I’m trying to use my blog here as a kind of time capsule of the work I’ve been doing to fight DOGE and Trump since I went public with it on February 14, so just for the record, I want to capture here the original Mastodon and LinkedIn postings that got people to start paying… Read More »
I did a brief press appearance on CNN this afternoon to talk about my firing from the VA and what that means for VA.gov cybersecurity. Here’s the video, with a transcript below it. Transcript Jessica Dean: A warning from a fired cybersecurity official for the department of veterans affairs. He sounded the alarm, saying sensitive… Read More »
We built something that made VA.gov much better, and DOGE destroyed it without understanding or caring about what they were doing.
The big news today is 21 USDSers resigned as a group rather than helping DOGE. I wasn’t part of that group, but I 100% support what they’re doing.
In other news, I’m in the news all over the place, and there’s more coming. Read the post for the details.
Author Lily Hay Newman does an incredible job capturing the high stakes of compromising the security of VA.gov.
I wrote a self-service way for my family to tell my computer to stop hogging all the download bandwidth so they can do their online meetings or gaming.
By the time they’re talking to you to record the soundbite, they already know what they want you to say, they just need to get you on camera saying it. There are some amusing aspects to how this played out in this case.
I appeared tonight on the NBC Nightly News in a segment by Peter Alexander about bad stuff the Trump administration has done recently and how people are reacting to it (I imagine this may be a daily segment?).
Watch this video and then get involved! The only way we stop this if if people get off the sidelines.
The article about my firing from USDS and VA is fair, accurate, and even-handed.