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Elon Musk keeps making false claims of fraud at Social Security. Those false claims have served to get at least ten DOGE boys -- some whose background clearances haven't been completed -- access to highly personal data of all Americans.

By all appearances, on Scott Bessent's authority, someone at least considered giving Marko Elez -- at the time only cleared to the Secret level -- Top Secret Read/Write access to Treasury's Mainframe, without first making sure he had signed a list of rules about altering or copying data.

Amy Gleason's conflicting sworn claims to be an HHS employee and DOGE administration raise real questions about Elon Musk's agency.

We shall see how Judge Theodore Chuang's opinion finding that DOGE violates the Appointments Clause survives appeal. But for the moment, we finally have an opinion that holds that Elon Musk has absolutely no authority to dismantle entire agencies.

As an attempt by CATO to model what DOGE is doing reveals, no one really understands what it is doing. It's long past time that people at least tried to rule out that it is an intelligence operation.

By all means, scoff at Carville's outdated naivete and Schumer's unwillingness to more directly confront those he pants next to on the exercise bike. But don't abstain from pressuring right wingers to show some courage against Trump's outrages. 

We discuss Chuck Schumer's decision to let Republicans pass the continuing resolution.

The government claims it can deport former student visa holder Mahmoud Khalil as part of an order using the Civil Rights Act to combat antisemitism among universities that get government funding. But former student visa holder Elon Musk also gets government funding, and does more to support overt antisemitism than Khalil has been accused of.

Over and over, Trump 2.0 has taken aggressive steps based off bullshit, much of it coming from Elon or other far right propagandists. And over and over, Trump's top people keep creating problems for themselves as they try to adjust the (legal) narrative to match their evolving understanding of the facts.