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NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

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WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

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On a new 💾 @techwontsave.us 💾 @makenakelly.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to explain how Elon Musk’s DOGE is reshaping the US government and the consequences that has for government employees and the wider public: www.techwontsave.us/episode/264_... harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶

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NEW: DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government Workers are communicating less over official channels, not attending Teams meeting, fearing hostile monitoring. via @peard33.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/survei...

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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🚨 Scoop: Treasury Dept agrees to block DOGE access to personal taxpayer data at IRS 🚨 IRS was preparing to try to reject this request, but was able to negotiate with the Trump admin to narrow access. Now DOGE will get the same access as academic researchers and some IT professionals, per sources.

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listen to this interview with Wired’s @makenakelly.bsky.social for a deeper look and clearer understanding of all that has been happening recently.. really great dialogue.

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NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

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i had about as much fun as one can speaking with @parismarx.com about DOGE's government takeover we really dig into the details! you should listen & share!!

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Elon Musk and his minions don’t have a clue how government works, but they think they’re qualified to remake it anyway. I was really happy to have @makenakelly.bsky.social on the show to make sense of everything that’s happened in recent weeks.

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SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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“It’s all DOGE going forward,” one USDS source tells WIRED.

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The US Digital Service represented one vision of technology in government, centered on building government capacity and making service delivery work better. DOGE is focused on weakening capacity and downsizing government. The culture clash between the old and new USDS is just going to be too great.

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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"This is not the mission I came to serve." The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. new from @makenakelly.bsky.social:

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SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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"That motherfucker. We are adversaries." goes so hard omg lol

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NEW, from @telliotter.bsky.social and me: SpaceX engineers have already been onboarded at FAA - an agency that directly regulates them www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

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New from me + @aarianmarshall.bsky.social: SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the FAA on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.” www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly affirmed Musk’s leadership of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But according to a new court filing from the White House, the administrator of DOGE isn’t Elon Musk after all. Who is? No one knows.

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the thing is, i WANT to be working and constantly breaking news on DOGE, but this 4x/week RTO will get in the way of that!!!

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Condé staff work overtime to break news about Elon Musk’s government takeover at WIRED, develop new recipes at @bonappetit.bsky.social + cover the Grammys for Vanity Fair. We go beyond for our jobs, but Condé Nast is making us commute 4x/week just to check a box—& can’t even provide enough workspace

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devastating, but important reporting from @justcalma.bsky.social this morning www.theverge.com/features/611...

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NSF fired 168 yesterday. Today its staff directory page says this:

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Just re-upping this @makenakelly.bsky.social story from yesterday bc... jeez oh man you guys should read this www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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NEW: Who is running DOGE? Don't ask its employees, because they haven't got a clue. Apparently, neither does the White House. More on the internal USDS/DOGE confusion over leadership here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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Russia-linked hackers have been phishing Ukrainian military with Signal QR codes that look like group invites but instead add a linked device that eavesdrops on messages. Update Signal now to get its fix for a tactic that’s likely to spread beyond Ukraine. www.wired.com/story/russia...

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NEW: A White House official's sworn statement that Elon Musk isn't technically in charge of DOGE has added to the confusion at the US DOGE Service, where workers say they have no idea who the DOGE Administrator, ie their boss, actually is. This is from @makenakelly.bsky.social

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25-year-old Marko Elez has been reinstated in the Trump administration and given an EOP email address, per source, as Musk had said would happen Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"

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USDS/DOGE had its weekly staff meeting today. Hearing no announcement was made re: administrator.

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a critical aspect of our lawsuit is getting an answer to this question. we've alleged that DOGE is an Advisory Committee, but the government cannot say what it is. the latest answer from the government (that i'll post under this) is incoherent.

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NEW: DOGE leader?????????????? @makenakelly.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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NEW: Who is running DOGE? Don't ask its employees, because they haven't got a clue. Apparently, neither does the White House. More on the internal USDS/DOGE confusion over leadership here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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I have been trying to identify the administrator all weekend. I have asked the White House for a name and have received no answer. I keep hearing from USDSers that whenever they ask who the acting administrator is, they get no answer from their leaders.

