The Dust Has Settled: We Need an Agency Worthy of Our Wilderness

The dust has settled: We need an agency worthy of our wilderness

A view of the Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area in northwest Montana. (Micah Drew/ Daily Montanan)The news is filled with stories of how the Trump administration and its so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have fired thousands of federal employees who work for our public land agencies. Though Donald Trump had been talking about gutting the federal workforce, the way it was done without regard for how it would affect the agencies’ …

Here Are the Piles of Used Bedding and Children's Play Sets Left Near DOGE's Old Offices

Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids' toys remains.

Open Mic: Those Three Little Words—Fraud, Waste and Abuse | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut healthcare and food assistance for millions of lower-income Americans, one would think they’d just discovered a massive cabal of diehard leftist criminals committing “fraud, waste and abuse” in the federal budget.  A quick look back, though, shows that there’s nothing new in the Republican charge that o…

The real fraud, waste and abuse

Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut health care and food assistance for millions of lower-income Americans, you’d think they’d just discovered a massive cabal of…

Visible Minorities: Viewing DOGE from the Inside

SNA (Tokyo) — President Trump has been on a mission of sorts to reform the executive branch of the US federal government. To do so, for a while he appointed billionaire CEO Elon Musk and a number of shady computer experts to fire as many civil servants as possible. SNA talked with one civil servant, whom we will call “Sam” (a pseudonym) via email to get an insider’s perspective on what’s going on. Due to the difficulties of finding time to talk …

Open Mic: Those Three Little Words—Fraud, Waste and Abuse

Between Elon Musk’s brief, disastrous tenure with the misnamed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) and the Republicans’ mad rush to gut healthcare and food assistance for millions of lower-income Americans, one would think they’d just discovered a massive cabal of diehard leftist criminals committing “fraud, waste and abuse” in the federal budget.  A quick look back, though, shows that there’s nothing new in the Republican charge that o…