Lynn Overmann

we have saved daylight

but at what cost

Motherfucking wind farms…

The @beeckcenter.bsky.social‬ has launched the Digital Benefits Ecosystem Directory + Map, a dynamic, open-source guide designed to connect organizations working toward a shared mission of improved digital benefits access and delivery. Explore!
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How Musk Monetized Government While Killing What Actually Works Guest article by Merici Vinton, former DOGE worker

New from me for @meidastouch.com - How Musk Monetized Government While Killing What Actually Works

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New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S. The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist."

Uhhh... this is catastrophic for democracy.
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

Excited to launch the Federal Alumni & Digital Service Alumni Fellows program welcoming 9 former fed tech & policy leaders to Georgetown's Tech & Society Initiative & @scientistsorg.bsky.social!
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Its a policy *designed to fail*

And failure will push more people off their healthcare – working adults, kids, seniors, students, people with disabilities – no matter if they are dealing with a new baby or cancer diagnosis.

My coauthor Julie Siegel and I worry even that grim prognosis may be too optimistic. State’s are not ready for these new requirements and many states may reach a point of failure. Website crashing, call centers down, paperwork lost, and offices shuttered 💥

Republicans' new Medicaid red tape will push Missouri to the brink and block healthcare for millions • Missouri Independent The budget bill passed by the U.S. House will kick millions of people off of Medicaid by piling on new red tape.

Today in the @missouriindependent.com
I shared how new Medicaid red tape imposed by Republicans will kick over 10 million people off their healthcare, including more than 180,000 people in Missouri ‼️

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How do we repair the mess Trump & the tech titan have made? Public servants who know how to build things can tell us.

Here’s @merici.bsky.social, who built IRS Direct File AND helped launched the beloved CFPB on @cnn.com with @philmattingly.bsky.social

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PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions.

0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.

All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

See, the money goes into his personal account, so it's not a conflict.

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

It can be true both that: the hiding/denial of Joe Biden’s mental and physical condition going into 2024 is a major story, b/c contributed to the Dem defeat in 2024, which is the reason for Everything Happening Now, and…

That the current President’s mental health is also an important story.

There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working.
What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.

Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems

Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines

“Small acts of acquiescence, framed as…defensive measures, feel like the only reasonable course. But this is the fatal logic of appeasement: the belief that quietly yielding in small, seemingly temporary ways will mitigate long-term harm.”

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Our 2024 Impact Report highlights @beeckcenter.bsky.social's 10-year journey & the people that made it what it is today. As public servants face growing uncertainty, this report reminds us that government should always be for the people, by the people.

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

—Louis Brandeis

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?"

This is our moment. This is our time.

We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

It turns out it’s always veep and never house of cards

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...