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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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The mind reels at the layers and layers of ways in which this is an unbelievably bad idea, the stuff of stupid airport-paperback thrillers. A turducken of stupid.

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MaaS

submitted 11 minutes ago • 2 comments

This is a very useful paragraph from ‪@jasonfurman.bsky.social‬, and one that might explain our current tariff debacle.

submitted 40 minutes ago • 21 comments

NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

submitted 21 minutes ago • 14 comments

When This Is Over™, we need to adopt this approach more broadly in the U.S. People generally do not understand the value of subsidized services. Free can feel worthless.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Today I checked out a book I'd reserved at the library, and I got the usual emailed notification from them, but this time it informed me that I "just saved $26" by checking it out instead of buying it. That's a pretty good idea for helping people appreciate the value of their public library!

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Some Senior VP at Target: Sir we thought The Blacks (TM) would let this go and come back but they haven't come back. They haven't come back sir! CFO: The line must go up, but it keeps going down! CEO, wearily removing glasses: It's time SVP: Sir, you don't mean-- CEO: Get me Al Sharpton

submitted 8 hours ago • 214 comments

I'll be addressing the Vermont House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee from 9–10 ET, on the subject of modernizing their IT funding model.

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"We have instances now in western countries where people are being arrested [...] the cop comes knocking on their door, you're going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online. You know, this is crazy stuff that's happening all over." Marco Rubio on April 16, 2025, if you can believe it

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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

submitted 9 hours ago • 226 comments

“I can…assure you that were this a Republican president…targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies."

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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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lolwut Does Newsom really believe this is just a boycott? Can he not comprehend that Canadians are rightly afraid of being jailed for days or weeks before being thrown out the country, and possibly sent to a concentration camp for the rest of their lives?

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

submitted 21 hours ago • 49 comments

New growth.

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If homophobia is the fear that men will treat you [a man] the way you treat women, what's the word for the fear that your country will treat you the way it treats people in other countries?

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

U.S.: We can't get Abrego Garcia back, because that's El Salvador's call, and they don't want to return him. El Salvador: We can't return Abrego Garcia, because the U.S. requires that we keep him here. A judge needs to cut through this circular bullshit.

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

A Trump ally has told CNN’s parent company that they could avoid future lawsuits from the Trump administration if they make a documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Donald Trump Jr., which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money.

submitted 23 hours ago • 963 comments

OK, but Donald Trump has never been hired for a job, never written a poem, it's unclear whether he can use the toilet unassisted, and he damned well doesn't pay taxes. What distinction is Kennedy making here? What's with the grab bag of attributes that apply to lots of people?

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

cool, let's keep that in mind for down the road, shall we

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Critics say.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

The face of the Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis model of higher education at New College. They forced real professionals and educators out to replace them with this.

submitted 23 hours ago • 21 comments

It has come to my attention that Nabisco-brand saltines are not named "Saltines," they are named "Premium." That is the brand name. Not "Saltines." Thank you for your attention to this matter! www.snackworks.com/brands/premi...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

In January, Musk declared that the IRS must provide a way for people to file their taxes online for free. Once he discovered that already existed, then he decided that it must be killed, because it is evidence that government worked well under Biden.

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Zoom appears to be experiencing an outage. It's not just you.

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The WSJ editorial board supported every step of the way to fascism, over decades, but now that it's here it's "we're all trying to find the guy who did this."

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