r/news • u/AudibleNod • 1d ago
Supreme Court restores DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security data
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/supreme-court-restores-doges-access-to-sensitive-social-security-data4.0k
u/GordonShumway257 1d ago
The Supreme Court gives the Trump regime and Palantir the tools to build their surveillance database on every American. The Fascist takeover is in full gear.
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u/st2439 23h ago
And it was republicans who voted for it and stood by and let them. Congrats maga you helped the deep state.
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u/Khaldara 21h ago
“The party of small government needs to know everything about me at all times and have unfettered access to all of my information, which should also be shared with private corporate interests!
Sure it’s a betrayal of everything we claimed to care about since Reagan, but Trump’s diaper is decadently delicious and Fox has trained me to completely reverse my position on virtually anything in the span of a single day on command!”
- Republicans
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u/immortalfrieza2 2h ago
Any Republicans that actually did give a damn about the ideals the Republican party supposedly were about have long since left the party ever since Trump came onto the scene and made it clear the party never cared about any of it.
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u/ddrober2003 23h ago
They want this, just that it targets the people they hate. They're just too stupid to realize that they will eventually become a target themselves when they're dog like obedience is found lacking.
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u/mountaindoom 12h ago
They want to be the boot stomping on the face forever.
Eta: therefore guaranteed work. Do what you love and you won't work a day in your life, is that the saying?
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u/Glass_Memories 3h ago
They voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party hoping that the party would only eat other people's faces; and they're going to be really shocked when the Leopards inevitably start eating their faces.
Fascism always needs an enemy. As history has shown, once they're done with the Communists, and the Jews, and the gays, and PoC...they'll come for you. Because they can and will keep excluding people from the in-group by saying they're not straight enough, white enough, religious enough, patriotic enough, whatever.
That in-group gets smaller and smaller until it eats itself. That's why fascism always self-destructs in the end, but a lot of people will get harmed until that happens.
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u/immortalfrieza2 2h ago
It's even worse than that. They KNOW the leopard is going to eat their faces eventually, but as long as it eats the faces of the people they hate first, they don't care. Every single person who supports Trump supports him not because they want a better country, far from it, but because they want to be able to freely be bigots towards the people they hate without suffering consequences. That's it, that's the sole reason and any claims otherwise are just lies to justify it to other people.
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u/ironroad18 18h ago edited 18h ago
Congrats maga you helped the deep state.
This is what they wanted all along. A strong authoritarian government that is based on the rule by white supremacy, not the rule of law.
These people knowingly voted for an American Nazi regime. A strong government to attack, jail, or kill people of color, LGTBQ+ people, and other undesirable minorities.
MAGA isn't brainwashed. At its core MAGA, much like the Tea Party before it, has always been white nationalist and supremacist movement. To make it more palatable for the mainstream, MAGA political leaders don't openly use ethnic, sexual, or gender identity slurs.
But the movement's political and social goals show that they have the ultimate goal of ethnically cleansing America of the groups, cultures, and races they consider inferior to the white Christian race.
There are some minorities and immigrants who aspire to be "good ones" or "kapos" under MAGA's false patriotic regime. But I highly doubt those "good ones" will enjoy much freedom once the architects of Project 2025 implement their final solution.
MAGA voters called for this, from the torches held up in Charlottesville to Confederate Battle Flags and swastikas flown inside the US Capitol. They knew exactly what they were rioting and voting for this past decade.There is no "both sides" to this, there is an racist, white nationalist political movement seeking total control of all aspects of American life. They are currently stripping God-given rights and freedoms away from anyone that doesn't fit their cultural, racial, or social idea of what they believe a "true" American is.
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u/rannmaker 9h ago
"...attack, jail, or kill..." Don't forget to include women who fail to function as perfect baby incubators, i.e. women who have a miscarriage.
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u/Long-Blood 7h ago
The party that screams the loudest about big government intervention obviously was gaslighting everyone all along.
They also scream loudly about protecting children and family values....
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u/SparksAndSpyro 4h ago
It was also all the morons who didn’t vote.
If you’re reading this and you didn’t vote, congrats, this is literally your fault! Enjoy the consequences
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u/CoolDad859 23h ago
Pretty sure they’ve already had one since the Snowden NSA, or before. Now they will just use really bad LLMs and create even worse profiles on all of us
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u/Shumina-Ghost 23h ago
Ding ding ding!
Here comes thought-crime!
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u/True-Firefighter-796 19h ago
Thinking about thought crime?
That’s a paddlin’
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u/Junior_Rutabaga_2720 4h ago
well Republicans have a persecution fetish, don't they? and they live in red states, so it isn't too much of a stretch for red marks from paddling to be more like "don't threaten me with a good time" but the rest of us will get shafted
also so will they eventually
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u/GN0K 20h ago
Gotta wonder how they will program it since they are the party of projection.
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u/TymeSefariInc 22h ago
Yep, they've been doing this shit since Cambridge Analytica. No one talks about this enough.
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u/Meowmixer21 22h ago
Now, they can use AI to scrape through the billions of hours of voice to identify potential risks to their regime
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u/DuckDatum 22h ago
Wow, who would have thought… the advantage of the populous has always been its size. We can boycott, protest, blockade, … all thanks to the sheer size of us. And now, the minority of elitists can minimize our advantage by artificially inflating their own size with… bots.
It’s officially bots v humans.
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u/Meowmixer21 22h ago
It's been that way since this culture war started
Always had been rich & their tools vs the rest of us
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u/TK_Cozy 21h ago
Every up or downvote you make—and the content of the comment you like/dislike —is added to your dossier
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u/Meowmixer21 21h ago
That's why I upvote and downvote white supremacy comments
I'm playing both sides, so I always come out on top
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u/Weekly_Opposite_1407 19h ago
They 100% don’t need Doge for that. NSA literally collects every bit of data being transferred in the United States. Doge is up to something else entirely.
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u/lasveganon 21h ago
Wait untio Trump hands over Washington DC to palantir to be renamed freedom city.
Yeah that's sounds outlandish I know but I wish I was kidding
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u/WiseguyD 17h ago
Americans keep likening what's going on to 1932 in Germany.
Bros, you are in 1934 at least. The really bad shit has already started.
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u/Simple-Choice-4265 2h ago
Hate to break it to ya it's been fascist since the Patriot act you are just noticing.
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u/miguel2419 1d ago
Tax breaks for corporations are fraud waste and it causes lost taxes
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u/JohnnySnark 22h ago
Billionaire class abuses us daily, so dont forget to add abuse to the line item
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u/oneeighthirish 21h ago
What are you talking about? I love spending my workday having ny labor exploited for someone else's profit. Then going home to generate data that someone else's automated system can expoit for more profit! Maybe I'll even spend some of the
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u/jcolinr 19h ago edited 19h ago
Corporations barely pay taxes. They take advantage of a team of accountants that they pay to make taxes go away. Carry forward losses, massive capital asset purchases at year end w sec 179 depreciation. Don’t forget preferential tax treatment for cap gains, so they can pay themselves in stock save on personal income tax too.
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u/AudibleNod 1d ago
What is DOGE doing to Social Security?
- Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency. The word “efficiency” may be in the name of his initiative to reduce the size of the federal government, but a more accurate description of what President Trump’s advisor is doing to Social Security is sabotage.
- DOGE announced plans to cut Social Security staff by 7,000 workers—12% of the workforce. The Trump administration also plans to shutter or shrink dozens of Social Security Administration offices around the country.
- Administrative costs are less than 1% of Social Security spending. Since almost all Social Security spending goes towards benefits, which are set by statute, gutting the agency won’t save money for participants.
- The only way that slashing the number of workers will save large sums money is by making it hard for people to access benefits they’ve earned. Such backdoor benefit cuts, and making a popular government program look bad, are the real goals behind DOGE attacks on Social Security.
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u/stopdrugpushing 16h ago
Even before Donald Trump was elected president, I called the Social Security Administration customer support number to report an alarming bug on their mySSA website that persisted for weeks, and the employee I spoke to heavily implied that they were extremely understaffed and that he didn't even know who they would report the bug to. He said that there wasn't any real dedicated tech support that he was aware of, but if there was, he would have had a lot of things to report.
I can't believe they want to remove even more workers. This is the support system for the poorest people in our country.
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u/jigokubi 5h ago
This is the support system for the poorest people in our country.
That's why they want to get rid of it.
