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It’s A Coup
Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system
Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?
Trump’s 2017 law spends more on tax breaks for just 4 companies (AT&T, Facebook, Verizon and Walmart) than the entire USAid budget.
Why is Elon so obsessed with USAID, a relatively small agency mostly known for saving starving kids and such?
It’s because USAID played a significant role in the fall of apartheid South Africa. The country where he grew up is gone forever, and he wants vengeance.
Republicans are coming for everything.
America is under attack by a feeble felonious Florida fascist and a South African-born apartheid nazi.
Where are the democrats?
DEMOCRATS NEED TO
HOLD DAILY HEARINGS NOW
STAGE PRESS CONFERENCES NOW
FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA NOW
GET LOUDER NOW NOW NOW NOW
WE ARE IN A NEW ERA NOW
MEET THE MOMENT NOW
SHOW US YOU KNOW HOW TO FIGHT NOW
Rep. Melanie Stansbury@Rep_Stansbury
Elon Musk is NOT:
– An elected official
– An appointee confirmed by the Senate
– Or even a legit fed
So why the hell has he been given access to fire federal employees, sensitive gov data, and federal payment systems.
He must be stopped.
Residents have mobilized outside the Office of Personnel Management in DC in protest against Musk’s government takeover.
Per one person present, they’ve blocked four people believed to be non-government Musk cronies from unlawfully entering the building.
An unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine identifying the lackeys: illegal !!!!
The Trump Tariffs are ILLEGAL. He does NOT have the unilateral authority to amend trade agreements with Canada and Mexico. He needs Congressional approval — and he does NOT have it. The tariffs should be challenged in court — and overruled by Congress. NOW.
Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads “The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished.”
President Elon Musk and DOGE are reportedly also looking at ways to get rid of the FDIC. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects bank deposits up to $250,000 per account, ensuring customers don’t lose their money if a bank fails.
Elon Musk is working for Putin. @ARTEM_KLYUSHIN is Musk’s Russian handler. (Allegedly…)
The breach of data at the Office of Personnel Management by college STUDENTS WHO ARE 18 YEARS OLD with no background checks and unsecured electronic devices means that the personal identifying information of every agent who works for the FBI, CIA, or any other sensitive position is now compromised.
Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1
This is an excellent summary of Musk’s takeover of the Treasury from @NYMag’s @chasdanner, with quotes from WSJ, NYT, WaPo, and my op-ed from @MSNBC yesterday.
But this quote from @smotus is right on the money. This isn’t efficiency. It’s a coup.
NY MAG Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
There are many disturbing aspects of this. But perhaps the most fundamental is that Elon Musk is not a federal employee, nor has he been appointed by the President nor approved by the Senate to have any leadership role in government. The “Department of Government Efficiency,” announced by Trump in a January 20th executive order, is not truly any sort of government department or agency, and even the executive order uses quotes in the title. It’s perfectly fine to have a marketing gimmick like this, but DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.
Robert Mackey @RobertMackey
Among the USAID reports now taken offline by @elonmusk’s “Doge” is the one I used on Tuesday to prove the US has spent exactly $0 on condoms for Gaza, not $50 million — false information the White House press secretary said she got from @elonmusk ‘s “Doge” GUARDIAN
800 doctors submitted a letter of support of RFK Jr’s HHS secretary nomination.
It turns out most signatories weren’t real doctors, or were doctors who had their licenses revoked or suspended.
Using fake experts to create an illusion of credibility is a classic anti-vax tactic.
@johncusack
Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. Apparently, it did not stop there.
Today Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press reported that yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see.
The Trump administration put the officials on leave, and the DOGE team gained access to the information.
Vittoria Elliott of Wired has identified those associated with Musk’s takeover as six “engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college.”
They are connected either to Musk or to his long-time associate Peter Thiel, who backed J.D. Vance’s Senate run eighteen months before he became Trump’s vice presidential running mate. Their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran, and they have little to no experience in government.
Public policy expert Dan Moynihan told reporter Elliott that the fact these people “are not really public officials” makes it hard for Congress to intervene. “So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world,” he said.
