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Employing all of the legal and judicial time, energy and might to ponder, litigate and adjudicate the insane, clearly illegal, fucked up actions of the trump/musk administration feels like employing a great orchestra conductor to conduct a newly formed grade school band. I am not dissing the lawyers and non-profits who have no choice but to put in the immense amount of time, energy and money taking the law breakers to court. Or the judges, who have to do what judges do. I am thankful that they are ruling against the grade schoolers for the most part. But it is beyond frustrating to have to sit still, watch, wait and listen to the kids making unbearable noise while being treated as world class musicians. Probably many muddled metaphors here but is is all just so very wrong.

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Right on point. It is also apparent that the DOGE operations are wasteful and inefficient, and who knows if fraud is involved. Not only the results, but the operations (including the lawsuits) are costing taxpayers millions.

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Agreed-why any of these judges (or congressional Dems for that matter) think it’s ok to allow the douchers to keep plundering our public records and firing our public servants is shocking and appalling. It’s like handing the keys over to the emperors with no clothes. Good grief

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If Biden or Obama had tried such a ploy the Repugncans would have raised holy hell. Why the fuck are the Democrats in Congress not railing about this clear illegality? DOGE is improperly invading agencies and accessing data it has no authority to see let alone manipulate. DOGE itself has no authority to fire anybody in the government let alone dissolve any agency. While the Department and agency heads have such authority there are also explicit laws, policies and regulations that are now being violated. The Democrats should be up in arms on the floors of Congress decrying these illegalities! They should be organizing rallies and protests with those workers across the country who have been displaced and with those of us who are or will be affected by the collapse of the capabilities and services these agencies provided.

I could go on — but simply put we need intervention to stop the evil of DOGE, Muskalini and the Trumphuk himself.

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We cannot give the emergency powers to Trump. No shape, form, or fashion. That is what President Paul Hindenburg gave to Hitler in 1933. That was the death knell of democracy in Germany. Fascism resulted. The CR must be shot down for that reason alone. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/dictatorship-is-choreographed?r=3m1bs

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Thank you for laying out all of this.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin is urging Americans to file FOIA requests regarding the unauthorized access of their personal data. https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

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Regardless of whether DOGE is deemed an agency, everyone working at it or overseeing it should be required to comply with 5 U.S.C. 3331. That statute requires each such person "elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service" to swear or affirm he "will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same."

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This not contesting “any of the factual allegations” has become a Trump standard. Stolen election—cuz I say so, facts are unnecessary because they don’t exist. Sexual assault allegations, fraud allegations, the list is endless.

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And Freedom of Information? We’ll say what’s free or not! (Great deals on Tesla—I bought one!)

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Darn! Now we have to strip (certain) judges of their powers. The Reich will have no differing opinions!

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