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Trump Signs Order to Kill Federal Agency Investigating Tesla

Trump's executive order dismantled a federal agency tasked with investigating Tesla for workplace racial discrimination, ending audits and enforcement nationwide.
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A federal probe into alleged workplace discrimination at Tesla, including "N-word, swastikas, threats, and nooses, on desks," has been abruptly axed by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 21.

The order dismantled the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the agency responsible for enforcing equal employment laws among federal contractors.

With the agency nearly defunct, employees are left with grunt work; informing businesses that discrimination audits have halted and outstanding fines won't be collected, according to the San Francisco Standard.

Tesla was hit with a lawsuit in September 2023 from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which accused the company of fostering a workplace where Black employees faced ongoing harassment and retaliation.

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…..given the febrile political atmosphere in the country, the chaotic developments in Washington and a systemic breakdown in trust, many will remain concerned about who has access to their data and what they can see.

If the wrong person got access to personal financial information held by the U.S. Treasury, it would constitute the biggest data breach in history. Anyone who had all this could make a fortune selling it to criminals on the dark web. It would only take one person to copy files to a thumb drive or the cloud — identity theft galore.

If you’re worried about that data ending up in the wrong hands — from the turmoil in Washington, or anywhere else — there is a surprisingly simple thing you can do to protect yourself: a credit freeze. I wrote about it here not long ago.
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As far as the identity theft thing, I wouldn't be surprised if trump owned stock in companies like LifeLock and IdentityGuard and PrivacyGuard etc.
If Americans identities are being compromised to criminals on the dark web then those companies stand to make a lot of money.
 
Red said:
Dear Trump apologists: reply to me to your heart’s content, and while you’re at it, pound salt….Don't be so terrified of Truth.

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The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
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Not terrified of the truth. The truth is this is an article intended to scare stupid people.

As buried in the middle of the tenth paragraph, "DOGE had been given “read only” access”. The entire rest of the article goes on an on about tinkering with systems, which you can't do with 'read only' access, or changing / manipulating data, which you can't do with 'read only' access. This entire article is crafted for people too dumb to know what 'read only' rights are. DOGE is an independent auditor, tasked by the elected head of the Executive Branch to audit divisions of the Executive Branch.

All they are doing is auditing government expenditures to find corruption. All you are doing is defending that corruption via scare-pieces like the one above because your side told you to.
 
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fishonjazz said:
Then this coming summer when california lacks the water for the farmland trump will again blame Gavin Newscum for the lack of water for the farmers.
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Trump would be correct, and the lack of water would have nothing to do with releasing 2.2 billion gallons of water in early February. The Sierra snowpack hasn't started melting yet, and when it does it will overflow the reservoirs because that is what happens every year. California has not constructed enough reservoirs to hold the water it gets from snowmelt. The most recently constructed reservoir was built 25 years ago. The environmental red tape in California has made it cost prohibitive to build anything. We don't have enough water reservoirs. We have a high speed rail project that has completed about 1,600 feet at a cost of billions of dollars. We don't have low-cost housing for the homeless, and insurers are refusing to cover anything in the state because they can't afford the costs of rebuilding anything in California in the event a structure is lost.
 
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Al-O-Meter said:
Not terrified of the truth. The truth is this is an article intended to scare stupid people.

As buried in the middle of the tenth paragraph, "DOGE had been given “read only” access”. The entire rest of the article goes on an on about tinkering with systems, which you can't do with 'read only' access, or changing / manipulating data, which you can't do with 'read only' access. This entire article is crafted for people too dumb to know what 'read only' rights are. DOGE is an independent auditor, tasked by the elected head of the Executive Branch to audit divisions of the Executive Branch.

All they are doing is auditing government expenditures to find corruption. All you are doing is defending that corruption via scare-pieces like the one above because your side told you to.
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@Red continues to prove how much TDS has rotted his brain. Great takedown Al.

How dare someone audit the waste in the US government and bureaucracies??!??
 
fishonjazz said:
Somewhat serious thought here. California is the enemy within. trump knew that releasing this water would only hurt the state of california by screwing them over later on when that water is needed. Then this coming summer when california lacks the water for the farmland trump will again blame Gavin Newscum for the lack of water for the farmers.
trump is simply waging war against the enemy within. It tracks.
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Spot on. He already set the table for this blame. He'll simply double down on the claim, falsely of course, that he released that water which saved Los Angeles from the fires, and he was forced to do so because newsome and the dei deep state left were hoarding it to hurt Republicans so that's why the water is gone. Trump had to do newsome's job TWICE. That's why they have no water now. And, you're all welcome by the way.
 
