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#MaxwellFrost (first #GenZ member of #US #Congress):
“They're the ones hoarding wealth beyond imagination. We have to tell people the reason you can't pay your #rent has nothing to do with #trans people. The reason you don't have #healthcare has nothing to do with #immigrants. It has to do with #billionaires like Elon #Musk.”
#Car safety experts at #NHTSA, which regulates #Tesla , axed by #DOGE
Job cuts at the US traffic safety #regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla.
#Musk #selfdriving #takedown #conflictofinterest #ai
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/car-safety-experts-at-nhtsa-which-regulates-tesla-axed-by-doge/
Ars Technica · Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
Belatedly just seen there was a #Tesla protest in #Norwich UK today…
The comments from the readership of our local newspaper (EDP) were the usual rightwing, leftie bashing nonsense…i know this does not compare to the division in the US right now, but it’s terrifying seeing how many #Musk supporters I share airspace with.
I may be an EV driver, but I’ve never aspired to own a Tesla. This position seems sadly unthinkable to EDP readership.
#Palantir Is Helping #DOGE With a Massive #IRS Data Project
"Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter #Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon #Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED.
Palantir representatives have been onsite...to exchange data and could be used to move IRS data to the #cloud and access it there..."
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/
WIRED · Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
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"If one is interested in combating antisemitism, one has to preserve the concept, one has to preserve the word. If we allow it to become just a stick by which people, including antisemites, beat other people, if we allow it to become just one more bureaucratic tool that the government uses in order to deny people their rights or in order to destroy higher education, then it can't be used for the thing that it's meant to be used for…."
"If we allow the government to claim that it is fighting antisemitism when it is in fact fomenting antisemitism, then we lose the concept. We lose the word. We lose the ability to describe the phenomenon. Antisemitism is a very real phenomenon, one which unfortunately is getting worse all the time, not just the United States, but around the world."
~ Timothy Snyder
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On Fri, a group of unions & an advocacy org suing the #SocialSecurity Administration argued in a new court filing that the agency had violated a temporary restraining order blocking #DOGE from the agency’s systems w/personally identifiable information by adding names to the deaths database.
Meanwhile, the effort to move immigrants who are alive into the deaths database is proceeding. On Thurs, Social Security added 102 names, records show.
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#LelandDudek — the acting commissioner who was elevated from a low-level position after displaying public loyalty to #DOGE — had qualms about the task, acc/to 2 people with knowledge of his thinking. He thought it was illegal, the people said.
Then #DHS Secy #KristiNoem intervened — & Dudek agreed to move forward.
On Monday, acc/to 4 people familiar with the matter, Dudek signed 2 memorandums with Noem allowing the database action.…
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No such resistance emerged this time.
In recent weeks, #DHS’s requests shifted, acc/to a senior #SocialSecurity ofcl. #Immigration agents began meeting w/ #DOGE reps at the agency to discuss how they could achieve their larger goal of pushing out tens of thousands of migrants that #ICE was struggling to apprehend & deport, the official said.
That request soon morphed into the idea of placing immigrants into the deaths database….
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#DHS, meanwhile, at first made less intrusive requests….Agents spent much of Feb & March trawling through years of records in E-Verify…to identify potentially fraudulent #SocialSecurity numbers…. Agents then reached out to Social Security asking for help preventing this type of fraud….
DHS also requested that SSA staff turn over the addresses of undocumented immigrants so #ICE could track them down for #deportation….
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By March, #DOGE’s focus on #immigration issues was clear…. DOGE reps were asking a lot of questions about which kinds of address, wage & tax data they could access, & how that information could be used to determine citizenship status, the people said.
One official chose to resign rather than remain involved in what he saw as an illegal attempt to repurpose the agency for immigration enforcement.
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…Around the same time #SocialSecurity staff were warning that the agency’s ability to declare deaths could be exploited, #DHS & #DOGE arrived…. Soon, reps of both groups were hunting for ways to repurpose…databases to identify & deport…immigrants.
A small staff of career employees was assigned to work w/ #Musk’s team on the project….They were concerned that they might be facilitating something illegal, asking…if they were at risk of going to jail for the work they were doing….
The billionaire cohort Bill Ackman, Jamie Dimon, Stanley Druckenmiller, Ken Fisher and others that brought #Trump to power are now saying “This is not what we voted for.” The business leaders who spent their lives predicting financial future were too blind in their greed of "deregulation" to see what was obvious to anyone who can read news past the headline. They aren't smart, they're just a parasitic bunch of privileged nepo babies. #USpol #Musk
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/07/business/bill-ackman-criticize-trump-tariffs-intl/index.html
CNN · Billionaires are turning on Trump
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But no solution was enacted.
Entry into the Death Master File has potentially severe consequences, effectively erasing a person’s ability to live & draw wages in the US, acc/to Jim Francis, a consumer law attorney. Francis—who recently sued #SocialSecurity for mistakenly labeling a MD woman dead—noted that the agency sells its death info to creditors, pension companies, life insurers & credit reporting firms.
"New aerial surveillance footage obtained by the Southern Environmental Law Center has found that Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility, the backbone of its flagship Grok. That's 20 more generators than the 15 xAI filed permits for, and 35 more than it was approved to use.
The data center, nestled in historic south Memphis, came online last September, despite protests from community leaders. AI data centers are notoriously loud, and hog water and electricity like a mid-sized American city. Case in point, the local utility company, Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) estimates the Memphis facility will soon be sucking up one million gallons of water per day, as well as 150 megawatts of power, once it reaches its full power.
Though the MLGW says it's "executed four standard electric service agreements, one water service, and one gas service agreement" with xAI — totaling 50 megawatts of power — Musk says the facility needs much more due to rapid power fluctuations in his system of 10 to 20 megawatts at a time.
But getting approval for that kind of power is a slow and cautious process, according to Bloomberg, as rapid data center construction runs up against the limits of what civilian power grids can provide. Never one to wait for approval, Musk has chosen instead to exploit a loophole in local regulations, which seemingly allow him to park a fleet of toxic methane generators outside his facility as long as they don't sit in the same location for 364 days."
Futurism · Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center
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…Staffers at #SocialSecurity began raising the alarm about the urgent need to address a flaw in the agency’s deaths database in Feb….
Anybody granted the appropriate permissions within Social Security could mark someone as dead, employees realized, w/o having to prove their demise in any way — e.g. by referencing…a death certificate. In emails & meetings that rose up the management chain, employees warned that the dataset was vulnerable to manipulation….