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come for the clear steps that congress can take to stop doge, stay for the critique of the previous generation of civic tech that enabled doge.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

“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...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’d urge people to be careful with the reporting around the name of the USDS administrator. 1) 21 of people who resigned TODAY didn’t know who it was 2) The picked a career civil servant from prior USDS - and it’s been made clear most of prior USDS has nothing to do with DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

fyi amy has been there since obama and is clearly being run over by a bus (on the week most of her team wrote an open letter quitting USDS)

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

If you are a USDS staffer who just resigned from DOGE I would really, really love to talk to you. I can protect your identity and we can start off the record. Signal: brycecovert.25 Encrypted email: [email protected] apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

lil afternoon catch up for ya'll, starting with a scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social: Engineers for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are working on new software that could assist mass firings of federal workers across government, sources tell WIRED.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Not even USDS knows who runs USDS - the 21 digital service experts had to address their resignations to Susan Wiles! Who is signing for the org? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you’re a journalist here in Chicago, or an aspiring journalist, or even a civilian who wants to pry documents from government for your and your neighbors’ edification… This is a great chance to learn about an invaluable tool of investigative reporting headlineclub.org/2025/02/21/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

New He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named just dropped

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There's zero reason why this shouldn't be public. That role is probably a political appointee (public) and even if it was an SES or career civil servant at that high up you're still public facing.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Brown Line vistas get hundreds of likes but can i get some love for our bus views?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you have not won an election in a year that starts with a 2, I beg of you: Shut the fuck up.

submitted 1 day ago • 494 comments

Every digital service expert whose modernized a legacy system:

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, it’s no wonder DOD said pass on this. You don’t just yeet controlled unclassified info on what they’re up to out to places unknown. Seriously, there’s only one authorized place for that and it doesn’t happen over email.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 7 days ago • 419 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 3 days ago • 751 comments

When I was at Defense Digital Service, I was a bureaucracy hacker who used my understanding of the machine to unblock administrative hurdles and move things along… but almost everything I did in partnership with legal counsel to MAKE SURE I DIDN’T BREAK LAWS.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 4 days ago • 2206 comments

Bracy’s back Back again

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 5 days ago • 76 comments

Want to tell the public what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is asking for first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work. www.wethebuilders.org

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Me: Do you all want to know why I think "replace bureaucracy with AI" is like turbocharging all the worst aspect of bureaucracy with few of the gains?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

When this is all done—whether that's in six months or six years—I am not supporting a return to the laws, polices, and norms of 2024. That nonsense is what got us here. I'll be working for something far more expansive, progressive, just, and restorative than the path we've been on since 1866.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's official! We're now a part of the Alliance of Civic Technologists, aligned with the work of civic tech volunteers from across the country. <3

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve got a bit before the day starts, so it’s time to brag on a @civictechallies.bsky.social member organization that’s doing great work #civictech

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I’m hoping the media finds a former OMB staffer who just got cut to help explain how federal budgets works. It’s not intuitive at ALL and it’s easy to get wrong if you’re not familiar with how it works.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Government budgets do not work the same way as household budgets. Money only exists for 1 fiscal year then expires! (Usually) Also, money has different colors! Some funds can only be used for certain things. Some funds can be used across fiscal years! It’s weird! You need experts!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This needs to go in NM VS DOGE - I’m almost positive the USDA wouldn’t have willingly or knowingly fired the people who are working on thier biggest problem right now

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

At best, this will increase reliance on contractors and increase the size of the defense budget. At worst, and more realistically, this will only make us less safe.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info: www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments