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Ethan Wechtaluk

@ewechtaluk.bsky.social
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Former Congressional Candidate. Husband & girl dad x3. Democratic Socialist. The work has just begun. ethanwechtaluk.com

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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 18h
"Super Intelligence" in the headline. "Unites States" on the signature line.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 22h
Redundancy only works if you keep it. WSSC took one of its largest plant's two power feeds down and kept running with no fallback. The other feed failed today, and Pepco says WSSC's own equipment caused it. That wasn't bad luck. It was a decision, and whoever made it should lose their job.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
About 10 in 510,000. That's how many trans athletes the NCAA prez told the Senate he knew of. About 1 in 4. That's how many undergraduate women at major uni report being sexually assaulted by force or while incapacitated. If this is about protecting women, the math tells you where the fight is.
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 27/09/2026
Why Was Donald Trump's former NSC Senior Director, Derek Harvey, Saving Washington County Emails That Did Not Belong to Him? blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/we-request...
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We Requested Former Trump NSC Senior Director Derek Harvey’s Emails. His Bizarre Email Behavior Led Us to Evidence the County Misled the Public About the ICE Detention Center
Before Abruptly Resigning, Derek Harvey Forwarded County Emails to an Outside Account. What We Found Revealed the County Knew More About the Proposed ICE Detention Center Than It Told Residents.
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 25/09/2026
Congress keeps demanding answers from ICE. But ICE may increasingly be able to ignore them. That’s because there’s a funding loophole that could make congressional oversight largely toothless. blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/the-letter... by @ewechtaluk.bsky.social
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The Letters Aren’t Working. Neither Is the Law Congress Keeps Pointing To. The Reason Is Buried in How ICE Gets Its Money.
ICE didn’t simply ignore Congress. It found a weakness in the way Congress wrote its own oversight rules, and then built a policy around exploiting it.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having served on Student Conduct and Honor Court adjudicating organizational misconduct while in college, I know what standard disciplinary accountability looks like. We routinely handed down far stiffer penalties for significantly minor infractions. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Democrats spent years courting data center developers. Now public opinion has turned, and they're pivoting badly. Nowhere is that clearer than Maryland, where @iamwesmoore.bsky.social and @mddems.bsky.social are blaming Dan Cox for a tax break that passed the House 123-6.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Maryland is about to make a decision about data center development without the analysis it commissioned for those exact decisions. I asked the developer and the state the same category of question. The developer responded twice in an hour. The state didn't respond at all. Read more: bit.ly/4ySZU15
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Wes Moore, TeraWulf, and the Morgantown Opportunity Zone
TeraWulf answered my questions about the Morgantown data center. Wes Moore's office answered none of them, five days before he decides whether to hand the site a federal tax break.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
While researching the potential data center development in Charles County, it hasn’t escaped my notice that formal requests for comment and public records have yielded substantially more information from TeraWulf than from the State of Maryland itself.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I want to be clear that I made an informed adult decision to care about the Washington Commanders again this year and I have nobody to blame but myself. 0-2. Eagles and Cowboys. Same elbow. See everybody next Sunday. Obviously.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A state agency told me in writing that the 911 fees on my smartwatches should not be there. Maryland has never issued guidance on the exemption that covers them. Nobody has ever filed a complaint about it. Not one, in seven years. bit.ly/4jdvbaa
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The State Says These Charges Are Wrong
I asked Maryland whether a smartwatch counts as a phone line. The answer came back in writing: it does not, and the fees on mine should never have been charged.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thursday in Dallas, Ted Cruz named Mamdani, El-Sayed and Talarico. The crowd shouted "he should be shot" after each one. He did not flinch. Saturday, ESPN handed him College GameDay. The boos in Austin were the only accountability offered.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Privacy" and "confidentiality" aren't being used to protect us — they’re being used to control us. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every few months somebody tells you real wages are up. It's actually true, but there is a twist. Over the past year, real average hourly earnings fell 0.2 percent. Real average weekly earnings rose 0.1 percent. Both numbers are in the same BLS release, published the same day. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Japan's 10 year bond hit 3% this morning, the first time since September 1996. UK gilts hit 5.2%, highest since June 2008. German 10 years hit 3.34%, highest since 2011. The US 30 year closed at 5.25% Monday. Everyone around the world is paying more to borrow. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I asked Montgomery County for a copy of Montgomery County's own audits. No reply. So a state agency in Hanover sent me Montgomery County's audits instead. Thirty four days later the county still has not said a word. Read more here: bit.ly/3UggAAG
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Hanover Answered. Rockville Didn’t.
