DOGE (or DOGS, as I prefer to call them) just won the authority to see your most important personal data, thanks to the rightwing bloc of six on the SupremeCourt.,
It’s really unbelievable. There is legislation protecting our personal data. But the Court split 6-3 to allow these mostly very young, very inexperienced kids to review and gather our personal data. The Court also shielded members of the DOGE group from public scrutiny.
The six Republicans on the Court claim to be conservatives. They are not. Some of the six claim to be “originalists,” ruling in accord with the wishes of the Founding Fathers. Nonsense.
Who are these people that Elon Musk left behind? No one knows for sure. Were they confirmed by the U.S. Senate? No. What are their credentials? No one knows for certain. What right do these shadowy people have to know our personal data? They are not a government agency. They are friends of Elon.
This decision gives open access to our records by shadowy figures whose purposes are hidden.
Are they building a data base for the next election? Will the data be used to blackmail people?
These are frightening decisions.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The Supine Court Of The United States —
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Supine • Failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence • “they remained supine in the face of terrible wrongdoing” (OED)
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Perfect, John. I’m using this for as long as there is a Roberts court.
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Beyond O.U.T.R.A.G.E.O.U.S. & D.I.S.G.U.S.T.I.N.G!
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It is reported that Trump has hired Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir, to aggregate the data and use it for “God knows what purpose.” Americans should be very concerned about some of the potential ways data may be misused. It may be used to track people for a variety of purposes, some of which could be damaging to various groups of people. All of us should be concerned that The Supreme Court has so little regard for the privacy rights of our people.https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/3/makena_kelly
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How can anyone see this ruling and doubt the need for a privacy constitutional amendment?
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Of all the disappointments that have come our way since Trump-De-Dump showed up, the Supreme Court’s shenanigans are the worst. I cannot think of Roberts without thinking “brain dead.” CBK
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And out from those shadows comes this. There is LOTS more going on here than personal data leaks.
Musk & DJT’s USA/DOGE installed a non-secure communications terminal on the roof of the White House! Connecting users to Space X/Starlink satellites. It DISABLED the ability to stop sensitive information from transmitting or hackers from breaking in.
Washington Post 6/7/25
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/07/starlink-white-house-security-doge-musk/
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“Hundreds of governors are calling me.”
–Donald Trump
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what are they calling him? I would suggest —-hole
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Put orange before —hole.
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Someone should tell Donnie how many states there are.
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Get over your TDS. Focus on the end of girls sports. The Jihadist regime will love you.
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TDS? Yes, Trump is indeed DERANGED……and not in the nice way.
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TDS? Yes, Trump is most definitely deranged.
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TDS = Terrific Duane Swacker
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Trump Derangement Syndrome is the worst kind. Total cognitive collapse. Makes one think that doctors should try injecting disinfectant, that stealth airplanes are actually invisible, that we should nuke hurricanes and sweep forests, that Denmark would love to sell Greenland to us, that Alabama is on the East Coast, that China doesn’t have a border with India, that we should send astronauts to the sun, that windmills cause cancer, that taking 1.5 trillion in Medicaid and food from the poorest children makes for a “Beautiful Bill,” that Article 2 of the Constitution gives the president the power to do whatever he wants to do, that Putin and Kim Jon Un are jolly good fellows, that the Declaration of Independence is “a document about unity and love,” that “the Continental Army captured the British airports,” that people who storm a government building and kill police officers are “patriots,” that Nazis marching in torchlight parades and chanting “Jews will not replace us” are “very good people,” that D-Day was “not a great day,” and on and on and on. But if it were only embarrassment that this traitorous moron brings upon our country.
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As the meme going around the Net says, “Trump is what you get if you order Hitler from Temu.”
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And if one becomes deranged to the extent that Trump is, one begins to think that other countries pay the tariffs we place on their goods.
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MAGA Traitors to the country and to the Enlightenment values upon which its Constitution is predicated. Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Citizens United, we got all the hits! Just toss it on the already high stinking pile of disgraceful SCOTUS pronouncements ever and always compliments of pinched-face right-wing “Christian” ideologues. And now because of a felonious rapist who slathers orange make-up on his face every morning, Fulton County prisoner # PO1135809 has added a healthy helping of malign Russian influence to the mix to further hasten the destruction of our Constitution.
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It will take a long time for our country to recover from the damage that Trump has inflicted on the law, the Constitution, the government, the Supreme Court, and the many MAGA judges he appointed.
Thanks, Leonard Leo and Mitch McConnell.
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You forgot the most important people . The American people who voted for those who made these Republican appointees since 1968. This time around immigrants eating rover or 1 in 25,000 trans student athletes was more important than Democracy . The Court has been in Republican control since 1968. After Bush lost to Clinton they decided that they could use the Court to do what they could never accomplish in the legislature. As the Court guts Voting Rights allows for unlimited money in politics , allows Gerrymandering , creates one party rule and an imperial Presidency. Its not Lenard Leo and McConnell its the people who vote for Demagogues from Nixon through Trump . ” A 50 year war on Democracy ” starting with Lewis Powell .
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Point well made, Joel.
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