This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. https://wapo.st/40LVERn
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Appears illegal???? The MFer is STEALING personal and government information and data and putting it on his own personal servers. How long will it be before he starts plundering and pillaging our personal bank accounts??? Musk needs to be stopped one way or another. Trumptard's letting him do it!!!!
US Congress and Senate is overflowing with cowards who refuse to fight, refuse to work together as a voting block (think what would Mitch McConnell do).
I saw more YOUNG representatives tonight with brawler instincts than any of the olds who claim they are Dems, then vote to appease a dictator.
So, none of the people interviewed had access to a stun gun or a Taser or even perhaps a bag of Sour Patches to render these children programmably inert? I think I'd just whisper in their ear I'm waiting outside for them after school. Let them stew on that all day.
Trump thinks he can totally ignore all laws. This is the legacy, the political tumor the Roberts Court has inflicted on the American Body Politic.. Every dubious act of the Trump-Musk cabal must be litigated. Flood the courts!
I think it’s time we stop pretending that words like “illegal” and “Nazi” give any kind of pause or shame to this administration and those who support them. They’re badges of honor. They want this.
The only question that matters now that we're beyond the event horizon, the country has disintegrated and there's no putting it back together via the systems and institutions that used to form it:
This is the way. Plus it denies the WP traffic. They fanned the flames of this disaster hoping for another 4 years of low effort rage bait articles to rake in the profits. Let them starve
If they ever get control of these systems back, they are going to forensic IT investigators in to take as long as it takes to identify and undo the damage and ID all of the vulnerabilities these HACKERS have introduced. This is truly unbelievable.
This post does a better job of getting to the gist than the article does, and even that's weak. If you're writing for a federal gov't nerd audience, fine. But to lay public, the article reads like a list of technical violations. ZERO explication of the stakes or implications.
As someone who has been calling and writing to Rick Scott non-stop, I just want everyone to focus on the spineless Republicans and not look at the Democrats as not doing anything.
Let the Republicans hear you.
The post and Bezos are still playing nice with 47 and his Nazi Elmo. “Appears” to be illegal?! Dozens of laws have been completely broken. Nothing apparent about it. The founders of the Wapo are rolling in their graves.
And they know there will be no consequences. Trump is immune re SCOTUS and he'll pardon anyone e.g. J6.
Congress has shown they won't convict him.
There are no ways to prevent it. The warnings about the end of US democracy are now true
I think it's a little more than "appears to be illegal". Just me but installing a back door in the Treasury Department computers is a bit like bank robbers busting a hole in a safe so everyone can come in whenever they like and take whatever they want.
I think it died in broad daylight, with a brass band playing the hits "Appears To," "Coup Who?," and "Lick the Boots House Down." Thousands of subscribers jumped ship, now they are scrambling, but still not saying the word "coup" or stepping away from polite-speak to tell people the US is on fire!
Ha. What a joke. Of course it’s not legal. But that’s never stopped Trump. Like the time Giuliani went to Ukraine or the gang organized an insurrection. WaPo, NYT, LAT, CNN, etc don’t care. They just publish on the fence nonsense and we all go oh, how horrible. And the country continues to fail.
They have violated HIPAA millions of times in the course of this supposedly read-only access...& if that's the case why were musk servers left onsite? How do we know there weren't Trojan viruses or keystroke loggers left behind?
Everyone just keeps repeating “illegal” as if it means something, as if it’s some kind of magic word that will conjure a benevolent authority to step in and set things right. As if laws aren’t just an instrument of class warfare that only matter when authoritarians want them to.
His newest move will - also surely illegally - throw about 7,500 leases into default, drive a property price collapse in city centers, and then his hedge fund bros will scoop the real estate market for bargains.
A play straight from the collapse of Russia and the transfer of assets to Oligarchs.
Republicans know it too. This was all part of Project 2025’s plan. They’re looking to gut the fed to pay for extending the next round of tax cuts for billionaires, which will cost $4 trillion over the next decade.
What can they possibly do with all this f'ing money?! Build walls around the private cities they want? While the rest of us are in slum towns? Gates at least has a foundation - but the rest of this asswipes?
“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once,” said David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School.”
They don’t, because several friends have gifted me articles and when I’ve said “I still can’t read it” they’ve tried to protest. “But it’s a gift article!” Nope. It’s been like this for several months.
Not too late for Bezos to do something good and apologize for his lack of endorsement, his seat at the table, and come out against his new pals. I can't believe they publish these articles and still for him it's business as usual
“Appears to be operating totally illegally” is like saying Trump makes statements “for which there is no evidence”. If we can’t start saying things like “that’s illegal” and “that’s a lie” then we are done for.
When it's the entire Admin who decides to eff the law (and Scotus has given protection to the prez just in case) how do you use the law to fight them? 😟 I'm with you and I wish the "president's men" an horrible defeat. But 😟
Happy to see you still have the independence to write this type of article given who the management is at WAPO. I fear for yours and the other journalists futures at your company. Trump hasn't gotten around to the 4th estate yet. Beware and have a to-go bag ready.
They are indeed! Unelected, unvetted, and purely evil with access to the Treasury data base…including all of our proprietary information. “Pants on fire” time. Republican Congresspeople are so terrified they are useless! Hope the courts will hold.
