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Caleb Ecarma

@calebecarma.bsky.social
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Journalist @ Popular Information/Oligarch Watch. Previously: Vanity Fair, Mediaite, USA Today. Tips: caleb@popular.info or calebecarma@proton.me Signal: calebecarma.99

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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don’t even try opening the Reuters website unless you have a 5090 and 64gb of ram
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Elon shares his implicit agreement with a white supremacist user on X who praised Rhodesia’s apartheid rule and described it as “paradise”
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Elon is now using a Grok-generated video of a child making erotic facial expressions to peddle his AI product — less than a week after xAI was sued for churning out sexual abuse videos depicting real children x.com/elonmusk/sta...
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
SCOOP: The partially state-owned Chinese firm Ping An claimed an ownership stake in Elon Musk's SpaceX, the world's most valuable private company. Given its role as a vital US defense contractor, SpaceX has internally warned of known Chinese investments drawing scrutiny in D.C.
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Government-linked Chinese firm claimed ownership stake in SpaceX
One of China's largest companies claimed to have purchased a stake in Elon Musk's SpaceX, a vital U.S.
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Scoop: Elon Musk's Neuralink falsified federal forms to qualify for racial diversity and economic empowerment programs. Neuralink's "small disadvantaged business" designation is meant for companies owned by racially and economically "disadvantaged individuals" www.muskwatch.com/p/musks-neur...
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
New: JNIM, one of the deadliest jihadist groups in the world, is using SpaceX’s Starlink to coordinate attacks, increase their fundraising, and disseminate sophisticated propaganda in West Africa www.muskwatch.com/p/starlink-t...
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Starlink turbocharges lethal jihadist group in Africa
In the Sahel region of West Africa, an ascendant jihadist group is using Starlink, SpaceX's high-speed satellite internet service, to increase its operational capabilities, recruiting, and fundraising...
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
New: Acting FEMA head David Richardson issued an internal memo today requesting a mission analysis that "will identify the gaps and redundancies between what FEMA is currently doing and what FEMA should be doing consistent with federal law." Richardson has told staff, "Don't get in my way."
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New: The Boring Company, Musk's $7 billion transit venture, registered as a small business on a government portal for federal contractors one week after Trump won the 2024 election www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-owned...
muskwatch.com
Musk-owned company says it qualifies for federal contracts reserved for small businesses
Not long after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Elon Musk’s $7 billion tunneling company registered as a small business on a government portal for federal contractors.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
1. Meta removed a Facebook ads criticizing Elon Musk's efforts to seize Americans' private information through DOGE. A notice from Meta said the ads violated its rules on "Unacceptable Business Practices."
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Meta removes Facebook ad criticizing Musk
Meta removed an advertisement earlier this month criticizing Elon Musk’s use of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to seize Americans' private information.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.”
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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
NEW: Tonight, dozens of Consumer Finance Protection Bureau employees were fired via a hastily written email. Some affected employees were addressed as “[EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].” W/ @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/dozens...
wired.com
Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it. As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
1. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” URLs that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.
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DOGE Teen Ran Image-Sharing Site Linked to URLs Referencing Pedophilia and the KKK
The site launched by Edward Coristine in 2021 promised to protect the privacy of its users, stating, “All your images are encrypted. We do not log IP addresses, device agents or anything else.”
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ICYMI: I wrote a takedown of Jack Posobiec's book (which—huge shocker here—doesn't say anything meaningful about the left) and the pro-Trump right's tendency to crib from white nationalists for @thebaffler.com. thebaffler.com/latest/unhum...
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Unhuman Resources | Hannah Gais
Jack Posobiec’s career exemplifies how the Republican Party has leveraged a network of influencers to appeal to the far right.
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
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The NSA's "Big Delete"
Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Update: Non-federal CFPB workers just received a "stop work" notice from the Office of Financial Procurement
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New: CFPB staffers were just called into an all-hands meeting, according to a source at the bureau
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Update: DOGE members Luke Farritor and Gavin Kilger are no longer “read only” users at the CFPB. They are now listed as domain administrators in the bureau’s system, meaning they can provide or revoke access as they see fit
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New by me and @juddlegum.bsky.social: Elon Musk now has access to reams of confidential information about X's competitors in the digital payment sector, according to an official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I wrote about Jack Posobiec, the intellectual emptiness of the pro-Trump right, and their bizarre—and disingenuous—attempts to co-opt white nationalist thought. My latest for @thebaffler.com: thebaffler.com/latest/unhum...
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Unhuman Resources | Hannah Gais
Jack Posobiec’s career exemplifies how the Republican Party has leveraged a network of influencers to appeal to the far right.
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If you are an employee of the federal government and have information on how Elon Musk/DOGE has impacted your agency, please contact me on Signal at calebecarma.99 or by email at calebecarma@proton.me
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Rubio-led State Department was supposed to represent a “moderate” side of MAGA. Darren Beattie's appointment makes a mockery of that notion. My latest for MSNBC looks at Beattie, who I’m confident is even more extreme than most people think www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Marco Rubio’s new undersecretary is extreme even by MAGA standards
The Rubio-led State Department was supposed to represent a “moderate” side of MAGA. Darren Beattie's appointment makes a mockery of that notion.
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
via @calebecarma.bsky.social and @juddlegum.bsky.social, Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer t.co/u8coELjVnm
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Caleb Ecarma @calebecarma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New: Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...
muskwatch.com
Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees
The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates
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