.”
In fact, the lawsuit claims that ad prices on X “remain well below those charged by X’s closest competitors in the social media advertising market,” so “by refraining from purchasing advertising from X, boycotting advertisers are forgoing a valuable opportunity to purchase low-priced advertising inventory on a platform with brand safety that meets or exceeds industry standards.”
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“I will money whip you into spending your money on my advertising.” - Elmo probably.
6 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


“I will money whip you into spending your money on my advertising.” - Elmo probably.

I’m surprised his lawyers were willing to admit in court that Twitter advertising rates are below Facebook’s.  That’s admitting that things aren’t going as well as he’d like.  And those companies have deep pockets and some have a serious aversion to advertising where their ads could wind up next to unsavory types.  His lawyers shouldn’t have used the word “brand safety”.

Elon: You’ll have to pardon me, I have to go sneak into the back door of the White House to dismantle the United States government.

Conspiracy theorists: have you heard Trump is releasing all the JFK, RFK and MLK files?!  SCORE!

13 hours ago, mchookem said:

it's absolutely incredible.

i mean... seriously, how does everybody feel about this? is anybody going to even try to explain this away? 

Egg prices tho

12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

NSIAP

https://www.kxan.com/news/political-news/ap-usaid-security-leaders-on-leave-after-trying-to-keep-musks-doge-from-classified-info-officials-say/

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By the way, as part of Musk's effort to eliminate USAID

That's a whole shitload of American agricultural production that won't be bought and sent overseas.  Which means a whole shitload of American food that will be sitting in silos in Texas and elsewhere in the US.  But going by Musk's tweets, he's jacking off non-stop over getting access to destroying USAID.

Musk is absolutely going to town and God only knows who these people he picked for this are and what they are doing

 

USAID was created by an act of Congress and can’t be closed on a whim of an unelected billionaire. What the actual fuck is happening 

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4 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

USAID was created by an act of Congress and can’t be closed on a whim of an unelected billionaire. What the actual fuck is happening 

Have you not been following along? Congress is not going to do anything to stop this. All three branches of our federal government are complicit.

This is the first I've heard of USAID's history in helping black South Africans rebound after the "end" (nudge nudge wink wink) of apartheid.  That adds some flavor for sure.

When will the guardrails kick in?

We still have guardrails, right?

Right?

4 minutes ago, miguelito said:

When will the guardrails kick in?

We still have guardrails, right?

Right?

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4 minutes ago, miguelito said:

When will the guardrails kick in?

We still have guardrails, right?

Right?

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The goal here is to break shit before anyone can step in and say, "Hey wait a minute!"  The Courts have proven too slow, Congress is impotent b/c controlled by Nazis/fellow travelers (same same).  Elmo and tfg know that if they can break shit fast enough, it will be impossible to bring back.  It's a cascading effect.  First all the folks from USAID go, then the organizations they send money to go (same with Treasury), and all those people disappear to...somehwere else...like vapor.  None of this is Constitutional, but at that point, it won't matter.  The damage will be done. 

 

1 hour ago, miguelito said:

When will the guardrails kick in?

We still have guardrails, right?

Right?

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And we still have posters here soooo excited about their swastikars and the new features coming any day now! Get rid of those fucking cars. Stop buying Tesla shit

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

His lawyers shouldn’t have used the word “brand safety”.

That’s two words.

2 hours ago, miguelito said:

When will the guardrails kick in?

We still have guardrails, right?

Right?

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I’ll take any action in opposition to this lawless dictatorship bullshit than inaction fueled by cynicism. “When have protests or civil unrest ever changed anything in government?” See how dumb that sounds?

at least they seem to be getting in front of cameras finally instead of just writing sternly worded letters. thanks, guys 🙄

2 hours ago, miguelito said:

When will the guardrails kick in?

We still have guardrails, right?

Right?

Nice try, everyone but I believe the most appropriate gif is

 

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4 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

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“I will money whip you into spending your money on my advertising.” - Elmo probably.

I think he knows he won't get these companies back. I think the goal is to force these companies to waste money on legal teams required to respond to bullshit lawsuits.

37 minutes ago, mchookem said:

at least they seem to be getting in front of cameras finally instead of just writing sternly worded letters. thanks, guys 🙄

they only work on weekdays

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16 minutes ago, JMFP said:

I think he knows he won't get these companies back. I think the goal is to force these companies to waste money on legal teams required to respond to bullshit lawsuits.

Hey.....do any of y'all think that the personal data that Elon seized from the Treasury dept. will be used against his foes in litigation?  Do ya?  Because it's a fucking stone-cold lock.  

A private actor has access to every bit of information the government has, on everyone.  All of the "libertarian" types, who didn't want government control...are perfectly happy letting all of the information they were supposedly worried about fall into the hands of a single malevolent private actor.

Elon Musk is the single most evil person walking the earth right now.  And that's a world that includes Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, so that's saying something.  He's functionally a caricature villain from a shitty spy movie....except he's real.

1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

That’ll show him.

I can't decide which is worse: The Nazis in charge, or the limp dick dip shits that are the current opposition.  I mean, its the former, but the entire Democratic party is just pathetic rn. 

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3 hours ago, Chopper said:
1 hour ago, JMFP said:

I think he knows he won't get these companies back. I think the goal is to force these companies to waste money on legal teams required to respond to bullshit lawsuits.

His lawyers admitted in court that Twitter is struggling to attract well-paying advertisers.

Bitcoin took a bit of a hammering this morning with the tariff fuckery.

There's talk of Canada and Mexico banning twitter.

None of those things are good for President Musk.

But on the bright side, VP Trump signed an EO that he says could be used by the government to buy into TikTok, so Leon will control TikTok as well.

5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

His lawyers admitted in court that Twitter is struggling to attract well-paying advertisers.

Bitcoin took a bit of a hammering this morning with the tariff fuckery.

There's talk of Canada and Mexico banning twitter.

None of those things are good for President Musk.

But on the bright side, VP Trump signed an EO that he says could be used by the government to buy into TikTok, so Leon will control TikTok as well.

I like the explanation of how it would be funded: "tariffs and other intelligent things."

2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I like the explanation of how it would be funded: "tariffs and other intelligent things."

So not his money.

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