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What exactly would you say you \u201cdo\u201d here? That\u2019s what Elon Musk<\/strong> and his made-up federal task force DOGE asked roughly 2.3 million federal employees via an email<\/a> sent by the Office of Personnel Management, implying that those who didn\u2019t respond by Monday night with five bullet points of things they accomplished in the week prior would be out of a job<\/a>. This brand-new flavor of the Sunday Scaries is just the latest antic that has led to Washington insiders turning on Musk, now with the added twist of a federal judge saying this whole thing might be in violation of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n That old thing? Donald Trump<\/strong> hasn\u2019t shown himself to care much about it<\/a>, but you never know if you don\u2019t try, and Washington\u2019s Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly<\/strong> is doing just that.<\/p>\n \u201cBased on the limited record I have before me, I have some concerns about the constitutionality of U.S.D.S.\u2019s structure and operations,\u201d Kollar-Kotelly said Monday<\/a> in a Washington Federal District Court hearing, invoking the initials of DOGE\u2019s rarely-used government name, the U.S. DOGE Service and sidestepping the group\u2019s legendarily dumbass meme-inspired acronym<\/a>. Leaders of government agencies\u2014which, given the power and access that DOGE has, it would appear to be\u2014must be nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress. Musk, who has gotten access to a kajillion personnel files and other sensitive information between sending his never-ending stream of jackass tweets and ghosting on (some of) the mothers<\/a> of his various offspring<\/a>, did not go through this process.<\/p>\n To put it in terms that memelords like Musk might more easily understand: much overstep. fascist wow. many illegal. what boss. lol.<\/p>\n Kollar-Kotelly\u2019s remarks are not connected to any official action as of yet, but were made in the context of civil suits that groups are bringing against DOGE and Musk, with the emails as a central cataclysmic piece of evidence. As Musk continues on his mission to slash and burn federal budgets, with a bedazzled chainsaw as a prop<\/a>, agencies have provided their employees with mixed guidance about whether and how to respond to the ominous email.<\/p>\n \u201cOur chief said it was mandatory,\u201d one anonymous Department of Veteran Affairs employee told CNN<\/a>. \u201cThen OPM said it became voluntary. Then I guess Trump just told us it was mandatory again. No one knows who is in charge and who to listen to.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s bedlam,\u201d an IRS employee echoed.<\/p>\n Some reports claim that any responses to the email received will be fed through AI for analysis<\/a>. (Sounds like those bots get to enjoy a lot of photos of cats and personal attacks on Musk from the general public<\/a>, who, naturally, got a hold of the email address and went off to the races.) Musk, via social media, disputed AI involvement, and on Monday tsk-tsked<\/a> at the uproar the email has caused.<\/p>\n \u201cThe email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!\u201d he wrote. \u201cYet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers. Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re all thinking the same thing while looking at even a small sampling of this man\u2019s utterly flooded<\/em> timeline, right? The one where he regularly drops slurs about the very taxpayers he claims to treasure so dearly? What was that you were saying about incompetence and contempt, again?<\/p>\n On Tuesday, 21 DOGE employees resigned en masse<\/a>, writing in an open letter addressed to Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles that they objected to being asked to \u201ccompromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans\u2019 sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cHowever, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments at the United States DOGE Service.\u201d<\/p>\n In the immortal words of the Muppets, even the vegetables don\u2019t like him.<\/p>\n Beyond federal employees and agencies, as well as DOGE\u2019s own employees, signaling that they\u2019re extremely over Musk and Trump\u2019s partnership and its methods, there are the charts<\/em>. Charts don\u2019t have feelings, but Musk has feelings about charts. Namely, the one tracking the 10-year Treasury bond yield over time.<\/p>\n