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Chuck Darwin<p>With Musk’s trusted friend and fixer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antonio</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gracias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gracias</span></a> at the helm, the task force marks a significant expansion of DOGE’s portfolio <br>— from primarily working on agency-wide <a href="https://c.im/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>layoffs</span></a> to executing the president’s most hardline <a href="https://c.im/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> policies. </p><p>It’s also a test for how far DOGE’s reach can extend.</p><p>Key DOGE engineers now embedded at DHS include Kyle <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schutt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schutt</span></a>, Edward <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coristine</span></a>, (aka “Big Balls”) and Mark <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elez</span></a>, according to their government email addresses. <br>At least two others, Aram <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moghaddassi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moghaddassi</span></a> and Payton <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rehling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rehling</span></a> also have access to DHS data, as DOGE fingerprints are spread throughout DHS, <br>including Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency.</p><p>🆘 They are providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole, terminating visas, and later on, reengineering the asylum adjudication process, according to the officials.<br>Their first mission: <br>🔥implement parole terminations for 6,300 undocumented immigrants who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. </p><p>🔥That effort required coordinating with the Social Security Administration to have their Social Security numbers effectively canceled by adding them to a database that tracks dead people, the New York Times and the Washington Post first reported. </p><p>Their theory is that without effective Social Security numbers – needed for bank accounts and loans, among other things – these people would “self deport.”</p><p>Last week, the plan was finalized in a high-level White House meeting with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Gracias and other senior DOGE staffers and White House officials, two of the officials said.<br>❌In recent weeks, the Trump administration has moved aggressively in its effort to revoke parole, visas and temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and students, <br>many of whom were granted the ability to legally study and work in the United States in the short-term under Biden administration policies.<br>But what actually happens in the government’s IT systems to make sure that those people are eligible for deportation? <br>Who makes sure that that is reflected in the database?</p><p>That is where DOGE comes in <br>to comb through datasets at all relevant agencies and facilitate data-sharing between agencies <br>so the enforcement actions can be carried out systematically and at-scale, one of administration officials said.<br><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2025/04/11/d</span><span class="invisible">oge-immigration-taskforce-00287327</span></a></p>
Deborah Sampson<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hanse_mina</span></a></span> Bingo…Yahtzee!</p><p> “He is listed as a "sr adviser" at the State Dept &amp; the Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Ag, according to 1 offc at each agency who told Reuters they had seen his name in their respective agencies' staff dir.<br>On LinkedIn, Coristine describes himself as a "Vol (Intern) Plumber" w/the US gov.<br>The State Det did not return messages asking about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coristine</span></a>. CISA, is responsible for protecting fed gov networks from cybercriminals &amp; foreign spies, declined comment.”</p>
Nonilex<p>Beginning around 2022, while still in high school, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Coristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Coristine</span></a> ran a company called DiamondCDN that provided network services, acc/to corporate &amp; digital records reviewed by Reuters &amp; interviews w/half a dozen fmr associates. Among its users was a website run by a ring of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cybercriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cybercriminals</span></a> operating under the name &quot;EGodly,&quot; acc/to digital records preserved by the internet intelligence firm DomainTools &amp; the online <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> tool Any.Run.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DOGE</span></a></p>
Wendy Siegelman<p>Add to these two stories a big scoop on another DOGE staffer with Russia ties </p><p>Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy </p><p>Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KGB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KGB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EdwardCoristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwardCoristine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coristine</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-doge-staffer-is-grandson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent</span><span class="invisible">-doge-staffer-is-grandson</span></a></p>
Hanse Mina<p>Edward <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coristine</span></a>, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s squad that’s criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor.</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/musk-s-doge-teen-was-fired-by-cybersecurity-firm-for-leaking-company-secrets" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/articles/20</span><span class="invisible">25-02-07/musk-s-doge-teen-was-fired-by-cybersecurity-firm-for-leaking-company-secrets</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
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