Summary

Thirteen Democratic attorneys general, led by New York’s Letitia James, plan to sue to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing federal payment systems containing sensitive personal data.

Concerns include security risks and potential disruptions to Social Security and Medicare.

A federal judge ruled that only two Musk allies could have “read-only” access.

DOGE allegedly seeks control to halt payments to agencies like USAID.

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    8 hours ago

    Would it be easier to start the government from scratch? Asking for a friend.

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      Was listening to a podcast about post Soviet Georgia and what Musk is going is eerily similar to what neoliberal wreckers did to that country. Replace all old guard government workers with people who bend the knee, dismantle anything that helps people (ie economic shock therapy), reentrench the church as a fundamental institution, and ramp up ethnonationalist sentiments.

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        Seems like they have it all planned out. What the fuck…

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          They do, and they haven’t been quiet about it. Project 2025 has it all laid out, and it’s just the latest in a long line of these plans that they openly talk about. It’s just that nobody ever listens. They openly talked about how they made up the men in women’s bathroom thing to make people hate trans women. In 2015. There are 10 year old articles about how they made it up, and yet people are still freaking out about it.

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            Yeah but it’s actually working now and no one’s doing anything…

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              They’re waiting 4 years so they can vote in the next election that isn’t coming.

              A lot of people don’t realize the game has changed. The Democrats, and a lot of the people are still under the assumption that if they keep playing nice they’ll get their turn again. Their country has been stolen, and they’re losing their rights by the day.