Guess $100m is the price to buy our private data, a giant tax cut for billionaires, and award yourself massive government contracts while you cut health care to seniors and veterans. And they'll throw in a giant ad for your car company at the White House.
Defendants are, as this motion is being filed, destroying do ents with potential pertinence to this litigation.
TSAnon won't be back here for awhile.
there are US laws called appropriations that Congress passes to spend money on things
when El0n Musk impounds the money, or wrecks the US agency the funds were entrusted to, US Reps and Senators from one party can call El0n to beg him to turn their funding back on
but the other party is ed
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/...k-republicans/‘I just call Elon.’ To avoid DOGE cuts, lawmakers just need the right connections and an ‘R’ after their names
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Wired and Techdirt have been great
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mus...ress-takeover/The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
The degree to which Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented—and ultimately unsustainable.
"But I'm President, and their not."
no real security checks for DOGE
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mus...-doge-data-ai/
But but he's the richest guy in the world. He doesn't need the money! He's doing this out of his sense of civic duty!
dude is suing Lego for not advertising on Twitter.
Elon is such a massive ing asswipe and it's hilarious that the right wing losers that have been crying about the Soros boogeyman for years are ing silent when it's their guys billionaire piece of that is doing all the they accused Soros of OUT IN THE OPEN. like just extremely obvious corruption and conflict of interest, they dont care at all that Elon is using Trump to get tax breaks, gov contracts, dudes out there literally shooting Tesla commercials with Trump and its just business as usual
Elon, Trump, and every single MAGA piece of
Yeah but Fox News says he's doing good work so it must be true
not corroborated yet, but it will be if it's true.
the USIP isn't part of the US government
The United States Ins ute of Peace (USIP) office was just on lockdown for close to an hour while members of the DOGE team tried to enter the building, multiple people have told me. Security has now escorted out remaining staffers who’ve been told to telework until further notice.
The worlds most uninteristing and mediocre man!
""Do you see that sucker over there?" Biden asked. "Zero to 60 in 4.1 seconds. It's all electric. I tell you what — and I want to say publicly — I have a commitment from [General Motors CEO Mary Barra] when they make the first electric Corvette, I get to drive it. Right, Mary?"
The president continued, with a laugh: "You think I'm kidding. I'm not kidding. And my entire Secret Service detail went, 'Oh my God. Let's go.'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ar/ar-AA1AKYmpDespite video evidence proving otherwise, Trump’s ability to drive has long been a source of interest. In 2017, Trump told Reuters that he “like[s] to drive” but “can’t drive anymore,” which sparked questions as to whether he had ever been behind the wheel of a car. One such skeptic was Trump’s longtime confidant and political adviser Roger Stone, who (per Business Insider) told journalist Jamie Weinstein in a 2017 podcast episode that he had never seen Trump personally drive a car in the nearly four decades that he had known him.
cYbeRsECuRitY iS a mArXisT hOaX
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/14/...ion-integrity/The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now exists in name only. Not only did Trump’s band of Musk-led pillagers dismantle the infrastructure side of the agency by disbanding the CISA group investigating a massive China-based hack of US phone systems, but the administration terminated ongoing election security and disinformation-thwarting efforts by the agency roughly a month later, putting CISA in charge of… practically nothing.
Its only mandate now is to investigate itself for any malfeasance, presumably so Trump can point at anything discovered as evidence of a “stolen” 2020 national election. Now that CISA is pretty much moth-balled, the Kristi Noem-led DHS has decided it’s not going to share the results of its review of CISA election security work with the general public, as Derek Johnson and Colin Wood report for CyberScoop.
When the Trump administration began sidelining and laying off personnel at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, it started by targeting employees who worked on election security and disinformation. At the same time, the Department Homeland Security announced it would conduct a comprehensive review of CISA’s election security mission.Here’s some more of that “maximum transparency” Musk promised last month. Of course, the culling of CISA and the burial of this report are their own form of transparency. They indicate Donald Trump doesn’t care about election security or integrity. All he cares about is whether or not he wins. This means CISA won’t be detecting and mitigating threats or providing support to state election officials who don’t have the means or the expertise to do battle with persistent threats or organized disinformation campaigns.
This week, the agency confirmed that it has completed the review, but said that its findings won’t be released to the public.
“The assessment that CISA has undertaken is internal and will help inform how the agency moves forward to best support critical infrastructure,” a CISA spokesperson said. “This is an internal do ent that is not planned to be released publicly.
It’s a long con but not a particularly subtle scheme. By removing CISA from the playing field, the next election that’s lost can be blamed on insecure voting tech, providing a basis for more “stolen election” assertions. But it might be more than that. It might be an early effort in service of a loftier goal: greater leeway to engage in the sort of election-rigging Trump and his supporters have falsely claimed for years resulted in the election of Joe Biden.
doesn't play well with others, according to anonymous sauces
https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/fear-a...-the-west-wing“He treats [Wiles] like a secretary in front of people,” the source with knowledge of the matter said. “The second most powerful person in Washington, the first woman and someone who has done a good job of keeping the trains running on time.”
But I’ve heard that it’s even become too much for Wiles, who for the most part has been delivering on what matters most to Trump—producing the Presidency with a daily event featuring co-star Musk and a cast of cabinet members for the press. She’s a professional and a survivor, but she’s being bombarded with calls from cabinet secretaries furious over cuts and members worried about state programs.
“Susie doesn’t like how Musk is a freelancer and has direct access to Trump and she’s complained to Trump about it,” said a source familiar. Cheung denied this.
Administration officials have a myriad of feelings toward Musk: they hate him, they’re afraid of him and they think he’s creepy for doing things like sleeping on a cot in his office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where five guards stand outside of his door.
“The [staff] hates him,” said the source with knowledge of the matter. “Part of it is policy and part is that he’s not human. He treats Susie like a ing secretary. But they’re petrified of him.”
Wiles’s deputies are extremely loyal to her, and the cabinet secretaries and their deputies are still getting their sea legs while they attempt to wrangle control of the agencies.
“They’re like ‘ this guy, he’s not communicating what he’s going to cut, he’s just cutting,’” said a well-placed source. “Whenever they get a call, everything goes to . They’re trying to run their agencies, and then they have this guy who thinks he’s trimming the fat, but it isn’t fat.”
“He treats cabinet secretaries like they’re messenger boys,” the source with knowledge of the matter said.
DOGE org chart s game
https://www.propublica.org/article/d...ct-of-interestFive weeks after its creation and under pressure from a growing cascade of lawsuits, the White House revealed in late February that an obscure bureaucrat named Amy Gleason had been acting as DOGE’s administrator since nearly day one.
However, ProPublica has found that she does not appear to be running the budget-slashing group, according to interviews with six current and former government officials. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs.
“I get the sense that Amy is in the role of scapegoat,” said one source who had been in meetings with Gleason.
The exact chain of command at DOGE is not clear to most federal employees who brush up against the team. But sources told ProPublica that longtime Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, a former executive of Musk’s Boring Company and SpaceX, appears to be administering day-to-day operations. And at times, Musk himself issues commands from inside the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, said a person familiar with the matter.
“I don’t know who Amy Gleason even is,” said one person who’s worked closely with DOGE’s leadership in a federal agency.
“Davis runs the show.”
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