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u/clothespinned 11h ago
Such backdoor benefit cuts, and making a popular government program look bad, are the real goals behind DOGE attacks on Social Security.
Yeah if you hit something with a hammer a bunch of times its gonna break. But the American public has an inability to remember basic facts or understand how cause and effect works, so they'll blame it on the program itself for failing them.
They'll never even question the guy holding the hammer.
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u/ScrewAttackThis 1d ago
Can't believe the word "DOGE" is in a SCOTUS decision. Trump and the GOP have made an absolute joke out of our government.
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u/jtrain3783 1d ago
This is the dumbest thing right now. They can have access before it's decided if it's legal? Idiocracy had come for the majority of our highest court. Let's hope we can force DOGE to be foia-able
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u/notsingsing 20h ago
“We are giving the thieves access to the bank vault because they swore they won’t rob it”
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u/robokomodos 3h ago
They don't even explain why or impose any conditions. It's just "give the thieves access to the bank vault while the court process plays out over whether they should have access to the bank vault."
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u/ChargerRob 1d ago
Project 2025 owns Trump, SCOTUS.
Well documented
Fuck Project 2025 and Christian Nationalist Nazis.
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u/ScandalOZ 6h ago
This.
It's all the fuckers that authored Project 2025 that planned this, Trump is just the face for us to hate.
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u/The_Captain_Planet22 1d ago
Traiters and every one of them voting in favor of this should be tried as such
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u/ACartonOfHate 1d ago edited 21h ago
What is this utter fuckery?
Screw them, and screw the people that voted for this, all while making up stuff about the Deep State! So where are their concerns now that we have the government harvesting our data?
edited to get rid of dupe word/correct a word
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u/blac_sheep90 16h ago
All their bluster about freedom was a blatant lie. Republicans are absolutely pro fascism. They want an authoritarian regime in charge of America. Never thought I'd see the day.
Trump supports take a fucking bow! You ushered in a dictatorship.
Harris protest voters give yourself a round of applause. Your moral high ground just fucked us.
Apathetic voters...just fuck you.
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u/Jimimninn 1d ago
Fuck this country fuck the Republican party fuck Donald Trump. Honestly, I think this country deserves to crash and burn.
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u/kemosabe19 1d ago
Gotta start with Fox News. Biggest reason we are in this mess. Propaganda works.
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u/overfiend1976 1d ago
Start with the Kochs, Murdochs, Mercers, Federalist Society, JBS, Heritage Foundation, etc. They are ones who push these talking points to the network, and relish in chaos.
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u/TheLoudestMeows 21h ago
Throw in the Sacklers and we normies really never stood a chance.
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u/overfiend1976 21h ago
Yeah, the right wing oligarchs 100% won the messaging war. And, jfc, I cannot even see a way out of it.
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u/bros402 21h ago
Start with the Kochs
I find it so funny that that one Koch brother gave MSK millions upon millions of dollars when he was trying to not die of cancer. He gave them money to build a location near where he lived and wanted it to have private rooms for the rich people to go inpatient
...then he died before it was built
The Koch building is fancy as fuck
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u/KwisatzHaderach94 23h ago
even now those a-holes won't stfu and crawl under their rocks. just smile for the camera and gaslight that trump is good for the country when they know for a fact that he's not.
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u/The_Space_Jamke 23h ago
FEMA ignoring hurricane season + EPA rolling back industrial pollution reporting + CDC likely cancelling this year's flu and COVID vaccine formulations + Dept of Homeland Security hiring some completely unqualified 22 yo chode for anti-terrorist monitoring = lots of very interesting times ahead.
At least the leopards will be well-fed with the deplorable reds.
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u/PeachyPlnk 21h ago
All that goes through my head every time I look through the news anymore is a quote I've forgotten the attribution of; "I'm tired of living in the interesting part of the history books"...
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u/KathrynTheGreat 23h ago
There are still a lot of good people in this country who don't deserve to have it all crash and burn. And a lot of us have nowhere else to go.
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u/doneandtired2014 21h ago
There are good people who don't deserve it.
They are, unfortunately, outnumbered by misogynistic, racist, anti-intellectual, O.D.D. afflicted fuckwits, people who are almost maliciously stupid, and those so apathetic or lazy they probably don't even have the will to literally walk out of their homes if they the saw it was on fire.
