@shiloh-shaeffer.bsky.social
she / her
17.02.2025 01:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Greta Thunberg doesn’t have my bank routing information
14.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 2495 🔁 470 💬 49 📌 8NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access.
It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.
ABC: “.. Multiple current and former employees described the situation as ‘a national security crisis.’”
@abcnewsgo.bsky.social
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
“Musk… has gained access to the Department of the Treasury payments system, which includes the flow of more than $6 trillion annually in payments to Americans, as well as confidential and personal information related to Social Security and Medicare recipients...” www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
13.02.2025 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are many real crises right now – a betrayal of the American people, a truth crisis, a climate crisis – but we are NOT facing an energy crisis.
This isn’t a plan to help Americans – it’s a grift to pad the pockets of Big Oil.
Maybe You Should Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater (If It's On Fire): The Coup Continues Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit 05 Feb 2025 — 8 min read Yesterday the Associated Press ran a story with this sentence in it: "Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee." That sentence came a little after after the opening sentence which declared that Musk and Trump were moving "to cut down on office space." So far as I can tell this means largely eliminating the federal government--for example the federal government has in my region (California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, some Pacific US territories) 170 government-owned buildings and leased space in 827 buildings. Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine. And the story, which seemed clear to me if not the AP, clarifies that Musk's apparent goal isn't to reduce the size of the federal government; it's to eliminate it. Especially if you relate it to all the other stories out there about what Musk is doing, though there's often a notion in mainstream journalism that connecting things to other things is editorializing, that the audience should be delivered facts stripped of context in the name of objectivity.
"Meanwhile the difference between reducing and eliminating all the leased space seems more or less like the difference between a haircut and the guillotine." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-sh...
05.02.2025 19:16 — 👍 511 🔁 118 💬 10 📌 16
www.rawstory.com/stop-playing...
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!
Government civil servants threatened with US marshals. Why? Bc they were defending classified information and security systems from being accessed by Musk’s flying monkeys.
Illegal AF.
All Five Eyes partners need to presume that ALL US government IT systems are now insecure.
Similarly the EU need to treat any data interchange agreements with the US as null and void.
This includes cloud hosting on Azure, AWS and Google (not that anyone uses Google Cloud ;)
