Home / General / Starting To Move

Starting To Move

On February 3, 2025

At 11:10 am

In General

202 Views

Over the weekend, Democratic members of Congress met with constituents. Chuck Schumer was in Brooklyn, and the Oregon congressional delegation was in several cities. There were probably more. This gives them more to work with. Now they can say “My constituents demand that Elon Musk be removed from government buildings.” That’s more powerful than saying it for themselves.

And we’re starting to see more public action directed toward that removal.

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area— Aaron Fritschner (@fritschner.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T14:25:42.461Z

Schumer and others plan a press conference this afternoon. I’m hoping that his aides looked at the feedback on his posts over the weekend.

The Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released a video statement in response to Musk’s attack.

Phone bank this afternoon –

WFP PHONE BANK TOMORROW: "We're telling Republicans in Congress no cuts for working families and no more tax cuts for billionaires—sign up to make calls to voters in Republican districts and ask them to reach out to their Member of Congress!"Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/workingfamil…— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) 2025-02-03T02:15:02.517Z

Protest at the US Treasury on Tuesday –

Indivisible/MoveOn/WFP also promoted this protest at Treasury on Tuesday at 5 p.m., organized by what appears to be a new group supporting federal workers www.instagram.com/p/DFl2CETtrSy/— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) 2025-02-03T02:02:00.871Z

Lawsuit being developed. Here’s Lemley’s bio at Bluesky: William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Of counsel, Lex Lumina. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly— Mark Lemley (@marklemley.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T13:18:00.717Z

Everyone was taken by surprise by the Musk side of the coup, but it looks like things are coming together. No one of these things will be decisive. We have to keep up the pressure.