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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 20 hours ago • 628 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

18f were a bunch of badasses who actually did make government more efficient in a way that actually worked. And they did it while also being good people who cared deeply for the work, for each other, and for the people that used it.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1342 comments

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American so far.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

Alas, you and your country deserve far better, and we are in this moment shown to be a loud and foolish spectacle and a craven disgrace. #SlavaUkraini

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe a line break between “blood” and “pressure” isn’t great in this context, especially considering the company name and the red background. I totally wondered why they were trying to sell me “plant-based blood.” 🤪

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The stupidest possible crap, produced by the world’s biggest assholes, for gleeful consumption by the nation’s most spiteful dipshits, at the cost of literally everyone else.

submitted 3 days ago • 220 comments

On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.

submitted 4 days ago • 1504 comments

Who needs a miraculously complex database of all human knowledge when you can just push this Confident Wrongness Button?

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Love this from Denmark

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

EYE WAS MINDING MY BUSINESS… getting my steps in… and all of a sudden

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

In tribute to the now-departed Ms. Flack, and in response to [gestures widely]: music.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The dance of the emu and the goat.

submitted 9 days ago • 115 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 8 days ago • 1083 comments

“i think you’ve overestimated your contributions, and underestimated your blessings” is a banger of a line to use on techbros

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

How to Edit: randsinrepose.com/archives/how...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

stares in historian

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

Listen, lady. We’re all looking at stuff on our phones while we watch our kids in this taekwondo class. You are the ONLY one watching videos with the volume on and loud enough for me to hear at the end of this row of seats.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

submitted 342 days ago • 82 comments

What hurts so many is the disgusting lie that their service was unsatisfactory. They are just randomly firing people and smearing them to justify it. wtop.com/virginia/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 133 comments

I do not think it is a coincidence that at the same time they are writing "executive orders" (legislation by dictate) based on a second-grader's understanding of biological gender, they are desperately trying to fire anyone working for the government who knows more about biology than a second grader

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 11 days ago • 1929 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 12 days ago • 627 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 13 days ago • 2291 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 14 days ago • 188 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 15 days ago • 411 comments

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

submitted 16 days ago • 518 comments

This, from the president of Wesleyan U, is excellent. “Authoritarians have long known that total control will elude them if they don’t eradicate the autonomous support engendered within civil society by cultural, religious, commercial, and educational institutions.” slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

🎯 samharris.substack.com/p/the-cult-o...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

I have lost track of which desperately evil and insane things are supposedly intended as distractions from which other desperately evil and insane things.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Both of our favorite local Chinese places are—for some reason—closed on Tuesdays. I cannot stress enough how often I am fully down the road of “we’ll have Chinese tonight” only to circle back on the fact that it is Tuesday and I can’t.