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Jamie Klenetsky Fay ❌️👑

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Composer, singer, content designer, accessibility specialist. Federal contractor, former civil servant. Civil service strong. Survival is insufficient!

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 11h
The Associated Press in August identified at least 50 cases in which close family of active-duty service members were arrested by ICE. What’s different about Perez’s case is that U.S. military personnel appeared to be working with ICE to identify a potential target and use a long-standing military-recruitment tool—the promise of legal status for loved ones—to facilitate an arrest.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Updated this piece on the difference between civic tech and DOGE to reflect new reporting on how DOGErs are monetizing their connections to Silicon Valley. This is the worst example: the DOGErs who blocked USAID life-saving aid have a $1.4B defense startup. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
Let me give just one example. DOGErs Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger were DOGErs. Farritor had a tech background, but failed an interview to be hired by the US Digital Service. They quickly amassed extraordinary power despite a lack of government experience. They also chose to kill people. I’m not exaggerating. The Washington Post reports that Farritor and Kliger overrode orders to keep life-saving aid from USAID flowing. They literally flipped the switches in a kill chain.

Several times, USAID managers prepared packages of these payments and got the agency’s interim leaders to sign off on them with support from the White House. But each time, using their new gatekeeping powers and clearly acting on orders from Musk or one of his lieutenants, Farritor and Kliger would veto the payments — a process that required them to manually check boxes in the payment system one at a time, the same tedious way you probably pay your bills online.

So what are they doing now? Making money. Kliger was chief data officer of DOD and is joining the wave of tech firms moving into the defense business, where a willingness to build kill chains is a plus, not a minus. From the Washington Post, which detailed a wave of DOGE-based start-ups:

