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waldo.net

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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submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 14 hours ago • 92 comments

Black person: [simply exists, saying nothing] Republican: Your support of DEI is intolerable!

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

True, but then they lost 41 seats.

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

Virginia’s fifth congressional district has gone through a Spinal-Tap-drummer succession of ever-farther-right congressmen. Our new one is a humdinger.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed (Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 1330 comments

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

submitted 20 hours ago • 95 comments

Case in point because perhaps you are not aware of it. It’s actually Poland who bought really lots of Starlinks for Ukraine. Poland pays subscription fees for Ukraine. It’s a business arrangement. Would the U.S. try to cancel it…?

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

A Manhattan federal judge on Friday banned Elon Musk’s team from regaining access to the U.S. Treasury Department’s most sensitive payment and data systems until the conclusion of a lawsuit that claims the group’s access is unlawful.

submitted 19 hours ago • 84 comments

It took six reporters to conclude that these numbskulls "don't fully understand" government contracting. For weeks now it has been patently obvious that not a one of them has even the faintest grasp of how procurement works.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 20 hours ago • 714 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 454 comments

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his 'woke' focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military." Meaning: he's Black.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 147 comments

Just the absolute dumbest shit www.theverge.com/news/617235/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 957 comments

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 1 day ago • 2546 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

They can not stop us from pulling their shit down.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Eventually Democratic governors and members of congress will figure out that we're liable to nominate for president the first one of them who tells Trump, on camera, to his face, to go fuck himself.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Breaking News: A federal judge appointed an independent lawyer to argue against the government’s request to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

In our post-fascist United States, we will make billionaires impossible through taxation. This will be broadly popular.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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