Part Two of an ongoing series.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In Maryland it is illegal to post a job without listing the salary. It is perfectly legal to post a job that does not exist. Penalty for hiding the pay: $300. Penalty for inventing the entire job: nothing.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you have a job right now, you are lucky. You probably have no idea just how lucky. And every number the government publishes is built so you never have to find that out. 🧵
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
From my post yesterday, posted BEFORE we learned she refused applying for a security clearance and BEFORE we learned world leaders get to Trump via Natalie. emptywheel.net/2026/08/19/n...
And all the while we’re not talking about what it means that anyone with a trusted relationship with Harp could learn anything about Donald Trump, could learn the content of all his meetings, all his messages, all his phone calls, could pass him — and pass on, in his name — any kind of untoward message.

Natalie Harp may be just what the far right wants to pretend she is: A staffer who has gone nutso for her boss, and therefore lavishes the kind of treatment on him that his increasingly fragile ego needs to function in the face of Narcissistic injuries.

But if she were something else, no one would be in a position to know about it.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Montgomery County, Maryland raised the 911 fee on every phone, watch and tablet in the county 157 percent in two years. The public hearing had one item on it and zero speakers. Nobody knew. That is the whole story. Part one of a new series. bit.ly/3U7hj76
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Nobody Checked
Have you ever really looked at your phone bill? The people who send it hope you don’t. I looked at mine in July and could not account for $163.34 of it.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The weaponization of children by an official White House account isn't just a moral collapse — it is a complete, public degradation of institutional authority. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When government press offices treat official communications like a personal burn book, they usually end up proving their critics right. Here is a quick study in how not to handle rapid response. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Consolidating. The campaign account and the personal account are now the same account: @ewechtaluk.bsky.social. It is the handle I use everywhere else. Same posts, one place to find them.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every rule we have for holding large electricity users accountable applies to facilities that plug into the grid. So the biggest ones have started skipping the grid. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The single biggest myth in modern political debate: that criticizing the Israeli government and calling it genocide means attacking Jewish people. Judaism is a faith. Zionism is statecraft. Letting foreign state interests override domestic politics isn't patriotism — it’s a betrayal of democracy.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The DSA knocks doors and makes calls. The establishment buys ads and waits. One of those builds a coalition. The other rents a Tuesday and then goes quiet for two years. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Feds just approved the sale of a Charles Co. coal plant to a Bitcoin miner who wants to run it on a gigawatt of gas. That was the easy part. Now the permits, the tax breaks, and a federal Opp Zone are Wes Moore's call, and his deadline is 9/28. Read the latest on TeraWulf: bit.ly/45y8uWi
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Wes Moore’s Next Signature
Federal regulators just cleared the sale of the Morgantown coal plant. The decisions that determine whether a gigawatt of gas rises on the Potomac are still ahead.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A sitting U.S. Senator, Bernie Moreno, has explicitly called his own former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, unfit for office due to a horrific pattern of alleged domestic and child abuse. Yet the silence and defense from leadership is deafening. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Getting a president to say the word genocide takes years. Survivors testify. Investigators work in conditions that make evidence nearly impossible to gather. Everyone treats the determination as the finish line. Nothing in American law makes the word do anything.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The FBI and EPA warned water utilities on July 30. Since July 27, systems in at least seven states have reported incidents. Attackers reached internet facing controllers, changed the passwords, and locked operators out of their own equipment. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A sitting member of Congress running for US Senate wrote this. Five days before her primary. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
On August 5, 2025, Rep. April McClain Delaney signed two documents. One put her name on a bill to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks. The other reported new stock trades in her dependent children’s accounts.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The hypocrisy of our current political landscape is completely jaw-dropping. On one hand, we’re told that international law and diplomatic protocol are absolute.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On Sunday, March 12, 2023, the FDIC's $250,000 deposit insurance limit was suspended for Silicon Valley Bank's depositors. Every account made whole, insured or not. It took two days. Your unpaid ambulance bill stays on your credit report for seven years. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Montgomery County raised the 911 fee on every phone line 168% in two years. The public hearing had zero speakers. I think some of those charges are being applied to devices state law exempts. I need to see more bills from Maryland residents. If you are a MoCo wireless customer, read on.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Someone read my post about Obama's immigration record and told me to knock it off. Obama wasn't that bad, they said. Trump is worse. I like Obama. That's why I won't lie about his record. The deportation machine both parties built, and the $45B keeping it running right now. bit.ly/4vKQ4fB
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I Like Obama. That’s Why I Won’t Lie About Him.
