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Let me see if I can predict how this will go:

• Trump spends a week saying that the education department is the worst it’s ever been and that Biden was going to make all the school lunches trans so we have to stop it
• He says only he understands how to fix education and make it less trans and he’s not going to stop until no lunch is trans
• Golf break
• DOGE deletes all studies on trans fats
• Elon tells everyone at DOE they are fired and for every minute they stay in the building one article of their clothing will be set on fire
• Trump makes up some lie like that Canada is training geese to illegally cross the border under the guise of migration
• The news media focuses on the second thing
• Golf break
• Some judge says no, you’re not allowed do just get rid of Department of Education
• Trump makes a thinly veiled threat against that judge’s life
• Golf break
• Chief Justice John Roberts crosses out what the district judge said and covers it with a sticker that says “Great Job”
• Trump makes up some lie like a country-wide epidemic of Dominican immigrants putting their butts on drinking fountains
• The news media focuses on the second thing
• Golf break
• Donald Trump decides to try putting his butt on a drinking fountain

I don’t see any world where all of this does not happen exactly as written.

EfFiCiEnCy

MAGA: We need to protect the nuclear family.

Trump: Yes, the nuclear family. What a big, beautiful family. No one knows nuclear like me. My uncle -

Personally, I downvoted because lately I’ve been devoting almost all of my energy toward trying to develop software we can use to build a true democracy. That’s how I keep myself sane and believe I’m contributing to solutions. Others have their own ways.

And while I’m waiting for scripts to run, I do make the occasional political comment in places like this. But that’s a separate thing just to connect with people and unwind. I can’t speak for the others, but I was downvoting the assumption that just because someone shows outrage at an outrageous situation, that necessarily means they’re doing nothing to try to fix it. Those things are not mutually exclusive.

Yeah, I thought he was out of control, but I wasn’t aware he had been slammed.

The article says that the administration seems to be claiming the executive order where they changed the name of United States Digital Service to United States DOGE Service allows them to make the sweeping changes they are making. This is of course ludicrously beyond the pale when it comes to data security violations involved in taking control of data managed by other agencies and getting involved in their staffing. It’s a smokescreen for autocracy.

The claim in this particular instance is that they are saying the executive order redefined the reporting structure of the department. Where previously they reported to the Office of Management and Budget, where everything is subject to FOIA requests in the short term, they claim their USDS reports to the White House Chief of Staff and therefore is shielded from FOIA during the current administration. We can theoretically get the data later (I’m sure they’ll be very responsible with chain of custody on such important data 🙄) but it will be 4 years later, when no one cares because we’re in the trenches dealing with the long term consequences of what’s happening right now. So, it is subject to FOIA, yes. But they’re making up stories and betting the courts won’t dare to challenge them.