The unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is likely violating the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) with their “Join DOGE” form on the doge.gov website. This rule, largely unknown by the public, was put in place in the 1980s and updated in the 1990s in order to minimize the paperwork burden on the public and the federal government.

Sharing taxpayer data with ICE: The risks to Americans are greater than they appear

Editor's note: This article was originally published at The Cloud is Down and is reposted here with permission from the author.

This essay was originally posted on LinkedIn and is shared here with permission from the author.

We know you want to get your message out, DOGE. That's the point of running your own website, right? We recently ran aXe DevTools on your site and we found a bunch of accessibility concerns for your website. We want to help.

Here's what we learned:

Editor's note: This story is posted with permission from the anonymous federal employee who shared it with us. Some edits were made for length and clarity.

There’s an old business truism: It costs a lot less to retain an employee than to hire a new one.

Let’s add a recently learned truism to the textbooks: It costs a lot less to retain an employee than to fire them and then rehire them when a US District Judge tells you the firing was an illegal “sham.”

Editor's note: This story is posted with permission from the anonymous federal employee who shared it with us. Some edits were made for length and clarity.

I never imagined I’d be writing a blog post like this. For over five years, I served at the CDC, pouring my heart and soul into public health, developing critical data tools, and earning a dozen prestigious awards that celebrated my dedication and expertise. That tenure was split where I developed expertise and best practices in the private sector to bring back to CDC. 

Did you hear the President's address to congress last week? Did you follow along with the fact checkers rating almost all of the claims as completely false, partially false, or needing more context?

Let's dig in on a specific false claim that's been repeated by this administration.

The claim

That SSA is paying benefits to people who are over 120 years old.

Editor's note: This story is posted with permission from the anonymous federal employee who shared it with us. Some edits were made for length and clarity.