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Former Chief Technologist at cfpb
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WIRED
6 days ago
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
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A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-federal-worker-was-fired-for-filming-doge-now-shes-running-for-congress/
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CalleyCat
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"Vought’s been very successful at making life more expensive for millions of people and at making it easier to financially scam Americans."
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Ben McKenzie
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Alexis is a real one. If you want to support her campaign you can do so here 👉
www.electalexis.org
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m. r. sauter
21 days ago
proof of "i go outside sometimes" life (pic by
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Elect Alexis for Maryland!
24 days ago
Field trip this morning to the Senate to see Russell Vought, secret President, who shuttered CFPB and tried and failed to kill the Consumer Bureau.
#SaveCFPB
solidarity forever with
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I signed up for the department of labor’s “Make America AI Ready” SMS-based AI class and so far they 1. Appear to be using the Liberian flag, and 2. Are texting a lot of “u up?” style messages after midnight.
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Reporting live on possible peak bloom in dc — the the snowcrete icebergs at RFK are still hanging in there! cc
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about 2 months ago
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Alondra Nelson
3 months ago
Wonderful news for NYC. Our new CTO, Lisa Gelobter, is a brilliant technologist and a deeply principled leader who has spent her career ensuring technology serves people, not the other way around. Mayor Mamdani continues to assemble a remarkable team.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
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Anil Dash
3 months ago
This is excellent news. Lisa is a perfect person to lead the city's technical direction. (More on her pioneering history here:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
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She’s so, so good!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
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Sarah Milstein
3 months ago
Mamdani has named Lisa Gelobter as the city's new CTO, a great choice on many levels. She cares about the city and about New Yorkers, she has strong technical chops *and* a strong focus on equity, and she knows how to get things done If you don't know her, fix that:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ge...
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Lisa Gelobter - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gelobter
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Happy birthday, dad.
www.newcomercolumbus.com/obituaries/t...
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Tom Meyer Obituary December 8, 2020 - Newcomer Columbus
View Tom Meyer's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
https://www.newcomercolumbus.com/obituaries/tom-meyer
6 months ago
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Lawfare
7 months ago
On Lawfare Daily,
@jshermcyber.bsky.social
spoke to
@whiskeyocelot.bsky.social
and
@erie.bsky.social
about how state enforcers and regulators can better work with technologists, what technologists are suited to help with, and what roles technologists can play.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...
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It was an honor to share messages like this from John Doe government tech workers fighting back against data abuses. Thank you,
@eff.org
!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
8 months ago
@Erie.bsky.social
accepting the EFF Award: “Speaking up is hard and it's scary. But it will only get harder and scarier from here. The best time to do it was yesterday. The second-best time is today. These are not choices we will always have.”
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
8 months ago
Let's put a spotlight on our EFF Awards winners! ✨
@erie.bsky.social
has been busy filing federal court declarations to protect American's data and warning Congress about 'DOGE burning the house down'. Don't miss her at the EFF Awards on Sept 10 in San Francisco!
eff.org/effawards
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EFF Awards 2025
For over 30 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the
https://www.eff.org/event/eff-awards-2025
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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲
9 months ago
Erie has a few things to say.
fedscoop.com/america-by-d...
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Design without privacy is just a cover-up: USDS co-founder's take on Trump's EO
A former government technologist lays out a blueprint for how the White House’s federal web design order could actually work.
https://fedscoop.com/america-by-design-trump-executive-order/
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EmilyTav
9 months ago
Great piece in
@fedscoop.bsky.social
by
@erie.bsky.social
“… design is meaningless without trust. […] Americans will not want to use even the most elegant services if they don’t trust the government to protect their data.”
fedscoop.com/america-by-d...
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Design without privacy is just a cover-up: USDS co-founder's take on Trump's EO
A former government technologist lays out a blueprint for how the White House’s federal web design order could actually work.
https://fedscoop.com/america-by-design-trump-executive-order/
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Anyone else here play the theremin? I built my last one but am thinking of upgrading.
11 months ago
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Merici
11 months ago
DOGE employees are lieutenants of Musk, not the President. This is an insider threat to keep an eye on.
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DGCassidy
about 1 year ago
Powerful testimony yesterday from
@erie.bsky.social
, formerly of the US Digital Service, to the House Oversight Committee on Cyber, on the topic of IT modernization. "This is not modernization. It's a heist." WELL SAID!
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Hilary J. Allen
about 1 year ago
I stress the same point in
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"refusing to apply the law to a technology until after it is fully developed and entrenched – and then crafting accommodative laws that treat the extant incarnation of technology-based business models as inevitable – is a choice."
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Fintech and Techno-Solutionism
Silicon Valley-style technological innovation is ill-suited to addressing complex problems like financial inclusion, concentrated market power, and privacy harm
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4686469
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Hilary J. Allen
about 1 year ago
I loved this interview with
@erie.bsky.social
"I think Americans give up a lot of power if we agree with the premise that new technology requires new rules of the road."
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Alondra Nelson
about 1 year ago
Loved this interview with my former colleague, Erie Meyer, the soul of the CFPB Q: What book most shaped your conception of the future? A: I would say Shirley Chisholm’s autobiography “Unbought and Unbossed"...She has a saying, “I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.”
