It is somehow grievously injurious to the U.S. federal government that I am a woman, and that I should be able to move freely about the country and the world.
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Photograph of the east wing of The White House being torn down by heavy construction equipment in October of 2025.
Just here to say I remember when "we" thought wearing a tan suit was the most unpatriotic thing a president could do.
"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
“What will Brown do if Trump sees something on Fox News about some class at Brown that pisses him off, and orders the funding turned off again?”
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a lot of rank and file dems do not seem to understand that trans people are in an existential battle for our right to be part of society right now. the government today is trying to use employment law and federal extortion to ban us from bathrooms.
A screenshot of a PDF of Brown University's July 2025 agreement with the Trump administration that doesn't allow for text search or selection.
The terms would seem to include a full ban on transgender women accessing any appropriate facilities for their gender on Brown University campus, including bathrooms, locker rooms, and housing.
The idea that most civic technologists want to go back to a work environment that their own leaders described as intentionally "traumatic" seems... unlikely at best?
I certainly don't want to work for people who care more about which bathroom I use than they do serving the country.
This headline after Skrmetti was downright lying. They knew it was not "left to the states." Now today's headline.
Fuck the New York Times.
It's almost like polling is a bad tool for measuring nuanced sentiment or underlying motivations.
I simply could not be more proud of this team. Please read this blog post from the Former Direct File Product Lead and my good friend, Chris Given: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire...
This means that no matter what corporate tax lobbyists and their billionaire goons in the administration do to Direct File, it will remain as it began: a service created by the American people, for the American people, and dedicated to the principle that government should serve all taxpayers.
Yesterday, my amazing former team at IRS Direct File released the vast majority of the code base as open source software (github.com/IRS-Public/d...) under the CC0 "license" (which is more like a waiver of copyright).
In 2024:
- Every $1 invested in the program generated $106 for users
- 90% of respondents said their overall experience was Excellent or Above Average
- 86% of users said that Direct File increased their trust in the IRS.
- Direct File had a +74 Net Promoter Score (NPS)
But they killed it. Cool
I gave this interview the day before DOGE announced it would kill IRS Direct File, one of the most successful government services ever launched.
If you need conclusive evidence that DOGE wants nothing to do with government efficiency, look no further.
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New, from me: The Trump administration is killing Direct File, the free IRS e-filing tool.
Users love it, and it creates incredible value for the public.
It's the clearest sign that DOGE wants a government that serves private and not public interests. 🧵
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A passage of text describing an incident where a victim was attacked by two men who punched and kicked them. The victim escaped into a restaurant, pursued by the attackers, but was protected by customers. The attackers reportedly used the phrase "Semper Fi" and referenced "Trump ending transgender acceptance in the military." Police arrived shortly after.
A group of men violently assaulted a transgender veteran in Seattle walking home from work. They cited Trump's trans military ban as they beat her.
One of the perpetrators was already wanted for domestic violence and was previously charged with a hate crime.
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More bad life choices, my talking about my time with the U.S. Digital Service, and my illegal termination from government employment by DOGE:
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Me screaming into the void again: slate.com/life/2025/03...
Whether motivated by fear, hate, or greed, the Trump administration is moving the country towards mistrusting and despising their neighbors based on a few differences rather than their many similarities.
I worked with Amy Gleason at USDS. I saw her put herself in harm's way for the American people during Covid, and respect that... but this???
This is her trying to protect a would-be autocrat from facing accountability. These are half-truths that people we both know can disprove. Bad move.
If we want to regain the trust of the American people, we'll have to be both efficient and effective with their tax dollars. This administration isn't going to do that, but I'm starting to think about what it would look like if we had another bite at the apple.
I'm the first to argue that every previous administration I've been a part of (all 5 of them) have been neither efficient nor effective enough for the people we serve. We need to do better. But an increase in efficiency at the expense of collapsing efficacy? Perhaps not the best strategy.
Layoffs at HRSA are threatening our nation's only *organ procurement and transplantation* system, leaving over 500,000 Americans on painful dialysis and killing 17 Americans per day tinyurl.com/4ts8sy5b.
Americans aren't getting their *passports* on time due to new burdensome gender-scrutinizing requirements, and deeply confusing TSA officers who have to process IDs for women like Hunter Schafer tinyurl.com/43445yh4.
DOGE has made sure a bunch of hugely important programs are becoming less effective. *Farmers* who make money on crops sent overseas for foreign aid aren't getting paid and the crops aren't getting shipped, reducing the efficacy of those programs on both sides of the equation tinyurl.com/yc234abr
It's cutting employees, killing contracts, illegally eliminating funding for programs that already have Congressional appropriations... and hey, if your goal is to use all that money to fund tax cuts for billionaires, you're killing it! But on the topic of efficacy? Not so much.
Let's talk for a minute about efficiency vs. efficacy friends.
Efficiency is focused on making a process use fewer resources, while efficacy is about that process's ability to achieve its intended outcomes.
In fairness, DOGE is arguably doing things to make gov more efficient.
"What they’ve done is they’ve radicalized me [...]
what they’ve done is they’ve made me think that they want to destroy the republic.
They want to destroy democracy.
So now I am activated.” - Me
Populo Servimus. Nostra Coclearia Strangulant Tyrannos. 🥄 🦀 💪🏻 🇺🇲
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