Bc journalists have dropped all skepticism, EVEN ABOUT Elon's claimed departure, here's my non-exclusive list of DOGE debunkings. The entire thing was a fraud that seems to have achieved one main thing: consolidating govt data in a way ripe for totalitarianism. www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 26 days ago

Bc journalists have dropped all skepticism, EVEN ABOUT Elon's claimed departure, here's my non-exclusive list of DOGE debunkings. The entire thing was a fraud that seems to have achieved one main thing: consolidating govt data in a way ripe for totalitarianism.

https://www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-item/doge-debunking/

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eric-nelson.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yep: And Handed the stolen loot over to Peter Theil's corrupt Palantir operation

pnwcoffeeswiller.bsky.social•26 days ago

Spot on!!

msderohanes.bsky.social•26 days ago

📌

msderohanes.bsky.social•26 days ago

Exactly right. & He did it despite court orders to stop doing it.

https://bsky.app/profile/fiona-webster22.bsky.social/post/3lpynysprfx2v

blaney22.bsky.social•26 days ago

jimraff.bsky.social•26 days ago

Don’t forget his shitcanning the investigations into his companies.

sz3.bsky.social•26 days ago

📌

ct1600.bsky.social•26 days ago

While ending investigations into elons businesses.

apiercingtruth.bsky.social•26 days ago

He got the data he needed for his personal AI robots. Now he can sell his robots to us fully loaded with all our life’s history of financial data and charge us more than he could a robot without all that personal background history!!

brettamorrison.bsky.social•26 days ago

DOdGiE also crushed agencies that were investigating Musk’s companies, which aligns with authoritarianism.

myworldmyway.bsky.social•26 days ago

Agree 💯 !! I believe gathering our personal information & all government info was the sole reason of him being there!!

cekiritz.bsky.social•26 days ago

Makes a lot of sense

von67trumpet.bsky.social•14 days ago

Cue Planatir.

anaideia.bsky.social•26 days ago

“The entire thing was a fraud that seems to have achieved one main thing: consolidating govt data in a way ripe for totalitarianism.”

andreasoni.bsky.social•26 days ago

🎯

ccstretch.bsky.social•26 days ago

He needs to be called in front of congress. It’s all so corrupt.

jayzz.bsky.social•26 days ago

Congress? GOP has control and they are intimately complicit in all of it. They either approve or they are spineless wimps--or both. But congress wouldn't do a damn thing.

ccstretch.bsky.social•26 days ago

I agree, but dems in congress need to propose something, and promote some sort of accountability. If they sit idle, it normalizes this garbage.

jayzz.bsky.social•26 days ago

Great point. Thank you.

annabellelecter.bsky.social•26 days ago

The New York Times and Washington Post are now captured interests.

mls14.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy•26 days ago

@emptywheel.bsky.social NPR’s Morning Edition today exposed the DOGE fraud too. So we do have a few journalists doing good work. (Stephen Fowler)

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/30/nx-s1-5415641/musk-leaves-doge-what-comes-next

drgeophysics.bsky.social•26 days ago

Federal agencies and employees are not targets. Elon is the personification of the Republican Party imo.

jpmcjefferson.bsky.social•25 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/jpmcjefferson.bsky.social/post/3lqfshlvsnc2x

emptywheel.bsky.social•26 days ago

Here's one of the best treatments of DOGE's consolidation of data.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/

emptywheel.bsky.social•26 days ago

And here's Wired on how Musk has built his fame on bullshit claims.

https://www.wired.com/story/theres-a-very-simple-pattern-to-elon-musks-broken-promises/

blaney22.bsky.social•26 days ago

"Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."

https://rb.gy/fnymsj

area-educator.bsky.social•26 days ago

📌

drgeophysics.bsky.social•26 days ago

Excellent: Given that Elon has absolutely no interest in supporting the federal government of the United States, ultimately every dollar spent at SpaceX is wasted. A funding shift away from this psychopath and his companies is needed, immediately. Federal agencies and employees are not targets.

emptywheel.bsky.social•26 days ago

And here's me pointing out that the public announcement of Elon's departure resembles all the other retconning of DOGE that served a legal purpose.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/29/one-explanation-for-elon-musks-claimed-doge-departure-that-gossip-mongers-missed/

blaney22.bsky.social•26 days ago

traci-k.bsky.social•26 days ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/musks-role-leading-doge-is-continuing-and-permanent-judge-says.html

traci-k.bsky.social•26 days ago

Can't recall where I read it, but I will look....that elon will be running things from the outside.

jkoteen.bsky.social•26 days ago

@teslatakedown.com should widely publicize this. He is not a reliable or sane leader.

spaceaix.bsky.social•24 days ago

@wired.com @antonioregalado.bsky.social @eledolley.bsky.social @sebastiencarassou.bsky.social Cybertruck = berline familiale promise par Musk, pour ségréger les riches des pauvres comme au temps de l’Apartheid en Afrique du Sud.

C’est donc un char d’assaut civil #pardonmyfrench

spaceaix.bsky.social•24 days ago

Et il y aura bientôt usage de ce char d’assaut civil puisque les ultra riches vont devoir se protéger des armées de pauvres…

spaceaix.bsky.social•24 days ago

@olascar.bsky.social 😉 et si Musk était un escroc ? La Berline familiale, il n’a jamais eu l’intention de la faire #Tesla

A la place, il a construit un char d’assaut civil pour les ultra-riches qui vont devoir se protéger des armées de pauvres ; Apartheid Afrique du Sud + bientot USA 😉 #cybertruck

sagebear24.bsky.social•26 days ago

And people worship this guy 🤦‍♂️

daveofbusbridge9.bsky.social•26 days ago

Nonsense. Musk closed and disrupted all government offices who were regulating his companies. A success for him.

frau-evil666.bsky.social•26 days ago

Muskgetagrant’s aim was to dismantle the agencies that were going to fine him. The amounts were in the billions. He also wanted to secure more grants and contracts. Mission accomplished. Let’s see what happens now that 47 and Musky are breaking up. I hope they destroy each other!

disgruntledfed.bsky.social•26 days ago

And you can’t un-ring that bell. We are screwed.

luckysitsinback.bsky.social•26 days ago

thanks. i won't lose the tab this time.

realwuzzy.bsky.social•26 days ago

"for totalitarianism" and other forms of exploitation

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