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Computer person dreaming of a kinder future. I like maps, civic tech, books, journalism, climate justice, human & civil rights for all. ungoldman.com he/him 🇺🇸/🇫🇷 pdx

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submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

lazy sky please help me, what is the name of the account with the fake book covers like this

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

A party in search of values

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

After three months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a Filipino green-card holder who had been arrested at Seattle-Tacoma Airport has finally gone home.

submitted 4 days ago • 216 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 6 days ago • 601 comments

newsom slowly but steadily turning up the scumbag dial and gauging the polling reaction

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Direct File is easily one of the Top 5 most impactful public digital projects of the last decade. It’s absolute madness that I worked with people who worked on it ❤️ This is why so many of us got into civic tech. Not to become rock stars, but to do meaningful and wavy stuff FOR THE PUBLIC

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

If you're interested in how right-wing tech money perverted once reliable critics of corporate and state power into defenders of wealth and reactionaries, you can check out Owned by Eoin Higgins www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

If only the New Yorker had read @albertburneko.bsky.social six months ago it could have avoided wearing the clownshoes today defector.com/what-the-fuc...

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

submitted 21 days ago • 957 comments

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 25 days ago • 320 comments

lol humans

submitted 25 days ago • 37 comments

One of the tough things about covering Trump’s 2nd term is that he is breaking so many laws & norms that when you cover them each on their own, you come off as an anti-Trump Dem pundit w “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But when you list it all out things indeed look pretty alarming

submitted 25 days ago • 34 comments

UPDATE: Judge Sessions just entered a written order reaffirming his earlier order that Ozturk be immediately released without travel restrictions. Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released.

submitted 27 days ago • 63 comments

that’s right

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 31 days ago • 147 comments

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks