Notices by The Icarian (the_icarian@federated.press)

Musk’s Doge gains access to federal payroll system despite staff warnings

Officials said accessing system that processes 276,000 employees’ salaries could put unit at risk of cyber-attacks

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system

Trump's SBA Student Loan Transfer: A Legal Catastrophe or Accidental Gift?
Why the sudden reassignment of student loans could trigger a nationwide breach of federal contracts.

In perhaps the most Trumpian idiocratic decision yet, the convicted felon just swung his magic Sharpie and vaporized the Department of Education, throwing the entire federal student loan portfolio over to the Small Business Administration (SBA).

https://zeitgeistpulse.substack.com/p/trumps-sba-student-loan-transfer

Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/introducing-the-musk-watch-doge-tracker

European folks: Please don't come to the United States. We now only have the pretense of the rule of law, not actual rule of law. The law now is whatever tRUmp and Musk say it is when they regain consciousness every morning.

@MisuseCase @old_hippie @bmacDonald94 Same here. My prior use of VPNs was occasional -- I wanted to watch UK TV in the USA, I was in Europe and need a US ip address. That kind of stuff.
Now I feel a VPN is mandatory at all times.

@resisting @MisuseCase @bmacDonald94 I'll check it. I'll never have just one provider again. Been through AOL who kept charging me $9 after I cancelled. Had to have lawyer send a letter to stop them. Remember Prodigy? Used that briefly until Microsoft did underhanded tings to kill it. I was on Compuserve for eight years and had an email address that was an unremarkable string of numbers. Didn't mater. The whole time I didn't know anyone else with email.

@bmacDonald94 @old_hippie @MisuseCase Huh. My experience has been good so far. I had it for awhile before I realized I had the VPN feature, but I didn't start using it regularly until recently.

@MisuseCase @bmacDonald94
Proton is one choice and that's where I'm going. I get a lot of email so I pay $3.99 a mo., but that gives a basic VPN, calendar and some other things. I may upgrade to $9.99 per months so I can use VPN on my phone also.
I'm not endorsing Proton per se, there are other alternatives.

I've had my gmail account since the days when you need an invite to get one. Remember that?
Now I'm trying to slowly phase it out while using more secure methods and providers who don't scrape my every word for their databases.
For the past few weeks I've been using a VPN. Gmail apparently doesn't like that.
I can access my gmail from my phone where I haven't been using a VPN. But not the desktop where I use VPN, gmail refuses to log me in.
This will hasten my gmail departure.
Thanks Google

"Move fast and break things" only works for the people who've never had to clean up after themselves.

Escape the Corporate Plantation: How to Build an Economy They Can’t Own
The Billionaires Aren’t Coming to Save You—They’re Coming to Own You #01
https://greedbane.substack.com/p/escape-the-corporate-plantation-how

UPDATE: NIH reimposes "DEI" funding freeze despite court order
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157770073

Not sure if this is real, but if it isn't it should be.

The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes.

The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
https://substack.com/@krassenstein/note/c-95841083?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1cnb9h

"It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.”
-- Governor Pritzker

Today, my rights amongst all disabled people’s rights in the United States are at risk. In fact, it’s alarming. Let me share with you what’s going on.

Currently, there is a lawsuit threatening essential protections under Section 504. The Texas v. Becerra lawsuit includes 17 Republican-led states suing the U.S. government to remove Section 504 which is a legal bedrock for disability civil rights.

https://lionsandperiwinkles.substack.com/p/do-you-have-a-disability-youre-probably

@br00t4c Spray Tan is an historic mistake, one that Murdoch-owned WSJ helped make possible.

‘Top Musk Lieutenant’ Moved Wife and Baby Into Government Building: Federal Worker

Musk is also living rent-free in the Eisenhower Executive Office building
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-musk-lieutenant-moved-wife-and-baby-into-government-building-federal-worker/

@cwebber Bluesky is owned by the same techbro who started Twit and sold it to The Bad Musk. What do you think is going to happen to it?

Irish white supremacists' "disinformation" led to Dublin riots, US terrorism report says
The 2023 Dublin riots were highlighted by US officials as “White-Identity Terrorism/Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism."
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/dublin-riot-white-terrorism

CNN: “Why are tons of people offering to pay Luigi’s legal costs?”

Mangione’s Attorney: “Idk.. but Supreme Court says billionaires can give tons of money to candidates and that’s free speech. Maybe these people are exercising their free speech”