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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"NEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially rejected the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 11 on behalf of two labor unions and individual current and former government workers across the country. This decision is a victory: The court agreed that the claims that OPM illegally disclosed highly personal records of millions of people to DOGE agents can move forward with the goal of stopping that ongoing disclosure and requiring that any shared information be returned.

Cote ruled current and former federal employees "may pursue their request for injunctive relief under the APA [Administrative Procedure Act]. ... The defendants’ Kafkaesque argument to the contrary would deprive the plaintiffs of any recourse under the law."

"The complaint plausibly alleges that actions by OPM were not representative of its ordinary day-to-day operations but were, in sharp contrast to its normal procedures, illegal, rushed, and dangerous,” the judge wrote."

eff.org/press/releases/judge-r

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and MuskNEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S....
#USA#Musk#OPM
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Nonilex

#DOGE also announced drastic cuts at depts that provide critical #SocialServices including #VeteransAffairs [#VA], which administers #healthcare for #veterans, & the #SocialSecurity Administration, which sends out checks to #retired, #disabled & #widowed Americans [money Americans put into the #SSA out of their own paychecks].

#OPM …has laid off >200 of its own employees & allowed >400 to *opt in* to *voluntary* exit programs since #Trump took office…

#law#kleptocracy#autocracy
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Nonilex

#OPM, the agency leading #Musk's firing spree, froze Federal hiring, but to hired a driver to ferry around its leaders.

The federal HR agency leading efforts by billionaire WH *adviser* #ElonMusk to slash the federal workforce has decided to hire its first new career employee since #Trump took office, acc/to emails seen by Reuters.

#ForTheeButNotForMe #USpol #corruption #hypocrisy #kleptocracy
reuters.com/world/us/us-agency

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Ether Diver

EDIT: Thursday now, but this is still new to many of you!

It's WEDNESDAY, so let's have a teaser look at this week's Other People's Music. This thread will contain the first line of each review, plus links to music, socials and the full review. Don't want to wait? Dive into the full selection right here, right now:

etherdiver.com/2025/03/21/opm-

www.etherdiver.comOPM: Gods and Vampires – Ether Diver
#music#NewMusic#MusicDiscovery
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Centralizing Personnel Authority

A new #Trump move seeks to evade #court orders & empower DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/cen

"Why the new confidence in OPM? #OPM is, effectively, a subsidiary of DOGE now. DOGE employees, when they meet resistance, have not been shy about threatening federal employees or contractors... The new #EO means that #DOGE employees have even more leverage in their interactions with agencies."

Headline and text from Can We Still Govern?: Centralizing Personnel Authority A new Trump move seeks to evade court orders and empower DOGE by Don Moynihan Mar 22, 2025 Trump issued a new memo that gives the Office of Personnel Management more power to remove federal employees. More specifically, it allows OPM to determine if probationary employees will be allowed to stay with their agencies at the end of their probationary hiring period. As a reminder, probationary employees are typically those who have joined the federal workforce in the last year (though sometimes longer), or sometimes when they are switching positions within government. Trump has made the removal of probationary employees a centerpiece of his effort to downsize government.
#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup
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