{"id":17887,"date":"2025-02-26T18:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/altgov-the-secret-network-of-federal-workers-resisting-doge-from-the-inside\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:07:55","slug":"altgov-the-secret-network-of-federal-workers-resisting-doge-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/altgov-the-secret-network-of-federal-workers-resisting-doge-from-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government employees fight the Trump administration\u2019s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky<\/p>\n<p>After seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s X post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies began talking on an encrypted app about how to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Employees on a four-day, 10-hours-a-day schedule wouldn\u2019t even see the email until Tuesday \u2013 past the deadline for responding \u2013 some noted. There was also a bit of snark: \u201cbonus points to anyone who responds that they spent their government subsidy on hookers and blow,\u201d one worker said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/26\/altgov-elon-musk-doge-federal-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a16af717b6474bffe472b9a90eca58abb60d6394\/0_0_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ec966cf2efe96dd4ea7ea65c34e9ff39\" title=\"#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside\" \/>Government employees fight the Trump administration\u2019s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky<br \/>\nAfter seeing Elon Musk\u2019s X post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies began talking on an encrypted app about how to respond.<br \/>\nEmployees on a four-day, 10-hours-a-day schedule wouldn\u2019t even see the email until Tuesday \u2013 past the deadline for responding \u2013 some noted. There was also a bit of snark: \u201cbonus points to anyone who responds that they spent their government subsidy on hookers and blow,\u201d one worker said. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government employees fight the Trump administration\u2019s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky After seeing Elon Musk\u2019s X post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/altgov-the-secret-network-of-federal-workers-resisting-doge-from-the-inside\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}