Musk’s aides overseeing OPM have taken over critical computer systems—locking everyone else out.

Reuters, citing two anonymous sources, reported Friday that senior career officials at the Office of Personnel Management, the governing agency for the federal workforce, have had their access to department data revoked. They lost access to the Enterprise Human Resources Integration database, which includes the dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, and length of service of government workers.

  • @Balthazar
    16•20 hours ago

    This really reads as preliminary to a Night of the Long Knives.

    • @[email protected]OP
      9•19 hours ago

      It’s even closer than that. Check out the other post I made about him taking over the General Services Administration as well.

      I found out about both from BlueSky, where people were reporting that multiple other government agencies were reporting similar things - all the way to the financial wing responsible for 6 trillion dollars annually had been fighting against Musk’s attempts to gain control of the office.

      • @Balthazar
        6•19 hours ago

        Ok, I mistook all of these for just one. So, a self-coup? Getting hold of all the important bits of government so no-one can ever take them back?

        • @[email protected]OP
          8•19 hours ago

          Taking over all agencies of the government to fill them with sycophants and loyalists. Somewhere between Russia and 1930s Germany imo.

          There’s a major bit from the other article where they talk about leaked documents about turning the structure of the GSA into the same as X (Twitter).

          The OPM gives them the personal information of every government employee in the country. It’s a purge at all levels of the government.