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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New from me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social: An internal analysis at Treasury found that DOGE was “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” @wired.com www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/02/2025
we need cancel culture and wokeness back so so bad it’s unreal. it should not be acceptable to be openly racist and a eugenicist in a normal society
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Any time a corporate media pundit lies saying the 2024 election was about the price of eggs, I wish a stage hand would walk on the set and punch that person in the face.
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
none of this stops until they're afraid
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Dave Portnoy didn't realize that he'd committed a crime by running a low grade pump and dump scheme with a couple of shitcoins. Naturally, he recorded a video detailing exactly what he did and then blasted the confession out to his 3.5 million followers. Outstanding stuff. Peak Crypto Mindset.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Put plainly, we don't know what they swept up, what they still have access to, what they've given to others, or anything, including what the guy who resigned had access to, whether he kept anything, or who he gave it to. But la-di-da, let's agree to consent orders with Trump's DOJ!
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
More from the Wired story of last night:
On February 4, WIRED reported that Elez did, in fact, have admin access to PAM and SPS. Talking Points Memo reported later that day that Elez had “made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment systems.” In a letter that same day that did not mention Musk or DOGE, Treasury official Jonathan Blum wrote to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, “Currently, Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause, a Treasury employee, will have read-only to the coded data of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems.” (Krause is the top DOGE operative at Treasury and CEO of Cloud Software Group.) The letter did not say what kind of access the staff members actually had.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
See more from yesterday. The consent order was by no means a victory bsky.app/profile/sara...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the lawsuit and consent order I was harping on all day yesterday. The lawyers for the plaintiffs *agreed to* a consent order allowing 2 Musk people (one since resigned over racist social media posts) supposedly "read-only" access to do their "duties" (suggesting those are legitimate).
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
As WIRED has reported, Elez was granted privileges including the ability to not just read but write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: the Payment Automation Manager (PAM) and Secure Payment System (SPS) at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), an agency that according to Treasury records paid out $5.45 trillion in fiscal year 2024. Reporting from Talking Points Memo confirmed that Treasury employees were concerned that Elez had already made “extensive changes” to code within the Treasury system. The payments processed by BFS include federal tax returns, Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits, and veteran’s pay.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
US Treasury Department and White House officials have repeatedly denied that technologists associated with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had the ability to rewrite the code of the payment system through which the vast majority of federal spending flows. WIRED reporting shows, however, that at the time these statements were made, a DOGE operative did in fact have write access. Not only that, but sources tell WIRED that at least one note was added to Treasury records indicating that he no longer had write access before senior IT staff stated it was actually rescinded.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 08/02/2025
My water filtration kit for good times and the very bad
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My water filtration kit for good times and the very bad
Water at the end of the world.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It’s just bleak that there’s a considerable amount of people who are like “thank goodness the worlds richest human being is stopping the tyranny of the consumer financial protection bureau and that guy who collects atmospheric data”
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ain't good. Compared to Senate Dems, House Dems have less leverage. One exception is the budget fight. But here's the Dem House Leader TODAY declining to use that leverage. If you have a Dem rep, ask them to use their leverage. And tell them to tell Jeffries to lead. Stay tuned - more to come.
Screenshot of NBC reporter describing interview with Jeffries in which he declines to commit to withholding Democratic votes in the upcoming fight with the House GOP over the budget.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hakeem Jeffries does not have the juice, folks
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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
#breaking: in late night SDNY Judge order, Trump Administration is "restrained from granting access to all political appointees [&] employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department, to any Treasury Department payment record" - story coming
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025
is it woke to want to end cancer?
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Memor-X @memor-x.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
well atleast the U.S. health secretary will be able to properly respond to the *check notes* the.....*checks notes again*.........oh dear, you guys are fucked
screenshot from https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-samoa-measles-kennedy-vaccines-pacific-42a9cb583c71f165699b16710884c474 showing that incoming US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr rejecting the cause of deaths during the 2019 measles epidemic in Samoa
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/02/2025
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
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Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
they couldn't have booed just a LITTLE harder???? 💔
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Oops 😬
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Tara Setmayer just said, that we (Democrats) were doing this (what Musk is doing) Republicans would move Heaven and Earth to shut it down. I agree. So...if we can agree on this, why are Democrats...not moving Heaven and Earth? Democrats:The "Rules" need to be suspended: The bottom line is STOP IT.
