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Government data, standards, the future of the gov’t innovation workforce, Seattle, surfing, murals, public health.

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This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

27.02.2026 17:49 👍 36976 🔁 11949 💬 496 📌 800

This is a great read.

💡 How Covid Rewires the Brain may have you looking at the world a little differently today—or realizing how you may already look at the world differently.

27.02.2026 18:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@jasongale.bsky.social Could you ask your publisher to please post your audio book to @libro.fm’s audiobook platform? By buying your book there, I (and other readers) can support our local independent bookstores. It’s also a great audiobook platform.

Thanks! Looking forward to reading After Covid.

27.02.2026 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Deputized for Disaster | American Civil Liberties Union Deputized for Disaster, details how the Trump administration is drastically expanding the federal 287(g) program to transform state and local law enforcement into a national deportation policing force...

A new ACLU report documenting ICE's expansion of the 287(g) program to build out a national deportation policing force.
The administration is enlisting thousands of state and local police to conduct dragnet-style enforcement.

www.aclu.org/press-releas...

www.aclu.org/publications...

27.02.2026 14:33 👍 402 🔁 241 💬 11 📌 10
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How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives

Reading this report on the deep connections between Microsoft & Epstein.

In Seattle, whisper networks of women have spoke of a glass ceiling there for female leadership.

Microsoft should review if women were passed over for leadership b/c of Epstein’s influence.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

24.02.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For a story: I'm looking to speak to people of all ages about how uncertainty around access to SNAP and high cost of food is impacting mental health and well-being, especially as new restrictions/work requirements have taken effect. rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20

24.02.2026 14:05 👍 151 🔁 125 💬 2 📌 0

If we want alternate transportation to cars, we need alternate roadways where smaller vehicles can ride safely—converting side streets to small vehicles thoroughfares, looking at elevated walk/ride areas like In Tokyo, perhaps studying the efficacy of bus lanes vs dedicated, wider bike lanes.

08.02.2026 00:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

E-bikes and lime scooters are in the mix of the high accident rates. They come up in all the accident data.

Just anecdotally, my just-graduated-college neighbors, of four of them commute via Lime, 3 had accidents & 2 have been to the ER this year for Lime scooters/bike accidents in Seattle.

08.02.2026 00:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The per rider accident rate is much higher for e-bikes. ER docs are pleading with people to stay off e-bikes and Lime scooters.

If we were building infrastructure that would be safer for alternate transport, great, but most Americans can’t afford a $400 emergency let alone an ER bill & disability.

07.02.2026 21:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Take them away, crush them’: Australia faces an ebike surge that some say poses a health emergency They offer independence, reduce emissions and congestion. But they are also endangering lives

Not when you look at the ER bills from e-bike accidents.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

07.02.2026 20:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

06.02.2026 21:55 👍 2979 🔁 1616 💬 87 📌 85

It’s the builders who should required to be insured.

05.02.2026 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Useful to know to never buy a home in NZ.

05.02.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Whoa. Thats devastating.

In Washington State, we have 1st year and 6 year rights. As a result, our home got back more than half its resale value in fixes and settlement. Our townhome complex got back over $1 million USD so we could fix our homes and cover the legal process and investigation.

05.02.2026 19:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Do NZ residents have the right to sue builders for bad construction?

05.02.2026 17:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sounds a lot like Seattle.

05.02.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

… and monitoring/notes from monitoring Epstein in prison.

Link above, in case anyone might find this worth digging through.

05.02.2026 06:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As one does in 2026, I was keyword searching the Epstein Files.

Oddly, I hit a 1,000 page document filled with emails from some (non Epstein) email account that had a Google alert for the word “prison” and extensive emails/spreadsheets on prison conditions.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

05.02.2026 06:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

100%, yes.

31.01.2026 19:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

…because this was someone I didn’t know, I didn’t have first hand knowledge. But this part of the Epstein network impact—on what did or didn’t get funded for the last 15+ years—weighs on me.

I hope Melinda French Gates is/will fund women who got passed over by MIT Media Lab.

31.01.2026 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

…I got a couple calls in 2019ish from someone who’d done scheduling at MIT around Media Lab.

They alleged that female grad students/researchers/profs were never invited to Epstein’s island but men were. Those spots were coveted b/c often, people would get funding after. I don’t know if true…

31.01.2026 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

After I was supported w/a legal team by TIMES UP to come forward with my own me too story (not Epstein related), women started reaching out to me for the next couple of years about their own me too stories.

Often, folks who’d been adjacent. I never took notes, just shared what I’d learned…

31.01.2026 19:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It gets much worse. The connections to MIT’s media lab are well known… but someone should be looking through the new releases. All the academics invited to Epstein’s island.

All male. Through participating, they’d alledgedly get access to research & project funding. Their female peers? Nope.

31.01.2026 17:26 👍 114 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 1
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Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investi...

Wait until someone tells them that driving while Covid positive is the same as driving drunk.

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

29.01.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Congressional Budget Office estimates National Guard troop deployment at $93 million per month, $496 million in 2025 alone.

www.cbo.gov/publication/...

28.01.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE agents to 'support' US security operations at Winter Olympics in Italy Agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) force will support US security operations at the Winter Olympics in Italy in February, the organisation said on Tuesday, sparking anger fro...

🧊 ICE is going to the Olympics. The international community are horrified, but most Americans—and Olympians—are unaware. 🧊

#ICE #Olympics

27.01.2026 15:54 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Today's front page on @lemonde.fr

27.01.2026 06:38 👍 3096 🔁 1288 💬 80 📌 50
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

27.01.2026 02:07 👍 12560 🔁 4174 💬 143 📌 334

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

24.01.2026 19:34 👍 4262 🔁 1337 💬 70 📌 51
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

22.01.2026 01:42 👍 7559 🔁 3347 💬 158 📌 235