Summary
Thirteen Democratic attorneys general, led by New York’s Letitia James, plan to sue to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing federal payment systems containing sensitive personal data.
Concerns include security risks and potential disruptions to Social Security and Medicare.
A federal judge ruled that only two Musk allies could have “read-only” access.
DOGE allegedly seeks control to halt payments to agencies like USAID.
Too late unfortunately.
Also suing them does nothing? The DOJ has been weaponized.
Going a step beyond non-violent protests would be better.
Would it be easier to start the government from scratch? Asking for a friend.
That’s what they’re trying to do.
But like a good one please.
Was listening to a podcast about post Soviet Georgia and what Musk is going is eerily similar to what neoliberal wreckers did to that country. Replace all old guard government workers with people who bend the knee, dismantle anything that helps people (ie economic shock therapy), reentrench the church as a fundamental institution, and ramp up ethnonationalist sentiments.
Seems like they have it all planned out. What the fuck…
They do. You can read it, it’s been available for months to read.
Yeah but it’s actually working now and no one’s doing anything…
They’re waiting 4 years so they can vote in the next election that isn’t coming.
A lot of people don’t realize the game has changed. The Democrats, and a lot of the people are still under the assumption that if they keep playing nice they’ll get their turn again. Their country has been stolen, and they’re losing their rights by the day.
The whole chain of custody is fucked; we have no idea how compromised these unvetted teens with write access to these servers are.
They’re selling to the highest bidder already. We can’t get any more compromised
… and we’re going to get those hard drives back, right? And figure out what they did with that data, right?
Gee, WHICH STATES, AP?
Probably Texas, right, because they’re big on their individual liberties, or so it says on their website. And of course Florida is big and tough, and Oklahoma loves to protect its people.
(Edit: I’m sure it’s in the body of the article, I’m just saying these headlines about “# states do a thing” are clearly talking about red states or non-red states and they should just say so. the fact that they don’t is utter shit.)
Thirteen Democratic attorneys general
First line of the summary, guy.
Joining [New York] in the statement were the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont.
No one is going to put all of that in a headline. Calm down.
Again, I’m not saying they didn’t have the information in the body of the article.
And isn’t there some other way they coudl have included that in the title besides listing all the states?
Your first quote, for example.
The headlines sole purpose is to get you to read the article, not give you the details in one sentence.
Incorrect.
I mean, yes, that’s how it’s explained in journalism school. Journalists do tend to read the articles.
The world isn’t going to do everything the way you think it should, just because you don’t like it. Grow up.
Okay. And you make the slightest effort to understand how media actually works in the world. We’ll call it even.
should be 50…