The start-ups include a host of firms focused on cybersecurity and defense technology, as well as ventures dedicated to helping businesses across America deploy artificial intelligence tools. Among the largest is Cathedral, an AI-enabled cybersecurity firm, founded by Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor. Valued by investors at $1.4 billion, Cathedral aims to sell to both corporate America and government agencies, including the Pentagon, according to a person familiar with the business, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the firm has not made its operations public.
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J-Roc @jrocthegod.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have been laughing for like the last 20 minutes at the Giants/Commanders ending
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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Watching the end of the Giants-Commanders game
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I Love Mess
Alt: I Love Mess
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ctrl+alt+RESIST @ctrlaltresist.com · 10/10/2026
The spectacle IS the policy. Make executions look routine and the outrage dies before it starts. Trump doesn't want you horrified. He wants you bored. Bored people don't march.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Crowds of protesters outer 26 Federal Plaza where ICE has its main offices now.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This either offends you at a gut level or it doesn’t.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026
Your life saving clinical trail could be TERMINATED by the Trump administration. We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. It's time to talk about it and what you can do to stop this. 🧵 🧪
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So as a practical matter, Congress must delegate. But Trump/Vought want to be able to determine the final decisions, to reduce spending (contrary to the law), and pursue ideological control and petty revenge missions. That is what "the president's priorities" is a euphemism for.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18/09/2026
The USWDS documentation site is now preserved here, thanks to the amazing work of @suddenlygreg.com uswds.18f.org
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USWDS: The United States Web Design System
USWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18/09/2026
I blogged about the USWDS situation. matthenry.fyi/posts/long-l...
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Mischief & Craft - Home
A blog about front-end web development and whatever else I feel like writing about
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Dave Luetger @dlootz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good government websites exist and it could have just kept getting better but the worst people in the world are taking that away from you
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The logical endpoint of "do more with less" is that you can do everything with no-one. It's nonsense.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was a beloved Washington institution, enjoyed by millions of people. It has been destroyed for no real reason. Just vanity, carelessness, indifference. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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Steve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
🤑 I suspect many of the new (and not so new) #accessibility testing suites/tools/platforms being offered for 💰are built/use #AI #LLM's based on open source tooling. The thing to remember is you or your organization can use LLM's to build automated tools, no need to fork out cash to vendors...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2026
One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.
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b lyin @hexcavator.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
on sept 11 2001 i watched the pentagon burn through my dorm window, then half my floormates turn into little frothing islamophobes over the next few hours. i stenciled FIGHT WAR NOT WARS on construction paper & it was removed by the police; i was told black text on white paper was “threatening”
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Climate scientist here. 👋 We are NOT fucked. BUT we are behind where we should be. The good news is that we have the solutions we need to stop climate change. We just need to get busy deploying them! And here’s the proof. Almost 120 solutions, with more coming. drawdown.org/explorer
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Drawdown Explorer™
We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Something to cling to and promote the hell out of: leveraging POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The 40-hour work week. The weekend itself. Lifesaving safety standards. Organized labor has changed our country for the better. This Labor Day, we recognize the achievements of our unions and the workers who make the American way of life possible.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! We’re out in Nashville to remind everyone that Starbucks has become the poster child for corporate greed. If you support workers, it’s time to BOYCOTT STARBUCKS until they stop stonewalling the over 12,000 union baristas fighting for a fair contract!
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Jamie Klenetsky Fay ❌️👑 @jamieklenetsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
so proud to have been a part of this, so grateful to be a union member again this Labor Day! ✊️
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I talked to @donmoyn.bsky.social about the state of the government for my newsletter "It's sort of like if you had a car and you took out 10 percent of the parts of the car. It's not that the car is going to be 10 percent slower. The car is not going to work."
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The federal government is falling apart
Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.
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Jamie Klenetsky Fay ❌️👑 @jamieklenetsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
glad to be of service 🫡 🤣 but really, SpotCheck is a wonderful product and I've already used it in my work!
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop. Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community. Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered. Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is a key point about self-driving cars and disability. If you are completely reconfiguring the car this offers opportunities to think about space differently, and there are some models for how to do so. But the cybercab is just a sports car without a steering wheel. bsky.app/profile/myst...
Black cab with a wheelchair ramp that allows someone to wheel their chair directly into the vehicleinterior of the cybercar: two front seats, big screen, no space for much else
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The White House website now has an "arcade" page in which people can play Tetris re-skinned to "protect the border from the coming horde" of immigrants, Snake where you play as Immigration and Customs Enforcement kidnapping undocumented people, and an egregious ripoff of Flappy Bird."
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The billionaires and neo-Nazis who make up MAGA are opposed to popular control of the government because their beliefs are deeply unpopular with the American people.
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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
⚓️ New Article: It's embarrassing
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It's embarrassing
I made another unhoused friend today. Jon is a tattoo artist who suffered a chronic injury his thumb a year ago and can’t do his work anymore as a result. He only recently became homeless. He told me the same thing I’ve heard from so many unhoused folks I’ve talked to over the last year. It’s embarrassing. And I always tell them some version of the same thing.
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Kam @heartsapien.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A map of Lake Ontario, with the name changed to “Lake Fuck Google”
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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
reminder that nazis killed nazis, too
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're being dragged into a future we didn't ask for and don't want, and the response of the Westminster political class is a mixture of cowardice, indifference, and outright support for the Silicon Valley technofascists who want to steal our jobs and destroy our democracies.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 27/08/2026
I am begging websites to remember they are read by human beings, who possess at least some small amount of dignity: aftermath.site/video-game-mov...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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Luis Ferré-Sadurní @luisferre7.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: In New Jersey, ICE arrests more than doubled to 2,100+ in July, the highest since Trump returned to power. A look at one of the biggest raids, in Lakewood, where ICE arrested 18 people on a parking lot and inside a Mexican supermarket. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/n...
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‘They Opened the Door and Pulled Us Out’: How ICE Descended on a Town (Gift Article)
One summer morning, immigration agents swooped in and detained 18 immigrants at a store in Lakewood, N.J., plunging the town into fear.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Children worry their families can't afford food after Trump's SNAP cuts: In Delaware, an 11-year-old wondered why her family could no longer afford Cinnamon Toast Crunch. In New Jersey, four siblings wanted their mother to buy groceries — but she had to tell them she couldn't.
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‘Mom, are we OK?’ Children worry their families can’t afford food after Trump’s SNAP cuts
The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.
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Jamie Klenetsky Fay ❌️👑 @jamieklenetsky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
oh come ON
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Jamie Klenetsky Fay ❌️👑 @jamieklenetsky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
that's amazing!!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from me: what would a grand coalition for government reform look like post-Trump? It should include both people who care about democratic backsliding and state capacity. But right now these groups aren’t really talking to one another. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-could...
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What could a post-Trump governance coalition look like?
It should be being built now
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Again, “Are we a federal Union or not?” is really the most basic, foundational constitutional question there is. Reverse nullification. A constitutional order that cannot stop this immediately & punish those doing it cannot be said to actually exist anymore.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
MST3K is coming BACK!!! @mbyrd.bsky.social spoke with Mike Nelson, @billcorbett.bsky.social, and Kevin Murphy about reshaping the cultural canon, musical theater, and, yes, Florida Everglades monster movies. #MST3K
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Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy on How MST3K Changed the Way We Watch Bad Movies - Reactor
"We keep trying to meet a deadline, and we just have poor judgment. Sorry, dad."
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Artificial intelligence could help oil and gas companies spew as much as 13 times more climate pollution, per a new study — dwarfing the climate impacts of data center energy use. heated.world/p/ais-climat... via @emorwee.bsky.social
heated.world
AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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