The US Office of Personnel Management is telling federal workers to get in line—or get out.| WIRED
Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.| WIRED
Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates like a “startup software company."| WIRED
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.| WIRED
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.| WIRED
A recent high school graduate and former Neuralink intern has joined meetings to review lines of code and other work history of career public servants, sparking chaos at a major government agency.| WIRED
The United States must face consequences for economic warfare| www.disconnect.blog
Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.| WIRED
RSS site feedPolitical notes from 2025: January - April| stallman.org
I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.| ethanmarcotte.com
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or removed from databases thus far.| Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Musk’s allies repeatedly demanded access to sensitive government payment systems, according to the Washington Post.| Rolling Stone