Department of Govt Efficiency (DOGE)

Vitalogensia

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

UPDATE: We've confirmed the identities and roles of 9 more key figures affiliated with Musk, bringing our DOGE tracker to a total of 86 staffers.
https://propub.li/3GIitz4

Isn't this essentially Doxing? 

I take doxxing to be in relation to publishing private information about private individuals. These people are IMO public workers, and information for standard government workers is readily available to the public. When I worked for a state university, my contact information and salary was open for all to see. 

Tim Simmons

these assholes probably have it on their Linkdin anyway.

tempo_n_groove

Vitalogensia said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

UPDATE: We've confirmed the identities and roles of 9 more key figures affiliated with Musk, bringing our DOGE tracker to a total of 86 staffers.
https://propub.li/3GIitz4

Isn't this essentially Doxing? 

I take doxxing to be in relation to publishing private information about private individuals. These people are IMO public workers, and information for standard government workers is readily available to the public. When I worked for a state university, my contact information and salary was open for all to see. 

Tim Simmons said:

these assholes probably have it on their Linkdin anyway.

Yeah I get that.  Here is my "But".  What are you trying to achieve by posting their information if not to be intimidation?  Abortion doctors names and addresses were put on a list for a reason and it wasn't just because they were public figures.

I'm not thrilled with DOGE but I don't like the smell of this.

Go Beavers

tempo_n_groove said:

Vitalogensia said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

UPDATE: We've confirmed the identities and roles of 9 more key figures affiliated with Musk, bringing our DOGE tracker to a total of 86 staffers.
https://propub.li/3GIitz4

Isn't this essentially Doxing? 

I take doxxing to be in relation to publishing private information about private individuals. These people are IMO public workers, and information for standard government workers is readily available to the public. When I worked for a state university, my contact information and salary was open for all to see. 

Tim Simmons said:

these assholes probably have it on their Linkdin anyway.

Yeah I get that.  Here is my "But".  What are you trying to achieve by posting their information if not to be intimidation?  Abortion doctors names and addresses were put on a list for a reason and it wasn't just because they were public figures.

I'm not thrilled with DOGE but I don't like the smell of this.

I get the uneasiness because of the hostility surrounding doge, but government employee names are publicly available out of transparency. Not knowing who the doge people are and keeping it hidden would be a huge red flag. 

mace1229

Vitalogensia said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

UPDATE: We've confirmed the identities and roles of 9 more key figures affiliated with Musk, bringing our DOGE tracker to a total of 86 staffers.
https://propub.li/3GIitz4

Isn't this essentially Doxing? 

I take doxxing to be in relation to publishing private information about private individuals. These people are IMO public workers, and information for standard government workers is readily available to the public. When I worked for a state university, my contact information and salary was open for all to see. 

Some are volunteers and unpaid consultants. Does that make them public workers? 

Vitalogensia

mace1229 said:

Vitalogensia said:

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

UPDATE: We've confirmed the identities and roles of 9 more key figures affiliated with Musk, bringing our DOGE tracker to a total of 86 staffers.
https://propub.li/3GIitz4

Isn't this essentially Doxing? 

I take doxxing to be in relation to publishing private information about private individuals. These people are IMO public workers, and information for standard government workers is readily available to the public. When I worked for a state university, my contact information and salary was open for all to see. 

Some are volunteers and unpaid consultants. Does that make them public workers? 

If their duties are within or pertain to a public/government agency, then yes I imagine they would be, but I am not sure. 

josevolution

lol how many times have we seen this president or someone from his administration or GOP members putting personal information out for the world to see? Someone they disagree with? 

tempo_n_groove

josevolution said:

lol how many times have we seen this president or someone from his administration or GOP members putting personal information out for the world to see? Someone they disagree with? 

That isn't right either.  Whether you agree with the politics or not, putting a persons personal info is done to intimidate and that's being a bully.

Halifax2TheMax

Government employees earning a salary paid by tax payers are a matter of public record and are supposed to be public, unless national security prevents it. Even then there is supposed to be secure congressional oversight. What role do DOGE employees occupy, who’s paying their salaries and why shouldn’t their names, title, work contact info and salaries be public?

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.com/@newrepublic/post/DJuKkxPoXDu?xmt=AQF0HZAUVhvP8OIkE8zW2G16xmpPDq01it9_P1hXtgJFyA

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%.

So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.
https://trib.al/bkFsYx9

mickeyrat

Trump, Musk offer show of unity as Tesla CEO departs government - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-lauds-musk-oval-office-billionaires-turbulent-tenure-ends-2025-05-30/

OnWis97

Didn't the 45 Admin say that Bannon was leaving. And didn't he persist?

Elon is the biggest campaign funder in US history. He'll still be destroying us even if not as much in plain sight.

PJ_Soul

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

UPDATE: We've confirmed the identities and roles of 9 more key figures affiliated with Musk, bringing our DOGE tracker to a total of 86 staffers.
https://propub.li/3GIitz4

Isn't this essentially Doxing? 

Not even a little bit. If there home addresses and private phone numbers had been published, then it would have been. But all of this information is just what we should all know about government workers, i.e. their professional backgrounds and connections, including possible conflicts of interest. 

mickeyrat

A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

Read more: https://propub.li/4mYsdWS

mickeyrat

New: At least 38 DOGE members work, or have worked, for one of Elon Musk's companies. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen DOGE officials are making cuts to the same federal agencies that regulate the industries that employed them. https://propub.li/3HC6nbu

tbergs

Another big victory for DoGE! Let's burn 500 tons of food because USAID was scuttled and we're a bunch of assholes. Good god how sickening. Fuck these people.

Over the coming weeks, the food will be destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers (on top of the $800,000 used to purchase the biscuits), according to current and former federal aid workers I spoke with. One current USAID staffer told me he’d never seen anywhere near this many biscuits trashed over his decades working in American foreign aid. Sometimes food isn’t stored properly in warehouses, or a flood or a terrorist group complicates deliveries; that might result in, at most, a few dozen tons of fortified foods being lost in a given year. But several of the aid workers I spoke with reiterated that they have never before seen the U.S. government simply give up on food that could have been put to good use.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/?gift=wsxZJAKLMpQ6JwuD8NqU-tGGeS3yQ-vWbsFsx3qU5tg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Halifax2TheMax

tbergs said:

Another big victory for DoGE! Let's burn 500 tons of food because USAID was scuttled and we're a bunch of assholes. Good god how sickening. Fuck these people.

Now, now, respect them.

josevolution

Yet fuckface and the S African immigrant eat their food without a thought of kids & adults starving! What a shame to be an American citizen these days! I hope Karma visits these two pricks soon like today