"USIP filed a motion for a temporary restraining order...
But the most telling moment of the hearing...
She pointed out how eagerly law enforcement has been to aid in DOGE’s hostile takeover, implying #USIP would be outgunned. It was a stunning admission in a court of #law, & revealed the palpable fear that enforcing the law would lead directly to #violence."
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institute-of-peace-break-in
The Trump administration's 'assault' on Peace
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institute-of-peace-break-in
"Members of #Doge broke into the #WashingtonDC HQ of the #UnitedStates Institute of #Peace (USIP) on Monday in a foreboding act of #violence.
The independent nonprofit institute is not a federal agency...
#USIP owns their building... but that didn’t stop DOGE...
#Trump has no jurisdiction over this organization, but he sicced his goons on them anyway."
En signant avec Microsoft, l'Éducation nationale piétine souveraineté et autonomie numerique
https://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/en-signant-avec-microsoft-leducation-nationale-pietine-souverainete-et-autonomie-numerique-408497.htm#xtor=RSS-1
Alors que les appels politiques à la défense de la souveraineté technologique se multiplient, le ministère signe un énorme contrat avec #Microsoft. Montant de l’accord : de 74 à 152 millions d’euros.
Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China
The access would be a major expansion of Elon Musk’s govt role & highlight his conflicts of interest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k4.bz3w.1b2kvAcmfE90&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Musk’s #conflicts of interest... continuing to run businesses that are major #government contractors... #Musk... chief executive of both #SpaceX & #Tesla, is a leading supplier to the #Pentagon & has extensive financial interests in #China."
Elon Musk’s extensive ties to China, explained
His business empire needs the Chinese #government — and that could warp #American policy.
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/404621/elon-musk-china-tesla-trump
"China is vital to Musk’s car company #Tesla...
As the #US & #China appear to be hurtling headlong into a #trade war... Musk’s ties to China — and the potential leverage they could offer #Beijing in future negotiations — are getting more notice in both countries."
"Charging people in prison to communicate with the outside world has long been good business."
Katya Schwenk for The Lever: https://longreads.com/2025/03/21/the-succession-battle-for-a-prison-empire/
DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/doge-to-fired-cisa-staff-email-us-your-personal-data/
"The message instructed recently-fired #CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their #SocialSecurity number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment — presumably with the #password needed to view the file included in the body of the email."
Elon Musk to get briefing on China war plans? If so we are already on the tail end of the coup. It's like I threw 20+ years of my life protecting secrets down the drain. There was no reason for any of it. It was a waste. A majority of my neighbors, coworkers, family members thought national security was some kind of joke to be handed to an insane, foreign-compromised billionaire looking to convert the nation into an endless funnel for cash and a malignant narcissist Russian asset. #coup #corruption #natsec #InsiderThreats #treason
Original: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html
No paywall/email wall: https://archive.is/eKBWL
Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data
Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data
Paywall Free http://archive.today/f1Kf5
trump had #FBI agent arrested for #whistleblowing on his #corruption
Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Education Department
I have a dream where I am able to dismantle the Felon Trump regime.
Even amid a Republican assault on our democracy, these Democrats crave bipartisanship. Their desire for “decorum” makes them losers in a battle against right-wingers who care nothing about norms. Republicans fight dirty – such as packing the Supreme Court – yet Schumer & Co. won’t take off their velvet gloves. To MAGA, they’re useful idiots. To democracy defenders, they’re useless or worse.
#USpolitics #corruption #DemocraticParty #fascism
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/useless-democrats-schumer-newsom
Why is Trump’s Commerce secretary urging the public to buy Tesla stock?
Howard #Lutnick told a national tv audience to buy a specific #stock tied to the sitting president’s top campaign donor.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/commerce-secretary-tesla-stock-lutnick-rcna197244
"I’m mindful that breaches of norms & ethical limits have become routine over the last 2 months, but this was an egregious display, even by 2025 standards...
If there’s a benign defense for all of this, I can’t think of it."
Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing
https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-tsla-accounting-raises-red-flags-as-report-shows-1-4-billion-missing/
"Many #Tesla shorts and detractors have questioned Tesla’s #accounting for years...
Today, the #FinancialTimes has released a new report pointing to a $1.4 billion gap in assets...
The report also points to other red flags...
but with #Trump and #Musk kneecapping the #SEC, repercussions are unlikely."
Judge Denies Emergency Relief For Fired USIP Members After Armed DOGE Takeover
She added that she’s 'offended' by use of 'guns & threats by #DOGE against American citizens.'
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-denies-tro-institute-peace-doge
"As she mulled granting the fired board members’ request... she half-joked that it could spark an “armed battle.”
...calls to #impeach judges who rule against the admn — often amplified by #ElonMusk — have only grown louder on the right"
DOGE Strong-Armed USIP Security Contractors to Switch Sides
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-doge-strong-armed-usip-security-contractors-to-switch-sides
"“DOGE threatened to cancel every federal contract Inter-Con [USIP's security] held if they did not... let Kenneth Jackson [the purported new head of the Institute] inside.”
How big a threat was that? According to USASpending, Inter-Con has $209 million in #government contractors currently. So it sounds like #DOGE made them an offer they couldn’t refuse."
One of Tesla’s biggest backers says Musk has to cut his work with DOGE to focus on Tesla, as 46,000 Cybertrucks recalled..
"It came as protesters announced on Wednesday they were planning what they described as their biggest day of action yet against the EV maker, with 500 demonstrations expected at Tesla showrooms around the world on 29 March."
"What’s clear is that autocrats everywhere are becoming more emboldened because they know that they will encounter no real consequences from the Trump-Musk administration for their aggressions. They know that the #UnitedStates government is trying to destroy #democracy at home and around the #world."
-Ruth Ben-Ghiat
https://lucid.substack.com/p/erdogan-arrests-top-opposition-politician
Stand Down, Elon Musk
A court ruling rips the billionaire head of DOGE for his unauthorized actions, but can only go so far to rescue a doomed agency.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/stand-down-elon-musk
"yesterday’s ruling from #Judge Theodore Chuang of the federal district of #Maryland was the first time any judge has directly addressed the illegality of Musk’s appointment as head of #DOGE and then ordered his actions unwound."
