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If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
www.theatlantic.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Take a minute from your day and read this chilling story about how quickly we've gotten to where we are.
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"
Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company
Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family
On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.
popular.info
April 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Take a minute from your day and read this chilling story about how quickly we've gotten to where we are.
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So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear
Amended complaint has been filed in the ring boys sexual abuse lawsuit against WWE, TKO, Vince McMahon, and Linda McMahon. Three new plaintiffs have joined the original five, one of which accuses Pat Patterson of also participating in the abuse.
PDF link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PDF link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
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Sic transit gloria mundi
scoop: @thedispatch , the right-of-center media startup, is acquiring @SCOTUSblog, an early-aughts pioneer of Supreme Court coverage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
The Dispatch Buys SCOTUSblog, a Supreme Court Mainstay
The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up, plans to keep the legal news website available at no cost. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sic transit gloria mundi
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Yeah, I think there’s essentially no going back from the damage Trump has done. Even if he were removed tomorrow, America has proven it can be duped into electing a dangerously unstable person, and you can’t really make long term plans centered on an “ally” like that.
April 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yeah, I think there’s essentially no going back from the damage Trump has done. Even if he were removed tomorrow, America has proven it can be duped into electing a dangerously unstable person, and you can’t really make long term plans centered on an “ally” like that.
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important to remember that they have no value they will not betray
As the article notes, now DHS Sec Noem and Sec State Rubio were also both strong supporters of the Women, Peace, and Security program up until this year
April 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
important to remember that they have no value they will not betray
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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this page they tacked on the front of the HHS report on trans youth healthcare can go fuck itself
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opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
April 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
this page they tacked on the front of the HHS report on trans youth healthcare can go fuck itself
opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by the start of May, with nearly all individuals resigning, after being sidelined by Musk’s DOGE www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse
Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.
www.politico.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by the start of May, with nearly all individuals resigning, after being sidelined by Musk’s DOGE www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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the push to further police TX elections and give the AG more power to investigate voting has already remade this state’s highest criminal court (last year Paxton and his supporters ousted three judges who limited his power; 2 more are up for reelection in 2026)
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/t...
Republican lawmakers revive effort to give attorney general more power to prosecute election crimes
Critics fear increased election prosecutions could intimidate voters and local election officials. Attorney General Ken Paxton has long sought more autonomy over election cases.
www.texastribune.org
March 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
the push to further police TX elections and give the AG more power to investigate voting has already remade this state’s highest criminal court (last year Paxton and his supporters ousted three judges who limited his power; 2 more are up for reelection in 2026)
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/t...
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Look at my empire dawg we're not gonna survive Great Power Competition therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
therecord.media
February 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look at my empire dawg we're not gonna survive Great Power Competition therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
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Sounds like a pretty big Privacy Act violation to me...
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sounds like a pretty big Privacy Act violation to me...
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“If Patel is confirmed, the agency responsible for defending against Russian espionage operations inside the United States would be led by someone who months earlier had taken money from a perceived ally of the Kremlin.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show
Patel, Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company that has promoted anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin, documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“If Patel is confirmed, the agency responsible for defending against Russian espionage operations inside the United States would be led by someone who months earlier had taken money from a perceived ally of the Kremlin.”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Come on, Senator. Push through. That’s a Blackwater guy. He’s not going to shoot you; you’re not brown.
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Come on, Senator. Push through. That’s a Blackwater guy. He’s not going to shoot you; you’re not brown.
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"With little information from the White House, ProPublica is attempting to document who is involved and what they are doing." My colleagues have published the largest list yet of who is involved in DOGE. #Democracy
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
February 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"With little information from the White House, ProPublica is attempting to document who is involved and what they are doing." My colleagues have published the largest list yet of who is involved in DOGE. #Democracy
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Getting to know how our government works (let's go basic civics!) is going to be as key as ever to articulating, advancing, and taking action to combat authoritarianism. I hope this video can be a tool to understand this all a bit more, because it sure helped me a lot.
New video from me: How DOGE is just one big rip-off of a government efficiency agency that has existed for over 100 years.
But of course, that doesn't fit the GOP narrative that the US gov is a free-wheeling entity with no supervision that only Musk can save.
youtube.com/shorts/op3Cy...
But of course, that doesn't fit the GOP narrative that the US gov is a free-wheeling entity with no supervision that only Musk can save.
youtube.com/shorts/op3Cy...
Like most tech-bro schemes, DOGE is a rip-off of something older and better. #DOGE #elonmusk
YouTube video by Mother Jones
youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Getting to know how our government works (let's go basic civics!) is going to be as key as ever to articulating, advancing, and taking action to combat authoritarianism. I hope this video can be a tool to understand this all a bit more, because it sure helped me a lot.
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Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros
February 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Begging some hero in the Department of Ed to rename the student loan record file folder "DEI training materials" before unlocking the door for the DOGE bros
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Many issues here, but I'd note that many of the largest companies in the world put in their master service agreements a blanket prohibition on feeding any of their data into any AI. They know it's inherently insecure.
Now the DOGE chuds are going to do this across the fed gov't.
Now the DOGE chuds are going to do this across the fed gov't.
"Representatives from Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the DOGE team’s actions." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
U.S. DOGE Service workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Many issues here, but I'd note that many of the largest companies in the world put in their master service agreements a blanket prohibition on feeding any of their data into any AI. They know it's inherently insecure.
Now the DOGE chuds are going to do this across the fed gov't.
Now the DOGE chuds are going to do this across the fed gov't.
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Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
February 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
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Ugh, the Declaration of Independence includes words that would trigger a review by the NSF. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
February 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Ugh, the Declaration of Independence includes words that would trigger a review by the NSF. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...