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Compiling the best resources on Elon Musk’s siege of the American government, the extremist philosophy of Curtis Yarvin, and the beliefs of Silicon Valley elites.

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 6

An important reminder by @janus.bsky.social to ORGANIZE. With this account, my intent is to consolidate what’s known in order to better equip myself to combat the apathy and lack of understanding I’ve seen by much of the general public. But that alone is no match for collective action.

404 Media @404media.co · Feb 5

You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · Feb 10

I wrote this last October. Some friends said it sounded "unhinged". When power moves this fast, the people pointing it out will always sound a little crazy—until they don’t.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Feb 10

Wrote a response to the Musk/Trump supporters who keep yelling jubilantly at me "the people voted for this so shut up" www.techdirt.com/2025/02/10/n...

No, The People Didn’t Vote For This

A stunning 54% of Americans now believe we’re in a Constitutional crisis, according to recent YouGov polling. They’re right. As a tech billionaire effectively dismantles federal agencie…

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M @moeyoldbold.bsky.social · Feb 10

just called my reps, but they are actually out on the streets doing stuff. this guide has high level call scripts and points out the Dems who are capitulating. EVERYONE needs to keep calling, but especially if you're in Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Arizona, NY...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Feb 10

Litigants seeking to block DOGE's access to student loan / DOE data cited this exchange as supporting their case:

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Feb 10

"AI can and should transform the federal government. But its potential will go unrealized as long as DOGE prioritizes those transformations over following the law," writes @kevintfrazier.bsky.social.

Using AI to Improve the Government—Without Violating the Privacy Act

Proper use of AI can transform and improve the federal government. Improper use violates the Privacy Act.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

which can only begin with the public’s awareness that they even exist, the sooner we can HOPE to reckon with the damage already done.

Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

These plans, the foundations of which were being written in great detail around 2008 onward, have to be read in context of the current moment, because in any other political climate they would have appeared simply as an extremist pipe dream—because they were! But the sooner we accept them as reality

Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

But we cannot afford to drown out this one very specific, very real message over its perceived absurdity because the Neoreactionary Movement that it is warning of is itself extremely absurd. A month ago, I wouldn’t have believed it myself!

Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

People are trying to sound the alarm but it’s being ignored or dismissed whole cloth. After years of QAnon Deep State conspiracies and the Right’s assault on truth, we all have every reason to be skeptical of wild claims regarding what’s happening in the shadows at the top echelons of our government

Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · Feb 10

It's pretty strange that outside of wholesale dismissals and accusations of me being a paranoid conspiracist, nobody has actually taken me to task on any of the substance of this piece. Because they can't. Because everything I've said is true.

Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Plot Against America isn’t just about the rise of a dangerous ideology—it’s about the systematic dismantling of democracy in real time. Tech oligarchs. AI governance. The weaponization of confusion.

If you haven’t read it yet, now is the time.

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Washington Post article: There was the inauguration after-party held by far-right publisher Passage Publishing (its online offerings include a periodical titled Man's World, a $100 set of three Hardy Boys books, and a $295 "fascicle" by Yarvin whose purpose
"is to disturb your historical and philosophical sense of where we are"). Grimes, the pop musician and mother to three of Elon Musk's children, hung around Butterworth's green room with Yarvin before her DJ set began. The rest of the time a patchwork of Trump 2.0's leading lights and Capitol Hill locals, seemingly unfazed by the spectacle, nibbled on venison tartare and black olive brioche at their favorite new haunt. Late last Thursday, for example, you might've seen Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead (dismantle?) the FBI, joining Kassam for caviar and chips fried in beef tallow.

Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

Reminder that Grimes attended Yarvin’s wedding last year and was reported by WaPo on January 31 as having been seen with him at a Trump inauguration party hosted by his publisher.

A post on X: vocalcry says “I can’t believe we missed each other.” SimoneSyed responds “I was in a [sic] against the wall all night w my married friends and their bbs all night,” attaching a photo of herself at the wedding with Grimes, whose face is obscured by a smile emoji with sunglasses.

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real

I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump...

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

As Yarvin wrote in 2009:

Nonetheless, I think liquidation is an error.
Here's why.
Imagine that, instead of holding securities, everyone held cash. We can then replicate the chain of events from portfolio decline to consumer-spending recession, by replacing a decline in asset prices with a simple destruction of money. Suppose, for exam-ple, that every dollar whose serial number is divisible by 2 was badly manufactured.
One day, all these dollars disintegrate.
Thus, everyone's net dollar worth falls by 50%; spending craters; so does production; and we get, in short, exactly what we're seeing now, with our 50% decline in financial-asset prices.
Now, how should a healthy government - a New Downing Street - react to this event?
Option one: it can do nothing, allow consumption to fall, and let production stabilize at its new equilibrium. This is the liquida-tionist solution.
If dollars were Fourth Empire sols (or gold), liquidation would be the only possible solu-tion. However, they are not. In the famous words of Ben Bernanke, USG has a "device called a printing press" which can produce them at zero cost.

Option two: the US can stimulate consumption by printing new dollars and lending them to banks, who will then in turn lend to consumers, who will spend. This is the monetarist (Fisher/Friedman) solution. It is not available to us at present, because economic actors are so deeply indebted that they cannot borrow even at zero interest rates.
Option three: the Keynesian "stimulus." The
US can stimulate consumption by printing new money and spending it. For reasons that are essentially cosmetic, this is generally done by hiring people to do useless jobs - Keynes himself, for example, once suggested burying stacks of bills in abandoned mineshafts, then filling up the mines, to produce an equivalent of gold mining for fiat currency. Most of your "green jobs," inasmuch as they produce nothing of any practical use to anyone, are of just this sort.