Both sides say the other guy is worse. Both are right. That's how the machine survives.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This isn’t about politics. It’s about life. Being a parent or stepparent is hard even on a good day. Right now, it’s brutal. To every parent and stepparent just trying to hold it together: I see you. From one parent and stepparent to another, you are enough.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Senate Commerce Committee votes today on a bill to ban Chinese cars from the American market. There are currently no Chinese cars in the American market because a 100% tariff and a Commerce rule already handled that. What's still open today is the part worth watching. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Is it just me or does it feel like we're living in two completely different realities? On paper, the stock market is cruising and headlines say the economy is resilient. But in real life, the vibe is just pure, lingering dread. It’s an incredibly weird paradox, and it’s not just in our heads. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
SNAP and Medicaid aren't broken by accident. The contractors who build the failing eligibility systems are bidding to build the next ones. Walmart and McDonald's are top employers of the people on these programs. Someone's profiting. It isn't families. bit.ly/4vIIqSR
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The Programs You Think You Know
Medicaid and SNAP serve tens of millions of Americans. But they do it poorly and the GOP is trying to break them. Knowing is one thing, living the reality is even worse.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fatal shooting in Maine by ICE agent David Brouillette wasn’t just a tragedy—it was a tier-one failure of federal vetting. ICE is running rushed hiring pipelines that hand badges and guns to dangerous men. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The current Taylor Farms Cyclospora outbreak (1,600+ cases) isn't an act of god—it’s an act of Congress. Big Ag spent millions diluting federal rules so they could keep your food supply chain completely opaque. Let’s look at the two massive regulatory gaps they engineered. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Yesterday at the State Department, Stephen Miller stood in front of diplomats from 67 countries and declared the United States has "formally recognized left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism." Strip the euphemism. He was announcing who the state will hunt.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Air quality across MD-06 is bad right now. Montgomery County: Code Red. Hagerstown: Code Purple. Smoke sticks around through Saturday. Stay inside if you can. N95 if you go out. Windows closed, AC on recirculate. Skip the workout. Check on elderly neighbors. Stay safe, friends.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tonight, from the East Room, the President told America our elections are rigged. He offered no proof, because there is none. He lost. He's just afraid to lose again. This cannot be accepted. My full statement on tonight's address.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Same bill. Two votes. One afternoon. @repaprildelaney.bsky.social voted no on cutting $3.3B in unconditional military financing for Israel. Then voted no on the bill itself, over humanitarian aid cuts. She’ll walk from refugee funding but she’ll refuse to touch the Israel money.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
On Monday Trump signed away more than 90% of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Grand Staircase: 1.87 million acres cut to 181,500. Bears Ears: 1.36 million cut to 121,000. Almost 3 million acres of protected public land, gone in an afternoon.
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A 3-year-old girl in Bluey pajamas walked toward a Biddeford crime scene this morning. She was looking for her father. But minutes earlier, an ICE agent had shot him dead in the street. 🧵
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Ethan Wechtaluk @ewechtaluk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A Bitcoin miner wanted Maryland's biggest data center, run on a gigawatt of gas. So he reached out to Wes Moore's administration. Weeks later, Moore's environment secretary quietly signed a promise to fast-track his permits. The people who'd live next to it found out last.
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