more here: wapo.st/4kLpNcW

But then Musk tweeted that whoever leaked what the meeting was really going to be about will be found and punished.
These idiots cannot even keep their stories straight.
At least Trump did admit it would have been a conflict of interest…

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

• At the Pentagon, all this talk of warfighter ethos, and our ‘priority’ is making sure there are no three-year-old tweets with the word ‘diversity’ in them. Crazy town!

• Many have had to ignore their actual jobs in order to scrub words from official documents.
• Routine tasks take longer to complete, grinding down worker productivity, while DOGE bogs workers down with meaningless busy work, which sets them up to be punished for neglecting their actual duties.

• Federal surveyors at the Bureau of Land Management are no longer allowed to buy replacement equipment, so when a shovel breaks, they can’t simply replace it; they have to locate a manager authorized to file an official procurement form and order one.

For example:

• Internal Revenue Service employees line up at shared computers on Mondays to submit their “five things I did last week” emails to DOGE while taxpayer service calls go unanswered.

This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.”

Waldo Jaquith, who worked for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under Obama & who specializes in best practices for government procurement of custom software, posted: “I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts.

although because of security concerns, individuals typically cannot simply give technology to the government.

And maybe those two things go hand in hand. Maggie Haberman, Kate Conger, Eileen Sullivan, and Ryan Mac of the New York Times reported today that Starlink has been installed across the White House campus. Officials say that Musk has “donated” the service,

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” he wrote.

When Evan Feinman, who directed the $42.5 billion rural broadband program, left his position on Friday, he wrote an email to his former colleagues warning that there would be pressure to turn to SpaceX’s Starlink for internet connection in rural areas.

Those installations seem designed to make the U.S. air traffic control system dependent on SpaceX, whose equipment has not gone through strict U.S.-government security and risk-management review.

These "lowlife cowards" didn't walk into Musk's trap and saved us a whole lot of pain.

edspire.substack.com/p/its-a-shut...

Trump is not only out to destroy our federal government, he’s out to destroy our judiciary as well.

Mizelle: “We now have an unelected federal judge who has ‘hired’ more executive branch employees than President Trump. This is a judicial power grab. Plain and simple.”