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Glyn Moody @glynmoody@mastodon.social · 6d ago

#DOGE’s wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/doges-inflated-wall-of-receipts-96-of-grant-savings-unverifiable-gao-says/ " DOGE’s inflated “Wall of Receipts”: 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says. " #musk is fraud

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🍀 Egghat НетBойне 🍀 @egghat@mastodon.social · Jul 31, 2026

TAGESSPIEGEL: Wasserzeichen deutet auf KI-Erzeugnis hin: US-Außenministerium löst mit falscher Afrika-Karte Wirbel aus https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/wasserzeichen-deutet-auf-ki-erzeugnis-hin-us-aussenministerium-lost-mit-falscher-afrika-karte-wirbel-aus-15899666.html #DOGE-#Trump: „Wir stellen die Entwicklungshilfe ein, weil unser Geld nie dort ankommt, wo wir es hinschicken“. Schaut auf diese Karte! #rotfl

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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…Musk’s team had essentially “pulled the wires out of the wall on the payment system,” as one senior official put it. Even when waivers were approved, the money still wasn’t moving. Rather than making things more efficient, DOGE had trashed the place. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #usaid

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Trump had no interest in funding anything to do with human rights or the promotion of democracy. … And yet, the vicious terms Musk used to describe USAID—calling it “evil” and “criminal”—mystified even some of the agency’s most ardent critics in the administration and on Capitol Hill. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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If Elon triggered controversy, all the better, in Trump’s view. Let him absorb the bad press… It was not unusual for Musk to call Trump directly late at night, tell him…of his plans to decimate an agency, and Trump would give his blessing, often with only the vaguest notion of what he was actually blessing. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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The United States Agency for International Development…had been at the heart of American soft power… It was a projection of American values that had enjoyed bipartisan support for decades. …nothing would prepare Washington for the all-out attack on the agency by Musk (or DOGE)… —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Susie Wiles would start telling people that she was canceling plans because she didn’t want to be away from her phone or computer, so she could be prepared for whatever Musk and the DOGE team would do next. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #susiewiles #elonmusk #musk #doge

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Within the span of weeks, he would go from being regarded at the top levels of the administration as the greatest “genius” in the world to a “true nut” who was careening out of control. …Musk sometimes appeared unhinged. And he seemed to enjoy scaring people. His essential strangeness was a regular topic of conversation among the White House staff. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #whitehouse

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Musk thought nothing of taunting and humiliating people who worked at his companies… He brought the same outlook to DOGE—assuming the federal workforce was, at best, lazy, and, at worst, dead. … He was making wild claims, untethered from evidence, but that mattered little. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Musk would not step away from his companies or take any steps to address his conflicts of interest… For several weeks, most of the White House staff had no idea what he was doing until it was done —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #usaid

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Authorized by the President of the United States but overseen by no one, Musk would momentarily usurp the powers of Congress to control public spending, essentially impound billions of dollars in already-appropriated money, and trample the prerogatives of the President’s new cabinet secretaries. All in secrecy and often in the middle of the night. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Within weeks, Musk and his crew…tried to access some of the government’s most sensitive computer systems, including those that controlled government payments. … Musk kept a tiny office on the West Wing’s second floor but rarely used it…—though he’d still slip back now and then to play video games in the dark. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change #musk #doge

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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In a move that critics said shielded him from public accountability, Musk was not named the DOGE administrator. Instead, he would be a “special government employee”… Being a special government employee made him simultaneously an insider and outsider, answerable to the President alone. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #doge #musk #trump

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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Musk carried himself with the bravado of a man accustomed to ruling his companies by fiat, but that was not the way the government worked. … He had little knowledge of the labyrinthine federal system, nor how its budget functioned. And he had even less interest in the Constitution, which could severely hobble the dramatic unilateral reengineering of the government he imagined. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change #musk #doge

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026

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…Musk evangelized about the urgent need for a smaller government. He was chafing at the regulatory oversight of his companies, and was embroiled in bitter disputes with nearly a dozen federal agencies. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge

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Kim Perales @KimPerales@toad.social · Jul 29, 2026

“He’s finally admitted that🚨he’s sold cars for 2 decades that never had the bandwidth capacity for self-driving technology.🚨He promised to save a trillion dollars with #DOGE. He suddenly realized that Mars is hard. And this is🚨the largest pump & dump scam in history. He’s a #fraud.” -D Greenidge #Musk #SpaceX #Tesla #FSS #Corruption #TrumpRegime #USPol

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@RonSupportsYou @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social · Jul 29, 2026

Jessica Grose: "Pres. Trump’s arbitrary and vindictive leadership style negatively affected the job market since he came back in office. The #DOGE firings. The baffling 50 percent tariff on some Canadian goods that Trump announced on July 20, which comes after analysis found last year’s tariffs to be a disaster for job creation, particularly in manufacturing and construction. Then there are cuts to federal funding, which tend to affect higher education, scientific research and nonprofit work."

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Democracy Matters

@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social · Jul 27, 2026

Because Musk cannot see outside of his fascist frame. https://newrepublic.com/article/213533/elon-musk-economist-interview-doge-cuts-killed-zero-children #DivestFromMusk #BankruptTesla #TeslaTakedown #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #USPol

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RedwoodSec @RedwoodSec@infosec.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Frank Bisignano: Welcome to the Future! Where DOGE Auctions Your Social Security and IRS Data https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/07/26/frank-bisignano-were-bringing-social-security-and-irs-into-the-future/ #uspol #irs #socialsecurity #doge

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Bich Nguyen @bich@apobangpo.space · Jul 25, 2026

"USAID helped fund key divisions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), such as the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria. Much of that division was focused on the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), a program to combat malaria abroad, as well as other programs to fight neglected tropical diseases." https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5984356-usaid-cuts-cyclospora-response/ #PublicHealth #diarrhea #cyclospora #epidemiology #HHS #FDA #CDC #DOGE #USpol

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