Reposted by Erie MeyerJaime Fearer @bogrosemary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Update: Neighbors helping neighbors—we keep us safe! Unsurprisingly, no sign of assistance from the National Guard. #FreeDC 0168
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A DC mom asking the national guard for help clearing a tree blocking her kid’s title 1 school: Her: Aren’t you supposed to be here to help? The national guard: Nope. 510351
Reposted by Erie MeyerRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 17/08/2026More than 17 million people have filed complaints with the CFPB since 2011, giving consumers, journalists, and policymakers a critical window into financial abuses. Now Trump’s CFPB wants to shut that window. Well put by @erie.bsky.social and @millennialdebt.bsky.social 👇protectborrowers.orgTrump CFPB Buries Financial Companies’ Abuses - Protect BorrowersToday, the Trump Administration announced it would break with more than a decade of precedent and suppress the publication of information submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) f... 187
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 10/05/20261/ This Mother's Day, I'm thinking about @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social and what it means to be a mom who fights. 🧵 21910
Reposted by Erie MeyerWIRED @wired.com · 04/05/2026Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. www.wired.com/story/a-fede...wired.comA Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for CongressAlexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. 101224345
Reposted by Erie MeyerCalleyCat @calleycat.bsky.social · 04/05/2026"Vought’s been very successful at making life more expensive for millions of people and at making it easier to financially scam Americans." 031
Reposted by Erie MeyerBen McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Alexis is a real one. If you want to support her campaign you can do so here 👉 www.electalexis.orgelectalexis.orgElect Alexis Goldstein - Democrat for CongressElect Alexis Goldstein to Congress to represent Maryland's 6th district. 16824
Reposted by Erie Meyerm. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 19/04/2026proof of "i go outside sometimes" life (pic by @erie.bsky.social) 6773
Reposted by Erie MeyerElect Alexis for Maryland! @electalexis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Field trip this morning to the Senate to see Russell Vought, secret President, who shuttered CFPB and tried and failed to kill the Consumer Bureau. #SaveCFPB solidarity forever with @nteu335.bsky.social 0269
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I signed up for the department of labor’s “Make America AI Ready” SMS-based AI class and so far they 1. Appear to be using the Liberian flag, and 2. Are texting a lot of “u up?” style messages after midnight. 181
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Reporting live on possible peak bloom in dc — the the snowcrete icebergs at RFK are still hanging in there! cc @capitalweather.bsky.social 030
Reposted by Erie MeyerAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Wonderful news for NYC. Our new CTO, Lisa Gelobter, is a brilliant technologist and a deeply principled leader who has spent her career ensuring technology serves people, not the other way around. Mayor Mamdani continues to assemble a remarkable team. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...nytimes.comMamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer 017530
Reposted by Erie MeyerAnil Dash @anildash.com · 11/02/2026This is excellent news. Lisa is a perfect person to lead the city's technical direction. (More on her pioneering history here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n... )nytimes.comMamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer 310119
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 10/02/2026She’s so, so good! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...nytimes.comMamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer 06315
Reposted by Erie MeyerSarah Milstein @sarahmilstein.com · 10/02/2026Mamdani has named Lisa Gelobter as the city's new CTO, a great choice on many levels. She cares about the city and about New Yorkers, she has strong technical chops *and* a strong focus on equity, and she knows how to get things done If you don't know her, fix that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ge...en.wikipedia.orgLisa Gelobter - Wikipedia 15911
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Happy birthday, dad. www.newcomercolumbus.com/obituaries/t...newcomercolumbus.comTom Meyer Obituary December 8, 2020 - Newcomer ColumbusView Tom Meyer's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook. 080
Reposted by Erie MeyerLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 14/10/2025On Lawfare Daily, @jshermcyber.bsky.social spoke to @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @erie.bsky.social about how state enforcers and regulators can better work with technologists, what technologists are suited to help with, and what roles technologists can play. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf... 0166