Law professor Nick Bednar noted that “it is very unlikely” that the engineers “have the expertise to understand either the law or the administration needs that surround these agencies.”
After Musk’s team breached the USAID computers, cybersecurity specialist Matthew Garrett posted: “Random computers being plugged into federal networks is obviously terrifying in terms of what data they’re deliberately accessing, but it’s also terrifying because it implies controls are being disabled—unmanaged systems should never have access to this data. Who else has access to those systems?”
USAID receives foreign policy guidance from the State Department.
Intelligence agencies must now assume U.S. intelligence systems are insecure.
Musk’s response was to post: “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.” Also last night, according to Sam Stein of The Bulwark, “the majority of staff in the legislative and public affairs bureau lost access to their emails, implying they’ve been put on admin leave although this was never communicated to them.”
Congress established USAID in 1961 to bring together the many different programs that were administering foreign aid. Focusing on long-term socioeconomic development, USAID has a budget of more than $50 billion, less than 1% of the U.S. annual budget. It is one of the largest aid agencies in the world.
Musk is unelected, and it appears that DOGE has no legal authority. As political scientist Seth Masket put it in tusk: “Elon Musk is not a federal employee, nor has he been appointed by the President nor approved by the Senate to have any leadership role in government.
The ‘Department of Government Efficiency,’ announced by Trump in a January 20th executive order, is not truly any sort Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.”
DOGE has simply taken over government systems. Musk, using President Donald Trump’s name, is personally deciding what he thinks should be cut from the U.S. government.
Today, Musk reposted a social media post from MAGA religious extremist General Mike Flynn, who resigned from his position as Trump’s national security advisor in 2017 after pleading guilty to secret conversations with a Russian agent—for which Trump pardoned him—and who publicly embraced the QAnon theory
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Read/copy/repost if you can
From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: “I’m a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there’s a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President’s henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He’s the friendliest “yes man” you’ll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump’s bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov’t employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It’s been the one sending those various “test” message you’ve all seen. We think they’re building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we’ve filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We’re just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim.”
Elon put These 18 year olds in charge of your money
https://x.com/JamesFLoveIV/status/1886229706694889876
Why are we attacking Canada?
Elon Musk’s is seeking his grandfather’s revenge. Here is Joshua Haldeman’s 1951 travelogue of bringing his family from Canada to Pretoria—which advertised a “whites only paradise.” The level of sheer racism here is staggering even for 74 years ago. https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1886221477961478290/photo/1
The executive order creating DOGE specifically said unclassified systems only.
Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb
For people saying Elon is trustworthy and USAID is bad, do you guys remember Elon’s “we will coup whoever we want. deal with it” statement over the 2019 coup in Lithium-rich Bolivia that he was poised to benefit from?
Even if USAID is completely dismantled, that certainly does not mean that regime change ops will stop. Oligarchs can just fund them directly, they largely control the controversial NGOs that USAID funded anyway.
Sorry for “raining on the parade” but handing over major govt ops to intelligence and military-linked oligarchs is unlikely to be the “win” against the “deep state” you think it is. It is ultimately a deeper centralization of power and historically that doesn’t end well.
While it is true that USAID is an intelligence cut-out that has engaged in financing regime change and other terrible things, I feel that the independent media focus on USAID being “dismantled” (It is actually just going to be re-housed at the Rubio-run State Department) is distracting us from the fact that Musk, who is trying to turn X into the “everything app” that he wants to run more than half of the US financial system (and which is launching payment rails this year), just gained access to Americans’ private banking information via the Treasury payment system.
The “everything app” model, embodied by the infamous WeChat, is effectively a public-private app used to surveil people’s communications and financial activity with often Orwellian consequences. USAID absolutely sucks but we also need to keep our eye on the ball, as Big Tech oligarchs beget Techno-tyranny and will do so very easily if we fail to scrutinize them and pay attention to the things they are (openly) building.
Musk, in his new role, does not have to divest from any business interests, including X, and can easily use DOGE or other means to fulfill his “everything app” desires and king-make companies which he owns/controls or in which he is deeply invested.