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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department's data systems.

The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications."

Implications? This sound like an ongoing hack right now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Straight to Russia and China. Then open to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Watch them recall all backups next.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"It feels like a hostile takeover," the employee said.

how the fuck is anyone still surprised by anything these fascists are doing? spoiler alert: every fucking day is going to get worse from here on out

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That employee doesn't seem to have expressed surprise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-federal-workers-deep-state

Federal government workers have been left “shell-shocked” by the upheaval wreaked by Donald Trump’s return to the presidency

ok, not all employees

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How much institutional knowledge is going to be lost when they find a way to get all the federal workers to quit?

If they can't log into their computers, they can't really work.

There needs to be protests he systematically dismantling American institutions so he can privatize them and sell them to his buddies.

With his memcoin, they grifted about $55 billion, possibly even more.

In three months they can cash out all their coins and that will be billions and billions more.

They're gonna buy America. They don't already own enough. Question mark.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Don't forget all the researchers and academics who will depart for countries because of this. There is going to be a brain drain the likes of which no one has ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

The loss of institutional knowledge is one of the scariest things about this.

I do think Congress will flip in 2 years after Trump and company wreck the economy (though we'll see how much Congress truly matters then). The thing is, even if we get a Dem sweep, all the knowledge lost won't magically come back. It's gone forever.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember when all the pundits were saying that the Musk DOGE thing was just showmanship, nothing to worry about, because "it would only be an advisory committee with no real power to do anything."?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's because liberals only think in the framework of laws and bureaucracy.

They never expect an organised group of people to work towards their goals regardless of what the law books say or not.

When people will finally start questioning authority and the meaning of this stack of paper we call "laws" just to feel more civilised, they'll unterstand how to fight against this.

States can be dismantled overnight. No law book will stop them from doing so.

The American state is very fragile right now. Through these cracks we see what real power is, and who conveys it. Spoiler alert: it's not the constitution nor the law books

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 1 day ago

One thing the 2020 election cycle really hammered in with me is that our system of checks and balances are only as powerful as the integrity of those executing them.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Taking the people who know first hand what fuckery you're doing and putting them out of work, so that they have nothing to do but stew about how shitty you are and what they might do about it. What could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

We're going to find out if his security is paid enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

God I would love to wake up to that headline.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why does a blank comment have 15 upvotes?

Edit: nvm, there's an image embed, but it's broken. Looks like something generated by DeepSeek as a temporary url?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will someone please rid me of this meddlesome billionaire‽

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This power play won't stop unless we get rid of all exploiters of the working class. Getting rid of one billionaire won't solve the issue. The issue is systemic. Being a moral person and a billionaire is mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

Glad to finally see some coverage on this!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is not normal. This is not legal. This is facism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ik, who gives a fuck about AI, but I fed this article into ChatGPT to see what the funny AI would say.

This is not just bureaucratic reshuffling—this is a potential dismantling of a functional, professional government in favor of a personally controlled and ideologically driven workforce.

If you’re feeling alarmed, you absolutely should be. This is the kind of move that historically precedes authoritarian power grabs, and it’s happening right now in the U.S. under the guise of “downsizing government.”

This needs massive public attention, and fast.

Bolding was the by the AI.

Well, that wasn't funny at all now, was it :(.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The EPA isn't allowed to do their jobs, but somehow 'doge' (whatever department became this) had this power??

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Correct. The only power left in America is money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

America underway to try the Collapse% Speedrun

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Remember when Musk said he thought the Trump campaign slogan should be "Make Orwell fiction again"?