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It was an honor to share messages like this from John Doe government tech workers fighting back against data abuses. Thank you, @eff.org! 05812
Reposted by Erie MeyerElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/09/2025@Erie.bsky.social accepting the EFF Award: “Speaking up is hard and it's scary. But it will only get harder and scarier from here. The best time to do it was yesterday. The second-best time is today. These are not choices we will always have.” 28317
Reposted by Erie MeyerElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/08/2025Let's put a spotlight on our EFF Awards winners! ✨ @erie.bsky.social has been busy filing federal court declarations to protect American's data and warning Congress about 'DOGE burning the house down'. Don't miss her at the EFF Awards on Sept 10 in San Francisco! eff.org/effawardseff.orgEFF Awards 2025For over 30 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the 15312
Reposted by Erie MeyerNoel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 22/08/2025Erie has a few things to say. fedscoop.com/america-by-d...fedscoop.comDesign without privacy is just a cover-up: USDS co-founder's take on Trump's EOA former government technologist lays out a blueprint for how the White House’s federal web design order could actually work. 0165
Reposted by Erie MeyerEmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Great piece in @fedscoop.bsky.social by @erie.bsky.social “… design is meaningless without trust. […] Americans will not want to use even the most elegant services if they don’t trust the government to protect their data.” fedscoop.com/america-by-d...fedscoop.comDesign without privacy is just a cover-up: USDS co-founder's take on Trump's EOA former government technologist lays out a blueprint for how the White House’s federal web design order could actually work. 075
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Anyone else here play the theremin? I built my last one but am thinking of upgrading. 110
Reposted by Erie MeyerMerici @merici.bsky.social · 05/06/2025DOGE employees are lieutenants of Musk, not the President. This is an insider threat to keep an eye on. 212629
Reposted by Erie MeyerDGCassidy @dgcassidy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Powerful testimony yesterday from @erie.bsky.social, formerly of the US Digital Service, to the House Oversight Committee on Cyber, on the topic of IT modernization. "This is not modernization. It's a heist." WELL SAID! 1103
Reposted by Erie MeyerHilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I stress the same point in papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... "refusing to apply the law to a technology until after it is fully developed and entrenched – and then crafting accommodative laws that treat the extant incarnation of technology-based business models as inevitable – is a choice."papers.ssrn.comFintech and Techno-SolutionismSilicon Valley-style technological innovation is ill-suited to addressing complex problems like financial inclusion, concentrated market power, and privacy harm 001
Reposted by Erie MeyerHilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I loved this interview with @erie.bsky.social "I think Americans give up a lot of power if we agree with the premise that new technology requires new rules of the road." 131
Reposted by Erie MeyerAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Loved this interview with my former colleague, Erie Meyer, the soul of the CFPB Q: What book most shaped your conception of the future? A: I would say Shirley Chisholm’s autobiography “Unbought and Unbossed"...She has a saying, “I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.” 1144
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Politico: What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t? Me: Enforcing the law. www.politico.com/newsletters/... cc Andrew Fergusonpolitico.com5 questions for Erie Meyer 14112
Reposted by Erie MeyerMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/04/2025BTW, DOGE wants to end this program, created by USDS. They say there aren't enough users. Let's prove DOGE wrong it's a great program that simplified filing your taxes 722366261
Reposted by Erie MeyerMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/04/2025File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS. Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.directfile.irs.gov 736191194629
Reposted by Erie MeyerConsumer Federation of America @consumerfed.bsky.social · 01/04/2025🚨In 2023 fraudsters stole over $390M from Americans through payment apps. This number has increased by over 200% since then, but Republicans are trying to prevent the #CFPB from supervising big tech digital apps. Congress must vote NO on S.J.Res.28 @erinwitte-cfa.bsky.social @erie.bsky.social 188
Reposted by Erie MeyerErin Witte @erinwitte.bsky.social · 01/04/2025🚨Last year, fraudsters stole over $390 million from Americans via digital payment apps. That is a 200% increase from just a few years ago. 📈 We need a #CFPB that can keep up with innovative scammers and rein in big tech app providers. VOTE NO on SJ Res 28. @erie.bsky.social @savecfpb.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Erie MeyerAmericans for Financial Reform @ourfinancialsecurity.org · 11/03/2025"Google Pay, Apple Pay & now X Money wants to be able to know everything you're buying, how much you're paying for it and what were you thinking about at the time...People have been wondering, why are they so fixated with this small agency like the CFPB?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdr_...youtube.comFired CFPB chief says Musk may have another goal for gutting the agencyYouTube video by CNN 074
Reposted by Erie MeyerJacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 10/03/2025Ha, the CFPB union is selling merch for the botched mail merge that was used to lay-off probationary employees cfpbunion.shop/products/hel...cfpbunion.shopHello My Name is [EmployeeFirstName] Mug100% of proceeds benefit illegally fired CFPB union members. 014735
Reposted by Erie MeyerSkeptical90sTeen @jasongregorymusic.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The CFPB made WellsFargo send me a refund for 3K in 2022 for a service they had charged me for since 2007 that was bogus. WellsFargo wouldn’t have refunded me themselves. The CFPB made them do it. We need them around. 111026
Reposted by Erie MeyerCFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 08/03/2025“The CFPB is in the hands of the Trump administration and they’ve decided to pick the pocket of the American public. The only people who benefit from a frozen CFPB are financial scammers and thieves.” —@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social, NTEU 335 member 15423
Reposted by Erie MeyerThe Verge @theverge.com · 04/03/2025CFPB lets banks off the hook and drops Zelle lawsuitbuff.lyCFPB lets banks off the hook and drops Zelle lawsuitThe US is no longer suing JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo over improper fraud safeguards. 107345
Reposted by Erie MeyerJon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 06/03/2025At #NICAR25 the CFPB’s Chief Technologist @erie.bsky.social says the agency is still here and can only be ended by an act of Congress, despite her team being recently fired. The DOGE team has “god mode” access to all CFPB complaint data. “It's a 5 alarm fire for me that they have this data.” 17335
Reposted by Erie MeyerLindsay @not-young.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people. 191140388
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025“Our job is pretty simple: We’re here to help everyday people when they’ve been cheated, defrauded, or stolen from by big banks and corporations.” - Illegally fired CFPB tech expert, Nick Hand thephiladelphiacitizen-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thephila...thephiladelphiacitizen-org.cdn.ampproject.orgGuest Commentary: Without the CFPB, Who Will Protect You Now?Laying off workers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a win for scammers and price-gougers — and President Trump 16723
Reposted by Erie Meyer60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Lesley Stahl reports on President Trump’s efforts to halt the work and cut the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an enforcement agency that was created in response to the 2008 financial crisis. 60 Minutes, Sunday. 9296135
Reposted by Erie MeyerCFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 17/02/2025We have produced a worksheet for fired feds with federal student loans to help you navigate a financially stressful time! (Almost like that's our day job, which we are being unfairly forbidden from doing! But we digress...) Here's the link!buff.lyFired Feds: What Now for Federal Student Loans? - CFPB UnionNext Steps for Fired Feds with Federal Student Loans DOWNLOAD DATA (~3 minutes) : Visit studentaid.gov and log-in to “My Student Aid.” Click on your name in the upper right corner and select “My… 14824
Reposted by Erie MeyerSaloni Sharma @salonisharma93.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Seth Meyers and Senator Elizabeth Warren on why Elon Musk could be trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 16426
Reposted by Erie Meyermakena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/wired.comDozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours BlitzSome affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division]. 472135126793
Reposted by Erie MeyerFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 11/02/2025📢 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is under attack. Trump and Big Tech friends don’t like the CFPB and its work to protect consumers and their rights so they're trying to take it down. Take action now to help save it fftf.link/cfpbfftf.linkSave the CFPBSupporters 413658
