Choose Bear.

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

It’s been one year since the elimination of 18F. 🧵

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

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I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

It's official: the Trump admin is making American government dumber. *11 times more STEM PhDs were lost than gained in 2025 *3 times the rate of STEM PhDs left in 2025 compared to 2024 *-17% decrease in STEM PhDs across 14 agencies www.science.org/content/arti...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

Horrifying.

I always like to consider what kind of horrible accident led to a certain rule. Because there are quite a lot of ways that people (or things that people use) could accidentally kill other people. Yes, I’ve been working on permitting, why do you ask. 😬

This is a good question. Let's talk about it! Why do civil servants resign in protest? Couldn't they have done more good on the inside? 🧵

Pretty telling that the inevitable attempt to smear her boils down to "she wasn't rolling over and cowering in fear as we invaded her community"

I've seen refugee aid efforts defeat multi-year occupations by regional / national police forces who deployed 30x the amount of resources. Hell I've been part of that. It is *very* possible. ICE's budget has a limit. Make them use it. ICE's morale has a limit. Make them lose it.

This breakdown confirms what anyone who looked at the video could see: that the DHS account was an obvious lie. *The agent put was not in her path, was not in danger. *He also fires *after* the car is moving away from him. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Today in Oh Hell No

ICE isn’t welcome here. ICE shouldn’t exist. Every elected official must be clear-eyed about the fact that ICE is a threat to our entire country and must be abolished. As we in the Twin Cities know too well, our taxes are going to fund an entity that is attacking our neighbors; this has to end.

It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision. It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.

2026 needs to be the year of Fuck You, Make Me as a lifestyle and a philosophy.

my 2025 year in review

Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

This administration is going to crash, and we are going to get ONE CHANCE to fix things with massive structural reform. We have to start building support for that now. If we miss this moment more competent fascists will take power in the election after Dems win, and there will be no coming back.

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This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵

How about uh, talking to other parents (or a pediatrician??) about this whole parenting thing? Even my super introverted hermit dev husband realized he needs a village to do this parenting thing properly, especially with a social kid. I swear, these AI tech bros hate people so much.

Effectively closes our borders. Feature, not a bug I guess.

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

The ICE secret police have kidnapped and disappeared this child. It's unconscionable what these sadistic racists are doing to children and their families.

if you had "malicious website content compliance" on your 2025 card, please collect your prize (christ, this is infuriating)

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways this piece from @whyy.org is great an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive whyy.org/segments/oze...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

As long as I live, I’ll never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion dollar corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air we breathe” became a politically popular position with half of my country.

Our democracy is not a brand. Our country is not a retail store. At 18F, our inspiration was (and is) the American people.

A couple of climate wonks who I generally quite respect were arguing for NEPA reform on Ezra Klein’s podcast last month. Their basic argument is that wind and solar are now SO cheap that if you do permitting reform, it’ll benefit renewables way more than fossil fuels. And, well…

it was always obvious DOGE was decorative "innovative efficiency" cover for the brutal dismantling of corporate oversight and the social safety net, but the press spent first six months of the year propping it up as a good-faith effort

Wake up babe, new Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation OceanGate report just dropped

A really interesting look at how people “should” be expected to understand uh, words, especially “branded” words in advertising. But also 🍿 because Tesla in court and unsurprisingly trying to BS their way through it. This thread was A WHOLE JOURNEY for this govvie content person. 😳

This week, I’m honoring the State Dept foreign and civil servants whose service was cut short. No one can take away their impact.. in every flag they stood beside, the rooms where diplomacy took shape, and the global ties they built. We will feel this loss for years. Images from my last visit.

Stories about NIH grant cuts were something I was actively avoiding reading because as a former NIH-funded scientist, I would be too enraged to function. But at least there’s SOME hope, along with lots of work to be done. 1/

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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

Getting to a #NoKings protest when your preschooler is not into crowds nor loud AV systems - have lunch at the local waffle shop (first time sitting at the counter!) then just “happen” to pass by City Hall on the way home. 😂 Represented public servants in Alameda with my @nteu335.bsky.social shirt!

This is so pathetically obsequious and misleading that I wish I could cancel my subscription again

Now is a good time to bump this. It makes it extra hard for the National Guard and soldiers to fire at you if you are literally waving the fucking stars and stripes flag.

This decision is incredibly significant for federal employees. That an appellate court actually said this out loud is incredible and really shows the public how horrific this Administration has been with respect to destroying the rule of law and the surrounding protections.

Sharing what we've learned is our idea of efficiency, so we've been working to recover 18F resources for the public. You can still find our guides at guides.18f.org.