Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

More of this, less of bombing other countries

(From @acyn.bsky.social )

Same

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

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...

What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity We CAN have nice things - if we want them

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...

The Outsourcing Debt | Randy Hart A colleague used to always talk about the "Kodak Curse" when we were consulting with government agencies. How Kodak outsourced its entire IT function in the late 80s and never really recovered. And ho...

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 If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

How did procurement get here? Why are we still here? | Randy Hart My contracting shop started planning a $600M "digital" contract in 2002 that was awarded in 2006. We fended off a $1B change request from the vendor in 2008 and mostly went back to paper....That was l...

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

I am fucking drooling that looks amazing.

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