Summary
Elon Musk allegedly installed an unauthorized server at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), gaining access to sensitive federal employee data, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, and medical histories.
Young, inexperienced staffers are reportedly using this access to target positions for removal, particularly DEI offices.
Security concerns have been raised, with fears of hacking and HIPAA violations.
Senior officials have been locked out of key systems, limiting oversight of DOGE’s actions, which could significantly impact the federal workforce.
It’s a real shame that the headline isn’t “Foreign hacker and his enabler in the White House arrested and imprisoned in solitary until they can be sent to Gitmo for life”
Ok so this is really a hostile takeover right out of a black mirror episode. It’s starting to dawn on me
While I appreciate that it dawned on you… Why did it take this long? They told us exactly what they were going to do.
I don’t keep informed very close on US matters
bUt WhAt AbOuT hEr EmAiLs
We need a buttery males bot. Or maybe not lol, it was obnoxious on Reddit.
i just got it. took me a while
Nice. You’ve had well over 8 years for that one.
Puns ain’t my strong suit
Perseverance, though. You got there in the end.
Every accusation is a confession
It’s been wild reading news stories coming out the US over the last couple of weeks.
Not the stories themselves of course, but the air of shock and alarm in both the stories and in the comment sections - and its not just Lemmy, its everywhere there’s a comment section - when you knew what he was going to do, he told you what he was going to do - why are you now in any way surprised or disturbed?
The main question I have is that I’ve been hearing from Americans for decades now how gun ownership means you have a 2nd amendment based militia ready to go to protect the constitution and yet in the face of what is completely obviously the initial stages of a coup, I see no signs of that militia. Where are you?
It sounds like you are in a different country. Start getting involved in your politics to decouple from the USA and shield from its influence. It’s more urgent than it seems.
The outrage you see here from the US lemmings is the minority opinion. There is no internal force or opposition to what you see.
Where are all the 2A folks? I thought this is what they were alive for? To take down a tyrannical government
I consider myself a Libertarian, so I am 2A, even though I voted Democrat in the last election. I don’t think people need full auto AKs, rocket launchers, etc but something reasonable to be able to protect themselves. My biggest issue is, if guns were banned, the criminals aren’t going to give theirs up, they don’t give a crap if it’s illegal to own one. I am also not opposed to reasonable background checks, make sure someone isn’t delusional before they can buy a gun. Responsible gun owners (myself included) don’t want to have to use our weapons against another human. Someone who thinks killing innocent people is “okay” needs mental help. I want to add: I am deeply troubled with what is going on in our country, this is a dangerous road we have started down, and we need to be prepared for what may come. I think tRump is only 2A because that’s what his supporters expect, I could totally see him banning guns for everyone but his “loyalists”
They lied it was all about having biggest peen
Fragile masculinity go brrr.
I don’t know the English onomatopoeia for shattering glass. :(
Somewhere, Hillary Clinton is laughing.
I voted for her out of attempted harm reduction, and I agree, she probably is.
Wealthy neoliberals care as much about their fellow citizens as wealthy fascists, as they both have the same God they worship 💰
One appeals to pretending to care about people’s well-being while taking bribes to hurt them, the other appeals to pretending to care about idiot bigot’s blood lust while taking bribes to hurt them.
Yeah you’re probably not far off. Similarly, I held my nose and voted for her as well. She was obviously the better choice, if only because her legacy was tied to a platform that at least on paper was significantly better than the alternative (e.g., climate change).
Alas I raise Hillary because of the double-standards of her buttery males versus this which is infinitely worse — yet, naturally, not a peep from conservative circles.
Because we know they’re hypocrites and ends justify means to them.
Perhaps if we had a candidate we didn’t have to hold our nose over, this all could have been avoided.
They are auditing OPM. Step #1 of the IT portion of an audit is to copy the existing data so that it can be examined without any risk of altering the original data.
If you think that’s what’s happening, I would recommend putting the glue down and letting the fumes clear.
If Biden can pardon his son, who had crack fueled sex in Ukraine, with MINORS, then Trump can pardon Musk.
Even so, who’s going to arrest Musk? Congress?
Whether or not he had “crack fueled sex in Ukraine, with MINORS,” that was not what he was convicted for and not what he was pardoned for.
