2025 Administrative Coup Memory Bank

A recording of the 2025 Administrative Coup of the Federal Government.

“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go.” - Utah Phillips

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• DOGE Debunking (Bullshit Savings Claims)
• List of Federal property Musk is selling / Archived at the WayBack Machine
• Musk Watch DOGE Tracker

3/21/2025

• Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Dept. on whether to close agency (Toady)
• Moving the Student Loan Program to SBA is Illegal, Unserious, and a Distraction

3/20/2025

• Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services
  • "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
• The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain
• Trump moves to destroy Columbia University
• Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'

3/19/2025

• California couple deported after living in U.S. for 35 years
• Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses
• War-Torn Congo Has a Deal for Trump: Kick Out Rebels, Get Minerals
• The airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained (Surveillance)
• You’re Not a Criminal, But You’re Going to Jail: My ICE Detention Story as a Canadian Citizen
• ME/CFS research program shuts down at Columbia after Trump cuts
• Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
• The Trump Administration Goes To War With Health-Care Quality
• More than 425 popular campsites across Pa. are closed indefinitely due to DOGE cuts

3/17/2025

• EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration
• Trump claims Biden pardons for Jan. 6 committee 'void, vacant'

3/16/2025

• "Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington"
• Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants

• He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

3/15/2025

• Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say

3/14/2025

• Trump Administration Opens Investigations At More Than 50 Universities In Anti-DEI Campaign
• Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
• Judge Rules FOIA Requests for DOGE Must Be Expedited
• A Close Elon Musk Friend Joins His Effort on Social Security
• AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza

3/13/2025

• Holy crap. Marco Rubio is seemingly purporting to exempt nearly all immigration regulations and policy, along with things like export controls, trade rules, and more, from notice and comment rulemaking requirements. / Public Register Notice
• Can the Trump Administration Arbitrarily Take Money from Anyone’s Bank Account? Federal Government’s Mugging of New York City for FEMA Funds Suggests Yes
  • Notes on the Crises Legal Memorandum No. 1
• Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
• Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules
• Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
• The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
• Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Fair Housing Groups, Weakening Discrimination Protections
• German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
• USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers
• Stablecoin bill clears Senate Banking Committee

3/12/2025

• Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
• The AI State is a Surveillance State
• Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system (Corruption)
• “The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump (Chaos)
• The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring (Surveillance)
• Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker (Watching the Demolition Crew)
• U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes
• Mahmoud Khalil is being used as a pawn in Trump’s mass deportation plan
• Trump Officials Are ‘Pretending’ a Judge Didn’t Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders
• $42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk (Corruption)

3/11/2025

• Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown
• Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworks (Destroying history)
• Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
• U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records (Destroying Public Property)

3/10/2025

• Cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip
• Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities (Science)
• Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles (Privacy)
• GOP Senators Trade Constitutional Authority For Elon’s Phone Number (Corruption)
• National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval (Censorship)
• This is just the start (Disappearances)

3/9/2025

• DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment, Claiming "Activities Aligned to Hamas"

3/8/2025

• The VA Promised DOGE Cuts Won’t Harm Veterans. Employees Say It’s Already Happening.

3/7/2025

• Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
• We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public
• Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state
• I woke up as an angry veteran yesterday
• Strike, or Else
• Attention Deficit and Defiance Division of Labor: There’s Stuff Happening Where You’re Not Looking
• Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate
• DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

3/6/2025

• Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" (AI is a Fascist Tool)
• US Employers Announce Most Job Cuts Since 2020 Amid DOGE Layoffs
• US announced job cuts surge 245% in February on federal government layoffs
• DOGE targets child support database full of income data (Privacy)
• A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
• Suit to block the DOGEsters from destroying the United States African Development Foundation (DOGE in action)
• Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum part of DOGE-ordered sell-off (Racism)
• Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Court rules Trump’s firing of labor board official illegal, saying president is not a king
• The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon
• Elon’s Chainsaw Automatically Shuts Off When It Gets Near the Pocketbooks of the Rich

