@establish-this.bsky.social
We know how databases work and we read Hannah Arendt
Pinned
They're really going to try this shit.
They will not stop until they meet organized power. They have no limiting principles. You can't negotiate over your own domination.
They will not stop until they meet organized power. They have no limiting principles. You can't negotiate over your own domination.
Of course if you didn't care about the law or ethics you'd want the people trained on how the data is structured to be in the organization where the data is going to be used.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept.
The Elon Musk operatives were abruptly shifted to the department’s immigration enforcement unit as part of an expanding effort to use personal data in deportation cases, one official said.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Of course if you didn't care about the law or ethics you'd want the people trained on how the data is structured to be in the organization where the data is going to be used.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
Great introduction and summary of what the admin is attempting to do with integrated government data. The risks are immense and all point to a system for social control. @raskin.house.gov is a critical leader in explaining this danger to the American people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great introduction and summary of what the admin is attempting to do with integrated government data. The risks are immense and all point to a system for social control. @raskin.house.gov is a critical leader in explaining this danger to the American people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
Even if you disagree with what they say, we can all at least look up immigration law and money laundering law. At a minimum any government worthy of legitimacy owes its citizens an on the record definition of what exactly they mean by "illegal ideas" before they crack down on speech.
For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".
April 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Even if you disagree with what they say, we can all at least look up immigration law and money laundering law. At a minimum any government worthy of legitimacy owes its citizens an on the record definition of what exactly they mean by "illegal ideas" before they crack down on speech.
They are innovating new techniques in the weaponization of federal data and financial coercion. Establishing the precedent that social security numbers can be revoked, without notification or due process, based on a unspecified claim of "terrorism" puts every dissenter in this country at risk.
The Trump administration is moving to cancel lawfully obtained Social Security numbers in an effort to pressure immigrants to “self deport” by cutting people off from financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with access to government benefits. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
April 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
They are innovating new techniques in the weaponization of federal data and financial coercion. Establishing the precedent that social security numbers can be revoked, without notification or due process, based on a unspecified claim of "terrorism" puts every dissenter in this country at risk.
A private contractor filling out some paperwork is enough to get you disappeared off the street under this administration. No oath of office, no badge, just a disposable gig worker. This regime of law enforcement fundamentally lacks even the flimsiest pretext of legitimacy.
Share this everywhere. I believe there should be immigration enforcement. I believe there shld be an immigration enforcement agency. But this one is simply lawless to the core. That fact is just inescapable.
April 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A private contractor filling out some paperwork is enough to get you disappeared off the street under this administration. No oath of office, no badge, just a disposable gig worker. This regime of law enforcement fundamentally lacks even the flimsiest pretext of legitimacy.
Clear inent to remove all technical barriers to an integrated surveillance system using all the data the Federal government has. The only constraints to highly targeted state action will be laws and the ethics of the people running the queries, and we know where they stand on ethics and laws.
The IRS is nearing an agreement to allow immigration officials to use tax data to confirm the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, culminating weeks of negotiations over using the tax system to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants
The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Clear inent to remove all technical barriers to an integrated surveillance system using all the data the Federal government has. The only constraints to highly targeted state action will be laws and the ethics of the people running the queries, and we know where they stand on ethics and laws.
There is absolutely no reason to believe this will stop with immigrants once it is established. Per @404media.co they are already integrating ICE data with IRS data. Those connections will go both ways, allowing them to deploy whatever systems they test out with ICE on anyone who files tax returns.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced — a move that immigration law and free-speech experts condemn as an alarming federal overstep.
U.S. will monitor immigrants’ social media for ‘antisemitic activity’
Homeland Security said such activity would be grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, alarming free-speech and immigration experts.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
There is absolutely no reason to believe this will stop with immigrants once it is established. Per @404media.co they are already integrating ICE data with IRS data. Those connections will go both ways, allowing them to deploy whatever systems they test out with ICE on anyone who files tax returns.
As we saw in the story from @404media.co on the ICE database, Palantir would be able to use this data to precisely define individuals and organizations for targeted harassment and government intervention. This is precisely what you would do to build a Chinese style system of social control.
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As we saw in the story from @404media.co on the ICE database, Palantir would be able to use this data to precisely define individuals and organizations for targeted harassment and government intervention. This is precisely what you would do to build a Chinese style system of social control.
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SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
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This is a critically important story demonstrating the dangers of what can happen with a modern integrated database unchecked by ethics or laws. If the government connects everything it knows about people, authoritarians will be able to keyword search with precision for targets of oppression.
