Extraordinary filing released tonight in a case about access to Social Security data from Tiffany Flick, fmr chief of staff to Acting Commissioner Michelle King. It details the unusual urgency the DOGE boys had in getting to SSA data & what they were looking for: democracyforward.org/wp-content/u... - ThreadSky

ddayen.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Extraordinary filing released tonight in a case about access to Social Security data from Tiffany Flick, fmr chief of staff to Acting Commissioner Michelle King. It details the unusual urgency the DOGE boys had in getting to SSA data & what they were looking for:
https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AFSCME-et-al-v-SSA-Flick-Decl.-3.7.25.pdf

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iankumohara.bsky.social•13 hours ago

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mttwls.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Some important context here -- Tiffany Flick is a normie Republican. She was the Executive Secretary under Commissioner Michael Astrue during the Bush administration, and then Associate Commissioner for Budget during the first Trump administration. She's no resist lib.

thelongshot2112.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The real context is that it isn't political to follow proper procedure. No matter their political background, they know how things are supposed to work, and anyone upending it should get this reaction. Most of us are just trying to do our jobs, whether or not the political situation makes it easy.

mttwls.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Yes, absolutely. I'm really proud of Michelle and Tiffany for what they did. Just wish they had prevailed.

mttwls.bsky.social•13 hours ago

To add -- it used to be that administering Social Security was completely nonpartisan. Neither rocked the boat, but neither really fought for the resources we needed to do the job nor cut too deep. That's over. Whatever happens, SSA is as much a political football as any agency now. That's bad.

redshift42.bsky.social•23 hours ago

What they were looking for: access to the raw data so they could do a Twitter Files run, looking for things they could claim *looked* suspicious while having no interest in investigating whether they actually were.

doubtthedefault.bsky.social•1 day ago

"How three naive hot takes can find you no more fraud than has already been found "

mddirtlaw.bsky.social•10 hours ago

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shrewst.bsky.social•12 hours ago

SSA Is being dismantled.

stlhd1000.bsky.social•14 hours ago

📌

mahapat.bsky.social•21 hours ago

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schatzkin.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Learning to fly as they take the controls. What could go wrong.

wossamotta.bsky.social•22 hours ago

One story has Elon's idiot car company failing and the other has Elon illegally accessing data for the $2.7 trillion dollar Social Security trust fund.

If this was a movie, ominous music would be playing.

ddayen.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Akash Bobba ended up getting read-only access to SSA information that he worked with offsite with non-SSA DOGE employees. But they demanded more.

hobbidysparks.bsky.social•23 hours ago

They want to create a new system for SSA controlled by Musk

redshift42.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Read-only access is identity theft. Being able to make changes is worse, but they keep pushing the idea that read-only access is no big deal, and it's definitely Not Okay. Hackers stealing your personal data only need read access.

ddayen.bsky.social•23 hours ago

DOGE went over SSA's head to get full access to the data (which includes loads of personal information).

ddayen.bsky.social•23 hours ago

So now the DOGE bros have access to all SSA data, and Flick explains her concerns about that, up to and including breaking the benefit payment system:

kindler.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I’m feeling socially insecure…

ddayen.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The whole thing reminds me of that moment on January 6 where the insurrectionists find papers in the Senate desks and start rifling through them as if they're going to find some evidence of a rigged election, and it's clear they have no idea what they're looking at

firthermor.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Merely different coups.

damircosic.bsky.social•22 hours ago

And same as Jan 6 insurrectionists, what they are doing is a crime.

sysadmin1138.net•23 hours ago

Given news of the kind of money DoGE has, and what we know they have spent, I remain convinced they are building a data lake in AWS GovCloud that is pooling a whole bunch of data that legally can't be pooled. Privacy disaster.

jasonwolf.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I wouldn’t assume they are even putting the data in GovCloud. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were running local copies on their personal PC’s for convenience.

ass.business•21 hours ago

assuming govcloud is *extremely* generous of you

smuuchii.bsky.social•22 hours ago

yes

poormarlowe.bsky.social•22 hours ago

They're shipping it to servers owned by X for processing with Grok.

tearsofgaia.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The thugs shuffling through papers for Ted Cruz.

perdeepinjeeba.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Just saw this on X

carolannesundahl.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Who is Flick?

rvinetworks.bsky.social•22 hours ago

They aren’t looking for. They intend to break it.

scottywhy.bsky.social•9 hours ago

@fetterman.senate.gov what are you people doing about this? Everyone at DOGE needs to be arrested. They have no authority to do this.

mlkelly.bsky.social•23 hours ago

They are unbelievably stupid.

quirkygrrrl.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Moneyshot at 2:25. https://www.youtube.com/live/44PSaIfKGtE

daiserflab.bsky.social•23 hours ago

What was so urgent about the date of Feb. 10th?

heathermcbsn.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Thank you Tiffany Flick for your extraordinary efforts to secure the privacy of US citizens. I’m sorry it culminated in the end of your career with SSA and truly hope better things are ahead. Your good karma is high and may that be reflected in your next endeavor. 🌻 #Resist #DoNotComplyInAdvance

swiffy.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It's not credible that no one within SSA could have addressed these concerns adequately. The supposed reasons are pretext

saltam.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Bring them in front of committee. We the people have questions. Signed an American citizen. #signhere

makeshiftrecliner.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Is this the walk into the pizza place moment only to realize there’s no pedo ring so they have to make one up?

romwriteenable.bsky.social•3 hours ago

might be into "starting their own because a billionaire convinced them it was a good business idea" territory at this point

makeshiftrecliner.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Getting high on their own supply

hersheykiss.com•23 hours ago

To a man with a chainsaw everything looks like a tree

kimberleelynn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Rules, rules, rules! Why should they read the rules????

j-waller55.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Odd, DOGE hasn't touted finding much, if any, of those things. Instead, they falsely claim to have found millions of dead people who continue to receive Social Security payments.

mateohh.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Well they have definitely touted finding those things, but have been incompetently wrong on all fronts.

ljs17.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Such scary shit. Looting the data with no regard that this is the peoples’ personal, secure PRIVATE information. Such a travesty.

snowflakeelitist.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Democrats and the media SHOULD be all over this, debunking the claim of fraud found by DOGE. Come on! Social security and Medicaid are the only chance we have to snap MAGA people out of their Trump spell.

winkleberry.bsky.social•5 hours ago

There is no plan for intelligent, thoughtful paring of waste in the SocSec system.

The plan is BLOW IT UP. Crush it ASAP. Have the young punks lay off tens of thousands. Then walk away.

Who cares if seniors and disabled die when care facilities shut down? Who cares if seniors lose their homes?

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