Incompetence

Americans learn the meaning of kakistocracy

Patrimonial regimes are “simply awful at managing any complex problem of modern governance. The arbitrary whims of the ruler and his personal coterie continually interfere with the regular functioning of state agencies.”

Access for adversaries

The Third-Worlding of America

US Government Almost Kills Critical Cybersecurity Database

Trump Fires NatSec Officials After Meeting With Far-Right Conspiracy Theorist

Trump Declares A Trade War On Uninhabited Islands, US Military, And Economic Logic

"the sheer malignant stupidity of the whole thing" -Paul Krugman

But His Gmail: National Security Advisor Waltz’s Private Email Hypocrisy

The latest episode of Mad King Trump

MAGA is Bad for Business

Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Chosen Chaos

The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Within just the last week or so, Elon Musk’s DOGE hit team of mostly young, almost exclusively male engineers and executives have done the following:

Trump’s “Best Security People” Can’t Figure Out Basic Security

Trump Officials Share War Plans With Journalist

Even If Those Weren’t War Plans In Hegseth’s Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes

The Department of Government Inefficiency

The Unraveling of Trump’s Plan to Detain Thousands of Migrants at Guantanamo

Trump admin scrambles to rehire hundreds of nuclear weapons workers

USDA tries to reverse mistaken firing of bird flu response workers

Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy

The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos

Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency laid off a team whose purpose was to make the government more efficient.

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save

The DOGE Plan That Endangers U.S. Revenue

DOGE’s $1 spending card limit touches everything from military research to trash pickup

Trump Decried Millions Spent ‘Making Mice Transgender.’ It Was Cancer and Asthma Research

A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale

Trump's Brain Trust Accidentally Sent War Plans to a Journalist

What the Fuck Are We Doing Here, America?

No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits

DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated

Mr. Duffy said the young staff of Mr. Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers.

DOGE Email Throws Federal Agencies Into Chaos and Confusion

Fired, Then Rehired, by the Trump Administration

DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk

What Fresh Hell Do We Have Today?

Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices

Inspector Generals Fired

With a surprise incursion in the first minutes of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk’s programmers seized control of a key personnel agency

These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’

Trump Is Unleashing a Chaos Economy

Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines

Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say

The Collateral Damage of Trump’s Firing Spree

America is at its weakest since the Civil War

Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge

Critics warn staff cuts at federal agencies overseeing US dams could put public safety at risk

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 92

… CNN reports that the IRS is in complete chaos because of issues with DOGE as it heads into peak tax season. Young DOGE staffers have been working inside the IRS for the past month, and thousands of workers and auditors have already been fired with 110 taxpayer assistance offices across the country also being shut down.
… One IRS employee: “They just randomly drop by people’s offices, demanding access to systems. They’re bullying us and there’s no discipline in what they are doing, which really worries me.”

… Another: “It’s a clusterfuck, and I can’t believe no one is stepping in to do anything.”

… A third IRS source: “We are paralyzed.”

Trump Administration Backtracks On Forcing Maine Parents To Visit Social Security Offices To Register Newborns

Today in Politics, Bulletin 83. 3/3/25.

Federal workers’ salaries represent less than 5% of federal spending and 1% of GDP

Casual White House Starlink Use Is A Cybersecurity Nightmare, A Transparency Problem, And A Weird Marketing Stunt

Merit When It's Convenient

Why DOGE Could Actually Increase the Deficit

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