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People Are Reading Media With Problematic Themes, They Should Stop Doing That

This Media Has Special Meaning To X Group Only, Y Group Has No Reason To Engage So Why Do They Anyway

People Are Getting Into Media Specifically To Engage With The Fandom And I Don’t Like That

People Are Shipping Things That Aren’t Supported In The Canon

People Are Reading Media They’re Too Old For

People Are Reading Media They’re Too Young For

People Are Reading Media That Depicts Harm Similar To Harm They’ve Experienced, Why Would They Do That

People Are Reading Media That Isn’t Realistic Or Correct, They Will Get Wrong Ideas

People Are Creating Stuff I Dislike

We have the same boss and when she told him what happened he recommended she call the bank directly, so she did and they managed to catch it in time before $20k of transactions went through. Very scary

I guess the lesson here is never ever answer your phone, I love that fraud is so rampant an entire form of mass communication is now useless

happened to me last spring.

it’s dire out there….

Banks don't call people, IME. They send emails and texts and put notices on your online account. Credit cards sometimes do I believe, but in that case, just call the number on your card back.

The United States will mail you information. If the government needs to reach you, check your mailbox.

My fiance worked at a credit union for 8 years and they were trained to notice and intervene if they suspected someone was being scammed, and he told me the number one thing that signals a scam is a member coming in looking fucking terrified while on the phone with someone who is essentially screaming at them that the credit union staff cannot be trusted and that if they hang up the world will end.

Hi friend.

I missed a couple days there, sorry.

It's honestly been a bit hard to get online.

I am feeling very defeated, and struggling with the way this account is growing, but the information is just not being spread. It's all feeling quite mundane and unimportant.

But with that, I know and understand that is the goal of those in power. To make me feel defeated and hopeless. So while I may miss some days, I am going to try very hard to not give up.

If I can live in a red state, in a red city, as an out member of the lgbt+ community, unable to get out of the country, and be brave enough to keep going, then I hope that at the very least me pushing forward helps to inspire someone else to keep going too.

That said, I do hope that everyone that is following helps me push out the helpful links, the info dumps, and the info graphics.

I have spent many days looking up local elections across the country to try and keep people informed so they don't give up while there still is a fighting chance.

There are elections happening within this month that can help your communities.

There are elections happening next month.

And in April.

And May.

And June.

You just have to stay informed and involved in your local community. Yes the world is overwhelming, but just try and stay informed on your local dealings for now.

Anyways. I'll be queuing up some information as well as our regularly programmed feel good posts. I just needed to vent a little bit.

If you guys want to spread info about your local communities to get the word out, i encourage you to send me info on it. That can be elections, good news, court filings in your state government, community events, etc. Anything.

Keep your head up guys.

It is quite literally not over.

I love you.

Be kind to each other.

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Because we are seeing that right now with the world situation and the fight against the Orange Fucker and Muskrat. All kinds of people gumming up the works, including people within the government itself, saying “no, I’m not doing that.” and many of them will be fired or removed. But people are digging in their heels for the small moment of mercy it will grant us.

OH.

I’m crying @comicgeekscomicgeek because I needed to hear this right now. To see my own words, to know that someone read the thought I shouted into the void and remembered. Thank you for being my Sharon Carter and reminding me that I do have a choice.. there’s always a choice.

Long story short the Treasury insisted that Musk and his DOGE staffers had "read-only" access, meaning look no touch, to systems. Wired and Talking Points Memo both independently found that was not true. A 25 year old, named Marko Elez, has admin access to the system responsible for ALL federal payments, Trillions on trillions of dollars responsible for everything, all pay outs to every federal agency, state and local government, charities and other organization, Social Security payments and Medicare reimbursements, 1/5th of the US economy.

and it appears, Elez working effectively on his own is making changes to the coding of the system, why? who knows, he won't tell the professionals who normally maintain the system.

throwing such a massive, complex, and important, cannot fail, system into the hands of one person is total madness, if an engineer at twitter fucks up and brings it down for a day, who cares? if the payment system of the US crashes.... it'll massively disrupt the lives of every single American and ruin the lives of thousands maybe tens or hundreds of thousands.

Overnight Wired reported that contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to ‘read only’ access to department payment systems, this is not true. A 25 year old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the US government including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments. I can independently confirm these details based on going back to the weekend. I can further report that Elez not only has full access to these systems and has already made extensive changes to the code base for this critical payment system.

Josh, are you a little crestfallen they beat you to it? Well, sure but this is a business is an ocean of ‘arrgghhs’ and honestly the information being out is the big thing. Here are the additional details. 

I’m told that Elez and possibly other DOGE operatives received full admin level access on Friday January 31st. The claim of ‘read only’ access was either false from the start or later fell through. The DOGE team, which appears to be mainly or only Elez for the purposes of this project, has already made extensive changes to the code base for the payment system. They have not locked out the existing programmer/engineering staff but have rather leaned on them for assistance which they appear to have painedly provided hoping to prevent as much damage as possible – ‘damage’ in the sense not of preventing the intended changes but avoiding crashes or a system-wide breakdown caused by rapidly pushing new code into production with a limited knowledge of the system and its dependencies across the federal government. 

Phrases like “freaking out” are, not surprisingly, used to describe the reaction of the engineers who were responsible for maintaining the code base until a week ago. The changes that have been made all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked. I want to emphasize that the described changed are not being tested in a dev environment (i.e., not live) but have already been pushed into production. This is code that appears to be mainly the work of Elez who was first introduced to the system probably roughly a week ago and certainly not before the second Trump inauguration. The most recent information I have is that no payments have as yet been blocked and that the incumbent engineering team was able to convince Marko to push the code live to impact only a subset of the universe of payments the system controls. I have also heard no specific information about this access being used to drill down into the private financial or proprietary information of payment recipients, though it appears that the incumbent staff has only limited visibility into what Elez is doing with the access. They have however looked into extensively into the categories and identity of payees to see how certain payments can be blocked.

Adding further anxiety about the stability of the system there is, I’m told, a long-scheduled migration scheduled to take place this weekend which could interact in unpredictable ways with the code changes already described. 

To give some further sense of the atmosphere, you seem to have multiple government engineers/programmers who are being pressed into assisting Marko and doing code reviews for them terrified that the whole system will end up going down meanwhile “Marko” (now identified by Wired as 25 year old Marko Elez) refuses to identify himself to most or likely all of these new colleagues by anything by his first name. I suspect that the publication of Wired’s article last night was the first time most or perhaps all of them learned his last name or even got assurance that “Marko” wasn’t some kind of alias. 

if you are on SSDI/Medicare, please contact the ACLU or an appropriate law firm to file a class action suit against the federal government for breach of privacy.

[image text: Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bressent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!

Response post: As a SSDI and Medicare client, I filed a request for a class-action breach of privacy lawsuit request with my state ACLU today. Please file in your state]

I will be contacting the Florida ACLU tomorrow but I also submitted a form to Morgan & Morgan, because the Morgans fuckin' hate Republicans, so it could work.