Thoughts on the history of the civil service, and recalcitrant bureaucrats:

🧵Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.

The deal for moving from a spoils system to a civil service system for government workers contained exchanges. The government workers were paid less than in the public sector. In exchange, they received job protections and a pension.

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 21, 2025

🚨🧵 Kash Patel will become the next FBI Director this week, and he will quickly discover that he didn’t inherit a law enforcement agency but rather a crime scene.

Here are the TOP 10 things soon-to-be Director Patel could consider to start reforming the FBI immediately.

— Phil Kennedy (@PhillipAKennedy) February 17, 2025

Looks like a good guide to me.

[Friday-morning update]

The arrival of Kash Patel.

[Bumped]