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Politico: What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t? Me: Enforcing the law.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
cc Andrew Ferguson
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5 questions for Erie Meyer
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/04/11/5-questions-for-erie-meyer-00286906
about 1 year ago
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Mark Cuban
about 1 year ago
BTW, DOGE wants to end this program, created by USDS. They say there aren't enough users. Let's prove DOGE wrong it's a great program that simplified filing your taxes
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Mark Cuban
about 1 year ago
File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS. Visit
DirectFile.irs.gov
to check eligibility and learn more.
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Consumer Federation of America
about 1 year ago
🚨In 2023 fraudsters stole over $390M from Americans through payment apps. This number has increased by over 200% since then, but Republicans are trying to prevent the
#CFPB
from supervising big tech digital apps. Congress must vote NO on S.J.Res.28
@erinwitte-cfa.bsky.social
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Erin Witte
about 1 year ago
🚨Last year, fraudsters stole over $390 million from Americans via digital payment apps. That is a 200% increase from just a few years ago. 📈 We need a
#CFPB
that can keep up with innovative scammers and rein in big tech app providers. VOTE NO on SJ Res 28.
@erie.bsky.social
@savecfpb.bsky.social
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Americans for Financial Reform
about 1 year ago
"Google Pay, Apple Pay & now X Money wants to be able to know everything you're buying, how much you're paying for it and what were you thinking about at the time...People have been wondering, why are they so fixated with this small agency like the CFPB?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdr_...
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Fired CFPB chief says Musk may have another goal for gutting the agency
YouTube video by CNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdr_3tdg7_s
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Jacob Harris
about 1 year ago
Ha, the CFPB union is selling merch for the botched mail merge that was used to lay-off probationary employees
cfpbunion.shop/products/hel...
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Hello My Name is [EmployeeFirstName] Mug
100% of proceeds benefit illegally fired CFPB union members.
https://cfpbunion.shop/products/hello-my-name-is-employeefirstname-mug
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Skeptical90sTeen
about 1 year ago
The CFPB made WellsFargo send me a refund for 3K in 2022 for a service they had charged me for since 2007 that was bogus. WellsFargo wouldn’t have refunded me themselves. The CFPB made them do it. We need them around.
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CFPB Union
about 1 year ago
“The CFPB is in the hands of the Trump administration and they’ve decided to pick the pocket of the American public. The only people who benefit from a frozen CFPB are financial scammers and thieves.” —@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social, NTEU 335 member
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The Verge
about 1 year ago
CFPB lets banks off the hook and drops Zelle lawsuit
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CFPB lets banks off the hook and drops Zelle lawsuit
The US is no longer suing JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo over improper fraud safeguards.
https://buff.ly/IpGV7Qd
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Jon Keegan
about 1 year ago
At
#NICAR25
the CFPB’s Chief Technologist
@erie.bsky.social
says the agency is still here and can only be ended by an act of Congress, despite her team being recently fired. The DOGE team has “god mode” access to all CFPB complaint data. “It's a 5 alarm fire for me that they have this data.”
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Lindsay
about 1 year ago
The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
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“Our job is pretty simple: We’re here to help everyday people when they’ve been cheated, defrauded, or stolen from by big banks and corporations.” - Illegally fired CFPB tech expert, Nick Hand
thephiladelphiacitizen-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thephila...
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Guest Commentary: Without the CFPB, Who Will Protect You Now?
Laying off workers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a win for scammers and price-gougers — and President Trump
https://thephiladelphiacitizen-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commentary-who-will-protect-you-now/amp/
about 1 year ago
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60 Minutes
about 1 year ago
Lesley Stahl reports on President Trump’s efforts to halt the work and cut the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an enforcement agency that was created in response to the 2008 financial crisis. 60 Minutes, Sunday.
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CFPB Union
about 1 year ago
We have produced a worksheet for fired feds with federal student loans to help you navigate a financially stressful time! (Almost like that's our day job, which we are being unfairly forbidden from doing! But we digress...) Here's the link!
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Fired Feds: What Now for Federal Student Loans? - CFPB Union
Next Steps for Fired Feds with Federal Student Loans DOWNLOAD DATA (~3 minutes) : Visit studentaid.gov and log-in to “My Student Aid.” Click on your name in the upper right corner and select “My…
https://buff.ly/3EHzuIQ
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Saloni Sharma
about 1 year ago
Seth Meyers and Senator Elizabeth Warren on why Elon Musk could be trying to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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makena kelly
about 1 year ago
I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.
wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
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Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz
Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].
https://wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/
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about 1 year ago
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Fight for the Future
about 1 year ago
📢 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is under attack. Trump and Big Tech friends don’t like the CFPB and its work to protect consumers and their rights so they're trying to take it down. Take action now to help save it
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Save the CFPB
Supporters
https://fftf.link/cfpb
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Remember those technologists I hired using an authority designed to bring private sector tech talent to gov, legally? They were looking into big tech. Trump just fired them. All of them.
consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…
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