Summary
Elon Musk announced that he is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting his team has access to the Treasury Departmentās payment systems.
Musk said that DOGE halted payments to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity providing social services to refugees, by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Treasury officials have not confirmed the extent of his influence, but reports indicate DOGE has full access. Musk also called USAID āa criminal organizationā that should ādie.ā
Senator Ron Wyden warned that DOGE could disrupt payments for Social Security, Medicare, and government contracts.
First step is destroying their tech infrastructure and capabilities.
The power they have with the data they have with the force available - it absolutely must be destroyed.
Without that at their advantage,weāre almost on a level playing field.
Basically, unless we fix the media control itās an uphill battle. People leaving X and reddit gives some small hope for social media. But itās still rough with Fox, Sinclair, and iheartradio.
Iām gonna be real barely anyone left Reddit.
Hard to tell with the number of bots and how basically scripted many posts and comments are. Unlikely to be any bigger exodus like weāre possibly seeing with Twitter until it enshittifies further.
In Canada itās rogers and bell.
Given that their access havenāt been āsuspiciously revokedā by some furries, I donāt think their tech infrastructure is in danger.
Also theyāre moving their hostings into Texas, a state with very little leftist activity, unless they piss off too many people there too, Iām quite a doomer about it. The EU, Canada, etc. will likely do barely anything, and instead will try to please the tech overlords for a while, only to find out they cannot be pleased with anything less than total control.
Going to be pretty difficult with archives and social media becoming decentralized.