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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Backstage getting mic’d up for #FWD50 2026. Great speaker lineup this year - excited to be in Montreal!

Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

700,000 mi trip and this feels like the hardest part of the mission so far. 😆 Don't envy those divers trying to fight the current and the waves to get the collar set up.

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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Are you in southern California or Baja? Let the USGS know if you felt the sonic boom from the Artemis re-entry! DYFI link: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I can't wait for the hi-res photos but LOOK AT THE PHOTO FROM THEIR IPHONE! #artemisii

a picture of an iphone with a photo of the moon's surface - held in darkness in the cabin of Orion

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It seems like the Navigation System would be something they test on a plane prior to bringing it to the gate…not something they test right before boarding. 😭

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 04/03/2026

Imagine if American public media also had a #digitalequity & #pitech lens. Looking forward to reading this.

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Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Footholds in here for those thinking about: - Digital Public Infrastructure - Public interest AI - National security - Information warfare - Epistemic security / fracture or cognitive resilience - Creative industries - Democracy 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 31/01/2026

This week we kicked off a great new event series at @1rg.space called Wayfinding, exploring the tensions of technology in modern life, with a wonderful conversation about privacy. Next up: don't miss @hillaryh.bsky.social and Bianca Wylie talking about civics on Feb 11th! luma.com/wayfinding2

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Wayfinding: Civics · Luma

Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in modern life. We live in a moment where our trust in tech companies to protect our privacy…

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1RG @1rg.space · 30/01/2026

Wayfinding will be back on Feb 11th with Bianca Wylie and Hillary Hartley in conversation about civics. luma.com/wayfinding2

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Wayfinding: Civics · Luma

Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in modern life. We live in a moment where our trust in tech companies to protect our privacy…

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I love that this man knows how to communicate a civics lesson. 😍

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences

Careful Consequences Check
Let's make technology work for 8 billion people not 8 billionaires

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Why isn’t the video of our current president saying that a shutdown is the President’s fault ALL OVER THE NEWS AND INTERNET ALL THE EFFING TIME?

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

When in the nation’s capital… 😆🇨🇦 shoutout to @acroll.bsky.social and @harper.lol ❤️ #FWD50

Me onstage at FWD50 in a very bright red polyester blazer with white maple leaves. 🇨🇦

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

#FWD50 number nine (!!) is underway in Ottawa! @acroll.bsky.social on stage convincing us to optimize for One Metric That Matters. Excited to see so many #civictech folks here for the next couple of days. Hope we get to catch up, y’all.

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Kid better be getting one hell of a bonus! Truly wild year for Yesavage. 💪

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The Jays are coming back to Toronto! 💙🩵❤️ (And general admission tickets - no assigned seats- are only $1800!) 🤣

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Bottom of the 11th inning! This is what you want from championship games. But come on Jays, let’s hold em and then wrap this up!! 🤣💙🩵❤️

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This is crazy. And crazy-making. www.usda.gov

There is a new header on USDS.gov using partisan language to blame Democrats for what is about to happen with SNAP benefits. Too much text for an alt tag, but you can go read it — if you want to yell at your screen.

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I suppose it’s time to download my archive and actually delete my account, or at least all of its content. I refuse to log in and use X, but I haven’t yet deleted my presence there…

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Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Gavin Newsom: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop.”

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 24/10/2025

These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.

Timeline:
Reconstruction of east wing
Addition of Briefing Room
Bill Clinton Scandal
Muslim Brotherhood visits

Cocaine Discovered
Trans Day of Visibility
North and South flagpole
Rose Garden renovations

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

As a matter of law, there is no such thing as "federal immunity." Trump has broad immunity, but public employees enjoy only qualified immunity that does not extend if a "reasonable person" would understand their actions to be illegal. Stephen Miller is not a reasonable person.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

HAPPY 25 TO A PERFECT RECORD

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This physical manifestation of all the crazy is really getting to me for some reason.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Please follow @thenerve.news! Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line. We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏 www.thenerve.news

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The Nerve

Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost.
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(ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

@cityplanto.bsky.social Biidaasige Park is amazing! And…it desperately needs shady spots. It’ll be lovely in a decade if the trees stay healthy, but in the meantime you need to put some covers over some of the park benches and picnic tables.

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Great interview with @emilytav.bsky.social and @kathypham.bsky.social on “civic tech.” Love the comment that civic tech = civic duty + technology.

Quote from Don Moynihan’s interview with Emily Tavoulareas and Kathy Pham: Revisiting the Origins of Civic Tech. The quote says, “Civic tech is a way to find how technology fits into civic duty.”

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 17/07/2025

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 03/07/2025

If you’re with a state agency or legislature who needs help figuring out how you’re going to modify your benefits systems to deal with federally mandated changes (e.g. employment verification), contact us at @usdigitalresponse.org. We can help for free, thanks to grant funding. There’s no catch.

usdigitalresponse.org

Reach out to us with requests for government support, volunteer sign-ups, funding proposals, media inquiries, and more.

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Anyone still using Swarm? The latest update makes me think the only people using it are in their 40s & 50s. 👀 🤣 (bigger fonts for old eyes)

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Nvidia’s market cap passed 4 TRILLION. Someone tell me why we need companies worth trillions of dollars. Similar to billionaires…..I think the answer is: We don’t.

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

“This will be one of Elon Musk’s legacies, and the most consequential one for human life. A man who talks about saving our species condemned millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.”— @donmoyn.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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The Death of US AID

The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

We’re putting on a conference! Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025 civic-spark.com Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside. Help change that. 🧵

Civic Spark
August 16-17, 2025
Toronto
civic-spark.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/06/2025

If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. government created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. — @djrothkopf.bsky.social

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WIRED @wired.com · 15/06/2025

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. It's already happening. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…

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Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

When the public sees a US Senator tackled and cuffed at a press briefing, of course this shit is going to happen. 😭 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Live Updates: Man Impersonating Officer Kills Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband

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