Department of Govt Efficiency (DOGE)

OnWis97

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@democracydocket/post/DGl94E8xydO?xmt=AQGzSGyHfA3ro0B8IRCRosLNUoxWAQltwTOTOiyWlRbBGg

NEW: In a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s access to sensitive governmental information, a federal judge orders Trump administration officials to testify under oath to reveal the extent of DOGE’s access to private data.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-officials-testify-doge-data-lawsuit/

...yeah that's going to happen.

mickeyrat

OnWis97 said:

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@democracydocket/post/DGl94E8xydO?xmt=AQGzSGyHfA3ro0B8IRCRosLNUoxWAQltwTOTOiyWlRbBGg

NEW: In a lawsuit challenging DOGE’s access to sensitive governmental information, a federal judge orders Trump administration officials to testify under oath to reveal the extent of DOGE’s access to private data.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-officials-testify-doge-data-lawsuit/

...yeah that's going to happen.

NEW: Judge orders first sworn testimony on DOGE. Judge John Bates (GWBush/DC) grants 4 depositions, including one from DOGE central at White House, totaling 8 hours in suit over data access & security. w/@kyledcheney https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/doge-depositions-union-lawsuits-00206542

mickeyrat

NEW: DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases. Few of the records are redacted or anonymized.
https://propub.li/4h7jM7u

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@blakesanityrun/post/DGm9cugxZqN?xmt=AQGzX94hZ_wrSJbokMz3fgCVjwWmGTjDz0rW-CI10-gh2Q

It's taken a bit to gather my thoughts.

I'm forward deployed at the tip of the spear in Guam. Every day my job is to solve material availability issues in one our most remote naval bases in the world in order to repair our forward deployed work horse submarine crews.

I mentor Junior Supply Officers about being a bull dog of finding ways to YES in support of our mission and National Security in repairing submarines.

1/4

I proudly lead my Sailors who are doing  the hard work of supporting not only our ship, but our tended submarines AND high priority requisitions around the world. I have the BEST Sailors.

I also happen to be transgender.

The past few days have been kind of shitty. My Sailors deserve my best and my best is what I can control. They expect to follow my example of Honor, Courage, and Commitment. They deserve my Integrity, my Character, my Discipline, and my Humility to be beyond reproach. 2/4

We do not serve ourselves. We are called to a higher standard. Excellence is the expectation, not the exception. I've spent an entire nearly 20 year career getting people to look through my identity (whether that be LGB, woman, or transgender) and focus on my MERIT.

Whatever comes next, know I will stand in the gap. May they never know the hardship I endure as they should not have to carry my burden. May they never see my commitment to the mission or them ever waver.
3/4

Each day I will proudly put this uniform on until I am forced to take it off. US Naval history is steeped in the odds being stacked against us.

Wake up. Do the work. Control what I can control. Keep my head high. Focus on my Sailors and the mission at hand until I am properly relieved of the Watch.
4/4

Halifax2TheMax

Must’ve been a DEI hire.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/01/a-broken-foghorn-has-been-sounding-every-30-seconds-for-weeks-driving-people-crazy/

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@yonetteajoseph/post/DGs1FaOx8sW?xmt=AQGzEXzVHCFIZejNbXTQDZ_-v2goZOBnYQkdZQMuLC9b7A

While George W. Bush was president, the U.S. Coast Guard signed a contract to get administrative help from a company in Northern Virginia. It paid $144,000, and the contract was completed by June 30, 2005.

Twenty years passed. Presidents came and went.

Last week, Elon Musk’s restructuring team, called the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, said it had just canceled the long-dead Coast Guard contract — and in doing so, saved U.S. taxpayers $53.7 million.

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@weather.west/post/DGwS6czOyM8?xmt=AQGzFEztvVzMvKZkEVEZiBkoCuPMZvrtw0tsfhxRUfOSvQ

I don't really know how to shout this from the rooftops any louder: If this actually happens, it would spell the end of U.S. numerical weather prediction--the scientific models, run on supercomputers, used to create virtually all weather forecasts. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@tcable2105/post/DGxxxVLP4dE?xmt=AQGzxGsiUNaSnng30m2PIbEWi28MQPsSXMt5z1GUBo0RjQ

Salt caves 2000 feet underground in New Mexico hold the radioactive nuclear waste from US defense projects. It's the world's only deep geologic repository.

