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Nothing to see here. Move right along. I'm sure one or two or a handful of repeated incidents don't represent a trend or potential for future fuck-ups.

What is DOGE even doing now? Can we get some status reports on what the DOGE employees are doing every week since they're such proponents of radical accountability?


Officially they are still re-writing the software that runs Social Security. Back in May, they said re-writing >1 millions lines of COBOL would only take a few months.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-adm...

Unofficially, they are the worst people so they are probably doing the worst things you can imagine.

Wired also had this recent update, on "DOGE 2.0".

> But without flashy leadership, DOGE technologists are now quietly cycling into federal agencies, spending days or weeks building products and cutting contracts before cycling out once again. This is all done with little oversight from the White House or the United States DOGE Service (USDS), which these technologists purportedly represent.

Big Balls for example is officially no longer a GSA employee of the United States DOGE Service (USDS) but an SSA employee https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
It's unspeakable how these goons get to fuck up everything without any accountability.
If people value accountability, then voting for a felon to become president isn't the smartest move.
Destroying things to justify privatization while stealing every detail about us to increase profits and target opponents. Sure, there are HIPAA, secrecy, and confidentiality violations happening but there's no one left to prosecute the criminals when the criminals are the police, COTUS, SCOTUS, and the unitary executive. The only meaningful distinction remaining is patronage vs. outsider.
> What is DOGE even doing now?

Forcing the NRC to rubber stamp any requests that come in front of it, apparently[0].

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/doge-to-regulator-r...

Just ask Grok with the free key!
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Maybe the US should start another government department for this.

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