Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Still pondering whether that was the dumbest end to a Washington football game after so many dumb endings. Was it worse than Gibbs’ 2 timeouts? McNabb thinking there was a double OT? Unsure. But very very dumb 010 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026He warned of the ills of socialism “the government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.” …..as he gives contracts to his former (current?) company, taking from somebody else. 010 0
Reposted by Randy HartMatthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Democrats must recon with the idea that, guided by ideology and in exchange for massive profits from government contracts, many of these tech companies were *fine* assisting with the erosion of democracy and civil/human rights violations en mass. 418356 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Only one game out of first place in the NFC East. It’s our year, Washington. Super Bowl Bound. 000 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026National Democratic Party. You win. I have decided to just kill my Gmail account. Your shitty fundraising emails will always find their way into it, no matter how hard I try. I will start a new account. Or maybe just quit email forever. 120 0
Reposted by Randy HartDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...donmoynihan.substack.comDOGE vs. Civic TechAs DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure 18799259 0
Reposted by Randy HartKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...cbpp.orgSNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is ImplementedSNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data. 414198 0
Reposted by Randy HartDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I actually think a tech office with procurement oversight would be good b/c there is a lot of real waste. But a) if you are just rotating in people with no govt experience, you are just going to have bros asking AI to search for "waste" & b) these guys assume it won't affect their govt contracts 610828 0
Reposted by Randy HartMatt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18/09/2026The USWDS documentation site is now preserved here, thanks to the amazing work of @suddenlygreg.com uswds.18f.orguswds.18f.orgUSWDS: The United States Web Design SystemUSWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites. 16620 0
Reposted by Randy HartAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026And this is why, when folks hijack conversations about AI safety to talk about the rise of the [benevolent|terrible] machine God, we should tell them to go play outside while the grownups are talking. Because the actual conversation is about the harms humans do, not about fictitious nonsense. 024727 0
Reposted by Randy HartMicah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily 281388144 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026USWDS is critical public infrastructure. The public should continue to shape its future. 030 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026or through the #uswds-public Slack channel. Sign up for the Slack channel here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comJoin one of TTS' chat roomsTTS has specific channels in Slack that the public can join. Members of the public must also comply with GSA standards and the TTS Code of Conduct. For more information, see the TTS Handbook. 120 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can raise concerns through USWDS GitHub discussions github.com/uswds/uswds/... 120 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026concerning stuff happening right now at USWDS: -removing open-source contributors, -losing institutional knowledge, -departing from principles, -security risks through an “agentic-first” approach, and -making changes without sufficient human accessibility and usability testing. 11512 0
Reposted by Randy HartYoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026USWDS was created and maintained by people who genuinely care about making government websites work as well as possible for as many people as possible. It was an amazing thing to watch on its own. But then to see the adoption and contribution by teams all over the world - that was incredible. 13615 0
Reposted by Randy HartLynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 17/09/2026A continuation of the USWDS thread I wrote earlier this week. Building a monolithic America.gov will be an unmitigated disaster. Making "pretty" websites isn't fixing our public services. I wrote about this two months ago here: democracy-papers.ghost.io/government-i...democracy-papers.ghost.ioGovernment isn’t a startupIn August of 2025, the White House announced the creation of a new office called the National Design Studio and tasked it with rebuilding some of the most sensitive websites across the federal governm... 33220 0
Reposted by Randy HartWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 17/09/2026I am still seeing otherwise-reasonable people say "maybe this new Trump initiative could be good," or "DOGE had some real upsides" and the one upside is that I am learning who is not, in fact, reasonable. 1436 0
Reposted by Randy HartMatt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop. 8331141 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026youtu.be/YKAD7l1a9hc?...youtu.beThe People Abusing Welfare Are Not Who You ThinkYouTube video by More Perfect Union 000 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“It's sort of like if you had a car and you took out 10 percent of the parts of the car. It's not that the car is going to be 10 percent slower. The car is not going to work." 062 0
Reposted by Randy Hartghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/08/20261) this is good and you should read it (and my prior is that Lowrey's book is also good and you should read it, although i haven't yet) 2) administrative burden is the single place I am most optimistic about positive impact from LLMs 1424628 0
