“It’s pretty pathetic that Musk thinks he's a tough guy bc he beats up ATCOs & park rangers, but he’s scared to death to touch the insurance & drug companies that’re stealing us blind.”
-D Baker

“The single largest source of wasteful federal spending is insurance companies gaming Medicare Advantage payment rates, & Trump’s OMB has a lobbyist for Medicare Advantage plans running HC policy.

Maybe something #DOGE could look at.”
-M Yglesias

#USPol #Corruption #Lobbyists
https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/2024/medicare-advantage-questionable-use-of-health-risk-assessments-continues-to-drive-up-payments-to-plans-by-billions/

Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report. Bankrupting Tesla is a multi-level public service.

Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/

VOA staff put on leave, Trump ally says agency 'not salvageable'

> [..] some Republicans have accused VOA and other publicly funded media outlets of being biased against conservatives, and have called for them to be shuttered as part of the efforts by tech billionaire #ElonMusk and his Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) to shrink the government
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-16/VOA-staff-put-on-leave-Trump-ally-says-agency-not-salvageable--1BN34ISDt5K/p.html #MAGA #VOA #NPR #PBS #Pacifica #KPFA

if you deny that being a billionaire in the most dominating country in the world isnt the definition of "living in good times" i guess you are any less able to conclude who the weak man is, and where things are heading.

“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek asked, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know."

https://www.propublica.org/article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

DoubleSpeak: "If you ask a National Park Service ranger how the Trump administration’s cost cutting will affect your next park visit, you might get talking points instead of a straight answer.

A series of emails sent late last month to front-line staff at parks across the country provided rangers with instructions on how to describe the highly publicized staff cuts. Park leaders further instructed staff to avoid the word “fired” and not blame closures on staffing levels.

On Feb. 14, at least 1,000 park service employees were terminated as part of broad reductions to the federal workforce by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. As a result, visitor centers have reduced hours, tours of popular attractions have been canceled, lines have spiraled, bathrooms may go uncleaned, habitat restoration has ceased and water has gone unchecked for toxic algae.

Meanwhile, rangers have been ordered to describe these cuts — or “attrition” and “workforce management actions,” according to the talking points — as “prioritizing fiscal responsibility” and “staffing to meet the evolving needs of our visitors.” They also should tell visitors the parks will continue to ensure “memorable and meaningful experiences for all.”

If asked about limited offerings, one park’s rangers were instructed to say “we are not able to address park or program-level impacts at this time.”"

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-parks-staff-cuts-talking-points

We are getting a glimpse of a #DOGE created future of unlicensed #MAGA healthcare with no #government #regulation.

Faces paralyzed by ‘dentists’:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/unlicensed-dentist-face-paralyzed_n_67d5dcdfe4b023f4b8b66ed0

Children incinerated by ‘doctors’:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/four-people-were-arrested-in-connection-with-5-year-olds-death-in-hyperbaric-chamber_n_67d08792e4b0f06c6b9f9774?origin=related-recirc

#Resist to #SaveAmerica !

This is what is expected to happen when you put a billionaire with a severe drug addiction problem in charge of monitoring the Federal Government spending of the world's largest economy

"“DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People,” the headlines read this past week.

I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill.

Of course the circumstances of Ned Johnson’s death were completely the opposite of what Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency had claimed was rampant.

“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).

Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.

Johnson’s strange trip through the netherworld began in February, when a letter from his bank arrived addressed to his wife, Pam."

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

Nazi dogwhistles are all over Elon Musk’s
DOGE logo.

There are 14 teeth in the DOGE logo’s gear.
- This is the same design & color scheme as the Third Reich’s DAF flag awarded for ”efficient businesses”.
- ”The 14 words” is shorthand for perhaps the most sacred nazi creed.

There are 8 stars on the logo.
- 88 is a nazi dogwhistle for ”heil hitler”, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet

Is he a nazi yet?
#doge #nazimusk #dogwhistle #nazidogwhistle

U.S. Postmaster General Louis #DeJoy’s Thursday announcement that the independent United States #Postal #Service is partnering with the Department of Government Efficiency on a cost-cutting crusade that includes a
planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that one of America’s most trusted and relied-upon federal agencies is on a path toward #privatization.
In a letter to congressional leaders, DeJoy said #DOGE will help the USPS “in identifying and achieving further efficiencies.”
The postal chief listed “mismanagement” of the agency’s #retirement #assets and workers’ compensation program,
“unfunded mandates imposed on us by legislation,” and “burdensome regulatory requirements restricting 'normal' business practice” as issues to be addressed.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dejoy-doge

"Court docs filed Fri in an ongoing lawsuit against the TSY Dept reveal: a 25-yr-old #DOGE staffer violated TSY policy by sending a spreadsheet that'd personal info. to 2 other members of the Trump admin.

The staffer, a fmr employee at SpaceX cos. -M Elez, had been tasked with combing thru the TSY’s payments system, but resigned in early Feb over racist SM posts. DOGE: rehired him to work at the SSA. 19 St AGs sued over DOGE’s access. Dept claimed: “mistakenly”-.

#USPol https://www.theverge.com/news/630894/doge-treasury-lawsuit-marko-elez-unencrypted-emails

#Boycott #AirBnB = #DOGE #billionarre co conspirator