Summary
Despite Elon Musk’s claims of “maximal transparency,” the Trump administration now argues that records from DOGE are exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
A court filing states DOGE, rebranded from the U.S. Digital Service, is a “free-standing component” of the Executive Office of the President and falls under the Presidential Records Act.
Watchdog groups have sued, arguing that DOGE’s activities, which involve sweeping access to federal agencies, must be publicly accessible.
Kafka couldn’t even think something like this up.
DOGE’s FOIA exemption is a direct assault on accountability and public trust.
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“Maximally transparent” in the same sense that Musk is a “free speech absolutist”.
In the same sense that “he’s not a nazi”… because he’s a fucking nazi!
His feelings about free speech are very absolute. Absolutely authoritarian. Get back in line and have you papers ready!!
It’s so transparent that you can’t even see it.
If a Democrat tried this shit the Republicans would be out for political blood calling the left “deep state” and other horrifying shit, let they’re fine with an apartheid loving Nazi immigrant dismantling their government and refusing to answer for his crimes.
Republicans would be out for political blood calling the left “deep state” and other horrifying shit
And they’d be right. An unelected billionaire gutting the government and hiding their actions is deep state activity
It’s not deep state, it’s a coup.
In essence, a coup is a 1) rapid seizure of state power by unelected actors, who acquire that power by 2) seizing critical government infrastructure and 3) weaponizing it to neutralize legitimate government actors’ efforts to stop them. The unelected actors then use this power to 4) remake the rules of the political game in a way that cannot easily be checked or undone through democratic processes.
Deep? Can Musk and DOGE count as deep state with how new they are to government (if you can call DOGE that)? He’s not even from the US, he’s so far out he’s circled back around to deep state.
Then again, foreign actors blatantly controlling the white house seems to be the trend right now
I think deep state here refers to unelected government officials.
I think more its meaning would be shit that goes on behind the scenes where the public cannot see. Aka… things immune to FOIA requests.
I agree 100% this is all horseshit
Don’t worry. The Dems will start calling them out in the same way …anytime now.
The Republicans would happily let fElon and Bronzo take a dump in their mouths if they thought some Democrat had to smell it.
It’s easy to claim transparency when you lie about everything
He claims transparency, but we see right through him.
Poop, sex, squish, uh oh, sister-o, pants shits
Every right leaning person I’ve talked with about this claims “unparalleled transparency” with these guys. What, a bunch of self written social media posts? Full transparency would be detailed reporting that would also we’d have the ability to verify via a third party. What these guys are doing is the equivalent of, “trust me, bro.”
For some reason the “do you own research” crowd seems to not be doing that.
Of course not, the bias is strong.
Freedom of speech maximalist > no freedom of speech on his platform
Transparency maximalist > no transparency in his agency
Who could have seen that coming?
/sI sometimes think of those redcaps as something out of a sci-fi movie where they take over any normal brain function.
You’re just being paranoid. You know what would help? I nice relaxing trip to the brain slug planet where you can lay in the sun with no helmet on.
I still wonder if BrainDead was cancelled not only because of low ratings…even if it was showing a bothsiderist lean at some point. It might have been a bit too much on the nose for the oligarchs’ tastes.
This is what dictators do. Grab power and place it under their control.
Trump will whittle away at the other branches of government until there’s nothing left, and then he will say we don’t need those other branches since they don’t do anything and dissolve them.
This has been played out many times.
No, no, no. You lefties always calling everything fascism. Musk is weeding out government waste and corruption. Trump is donating his entire presidential salary, he’s doing this out of the kindness of his heart. You liberals are all so gullible and reactionary. Just calm your pants down, once the taffis go through and we remove the evil migrant criminals it will be infinite money for everyone. Except you commies because you’re all too dumb to realize.
I could go on but the McDonalds employee is eyeballing me. They hate it when I use their wifi. It’s going to be great when I don’t have to do my laundry in their bathroom anymore because I’ll have my own 24k gold mansion.
BTW any cuties out there dm me. Just be aware, I want 10 kids so better have a good set of birthing hips.
This could actually be serious until the second paragraph.
Ha! Birthing hips.
🎵It’s all in the hips🎵
The corruption is just in your face. I bet “maga” is eating it right the fuck up, too, the idiots, because…libs:owned. Or something.
Words and law don’t work with them.
I’ll never get over the pretentious way the Orange Menace poses for the camera. And it makes me want to punch him every time.
He looks like a corpse with poorly done casket makeup
Are we certain this isn’t a Weekend at Bernie’s situation?
He looks to me like Biff Tannen just got another face-full of manure.
Every picture looks like he’s focusing not shitting himself
“Your honor I’m not subject to that law under the clause I said so.” Judges love hearing that.
Judges also love not flying out of windows.
Name one judge that has flown out of a window
Prolly can’t figure out where and how the shit is stored.
I’ve seen a setup once, involving airflow, pgsql with a few different databases for different systems, a few CSV and Excel files stored on webdav shares, a few ETL scripts, some not working, in a weird graph, and a Microstrategy instance used to view a report or two resulting from that.
That was probably a job safety mechanism of the leaving data analyst, though. I’m not sure how such chaos could have been created on purpose and other things he did seemed very clean.
Or they just don’t want to and are arguing the definition of “agency”
uint8_t transparency = 255;…
transparency++;
