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I❤️DC Happy Saturday from the District of Columbia, where we take pride in public service & everyone is welcome. I hope every human in DC enjoys a day of peace, love, & understanding in an era when cruelty & hate surged. Grace, compassion, tolerance, empathy, & kindness are more important than ever.

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I read @apnews.com & @themarkup.org’s reporting on algorithmic bias in housing in 2021 & argued open government could prevent digital redlining in 2022: e-pluribusunum.org/2022/03/18/h... Sadly, the Biden White House refused to co-create @opengovpartnership.org commitments or to embrace #opengov.

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One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

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It is possible to build machine learning systems which punch up instead of punching down.

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A fight between Elon Musk & Trump escalated fast, to historic levels. Musk tweeted Trump lied. Trump threatened to cancel Musk’s contracts. Musk tweeted “Trump is in the Epstein files.” I can’t help but wonder if Musk is about to learn a painful lesson from Cersei Lannister: “power is power.”

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Empirical research finds Americans from across the political spectrum don’t believe false claims that PBS is “propaganda” or biased. In fact, many of us trust public media because it’s publicly funded: current.org/2025/06/stud... Public media is a public good. Don’t defund PBS.

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Empirical research finds Americans from across the political spectrum don’t believe false claims that PBS is “propaganda” or biased. In fact, many of us trust public media because it’s publicly funded: current.org/2025/06/stud... Public media is a public good. Don’t defund PBS.

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I reject Jason Farago’s claim at @nytimes.com that “the president’s taste has befome the public’s.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/a... An art critic’s claims are often more subjective than a science journalist’s reporting, but IMHO, this is false. The American people have not adopted Trump’s “taste.”

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Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

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Read @gelliottmorris.com on why "Matthew Yglesias is wrong about public opinion on Kilmar Abrego Garcia." And while you're there, subscribe to sustain this important work. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

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NEW: Judge Boasberg has ruled that the Trump administration must quickly propose a way to give the 140 men sent to El Salvador in March — some on evidence he says was "flimsy, even frivolous" — proper due process. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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“The wholesale destruction of public media outlets like Voice of America represents an unprecedented gift from Trump to the dictatorial censorship regimes in countries like China and Iran. This is a dark day for democracy."- Clayton Weimers, RSF USA www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

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We could do with a similar slate of Member’s bills in Aotearoa, to close revolving doors, strengthen the law on donations to political parties, strengthen the OIA, create an Integrity Commission to oversee lobbying laws, and improve integrity overall.

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The Trump administration is trying to block politically inconvenient government data Tell them they can fuck right off www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-trump-...

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A new slate of anti-corruption reforms proposed by Democratic lawmakers was endorsed by @pogo.org @citizensforethics.org & @publiccitizen.bsky.social: neguse.house.gov/media/press-... Bills without bipartisan, bicameral cosponsors won’t move in this Congress, but could be a contract with Americans.

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⚖️ @publiccitizen.bsky.social filed a complaint to the Office of Government Ethics about an ethics waiver for Kashyap Patel which allows him to work in the interests of the government of Qatar during his public service. Public Citizen urged OGE to rescind the waiver. www.citizen.org/article/publ...

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“Government officials should not deny the facts.”— Dr. @jeremyfaust.bsky.social “They should explain the facts and own their policies. …The public deserves to know why. Policies that cause human suffering and make us less safe must be explained, not denied.”

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Health care for Americans is not “fraud, waste, & abuse.” The tax bill passed by the House bill would cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars, reduce enrollment by 10M people, & balloon federal deficits by $1.3-3.8 trillion. Cutting health care now is unwise. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

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Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

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@Axios.com analyzed ICE data & found hot spots for immigration enforcement www.axios.com/2025/06/03/i... A pattern they observed: most activity in 5 southern states with big, Democratic-leaning population centers, while most rural states have had less activity. I see shapes of the old Confederacy.

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“This rescission proposal is the most serious threat ever faced by public broadcasting.”— @NPR.org CEO @krmaher.bsky.social “We urge Congress to act in the interest of their constituents and save public broadcasting.” www.npr.org/2025/06/03/g...

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Per @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social, Dupont Circle will be open to #Pride celebrations this weekend after the MPD chief withdrew a request, but the US Park Police didn’t confirm to @washingtonpost.com that fencing will be down. I wouldn’t trust that NPS will do this until it does. x.com/cmbrookepint...

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This is reasonable. And I thought it for many years. But Jennifer Allen's work on vaccine misinformation changed my mind. Headlines often misinform people because 1) most people don't click through and read stories, 2) misleading headlines don't get misinformation flags from social media companies.

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This is sort of the best version of social media, where you have two smart people share their knowledge in a reasonable and insightful way. Both threads are worth your time.

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Dear @repjasmine.bsky.social: could you please publish the Dear Colleague letter for constituents and Americans to read? www.politico.com/live-updates... I’d love to hear open visions for oversight in the minority from you & @lynch.house.gov @robertgarcia.bsky.social @repkweisimfume.bsky.social

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The Trump White House has decided publishing more videos + AI slop online makes them the “most transparent,” but they are wrong. e-pluribusunum.org/2025/04/30/w... This analysis gets it just right: HHS officials are confusing visibility and transparency: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/hhs-visibi...

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I never thought this would end well, but Musk is playing with fire if he’s gambling that his wealth and influence will protect him against regulatory or legal liability if an enraged Trump seeks revenge by directing US agencies to take the gloves off. Nationalizing SpaceX would be the ultimate FAFO.

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Republicans are redirecting a big chunk of the already earmarked $42.5 billion in infrastructure bill broadband grants to Elon Musk's slower, shittier Starlink satellite service, a move that could delay these deployments by years

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