lw @kuvitella.bsky.social

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The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-foia-public-records.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU4.GAVH.yDpCecbw41c8&smid=url-share
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Stacy @stacy31.bsky.social
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A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
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ProPublica @propublica.org
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🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.

Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.
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Tomorrow is the final Senate vote on whether to confirm Russ Vought as the head of the Office of Management and Budget.

Vought has made clear he thinks the president can freeze whatever spending he wants without checks or limits—he’s wrong, but determined. protdem.org/3EmYDbJ
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The same ELON MUSK who went ballistic over our tracking of his private jet flights, is now laughing in our faces as his team of geeks Hoover's up our private gov't data.
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@dell.bsky.social on the Temporary Restraining Order we requested today to stop OPM from using the mystery server that contains info on pretty much the entire federal government community.
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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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can't help but think they're experimenting with the Blue State "off" switch

x.com/LisaDNews/status/1886822223966544202
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An intelligence agency worker says that unidentified outside staffers arrived to sweep the office of anything they felt was related to DEI. That included a plaque, confiscated from a supervisor’s desk, that read, “Be kind to everyone.” via @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-takeover-doge-gsa-opm-secrecy-dei/
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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.

The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/upshot/trump-government-websites-missing-pages.html
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It’s McCarthyism via executive fiat, directed by the world’s richest and most online man who thinks a thing called “the woke mind virus” has infected many parts of the federal government and will destroy “western civilization” if not ripped out root and branch. It’s John Bircher anti-communism, 2.0.
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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
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People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)
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you can watch the press conference here: www.c-span.org/event/news-conference/congressional-democrats-on-trump-admin-closing-usaid-hq/430674
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EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

(Link at the end)
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Interim US attorney Ed Martin, whose office just fired a bunch of J6 prosecutors, is now telling Elon Musk they will prosecute anyone who "targets" DOGE employees. Presumably this is in response to a Wired article naming some, and a protest at OPM that occurred yesterday.
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Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.
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More : www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
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Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private.

Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene.

/ more for Canadians
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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They also covered the People of Color in Cryptologic History honorees—like Wash Wong and Ralph Adams.
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Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink
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Who can we get to weaponize the speech and debate clause?
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Democrats need to learn how to treat real scandals with the same intensity and seriousness that Republicans use on bullshit like Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop. Non-stop circus. Run shifts outside treasury, someone there 24/7. Make them prove they're not breaking the law.
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16 Democratic senators recently voted to confirm the Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary who just gave Musk’s team access to a Treasury payment system that disburses trillions and holds mass quantities of personal information. Food for thought. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/27/us/politics/bessent-senate-confirmation-vote.html
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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-junta-establishes-him-as-head-of-government
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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