Margot Canaday
mcanaday.bsky.social
Margot Canaday
@mcanaday.bsky.social
DOGE comes for the Dept of Interior. Grateful for brave civil servants there, and for more great reporting from Wired.

www.wired.com/story/doge-a...
Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems
DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"

(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Reposted by Margot Canaday
A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social.

This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
February 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HOLD THE LINE, federal workers! (And some inspiration for the rest of us in the comments of this reddit thread.)

www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...
This non "buyout" really seems to have backfired
www.reddit.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM