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I do software and data in global health. Wife, two boys, and a good dog. Cascades peak bagger. If it doesn’t have vi or p|pes, it’s probably not worth having. PNW
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I got some distance from the news cycle today.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is naked fascism but these sort of actions give me a perverse hope: banishing toddler citizens has no constituency except people who are beyond moral repair. This is doubly true when they also have cancer (!!). The regime overplays its hand and is hastening their fall. See you in the streets.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

At least 140,000 children and 67,000 adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Yves St. Lethality Lethalancôme Maybelethality

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Short the spikes. (I am not an investor.)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

amen brother

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

open.spotify.com/track/6gVIi7...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

When you recognize that Noem is Cruella, it becomes clear that the $3000 is her puppy fund.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Hegseth? He gseths us.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I didn't have high expectations when I visited Billy's Cafe in The Villages, but I was pleasantly surprised by Mona Boyer's diorama and civic proposal for a 1000-cell oubliette facility in Bethesda. "Forgetting these people is what will make us great," she told me while we sipped coffee.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

On this Easter Sunday, a lot of collaborators are trying to disappear into the crowd. Until revolution is his daily bread, Rogan is Bantha fodder.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

oh hey welcome to your trial, blackshirts

submitted 9 days ago • 72 comments

In honor of JD recent snub at the Vatican, I want to resurrect this important take. It's hard to believe this skeet didn't do real numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

when I look at these monstrosities, i hear the words "eminent domain" on loop.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

ACAB-as-a-Service (AaaS)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The democrats are really making a strong indirect case for behavioral interviewing techniques. Like, give me an example of something you actually DID, not some myth of heroic hypotheticals.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

lol

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Just returned from Nigeria, where votes are openly purchased, government is the most lucrative profession due to corruption, and political persecution is commonplace. My Nigerian colleagues would just shake their heads and laugh, but it felt like a glimpse into a possible future of the USA.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@cantwell.senate.gov Trump's poll numbers on the economy will continue to decline as Americans feel impacts on their wallets. The critical battlefront is immigration. Rule of law hangs in the balance. You have been timid or entirely absent on this issue. Get in the game.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Come over here. I want to be in solidarity with you.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

call your senators and ask them to post more r9x infographics

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Don't fuck with me. I am a force not to be reckoned with. Or without. Or on.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I'm crossing back into the USA in the next 24 hours. Kilmar must be returned. The constitution demands due process for *all people*, not just citizens. Blackbagging law-abiding residents and sending them to death camps without due process is nakedly unconstitutional at a basic reading & per scotus.

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submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I comment then block because fuck that nazi.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

submitted 14 days ago • 212 comments