Wired just released a new article1 by Vittoria Elliott about DOGE’s incursion into VA, in particular the disruption that muskrat Sahil Lavingia is causing within the Office of the CTO’s VA.gov team by blustering around like a bull in a china shop. It’s a good insight into how the muskrats are working at government agencies.… Read More »
As I noted previously, I was invited to testify at a “shadow hearing” held by the Democrats on the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, about the firings happening at VA.
I imagine most of my readers are not going to make much of this, but since I’m trying to capture everything here for posterity, note that I was mentioned briefly in an article in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun last Saturday.
Experienced ex-govies Julian Sanchez and Noah Kunin, started the WatchCats podcast a couple of months ago to report on DOGE and its doings throughout the federal government. I am the featured guest on the March 25 episode. Listen for the inside story of what went down at USDS between the election and when 44 USDSers… Read More »
The TIME article contains two substantive errors, several minor errors, and a curious omission.
The article features my concerns about DOGE and VA. Unlike mainstream U.S. media, the piece effectively debunks DOGE’s claims without equivocation. This is the kind of reporting we need to see (but won’t) from U.S. media.
NPR’s Ailsa Chang; Elizabeth Lair of the Equity and Civic Technology Project at the Center For Democracy and Technology; Jonathan Kamens, late of the Department of Veterans Affairs; and University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron, talk about the risks of DOGE having access to federal government data and how the Privacy Act of 1974 is being used to push back on it.
Hello, democracy lovers! Please join me on America Unhinged at 8pm Eastern on Thursday, March 6, where I will be talking with hosts Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali about DOGE’s slash-and-burn march through the federal government, what it means for the American people if we don’t stop it, and how we can do that. I… Read More »
GSA fires 18F, More Perfect Union releases video interview about VA infosec firing, AP video interview about VA firing published by Newsweek, NextGov/FCW writes about VA.gov migration project damaged by USDS hosage, USDS group resignation reported by NPR, and a bunch of other links.
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 »