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The #DOGE staffer who resigned from his post over old #racist tweets — & who broke data-sharing rules, an audit found — has been rehired to work w/sensitive data at several #FederalAgencies.

The staffer is #MarkoElez, a Dept of #Labor employee detailed to the DOGE entity within the #Trump WH, acc/to a Saturday court filing. It says the Labor Dept is aware of 4 other agencies, including #HHS, where Elez is also detailed or employed.

#law #privacy #NationalSecurity #USpol
npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-53457

#ElonMusk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, & raised in a #wealthy family under the country's #racist apartheid laws. #Musk's family history reveals ties to #apartheid & neo-#Nazi politics. #DemocracyNow speaks w/Chris McGreal, reporter for The Guardian, to understand how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview, as well as that of his South African-raised colleague #PeterThiel, a right-wing #billionaire who co-founded PayPal alongside Musk.

#USpol
youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv3IKzMdH

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In an especially strange twist, the case — against #TownstoneFinancial, a small Chicago-based lender — was brought during #Trump’s first term by Kathleen Kraninger, the director he appointed to run the #CFPB.

#RussVought, who became the agency’s acting director last month, said it had “used radical ‘#equity’ arguments to tag Townstone as #racist with zero evidence, & spent years persecuting & extorting them.”

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In this prerogative state, #judges & other legal actors deferred to the #racist hierarchies & ruthless expediencies of the #Nazi regime.

The key here is that this prerogative state does not immediately & completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Fraenkel argued, #dictatorships create a #lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state. The 2 states cohabit uneasily & unstably. On any given day, people or cases could be jerked out of the normative state & into the prerogative one.