Why does logging into things sometimes feel like a Legend of Zelda quest?

I have heard this from multiple businesses. The National Guard presence is killing the DC economy because people don’t want to go out on the streets. It is happening with restaurants and coffee shops as well. Please call your member Congress #savedc #freedc www.facebook.com/100063838029...

Where are the Epstein files? <— this is the thing that unites the vast majority.

My kiddo wants to visit North America this summer. I told her I would make it happen… now how do I break it to her?

The Trump administration is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries, in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced early this month, according to a State Department memo.

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” *Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

Federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive day on Saturday in Los Angeles County, filling streets with tear gas and smoke. nyti.ms/4kUON0y

Hope you can join!!! I have had the joy hearing from @tfmfm.bsky.social and @geoffhing.bsky.social — you are going to learn about some awesome things about how news apps are made! #pyconus

😭😭😭 listening to @roguelynn.com crush it in her #pycon2025 keynote

My PyCon US talk is at 12:30, which means it's my favorite part of speaking: Panic In The Green Room. My serpentine co-speaker is calming me down.

Very excited to be moderating this fireside chat about the @themarshallproject.org with @tfmfm.bsky.social and @geoffhing.bsky.social to discuss how they use python. #pyconus

There it is, in a nutshell.

Here is the toddler version of what is happening: Judicial Branch: You can’t do that. Executive Branch: What are you going to do it about it? You are not my mom. Legislative Branch: Wait, what’s happening? The entire world needs the adults in the room to shut down this infantile behavior.

NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court HALTS a district court order requiring the Education Department to pay out more than 100 grants to public schools and universities that the Trump administration canceled. Roberts and the three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

This is brilliant... maybe.

The fish rots from the head down.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

Any legislator in any body should have to adhere to keeping bills designed like clean pull requests — clear, atomic line items, only related things can be coupled.

Breaking News: An analysis of Congress's most recent wild goose chase shows us that the war against the #law is no longer just in the #courtroom or against big law. They're coming for law schools and law students. open.substack.com/pub/reallawm...

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...

USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...

This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.

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Takes 5 minutes to make 5 60 second calls, y'all. Today is super important for voting no. Put the pressure up. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

According to Popular Information: "DC is already a beautiful city and is getting safer — violent crime dropped 35% last year and is down another 27% so far this year." This budget move would like that and turn DC into a terrible circle with real problems.

Republicans inherited one of the strongest stock markets in history and in 1 month they've fucked it all up.

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

For anyone confused, the point of this is to functionally abrogate both the tax and spend authority of Congress

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

everyone please read this

A fired gov employee (speaking in his personal capacity) shares how he makes coal mines safer —

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Bills in Congress: H.R.899 - To terminate the Department of Education. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... H.R.86 - NOSHA Act (Aka get rid of OSHA/safety) www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

In the 1970s people would throw trash from their car windows and dump in rivers. The EPA was created. In the 2020s, it falls from the sky with disregard for the planet and there are signed the EPA might get destroyed. www.facebook.com/TheRobPerill...

Please call, email, or send a letter to your member of Congress today. The actions being taken are not. If you do not do this TODAY you won’t have a voice tomorrow. Find your members here: www.govtrack.us/congress/mem...

Merit & diversity are not mutually exclusive. So, you can't end DEI practices in pursuing merit hiring because then you will fail at merit because... Merit & diversity are not mutually exclusive.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

I shop Costco.

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They cancelled outdoor inauguration in DC. Today the day of inauguration, I wore flip flops and a very heavy sweater to run errands in DC. Cancelling outside was a weak move.

It takes a lot of work to refrain from starting a social media channel that mocks how companies terribly brand themselves as AI.

I haven't gotten into it yet, but this place feels like a reunion!

bluesky engineers: perhaps today it’ll be a little slower, we’ll catch our breath the internet: MORE!!