Department of Govt Efficiency (DOGE)

gimmesometruth27

did big balls mess up again? someone needs to educate that kid.

josevolution

gimmesometruth27 said:

did big balls mess up again? someone needs to educate that kid.

I wonder if Melatoma asked to see big balls considering her husband doesn’t have any! 

mickeyrat

While Elon Musk brandished the DOGE buzzsaw, insiders saw Russ Vought’s prints on DOGE’s actions.

“I can’t imagine that the DOGE team knew to target all these little parts of the government without Russ pointing them there,” a former official said.

Read the full story: https://propub.li/4o0EH0a

gimmesometruth27

where is doge now that we are giving 40 billion to argentina, buying noem TWO fucking planes, and tearing down the east wing for a 1000 seater ballroom? 

oh yeah and the arc de trump they are apparently going to build on the national mall.

Tim Simmons

ah well, nevertheless

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/

mickeyrat

Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.

Read "The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security," one of our most-read investigations of 2025: https://propub.li/3YHdkNt

mickeyrat

HAPPENING NOW: House Democrats hold a news conference after two members of Elon Musk's DOGE team at the Social Security Administration were referred for possible Hatch Act violations, according to a DOJ court filing. https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-doge-staffers-social-security-agency-violated-hatch/story?id=129393252

gimmesometruth27

mickeyrat said:

HAPPENING NOW: House Democrats hold a news conference after two members of Elon Musk's DOGE team at the Social Security Administration were referred for possible Hatch Act violations, according to a DOJ court filing. https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-doge-staffers-social-security-agency-violated-hatch/story?id=129393252

hopefully they face some kind of consequence, as nobody in this administration ever will.

mickeyrat

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet

https://www.404media.co/the-removed-doge-deposition-videos-have-already-been-backed-up-across-the-internet/

mickeyrat

The tinkering gives what is meant to be an independent audit a whiff of propaganda. And it’s just one example of what has been a focused assault against inspectors general—who are meant to be bipartisan overseers of government agencies—by the Trump administration. https://trib.al/q3S2FvO

mickeyrat

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

Read more (published Sept. 2025): https://propub.li/4sTgbQZ

mickeyrat

ALTNATPARKSERVICE adbook post 

Update on DOGE: 

A federal judge just delivered a devastating ruling against DOGE, finding that Elon Musk’s operation “blatantly used” race, gender, and other protected characteristics to carry out the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Over 1,400 grants representing more than $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds were wiped out. And the method DOGE used to do it is almost too absurd to believe two staffers recruited from tech backgrounds through Elon Musk’s allies fed grant descriptions into ChatGPT and asked it “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation.” That was the entire review process. No scholars consulted, no peer review, and no subject-matter expertise. Just a chatbot and an ideological keyword list.

That keyword list included terms like “DEI, DEIA, Equity, Inclusion, BIPOC, LGBTQ” and anything that tripped the filter was terminated. Among the grants ChatGPT flagged was an anthology titled “In the Shadow of the Holocaust,” a collection of short fiction by Jewish writers from the Soviet Union. The AI classified it as DEI because it explored Jewish writers’ engagement with the Holocaust. The NEH’s own acting chairman testified he didn’t believe the grant was DEI-related or wasteful and DOGE overruled him and cancelled it anyway.

Judge McMahon also noted that given what courts now know about AI’s tendency to hallucinate, it’s entirely possible ChatGPT was simply generating “rationales” to satisfy what it perceived the user wanted to hear.

Judge Colleen McMahon called it what it was. “Treating Black civil-rights history, Jewish testimony about the Holocaust, the oft-forgotten Asian American experience, the shameful treatment of the children of Native tribes, or the mere mention of a woman as a marker of lack of merit or wastefulness is not lawful,” she wrote. She called the whole scheme a “textbook example of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination,” ruled it violated both the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment, and found that DOGE had no legal authority to make any of these decisions in the first place.

She also called it “deeply troubling” that at a moment of rising antisemitism, the government had deemed projects about Jewish women disfavored because they centered on Jewish culture and female voices.

The judge ordered the government to rescind its termination letters though the ruling doesn’t force immediate payment of the funds. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

This is what happens when you hand unchecked power over public institutions to people who have no understanding of (or respect for) what those institutions actually do.

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

ALTNATPARKSERVICE adbook post 

Update on DOGE: 

A federal judge just delivered a devastating ruling against DOGE, finding that Elon Musk’s operation “blatantly used” race, gender, and other protected characteristics to carry out the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Over 1,400 grants representing more than $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds were wiped out. And the method DOGE used to do it is almost too absurd to believe two staffers recruited from tech backgrounds through Elon Musk’s allies fed grant descriptions into ChatGPT and asked it “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation.” That was the entire review process. No scholars consulted, no peer review, and no subject-matter expertise. Just a chatbot and an ideological keyword list.

That keyword list included terms like “DEI, DEIA, Equity, Inclusion, BIPOC, LGBTQ” and anything that tripped the filter was terminated. Among the grants ChatGPT flagged was an anthology titled “In the Shadow of the Holocaust,” a collection of short fiction by Jewish writers from the Soviet Union. The AI classified it as DEI because it explored Jewish writers’ engagement with the Holocaust. The NEH’s own acting chairman testified he didn’t believe the grant was DEI-related or wasteful and DOGE overruled him and cancelled it anyway.

Judge McMahon also noted that given what courts now know about AI’s tendency to hallucinate, it’s entirely possible ChatGPT was simply generating “rationales” to satisfy what it perceived the user wanted to hear.

Judge Colleen McMahon called it what it was. “Treating Black civil-rights history, Jewish testimony about the Holocaust, the oft-forgotten Asian American experience, the shameful treatment of the children of Native tribes, or the mere mention of a woman as a marker of lack of merit or wastefulness is not lawful,” she wrote. She called the whole scheme a “textbook example of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination,” ruled it violated both the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment, and found that DOGE had no legal authority to make any of these decisions in the first place.

She also called it “deeply troubling” that at a moment of rising antisemitism, the government had deemed projects about Jewish women disfavored because they centered on Jewish culture and female voices.

The judge ordered the government to rescind its termination letters though the ruling doesn’t force immediate payment of the funds. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

This is what happens when you hand unchecked power over public institutions to people who have no understanding of (or respect for) what those institutions actually do.

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Sounds antisemitic to me. Some friend of Israel, eh? Jared Dear Boy care to comment?