Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>A letter to the American People:<br><a href="https://18f.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">18f.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>"18F was doing exactly the type of work that <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> claims to want – yet we were eliminated.</p><p>When former <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> engineer Thomas Shedd took the position of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TTS</span></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">#<span>technologists</span></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">#<span>government</span></a>" </p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/18F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>18F</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>