Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article) The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

'Stephen, let's calm down': Yelling Trump aide berates host as he loses cool live on CNN White House aide Stephen Miller launched into a barrage of shouting aimed at CNN's Brianna Keilar Tuesday as she grilled him on cuts being made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and t...

This guy should be in a mental institution.

www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

These people are deranged.

Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy. (Gift Article) Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

One silver lining to Elon doing the president's dirty work. He is a private citizen and has ZERO immunity from prosecution.

JD Vance and Vice Signaling Abandon your values for power and profit

www.infinitescroll.us/p/jd-vance-a...

A 28-Year-Old With No Degree Becomes a Must-Read on the Economy Subscribers to Nathan Tankus’s newsletter, Notes on the Crises, aren’t bothered by his lack of diplomas.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘Accidental’ F.B.I. Chief Builds a Following as Agency’s Defender Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and satirical clips.

When things get bleak, remember that the White House identified the wrong agent as acting director on its website and never corrected the mistake. These guys are not geniuses.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

Autogolpe What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe

Judge to pause Trump administration effort to gut USAID's workforce by thousands Two labor groups had sued the Trump administration after it said that thousands of USAID employees would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. I JUST SAW THIS. WHATTTTT?????

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.”

“DOGE members should be placed under insider threat monitoring and alerting after their access to payment systems is revoked. Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Exclusive | DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to Treasury payment systems was approved by a judge, has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism a...

www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

“Limited real work experience is a risk,” says Ottenheimer, as an example. “Plus his handle is literally Big Balls.”

www.wired.com/story/edward...

Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Yours and WIRED's Reporting is Actually Doing Something” Notes on the Crises pivoted over the weekend into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 If you are a current or fo...

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A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested cod…

25-year-old Marko Elez is making changes on a system that handles trillions in federal payments. He has already made extensive changes to the code base for the payment system.

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...

Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

From the NYT

Meet the young team of software engineers slashing government waste at DOGE: report Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has reportedly put together a team of young software engineers to help with his efforts at DOGE to promote spending cuts.

Fox has now published more details on these little incel Hitler Youth than any other media outlet.

www.foxnews.com/politics/mee...

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts The Trump administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.

"At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV now do,” one current USAID worker estimates.

www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...

A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government. His privileges include the ability not just to read but to write code. He has ZERO government experience.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism” Much more than “test cases” may be at stake in Trump's aggressive claims of presidential authority

On why Trump and his goons might even try to defy the US Supreme Court.

executivefunctions.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government (Gift Article) The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

"One Trump official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Mr. Musk was widely seen as operating with a level of autonomy that almost no one can control."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Once the cyberbarons fully occupy and effectively seize control of the Treasury and other key government agencies, it won’t be long before they relegate Trump to a rubber-walled romper room, wheeling him out for occasional bursts of what passes for charisma to humor him with the illusion of power.

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...