Lol. No one knows more about performing arts than trump. Here is why he is doing it though: Read the Kennedy Center's mission statement. It talks about celebrating different cultures, embracing diversity and championing equality....things that Donald Trump hates. And he's going to be chairman of an entity that embodies virtues he doesn't have? Just more cancelling of things trump doesn't like.
 
Red said:
Dear Trump apologists: reply to me to your heart’s content, and while you’re at it, pound salt….Don't be so terrified of Truth. Well, that will never happen….I’m sure your relentless flood of BS will continue to flow unimpeded…

www.theatlantic.com

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
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Elon musk’s unceasing attempts to access the data and information systems of the federal government range so widely, and are so unprecedented and unpredictable, that government computing experts believe the effort has spun out of control. This week, we spoke with four federal-government IT professionals—all experienced contractors and civil servants who have built, modified, or maintained the kind of technological infrastructure that Musk’s inexperienced employees at his newly created Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to access. In our conversations, each expert was unequivocal: They are terrified and struggling to articulate the scale of the crisis.

Even if the president of the United States, the head of the executive branch, supports (and, importantly, understands) these efforts by DOGE, these experts told us, they would still consider Musk’s campaign to be a reckless and dangerous breach of the complex systems that keep America running. Federal IT systems facilitate operations as varied as sending payments from the Treasury Department and making sure that airplanes stay in the air, the sources told us.

Based on what has been reported, DOGE representatives have obtained or requested access to certain systems at the U.S. Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Personnel Management, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with eyes toward others, including the Federal Aviation Administration. “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known,” one contractor who has worked on classified information-security systems at numerous government agencies told us this week. “You can’t un-ring this bell. Once these DOGE guys have access to these data systems, they can ostensibly do with it what they want.

What exactly they want is unclear. And much remains unknown about what, exactly, is happening here. The contractor emphasized that nobody yet knows which information DOGE has access to, or what it plans to do with it. Spokespeople for the White House, and Musk himself, did not respond to emailed requests for comment. Some reports have revealed the scope of DOGE’s incursions at individual agencies; still, it has been difficult to see the broader context of DOGE’s ambition.

The four experts laid out the implications of giving untrained individuals access to the technological infrastructure that controls the country. Their message is unambiguous: These are not systems you tamper with lightly. Musk and his crew could act deliberately to extract sensitive data, alter fundamental aspects of how these systems operate, or provide further access to unvetted actors. Or they may act with carelessness or incompetence, breaking the systems altogether. Given the scope of what these systems do, key government services might stop working properly, citizens could be harmed, and the damage might be difficult or impossible to undo. As one administrator for a federal agency with deep knowledge about the government’s IT operations told us, “I don’t think the public quite understands the level of danger.”

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Secrecy is becoming a defining trait of Elon Musk's DOGE

DOGE officials have been active at USAID, Veterans Affairs, Treasury and elsewhere, but little is publicly known about their work.
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Dude, see you don’t get it. Elon is a genius.

He had literal weeks to plan all of this while he last minute jumped on the Trump train. This massive under taking is totally under control. He’s got his army of tech virgins all over it.

MAGA is a god damn joke. Like a toddler playing Minecraft. They think Twitter is real life and science.


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President Donald Trump has for weeks suggested that Canada become the United States’ 51st state, and while opinion has been divided about whether Trump is serious or merely trolling its neighbor, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reportedly said that it’s the former, according to reports.

In a closed-door meeting with Canadian business and labor leaders, Trudeau reportedly affirmed that Trump’s ambitious aims of annexation are "a real thing."

"Mr. Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing. In my conversations with him on …" Trudeau said before the microphone cut out, according to CBC.

The news media had been asked to leave the room before Trudeau delivered his comments, but CBC and The Toronto Star were able to hear them and record them.

"I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have, but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st state," Trudeau added according to people in the room who listened to his comments. "They’re very aware of our resources, of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those."

