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Big Balls Coristine joins Social Security Administration as a special government employee
https://www.wired.com/story/big-ball...dministration/
How did DOGE ever get control of federal grants in the first place? Temporary employee at a non-agency wielding executive power for 130 days?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ederal-grants/DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions
The DOGE team’s loss of control is the latest sign of its declining influence following Elon Musk’s departure from Washington.
(Oh yeah, by hacking the US Treasury)
(and aside, more or less consensually, a bunch of other US agencies)
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say something, dummy
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1...oting-databaseDHS, in partnership with the White House's Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) team, has recently rolled out a series of upgrades to a network of federal databases to allow state and county election officials to quickly check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists — both U.S.-born and naturalized citizens — using data from the Social Security Administration as well as immigration databases.
Such integration has never existed before, and experts call it a sea change that inches the U.S. closer to having a roster of citizens — something the country has never embraced. A centralized national database of Americans' personal information has long been considered a third rail — especially to privacy advocates as well as political conservatives, who have traditionally opposed mass data consolidation by the federal government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...sla-companies/“A Washington Post examination found that in at least seven major departments or agencies, DOGE secured the power to view records that contain compe ors’ trade secrets, nonpublic details about government contracts, and sensitive regulatory actions or other information.”
this kind of talk could get ElOn deported
Lol he's still saltythis kind of talk could get ElOn deported
How's your Elon thread holding up these days?
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Musk worked the Texas lege pretty good
https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-07...on-musk-spacexWhen lawmakers convened their 2025 legislative session in January, one of Musk’s top priorities was quickly clear. He wanted more control over the area around SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas.
Known as Starbase, the massive rocket testing and launch facility has come to dominate the small rural area between Brownsville, on the border, and the Gulf of Mexico. It is the launch site for Starship, the rocket meant to eventually take humans to Mars and the heart of Musk’s mission to make humans a multiplanetary species. The FAA recently gave SpaceX permission to increase Starship launches fivefold.
Although SpaceX owns most of the land around Starbase, county officials retained the authority over access to the adjacent public beach, called Boca Chica. The county worked closely with SpaceX to ensure the area was cleared ahead of launches, but the company’s leaders did not have ultimate control over the process.
That changed this year. First, Musk decided to incorporatethe launch site as its own city. That happened on May 3, when the few residents who live in the area — most of whom The Texas Newsroom determined work for SpaceX — voted to create the new city of Starbase.
Musk then wanted state lawmakers to hand the new city the power to close Boca Chica Beach and the adjoining public highway during the week, a change the county officials opposed.
State Sen. Adam Hinojosa, a newly elected Republican who represents the area, authored the legislation to shift control to Starbase. Dozens of SpaceX employees got involved in the effort, submitting pages of identical commentsto lawmakers in support.
Democrats succeeded in killing Hinojosa’s bill, prompting local activists to celebrate. Their victory was short-lived. Late in the session, lawmakers decided instead to shift some of this power to the Texas Space Commission, which facilitates the state’s space exploration agenda.
The new law states that the commission’s board can close highways and gulf beaches with the approval of a local municipality, which, in this case, is Starbase. SpaceX retains a connection to the commission itself: Kathy Lueders, who confirmed that she left her job as Starbase general manager last month, still sits on the Space Commission board. She directed additional questions to the commission.
The Space Commission declined to answer questions on SpaceX’s potential future involvement with these discussions.
“The way I view it is SpaceX wanted a certain amount of power,” said Reed, with the Sierra Club. “And at the end of the day, they didn’t quite get it, but they got something pretty close.”
The bill passed along largely partisan lines. Republican state Rep. Greg Bonnen, who authored the bill, did not respond to a request for comment about the role Starbase may play now that it will become law.
Lawmakers passed several more bills to benefit spaceports, the sites where spacecraft launch, like SpaceX.
While Texas is home to multiple spaceports, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, SpaceX dwarfs the rest in size and scope of influence across the state and country, boasting large federal government contracts and a growing satellite industry.
Hinojosa was an author or sponsor on most of these bills; he did not respond to multiple requests for an interview or comment for this story.
Other than the beach closure legislation, many passed with the support of Democrats.
At SpaceX’s urging, Texas lawmakers passed a measure to ban drones over spaceports. They also added spaceports to the state’s “critical infrastructure” facilities, which already include airports and military bases. The law will make it a felony to intentionally damage or interrupt the operation of any site where a spacecraft is tested or launched. Similar critical infrastructure laws have been used in other states to arrest people protesting oil and gas pipeline projects.
Bekah Hinojosa with the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, a local activist group, told The Texas Newsroom the new critical infrastructure law will let Musk “militarize our Boca Chica Beach for his dangerous rocket testing endeavors."
The Sierra Club and other groups from South Texas, including a local Indigenous tribe, are suing the state, arguing that closing Boca Chica violates an amendment to the Texas Cons ution that protects access to public beaches.
The General Land Office, the main defendant in that suit, declined to comment. In court filings, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues the state can still regulate beach access for public safety reasons and that it cannot be sued in this case because it has immunity. The case is pending at the Texas Supreme Court.
if someone burned down El0n's house, that would not surprise me
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-keep-crashing
That's when Jesus takes the wheel.
DOGE still losing in court, this is the NEH mass termination of grants lawsuit
Viewpoint discrimination is all the rage in Trump 2.0
https://clearinghouse.net/case/46593/
I asked a legitimate question but seeing how you're not much of a "man" it's no wonder you won't answer my question or stand by all your failed low iq threads you've created.
DOGE' pretense to operating in an advisory capacity only is falling apart in court
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article...tives--and-dojTo recap, consider what the government’s own administrative record establishes:
- On the afternoon of April 3, DOGE contacted the Justice Management Division and “instructed them to terminate” the Acacia Center’s contracts.
- Later that evening, a DOGE associate embedded at the Justice Management Division—reportedly as an information technology “advisor”—directed senior Justice Department officials to immediately “terminate” the Acacia Center’s contracts.
- When the senior officials were unable or unwilling to do so within an hour, the DOGE associate took matters into his own hands, soliciting a contract officer to send the termination notice.
- He apparently did so without the knowledge of the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which administers the contracts.
- While the April 3 termination notice was rescinded the following day, a second notice was issued on April 10, again at the urging of the DOGE associate.
The litigation in the Amica case is ongoing, and it remains unclear how the newly-revealed information about DOGE’s role might affect the legal arguments and outcome in the case.
Still, whatever impact it may or may not have within the four corners of the Amica case, the new information reflects an important factual development in the public record concerning DOGE and its activities. The government’s administrative record provides do entary evidence that, at least in some instances, DOGE and its agents are not merely advising but are in fact directing agency action.
And you're a male cuckold. Hopefully your new boyfriend doesn't cheat on you too.
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