In a since-deleted Substack post, an engineer working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wrote about his radicalization, noting a key influence was an essay by Ron Unz—an infamous figure who has written about race science; donated money to the white nationalist website VDare, which according to the Southern Poverty Law Center,…

When [Judge] Vargas asked Jeffrey Oestericher, the Justice Department attorney representing Trump, on Friday whether any DOGE-accessed information had been shared outside of the Treasury Department, he said: “The short answer on that is we don’t presently know.” US Judge Extends Order to Block DOGE From Treasury Department Data https://www.wired.com/story/doge-treasury-department-data-access-denied

According to multiple reports, at least 17 employees of CISA, which is housed within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, were recently put on leave. The employees, according to the Associated Press, worked specifically within CISA’s election efforts, helping state and local election officials secure their elections from cyber attacks and handle foreign and domestic-based…

Department of Energy has to beg them to come back to their jobs. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/dismissed-nuclear-bomb-specialists-recalled-by-energy-department

In January, clinics in Uganda and Zambia were selecting people living with HIV to take part in a phase 1 trial of an experimental vaccine. But the project, meant to inform new ways to protect uninfected people from the virus, was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Within days of taking office,…

“The country is less safe. These are the deployable assets critical for investigating new threats, from anthrax to Zika,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former top-ranking CDC official and alumna of the program, in a message. It is unclear who decided which CDC staff to cut. While managers at the Atlanta-based agency were asked to…

“Safety drives everything we do at the FAA,” the agency’s chief counsel said in September, after proposing $633,000 in fines for alleged violations related to two previous launches. “Failure of a company to comply with the safety requirements will result in consequences.” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s response was swift and caustic. He accused the agency…

Workers were informed that they had been fired with a frenetic email delivered around 9 pm ET on Tuesday. An evidently failed mail merge meant that some affected employees were addressed as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division]. “This is to provide notification that I am removing you from your position of [Job Title] and federal service…

Last week, Mr. Musk marked the moment on X, writing, “CFPB RIP,” alongside an emoji of a gravestone. As Mr. Musk’s deregulation team makes its way through federal agencies, he has been criticized for having numerous conflicts of interest involving his businesses. And at X, one of the most promising ways Mr. Musk can increase…

At USAID, the worker there said, functions that should have resumed in light of a judicial injunction pausing the agency’s dismantling have not. “The staff are supposed to be reinstated, but some still can’t get into their email,” the worker says. “The rest of us can’t use most of the systems we work in and frankly…