Spotlight on DOGE

Seems to have happened to a lot of people... 🙃

Ouch, pass the 🍿 . Problem is that Elon and DOGE already illegally broke into all the government systems and consolidated all the data into the DOGE master database, so guess who gets all that data when the DOGE-Father is fired? Elon was just a tool and a fool.

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

They are in the upper tier of the federal pay grade system making reportedly between 120K and 195K. www.wired.com/story/doge-g... .

Yep, all of DOGE's work is eclipsed by 4.5 Trillion tax break that Trump's Big Beautiful Bill gives back to the rich and the debt just keeps growing. The reality of his folly of supporting Trump is finally sinking in. He was just a tool for Trump all along.

About right. Plus while we currently spend more of our tax money on interest payments for our debt than we spend on the entire US military, those interest costs are going up.

Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.

This does not sound very "efficient". DOGE just cuts US AID leaving massive amounts of food to rot in government warehouses.

www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

Just wait till the MAGA voters realize they are not getting the $5000 checks from all the savings DOGE never produced.

U.S. Loses Last Triple-A Credit Rating Moody’s Ratings downgraded the U.S. government, citing large fiscal deficits and rising interest costs.

If you want to understand how good a job DOGE is doing in reducing the deficit, just ask the bond market. The US is now no longer trustworthy enough to deserve it’s triple A rating. Are we great again yet?

These 6 Republican ‘red lines’ could complicate Trump’s policy plans — The Washington Post As GOP lawmakers hammer out a “big, beautiful bill” to enact President Donald Trump’s plans, they’re running into a problem: a growing list of no-gos.

Republicans realize they will lose mid terms with Trumps budget, but how do they still give 4.5 Trillion to the rich without increasing the deficit? DOGE was supposed to be the answer but they saved less than 100B by most accounts, so they can no longer use that reason.

DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

DOGE team members now have access to the networks that contain nuclear secrets. 🤔 What does this have to do with deficit reduction and fraud detection? The Oversight Committee is trying to find the answers, but Connolly, the lead representative, is stepping back. We need leadership to step up.

American Oversight v. DOGE, Musk, Davis, Gleason, and Rubio — Use of Signal Messaging App and Google Docs to Circumvent Federal Records Laws - American Oversight American Oversight lawsuit against DOGE NARA; Elon Musk, Marco Rubio, Amy Gleason, and Steve Davis for systemically violating the Federal Records Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and FOIA.

Another lawsuit to uncover the deceptions of DOGE. If they were really working on deficit reduction, why would they take so many steps to hide? They use Signal instead of Slack so their messages disappear. They are deceptive about their org. Legally required responses to FOIAs are ignored.

These GOP Lawmakers Could Sink Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Tax Bill As Congress returns, small blocs of Republican dissidents on SALT, Medicaid and other issues could thwart the GOP agenda

Republican deficit hawks are finally waking up to the fact that Elon’s work is not going to make a difference and Trump’s budget makes our deficit way worse. DOGE failed at deficit reduction and only succeeded at data theft.

Elon Musk had the government in his grasp. Then it unraveled. The billionaire head of the U.S. DOGE Service clashed with Trump Cabinet officials well before he announced he would soon head back to Tesla.

Hmm... more details on the firing of Elon's pick for IRS leader. My guess is that Elon wanted Shapley because he would let Elon and DOGE into the data and to revamp the IRS systems. Elon and DOGE are all about the data, not deficit reduction, and the IRS data is at the heart.

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Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Backlash Over Elon Musk’s Political Role Chief Executive Elon Musk says he will spend significantly less time on DOGE starting in May. First-quarter net income falls 71%.

After sufficiently destroying the parts of the government that bothered him, Elon decides he should pay attention to his business again. Good job to all who helped takedown Tesla, it worked.

There has to be better way to make government work better than giving billionaires a chainsaw 🪚😈

The ACLU Is Suing the Government to Get Access to DOGE Records The ACLU claims the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration violated the Freedom of Information Act by ignoring requests and appeals for information concerning DOGE's “at...

Per FOIA law, all government agencies are required to be transparent, except of course the DOGE.

Why?

Well they say they are not an agency, except of course when they need to steal our data, then they make themselves employees of whatever agency they are infiltrating.

The ACLU is saying BS 💩👨‍💻

State-level DOGE work gathers speed Oklahoma’s new government efficiency unit issued a report on what it has found to cut, while Iowa’s first-in-the-nation effort held its inaugural meeting. But experts say efficiency isn’t just about c...

Had about enough of the deceptions and incompetence of DOGE? Just wait until it starts happening at a state level. Whether at a federal or state level, they just want your data in their master database.

www.govexec.com/management/2...

Just wait until they finish their analysis of Medicare. The cold hatred of immigrants just never quits.

To keep an eye on DOGE, see @spotlightondoge.bsky.social

All built with Palantir no doubt, for more see @spotlightondoge.bsky.social

Just paid essentially 50% fees for goods from a country with 10% tariff because DHL and US Customs are so overloaded with all this chaos the processing time takes over a week and there are charges for holding goods that long. 🙃. Small businesses cannot win with this chaos

DOGE is all about deception. They weaken the government so that they can enrich themselves and those close to Elon and increase the level of privatization. It is the most conflicted conflict of interest in the history of the US.

Want to learn more, see @spotlightondoge

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.

Yep, now that there have been sufficient cuts to programs that help people, now watch as new contracts flow to Palantir, SpaceX and Anduril for technologies that are designed to monitor, intimidate, target and kill (or just deport to a black hole ⚫️ www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Of course, destroy the government, then call out how badly it is running and then give lots of taxpayer money to your friends to privatize it. Quite a money-making scheme.... for more on DOGE see @spotlightondoge.bsky.social

That video only shows some of the Foundry pieces which is pulling the data together. This would be step 1 across gov agencies. The more advanced pieces come with AIP.

YouTube video by Palantir Foundry 2022 Operating System Demo

This tool is authorized for use at the highest security levels (FedRAMP / IL) in the government and allows teams to quickly build a digital twin essentially of a large complex organization and its data with very little code. This video is very technical but shows you how it works.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Palantir: The New Deep State

Some of the pieces of the puzzle are slowly coming together... I am increasingly thinking Palantir is one of the most important tools in DOGE's toolkit for centralizing data across all the agencies. They have been working with military and civilian government data for years...

DOGE Has Access to Sensitive Labor Department Data on Immigrants and Farm Workers Three DOGE associates have been granted access to systems at the Department of Labor housing sensitive information on migrant farm workers, visa applicants, and more.

Now DOGE adds Department of Labor into their master Palantir database. The same DOGE team members who "killed" 6300 immigrants they did not like by putting them into the death file at the Soc Security Admin. I guess they want to weaponize more of our data. Today its immigrants, tomorrow its 🫵🧑‍💻

DOGE wants to exfiltrate data without having a trace of what they were doing or where they were sending the data. They can only do this by using their own Internet service since gov internet is closely monitored.

You know, if they would just pay their fair share of taxes like everyone else we would not have these problems. 🤷‍♂️

DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.

DOGE says they are all about getting rid of bureaucracy.

Meanwhile they make themselves into the bureaucrats and make the government run even slower. 🐢😴

The depth of the incompetence is sometimes hard to fathom.

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