Summary

Despite Elon Musk’s claims of “maximal transparency,” the Trump administration now argues that records from DOGE are exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

A court filing states DOGE, rebranded from the U.S. Digital Service, is a “free-standing component” of the Executive Office of the President and falls under the Presidential Records Act.

Watchdog groups have sued, arguing that DOGE’s activities, which involve sweeping access to federal agencies, must be publicly accessible.

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    If a Democrat tried this shit the Republicans would be out for political blood calling the left “deep state” and other horrifying shit, let they’re fine with an apartheid loving Nazi immigrant dismantling their government and refusing to answer for his crimes.

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      Republicans would be out for political blood calling the left “deep state” and other horrifying shit

      And they’d be right. An unelected billionaire gutting the government and hiding their actions is deep state activity

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      The Republicans would happily let fElon and Bronzo take a dump in their mouths if they thought some Democrat had to smell it.

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      Every right leaning person I’ve talked with about this claims “unparalleled transparency” with these guys. What, a bunch of self written social media posts? Full transparency would be detailed reporting that would also we’d have the ability to verify via a third party. What these guys are doing is the equivalent of, “trust me, bro.”

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      His feelings about free speech are very absolute. Absolutely authoritarian. Get back in line and have you papers ready!!

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    This is what dictators do. Grab power and place it under their control.

    Trump will whittle away at the other branches of government until there’s nothing left, and then he will say we don’t need those other branches since they don’t do anything and dissolve them.

    This has been played out many times.

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      No, no, no. You lefties always calling everything fascism. Musk is weeding out government waste and corruption. Trump is donating his entire presidential salary, he’s doing this out of the kindness of his heart. You liberals are all so gullible and reactionary. Just calm your pants down, once the taffis go through and we remove the evil migrant criminals it will be infinite money for everyone. Except you commies because you’re all too dumb to realize.

      I could go on but the McDonalds employee is eyeballing me. They hate it when I use their wifi. It’s going to be great when I don’t have to do my laundry in their bathroom anymore because I’ll have my own 24k gold mansion.

      BTW any cuties out there dm me. Just be aware, I want 10 kids so better have a good set of birthing hips.

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    The corruption is just in your face. I bet “maga” is eating it right the fuck up, too, the idiots, because…libs:owned. Or something.

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    I’ll never get over the pretentious way the Orange Menace poses for the camera. And it makes me want to punch him every time.

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    “Your honor I’m not subject to that law under the clause I said so.” Judges love hearing that.

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    Prolly can’t figure out where and how the shit is stored.

    I’ve seen a setup once, involving airflow, pgsql with a few different databases for different systems, a few CSV and Excel files stored on webdav shares, a few ETL scripts, some not working, in a weird graph, and a Microstrategy instance used to view a report or two resulting from that.

    That was probably a job safety mechanism of the leaving data analyst, though. I’m not sure how such chaos could have been created on purpose and other things he did seemed very clean.

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    That photo is perfect, they both look completely ridiculous (well, more so than usual).