i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Great article. “Eight years later, Bezos and two of the world’s other richest men—Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—have clearly left the world of consequences behind. They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves.”

When DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story: https://propub.li/3OBQMwk

More of this, less of bombing other countries (From @acyn.bsky.social )

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Really excellent piece by @donmoyn.bsky.social. (And if Democrats can't make hay out of the Trump administration killing off a free tax-reporting option, what are they even doing?) donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Wrote a thing about Mark Hopson’s favorite Kodak Curse. www.linkedin.com/posts/randy-...

FYSA coconut cream zero sugar Dr Pepper is available until July 31. My wife brought home four cases. She just gets me.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I posted a thing on LinkedIn about government procurement. I'm officially a professional adult. www.linkedin.com/posts/randy-...

"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone

Reason gazillion why putting the star of a fucking reality tv show into power is a bad idea

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

Direct File forever

This is what the world’s richest person has done and he’s only been rewarded since then.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

next time we should try a government staffed by people who are good at their jobs to see if things work out better

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

You've seen the viral clips, but my colleague + I went through 23 hrs of deposition footage to reconstruct what those early DOGE days were really like. They didn't cut the deficit, but they through pressure campaigns, rule bending and chaos, they did break some of government👇

Believe it or not, this is a hopeful sign. Most professional-class Republican lawyers have decided that the costs of working for the Trump administration far exceed the benefits. They do not have faith in the longevity of this regime.

Elon Musk was once so mad that a random guy based in Thailand made fun of his failed cave rescue effort that he accused him of pedophilia and hired a private investigator to dig into his life.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Finished the first two chapters of @mheadd.bsky.social “The SpecOps Method”. Great diagnosis of what brought us to the legacy problem in government. Looking forward to reading his thoughts potential solutions!

Planting seeds and whatnot.

A friend who was at a government agency that got DOGEd said that in the process she went into meetings with these guys where they had Grok open on their computer and little else.

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

It's getting to be you can't even profit off war deaths on the insider trading app anymore

Thread. The bittersweet thing about this year is seeing so many ex18F people continue to show up throughout the ecosystem after we were axed. proud of the work we’re still doing wherever we’re landing. Gives me hope amongst all the chaos I see every day coming out of DC.

Fuuuuuuuck

One of the dumbest weeks in a year of very very dumb weeks.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Everybody is really sleeping on the “Oracle gets destroyed by openai and data center debt” as a possibility

People who work on government technology need to be taking much more seriously what it means if AI enables a small team of permanent staff to fully own frequent changes to the system, rather than managing vendor change requests.

Last fall, I testified before Quebec's Gallant Commission, which was investigating a $900M software debacle at their DMV. This week, after a year of work, they issued their final report. I'm impressed with how the whole commission worked. We have nothing like this in the U.S., but we really should.

Mark Headd is the real deal. Looking forward to reading this.

Goddamn

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Buying software invariably means lock-in, and if you're smart you should plan for how much you're ok with.

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DAMMIT ED, NO Have you TRIED procuring and integrating enterprise software? Because OH BOY are you in for a tragically underestimated and regularly disappointing ride I'm not saying the big apps are all terrible. (They are *mostly* terrible.) But their terribleness isn't even half the problem here

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

The destruction of the civil service can destroy democracy, too the next episode of the AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA podcast has dropped: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...