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Former fed / gov consultant / technologist. Lifetime wonk. Opinions are my own - also strong and weakly held. I will likely delete often. Just because I agree with you on a couple things doesn’t mean I agree with you on everything. Nuance appreciator.
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You are loved, but not good for my mental health. Ciao for awhile.

You know at the root of it I just don’t like folks that take the easy way - avoiding laws, regulations, etc to get things done. The right way is harder- but it’s the right way. Taking shortcuts and being cruel about it in the process is not what you want from your government and public servants.

In this case I do actually appreciate the integrity as it seems to be lacking in so many places right now. Shit result, but he didn’t hold back.

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social read your latest. FWIW I’m a private citizen that has also been a public servant and there a ton of rules in place on purpose within government to help protect information of citizens. I haven’t seen any evidence that this group has attempted to protect any of it.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

oh my gosh look it's exactly what we all knew was happening, happening

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Thompson Reuters wrote this one. It’s funny that the only articles that are anywhere near factual in their tone are from third parties.

the government needs to stop doing crazy shit so i can write about the crazy shit they're doing

Courageous.

This would be so dumb. A betrayal of an entire people that have been partners since WWII for what? A hotel lease? Just hand over a majority of chip manufacturing infrastructure to China to say you “made a deal?”

We are in both places.

ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...

It was always the plan to take over the payment system: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I have only seen one or two publications correctly reference DOGE. “The Department of Government Efficiency - which is a small office in the White House and not a department as departments must be created by an act of Congress - did [insert crime]”

The Enlightenment was fun while it lasted

“It’s fine - he will police himself.” The absolute gall of these people… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There it is

This is good - but it’s still read-only access to everything, which is also harmful.

In related news, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will determine for himself whether what he is doing is sexual assault.

Alright let’s see how this works in practice! Nice work!

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

I continue to be mystified why the energy industry likes this concept. *TRUMP: WE WILL DRIVE PRICE OF OIL DOWN, EVERYTHING WILL FOLLOW

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

At least he’s a useful idiot and not JUST an idiot? Just, you know, for Russia…

I hope that some day I will look at one of my Bluesky posts saying something like "The President wants to commit ethnic cleansing in Gaza to develop beachfront properties, while Doge is occupying the Treasury Department" and think "wtf was I talking about? What was I smoking to come up with this?"

if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?

Wait what? Jesus did they give Zuck and Sundar a heads up on this and that’s why they cancelled their programs?

www.instagram.com/reel/DFrCFt4... mood

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"

As a liberal, I'm so mad about what's going on now that I'm going to stop listening to the audiobook of Hillbilly Elegy when I'm in my Tesla.

How is this not career-ending?

At a certain point I’d imagine all of the adderall and Ketamine just destroy your ability to see the impact on the world outside your Twitter feed… What an ass. On brand for this administration, unfortunately.

So… “Trump accelerates lawbreaking” would be a good headline here?

Yup let’s please continue to allow this unstable man to create the panopticon of his dreams while destroying the government. More DOGE! Look at all the fraud!!!

This is why, in 2025, I am asking all patriotic Americans to be Uncle Buck.