Marshall Goff

Slow Ultimate and Wellesley Whiptails coach. Photographer and guitar player. Technology manager by day. My dog is absurd.

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[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

@Ike_Saul @benbanyas If you want that cleanup done, want it done right not recklessly like other DOGE work. As you note yourself, they've earned your distrust so why believe this? I'm just not sure it makes any sense to declare this "good DOGE" based on the idea that government DBs need cleanup.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

@PhilipOHara91 whut.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

🧵 tw: dictatorship; fascism

[🇺🇦Radio Free NAFO Jack’s House @FluteMagician]

1) This is the executive order that establishes Trump as dictator. It’s also how Trump is going to get around the court orders and defy them. By forcing federal employees to do it or be fired. So now the president alone interprets law. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s begin⬇️

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

Wherein the richest man in the world, while busy trying to dismantle the US Government, doesn't seem to care that what he's saying is demonstrably false at almost every level.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Reuters was literally paid by the federal government for “Large Scale Social Deception”.

That’s literally what it says on the official government documents!!

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

There's so much lunacy that this might not even rate much attention, the idea that only one branch, and only two people, one of whom is pretty unhinged, can say what the law is.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

A Trump official just announced that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that ONLY the President and Attorney General can speak for “what the law is.”

They are trying to start a constitutional crisis.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

But it's that section 5F that seems to show what's up.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

Section 5F of "Ensuring Reliance Upon Sound Economic Analysis" in Dept of Transportation Activities requires: prioritizing user-pay models; preferencing communities with higher marriage and birth rates; prohibiting vaccine and mask mandates; requiring compliance with Immigration.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

The document, does, to be fair, include reference to increased access that could alleviate poverty and pays passing attention to noise, water pollution, and soil contamination, though the standard may be different or changing in regulatory terms.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

Speaking of things that matter less, but still sorta show whom we're dealing with... No, really, a sitting Congressman offered up a bill authorizing the President to aquire Greenland and rename it Red, White, and Blueland. https://t.co/jmE21KhA71

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

Do I have this right? They moved DOGE under the PRA, shielding it from FOIA and various publication requirements, and the PRA enables them to destroy records if approved by the Archivist, whom last week they fired?

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

@macbunnie @Ike_Saul I'm not arguing against rooting out waste. It honestly wouldn't be that hard to find someone committed to working in a responsible, non-partisan, methodical way, with appropriate transparency and oversight. And without conflicts that further question the integrity of the process.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

@fredgoff This might be the most unified Canada has been ... ever.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

If you were trusting that there would still be guardrails on some of the worst choices available, here is your proof that they don't exist.

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

This is an excellent summary of Musk’s takeover of the Treasury from @NYMag’s @chasdanner, with quotes from WSJ, NYT, WaPo, and my op-ed from @MSNBC yesterday.

But this quote from @smotus is right on the money. This isn’t efficiency. It’s a coup.

https://t.co/XivGG5Zz2H

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

@kawestgate Seriously.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

So much chaos and awfulness right now that stuff like this might pass under the radar, but it shouldn’t. This is terrifying, the idea that Musk is demanding and getting access like this.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say

Musk allies wanted access to the system responsible for disbursing trillions in fed payments annually as part of DOGE

Treasury career staff saw request as highly unusual

David A. Lebryk, viewed internally as consummate nonpolitical civil servant, expected to exit after joining Treasury in 1989. Last week, he was acting treasury secretary.

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https://t.co/osw3wN4Taz

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

There is no bottom. This is exactly on brand. This is not leadership.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Here's Trump's order pinning blame for the DCA crash on Obama, Biden, women, and people of color

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

Every member of the government body that is supposed to have the Power of the Purse represents people who will be directly harmed by the Executive branch's actions to stop government spending on programs designed to help. You have to wonder what they really want to accomplish.

[Marshall Goff @mpgoff]

Now he's pardoned people who committed crimes blocking access to abortion services. They've always believed the ends justify the means if and only if it is their ends. These and the 1/6 pardons are just a result of that belief taken to an unacceptable, unAmerican extreme.