Summary

Thirteen Democratic attorneys general, led by New York’s Letitia James, plan to sue to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing federal payment systems containing sensitive personal data.

Concerns include security risks and potential disruptions to Social Security and Medicare.

A federal judge ruled that only two Musk allies could have “read-only” access.

DOGE allegedly seeks control to halt payments to agencies like USAID.

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    The whole chain of custody is fucked; we have no idea how compromised these unvetted teens with write access to these servers are.

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    … and we’re going to get those hard drives back, right? And figure out what they did with that data, right?

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    Gee, WHICH STATES, AP?

    Probably Texas, right, because they’re big on their individual liberties, or so it says on their website. And of course Florida is big and tough, and Oklahoma loves to protect its people.

    (Edit: I’m sure it’s in the body of the article, I’m just saying these headlines about “# states do a thing” are clearly talking about red states or non-red states and they should just say so. the fact that they don’t is utter shit.)

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      Thirteen Democratic attorneys general

      First line of the summary, guy.

      Joining [New York] in the statement were the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont.

      No one is going to put all of that in a headline. Calm down.

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        Again, I’m not saying they didn’t have the information in the body of the article.

        And isn’t there some other way they coudl have included that in the title besides listing all the states?

        Your first quote, for example.

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          The headlines sole purpose is to get you to read the article, not give you the details in one sentence.

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            Incorrect.

            I mean, yes, that’s how it’s explained in journalism school. Journalists do tend to read the articles.

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              The world isn’t going to do everything the way you think it should, just because you don’t like it. Grow up.

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                Okay. And you make the slightest effort to understand how media actually works in the world. We’ll call it even.

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    If this administration dgaf about the rules thar should have prevented them from operating in such a manner what are the odds that they’ll give a damn about a suit and not just let it die in the courts? Especially seeing as that even were a suit to win, trump et al would just ignore it. We’re at the point that direct action is the only action that will stop this takeover.

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      that’s what I am trying to figure out. They can sue him, they can declare what he is doing is illegal, but then what? Is the secret service or FBI going to get involved? Who is going to enforce this?