Brute Force Coup
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Compiling the best resources on Elon Musk’s siege of the American government, the extremist philosophy of Curtis Yarvin, and the beliefs of Silicon Valley elites.
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You can’t post your way out of fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
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Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
An important reminder by @janus.bsky.social to ORGANIZE. With this account, my intent is to consolidate what’s known in order to better equip myself to combat the apathy and lack of understanding I’ve seen by much of the general public. But that alone is no match for collective action.
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I wrote this last October. Some friends said it sounded "unhinged". When power moves this fast, the people pointing it out will always sound a little crazy—until they don’t.
February 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wrote this last October. Some friends said it sounded "unhinged". When power moves this fast, the people pointing it out will always sound a little crazy—until they don’t.
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Wrote a response to the Musk/Trump supporters who keep yelling jubilantly at me "the people voted for this so shut up" www.techdirt.com/2025/02/10/n...
No, The People Didn’t Vote For This
A stunning 54% of Americans now believe we’re in a Constitutional crisis, according to recent YouGov polling. They’re right. As a tech billionaire effectively dismantles federal agencie…
www.techdirt.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Wrote a response to the Musk/Trump supporters who keep yelling jubilantly at me "the people voted for this so shut up" www.techdirt.com/2025/02/10/n...
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just called my reps, but they are actually out on the streets doing stuff. this guide has high level call scripts and points out the Dems who are capitulating. EVERYONE needs to keep calling, but especially if you're in Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arizona, NY...
February 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
just called my reps, but they are actually out on the streets doing stuff. this guide has high level call scripts and points out the Dems who are capitulating. EVERYONE needs to keep calling, but especially if you're in Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arizona, NY...
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Litigants seeking to block DOGE's access to student loan / DOE data cited this exchange as supporting their case:
February 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Litigants seeking to block DOGE's access to student loan / DOE data cited this exchange as supporting their case:
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"AI can and should transform the federal government. But its potential will go unrealized as long as DOGE prioritizes those transformations over following the law," writes @kevintfrazier.bsky.social.
Using AI to Improve the Government—Without Violating the Privacy Act
Proper use of AI can transform and improve the federal government. Improper use violates the Privacy Act.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"AI can and should transform the federal government. But its potential will go unrealized as long as DOGE prioritizes those transformations over following the law," writes @kevintfrazier.bsky.social.
People are trying to sound the alarm but it’s being ignored or dismissed whole cloth. After years of QAnon Deep State conspiracies and the Right’s assault on truth, we all have every reason to be skeptical of wild claims regarding what’s happening in the shadows at the top echelons of our government
It's pretty strange that outside of wholesale dismissals and accusations of me being a paranoid conspiracist, nobody has actually taken me to task on any of the substance of this piece. Because they can't. Because everything I've said is true.
The Plot Against America isn’t just about the rise of a dangerous ideology—it’s about the systematic dismantling of democracy in real time. Tech oligarchs. AI governance. The weaponization of confusion.
If you haven’t read it yet, now is the time.
If you haven’t read it yet, now is the time.
February 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
People are trying to sound the alarm but it’s being ignored or dismissed whole cloth. After years of QAnon Deep State conspiracies and the Right’s assault on truth, we all have every reason to be skeptical of wild claims regarding what’s happening in the shadows at the top echelons of our government
Reminder that Grimes attended Yarvin’s wedding last year and was reported by WaPo on January 31 as having been seen with him at a Trump inauguration party hosted by his publisher.
![A post on X: vocalcry says “I can’t believe we missed each other.” SimoneSyed responds “I was in a [sic] against the wall all night w my married friends and their bbs all night,” attaching a photo of herself at the wedding with Grimes, whose face is obscured by a smile emoji with sunglasses.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:57w2lrvu3obi7jpefrl5eyhv/bafkreigig2jr64mw6qkq6prvcxhd3aj44zf2v4ermo6pvsl6s57qmnswpi@jpeg)
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reminder that Grimes attended Yarvin’s wedding last year and was reported by WaPo on January 31 as having been seen with him at a Trump inauguration party hosted by his publisher.
Nothing to see here! Just the president mindlessly parroting neoreactionary talking points. Of course DOGE is going to report “irregularities” in Treasury payments! Because they’re operating under Yarvin’s theory that the entire financial system is defective and therefore all debt is illegitimate.
February 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Nothing to see here! Just the president mindlessly parroting neoreactionary talking points. Of course DOGE is going to report “irregularities” in Treasury payments! Because they’re operating under Yarvin’s theory that the entire financial system is defective and therefore all debt is illegitimate.
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Elon Musk is getting into consumer financial products at the same time he’s trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Corruption, and corruption that will hurt American consumers
Corruption, and corruption that will hurt American consumers
If you’re a Visa cardholder you can let them know you won’t be any longer if they do business with fElon. I called and they said they’re taking comments at askvisa@visa.com. Maybe if enough of us complain they’ll pull the deal.
Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like Zelle or Venmo.
www.cnbc.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Elon Musk is getting into consumer financial products at the same time he’s trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Corruption, and corruption that will hurt American consumers
Corruption, and corruption that will hurt American consumers
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Wow. I read this article when it was first published but that’s quite an update.
“Late Friday, after this article appeared, Booz Allen said it had ‘removed’ a subcontractor who wrote the warning and would seek to retract or amend it.”