And DOGE says it has terminated the very large office in Carlsbad that oversees it.

Gern Blansten

I have a client that used to be fairly high up in the Taxpayer Advocate's Office at the IRS. She said the DC office is just upside down. 

They had them fire a ton of people last week and now they are scrambling to get a bunch of them back. Fucking insane to do this right in the middle of tax season.

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@tcable2105/post/DGxxxVLP4dE?xmt=AQGzxGsiUNaSnng30m2PIbEWi28MQPsSXMt5z1GUBo0RjQ

Salt caves 2000 feet underground in New Mexico hold the radioactive nuclear waste from US defense projects. It's the world's only deep geologic repository.

And DOGE says it has terminated the very large office in Carlsbad that oversees it.

I googled this and couldn't find a source.

mickeyrat

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@tcable2105/post/DGxxxVLP4dE?xmt=AQGzxGsiUNaSnng30m2PIbEWi28MQPsSXMt5z1GUBo0RjQ

Salt caves 2000 feet underground in New Mexico hold the radioactive nuclear waste from US defense projects. It's the world's only deep geologic repository.

And DOGE says it has terminated the very large office in Carlsbad that oversees it.

I googled this and couldn't find a source.

https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/03/04/doge-is-trying-to-close-a-field-office-that-directly-manages-a-nuclear-waste-site/

https://wipp.energy.gov/

contractors run it...

https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp-site.asp

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@tcable2105/post/DGxxxVLP4dE?xmt=AQGzxGsiUNaSnng30m2PIbEWi28MQPsSXMt5z1GUBo0RjQ

Salt caves 2000 feet underground in New Mexico hold the radioactive nuclear waste from US defense projects. It's the world's only deep geologic repository.

And DOGE says it has terminated the very large office in Carlsbad that oversees it.

I googled this and couldn't find a source.

https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/03/04/doge-is-trying-to-close-a-field-office-that-directly-manages-a-nuclear-waste-site/

https://wipp.energy.gov/

contractors run it...

https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp-site.asp

TY.  Nothing came up when I googled and tried a few different ways of finding it.

Odd that there is so little sources on it.  Today I google and a few sources pop up.

mickeyrat

mickeyrat

https://www.wired.com/story/gsa-sale-cia-facility/

mickeyrat

BREAKING: The government email address of Elon Musk has been published by The Intercept.

mickeyrat

this is a big fucking problem

https://www.threads.net/@gbshch/post/DG8UOwbtt9H?xmt=AQGzQhe8OHTWKaScnh5CXmegUYHOVTpe-V17xfWlBGl-oA

Italian employees at the NATO base in Aviano received a directive from Elon Musk's department to submit weekly work reports. As reported by the newspaper "Il Messaggero," they were asked to explain whether they are actually necessary. Trade unions are protesting.

Aviano base is 1 out of 6 in Europe equipped with US nuclear weapon & it’s being accessed by DOGE

mickeyrat

video.,

https://www.threads.net/@keithboykin/post/DG7Qzl7xAMp?xmt=AQGzcIQ7xmN0bXxVvkxqV6HpR9XFm5zeu60DG9PUt-nBVw

If you want to know where the waste, fraud, and abuse is in government, start with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Trump wasted 2.5 billion gallons of California water for a photo op on his social media, let half a billion dollars in food spoil on docks and warehouses by abruptly cutting off funding for USAID, and wasted $200 million on an ad campaign at the Department of Homeland Security to thank himself “for closing the border.”

brianlux

They can't even efficiently wreck everything.  It's all a game.

OnWis97

They know their messengers will skip over everything that looks bad.  The death of journalism is a tremendous blessing to these turds.

mickeyrat

https://youtube.com/shorts/xAeI-HCo2Kc?si=kl82QaEFphKO3sNc