However, there is a fourth option. My example was specially crafted to make it obvious.
Hopefully, you are already jumping up and down in your seat with your hand raised.
Option four is to simply replace the defective dollars. If you held dollars with serial numbers divisible by 2, you now have a wallet full of green lint. Send us the green lint We'll weigh it, figure out exactly how many dollars you used to have, and print new ones to replace them.
Note how much simpler and more elegant this approach is. We are actually fixing the actual problem: the destruction of money.
We are curing the disease, not the symp-toms. We are giving the feverish patient antibiotics, not immersing him in a bath of icewater.
Moreover, option 4 is also the fair solution.
Whose fault is the crisis? USG's. What did USG do wrong? It printed detective dollars.
How can it make its wrong right? Replace the defective products. Not only does this restore the equilibrium of production and consumption, it also restores the contents of its citizens' wallets.

Of course, the financial crisis was not actually caused by defective dollars. No: it was caused by a defective banking system. This system, while nominally "private," was constructed and operated under the laws of USG, which claimed and exercised the right to regulate it down to the last crossed T - even if this regulation was in many cases inadequate or even counterproductive.
Moreover, the Rube Goldberg machine that managed to amplify two trillion actual dollars into a $100 trillion securities market could not have operated without an incestuous connection between bank and state, in the form of both formal deposit insurance and informal "too big to fail" moral hazard. Again: the fault is clear.
Thus, Plan Moldbug: the real-life equivalent of mailing in your green lint. Replacing a defective financial system is harder than replacing a defective printing press. But still quite doable, as we'll see.
Step zero: call up Larry and Sergei, and get them to lend USG a few hundred of Google's best coders. We'll need them to write our new financial system. (We don't have time to do it the Beltway way.)
Step one: nationalize all market-priced financial assets at the present market price, exchanging them for new dollars. USG buys…

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 10

Nothing to see here! Just the president mindlessly parroting neoreactionary talking points. Of course DOGE is going to report “irregularities” in Treasury payments! Because they’re operating under Yarvin’s theory that the entire financial system is defective and therefore all debt is illegitimate.

Per Talking Points Memo: I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump said on a plane and we won't hear about it again. But after recents, who are we kidding? Anything is possible. On Air Force One today en route to the Super Bowl, Trump told reporters that DOGE analysts (whatever that means) had found "irregularities" in U.S. treasuries and that the U.S. may not be obligated to pay some of them. "Maybe we have less debt than we thought," he said.
Needless to say, this is quite literally violating the express language of the 14th Amendment which says: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."

TPM further notes: One other point worth noting is that Trump seems to be basing this on some analysis from the DOGE boys. This appears to have been one of the DOGE boys' main goals at
Treasury, getting access to details about what kinds of payments Treasury makes, the answer being close to everything the U.S. government does outside of the Pentagon and some of the Pentagon stuff too. The Treasury also services the U.S. debt, which is what we're talking about here. I'm less clear on what access to which part of the Treasury Department these guys could have gotten to get information about how the Treasury Department sells and services Treasury notes. But all that detail aside, imagine thinking that by downloading a ton of data and having a few days to analyze it you could make the determination that a…

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Feb 10

Elon Musk is getting into consumer financial products at the same time he’s trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

Corruption, and corruption that will hurt American consumers

Amy Lynn Smith @alswrite.bsky.social · Feb 7

If you’re a Visa cardholder you can let them know you won’t be any longer if they do business with fElon. I called and they said they’re taking comments at [email protected]. Maybe if enough of us complain they’ll pull the deal.

Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal

Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like Zelle or Venmo.

www.cnbc.com

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 9

OPM reported in January that the average annual pay across the entire federal workforce is $106,382. Meaning one week of DOGE funding could have paid more than 65 federal workers’ salaries for a year.

Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 9

It struck me this morning that I didn’t recall having heard how DOGE was being funded. It’s sick-inducing: Our very own taxpayer dollars hard at work dismantling the entire American governing system.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Feb 8

Wow. I read this article when it was first published but that’s quite an update.

“Late Friday, after this article appeared, Booz Allen said it had ‘removed’ a subcontractor who wrote the warning and would seek to retract or amend it.”

Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · Feb 8

Booz Allen fires contractor who prepared an assessment warning Treasury not to let DOGE access payment system www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’

The assessment, done by the contractor Booz Allen, came before Treasury formally tapped an ally of Elon Musk to oversee the payment system.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Feb 9

No one should be surprised. Vance has previously announced that he believes the courts should be ignored when inconvenient and stripping power from the courts is also part of Yarvin's butterfly revolution playbook. They're going for the full tech authoritarian takeover.

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Brute Force Coup @bruteforcecoup.bsky.social · Feb 9

“Musk has already grown his unelected bureaucracy to lay claim to nearly $7 million of American taxpayer funding,” House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said in a statement. She said that amount is “nearly twice the annual salaries and expenses budget of the White House.”

White House opens funding spigot for DOGE expenses - Roll Call

Nearly $7 million over the past week has gone to cover the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s expenses.

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The Verge @theverge.com · Feb 9

How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?

And is nuclear cleanup woke?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · Feb 9

If I have one lesson from a decade of feeble efforts to resist Elon Musk, it's this: don't let decorum, or respectability keep you from exercising your power and resisting him. He certainly won't, and the people who should be doing the work to resist him left you that task because they did.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Feb 5

MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis

The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos.

New piece:

MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis

The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · Feb 9

Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury: Elon Musk is calling for the impeachment of the federal judge who made a decision early Saturday morning that the Treasury Department should block access to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform…

Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury

Elon Musk is calling for the impeachment of the federal judge who made a decision early Saturday morning that the Treasury Department should block access to anyone “other than civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties” from its…

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