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NEW: The email asking fed workers what they got done last week is out. It asks "What did you do last week?" and says "Please reply to this email with approximately. 5 bullets of what you accomplished" (but no classified info). Deadline is 11:59 p.m. Monday www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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NEW: We now know of 37 people associated with DOGE, including "Big Balls," a ketamine worker and a DOGE staffer who resigned from Treasury but is back now at SSA. If you know of any more DOGE ppl or have info, details on how to reach us via Signal here ---> www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

President Trump says on Fox News that Elon Musk has a "hundred geniuses" working for him, including "some very brilliant young people ... that dress much worse than him" Musk was wearing a suit jacket over a T-shirt reading "tech support" WH had denied Musk was overseeing DOGE before this aired

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NEW: Engineering lead for a government text messaging service resigns over a DOGE ally's request for access to a database including personal information. Thomas Shedd, a Tesla alum now in charge of GSA technologists, has sought access to more than 20 systems www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

we just published a list of more than 30 people working for (or closely with) DOGE. message me on signal @rachellerman.55 with tips on the office www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Elon Musk said DOGE is “maximally transparent” and “I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE” But DOGE has fought efforts to name its staff, list titles or issue an org chart. We found 34 people affiliated with DOGE www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The 19-year-old Elon Musk surrogate known as “Big Balls” has a State Dept. email address and is listed as a “Senior Advisor” Role gives Edward Coristine, reported to have been fired from a prev. job for leaking info, broad visibility into State Dept data www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 70 comments

Hello bskyers, My upcoming book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk, is up for pre-order. It delves into the playbook Musk is using today, providing the definitive look at the 6 yrs that transformed his reputation. Out May 6! Use PREORDER25 at B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hubris-max...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: Musk allies running govt's basic functions like one of his companies, asking interview questions reminiscent of his job screening and onboarding Tesla/SpaceX talent Chief of Staff at OPM, who worked at xAI, has six direct reports. Three worked for SpaceX. wapo.st/4aOOpwX

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Federal workers have been logging into interviews with DOGE advisers who join from personal email accounts and decline to identify themselves. GSA official told concerned staffers: “We’re afraid of those folks’ names getting out and their personal lives being disrupted.” wapo.st/40LVERn

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: U.S. govt officials privately warn Musk’s blitz on federal agencies appears illegal -Alarm over how Musk’s deputies appear to be operating as a strike team, outside typical rules and constitutional checks on executive power wapo.st/40LVERn

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Layoffs are "likely" if too few federal employees take the deferred resignation offer, a GSA official told workers wapo.st/3WMCXMd

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

->Some details on Musk's work in government: -U.S. Doge Service interviews focused on engineering + workers' feelings on DOGE mission -Some interviewees were asked to stay behind, do coding exercises -More 1-on-1s w/ govt technologists this week, who are preparing to show their code wapo.st/42tm6BY

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

In case there was any doubt about Elon Musk’s influence over the fed worker buyouts, the subject line a “Fork in the Road” is the same as the one Musk used in his “extremely hardcore” ultimatum to Twitter staff that led to hundreds of resignations in 2022 wapo.st/3PXucLH

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's vision for the DOGE broke down over deep philosophical differences. Ramaswamy favored an outside govt approach. Musk won out. Now his team gets "full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems" in govt. wapo.st/3E4Z1LK

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: 12 hours that sunk the spending bill. Musk got on X at 4:15a ET and declared "This bill should not pass." He proceeded to attack it throughout the day, calling it "crazy" "outrageous," "criminal," a message that ricocheted around the Capitol. By afternoon, the bill was dead wapo.st/3BEiq5l

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

hello bluesky! far be it from me to weigh in on the etiquette of this platform, but as one of the authors of the story in question I think it's prob best to just link to the work: wapo.st/3ZYklLx

submitted 67 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: SEC sent Elon Musk a settlement offer in securities probe, which his lawyer Alex Spiro appeared to dismiss on grounds it was politically motivated. The SEC investigation looks into potential fraud over late disclosure of Twitter stock purchases. wapo.st/3ZOjjl5 via @tonyromm.bsky.social and me

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NEW: Musk’s politics hadn’t seeped into Tesla. Then he axed its eco car of the future. Earlier this year, executives were with Musk in Palo Alto trying to sell him on the idea to move forward with an affordable compact. Musk axed it. Some Sr. execs left after it didn't pan out. wapo.st/3Zrhn0l

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Musk surrogates who oversaw sweeping changes at Tesla and X are involved in planning for the DOGE, which is eyeing the ideas they implemented (job cuts, RTO) for the federal govt. Steve Davis, Antonio Gracias (+Travis Kalanick) said to be involved www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 90 days ago • 73 comments

New: Elon Musk elevated a push to "defang" the SEC and FTC this week, part of a long history of squabbles with federal agencies that could come to the attention of DOGE. Musk's companies have come under scrutiny from: DOJ, SEC, FTC, FAA, NHTSA, NLRB, FCC, EPA www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Tesla drivers are using steering wheel weights to trick Autopilot’s safety monitoring. It’s been going on for years, but the latest wave rose to the top of new releases in Amazon’s steering wheel category https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/tesla-fsd-autopilot-wheel-weights/

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NEW: Tesla crashes in Autopilot nearly triple, data shows. The latest tally: 736 crashes, 17 deaths. "Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/ w/ @jeremybmerrill.com

submitted 623 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of people now know that Ron DeSantis is running for president https://t.co/FMEmaEnDbh

submitted 640 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone clamoring for new features (DMs, blocking, hellthread mitigation) but I think Bluesky should simply remove one feature per day until the app is perfected

submitted 663 days ago • 0 comments

Appears Elon Jet @elonjet.bsky.social, the account tracking the location of Elon Musk’s private plane in real time, is officially here on Blue Sky. You might recall that creator Jack Sweeney and @drewharwell.com, among others, got banned from Twitter over it!

submitted 663 days ago • 3 comments

“In an effort to give all of Elon Musk’s admirers a way to express their gratitude”

submitted 663 days ago • 1 comment

This platform has generated NEWS Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk shouldn't have bought Twitter. A year ago, he called Musk "the singular solution I trust." Today, on Bluesky, he said: "It all went south." Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk shouldn't have bought Twitter after all - The Washington Post

submitted 666 days ago • 1 comment

lot of u forgetting we are simply here in the protocol (not a competitor) and it shows

submitted 666 days ago • 0 comments

Feels like Blue Sky’s content moderation philosophy is being spelled out right here in real time??

submitted 666 days ago • 0 comments

Just read that we’re building a federated republic on here?? I’m sorry I didn’t sign up to nation build and it is for that reason I’m out

submitted 667 days ago • 1 comment

racking up regretted user minutes on here like

submitted 667 days ago • 1 comment