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craigmerry.com
Tech, Sacramento, Politics, Climate, #BikeBus, and quantum computing. Building http://www.bikebus.app and https://bicycleradar.com as side projects. Microsoft 365 Developer by trade. deaf. Married and Father of two young boys.
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The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

submitted 16 hours ago • 353 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 1 day ago • 637 comments

what we really need to be talking about:

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#bikechi If you were planning to attend marshal training, plan on something else. We are postponing to 06/24 because "we keep each other safe" includes our lungs. Air quality is taking longer to improve than initially projected and we want to give people enough notice.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

just a week ago, a bizarre scene from which he was sent off with praise and then accused of a supposed mental disorder. totally sane and normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Vibe coded this in less than 30 hours: Www.heatcompass.com

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

submitted 4 days ago • 384 comments

This is the future SB 79 opponents want

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

ICE goons roleplaying Call of Duty while in front of a Mexican restaurant with a sign that says “Make Tacos not Walls”, as if the symbolism could get more on the nose

submitted 5 days ago • 167 comments

Somebody open sourced the IRS Free File repo on GitHub and I could not be more proud.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 10 days ago • 431 comments

Think how incredibly broken and deranged western mainstream news has become that 90% of people have no idea this is happening.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Android release for bicycleradar.com is headed to the Google Play Store. Up next: Building a selector for different models for detecting cars. Trying to also build an area for testing saved videos with those models.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

Friends, what’s the best oma fiets-style (upright Dutch step through) bike I can get in the U.S.? I want one so bad, but it seems the “bikes are for exercise” brain rot in North America has severely limited the available options. I want a low-maintenance tank I can ride in a dress.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

... compelling reason why research funding in quantum computing shouldn't be pulled: decrypt.co/322128/quant...

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“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 12 days ago • 76 comments

What happens when you haul a whole community activist brass band along on your #BikeBus? Fun! HONK Bus III is happening Friday June 20! Musicians, check the gigomatic! #CambMa Cargo bike owners & other lovely people, we could use help — forms.gle/4547MdZ5tXE8...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Pretty good look at flooding and risk. <shudder> youtu.be/7P1qTwlGeuY?...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Moms not home 😂

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My favorite active transportation eureka moment is when people discover how much happier they are not being in a car, from there it is an avalanche of good decisions.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington

submitted 14 days ago • 163 comments

What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.

submitted 15 days ago • 1170 comments

What in the racist garbage conspiracy theory is this derived from? How is this not worthy of the 25th Amendment? Oh yeah that’s right. Tax cuts for the wealthy.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments