EMERGENCY PIECE: It’s not true that DOGE only has “read only” access to the most top secret systems at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. They have “read AND write” access with a current employee of BFS calling “apocalyptic”
Specifically Marko Elez, 25 year old former SpaceX employee, has read & write access for The Payment Automation Manager (PAM) & Secure Payment System (SPS) at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS). PAM processed 4.7 trillion dollars of payments in 2024.
As @WIRED first reported, “Typically, those admin privileges could give someone the power to log into servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files.”
EMERGENCY PIECE: Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous. Worse, exclusive new information revealed here explicate how Musk’s actions relate to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
In my last piece I went into detail about why we were facing an alarming “five alarm fire” constitutional crisis. That was Friday morning. Now it’s clear that we face something far, far worse. Musk’s DOGE has gotten access to the Treasury’s payment system architecture
The Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service serves as an absolutely essential “payments intermediary” between the administrative state and the wider economy through routing payments to the Federal Reserve’s payments system.
I have not felt prepared to read @JStein_WaPo's article today about the resignation of the Treasury's Fiscal Assistant Secretary (who was just acting Treasury Secretary) until now and I've only just started going through it but its absolutely terrifying. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…
“[It's] a mechanical job—they pay Social Security benefits,they pay vendors,whatever. It’s not one where there’s a role for nonmechanical things[...]It's never been used in a way to execute a partisan agenda. You have to really put bad intentions in place for that to be the case”
This is much more alarming than anything in my piece today and I already found the events described in my piece very alarming.
I think people do not understand what we mean when we say the holocaust was not understood in real time. The first credible report which became public arrived in England in May 1942. It was, by the way, from the Jewish Labor Bund. At least 1.5 million Jews had already died.
It was publicly announced in June and the @nytimes buried the story On June 27: "the Times buried the Bund story at the end of a column of short news items from Europe." They then played down the reporting in early July 1942
Operation Reinhard had already been launched by the time the Bund story circulated & exterminations accelerated in July, reaching a staggering peak from August through October 1942. In those 3 months a million people were murdered just in Belzec, Sobibor, & Treblinka.
Something I've only really started to fully appreciate is its not simply that our ruling elites can only even minimally sympathize with Palestinians if they are perceived as total helpless victims, their "holocaust memory" is based on the same premise of total Jewish victimhood
"Judeo-Bolshevism" is a myth, but many Jews **were** supporters (especially at the voter level) of Bolsheviks, Mensheviks & of course the Bund & militant Zionist political parties (including of the "socialist") type. The Nazis bear total responsibility for the Shoah regardless
I should also mention here that in the European context Zionists, especially "socialist" Zionists, predominately got the support of voters because of their practical program in Europe, not Aliyah.
Ever since the insane Höss thing I've been going down various rabbit holes again. One of the craziest has been William E. Blackstone. I've known about Christian Zionism, but I hadn't quite realized that Christian **Political** Zionism was older than Jewish Political Zionism
He wrote a bestseller translated into 42 languages called "Jesus is Coming" in *1878* which broke with the idea that Jews needed to accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior before, or **after**, gathering in Israel. They just needed to accept Jesus after he comes back.
He presented president Benjamin Harrison a petition signed by more than 200 prominent people demanding he convene an international conference to hand over Palestine to Jewish people in **1891**. Herzl is not even a Zionist by this point.