April 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is a critically important story demonstrating the dangers of what can happen with a modern integrated database unchecked by ethics or laws. If the government connects everything it knows about people, authoritarians will be able to keyword search with precision for targets of oppression.
1/ @timmarchman.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social pulling this together is like building a global satellite targeting system for political enemies. Whenever this is ready we should expect the constellation of progressive nonprofits and Democratic partisan political operations to be targeted
April 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
1/ @timmarchman.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social pulling this together is like building a global satellite targeting system for political enemies. Whenever this is ready we should expect the constellation of progressive nonprofits and Democratic partisan political operations to be targeted
Our tax dollars-our shared prosperity-are being weaponized against our own citizens for the benefit of an aspiring dictator. They want to rule by personal power and the will of one man, not by laws that apply equally to all. This will only get worse until they meet collective resistance.
NEWS: The USDA is freezing funding for child nutrition programs as part of Donald Trump's petty fight with Maine.
April 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Our tax dollars-our shared prosperity-are being weaponized against our own citizens for the benefit of an aspiring dictator. They want to rule by personal power and the will of one man, not by laws that apply equally to all. This will only get worse until they meet collective resistance.
This is the clearest and most cogent explanation of the plan that any political leader has been able to articulate. The regime has no concept of the common good. They don't care about people. They are turning our shared prosperity into weaponized money to threaten people into submitting.
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is the clearest and most cogent explanation of the plan that any political leader has been able to articulate. The regime has no concept of the common good. They don't care about people. They are turning our shared prosperity into weaponized money to threaten people into submitting.
Their vision for the country is one where no service can function, no business can operate, no citizen can get a hearing, without expressing submission to their personal authority. No equal protection under the law, no universal principles, no shared citizenship.
Dudek, you may recall, was forced to restore the contracts less than a day later, following immediate pushback when Maine announced it couldn’t assign parents Social Security numbers for their newborns at hospitals in the state due to the cancelation. At the time he said it was unintentional.
Social Security Admin Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Revenge For Trump
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Their vision for the country is one where no service can function, no business can operate, no citizen can get a hearing, without expressing submission to their personal authority. No equal protection under the law, no universal principles, no shared citizenship.
Another good reminder to make sure you have paper or PDF copies of all important documents and records, especially from the government. Information will dissappear. Anyone can download their social security statement. We will have to provide our own proof about what we deserve.
2/ a widespread error or glitch in many people's SSA portal where it says, incorrectly, that they no longer receive benefits. In those cases, their benefit history has also disappeared. All the cases I've heard from fit a basic profile. They are either parents of adult children with severe ...
April 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Another good reminder to make sure you have paper or PDF copies of all important documents and records, especially from the government. Information will dissappear. Anyone can download their social security statement. We will have to provide our own proof about what we deserve.
Money is being weaponized for ideological purposes. They are telling us to not care about the money we've earned, to trust them to take care of all the money stuff because only they can understand the higher purpose of making everyone poorer.
Harris Faulkner on how Trump should talk to "401k people" worried about tariffs hurting them: "Look, when this nation used to go to war, people in this country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making things for weaponry. We have to do 100% buy in over this bumpy period"
April 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Money is being weaponized for ideological purposes. They are telling us to not care about the money we've earned, to trust them to take care of all the money stuff because only they can understand the higher purpose of making everyone poorer.
The assets of nonprofits can be arbitrarily reappropriated to the regime's ends. "Congratulations, your bank account has been redirected to the patriotic mission of establishing a colony on Mars."
BREAKING: US federal judge allows DOGE to takeover $500 million office building for free.
In fact, the building—and all of the property inside it—had already been transferred on Saturday.
In fact, the building—and all of the property inside it—had already been transferred on Saturday.
Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Takeover $500 Million Office Building For Free
It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The assets of nonprofits can be arbitrarily reappropriated to the regime's ends. "Congratulations, your bank account has been redirected to the patriotic mission of establishing a colony on Mars."
Not even an attempt to sideline the person applying the law to a friend of Trump. Just gone, fired without any explanation. Sends a clear message to anyone working in the Federal government that the instant they decide you're involved in anything they don't like you could lose your career.
NEW: A federal prosecutor in Los Angeles was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in Washington to drop all charges against him
Golden age for corruption
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Golden age for corruption
www.latimes.com/california/s...