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the good news is tax data has many administrative, procedural, and technical controls — read: likely thousands of permission levels designed for workers to only be able to access the data they need to do their work guarded by civil servants who are holding the line the bad news is doge is trying

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If you are a federal worker or have insight into DOGE, please reach out. We can speak anonymously. You can contact me securely on Signal at makenakelly.32

NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

If you appreciate Teen Vogue’s journalism, support the workers who make it possible! Sign the petition!

www.wired.com/story/krause...

WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

On a new 💾 @techwontsave.us 💾 @makenakelly.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to explain how Elon Musk’s DOGE is reshaping the US government and the consequences that has for government employees and the wider public: www.techwontsave.us/episode/264_... harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶

NEW: DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government Workers are communicating less over official channels, not attending Teams meeting, fearing hostile monitoring. via @peard33.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/survei...

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

listen to this interview with Wired’s @makenakelly.bsky.social for a deeper look and clearer understanding of all that has been happening recently.. really great dialogue.

NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

i had about as much fun as one can speaking with @parismarx.com about DOGE's government takeover we really dig into the details! you should listen & share!!

Elon Musk and his minions don’t have a clue how government works, but they think they’re qualified to remake it anyway. I was really happy to have @makenakelly.bsky.social on the show to make sense of everything that’s happened in recent weeks.

SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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“It’s all DOGE going forward,” one USDS source tells WIRED.

The US Digital Service represented one vision of technology in government, centered on building government capacity and making service delivery work better. DOGE is focused on weakening capacity and downsizing government. The culture clash between the old and new USDS is just going to be too great.

NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

"This is not the mission I came to serve." The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. new from @makenakelly.bsky.social:

SCOOP: USDS Engineering Director Resigns Anne Marshall, who was only promoted to the role in December, resigned from USDS/DOGE on Wednesday following dozens of terminations at the organization. "This is not the mission I came to serve." More here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

"That motherfucker. We are adversaries." goes so hard omg lol

NEW, from @telliotter.bsky.social and me: SpaceX engineers have already been onboarded at FAA - an agency that directly regulates them www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

New from me + @aarianmarshall.bsky.social: SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the FAA on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.” www.wired.com/story/faa-do...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly affirmed Musk’s leadership of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But according to a new court filing from the White House, the administrator of DOGE isn’t Elon Musk after all. Who is? No one knows.

the thing is, i WANT to be working and constantly breaking news on DOGE, but this 4x/week RTO will get in the way of that!!!

devastating, but important reporting from @justcalma.bsky.social this morning www.theverge.com/features/611...

NSF fired 168 yesterday. Today its staff directory page says this:

Just re-upping this @makenakelly.bsky.social story from yesterday bc... jeez oh man you guys should read this www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

NEW: Who is running DOGE? Don't ask its employees, because they haven't got a clue. Apparently, neither does the White House. More on the internal USDS/DOGE confusion over leadership here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

Russia-linked hackers have been phishing Ukrainian military with Signal QR codes that look like group invites but instead add a linked device that eavesdrops on messages. Update Signal now to get its fix for a tactic that’s likely to spread beyond Ukraine. www.wired.com/story/russia...

NEW: A White House official's sworn statement that Elon Musk isn't technically in charge of DOGE has added to the confusion at the US DOGE Service, where workers say they have no idea who the DOGE Administrator, ie their boss, actually is. This is from @makenakelly.bsky.social

25-year-old Marko Elez has been reinstated in the Trump administration and given an EOP email address, per source, as Musk had said would happen Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"

USDS/DOGE had its weekly staff meeting today. Hearing no announcement was made re: administrator.

a critical aspect of our lawsuit is getting an answer to this question. we've alleged that DOGE is an Advisory Committee, but the government cannot say what it is. the latest answer from the government (that i'll post under this) is incoherent.

NEW: DOGE leader?????????????? @makenakelly.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

NEW: Who is running DOGE? Don't ask its employees, because they haven't got a clue. Apparently, neither does the White House. More on the internal USDS/DOGE confusion over leadership here: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

I have been trying to identify the administrator all weekend. I have asked the White House for a name and have received no answer. I keep hearing from USDSers that whenever they ask who the acting administrator is, they get no answer from their leaders.

the good news is tax data has many administrative, procedural, and technical controls — read: likely thousands of permission levels designed for workers to only be able to access the data they need to do their work guarded by civil servants who are holding the line the bad news is doge is trying

If you are a federal worker or have insight into DOGE, please reach out. We can speak anonymously. You can contact me securely on Signal at makenakelly.32

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