Just a throwaway joke where they tacked on to his list of jobs “former administrator of the department of government efficiency”
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Just a throwaway joke where they tacked on to his list of jobs “former administrator of the department of government efficiency”
Just saw a production of The Mikado in which there was a joke about Pooh-Bah being the administrator of DOGE.
Immediately thought of @annabower.bsky.social
Choosing to believe that this joke made its way into a production of The Mikado thanks to the influence of the #WITAOD movement
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
A draft of Lee's article is available here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Democratic law makers are seeking information on a voter data agreement between DOGE and right wing voting-related groups.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Over the weekend, DOGE's X account posted an update. According to this post, DOGE has cancelled 273 contracts over the last 4 weeks.
x.com/DOGE/status/...
*long motion.
Sorry about the typos.
Its a log motion and I can't do it justice here.
For example, they allege the agency failed to turn over relevant text messages, which are frequently referenced in email exchanges between FCC officials. By not turning over these messages, the plaintiffs say the email exchanges lack important context.
Almost a year ago, the plaintiffs filed a FOIA request seeking "information concerning DOGE’s activities within the FCC and
especially documents concerning FCC contacts with Elon Musk, SpaceX, Starlink or other
entities associated with Musk and his various enterprises".
Plaintiffs in Burleigh v. FCC have asked for discovery, saying the agency withheld information
frequencyfwd.com/files/freque...
Via The Verge
I had to look it up - "Who Is The Administrator Of Doge?"
“WITAOD???????”
At some point around page 175, the rule goes off the deep end and starts arguing about whether the civil service is constitutional. I have started writing a longer essay for @lawfaremedia.org on this topic. It's more than I can cover on Bluesky.
The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
Attorneys preparing for this deposition—
YOU’VE GOT ONE SHOT
ONE OPPORTUNITY
DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO #WITAOD???
Here is the link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#WITAOD #USAID
This relates to the deposition reported here (and many other places; I heard about it from Axios).
Lawfare's Trials of the Trump Administration is discussing the USAID-related lawsuit against DOGE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy2w...
The U.S. DOGE Service's X account, formally the US Digital Service's X account, has seen some activity. However, unlike the DOGE X account, it does not post regularly about the agency's purported savings.
DOGE's X account continues to be inactive, having last posted on 10 January. The reason for this is not known.
On LinkedIn, DOGE continues to advertise new positions.
Elon Musk and high level State Department officials are set to be deposed in a case concerning USAID.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Lawfare's Trials of the Trump Administration is live.
Nothing DOGE yet but still very interesting. Currently talking about the Fulton County search.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLba...
DOGE's LinkedIn page posted 10 hours ago today, after being inactive for three weeks. The post advertised job openings at DOGE. LinkedIn does not provide exact dates for posts, instead only providing vague time frames for posts.
DOGE's X account has not posted in 17 days. The reason for this is unclear.
In unrelated matters, DOGE's website only shows posts up to August 2025 on its homepage. The reason for this is likewise unknown.
Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is promising to create a state level DOGE if elected. Hilton claims there is widespread fraud, but has not provided any evidence.
https[:]//nypost.com/2026/01/26/us-news/steve-hilton-launches-cal-doge-to-expose-billions-in-fraud/
PBS talked with a whistleblower who had filed a complaint last year alleging DOGE had mishandled Social Security information.
The conversation focused on this court filing and the revelations within.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
BlueSky's very short character limited forced me to greatly simplify the details.
Here is a link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A Notice of Corrections to Record filed in American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees v. SSA by the defense lays out how a DOGE SSA member emailed a password protected archive of SSA records to a senior advisor at DOGE, and how DOGE employees worked with an advocacy group.
DOGE hasn't posted anything, yet. In fact, they haven't posted since the 10th.
But the day just started, so we shall see what happens.