Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes.
Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵
Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes.
Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵
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I have a mental image of Musk staggering around the DOGE offices yelling about milkshakes.
riveroflostsouls.com/2017/10/24/o...
Surely the most famous monologue in Let There Be Blood, the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film about a California oil tycoon, concerns a milkshake. In a truly bizarre scene, a drunk — and possibly hall…
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Monetize grievance and vengeance. Fraud defined as that guy says he doesn't like me and I'm going to throw him out of a helicopter.
I wouldn't just get fired if I did this at work. I'd probably get arrested.
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How does this all play out? Will there be indictments and prosecutions after this Trump term (assuming there will be)?
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www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-d...
The move “potentially violated multiple federal statutes” and could cause a “catastrophic impact,” the whistleblower warned, according to The New York Times.
DOGE gave themselves access to Social Security databases on March 14. They tried to keep it a secret, bypassing the access approval process.
SSA discovered the breach on March 17; by March 20 SSA got a court order and shut their accounts down.
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