“Late Friday, after this article appeared, Booz Allen said it had ‘removed’ a subcontractor who wrote the warning and would seek to retract or amend it.”
Booz Allen fires contractor who prepared an assessment warning Treasury not to let DOGE access payment system www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’
The assessment, done by the contractor Booz Allen, came before Treasury formally tapped an ally of Elon Musk to oversee the payment system.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Wow. I read this article when it was first published but that’s quite an update.
“Late Friday, after this article appeared, Booz Allen said it had ‘removed’ a subcontractor who wrote the warning and would seek to retract or amend it.”
“Late Friday, after this article appeared, Booz Allen said it had ‘removed’ a subcontractor who wrote the warning and would seek to retract or amend it.”
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No one should be surprised. Vance has previously announced that he believes the courts should be ignored when inconvenient and stripping power from the courts is also part of Yarvin's butterfly revolution playbook. They're going for the full tech authoritarian takeover.
February 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
No one should be surprised. Vance has previously announced that he believes the courts should be ignored when inconvenient and stripping power from the courts is also part of Yarvin's butterfly revolution playbook. They're going for the full tech authoritarian takeover.
“Musk has already grown his unelected bureaucracy to lay claim to nearly $7 million of American taxpayer funding,” House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said in a statement. She said that amount is “nearly twice the annual salaries and expenses budget of the White House.”
White House opens funding spigot for DOGE expenses - Roll Call
Nearly $7 million over the past week has gone to cover the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s expenses.
rollcall.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“Musk has already grown his unelected bureaucracy to lay claim to nearly $7 million of American taxpayer funding,” House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said in a statement. She said that amount is “nearly twice the annual salaries and expenses budget of the White House.”
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How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?
How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?
And is nuclear cleanup woke?
buff.ly
February 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?
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If I have one lesson from a decade of feeble efforts to resist Elon Musk, it's this: don't let decorum, or respectability keep you from exercising your power and resisting him. He certainly won't, and the people who should be doing the work to resist him left you that task because they did.
February 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If I have one lesson from a decade of feeble efforts to resist Elon Musk, it's this: don't let decorum, or respectability keep you from exercising your power and resisting him. He certainly won't, and the people who should be doing the work to resist him left you that task because they did.
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MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis
The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos.
New piece:
The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos.
New piece:
MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis
The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos
thomaszimmer.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis
The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos.
New piece:
The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos.
New piece:
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Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury: Elon Musk is calling for the impeachment of the federal judge who made a decision early Saturday morning that the Treasury Department should block access to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform…
Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury
Elon Musk is calling for the impeachment of the federal judge who made a decision early Saturday morning that the Treasury Department should block access to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties” from its…
thehill.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury: Elon Musk is calling for the impeachment of the federal judge who made a decision early Saturday morning that the Treasury Department should block access to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform…
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New details from @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social on early DOGE recruitment efforts that focused on Palantir alums and SpaceX interns: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
New details from @telliotter.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social on early DOGE recruitment efforts that focused on Palantir alums and SpaceX interns: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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CFPB just got a complete stop work order from Vought. Order to cease all supervision, examination, and investigations into consumer complaints. They are attempting to shutter this agency that protects regular people from corporate exploitation.
February 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
CFPB just got a complete stop work order from Vought. Order to cease all supervision, examination, and investigations into consumer complaints. They are attempting to shutter this agency that protects regular people from corporate exploitation.
I am simultaneously relieved and terrified that someone is writing in depth about this movement. It sounds absurd on its face. But these are absurd times. If you’re trying to understand Musk’s motives, this is a good place to start.
This has been my most ambitious piece of writing so far. It's long. And I will be working on a much shorter version for a wider audience. But I also don't want to lose sight of the deep truths lurking around us. So, here is The Plot Against America. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...
The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I am simultaneously relieved and terrified that someone is writing in depth about this movement. It sounds absurd on its face. But these are absurd times. If you’re trying to understand Musk’s motives, this is a good place to start.
“The data in the system, known as the Central Accounting Reporting System, or CARS, is considered sensitive. […] People who work with the system have in the past been briefed that the database may be of interest to foreign intelligence agencies…”
Exclusive: DOGE's new Treasury target is the Central Accounting Reporting System, which is a sensitive database that tracks the flow of money across the government, sources tell @propublica.org.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Expected to Examine Another Treasury System Next Week
The new target, sources said, is a sensitive database that tracks the flow of money across the government.
propub.li
February 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“The data in the system, known as the Central Accounting Reporting System, or CARS, is considered sensitive. […] People who work with the system have in the past been briefed that the database may be of interest to foreign intelligence agencies…”
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
February 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Announcing the Data.gov Archive lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...
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Today, Judge Engelmayer granted a temporary restraining order, barring DOGE affiliated-employees from gaining access to data from the Treasury Department, in the suit by states attorneys general. Find the suit, and more legal challenges to actions taken by the Trump adminsitration here:
Trump's First 100 Days and Legal Challenges
Find President Trump's executive orders, lawsuits and litigation against the actions, and analysis here.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Today, Judge Engelmayer granted a temporary restraining order, barring DOGE affiliated-employees from gaining access to data from the Treasury Department, in the suit by states attorneys general. Find the suit, and more legal challenges to actions taken by the Trump adminsitration here:
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An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:
I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
An important first-person account from someone inside OPM: