Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions

before he was granted extensive access to sensitive data and invited to brief the country’s vice president, Luke Farritor, now 23, was a homeschooled kid in Lincoln, Nebraska, who called himself lukethecoder64.

#doge #LukeFarritor #government #USaid #elonmusk #musk #leno #spacekaren #technology #tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/

Why DOGE’s Luke Farritor Followed Elon Musk to DC

Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.

Bloomberg

"He is not one of MAGA’s Forgotten Men. He was not discriminated against by DEI.

Last's commentary is referencing a deep-dive article by Bloomberg about Farritor and what he did to USAID — to hungry and sick people in desperate need. The article is linked below.

Should we ask moral questions here, ask about Farritor's accountability? If not, why not?

#ElonMusk #LukeFarritor #DOGE #USAID
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https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/

Why DOGE’s Luke Farritor Followed Elon Musk to DC

Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.

Bloomberg

"It wasn’t envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party.

Now that USAID is gone, people are dying who otherwise would not have. This is a simple fact. How many? Who knows. …

So what are we supposed to do with a man like Luke Farritor?

He is not the product of a broken home or an uncaring system."

#ElonMusk #LukeFarritor #DOGE #USAID
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White, Midwestern, affluent, afforded the best education, father a professor: and Farritor chose to use all of those advantages to dismantle an international aid organization providing food and medicine to people in desperate need:

"USAID provided life-saving food and medicine for poor people across the globe. Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off the agency. It wasn’t something Trump ran on."

#ElonMusk #LukeFarritor #DOGE #USAID
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Jonathan V. Last asks a very important question:

"What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?"

He zeroes in on 23-year-old Luke Farritor, "one of Elon Musk’s 23-year-old DOGE bros who helped dismantle key parts of the federal government, including USAID."

Last says,

"What struck me most reading the account of his life is the extent of his privilege."

#ElonMusk #LukeFarritor #DOGE #USAID
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-genius-who-killed-14-million-luke-farritor-doge-elon-musk-trump

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

The Bulwark

Susan Berfield, Margi Murphy & Jason Leopold: #DOGE-Pilled: Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.

#USAID #musk #trump #cruelty #LukeFarritor #authoritarianism
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/

Why DOGE’s Luke Farritor Followed Elon Musk to DC

Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.

Bloomberg

Jonathan V. Last: The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People: What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

#doge #USAID #musk #trump #LukeFarritor #cruelty #authoritarianism
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-elon-musk-relationship-64773ad1

You probably have not heard the name #LukeFarritor before. He is one of #ElonMusk ’s 23-year-old #DOGE bros who helped dismantle KEY parts of the federal government, including #USAID. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 M...
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

The Bulwark
Why DOGE’s Luke Farritor Followed Elon Musk to DC

Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.

Bloomberg

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Table of #DOGE members.

(16 - 20) (of 68)

From #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#DOGE_members

16) #StephenDuarte, Expert (HR), #OPM

17) #LelandDudek, Acting Commissioner, #SSA

18) #StephenEhikian, Acting Administrator, #GSA

19) #MarkoElez, Expert (coding), #USDT

20) #LukeFarritor, Executive Engineer in the Office of the Secretary, #HHS, #DOS

Department of Government Efficiency - Wikipedia