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Musk pressed on 'hostile' government takeover: 'They're going to get what they voted for': So-called Department of Government Efficiency Chair Elon Musk responded to what critics have called a "hostile takeover" of government by saying Americans got "what they voted for." The billionaire was asked…

1. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” URLs that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.

Top FEMA Official Is Fired Over Payments for N.Y.C. Migrant Shelters www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/n...

'Just name your price': Trump move seen as signal 'America is open for business' in bribes www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

GOP Rep. Eli Crane is drafting articles of impeachment for District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer because he issued an injunction blocking DOGE from accessing Treasury financial data of millions of Americans. This is classic authoritarian intimidation of the judiciary to remove checks on the executive.

A federal judge denied the Trump administration’s request to lift a temporary restraining order restricting individuals associated with DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury Department records and payment systems.

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Trump Aide’s Sinister Military Plan Exposed in Alarming Report newrepublic.com/post/187622/... via @newrepublic.com

Edward Coristine joined Elon Musk’s DOGE team at 19 but lost his Path Network internship in June 2022 after leaking proprietary information to a competitor. Following his dismissal, Coristine revealed on Discord that he still had system access and could have disrupted operations but chose not to.

NOAA sees DOGE search for its DEI-related information: DOGE representatives at NOAA are combing through IT databases to find employees associated with DEI initiatives, according to a source familiar at the oceans and atmosphere agency. Why it matters: How Elon Musk's Department of Government…

Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

'Craziness broke loose': Teacher put on leave over lesson that challenged Trump order: Last week, Marana High School physics teacher Les Beard learned about a chromosomal disorder with relevance to current events and decided to share what he’d learned with his students. This week, followers of…