Reposted by Randy HartJacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 29/08/2026DOGE flunky Kyle Schutt left govt service in June 2025 but has been named the new Acting CIO at DHS to replace DOGE ally Antonie McCord, who is leaving. dogetrack.info/names/kyle-s...dogetrack.infoKyle SchuttA website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government that is automatically regenerated as new data is added. 064 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Am I a bad person that I have no idea who Hasan Piker is and I refuse to google him? 420 0
Reposted by Randy HartLynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 20/08/2026Fuck it, here's the paper I wrote over a month ago about NDS and the role civic technologists have been playing for the last decade without them. democracy-papers.ghost.io/government-i...democracy-papers.ghost.ioGovernment isn’t a startupSo why would we design our digital public services like one? There’s been a lot of talk recently about what’s going on with our digital public services. A certain new task force with its Silicon Vall... 02812 0
Reposted by Randy HartDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22/08/2026on this the 459th anniversary of the duke of alba arriving in the low countries, consider reading this old banger about why power matters and ambition is good 26510 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026VA sole sourced it to Cerner in 2017 because (paraphrasing): “Procurement takes too long” “DOD is going to use Cerner” “VA is for people that used to serve at DOD” and thus “Cerner should magically work at the VA” Shockingly - the VA is different than the DOD. $28B different, apparently. 000 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It’s like watching them slowly build a money incinerator for the last eight years and there doesn’t seem to be any way they can stop it. Sunk cost fallacy is a powerful drug. 100 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026How do you even price out $17B in a government proposal? Like how many developers and licenses etc could they possibly throw at this thing to try to make it work? 120 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I can’t fathom being the CO that got a $17B change request. I got a $1B change request back in the day and had to spend a year trying to convince my agency not to make us accept it. 120 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Oracle announced they bought Cerner for $28B in 2022. The total value of Cerner’s VA contract is now just under $27B. Well played Oracle. Just a few more “complexity” change requests and you’ll get whole. www.nextgov.com/modernizatio...nextgov.comVA boosts EHR modernization contract with Oracle by $17BThe modified agreement raises the contract’s total value to just under $27 billion. 120 0
Reposted by Randy HartAngela ColterGEIST 👻 @angelacolter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Maybe DOGE shouldn’t have cut those 3,500 FDA employees, huh? 062 0
Reposted by Randy HartNatalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You may remember that Trump fired nearly 20 inspectors general last year after he took office. The transformation of the system of watchdogs has continued since. They're "scared to do anything," one senior OIG official told us of those who are left. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...notus.orgFrom Watchdogs to ‘Lapdogs’: Inside the Trumpification of Agencies’ Inspectors GeneralBetween canceled reports, deleted pages and mass firings, the government is getting less oversight. 515384 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yes! Congrats @apetersen.bsky.social and team for continuing this work! 031 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026My 18-year-old just got sick on day 6 at college. 010 0
Reposted by Randy HartJesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/ 7925211091 0
Reposted by Randy HartJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15/08/2026It seems to me that free, open source software eventually drives out expensive, closed software. So today's AI companies only have so long to establish themselves as parasitic monopoly conglomerates before open source eats their lunch.restofworld.orgMozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internetRaffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can customize and control. 57412 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I might have to change identities. I will let you know. 100 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’m old and boring enough to not even know what SoundCloud is. I just see it on my bank statement once a month and make another vein attempt to cancel. 100 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’ve given up trying to cancel my kids’ SoundCloud that I bought when she had a 3 day phase of wanting to learn to DJ. It’s been like a year she doesn’t know her username or the email she used so I’m just stuck. 200 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Great article The Fauci show trial was chilling to watch for career civil servants. And for those of us that were DOGE’d. I still have hope public service can recover when this chaos mania ends.But it will take decades and look very different. I have to have hope because cynicism means they win. 020 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/07/2026My New Year’s resolution every year is to not step foot in Florida. 190 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It’s amazing what just… happens….on a regular basis. 000 0
Reposted by Randy HartDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026A lot of govts have limited this guys company in order to ensure affordable housing, but he has a different explanation for housing shortages, one courtesy of an organization too racist even for William F. Buckley. And he also in charge of digital branding for the US government under Trump. 221434375 0
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Just the worst possible group of people ever assembled by the worst possible bosses doing the most damage they possibly could. Because they were “enlightened” about how easy things are. 050 0
