“Trump had given Musk and his operatives carte blanche to tap any unclassified system they pleased. One of their first stops: a database previously breached more than a decade ago by alleged Chinese cyberspies that contained investigative files on tens of millions of US government employees. Other storehouses thrown open to DOGE may have included federal workers’ tax records, biometric data, and private medical histories, such as treatment for drug and alcohol abuse; the cryptographic keys for restricted areas at federal facilities across the country; the personal testimonies of low-income-housing recipients; and granular detail on the locations of particularly vulnerable children. What did DOGE want with this kind of information? None of it seemed relevant to Musk’s stated aim of identifying waste and fraud, multiple government finance, IT, and security specialists told WIRED. But in treating the US government itself as a giant dataset, the experts said, DOGE could help the Trump administration accomplish another goal: to gather much of what the government knows about a given individual, whether a civil servant or an undocumented immigrant, in one easily searchable place. WIRED spoke with more than 150 current and former federal employees, experts, and Musk supporters across more than 20 agencies to expose the inner workings of DOGE. Many of these sources requested anonymity to speak candidly about what DOGE has done—and what it might do next.”
This is sickening. Take the time to read this whole article, and be informed. You need to know who these criminals are, and what they are doing to our personal, private, deeply NOT THEIR FUCKING BUSINESS information.
i really wonder what Julius Caesar would think of a bunch of neurodivergent rats huddled in a circle chanting ides of march ides of march ides of march and then cheering loudly on the 2067th anniversary of his assassination?
like would he cry?
losing it over these tags
Caesar and Ea-Nasir, in the afterlife, torn between feeling smug at still being remembered and grumpy because they are remembered in a ‘Haha, that dude really sucked, WOW’ kind of a way.
Caesar pissed off because he’s in an exclusive club of two and the other member is THIS GUY. Really??
i do wonder how much of the derisive language you hear toward “resistlib winemoms” or whatever is just “people who grew up in Safely Blue Coastal Enclaves rebelling against ppl who remind them of their mom b/c they are emotionally stunted adults”
like, as A Child Of A Very Conservative Area, i have a very vivid recollection of the first time i encountered this type of person, and my reaction was mostly baffled delight. wait you’re telling me this PTA mom with unassailable Wholesome Americana credentials is gassing up the cause of trans rights at her book club. you’re telling me she’s batting her eyelashes and “think of the children”-ing, except instead of doing that to promote some obnoxious “ban this book from the school curriculum” agenda, she’s shaming her state representative into actually funding the damn schools? i do not care how cringe her UV-bleached “i’m with her” bumper sticker is or whatever, she is working extremely hard & successfully on shit i care about and i will brook no slander against her
Brought coffee and coffee cake to class this morning and once the adults had partaken I let the kids have some of the coffee cake.
Child: Study, why doesn’t it taste like coffee?
Me: Coffee cake isn’t usually made of coffee, it is a cake adults eat with their coffee, that’s why it’s named that.
Child: Interesting…my mom claims cake is not for breakfast. And now I discover adults have been having cake that is specifically meant for breakfast this whole time… fascinating.
some of the tags responding to the reblog addition i made to @pangur-and-grim’s post said the picture needed a low opacity Pangur in the background, and, yeah, they were right.
amhrancas 