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Zhi Zhu 🕸️"some of 18F’s probationary employees, who typically have been in their govt role for only 1-2 yrs, had previously been terminated in the Trump admn’s mass firings, then reinstated this week, and then fired again Friday night...The team was tailor-made for govt efficiency & <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a>... But as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> & his surrogates continue to centralize <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#power</a> over govt operations, it makes sense that <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> would want to rein in, or simply bulldoze, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#18F</a>." <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-18f-elimination-efficiency/681894/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-18f-elimination-efficiency/681894/</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️‘It Feels Like It’s Chaotic on Purpose’Elon Musk’s Dept of Govt Efficiency laid off a team whose purpose was to make the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a> more efficient. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-18f-elimination-efficiency/681894/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-18f-elimination-efficiency/681894/</a>"Late <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Friday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Friday</a> night, the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admn, as part of its push to modernize the govt with <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a>, laid off roughly 90 people from the General Services Admn—all federal technologists whose role was to **modernize the govt with software."**<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GSA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#18F</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️A letter to the American People: <a href="https://18f.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://18f.org/</a>"18F was doing exactly the type of work that <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> claims to want – yet we were eliminated.When former <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> engineer Thomas Shedd took the position of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TTS</a> director... he acknowledged that the group is the “gold standard” of civic <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/technologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technologists</a>... He repeatedly emphasized the importance of the work, and the value of the talent that the teams bring to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a>" <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#18F</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️GSA shutters 18F, possibly leaving agencies in the lurchOn early Saturday morning, the General Services Administration eliminated the program. <a href="https://fedscoop.com/gsa-shutters-18f-possibly-leaving-agencies-in-the-lurch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fedscoop.com/gsa-shutters-18f-possibly-leaving-agencies-in-the-lurch/</a>"18F workers appear to have lost access to their <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a> email accounts immediately after Shedd’s announcement, which was sent around 1am. Employees then began calling each other in the middle of the night to discuss the news."<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GSA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#18F</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️"18F was popular among the agencies; annoying to the contracting community; & frightening to the contractors & consultants who could charge unsuspecting agencies whatever they could get away with. Small, but mighty, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#18F</a> was the OG <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>, but with a mission to create actual efficiency...Their dismissal with a late-night <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#email</a> demonstrates that this admn either doesn’t know how to effectively enhance <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a> efficiency, or really doesn’t care."<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-tangherlini-a1b59013_gsa-eliminates-18f-activity-7301657902883254273-SBhP" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-tangherlini-a1b59013_gsa-eliminates-18f-activity-7301657902883254273-SBhP</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

Artist ActivistUse “Saudi henchmen” before <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> to indicate allegiance: > 18F was part of USDS before Saudi henchmen Musk and Trump destroyed it: <a href="https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leaving-18f/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#18F</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USDS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GSA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GCC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Saudi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Saudi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SaudiArabia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaudiArabia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UAE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coup</a>

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