"Yes, I can confirm that Trudeau said his assessment is that what Trump really wants is not action on fentanyl or immigration or even the trade deficit, what he really wants is to either dominate Canada or take it outright," McGowan wrote. "Tariffs are a tactic towards that end."

Trump first pitched the idea during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Trudeau in late November. Trump has also suggested annexing Greenland.

@MVP good luck
 
The Thriller said:
Why doesn’t MAGA care about stuff like this? Trump and his cronies sucking up government money is pretty corrupt. And it’s been happening for most of the last decade. Is it corruption when it’s helping sick people in Africa but totally fine when it’s enriching Trump and his buddies?


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No see, liberals did it first, somehow, so it’s ok when they do it. Because liberals did it first. Even if they didn’t! They did, and that’s why it’s ok when they do it.


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The last thing Shane Poole wanted was to turn his back on the military life he loves. But Poole, an Air Force veteran who now works as a civilian trainer, says he's lost all trust in the government as President Donald Trump pushes a now-or-never buyout on federal workers.

Poole had been dedicated to his team of 77 and the service branch he's served since he was 18. But the Trump blitz on government employees changed his mind.

He is one of a reported 60,000 federal employees who have accepted the unprecedented buyout offer, which is on hold pending a court hearing Monday.

“What’s frustrating is that this administration has portrayed people like myself as the enemy to the American people. We are portrayed as lazy, incompetent, low productivity,” said Poole, 41, the lead instructional systems specialist at the Hill Air Force Base in Utah. “It’s hurtful to see people cheering this on.”

From the comments: Fair question for those saying that many government employees are lazy and useless. How do you know that the ones taking the buyout are the bad apples? If you have 100 people working on a project and 30 of them are useless, and 40 people take the buyout, all of whom are highly talented figuring that they can find other jobs, you are now left with 60 employees, 30 of whom are useless. The agency went from 30% useless to 50% useless. Doesn’t it stand to reason that the lazy ones will cling to their jobs and not thrust themselves into a tight job market? Doesn’t it stand to reason that the ones who leave are the ones who are most likely to be employable elsewhere?
 
The Thriller said:
Why doesn’t MAGA care about stuff like this?
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Because it is a government building. Chelsea Clinton got USAID to pay for a $10 million dollar mansion, that became her property, as in it is hers now. They called the $10 million dollar gift mansion "aid for Haitian children". That isn't the same thing as the Secretary of Defense requesting the government owned General Flag Officer Quarters to be repainted. He doesn't get to keep the building or even the paint. It is mind boggling that you view a $10 million dollar gift mansion to Chelsea Clinton as being the same as the sitting Secretary of Defense asking for a government building to be repainted.
 
BabyPeterzz said:
No see, liberals did it first, somehow, so it’s ok when they do it. Because liberals did it first. Even if they didn’t! They did, and that’s why it’s ok when they do it.
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I expected better of you. When you voiced an acceptance of an audit so long as it was done fairly, I didn't think you'd jump on this boat of seeing Chelsea Clinton's $10 million dollar gift mansion "for Haitian children" as defensible or the same as requesting a new paint job on a government building. We obviously have different views, but I didn't think you'd buy in to corruption, which the Chelsea Clinton mansion clearly is.
 
Wonder why Trump and Musk the Nazi like this guy so much?

One of the top leaders of the state dept. also, what does he mean by “air jordans?” Why would that be an incentive? I don’t get it

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I love how maga just takes whatever Elon tweets out as gospel. As if facts or evidence don’t matter.
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If Chelsea Clinton didn't get a $10 million dollar mansion from USAID, she would've already filed a lawsuit for libel. She hasn't because Elon has the data to back the statement, and with Chelsea, it is likely the tip of the iceberg. Chelsea Clinton very much has her head down right now hoping no one pays attention to what DOGE found.

Have you heard that Elon Musk is reported to have bought five SuperBowl advertising slots to expose this type of corruption to an audience that doesn't normally pay attention?

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Elon Musk rumored to spend $40 million on Super Bowl ads exposing government waste found by DOGE | The Express Tribune

Rumors swirl that Elon Musk is running five Super Bowl commercials to expose government waste discovered by DOGE.
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Do you think Chelsea Clinton will be featured in one of the spots? I do.
 
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