And so elong’s time ends….

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https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2025 ... tion-trump

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Ahh, but the manipulation doesn't have to be at a large scale.

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Manipulating that stuff and getting away with it is much, much, much harder than just grabbing a copy of the data.

If you could do manipulation like that you could also just go increase your bank account balances with the same techniques and be able to get away with it.

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Once Panantir has access the ability to manipulate begins.
Imagine your credit score changed.
Imagine suddenly having a criminal record.
Imagine suddenly having a mental illness diagnosis.
Imagine having your home foreclosed because the mortgage records are tampered with.
Imagine

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MAGA wants Palantir to have their information because it makes them feel safe. Actually they could probably care less.

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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/brea ... dium=email

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Changed it because they just could.

[mister_coffee]

I personally have a hard time figuring out what they'd want to do with all that data and how they would manage to put it to practical use. Most of those datasets are both very large and very dirty, and it would take an enormous and expensive effort to clean up that data enough to use it for anything useful.

Having said that, my fear is that multiple critical information systems ran by the federal government have been inadvertently compromised by DOGE. The problem is that there are potentially thousands of such systems and if one of them was, even today, completely trashed and out of service we might not notice yet. And even if people in the know were screaming to journalists or elected officials about what had happened it can be very hard to cogently explain to non-technical people why some weird server ran by some obscure government office is critical and why anyone should care about it. Especially when there is so much crazy news every day.

I'd say the best bet when looking for those failures are Treasury and Commerce, but Transportation, Energy, and Health and Human Services are also good candidates too. As far as I know they haven't ran roughshod over Defense or the Intelligence Community, although if they had that could be Really Bad.

What I have heard is multiple reports of untested, unreviewed changes being pushed to production systems by DOGE people. Sometimes the changes were apparently made with the assistance of AI tools. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to which systems or what the changes were supposed to do. In fact so far I haven't heard any cogent explanation about why they changed anything. And that is very scary.

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With Trump turning over data from DOGE's incursions to Peter Thiel's Palantir where agencies will now share our data Musk's goals are on track.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/tru ... -americans

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And more - from HCR’s column tonight:

“ Instead, as CNN’s Zachary B. Wolf reported today, since DOGE cut staffing at the enforcement wing of the Internal Revenue Service, for example, and cut employees at national parks, which also generate revenue, its cuts may well end up costing money. Max Stier, who heads the Partnership for Public Service, suggests DOGE cuts could cost U.S. taxpayers $135 billion because agencies will need to train and hire replacements for the workers DOGE fired. Stier called DOGE’s actions “arson of a public asset.”

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“ Musk’s time at the helm of DOGE might not have saved taxpayer money, but it has changed the world in other ways. Musk has used his time in the government to end investigations into his companies, score government contracts, and get the government to press countries to accept his Starlink communications network as a condition of tariff negotiations. According to John Hyatt of Forbes, Musk’s association with Trump has made him an estimated $170 billion richer.

The implications of DOGE’s actions for Americans are huge. DOGE operatives are now embedded in the U.S. government, where they are mining Americans’ data to create a master database that can sort and find individuals. Former Ohio Democratic Party chair David Pepper called it “a full-scale redirection of the government’s digital nervous system into the hands of an unelected billionaire.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-30-2025?
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[just-jim]

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From various sources…..

Elon and FELON tiny donnie promised “trillions” in savings from DOGE efforts. Today musk claimed $165 Billion. Most sources put the number at more like $65 Billion.

Here what $65B ‘savings’ is - compared to the estimate costs of FATSO’s tax-cuts to his billionaire bro’s, which is $6 TRILLION - it’s about 1%.

And here’s what is lost: NIH and USAID about destroyed….among other agencies. 50,000+ (including 6,000 kids) died of AIDS just in Africa in the last 4 months….and a total of 300,000+ deaths worldwide from all causes. In the next 3 and 1/2 years, millions more will die. (These last numbers from Republican columnist David Brooks on PBS, tonight).

And - how much respect for the US around the world is now gone?

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