Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) on Nostr: We left off with DOGE having breached the Treasury, and that's still where they are ...

We left off with DOGE having breached the Treasury, and that's still where they are focused right now. They were claimed to have read-only access, which we now know to be false. They have read-write, admin access to what amounts to a fifth of the US economy, with no oversight. They've been classified as an "insider threat." Security staff haven't prevented them from gaining access by waving around their DOGE IDs, but there have been protestors in the hundreds outside the Treasury.

They've been: halting completion of payments already approved, deleting the free online tax filing tool that was supposed to be made available to Americans for the first time this year, installing a server to aggregate personal information on ALL federal employees (including health info and emergency contacts), and who knows what else. They were ordered to stop using Slack and switch to something that wouldn't be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and other transparency measures.

One of the DOGE team was discovered to have posted racist and eugenicist stuff on X and resigned in disgrace. He was rehired though.

Musk appears to be following a playbook written in 2022 for how to become CEO-puppetmaster-dictator of the US. There's some comprehensive and well-sourced stuff out there on the topic that I'll link to rather than try to summarize.
Dictator playbook: https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/
All the laws he's breaking: https://www.vox.com/politics/398618/elon-musk-doge-illegal-lawbreaking-analysis
Executive summary of everything he's doing: https://america2.news/content/files/2025/02/Musk-NRx-Memo-February-5-2025.pdf
Why this is a coup: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america/ and https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup?triedRedirect=true