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The judge zeroed in on 3 #DOGE staffers in leadership positions — #TomKrause, #AdamRamada & #GregHogan — who described their work in court filings.
Krause, a tech executive & team lead of DOGE’s #Treasury outpost, wrote in a declaration that his unpaid role is to use technology to make the agency “more effective, more efficient, & more responsive” to #Trump’s policy goals. [not vague at all /s]
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#TrumpCoup #TreasuryTakeover #Musk
UPDATE
*#BusinessInsider has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for #CoPresident #Musk's #DOGE*
(3/n)
...birthright citizenship."
"The records seen by #BI don't include the names of some #DOGE affiliates who have appeared in legal filings and news reports as working for other agencies, such as the Treasury employees #TomKrause and #MarkoElez. #Elez resigned from the Treasury Department last week after The #WallStreetJournal...
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"[Krause] is a master enshittifier, an enshittification ninja."
I feel like ninja might be giving them too much credit. These folks ain't subtle or stealthy. They don't strike me as a paper bag by the door crowd.
I picture the type of people who would hijack a port-a-potty truck on it's way back from a festival, quickly and badly spray paint the whole thing in (mate) black, and then proceed to crash it through the lobby.
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@nw @pluralistic “These people are committing grave crimes against the nation and its people. They should be known for this. It should follow them for the rest of their lives. It should be the lead in their obituaries. People who are introduced to them at parties should have a flash of recognition, hastily end the handshake, then turn on their heels and race to the bathroom to scrub their hands. For the rest of their lives.” #TomKrause #Resist
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@pluralistic @nw “This is the DOGE playbook. It's all about plunder: take something that was patiently, carefully built up over generations and burn it to the ground, warming yourself in the pyre, leaving nothing behind but ash. This is what private equity plunderers have been doing to the world's "advanced" economies since the Reagan years.” #TomKrause
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“The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – #Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/
------"While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us."
"But for me, it was [Maureen] Tkacik – as usual – in the pages of The American Prospect who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook. While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts ..., Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause ... "
https://prospect.org/power/2025-02-06-private-equity-hatchet-man-leading-lost-boys-of-doge/
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"[Tom] Krause is a private equity looter. He's the guy who basically invented the playbook for PE takeovers of large #tech companies... converting their businesses from selling things to renting them out, loading them up with #JunkFees, slashing quality, jacking up prices over and over, and firing everyone who was good at their jobs. He is a master enshittifier, an enshittification ninja."
- @pluralistichttps://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/
#TomKrause #Enshittification #Musk #Coup #Treasury #Politics #US
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Mr. Poopify himself goofing in public infrastructure...
>.. Krause’s acquisition track record was so well established and reviled within the industry: converting its software products to subscription “services,” jacking up prices as much as tenfold on small-business customers in the process.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-02-06-private-equity-hatchet-man-leading-lost-boys-of-doge/
#MaureenTkacik #TomKrause -
Elon Musk to Install DOGE Crony Amid Treasury Department Takeover:
Elon Musk’s takeover of the Department of Treasury just got much more ominous.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191307/elon-musk-doge-treasury-department-payments-takeover"One of Elon Musk’s allies, #TomKrause... will become the financial asst secretary of the #Treasury after clashing with #DavidLebryk, the previous secretary [since 1989], over illegally ceasing payments on foreign aid."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Trump #Musk #DOGE #Politics #Government #Finance #USPol #News #US #USA #Press
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Judge issues "an interim order preventing #ElonMusk & any **additional** #DOGE employees from accessing sensitive US Treasury #data while the case proceeds.
...access will not be granted to anyone **except for** #TomKrause & #MarkoElez, two "Special Government Employees" [DOGE boys already given access]...
Elez and Krause will have read-only access, and that access is limited as needed for performance of their duties."
https://www.citizen.org/news/interim-court-order-restricts-treasury-data-access-to-select-government-employees/ -
…After public sector #unions sued over the issue, a #Trump #DOJ lawyer said in court on Wed that only #TomKrause & #MarkoElez, both *#Treasury employees*, had been given access to info in the system, which they have not shared outside the Treasury.
Marko Elez, a fmr employee of #ElonMusk’s at both X & xAI, is one of several staffers that #DOGE had planned to install at the Treasury. They also include Krause, a well-established #SiliconValley software exec;
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…after #Trump took office, as #ElonMusk’s team began pressing for access to the #Treasury Dept’s payments system, ofcls repeatedly said their goal was to undertake a general review of the system. They said they would observe, but not stop money from going out the door.
But emails reviewed by NYT show Treasury’s chief of staff originally pushed for #TomKrause, a software exec affiliated w/ #Musk’s DOGE, to receive access to the closely held payment system so Treasury could freeze #USAID payments.