White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say
Adam Schleifer, a longtime financial fraud prosecutor, was dismissed from the U.S. Attorney's office in L.A. on Friday. He was pursuing charges against the former CEO of Fatburger, a Trump supporter, ...
www.latimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Not even an attempt to sideline the person applying the law to a friend of Trump. Just gone, fired without any explanation. Sends a clear message to anyone working in the Federal government that the instant they decide you're involved in anything they don't like you could lose your career.
They are seizing control of payroll for law enforcement and judicial systems. Elon will be able to leverage the threat of individual paychecks going out to compel compliance.
March 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
They are seizing control of payroll for law enforcement and judicial systems. Elon will be able to leverage the threat of individual paychecks going out to compel compliance.
They want voter files to get integrated with every other database DOGE is trying to acquire. That will make it relatively straightforward to create favorable voter fraud propaganda and potentially target Federal financial benefits for individuals based on partisanship and voting behavior.
Well, there we have it.
This EO guarantees that no republican candidate that loses the midterms will concede if they lose.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This EO guarantees that no republican candidate that loses the midterms will concede if they lose.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Signs Order in Attempt to Vastly Reshape U.S. Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
They want voter files to get integrated with every other database DOGE is trying to acquire. That will make it relatively straightforward to create favorable voter fraud propaganda and potentially target Federal financial benefits for individuals based on partisanship and voting behavior.
This is consistent with everything they've done since forcing Lebryk out. Centralized money, centralized government data, AI review of social media and ignoring judges all leads to the weaponization of money as a tool for (per @adamtooze.bsky.social ) "visible coercion dressed up as consent"
Holy shit.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
He's actually doing it. Consolidating all payments under the Tsy.
Not to toot my own horn too much, but this is exactly what my paper is trying to address and oppose.
We need a strong digital fisc vision to counter this.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
He's actually doing it. Consolidating all payments under the Tsy.
Not to toot my own horn too much, but this is exactly what my paper is trying to address and oppose.
We need a strong digital fisc vision to counter this.
Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is consistent with everything they've done since forcing Lebryk out. Centralized money, centralized government data, AI review of social media and ignoring judges all leads to the weaponization of money as a tool for (per @adamtooze.bsky.social ) "visible coercion dressed up as consent"
The role for cowardly Republicans in Congress is to follow along glossing up the illegal shit Elon and DOGE are doing to the American people. Let the damage happen, then pass a law saying actually its what we always wanted. Pathetic way to avoid accountability to citizens about their true values.
Senate Republicans want to put their stamp on Trump’s cost-cutting campaign via a rescissions package. But it’s not clear if the White House is interested.
GOP push to ratify DOGE cuts runs into political reality
Despite widespread interest on Capitol Hill, it's not clear the White House is interested in rescissions.
www.politico.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The role for cowardly Republicans in Congress is to follow along glossing up the illegal shit Elon and DOGE are doing to the American people. Let the damage happen, then pass a law saying actually its what we always wanted. Pathetic way to avoid accountability to citizens about their true values.
For them money is a weapon to threaten their enemies with. No institution or individual that transacts with the federal government is safe, and every day that goes by without stopping DOGE gives them more capabilities to target.
House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach any federal judges.
The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.
The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.
It’s not just impeachments. Republicans are eyeing other ways to rein in federal judges.
GOP leaders are seeking a release valve for the fury building over recent court rulings.
www.politico.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For them money is a weapon to threaten their enemies with. No institution or individual that transacts with the federal government is safe, and every day that goes by without stopping DOGE gives them more capabilities to target.
Once again these totalitarian chodes demonstrate no ability or interest in reading and understanding anything beyond the most superficial meaning of keyword searches. Everyone on the good side of this fight needs to brush up on their metaphors and similes.
www.mediaite.com/analysis/ric...
www.mediaite.com/analysis/ric...
Rick Wilson Shrugs Off X Ban After ‘Kill Tesla’ Post: People Who Didn’t Read the Article Having a ‘Snowflake Bullsh*t Moral Panic’
Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson laughed off getting permanently suspended from X, formerly Twitter, telling Mediaite he was fine leaving Elon Musk's social media platform over this "snowflake bull...
www.mediaite.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Once again these totalitarian chodes demonstrate no ability or interest in reading and understanding anything beyond the most superficial meaning of keyword searches. Everyone on the good side of this fight needs to brush up on their metaphors and similes.
www.mediaite.com/analysis/ric...
www.mediaite.com/analysis/ric...