Summary
Despite Elon Musk’s claims of “maximal transparency,” the Trump administration now argues that records from DOGE are exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
A court filing states DOGE, rebranded from the U.S. Digital Service, is a “free-standing component” of the Executive Office of the President and falls under the Presidential Records Act.
Watchdog groups have sued, arguing that DOGE’s activities, which involve sweeping access to federal agencies, must be publicly accessible.
/sI sometimes think of those redcaps as something out of a sci-fi movie where they take over any normal brain function.
You’re just being paranoid. You know what would help? A nice relaxing trip to the brain slug planet where you can lay in the sun with no helmet on.
I still wonder if BrainDead was cancelled not only because of low ratings…even if it was showing a bothsiderist lean at some point. It might have been a bit too much on the nose for the oligarchs’ tastes.
“Maximally transparent” in the same sense that Musk is a “free speech absolutist”.
In the same sense that “he’s not a nazi”… because he’s a fucking nazi!
His feelings about free speech are very absolute. Absolutely authoritarian. Get back in line and have you papers ready!!
Freedom of speech maximalist > no freedom of speech on his platform
Transparency maximalist > no transparency in his agency
Who could have seen that coming?
DOGE’s FOIA exemption is a direct assault on accountability and public trust.
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It’s so transparent that you can’t even see it.
This is what dictators do. Grab power and place it under their control.
Trump will whittle away at the other branches of government until there’s nothing left, and then he will say we don’t need those other branches since they don’t do anything and dissolve them.
This has been played out many times.
No, no, no. You lefties always calling everything fascism. Musk is weeding out government waste and corruption. Trump is donating his entire presidential salary, he’s doing this out of the kindness of his heart. You liberals are all so gullible and reactionary. Just calm your pants down, once the taffis go through and we remove the evil migrant criminals it will be infinite money for everyone. Except you commies because you’re all too dumb to realize.
I could go on but the McDonalds employee is eyeballing me. They hate it when I use their wifi. It’s going to be great when I don’t have to do my laundry in their bathroom anymore because I’ll have my own 24k gold mansion.
BTW any cuties out there dm me. Just be aware, I want 10 kids so better have a good set of birthing hips.
This could actually be serious until the second paragraph.
Ha! Birthing hips.
🎵It’s all in the hips🎵
The corruption is just in your face. I bet “maga” is eating it right the fuck up, too, the idiots, because…libs:owned. Or something.
Words and law don’t work with them.
Kafka couldn’t even think something like this up.
uint8_t transparency = 255;…
transparency++;Prolly can’t figure out where and how the shit is stored.
I’ve seen a setup once, involving airflow, pgsql with a few different databases for different systems, a few CSV and Excel files stored on webdav shares, a few ETL scripts, some not working, in a weird graph, and a Microstrategy instance used to view a report or two resulting from that.
That was probably a job safety mechanism of the leaving data analyst, though. I’m not sure how such chaos could have been created on purpose and other things he did seemed very clean.
Or they just don’t want to and are arguing the definition of “agency”
Normally I’d say “that’s not how it works” but given the shit we’ve seen it might in fact work
That photo is perfect, they both look completely ridiculous (well, more so than usual).
Isn’t that for the courts to decide?
The ones he ignores and the ones overriden by a higher court with the reasoning “we’ll get around to looking at what the courts already said was illegal.”. The Supreme Court basically just kneecapped the entire Judicial branch by implying the courts rulings don’t matter unless they come from the SC.
Well, yes, this was a court filling. DOGE attorneys make their case, opposing council makes their case, and the judge/jury decides. It’s just that DOGE attorneys filed a statement that directly contradicts public statements (to the surprise of no one).
Does Elon Musk even own a suit?
I was so sad to hear that Zelensky said the Ukrainian word for suit, costume sounded like such a great jab at that pompous ass “reporter”
Yeah, one made from Dalmatian puppies.
