Summary

Three federal employee unions have sued the Trump administration, alleging Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unlawfully granted Elon Musk’s full access to confidential federal payment systems.

The lawsuit claims this access endangers millions of Americans’ personal data. Meanwhile, officials resisting Doge’s demands faced consequences, including suspension.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Doge an “unelected shadow government.”

Trump has defended Musk’s role, insisting his actions require White House approval.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If foreign actors were breaking into these systems, in the same manner that Musk and his cadre of techno brownshirts are right now, they would be dragged out into the street and executed.

    The least we can do is hold this administration accountable for who these people are and what steps are being taken to document what they are doing and what security measures are being followed. Of course none of that is being done. The brownshirts are anonymous, unvetted and unaccountable. Their actions are not being documented. They are not following any security procedures. Remember the years of outrage Fox and its NPC audience lathered on about the security implications of Hillary’s private email server? What is happening right now is many orders of magnitude more dangerous and insecure and illegal. It has profound and direct implications for every American right now.

    We need to stop hoping for a legal resolution to the violence being perpetrated by this administration and its private wrecking crew headed by Elon Musk. We need to identify the actors, dox them. Physically intervene if needed. Every fucking elected Democrat should be spitting into a microphone, today.

    Again, imagine a foreign actor riffling through these sensitive systems. If you take comfort in knowing that the president and Musk would never let a foreign actor have such access, then you should be more freaked out than anyone given the unaccountable way this is going down. How do you know that Musk’s organization isn’t compromised?

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    Musk’s DOGE squad pulling a digital smash-and-grab on federal data? Color me shocked. Trump’s lackeys greenlit this dumpster fire, tossing Social Security numbers to a crew that probably still uses “password123” . Unions finally sued? Cool, but where’s the FBI?

    Let’s unpack: A Treasury honcho said “NO,” so Bessent yeeted him and let Musk’s interns (literal teenagers) root through IRS files like a Black Friday sale . Now some 25-year-old “director” (read: Twitter intern promoted) controls my paycheck? Sure, what could go wrong.

    Congress: crickets until the lawsuits hit. Peak bureaucracy. Meanwhile, China’s hackers are taking notes like it’s finals week .

    Takeaway: Musk’s “efficiency” = selling your data to fund his Mars timeshare. Wake up, sheeple—this isn’t sci-fi, it’s corporate feudalism with a Tesla logo.

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      As much as I like karmic justice, Unions are going to be very important for resistance on all fronts, so I personally will retain my union bashing for the police unions who don’t just want higher pay and benefits for their members (even if their version of that pursuit is incredibly susceptible to manipulation).

  • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    If you showed me this headline 10 years ago, I’d have guessed it was a mad lib. This timeline is crazy in a bad way.