
Who watches the watch DOGEs? WatchCats is dedicated to fact-checking and analyzing the new US Department of Government Efficiency Service, aka DOGE. Noah Kunin and Julian Sanchez have a combined 40 years of holding the government accountable. We chat with a broad range of experts to help create a smart blueprint to make government more efficient and effective while giving you an insider-look on ev... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 15 | Founded | a year ago |
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If you’ve been listening to WatchCats for a while, you’ve probably heard us refer in passing to “neoreaction” (sometimes pretentiously dubbed the “dark enlightenment”), a once-fringe political philosophy that holds liberal democracy is not merely dys... more
If you’d expect anybody to be enthusiastic about the Department of Government Efficiency, it would be Jessica Riedl, a senior fellow and economic policy expert at the Manhattan Institute. A fiscal conservative of unimpeachable credentials, she’s work... more
If you’ve been trying to follow the nitty-gritty details of DOGE’s efforts to seize control of the Treasury Department’s payments system—and why it’s so important—then odds are you’ve already heard of Nathan Tankus. An independent journalist and rese... more
For more than 30 years, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has been advocating for—and litigating to protect—personal privacy against increasing technological encroachment. No surprise, then, that the folks at EPIC were alarmed when it became ... more
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Even though I'm watching this whole clusterbleep closely, and reading a ton, WatchCats has really been additive in terms of understanding the ins and outs of government, the technical details, and so on. Added points for this not just being my lefty comrades feeling ways about things. This is more ideologically diverse and that's hopeful, because this doesn't end without a broad coalition.
Totally crucial information at just the right level of technical depth. As a non-technologist this is some of the best news.
Thank you so much for this reporting. It is very important that we get as much of a view behind the musk curtain as possible. The richest man in the world having access to all levers of our government and the structure of our country definitely needs as many eyes on it as possible.
Let’s keep this going - really enjoy the depth of these discussions so far. Great job!
🫶🏻the interesting happenings which WatchCats are reporting that are not talked about in any of the typical media, “very interesting”
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