Mirror of the 18F site, if you want to download the guides:

preserved.org.uk/18f.gsa.gov/...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

This exactly right:

Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...

More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”

The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only…

When Trump paused federal funding to all grants and loans, it plunged scientific research into chaos. Though the freeze was rescinded for some sectors, it's still in largely place for universities and research institutions. The damage will be lasting.

NEW: The Trump admin told a US-funded aid group that gives food & medicine to starving children in Sudan to shut down.

Children would die.

They’re defying the order.

But the aid world is in chaos.

Brett Murphy & Anna Barry-Jester:

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Exactly

Where is this Queen today!

This was in Project 2025. This past July, I wrote about the absurd logic to twist disability rights to attack abortion, when disabled people themselves need and want to get abortions, at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from 404 Media: meet GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that lets cops (& stalkers) geolocate photos in seconds. Trained on millions of images, it picks out soil, architecture, etc. GeoSpy closed public access after asked for comment, now marketing to police www.404media.co/the-powerful...

Trump’s Fire Hose of BS, the Truth about Davos, and the mighty Cecile Richards The rotunda was a billionaire base camp with the base locked out.

What a great writer @tinabrown.bsky.social is. What a treat to read: tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-fir...

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Myself, Jon King, Gail Greenwood, Hugo Burnham - Gang of Four 2025.

LEADING UP TO me burying, let’s say “a” lede, if not THE lede…
I am now playing guitar with some true heroes of mine, @gangoffour.bsky.social, and I could not be more honored or excited. Tour dates at: www.gangoffour7781.com

NY Post: Fact Checking Is Now Censorship This was inevitable, ever since Donald Trump and the MAGA world freaked out when social media’s attempts to fact-check the President were deemed “censorship.” The reaction was both swift and …

I wrote a longer thing about how ridiculous the NY Post is for calling fact checking "censorship," and how the NY Post is just as guilty of exactly what it's angry about regarding fact checkers.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/13/n...

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case “But for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report said.

Donald Trump would have been convicted in his election case if his re-election had not made a trial impossible, the special counsel report said.

Zoomed-in picture of a generic industrial light switch. It’s off-white and modular allowing for three figurines to be displayed on top. The mold of the light switch has three small circular yet very shallow indentations. Each indentation acts as a stage for each figurine. One holds a tiny moose, the next a wolf and the last one, a buffalo.

More tiny worlds

Focused and slightly off-centered view of a tiny, blue, plastic axolotl figurine on the bottom ridge of a mounted mirror in a public bathroom. The rest of the bathroom features are in various shades of gray and have reflective surfaces so this little dude has a prominent presence despite its bb size.

A random encounter: little guy showing me a new little world

Brewster Kahle, the internet's librarian Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, housed in a former San Francisco church with Greek columns that echo the ancient Library of Alexandria,

🌐🎙️ “The Internet’s Librarian”

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, joins the California Sun podcast to discuss preserving knowledge in the digital age & his vision for universal access to all knowledge.

🎧 www.californiasun.co/podcast/brew...

#Preservation @brewster.kahle.org

Tonight!

A selfie of a white lab-pitbull mix, boston terrier, and their human in a red sweatshirt, in a cuddle puddle

Today was tiringggg
Pups can tell