A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data - sh.itjust.works

A pretty extensive article about what’s happening at the national labor relations board. The DOGE team came in, granted themselves access to all the files, turned off logs, copied several gigs of private data on who knows what, then left without telling anyone. They have no official reason for this data and it breaks dozens of privacy laws. It’s sensitive enough to chill every security professional interviewed. Oh and it’s all about getting this data into a centralized depot run by palantir Peter thiel

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff - sh.itjust.works

Yep this headline is from today, Monday morning. Some snippets from the article about how efficient things are now that DOGE have injected their code changes into production without testing. > Suddenly forced offline as they were taking claims, the staff members scribbled down clients’ information, then had to wait until later to load it into the computer, doubling or tripling the amount of time and work involved, the employee said. > In other instances, Managers or security guards improvised a solution after the online scheduling system failed, the employee said. They walked out to the reception area, wrote down numbers on paper slips and started handing them out to people waiting in line. > The network crashes appear to be caused by an expansion initiated by the Trump team of an existing contract with a credit-reporting agency that tracks names, addresses and other personal information to verify customers’ identities. The enhanced fraud checks are now done earlier in the claims process and have resulted in a boost to the volume of customers who must pass the checks. EDIT: here’s an archive link. https://archive.is/FQfBu [https://archive.is/FQfBu]

Archival footage of Gen X learning about tariffs - sh.itjust.works

The famous documentary Ferris Bueller’s Day Off demonstrates why forty years later our leaders elected Tariff Man. (Classic comedy actually if you’ve never seen it)

Arrest warrant issued for Cleveland restaurant owner Bobby George on attempted murder, rape charges - sh.itjust.works

knew he was a bad dude and a creep but holy hell. > Records state that the alleged events happened as early as Nov. 14, 2023, to as recent as July 31, 2024. The alleged assaults were reported on Aug. 9. > On Nov. 14, 2023, George is accused of pinning a woman to the ground, strangling her and slamming her head into the ground multiple times, resulting in post-concussion syndrome. > Between Nov. 1, 2023, and May 1, 2024, George allegedly followed a woman out to her car, demanded she exit the vehicle and held a gun to the window to “encourage her to exit the vehicle.” Once she got out of the car, he put the gun to her stomach and escorted her back inside the home she fled, records state. > Between June 8-10, 2024, George allegedly tried to kill a woman by “shoving a towel down the victim’s throat and stating ‘You think God is going to help you?’ while she was attempting to pray in the closet that she would not die.” Furthermore, he refused to let the woman leave the residence and strangled and assaulted her. > Sometime between May 1, 2024, and July 31, 2024, he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman who had just gotten out of the shower. > On July 27, he allegedly threw a woman in a closet when she was trying to leave the residence. > George is not currently in custody.

Did this template already exist? - sh.itjust.works

From the signing of the kids lunch bill. I just feel like even the laziest version of this is pretty fun.

FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump - sh.itjust.works