The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor
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Glad to see the Guardian has got it. Now, where the hug is american journalism?
It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan
An unelected billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressingwww.theguardian.com
I'd wondered what was happening to the previous USDS employees with the DOGE rebranding. Looks like they were still there, but are getting booted gradually:
federate.social
Jonathan Kamens (@[email protected])
BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was...
federate.social
Well, that explains why they tried to fire every single "probationary" employee, without regard to whether it was an actual probationary employment, or if they jsut got a promotion and said promotion was probationary(not to mention firing half the nuclear stockpile techs):
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/e...ai-assistant-for-making-government-less-dumb/
(spoilers: it made it more dumb instead)
Another example of the whole "oops, we fired the wrong people" in action: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/e...ai-assistant-for-making-government-less-dumb/
(spoilers: it made it more dumb instead)
Another example of the whole "oops, we fired the wrong people" in action: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716
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FB friend:
Nazi label aside (Oh, he so is one, let's be clear) Elon has been convinced of his own superiority for a while now. The friend is right. While Musk has the typical antisemitism that we've come to equate with nazis, he also has his own unique superiority complex where he believes he is somehow above the masses. A common enough affliction for those with that kind of money, but Elon really likes to kick things up as much as he can.
He's like the character in a bad high school novel, the nerd whose always harbored a superiority complex somehow given power over others and decides to make them suffer.
He's like the character in a bad high school novel, the nerd whose always harbored a superiority complex somehow given power over others and decides to make them suffer.
DOGE Team Wins Legal Battle, Retains Access to Federal Data
A federal judge has ruled against a lawsuit from 14 state attorneys general requesting a temporary restraining order against Elon Musk and the Department of
www.databreachtoday.com
So no restraining order preventing access while the lawsuit continues, is what I get from this.
So he's exactly like every other Objectivist in history starting with Ayn Rand herself.
No, because someone gave this one a billion dollars and a line to the most corrupt president this nation has ever seen. That makes him a unique threat.
Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.
www.jacobsilverman.com
if you put this in a movie script your editor would call it "too outlandish." And yet we're living it.
The hardest part of writing fiction is that it has to make sense. Reality doesn't.Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.
if you put this in a movie script your editor would call it "too outlandish." And yet we're living it.
Entire departments were sending notices to ignore the 5 bullet e-mail thing he pulled at Twitter and just tried to pull again on government agencies, and now he's mad about it:
www.bbc.com
More evidence he's never heard of Federal worker protections. (Not that he cares since he won't be footting the bills himself for any lawsuits for wrongful termination)
And for those curious, an example of how some departments responded:
Love that last line(because it's true)
Confusion over Musk demand that federal workers justify their jobs
Employees get conflicting advice over compliance with a Musk-backed order to list their last week's work or face termination.
www.bbc.com
More evidence he's never heard of Federal worker protections. (Not that he cares since he won't be footting the bills himself for any lawsuits for wrongful termination)
And for those curious, an example of how some departments responded:
Love that last line(because it's true)
FB friend:
This might interest y'all. The guys at Fight for the Future, whose emails I've been subscribed to ever since the SOPA protests back in 2009 or so despite not really doing a whole lot besides beg for money, just sent me a link to this thing they set up, which they claim will let you send a message directly to the same address federal employees have been instructed to send their proof-of-usefulness reports. Why, if they have access to this address, they didn't just leak it to the public directly instead of making people go through a form, I don't know, but I have no reason to believe this isn't legit.
So if you want to let Mr. Musk know exactly what you think of how he's running things and where you think he can stick it, now's your chance.
So if you want to let Mr. Musk know exactly what you think of how he's running things and where you think he can stick it, now's your chance.
Yo, the ENTIRE WORLD needs to start putting that email onto every listserv ever.