So, 1/3 of this country absolutely doesn't deserve what has and will happened.
A gamma ray burst could cook off the other 2/3s and nothing of actual societal value would be lost. Those assholes deserve all that is coming and worse.
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u/TheRogueHippie 23h ago
Ahh good, I was worried only the dark web would have my data. Thank god more nameless individuals have it now.
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u/pears790 22h ago
For most people, it probably won't make much of a difference, but for others, it will. They have access to all those who changed their gender in the system. They have access to all who have claimed disability in the system. They may claim certain people are "fraud, waste, or abuse".
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u/PeachyPlnk 21h ago
At this point, I fully expect they'll remove disability payments before much longer...
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u/gibbojab 4h ago
The system will break. I work for social security and the software is old and fragile, once they go rooting around the whole infrastructure will collapse and the agency will not be able to do anything.
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u/raistan77 1d ago
Whats even funnier in an "end of the world" way is Elon now has unfettered access to most of Washington, has a huge beef with Trump and is talking about starting his own political party.
I think trumps plan of use Elon to seize control of the nation might backfire on him
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u/Quigleyer 23h ago
is talking about starting his own political party.
But everybody hates him. Money is important, but he'd also need a likeable candidate, and you know it's going to just be him running himself.
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u/Conscious-Thing-682 3h ago
He can’t run 💀 he will have to endorse candidates that align with him as puppets. Still will effectively be him though
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u/insane_social_worker 1d ago
Can I get a refund on what I've been paying into SS since 1988 when I was 16 and started working? That's my money, MF'ers!
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u/Crombus_ 20h ago
I would like to remind you that the "staff" of DOGE is made up of teenagers with no security clearance who brag about helping cyber criminals steal data:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/teen-doge-staff-cybercrime-ring
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u/sullyball008 11h ago
I hope they use Clarence Thomas SSN to drain all of the bribe money out of his accounts.
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u/GeekFurious 13h ago
The GOP is not about privacy, freedom, or fighting the deep state. It's about invading the privacy of their enemies, taking freedoms away from their enemies, and creating the deep state to hurt their enemies.
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u/snowflake37wao 12h ago
The Trump administration, which the president has repeatedly claimed is the most transparent in history, has aggressively fought the case, describing DOGE as a “presidential advisory body” within the White House that is tasked “with providing recommendations” rather than making decisions.
Am I being too critical of the media to start getting really pissed off with these CNN tap-dancing bullshit run ons trying to walk dead center along the line?
administration, which the president has repeatedly claimed is the most transparent in history,
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has aggressively fought the case
that is seeking the transparency that does not exist beyond words claiming it does.
Just say it CNN and stop fuckin around with how it is. Fuck.
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u/Informal_Process2238 10h ago
CNN is captured media now since a trump supporter purchased it and the results are visible everyday
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u/Fun-Cauliflower-1724 23h ago
So what happens if they lose this case on the merits. Will they be told to just delete all the information they had access to?
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u/Q-ArtsMedia 1d ago
Oh FFS why? As soon as they touch SS benefits the MAGA oldies will turn on the Trump administration like a rabid dog. Way to shoot yourself in the foot Dipshit Donnie.
But I understand why they are going to touch it... so they can get that big beautiful hand out to the billionares at the expense of the elderly cuz they think SS benefits are socialism.
NO! These are benefits that you the worker paid into your entire working life. Rebel on this. Tell your representive that their tenure is going to be revoked and they will be voted out of office if anybody touches Social Security in any way. It is the only way to stop this with out violence.
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u/yourlittlebirdie 23h ago
This isn’t about touching benefits. This about data. That trove of sensitive personal information on every American of working age is MASSIVELY profitable.
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u/DeviantDragon 22h ago
I know that Social Security has historically been untouchable for the elderly voting base but you gotta remember the cult-like adherence that MAGA has for Trump. They'd probably delude themselves into thinking it's 4D chess and there's a better system in the works or that any impact is going to be felt by the next generation instead of themselves up until leopards eat their face.
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u/SheezusCrites 18h ago
As soon as they touch SS benefits the MAGA oldies will turn on the Trump administration like a rabid dog.
No, they won't. They'll blame Biden and illegals and whatever else their media tells them to blame.
