The digital infrastructure of the United States Government is both critical and fragile. Many of us who work in digital government have been trying to figure out what’s going on as norms and protocols are being subverted — Thread on some of what we know so far:
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"several pages have gone down and then come back online; others stayed up well past 5 p.m. Friday and were removed only recently."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/upshot/trump-government-websites-missing-pages.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives
Phone number
1-202-456-1414 (switchboard)
1-202-456-1111 (comments)
https://www.removepaywall.com/
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social has an excellent overview and legal history: https://www.lawdork.com/p/social-security-stops-sex-identification-changes
This was a main link off the https://usaid.gov homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20250201011553/https://www.usaid.gov/no-fear-act
Believable yes.
Although I am surprised the threat is only being sued. Imprisonment has been norm for regimes in the past.
Good info in your thread.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/health/cdc-websites-gender-lgbtq-datasets/index.html
Serfs don't need healthcare anyway
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://bsky.app/profile/arielmai.bsky.social/post/3lh33vpypoc2q
CISA guide on DNS tampering, but this would be from the inside.
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISAInsights-Cyber-MitigateDNSInfrastructureTampering_S508C.pdf
https://www.house.gov/representatives
Five most dangerous words:
"THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT!"
Or… full “building a fence”, like China’s “great firewall”, starting with .gov sites.
https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives
Appreciate the digital sleuthing by these @washingtonpost.com journalists using the sitemaps. Interesting note that HUD doesn’t have a computer-readable sitemap.
https://wapo.st/40ByOMt
https://digitalgovernmenthub.org/get-involved/digital-benefits-network-digital-identity-community-of-practice/
What they will do is stop the flow of information they don't want you to see.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/14/donald-trump-climate-change-mentions-government-websites
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/15/lawmakers-protest-removal-animal-inspection-reports/97960414/
https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-answers-following-report-of-musk-personnel-seeking-access-to-highly-sensitive-us-treasury-payments-system
The response to his questions are likely
"so what?"
The Dems are failing this moment so badly.
And
Why is Wyden the ONLY Democrat speaking up, out?
My party is failing us
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives
I wrote to Wyden with my concerns that all of this was going to happen and that it was his job to fight to stop it before it was too late.
“90 percent of all federal payments, including Social Security benefits, tax refunds and payments to federal workers and contractors. That adds up to a billion annual transactions totaling more than $5 trillion.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/how-an-arcane-treasury-dept-office-is-now-ground-zero-in-the-war-over-federal-spending/index.html
Project 2025: eliminate ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES, unless useful totrump.
Make him "Unitary" president upon inauguration. Means he is control of everything including judicial. No separate branches of gov w checks & balances
FBI is now compromised. Like what was in 3rd Reich. Ess ess. You step out of line, you entire accounts taken into custody.
Homelessness is considered crime so can be put in for profit prisons. Work will set you free.
https://www.house.gov/representatives
1-202-456-1414 (switchboard)
1-202-456-1111 (comments)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086393/
Ever bank CEO in this country should be enraged right now.
I'm just guessing the next target of someone who made his money on payments and would love to replace the Fed with his own system.
I’m having a difficult time wrapping my mind around it all.
Here's the ..Even scarier...Every major cell and cable network has STARLINK behind it. He can shut down comms at any time.
https://www.house.gov/representatives
Phone number
1-202-456-1414 (switchboard)
1-202-456-1111 (comments)
Phone number
1-202-456-1414 (switchboard)
1-202-456-1111 (comments)
https://www.house.gov/representatives
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-musk-aides-lock-government-200344003.html
https://www.house.gov/representatives
I want to know how they got access without someone just handing over the keys
Bet no one took notes before mucking about.
📌
He just sits on his fat ass signing executive orders, without a clue what they represent.
Musk is the Nazi Dictator, clueless trump is his lackey.
Are you willing to crack your neighbors over the head to make them understand? Because I am not sure folks are willing to go that far. It is coming to that.
Hopeful to find some way to help
V much yr wheelhouse
Context of course is during all this, all these systems are constantly under attack from Chinese and Russian threat actors with the resources of a near-peer nation behind them. 🫠
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/law-enforcement-takes-down-two-largest-cybercrime-forums-in-world
How is DOGE getting the security level access to do these things?
Now we have to wait to see who comes out on top of the inevitable conflict between Musk's with his techbro secret police, Vought and his corrupt accountants, and Miller with ICE.
However, it does make sense that DOGE has a letter from Trump saying, "Do whatever these guys tell you to."
All ready to be restored following whatever it takes to unseat FOTUS.
You have a valid point, however: and that would be another reason to log in and download copies of whatever you need. It's still free.