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Parent, experienced software engineer, backend and android app developer, mostly Kotlin and Java dev. Enjoy biking, reading, and tech stuff. Reside in the St. Louis Metro Area.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I told you we’d be back
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic. “The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/05/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas — appointed by Donald Trump himself — has just ruled that Trump's controversial attempt to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations is unlawful.
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Trump-Appointed Judge Rules Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act Unlawful
Another loss in court for the Administration
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
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Claire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
wikipedia subsections: early life, attachment to anime character cutout, death
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The United States is Disappearing Human Beings. Disappeared People Tracker: 1402 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/04/2025
At least 19 states, all of whom with Democratic attorneys general, presented “undisputed evidence” they were not receiving FEMA funds already appropriated by Congress.
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The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order
It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Magnetic tapes are the closest things we have to "permanent modern digital records." Separately, there is no more cost efficient cold storage, so there's no way this is more efficient, whatever it is.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This should be etched on the DOGE letterhead
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If we didn’t laugh, we’d cry. @theonion.com
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Signal @signal.org · 25/03/2025
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate: “There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The moment in the movie where Lindsay Lohan realizes she swapped bodies with the FBI director
kash patel looking dumbfounded at a hearing
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
BREAKING: We obtained an email confirming the Trump admin is shutting down HHS's Office of Long Covid. RFK Jr. pledged in his confirmation hearing to support LC research, and prioritize tackling chronic diseases. 20m people have Long Covid and there's no cure. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump administration shuttering long Covid office
The move comes as part of the administration’s reorganization of HHS, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Proud of you, Chris – not an easy feat. Stories like yours are exactly why it meant a lot to pass the ACA.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is how law firms should do it.
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Keker, Van Nest & Peters @kekerllp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”
“Trump’s new Executive Order underscores how far removed this President, Attorney General and Administration are from our nation’s Constitution and bedrock values. Our liberties depend on lawyers’ willingness to represent unpopular people and causes, including in matters adverse to the Federal Government. An attack on lawyers who perform this work is inexcusable and despicable. Our profession owes every client zealous legal representation without fear of retribution, regardless of their political affiliation or ability to pay. We encourage law firm leaders to sign on to an amicus effort in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to the Administration’s executive order targeting the firm, and to resist the Administration’s erosion of the rule of law.” 
– John Keker, Robert Van Nest, Elliot Peters, Laurie Carr Mims, and the Keker, Van Nest & Peters Partnership
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in DenverZoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Following an emergency consultation with Indivisible leaders nationwide, Indivisible is calling on Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. indivisible.org/statements/i...
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Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025
X engineers clocking in this morning
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/03/2025
The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
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Firing workers from US weather and oceans agency risks lives and the economy, former agency heads warn
NOAA's 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Mayor Q @mayorq.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Kansas City is proud to have thousands of outstanding federal workers here. We’d be honored if you considered staying in public service if you’ve experienced a recent, sudden separation. Check opportunities at CivicMatch.org. Thank you for your service to our country.
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CIVIC MATCH — Work for America
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Urge people to listen to this to help see how Trump has no mandate and is more vulnerable by the day if Dems can shake their slumber and organize the anti-authoritarian majority.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
A line chart depicts data from 2017 to 2023. The line is labeled "Sepsis rate". The line starts at 2.9% in 2017 and hovers around 3% through 2021. The line spikes up in 2022 and 2023, where it ends at 4.9%. The years 2022 -2023 are labeled "Years abortion was banned."
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 18/02/2025
A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.
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Kansas City doesn't have enough jobs available for all the federal workers getting laid off
Federal workers in Kansas City whose jobs were eliminated under the Trump administration's massive budget cuts will have a hard time finding comparable work in the area. Instability in the city's work...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I organize online, but I show up in person. We can’t just throw hot takes out on social media. We have to call, write, testify, and march if we can. Show up and they’ll know the resistance is real.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/02/2025
Putting RFK Jr. in charge of the nation’s public health is a huge mistake. When dangerous diseases resurface and people can’t access lifesaving vaccines, all Americans will suffer — and RFK Jr.’s family could keep getting richer thanks to his serious conflicts of interest.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
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BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This says it all
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2025
🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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American Bar Association @americanbar.org · 10/02/2025
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/02/2025
If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more. thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...
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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA) - Public Service Alliance
Today, we’re announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening America by supporting the people who serve it.  PSA is founded on a simple yet profound...
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Joe HC @hxcprogrammer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/02/2025
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
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