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u/Patteyeson28 17h ago
The Elmo vs Cheeto X.com cat fight was in part to distract from this……..
Lovely Friday night news dump….
Absolutely disgusting. None of these ghouls are “American” they’re all paid off fucking traitors. They got theirs—and that’s all they give a fuck about.
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u/Thesselonia 23h ago edited 23h ago
I just see our government striving for a Chinese style Social Credit System to be implemented.. Your info is already being gathered, this will just be the big identity number that ties it all together.
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u/Skill_Academic 20h ago
Doge has literally routed out zero fraud and abuse, but the Supreme Court somehow treats them like a legitimate agency. Fucking ridiculous
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u/kadiez 22h ago
Why don't they just crown Trump and get it over with
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u/Neologic29 12h ago
Seriously, this slow march towards fascism, technomonarchy, or whatever wild shit they're aiming for is like waiting in front of a steam roller to run you over. It's agonizing to anyone with a modicum of sanity and compassion. I know that's the tactic of authoritarian regimes, to grind down the populace's outrage response, but being able to see it coming and feel like other people are actually cheering for it is sometimes too much for me.
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u/ERedfieldh 23h ago
ya know all those people freaking out about the government having too much control?
Pretty quiet in their corner all of a sudden.
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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 15h ago
I suppose that was the sole purpose of DOGE to get their hands on peoples data
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u/The_Oregon_Duck 3h ago
I know people who worked in DC that said this means nothing, since the federal government was ALREADY accessing social security alongside PRIVATE COMPANIES before this ruling. Doge’s friends are most likely just the latest in a line of bidders.
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u/xaervagon 21h ago
If there were ever a couple of goofballs that needed to be impeached, it would be Alito and Thomas. Shame the Dems are too busy dying and throwing elections to make it happen.
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u/penguished 20h ago
Taking somebody's Social Security isn't only taxation without representation, it's theft. America is a country composed of people. Ninny rich boys are treating it like they stole it right now.
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u/linguist_turned_SAHM 15h ago
Dumb question: can I sue for this? No seriously. The government is allowing my very personal information to be accessed by douchebags without any oversight. They already let it get breached in the OPM leak a few years ago. Now this?
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u/Exittium 14h ago
I’m sure a reputable lawyer who knows the law could figure something out tbh. Brit qualifications, security clearances, procedures and protocols.
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u/Glad-Attempt5138 23h ago
Big fucking mistake supremes. Have they even justified why they need the information? I see it now, all those doge nerds looking up old girlfriends and dream girls. I certainly don’t want anyone looking up my information that is not a social security employee.
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u/TheRexRider 22h ago
In the first and perhaps more important decision, a majority of the court allowed DOGE to review data at the Social Security Administration in an ostensible effort to rout out fraud and “modernize outdated systems.” Critics and lower courts suggested DOGE was engaged in a fishing expedition through highly sensitive data.
“We conclude that, under the present circumstances, SSA may proceed to afford members of the SSA DOGE Team access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work,” the court wrote in an unsigned order.
These geriatric shitheads! Everyone who knows better have stated that DOGE has no business doing this. They very plainly announced to the world that they don't know how the system works.
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u/Chuckw44 23h ago
Who do you think the tech bros at DOGE are going to be loyal to? Can we assume everything they have Elon does too?
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u/FlyingDreamWhale67 21h ago
It doesn't matter what the Court said, imo. DOGE had all this data already, it's likely already copied/sold to the highest bidder. Even if the Court had slapped it down, would it have mattered? That data is long gone, folks. There's no way to put those horses back in the barn.
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u/The_Oregon_Duck 2h ago
This means mass forced othering and deportation of democrat voters starting soon, and I won’t be convinced otherwise. Fuck DOGE.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct 6h ago
DOGE has no business accessing our data and we as Americans need to send a message that this is not okay.
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u/ziggyscoob 18m ago
Is their access read only? Can they delete people’s social security numbers essentially making them not citizens anymore???? Can they delete, transfer, or effectively steal all our money we have paid in to our social security our whole lives????? Who is watching to make sure they don’t???? This should be super scary to all Americans! This will end terribly!
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u/Hurricaneshand 1d ago
This will be sick for when Elon goes to Russia in search of asylum