3/5/2025

• How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA
• Here’s a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website
• Trump “Brings Back Free Speech” By [Checks Notes Threatening To Imprison Protestors And Expose Journalist Sources]
• Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
• Elon Musk’s Next Potential Self-Enrichment (Corruption)
• Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could Kill Your Dog (Health)

3/4/2025

• After Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for Free
• People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago (Corruption)
• Exclusive: Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say (Briefings where they hand in their laptops. Ooops!)
• Email shows Trump officials are lying to federal court, directing CFPB staff to ignore law
• Trump Wants to Overhaul Biden's Broadband Program to Award Tens of Billions of Dollars to Musk (Corruption)
• Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
• U.S. State Department Shuts Down Pollution Monitoring Abroad (Pollution)
• Trump policies could hit as hard as pandemic, officials say in assessing financial worst case
• Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

3/3/2025

• The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say
• DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings
• NOAA terminates space, climate and marine life advisory committees
• Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
• Trump To Tap Head Of Anti-Union Group To Run Labor Office
• DOGE Is Trying to Close a Field Office That Directly Manages a Nuclear Waste Site
• Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
• Elon Musk’s Looming Disease Holocaust
• 18F
• The Trump administration is ready to abandon kids like my son
• What Trump’s Big Budget Cuts Could Mean for New York
• After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say
• This Is Going Even Worse Than Steven Levitsky Expected

3/2/2025

• FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk’s Starlink (Corruption)
• Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science (Ignorance is Strength)
• The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts (Lies)
• DOGE people couldn't pass the 18F entry requirements (Not the brightest people in the room)

3/1/2025

• DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records
• Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten ‘interruption of benefits,’ ex-agency head says

2/28/2025

• A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
• RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decisions
• Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
• IRS rejected request for addresses of people believed to be in U.S. illegally
• US cuts send South Africa's HIV treatment 'off a cliff'
• The Plot to Destroy the CFPB
• U.S. Mint takes Jan. 6 coin honoring officers who protected the Capitol off its website
• CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
• How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
• DOGE isn’t Silicon Valley innovation—it’s just a sloppy rebrand of free-market dogma
• ‘Like a horror movie’: German tourist detained by ICE says she spent week in solitary confinement
• German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

$164/day to incarcerate her when she was supposed to fly home 13 days prior. Cruelty and corruption in one go.

2/27/2025

• She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this (Voter decision making)
• Trump roundup: Five days
• The Firefighting Fire Sale
• BREAKING: SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions (Corruption)
• Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful
• Tulsi Gabbard is firing trans federal employees for “sex chats” that never happened
• FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund
• HHS Lays Off Lawyers Who Were Defending Medicare Drug Price Cuts (Shafting citizens)
• “Significant Workforce Reductions” Underway at Social Security Administration
• Trump supporters lose $12bn as president’s cryptocurrency collapses (Corruption)
• Inside the Collapse at the NIH
• The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
• US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency: ‘It’s catastrophic’

2/26/2025

• A Scam Built Atop an Accounting Gimmick Wrapped in Bullshit: Why Visiting Fort Knox Is Not About Selling Gold but is About Buying Bitcoin (Scams)
• Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people
• The CFPB Shutdown Is Entirely About Payment Apps (Corruption)
• DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence
• Who Is the Anonymous Data Expert Telling Elon Which Cuts to Make?
• Trump and Greedflation Take Egg (Inflation)
• F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
• As DOGE Attacks Social Security, New Report Shows Elon Is One of the Government’s Biggest Beneficiaries
• DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
• Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce
• Farmers Say Climate-Smart Commodities Projects Are Crumbling

2/25/2025

• DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
• Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’ (Brown Shirts)
• Trump’s reversal of EV program could carry a hefty price tag (Waste)
• DOJ Hires A State Judge Who Was Once Suspended To Advise The Deputy AG
• Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns (Corruption)
• CDC will no longer process transgender data

2/24/2025

• DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System
• Trump aid freeze disrupts anti-narcotics program at Mexican ports
• LGBTQ Federal Workers Brace for a McCarthyist Purge
• When It Comes To DOGE, The Hack Is The Harm And Why There Is Harm (Court cases)
• Musk’s Big Accomplishment This Weekend Was Apparently Throwing The Entire Federal Government Into Chaos (Busy work)
  • "like a fractal of nonsense" is this week's new term.
  • Also, from the comments: "These guys who think they’re good at everything because they’re good at coding aren’t even good at coding.”
• ICE can’t enter religious sites that sued, including Philadelphia Quakers, judge rules (Immigration/Rule of Law)
• DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
• Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated

2/23/2025

• Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order

2/22/2025

• They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. (True Costs)
• Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In (True Costs)

2/21/2025

• Trump and Elon’s ‘Pointless Bloodbath’ at the FAA Is Even Worse Than You Think (True Costs)
• Elon Musk is coming for our weather service (True Costs)
• Trump EO Tries To Destroy Whatever Corporate Regulatory Oversight Hasn’t Been Already Killed By DOGE And The Supreme Court (Corruption)
• The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled (Innovation)
• Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea ($200 Million Illegal Campaign Contribution)
• Palantir’s Call to Arms Is Also a Sales Pitch (Tech lords > rule by people)

2/20/2025

• The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug
• DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
• Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP (Corruption)
• History Will Not Treat Those Sleepwalking Through This Crisis Well / Original
• IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season
• Military families rocked by Trump’s federal government cuts
• Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund
• The curious case of Leland Dudek
• Trump orders database on federal police misconduct to close
• Dozens of Minnesota federal workers fired in latest cuts, with no severance
• Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service

2/19/2025

• The Department of Education approved a grant to help students with disabilities into adulthood. Then Trump came along (True Costs)
• Trump firings hit Great Lakes sea lamprey program, Michigan forestry workers (True Costs)
• WMNF employees among Forest Service staffers cut (True Costs)
• Trump Backs $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut in House GOP Budget Plan (Austerity)
• X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks With Ad Giant to Increase Spending (Gangster Capitalism)
• State Plaintiffs Lose A Disappointing Battle, While Musk And DOGE Get Closer To Losing The War (Court Battles)
• DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn't add up (Bullshit Savings)
• GOP Senators Are Having to Literally Beg Trump for Their Own Money (Article I Follies)
• “They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress (Cowards)
• The Fundamental Flaws in the Barnett/Wurman Defense of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order (Constitutional Rights)
• LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders
• DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke

2/18/2025

• By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller (True Costs)
• Russell Vought Wants to Burn the Government Down (Endgame)
• Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst” (Corruption)
• Moving on from 18F (Effects) - Ground level view of the layoffs and what we are losing in one government agency with committed people trying to make government tech work for all of us.

But what’s happening right now is not about “government efficiency,” nor is it about “cost-cutting.” I would gently urge you to look at the net worth of the people who are telling you otherwise. After all, there is no financial analysis; no review of possible downsides, no weighing of potential negative impacts. There is no discussion of what could happen if our math is wrong? Or even more importantly, no consideration of who might be harmed?

Instead, as Anil Dash predicted, the billionaire’s so-called “efficiency“ “department” is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture, in which a group of impossibly rich individuals are trampling over the regulations — and the federal workers — that stand between them and a deep, deep revenue stream: your tax dollars. And as they do, they’re making an explicitly fascist move to roll back rights for every marginalized community in the country — for anyone who doesn’t look like them, or who stands in their way.

2/17/2025

• A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul the FAA’s air traffic control system (Corruption)
• Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash (True Costs)

2/16/2025

• In Moving to Stop Adams Case, Career Lawyer Sought to Stave Off Deeper Crisis
• This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them (Assuming courts defy Trump)

2/15/2025

• Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
• How Trump Is Trying to Expand the Already Colossal U.S. Prison System

2/14/2025

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112 (Security/Data Privacy)
• https://fortune.com/2025/02/14/elon-musk-doge-website-hacked-hackers/ (Security/Data Privacy)
• https://economic.github.io/federal_workforce/ (Tool on Federal Jobs)
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-eyes-canceling-leases-space-used-by-us-judiciary-2025-02-14/ (Threat to Judiciary Independence)
• https://www.wired.com/story/musk-krause-treasury-bfs-conflict-of-interest/ (Corruption)
• https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5296910/trump-federal-workers-fork-resign-buyout (Federal Layoff)
• https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-and-its-agencies-are-being-smothered

2/13/2025

• https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-in-chaos-20163260.php (Loss to Citizens)
• https://www.notus.org/courts/pennsylvania-1-billion-federal-funds-frozen-lawsuit-lawsuit (Theft)
• https://gizmodo.com/the-400-million-armored-tesla-story-is-a-fake-scandal-in-a-sea-of-real-graft-and-horror-2000563641
• https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-13-elon-musk-general-secretary-of-doge/ (Endgame)
• https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-02-13/fort-carson-iraq-army-veteran-deportation-ice-barco-16820694.html (Immigration/Military)
• https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/elon-musk-rich-taxpayer-expense/
• https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2025/02/13/google-s-gemini-ai-recorded-meetings-without-consent-two-usaid-staffers-tell-it-brew
• https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-salt-typhoon-spies-are-still-hacking-telecoms-now-by-exploiting-cisco-routers/
• https://clarksvillenow.com/local/books-mentioning-slavery-civil-rights-removed-from-shelves-at-fort-campbell-schools/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIe2-RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVGrScXBR6df4uOBrRnDGN2_eqxT8Tc1OyYFy341D1neiRONXXRKCCcXtw_aem_XWmt17HtVUmgVNmaqHIgog (Censorship)
• How DOGE Could Spark a Financial Crash

2/12/2025

• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/largest-data-breach-in-us-history-three-more-lawsuits-try-to-stop-doge/ (Data Privacy)
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/usaid-musk-soviet-bloc
• https://xtramagazine.com/power/identity/missing-trans-kids-trump-271140
• https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/elon-musk-x-settle-trump-lawsuit-capitol-riot-doge.html (Corruption)
• https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6131665/2025/02/12/title-ix-nil-college-sports-department-of-education/
• https://www.wired.com/story/gsa-sell-government-buildings/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/business/elon-musk-cfpb-x-money.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

2/11/2025

• https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-green-lights-bribery-with-new-executive-order-on-the-foreign-corrupt-practices-act/ (Corruption)
• https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/ (Endgame)
• https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-musk-doge-coup-media-wired-20250211.html
• https://bsky.app/profile/brendannyhan.bsky.social/post/3lhvx77lumk2p
• Family of Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo: ‘My Brother Is Not a Criminal.’ (Suffering)
• Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States (Its the insurgency, stupid)

2/10/2025

• 810,000 Investors Have Lost Over $2 Billion on Trump Coin – NYT (ShitCoin)
  • Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses
• US spy planes hunt for intel on Mexican drug cartels as surveillance flights surge near border
• US INFLATION: NEC's Hassett Targets Lower Aggregate Demand, More Supply (Depression Watch)
  • NEC Director Kevin Hassett on new metal tariffs, Trump’s reciprocal tariff plan and tax priorities
• Civil rights attorney sounds alarm after video shows ICE agents covering cameras during immigration raids

2/9/2025

• The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won. What now? A 🧵.

2/6/2025

• Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
• US immigration is creating a mirage of mass deportations on Google search (Immigration)

2/4/2025

• Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
• Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

1/27/2025

• Beltway Bandits (Real Govt. Savings)

1/24/2025

• Team Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘More Ass-Kissing’ to Do

1/4/2025

• Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture

7/24/2024

• RFK Jr. Wants to Send People Addicted to Antidepressants to Government “Wellness Farms”

5/14/2024

• Why aren’t we vaccinating birds against bird flu? (Eggs)

3/12/2024

• US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

11/5/2022

• Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

10/4/2017

• They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants

5/19/2014

• Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich

6/21/2010

• US supreme court: Nonviolent aid to banned groups tantamount to 'terrorism'