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.
On one hand, fucking finally. On another hand, only 13?
The rest are hopefully waiting until Trump doesn’t have the power to pardon Musky.
When will he or his successor ever not have that power?
Too late unfortunately.
Also suing them does nothing? The DOJ has been weaponized.
Going a step beyond non-violent protests would be better.
I’m unfortunately not confident that the administration would respect a ruling that’s not in their favor if it did happen. Will somebody actually enforce the ruling?
Exactly, they already got access…
Defeatist mentality only helps nazi’s.
Lmao fascist will never be stopped by paperwork
Right now the defeatest mentality is sitting around and asking nicely for our elected representatives to stop supporting a fascist agenda while they ignore us and keep supporting fascism.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Civil suits are not in DOJ purview
I understand that, but I also don’t expect this administration to play by ANY of the former rules or laws.
The whole chain of custody is fucked; we have no idea how compromised these unvetted teens with write access to these servers are.
They’re selling to the highest bidder already. We can’t get any more compromised
Would it be easier to start the government from scratch? Asking for a friend.
That’s what they’re trying to do.
But like a good one please.
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.
Seems like they have it all planned out. What the fuck…
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.
They do. You can read it, it’s been available for months to read.
Yeah but it’s actually working now and no one’s doing anything…
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.
… and we’re going to get those hard drives back, right? And figure out what they did with that data, right?
should be 50…
Gee, WHICH STATES, AP?
Probably Texas, right, because they’re big on their individual liberties, or so it says on their website. And of course Florida is big and tough, and Oklahoma loves to protect its people.
(Edit: I’m sure it’s in the body of the article, I’m just saying these headlines about “# states do a thing” are clearly talking about red states or non-red states and they should just say so. the fact that they don’t is utter shit.)
Thirteen Democratic attorneys general
First line of the summary, guy.
Joining [New York] in the statement were the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont.
No one is going to put all of that in a headline. Calm down.
Again, I’m not saying they didn’t have the information in the body of the article.
And isn’t there some other way they coudl have included that in the title besides listing all the states?
Your first quote, for example.
The headlines sole purpose is to get you to read the article, not give you the details in one sentence.
Incorrect.
I mean, yes, that’s how it’s explained in journalism school. Journalists do tend to read the articles.
The world isn’t going to do everything the way you think it should, just because you don’t like it. Grow up.
Okay. And you make the slightest effort to understand how media actually works in the world. We’ll call it even.
I’m not the one that’s wants the entire article in the headline.
