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Chuck DarwinWith Musk’s trusted friend and fixer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antonio</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gracias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gracias</a> at the helm, the task force marks a significant expansion of DOGE’s portfolio — from primarily working on agency-wide <a href="https://c.im/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#layoffs</a> to executing the president’s most hardline <a href="https://c.im/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> policies. It’s also a test for how far DOGE’s reach can extend.Key DOGE engineers now embedded at DHS include Kyle <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schutt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schutt</a>, Edward <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coristine</a>, (aka “Big Balls”) and Mark <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elez</a>, according to their government email addresses. At least two others, Aram <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moghaddassi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moghaddassi</a> and Payton <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rehling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rehling</a> also have access to DHS data, as DOGE fingerprints are spread throughout DHS, including Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency.🆘 They are providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole, terminating visas, and later on, reengineering the asylum adjudication process, according to the officials. Their first mission: 🔥implement parole terminations for 6,300 undocumented immigrants who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. 🔥That effort required coordinating with the Social Security Administration to have their Social Security numbers effectively canceled by adding them to a database that tracks dead people, the New York Times and the Washington Post first reported. Their theory is that without effective Social Security numbers – needed for bank accounts and loans, among other things – these people would “self deport.”Last week, the plan was finalized in a high-level White House meeting with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Gracias and other senior DOGE staffers and White House officials, two of the officials said. ❌In recent weeks, the Trump administration has moved aggressively in its effort to revoke parole, visas and temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and students, many of whom were granted the ability to legally study and work in the United States in the short-term under Biden administration policies. But what actually happens in the government’s IT systems to make sure that those people are eligible for deportation? Who makes sure that that is reflected in the database?That is where DOGE comes in to comb through datasets at all relevant agencies and facilitate data-sharing between agencies so the enforcement actions can be carried out systematically and at-scale, one of administration officials said. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327</a>

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpCoup</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TreasuryTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TreasuryTakeover</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> UPDATE*<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BusinessInsider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BusinessInsider</a> has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoPresident</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>*(3/n)...birthright citizenship.""The records seen by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BI</a> don't include the names of some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> affiliates who have appeared in legal filings and news reports as working for other agencies, such as the Treasury employees <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TomKrause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TomKrause</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarkoElez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkoElez</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elez</a> resigned from the Treasury Department last week after The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WallStreetJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WallStreetJournal</a>...

Chuck DarwinOn Thursday, 25-year-old <a href="https://c.im/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> staff member <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marko</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elez</a> resigned after being linked to a deleted social media account that advocated racism and eugenics. Elez resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account.💥“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July. “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September. 💥“Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.Elez’s resignation came a day after the Department of Justice agreed to limit the number of DOGE employees who have access to federal payment systems. The DOJ said access would be limited to two people, Elez and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tom</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Krause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Krause</a>, the CEO of a company called Cloud Software Group.➡️Earlier Friday, Musk said he planned to rehire Elez after President Trump and Vice President JD Vance reportedly endorsed the idea. Speaking at The White House today, Trump said he wasn’t concerned about the security of personal information and other data accessed by DOGE, adding that he was “very proud of the job that this group of young people” are doing.A White House official told Reuters on Wednesday that Musk and his engineers have appropriate security clearances and are operating in “full compliance with federal law, appropriate security clearances, and as employees of the relevant agencies, not as outside advisors or entities.”NPR reports Trump added that his administration’s cost-cutting efforts would soon turn to the Education Department and the Pentagon, “where he suggested without evidence that there could be ‘trillions’ of dollars in wasted spending within the $6.75 trillion the federal government spent in fiscal year 2024.”GOP leaders in the Republican-controlled House and Senate have largely shrugged about Musk’s ongoing efforts to seize control over federal databases, dismantle agencies mandated by Congress, freeze federal spending on a range of already-appropriated government programs, and threaten workers with layoffs.Meanwhile, multiple parties have sued to stop DOGE’s activities. ABC News says a federal judge was to rule today on whether DOGE should be blocked from accessing Department of Labor records, following a lawsuit alleging Musk’s team sought to illegally access highly sensitive data, including medical information, from the federal government.At least 13 state attorneys general say they plan to file a lawsuit to stop DOGE from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans’ sensitive personal information, reports The Associated Press.Reuters reported Thursday that the U.S. Treasury Department had agreed not to give Musk’s team access to its payment systems while a judge is hearing arguments in a lawsuit by employee unions and retirees alleging Musk illegally searched those records.Ars Technica writes that The Department of Education (DoE) was sued Friday by a California student association demanding an “immediate stop” to DOGE’s “unlawfully” digging through student loan data to potentially dismantle the DoE. <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/</a>

Chuck DarwinThe US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually DidThe ability of DOGE’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marko</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elez</a> to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/</a> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/</a>

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Update<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpCoup</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TreasuryTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TreasuryTakeover</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>*Wer ist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarkoElez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkoElez</a>?*<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AureFreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AureFreePress</a>"Marko Elez ist ein 25-jähriger SW-ngenieur, der 2021 seinen Abschluss an der Rutgers University machte. Nach seinem Abschluss arbeitete er bei <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a>, wo er sich auf Fahrzeugtelemetrie, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starship</a>-Software und Satellitensoftware konzentrierte. Später wechselte er zu <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#X</a> (ehemals <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a>), wo er an der <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KI</a>-Suche arbeitete. Kürzlich wurde berichtet, dass <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elez</a> direkten Zugang zu..."<a href="https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/113950985629537305" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/113950985629537305</a>

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