hot goss re: elon's "legion" of kids
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FDA seeks contractors to replace dozens of feds laid off two weeks ago
Interesting how it says some of this can be done remotely by contractors. Hiring contractors to replace them is a way to get around CTAP.FDA wrote that the need for contractors is “immediate,” and that hired contractors would be given laptops, badges and other federal equipment to be able do the work. The document also states that some of the travel coordination work can be done remotely. The news of FDA hiring contractors to replace the work of some federal employees was first reported by CBS News.https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/fda-seeks-contractors-to-replace-dozens-of-feds-laid-off-two-weeks-ago/?readmore=1
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
"how #DOGE engineers operated ... steps they took to obfuscate their activities...
"Our cyber teams are pissed because they have to sit on their hands when every single alarm system we have regarding insider threats is going off,"... #Cybersecurity teams wanted to shut off new users' access to the system, the employee continued, but were ordered to stand down"
A whistleblower's disclosure details how #DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
"It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending"
#politics #DataTheft #LaborData #fElonMusk
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
A DOGE whistleblower claims Elon Musk's department caused a major NLRB data breach, risking millions of Americans' data.
#DOGE #ElonMusk #databreach #dataprivacy
https://cnews.link/whistleblower-doge-data-leak-russia-cyberattack-1/
The #Authoritarian #Playbook: #DOGE, #Surveillance, and the Collapse of #Democracy
#Trump and his crownies are thrashing through the Us democracy with the ease of an elephant in a ceramic shop. And this is because, for years, the opposition to #neoliberalism and #digital #capitalism has been rejected as too extreme by the left card mest notably by the mainstream democrats. And these people are now stuck between active or passive submssion to this new system.
https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/the-authoritarian-playbook-doge-surveillance
The #Trump administration continues to make us all less safe, this time regarding #CyberSecurity. This is wild to let this funding lapse. I assume it's #DOGE related, but if not it's simple incompetence to let funding lapse.
I'm not even a security expert but I know this is an incredibly valued resource for keeping all our technology safe.
Call your #Congress reps. Get them caring about this and holding the #ExecutiveBranch responsible for this nonsense
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/
Harvard's response to the #Trump administration: "Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration."
#Harvard #DOGE #education #academia #histodons
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Response-2025-04-14.pdf
Oh... My.... Fucking.... God....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itbsfeqrRY4
There really is nothing holy to #DOGE, is there? They are pulling the rug out from EVERYONE who is even remotely working with #MITRE #CVE in #cybersecurity
What are those apes doing? It's like deleting / burning all books about diseases.
#blackwednesday The worst is that there is literally no lead time to prepare something else, fork it, whatever.
Lesson: #decentralisation #resilience #unplugtrump
"'They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,' the former official said."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
DOGE going Soviet style? Why not.
DOGE is demanding non-profits let them embed representatives within their organization, SOVIET style oversight.
A 20-minute phone call involved two members of DOGE and attorneys for the Vera Institute of Justice, with DOGE representatives revealing plans to potentially attach its team members to more organizations and institutes that receive government funding. DOGE already cut their funding off, so the call ended once they learned that.
“This administration has systematically attacked every aspect of civil society, from academia to law firms and the media, and is now coming after the nonprofit sector,” Nick Turner, president of the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice, said, after DOGE demanding embedded.
#USPol #doge
DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group
A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates.
https://archive.ph/Kpd3y
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/15/doge-musk-nonprofit-vera-institute/
How soon until DOGE requires any org getting federal funding to have its waiting room channels tuned to a station from a list of approved channels?
So #Maddow, #DOGE is breaking the government, leaking information, & hurting people. Who'll prosecute?
Jeff Hauser said to @nicolesandler that DOGE should own the consequences of their harm.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/dogewatch/ lists their harm. @emptywheel has a list debunking DOGE lies.
CEOs know DOGE can wreck their companies but are afraid of saying it publicly. Our protests give them cover "The SHAREHOLDERS want DOGE out of computer systems.”
Whistleblower Blames #Musk ’s #DOGE Goons for ‘Significant #Cybersecurity Breach’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/whistleblower-blames-musks-doge-goons-for-significant-cybersecurity-breach/
A #Vera Institute attorney then asked on the call what #legal authority #DOGE had to demand involvement with an independent, #nonprofit org, acc/to the transcript. The DOGE employees reportedly responded that there was no point in getting into details since the #DOJ already terminated Vera’s grants.
Acc/to a transcript of the call provided by #Vera, Cavanaugh referenced the US Institute of Peace as an example of #DOGE assigning a team to an independent nonprofit. Last month DOGE took over & shut down #USIP, a 40-yr-old institution founded & funded by Congress that employs ~600 people in DC & abroad. USIP operates differently than Vera & other #nonprofits, which were NOT established by Congress & receive their funding from grants & #private donors.