While at DOGE, according to his now-deleted online résumé, Solly worked on EDEN, which according to a source familiar with it is an API that would allow for government agencies to verify Social Security numbers in real time.
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NEW: The DOGE operative accused of telling colleagues he planned to exfiltrate sensitive SSA data for use at a private company is John Solly, CTO of the health IT division of Leidos. (Leidos denies he put any such data on its systems.) @telliotter.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social have more:
I think it was like the fifth Heinlein book I read featuring nubile young women talking about how great it is to be among the many wives of a crochety old know it all who sounded exactly like Heinlein where I started to ask questions.
This really does go to how much the people running the government have a Richard Scarry view of what the government does. (To slightly exaggerate, if you want to get an FBI agent excited for a training, tempt them with the promise of sexy Excel macros.)
People are scoffing, but think how useful two days with a random collection of fighters will be when agents find themselves facing off against suspects under the unified rules inside in the world's ultimate proving ground, or needing to drop 20 pounds in one day.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
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“this just proves MJ would average 50 in today’s NBA!” my friend if you dropped Michael Jordan into the 2026 NBA his career would last exactly one day after he found out about FanDuel
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened
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A fun thing about this story is that DHS told Dell "Any allegation that DHS adopted a policy making Privacy Threshold Analyses exempt from the Freedom of Information Act is FALSE,” even though Dell had already reviewed emails showing that is absolutely not true.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
SCOOP:
In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally.
In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders
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A shocking number of people responding to this video clearly did not watch the video. David is extremely opposed to the Trump administration's terrorization of immigrant communities. He is describing serious problems with the current laws which make accountability difficult.
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