My normal practice area is Nevada Civil appeals with a bit of business law and cyberlaw as well. So, this is slightly outside my area of expertise. And yet I still suspect we could probably safely drop the "appears" in that title.
The Washington Post continues to play with words. What Musk is doing, with Trump's blessing, is blatantly illegal. There is no legal basis for his actions.
Defund Musk. Contact your financial institution or planner and demand Musk or Meta be restricted from all your investments.
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Sally, I’m a big fan of yours, and unfortunately now a former 40 year subscriber to the Wapo, but no shit!
Fascists don’t care until someone stops them.
I mean duh it’s a basic concept taught in intro to con law so Pam (pres Trump would never issue an illegal order) Bondi and any other atty. knows it too, they don’t give a shit. And @washingtonpost.com should say it plainly. There’s no question it may or might be illegal to collapse the const order
@marcelias.bsky.social @normeisen.bsky.social who is going to be the first to file a lawsuit against the 7 techno-brats currently breaking the law, and perhaps committing espionage, treason? That should get their and their pathetic parents attention
Trump lies so much that many people did not take him seriously. And the popular vote was very close; he does not have a big mandate despite the bravado. But too many people were not inspired to vote. That is the most glaring problem that we need to fix as a nation. Sadly.
Police aren't stopping them. FBI isn't stopping them. Officials are just surrendering. What a fascinating train wreck, I can't look away. It's almost as if every non-American criticism of the American political system was entirely valid all along.
Obviously. They know. We know it. Dems know it. The media knows it. But no one with power is doing anything about it or have any desire to. But they will absolutely use State Thugs to beat the shit out of anyone who does try to do anything outside of an elected capacity.
My only concern is knowing that we’ve been burned by lower Court and appellate court wins. Scotus is all in on Trump so anything appealed that they choose to hear will likely go in this favor. Feel like that is their backstop to everything is the loyalty of the extreme, right six
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I saw more YOUNG representatives tonight with brawler instincts than any of the olds who claim they are Dems, then vote to appease a dictator.
But seriously, Emperor Douchelord is criminally insane and the republicans are too busy stealing things to notice.
The democrats can’t find the handle on a shovel… so they rant to the choir.
America is burning.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right-now/
A Coup is In Progress in America
This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. The constitution of the United States is not operating. This is a grim moment in history.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america
https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happening-right-now/
A Coup is In Progress in America
This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. The constitution of the United States is not operating. This is a grim moment in history.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america
#BOYCOTTWAPO
WAPO = FASCIST COLLABORATORS.
WHAT IS THE MILITARY GOING TO DO TO US?
BECAUSE YES, THEY WILL COMPLY WITH THE FASCISTS.
It took 2 weeks to trump-musk to do it in the US.
You no longer have a functional government based on laws and regulations.
And I'm scared.
https://archive.ph/ivzay
You need to *regain physical control* of these federal buildings being *unlawfully occupied & infiltrated* by unelected & un-vetted individuals!
Protect our government & The People!
“appear illegal”
Feckless much?! Constituents have been overwhelming phone lines and organizing in the streets since the weekend!
Let the Republicans hear you.
Congress has shown they won't convict him.
There are no ways to prevent it. The warnings about the end of US democracy are now true
https://bsky.app/profile/coreyryung.bsky.social/post/3lhem7m6yds2s
It’s up to the people now, isn’t it, to give them absolute hell
Musk may think he is untouchable but he isn’t - he is a man child
If you receive an email that's not internal or from another legitimate gov office, don't even open it.
Just how shonky do you look.
Pot. Kettle. Black
A play straight from the collapse of Russia and the transfer of assets to Oligarchs.
Where the hell have you been?
If the Post is reporting it, it's because of strategery to ultimately help Trump
In this case, probably so ppl can point to it and say "Look! MSM!"
I might re-subscribe.
It’s not a gift to compel me to give an oligarch more access to my digital information.
Here's that link for you, without a paywall:
https://archive.ph/20250204231455/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/04/elon-musk-government-legal-doge/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzM4NjQ1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQwMDI3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Mzg2NDUyMDAsImp0aSI6ImJmNWQ2YmJhLWQzYmEtNDdkMS05MDQ0LTVhZWI2ZjNhYjllMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzAyLzA0L2Vsb24tbXVzay1nb3Zlcm5tZW50LWxlZ2FsLWRvZ2UvIn0.nAg1iiymvc20QOtIdoLG04zHuSNFRwgDGTLPr4OLgHI
Too little too late.
It’s just a little tracking, it’s ok…..nah bro
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I don’t think people who subscribe realize this change was made.
Stop screaming and start thinking.
Even the US Constitution.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lhjagcm7xk25
We need to restrain the presidential power to pardon.
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Tesla, Inc.
SpaceX
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The Boring Company
xAI
Neuralink
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Damn. Sub cancellations must be at tsunami levels over there at Bezos's trash rag for them to be so petty!
Fascists don’t care until someone stops them.
Everyone knew what they were voting for.
I don’t even want this as a gift article. They’re 100% complicit in electing this fascist regime, so they can get fucked.
In the face.
With a chair.
https://youtu.be/Wy3SV2fvoG8?si=q3LdCJK6BgJ_KRE-
Luckily, this mail address was not taken yet: [email protected]
Are you kidding me ???