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CrunkyDevil @crunkydevil.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Daily reminder to ascribe zero good to them. Assume the worst because they will ALWAYS ratfuck you anyway.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Christ EVERYBODY wants to work for Andreessen Horowitz these days
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
According to attorney Mark Zaid, another attorney for the agents, the government revealed Friday that Driscoll has since complied with a demand by Bove to provide the actual names of employees. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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Trump administration agrees, for now, not to release names of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6, Mar-a-Lago investigations
Attorneys for agents suing the government said they could face an "immediate danger of retribution" if their names were publicly revealed.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/02/2025
‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán
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‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán
Trump has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies – a path similar to ‘would-be dictators’ like Orbán, experts say A pitiless crackdown on on illegal immigration. A hardline approach to law and order. A purge of “gender…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Texas schools warning parents that border patrol is raiding school buses and going to extracurricular events may not be safe Is this who we are? Never mind don’t answer that. 🇺🇸😕
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/02/2025
Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
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Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or above could not have caused more carnage. Recent floods in Asia and…
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Think about why Joe Biden and other past presidents couldn't have simply done whatever they wanted, regardless of laws and the Constitution. It wasn't because they were all good guys, deeply respectful of institutions. It's because EVERYONE WOULD HAVE FREAKED OUT.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
After all that Marko Elez was the first taker on the resignation program.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Justice Department memos provided to me by a source in the US Attorney's Office. "These memo sent do not have signatures," source said, stressing how unusual that is for DOJ.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This October tweet by @whstancil.bsky.social holds up
10/7/24 tweet by @whstancil:

So apparently the word in the tech world is this: Elon’s embrace of Trump is because Elon thinks he can essentially run the White House while Trump rots in front of Fox News. It’s a way to circumvent the “natural born citizen” requirement and let Musk serve as de facto president.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
Screenshot of a Washington Post article headline stating, 'Whole Foods says Trump’s actions make union win moot"
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi, @peard33.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Justice Department lawyers refused Thursday to ensure that a list of FBI agents who had worked on Jan 6 cases wouldn’t have their names revealed as retribution for investigating and arresting a violent cohort of Trump’s supporters. Trump wants to sic MAGA on them. newrepublic.com/post/191261/...
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Trump’s Justice Department Won’t Promise Not to Expose FBI Agents
The Department of Justice is refusing to promise that it won’t put its own agents at risk.
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trump’s energy secretary allowed a 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from the general counsel. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/c...
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Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel | CNN
Concerns were raised that the DOGE rep — a former SpaceX intern — did not have the background investigation required to access the Department of Energy’s system.
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Russell Vought as White House budget director, putting Project 2025 architect at helm of powerful office.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/02/2025
Twenty-two states, led by West Virginia, are suing to block a recently approved New York law that requires fossil fuel companies to pay billions of dollars a year for contributing to climate change.
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Lawsuit Seeks to Block New York’s Climate Change Law Targeting Energy Companies
Emboldened by President Trump, West Virginia and other states are challenging a law that makes corporate polluters pay for past emissions.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Three Democrats are saying Ro Khanna was given a heads-up about the vote to subpoena Elon Musk, and accusing him of intentionally missing the vote in the House Oversight Committee. (Khanna, who has ties to Musk, has said he was unaware.) www.politico.com/live-updates...
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House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk
Notably missing the vote was Rep. Ro Khanna, who is close to Musk.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For everyone who wants to argue that Americans voted for all this: TRUMP LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH ABOUT THIS. He claimed to know nothing about Project 2025. Now he's implementing the full authoritarian project at full speed. He lied, and America is going to suffer as a result.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/02/2025
What can the opposition party do? Like, actually *do*, right now? Five concrete things the Democrats can do to fight Trump:
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Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now
The party is not helpless. In fact, Democrats have some effective tools at their disposal.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Be angry, but don't give up." From Rachel's interview tonight with Senator Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social Part 1 (testing how it looks to post a multi-part video here)
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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
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Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is morally indefensible and strategically bankrupt. It’s just letting people die on purpose and it makes us weaker in every way.
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