Saturday, February 01, 2025

What's Goin' On - The Coup Underway


 WHAT'S GOIN' ON:

President Trump and his sidekick from South Africa are undertaking an administrative and digital coup in Washington D.C., firing dozens of career government officials (not loyal to them,) pardoning convicted criminals, freezing funding programs crucial to human and economic health, illegally pawing for federal fund deposits. I will be running a series of bulletins, shared across multiple platforms, containing bite-sized accounts of what is happening. Call your congressperson and do not sit there as if it's not happening or that nothing can be done about it. Dare to share. It's your democracy.
Bulletin #1:
Elon Musk and a team of DOGE infiltrators have taken over the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by connecting non-government computer servers to the US personnel mainframe computers. They have reportedly seized private information about millions of federal employees. They have locked the senior managers of the OPM out of their agency’s computers. They have moved “sofa beds” into the OPM offices and put the offices into a “lockdown mode.” See Reuters, Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say.
The hostile takeover of OMP allowed Musk to send an unauthorized memo inviting millions of federal employees to resign in exchange for eight months of “non working paid employment.” [Two unions representing federal workers have filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's plan to reclassify and terminate hundreds of thousands of federal workers.]
Elon Musk and a team of DOGE infiltrators have attempted to seize control of the US Treasury payments system—the gateway through which ALL funds from the federal government flow. When a senior manager at the Treasury asked why Musk needed access to the highly sensitive system, the manager was immediately placed on leave. He chose to quit, instead. See The New Republic, Top Official to Quit as Musk Tries to Get Hands on Key Payment System.

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