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Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

submitted 3 hours ago • 372 comments

Trump birthday parade sponsored by coinbase

submitted 3 hours ago • 49 comments

Forty-something dudes in Charlottesville: we’re just really into springs! 🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

submitted 4 hours ago • 204 comments

Boy, Pam Bondi is real fucking quiet about political assassinations after being real quick to make statements about burning Teslas.

submitted 8 hours ago • 30 comments

remembering headlines from last year

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Framing like this should be considered a form of misinformation. Antisemitism in America in 2025 overwhelmingly emanates from the political right. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...

submitted 10 hours ago • 51 comments

Great turnout at the protest in Charlottesville. My kids and in-laws loved it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 9 hours ago • 317 comments

He’s now tied with Fetterman for second most votes with Trump Shaheen: 70 Fetterman and Warner: 69 Hassan: 68 Slotkin: 65 Rosen: 61 Gallego: 60 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Under Trump, we have been trained that a law enforcement officer can just be a dude wearing jeans, a T-shirt, a hat, and a gaiter covering everything but his eyes, and we must comply with anything they order us to do, or risk assault and arrest.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

The Minnesota situation is very bad. Once Trump involves himself, it will get worse.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

Trump came to office promising to end the Ukraine war in a day. Now Russia is mounting its heaviest air strikes on Ukrainian cities. He said he wants to end the war in Gaza, and that is continuing as well. He tried to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran. Now there’s an Israel-Iran war. bit.ly/45jFrXL

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Good point here from Stanley: lack of GOP representation occurs in fields beyond humanities and social science. It's not about universities abandoning the GOP, but the GOP divorcing itself from science.

submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

OpenAI is a banana republic and a sign that something is wrong in the tech industry. www.wheresyoured.at/whatre-we-ev...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

When you're living that simp life

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

submitted 1 day ago • 410 comments

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

A dozen accounts all followed me in the span of a few minutes, all with huge follower/following counts, all with the same #bluewave copypasta in their bios. Bot networks really thrive here. :-/

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

In March, @usdigitalresponse.org and @nascio.bsky.social recommended that govt include a page at the front of their IT services RFPs, listing the info our UXR found vendors most need. This week, the NY Higher Education Services Corporation published an RFP using that! www.hesc.ny.gov/RFP2025-01

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments