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! digitalgovernmenthub.org/ecosystem/

New from me for @meidastouch.com - How Musk Monetized Government While Killing What Actually Works www.meidasplus.com/p/how-musk-m...

"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. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

“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! beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/georgetown-u... @knightgtown.bsky.social @beeckcenter.bsky.social

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 💥

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 ‼️ missouriindependent.com/2025/06/06/r...

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 transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date...

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...

Donald Trump sued me for racketeering, I won and did not back down. Donald Trump tried to have me investigated, I did not back down. Donald Trump named me in executive orders, I did not back down. If your lawyers are so afraid that they are cutting deals with Trump, you have the wrong lawyers.

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

“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. beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/report/2024-...

"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.

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...

The lesson of the white lotus is not to get too rich or you’ll stop having fun on vacation

We can keep people from losing their houses AND save taxpayer money. Keep on funding this one. www.wsmv.com/2025/03/21/n...

One thing everyone should understand is that DOGE has created the least efficient conditions for government I've ever seen. *The working conditions are chaotic. *No clear sense of who works there. *Routine processes have been stopped. *No planning can take place. *People are incredibly demoralized.

I’d love a federal government that cares much about protecting people as it does about protecting Teslas

When Teslas have more government protection than women

Schumer’s decision is an unconscionable surrender that shows he does not have what it takes to meet this moment, and the charade he pulled yesterday makes it even worse. Time for new leadership in the Democratic Party.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

I will just put this out there. If all the senators who are saying they want to block this bill really wanted to badly enough they could force Schumer's hand. This isn't 'if Mike Pence has courage'. A leader doesn't buck the overwhelming majority of his caucus. Doesn't happen.

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

If you are a GA Dem call or email Ossoff’s office to tell him you will not support in 2015 if he votes for this. www.ossoff.senate.gov/contact-us/

Never in a million years did I think we could pull off Direct File, the “white whale” of civic tech.

If I could speak to billionaires quivering in fear, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some money worth sacrificing your dignity? If I could speak to Republican politicians, I would ask: Is the risk of losing an election worth being remembered as a coward?

Gabe and Mjolnir need a new home, can you help? Rowan, their human who has sadly passed, wished for them to remain together. Will help get them relocated to anywhere within the United States; please read on for more details! 🧵 Signal boosts & sharing are appreciated 💙

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

JD Vance never once condemned Putin by name for indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets that murders children daily in Ukraine. But he’s irate at a couple grandmothers complaining to him about it.

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

Every time a career lawyer is pushed out, you can assume they were told to do something illegal.

Check out this month’s edition of the Beeck Center Bulletin 🌟 mailchi.mp/georgetown/b... Learn about: ➡️ The State Chief Data Officer Tracker ➡️ Highlights from this semester’s Lifeworks & Learn sessions ➡️ Civic Tech Match ➡️ @lynnovermann.bsky.social being featured in the Washington Post

Companies doing moderation: not a free speech issue People blocking you for saying mean things: not a free speech issue Fact checks: not a free speech issue This right here? THIS is an attack, by the government, on your constitutional right to protest against oppression.

Interesting where government spending isn’t being cut. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters: