Song & Not U

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

$45 billion for ethnic cleansing

Chief of Department John Chell Used False Identity in Bid to Avoid Income Tax, NYPD Records Show Chell pleaded guilty to departmental charges in that case and one other, according to records in a lawsuit accusing him of misrepresenting an incident where officers ran over a man.

NEW: John Chell, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed official, used someone else’s identity in a bid to avoid paying income taxes on money he made while moonlighting as a basketball referee for 6 years, newly-released police disciplinary records reveal.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/12/j...

Absolutely grotesque abuse of government power. Lying to educators in order to entrap children. No wonder they want to hide their identity.

DOGE keeps overpromising and underdelivering on everything except destruction. We worked with @alt18f.bsky.social and other technologists across government to explain what it really takes to modernize systems like those at SSA.

Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ Trump Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.

Trump plans on "repurposing Social Security’s 'death master file,' which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

The Biggest Loser in Wisconsin The richest man in the world could not buy an election

New, from me:
Elon Musk is the biggest loser in Wisconsin.

His brazen effort to buy a state supreme court did not just fail - it undermined his image of political kingmaker.

This is the clearest indicator that voters are angry with Trump/Musk agenda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

Does Eric Adams’s $100 Million Website Do Anything? The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it…

NYC CTO Matt Fraser destroyed the city's digital service by declaring that Salesforce would abandon user research and build the "MyCity" platform faster and cheaper than city-employed developers. Three years and $100 million later, MyCity remains a mirage.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

Call centres using AI to ‘whiten’ Indian accents World’s biggest operator claims technology improves empathy and communication with callers

AI's latest innovation is facilitating the outsourcing of call centers to countries that pay their workers less.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

"But perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action."

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

NEW: Elon Musk's buddies and DOGE underlings are working in the dark to make drastic changes to the US government.

@propublica.org is shining light on them with our new tracker.

Read. Share. Most importantly, send us your Musk tips: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

How Trump’s Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos Firings at the Justice Department and FBI herald revenge—and a broad shift from white-collar and national-security cases to illegal immigration and street crime.

Trump will shift many of the "FBI’s 38,000 agents, analysts and technical experts to illegal immigration, which traditionally held a limited role" and "from securities fraud, antitrust violations and other white-collar cases to drug-trafficking and violent street crime."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now