Mercedes Schneider calls your attention to the young people deployed by Elon Musk to peer into the computer files of key U.S. government agencies. She relies on a story that first appears in Wired, which identified the guys and posted their photographs.
On BlueSky, people have added details about Elon’s team. They seem to be computer whizzes. At least one is known for his hacking skills. They range in age from 19 to 24. A couple, apparently, are recent high school graduates.
Musk may have more than one such team, because his gang has taken control of the databases of several important government agencies. They have moved into the closely-guarded payment system of the U.S. Treasury, where they have downloaded the personal data of millions of Americans, as well as the details of government contracts.
Musk teams also took control of the computers at the General Services Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, and the USAID. The last agency has done 13,000 in staff and administers humanitarian aid to countries around the world USAID feeds the hungry, sends help with disasters, and distributes medicines when there is a need). Musk hates USAID, for some reason, and kept the agency closed on Monday so his boys could explore its files and computer system without interference from those who work there. Musk convinced Trump that the USAID should be closed and reopened as a part of the Dtate Department. Musk said that USAID was full of “radical lunatics,” and Trump echoed that claim.
At the moment, they are in the Department of Education, copying files.
On the PBS Newshour last night, Richard Painter, who was the ethics officer in the George W. Bush administration, said that Musk had massive conflicts of interest. Musk owns several businesses that receive federal funding. Painter said that Musk should either divest himself of the companies that hold federal contracts or quit his current job.

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These are not conflicts of interest, these are crimes. Musk is leading a bank robbery. All federal employee unions need to go directly to court to stop all of the illegal firings. Then what’s left of the FBI needs to bring charges to Musk. I just read that Susan Collins changed her vote to yes for Kulsi Gabbard due to fear of physical danger. Do we not have anyone in Congress with a spine? These are high crimes and misdemeanors of the highest order. This is my money and personal information they are playing with. There are 67 million Americans receiving Social Security benefits. If a majority of us wrote our member of Congress, maybe they would wake up. I just wrote mine. Meanwhile, Democrats need to gird up their loins and worry about the well being of America over their power.
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I just heard in a news show that Tulsi Gabbard is likely to be confirmed. No other nation will share intelligence with us. I predict she will have a hotline to Putin in her desk.
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Diane: Tulsi is exactly what we need right now–icing in the absurdity cake we all have in front of us right now.
And I don’t understand why anyone still believes ANYTHING Trump says about anything.
He just signed a “Review of United Nations Funding.” I’ll bet I can find some good-looking high school students whose parents are rich to help with that.
The democrats, along with most of the nation, I am thinking, are in explosive mode. I know I am, and so is anyone who is watching this horror unfold.
It’s government by tweet and executive orders signed with a sharpie pen. And now he’s complaining about Biden. Puke. CBK
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I think Trump, Musk, and Gabbert communicate with Putin.
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I think Tulsi will have two phones: one to Trump, one to Putin.
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Musk is “grooming” these young ones! Scary at all levels.
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COUP BY EMPEROR MUSK!!!
He who controls the government computers, controls the government — and the person now in control is Emperor Musk.
While Trump and his White House minions were busy writing small stuff like anti-DEI Executive Orders, South African immigrant Elon Musk staged a high-tech coup. His minions swiftly downloaded all the government files onto portable hard drives and USB sticks and secreted everything to the impenetrable Musk cloud fortress, so there is no possibility of anyone taking it back from them. In addition, they installed code keys and have the power to block access to the computers whenever they want. And with many hundreds of Musk Starlink satellites forming a shell around Earth, Musk has the power to disrupt any attempt to challenge him.
And now Musk is the most powerful person in the nation, not Trump.
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Trump is showing his utter stupidity by his trusting Musk (or anyone) to have the access to everyone’s records that he does; and Musk is showing his utter arrogance by trampling on other people’s private information, by his bully tactics and overnight firings, and he’s making it worse by inviting high-school aged techno-bullies in on the project. (Has he ever heard of a thumb drive?)
Both are showing their utter carelessness and user-mentality by upsetting millions of people who have jobs, families, and professions.
Apparently to Trump and to Musk, those people (who trusted the U.S. Government, by the way) are no better than pebbles on the street to be driven over by the one with a big bank account. I am literally sick to my stomach over what’s going on.
Proof positive–power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. CBK
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I just received an email from the Action Network urging people to write to their governors about Elon. I don’t know that it will accomplish anything, but you may as well. Mine is sent.
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