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"DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN" Hundreds (and growing) peacefully protesting in Folsom, Calif. today

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Sen. Coons: "I am shaken. I am angry. And I am gravely concerned about our path forward in this body and our nation. Democracy is a gift hard won and hard earned...What is happening?"

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California senator @senalexpadilla physically dragged off for trying to ask Kristi Noem a question…

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Trying to compare ERIC with AVID nearly always gets the same reaction, which is someone scolding me not to do that. But it's hard not to at least try, considering that members of one are leaving for the other. New from me: statescoop.com/eric-avid-el...

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No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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“We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as much as the next person, but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as a REAL ID because it absolutely does not,” the TSA said.

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New from me: statescoop.com/utah-doesnt-...

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This work, led by @waldo.net, did not get enough attention. I keep bringing it up to state IT officials and some of them still don't know about it. It's a low-tech, common-sense solution to a major problem in state government: statescoop.com/summary-shee...

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Why oh why can't these people come to grips with the fact that these are petulant children, not 4D chess geniuses

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"Some people are so far behind in the race that they actually believe they're leading."

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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Great reporting from @derekbjohnson.bsky.social about AI-generated coding. The obvious fact I see getting overlooked again and again in much of gen AI discourse is that LLMs are largely just cobbling together patterns from human-generated material. Calling it AI will be a misnomer for a while yet

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The Onion had a good run, but I think it's time to shut it down

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PSA: The puppies are out: www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

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A bunch of privacy advocates and digital/civil rights groups signed onto a campaign to change the technical standard behind mobile driver's licenses. New from me and @keelyquinlan.bsky.social : statescoop.com/no-phone-hom...

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Articles like this one from @peter-wehner.bsky.social are a nice reminder that not everyone on the political right has lost his mind. But that so many Republicans have so readily reversed course on their core beliefs is a troubling fact that does not inspire hope

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

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Wait, so government isn't a startup??

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oh good

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Elon Musk leaving Trump administration, White House official confirms - www.reuters.com/world/us/elo...

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"Virtually all of the top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have departed the agency or will do so this month" Doesn't sound great. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-se...

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I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

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Deficits are good, right? "Tax provisions approved by the House Ways and Means Committee would extend and expand major components of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which we estimate will increase primary deficits by $4,561 billion ($4.6 trillion)" budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

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The Philadelphia School District has lost $700,000 to a cyber scam, city and school system officials announced Thursday. The payments have not been recovered.

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Why is Kristi Noem asking governors to build SCIFs? No one I spoke with had any idea. New from me: statescoop.com/kristi-noem-...

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New from @keelyquinlan.bsky.social, state AGs say proposed measure to preempt state #AI laws would be "wholly destructive of reasonable state efforts to prevent known harms associated with AI.” statescoop.com/state-attorn...

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