Lmst

Judge strikes down DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace – NBC News

A federal judge ruled that the actions of “illegitimately-installed leaders” — including the purported transfer of the institute’s building — were “null and void.”
May 19, 2025, 10:04 AM PDT / Updated May 19, 2025, 12:24 PM PDT By Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Monday tossed out the takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, declaring that actions by “illegitimately-installed leaders” were “unlawful” and had to be declared “null and void.”
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that “the removal of USIP’s president, his replacement by officials affiliated with DOGE, the termination of nearly all of USIP’s staff, and the transfer of USIP property to the General Services Administration” were “effectuated by illegitimately-installed leaders who lacked legal authority to take these actions, which must therefore be declared null and void.”
The decision came two months after a dramatic showdown at the building’s headquarters in Washington, when the acting head of the Institute of Peace issued a statement saying that “DOGE has broken into our building.” After members of the DOGE team took over the building with the help of law enforcement. most institute employees were subsequently laid off.
Source Links: Judge strikes down DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace

#DepartmentOfGovernemntEfficiency #DOGE #ElonMusk #Judge #Muskrat #NBC #NBCNews #Trump #USInstituteOfPeace

How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring – The Washington Post

The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s disruptive cost-cutting team.The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s disruptive cost-cutting team.

May 16, 2025 at 6:52 p.m. EDT, Yesterday at 6:52 p.m. EDT, 12 min

By Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein and Meryl Kornfield

An entrance to the Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, seen March 20. (Wesley Lapointe / For The Washington Post)

The U.S. DOGE Service arrived at the Social Security Administration this year determined to slash staff and root out what it claimed was widespread fraud and wasteful spending — a mission Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team has pursued across the government.

But as of this week, many of the major changes DOGE pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction. The problems come as the agency struggles to cope with a record surge of hundreds of thousands of retirement claims in recent months.

DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency but is not a Cabinet-level agency, had to cancela plan to cut phone service for retirement and disability claimsafter drawing outrage from lawmakers, seniors and advocates. Staff reductions and reassignments led by DOGE are slowing the pace of claims processingas field offices lose longtime staff and gain a smaller number of inexperienced replacements. DOGE-driven changes to the agency’s website are causing crashes almost every day, and phone customers complain about dropped calls and long wait times. A DOGE-imposed spending freeze is leading to shortages of basic office supplies, from printer cartridges to the phone headsets staff need to do their jobs.

Source Links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/doge-social-security-musk-trump-cuts/

#Backfiring #DOGE #FraudNope #GrandPlan #Musk #Muskrat #TheWashingtonPost #Trump

I heard squeaking in the water and assumed it was a frog. It was not a frog. #Muskrat #Wildlife #WesternMassachusetts

Muskrat, seen on May 14, 2025, in Amherst, Massachusetts

#Muskrat #Wildlife #WesternMassachusetts

Photograph of a muskrat on the muddy shore of a marsh. The muskrat is seated upright with its hands raised to its mouth. It is looking off to the right as it munches on something.

Little muncher😋🥬

#bisam #muskrat

Closeup from previous picture
The water mirrors the scene

Hey, give the #muskrat a break. He’s trying to translate ketamine fuelled “insights” into rational thought. Even Hunter S Thompson only succeed in that occasionally. Mind you, even Thompson’s fails left you chuckling or cognating. FElon’s ramblings tend to draw a more slack jawed WTF reaction.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vcu43wx7eanikezcsayulz2n/post/3lolwnwmpqk2g

canoo.ca/changes-to-c... 1) The CPC lost so birthright citizenship remains. 👏👏 2) What I like to call the FElon #muskrat clause still exists. “Citizenship can be revoked in rare cases involving fraud, false identity, or security risks.” He is only “false identity” away from hitting the trifecta.

Changes to Canadian Citizenshi...

Gotta help your bud.

The White House said that vehicles made with at least 85% domestic and USMCA-compliant contentwould be exempt from tariffs for the next year (a big boon for Tesla, in particular).
#cronycapitalism #useconomy #DictatorDon #musk #muskrat #tesla

Why the Uber rich always win. #MuskRat m.youtube.com/shorts/LpgNH...

Why did Elon sell Twitter to G...

So, the #muskrat says he is leaving doggy because most of the work is done now

What he really says, is: “I have eliminated all departmental workers that are investigating me and my businesses, ensured all governmental contracts for my companies to gain even more profits than before, secured money paid by taxpayers for my own benefit, and have millions of personal data to use to use as leverage for any gain I might want.”

This is how #democracy works in the not so #USA

TLDR: because of #trump & #muskrat cutting #FDA funding, #milk can't be properly tested as safe anymore. Pick "ultra- pasteurized".

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIwMvDKxJzk/?igsh=bGoxZ2dhdm1qNnk3

Bijbelstudie!

Spreuken 17:16
Welk nut heeft geld in de hand van een dwaas?
Dom als hij is, kan hij toch geen wijsheid kopen.

Moet ineens aan de #muskrat denken!

@carbontwelve @forthy42 @pluralistic
Everything #MuskRat does is fraud or fraud adjacent.

Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems. #TrumpRegime #ElonMusk #Muskrat

A whistleblower's disclosure d...

@Lazarou
The #muskrat is a pure (and dangerous) madman. Some9ne must stop him for good.
@temptoetiam

I saw a muskrat yesterday evening in our local river, chewing some stinging nettle leaves and then swimming away.
Originally introduced from North America for their fur, they have spread rapidly through Europe and are often seen as a problem (local wildlife, but mostly their burrowing activities damaging river banks and flood control systems), but I can't deny it looked kinda cute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat

#wildlife #photography #muskrat