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The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-inform…

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

President Trump signs an EO to continue the suspension of the de minimis exemption, despite the SCOTUS' ruling that overturned most of Trump's 2025 tariffs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-imposes-new-tariffs-following-supreme-c…

Trump Imposes New Tariffs to Sidestep Supreme Court Ruling
The president signed an executive order implementing 10 percent global tariffs after calling the justices who struck down his signature trade policy a "disgrace."

This is "interesting" - In a civil trial in which Elon M. is the defendant they are having difficulty finding enough unbiased jurors to empanel a jury:
Well, that's one way to evade liability: become so hated that there aren't enough people who don't hate your guts to form a jury.
"Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings"

Musk’s Twitter Trial Gets Jurors Who Can Set Aside Feelings
Nine jurors, claiming they can be fair and impartial to Elon Musk and his controversial purchase of Twitter in 2022, were seated in San Francisco federal court Thursday, whittled down from a pool of 93.

@… kann ja sein, dass man diese Aschermittwochbeleidungen als Parteigänger verbreiten muss. Mich stören sie. Ich bleibe interessiert an @… , aber ich würde dann das following einstellen.

Lindsey Halligan out as U.S. attorney following pressure from judges
Lindsey Halligan,
a Trump administration lawyer who was named head of a key U.S. attorney’s office in Virginia last year
with instructions to seek criminal charges against Donald Trump’s perceived political adversaries,
left her post at the Justice Department on Tuesday.

Halligan’s departure followed a pair of extraordinary moves by two federal judges
who issued court orders hours earlie…

Federal judge moves to replace Lindsey Halligan as U.S. attorney
The actions signal a breaking point for the federal bench in the Eastern District of Virginia after Lindsey Halligan was disqualified as U.S. attorney there.

'Hereby strikes the words': Court orders newspaper ads to 'solicit' Lindsey Halligan's replacement as judge removes her claimed title from 'all' filings in criminal case | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/chief-judge-orders-up-newspaper-ads-to-solicit-expressions-of-interest-in-replacing-lindsey-halligan/

It's Interesting today that the popularization of @…'s concept of "enshittification" is leading us to really think hard about how various methods of vendor lock-in enable corporations to abuse users. We see how first there's lock-in then quickly abuse follows, and recognize that the only way out of this trap is to build systems where users can leave at will.
But it's interesting that in this time of rising fascism no one is making the connection to fascism, as both increased lock in and enshittification of government. And no one is making the connection between the need to make systems optional to avoid enshittification, and libertarian socialist arguments against the systemic lock-in (and following abuse) of capitalism and the state.

The first ISO8601ultras sticker are now available in the stickerbox at @… Zurich
#stickerart #stickers

Rosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…