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Elon cried out last week that it was illegal to share DOGE staffers’ names online.
February 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Elon cried out last week that it was illegal to share DOGE staffers’ names online.
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Elon Musk re-shared a tweet containing Judge John McConnell Jr.’s daughter’s job and financial records on X after the judge ruled against DOGE.
February 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Elon Musk re-shared a tweet containing Judge John McConnell Jr.’s daughter’s job and financial records on X after the judge ruled against DOGE.
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We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’
The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.
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February 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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The weight of the words we lose: a great local publication asked me to write an “enthusiasm” for a series of such, with an understandable request to think outside the moment. So I sort of did and didn’t, via the disappearance of a writer: bitter-meteoroid-729.notion.site/Enthusiasms-...
Enthusiasms: Jeff Sharlet on Elif Batuman, Isaac Babel, and Franz Kafka | Notion
As I make my way back to my library carrel in the Russian stacks, my eye flickers down the spines and pauses, as it had the day before, on the banana-yellow paperback cover of a book called The Posses...
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February 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The weight of the words we lose: a great local publication asked me to write an “enthusiasm” for a series of such, with an understandable request to think outside the moment. So I sort of did and didn’t, via the disappearance of a writer: bitter-meteoroid-729.notion.site/Enthusiasms-...
Looking at you, Kingston
February 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Looking at you, Kingston
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Wednesday piece is scheduled for 7 AM. I probably will not be awake to promote it. So promote it when it comes out especially hard.
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Notes on the Crises
Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
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February 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Wednesday piece is scheduled for 7 AM. I probably will not be awake to promote it. So promote it when it comes out especially hard.
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The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
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February 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
In the cone again
February 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In the cone again
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EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
EXCLUSIVE: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social Have you seen this? Also recommend the article @ddayen.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social are discussing here. If your hair isn’t on 🔥 yet, this will do the trick. prospect.org/economy/2025...
‘Filled With Unmitigated Terror’
A Q&A with Nathan Tankus on what it means for Elon Musk’s forces to have commandeered some level of control of the U.S. payment system.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social Have you seen this? Also recommend the article @ddayen.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social are discussing here. If your hair isn’t on 🔥 yet, this will do the trick. prospect.org/economy/2025...
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February 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
@rollingstone.com.web.brid.gy please make @nathantankus.bsky.social article FREE to read! Can’t believe you paywalled this!
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Killer read. Scary. >>>
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Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous
Until Further Notice: Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
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February 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Killer read. Scary. >>>
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Agree, but this sort of thing is not a lack of reporting, but a total lack of news judgement by what should be our leading paper.
A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
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February 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Agree, but this sort of thing is not a lack of reporting, but a total lack of news judgement by what should be our leading paper.
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