- week: 2026-02-15 notes: - Downgraded ApexCharts version to deal with display bug for labels on x axes - Better identifications for when text was last updated - Added information from _Authors Guild v. NEH_ filings - Added a [llms.txt](/llms.txt) file for the AI the DOGE bros are using - week: 2026-02-08 notes: - Found a few more designers for the [National Design Studio](/agencies/nds/) via their LinkedIn profiles - week: 2026-02-01 notes: - A few updates from LinkedIn profiles - Added a chart to the [Who's in DOGE](/people/) page - Guessed end dates for Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski - week: 2026-01-04 notes: - Added more details on salaries from a Bloomberg FOIA - Another one-page site from NDS - Reworked table for who has been paid - week: 2025-12-28 notes: - Added a few more timeline entries - week: 2025-12-21 notes: - Update the date styling to show the year as well - week: 2025-12-14 notes: - Several new sites launched by the National Design Studio - Some new FOIAs from the FCC - Identified OPM-10 as Austin Raynor - week: 2025-12-07 notes: - Moved the [National Design Studio](/agencies/nds/) to its own page. - Government filing gave new details on OPM departures - week: 2025-11-30 notes: - Created a page for [listing details only](/people/details) - week: 2025-11-16 notes: - ProPublica and Politico report added some new names and events - week: 2025-11-02 notes: - Shutdown slowdown + a small trip = few updates this week - A few timeline edits - week: 2025-10-26 notes: - Very little news about DOGE due to shutdown and courts slowdown - Rachel Riley named chief of naval research - Reworked the table on the people page - Many more departures sourced from LinkedIn - week: 2025-10-19 notes: - Not much DOGE news - Added support for uncertain EDTF dates - week: 2025-10-12 notes: - The govt continues to do bad things during the shutdown, but not many are DOGE-related - week: 2025-10-05 notes: - Quieter DOGE news week due to shutdown - Updated the timeline with new entries - Do not linkify to DOGE since it's often used ambiguously - week: 2025-09-28 notes: - Somehow I missed Ross Graber in here - Added a chart to the Enablers page for CIOs - Revised the Enablers page to remove sprawling table - week: 2025-09-21 notes: - Moved documents into DocumentCloud instead - Removed the use of the documents table and model - Launched new look for agency and person positions tables - Switched to a 2-column view for all major tables - Pop-up window for sources - Improvements to the search indexing - week: 2025-09-14 notes: - Revamped CIOs table on [Enablers](/people/enablers/) page - Implemented styles for ApexCharts - Decided to add Marco Rubio since he has worked closely with DOGE several times - week: 2025-09-07 notes: - Added a few more updates and departures - Removed internal transfers from the agency position tables - Fixed another bug on the agency positions table - week: 2025-08-31 notes: - Added a few more entries to [the DOGE timeline](/projects/timeline) - week: 2025-08-24 notes: - Another small vacation - Updating events based on SSA whistleblower - New info on FCC staffing and foreign nationals at GSA - Fixing a few issues on the independent agencies page - Making sources a many-to-many relationship - Created the [All the Source Citations](/all/sources/) page - Reorganized the EOP to define OMB and NDS - Found some departures on LinkedIn - week: 2025-08-17 notes: - Back from vacation - A few display bugs from Nate Cavanaugh exit - Still figuring out next big steps for this - week: 2025-08-10 notes: - Out on vacation - week: 2025-08-03 notes: - On an extended vacation! - week: 2025-07-27 notes: - Going to explore using DB instead of data YAML files - Documenting the new API and CSV downloads - "Correction: typo on HIGLAS access for Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi" - Reworking the site to just use the Sequel DB to make repo more clear - Adding the [Downloading the Data](/about/downloading-data) page - Built out more endpoints for the [API](/api/) - week: 2025-07-20 notes: - Trying to find more details on some new names - Restyling tables to be 2-column on small displays - Added an API and CSV files (still need to document) - week: 2025-07-13 notes: - Major cleanup of the partial logic for rendering pages - Reformatting of table for systems, positions and events - Major editorial review of all events in the system - Processing some amazing FOIA dumps from American Oversight for USDA, SBA and DOL! - week: 2025-07-06 notes: - Working on more missing text content and social previews - Adding more info on DOGE system modifications - Fix some errors in how I tracked changes from week to week - Linking some of the DOGE people to their likely LinkedIn pages - Identified SSA-11 as John Solly - Fixed support to link to specific Exec Orders, auto-linkifying references to them - week: 2025-06-29 notes: - Added code and a page for [important changes](/about/changes/) - Reworked some of the content for DOGE's ["God View"](/projects/god-view) and [Viral Waste](/projects/viral-waste) projects - Updated position information for Amanda Scales and Anthony Armstrong - Fixed linking bug for boosters and leaders - Switched agency blurbs to be in source data files instead of pages - Started to add LinkedIn information for future use - week: 2025-06-22 notes: - Added documents with details from Education to Treasury - Spent most of week on vacation and added a vacation indicator to site - week: 2025-06-15 notes: - Added a page on [relevant executive orders](/projects/exec-orders/) - Revising how blocks of text are styled - Filling in some backstory events for a few agencies - week: 2025-06-08 notes: - Tracking more departures in wake of Musk exit - Better grouping for system access - Big data dumps from ProPublica and court cases - Revamping the skills fields for people - Fixing the alias card presentation - Adding more info on independent agencies - Added search and a side drawer - Added a page tracking [who has left](/people/who-left/) - week: 2025-06-01 notes: - Added tables to display system access - Added an [all systems page](/all/systems) - More styling fixes and adjustments - Improving the look of the navbar and timeline - Text for the independent agencies page - Major content update including for the biggest wreckers - week: 2025-05-25 notes: - Cleaned up the size of the `_data` files by "hydrating" links at build time instead - Some major edits to text and site structure - Add a time separator to the compact event timeline - Improving the presentation of the position tables - Tightening up tables to align columns across different types of tables - Added a page tracking [who's being paid](/people/paid-staff/) - week: 2025-05-18 notes: - Changed the CSS to use Tailwind instead - First versions of the agency pages - Site is published to a public-facing location for the first time - Stylistic tweaking for small screens - week: 2025-05-11 notes: - First week of tracking changes, since repo was ported from [trump_data](https://github.com/harrisj/trump_data) on May 7th - Added a README to the repo - First version of the site pages