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John Crowley

@jcrowley.bsky.social
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Humanitarian, technologist, musician, historian. Proud Harvard Kennedy School grad.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If what Trump said were true, capitalism would fall apart. The act of purchasing the bananas (as an asset) would convert them to zero value. They would not be a product that an importer could sell to retailers AND they would have zero nutritional value to consumers.
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Historically, the strategy of appeasement has (checks notes)... oh.
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Bab @bab102.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Federal websites must provide a trusted way to access official data and information. If the US government is moving fully to AI for design and content, that trust must now be questioned.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026
Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.
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GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer
The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
People need to go to jail for this. Full stop.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/09/2026
omg someone just sent me this
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Is the Kennedy Center site wanted for a permanent Cagematch Colosseum or a large outdoor parade ground with braziers and eagles?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is both what you should probably expect if your fellow countrymen repeatedly empower an iconoclastic authoritarian movement and in and of itself, of course, completely bugfuck insane. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As a humanitarian, I deal the consequences of underfunded health systems, well-funded armed groups, economic collapses, persecuted refugees, and climate-driven famines and fires. I see pestilence, war, poverty, injustice, and famine. It is time to pay attention to who rides these five horses...
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Greer either has no idea how interdependent our nation's energy and auto industries are, or he is mistepresenting the situation.
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
As I put together a playlist for That Day, I realized that the US is going to have a serious supply chain problem the week after the celebrations in the streets. Millions of car speakers will be destroyed from playing dance music at volume setting 11.
Volume potentiometers/knobs from the movie "Spinal Tap" that go to 11.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ZERO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Big fan of red line go up, not so crazy about blue line stay flat.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"We're gonna do a command economy without any data and instesd rely on the volk's lived experience" continues to be an incredible bit
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Epic poems like the Odyssey changed with each story teller. Even after it was written down, each era made it relevant to the current context. Today, we remake so that it speaks to us now. Not that someone who owns Grok would understand that each retelling is customised to each audience...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/07/2026
El Niño continues to grow, with sea surface temperatures clearly at record high levels for the time of year... 📈 Sign up for our next monthly briefing to learn more, including Q/A: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also have an update on 2026's U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far.
Line graph time series of daily Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently a record high for this time of year. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central.
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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
By the Burning River Brigade in NE Ohio
A sign installation on a highway overpass that says "someday a mortician gets to superglue his lips shut."
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have already met some number of people who are basically a front-end to an LLM
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
While busy with disaster response operations, I made the mistake of staring at today's SCOTUS decisions. I am now firmly moved to support Court reforms that save our country from a quest to institute a monarch. G. Washington would be appalled on all this landing on our 250th anniversary week.
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Tacit knowledge--the practical know-how that humans learn only through experience--is illegible to AI. There is no good way to write it down. One has to learn it. It appears that Ford management wanted to ignore the value of practical knowledge to save money. Predictably, it backfired.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🤖🫧💥 www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...
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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
There is apparently a Maquette on the Mall. @musicologyduck.bsky.social walked to the National Mall and found that The Arch has gone full Spinal Tap. If we were in 19th-century Bohemian Paris, students would parade the maquette through the streets, to the consternation of the Bourgeoisie.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
CHAT I AM SCREAMING
Triumphal arch that looks like it’s made of plywood and is barely taller than the fence it’s behind.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you’re enjoying the Trump Administration’s energetic efforts to bring back - measles - whooping cough - screwworm flesh-eating maggots - and to give whole Air Force units the flu... then you’ll be super excited to see what they now have in mind for HIV/AIDS: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/h...
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New Plan Scales Back C.D.C.’s Work on Diseases Abroad
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Netty Bo Betty @jnetty.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This morning they’re pouring jugs of hydrogen peroxide to kill the algae and the wildlife in the reflecting pool.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
IFRC'S BRUNO MICHON IN CONGO: AFRAID IT COULD TAKE A YEAR TO END EBOLA OUTBREAK
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
taps the sign
a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Again and again, Russia kills the people and destroys the cultural sites it says it went to war to protect. These crimes will end when the US supplies missile defense to Ukraine and enforces sanctions on Russian energy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Kyiv monastery set on fire in night of Russian attacks across Ukraine
Dormition Cathedral at Unesco world heritage site struck along with residential buildings across capital
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BREAKING: New from Haberman and Swan: Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.
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Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The current US administration seems as if plutocrats mistakenly thought they were buying anti-regulatory kleptocrats, but have since discovered that they actually paid for kakistocrats who are so jealous of the oligarchs' wealth that they are building an autocratic kleptocracy, only incompetently.
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At the Kennedy School, negotiation was one of the most difficult classes to get into. It was where we studied how treaties like START came into being. Future students are not going to study the 2026 Iran agreements, unless they want to see incompetence in action. Will this 40th cease fire last 1wk?
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Sharp thinking by the world’s most brilliant baby boys to create the biggest billboard projection opportunity in D.C. with the Kennedy Center tarp.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/06/2026
NEW: officials inform the court that Trump’s name has been removed from the Kennedy Center.
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thank you to everyone who bore witness to last night's events at the Kennedy Center! There will come a day when music will ring from that plaza, both in joy and sorrow. @repbeatty.bsky.social @musicologyduck.bsky.social @chrisgeidner.bsky.social @msnowevents.bsky.social
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Stephen C. Smith @wordsmithfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
#Politics #Trump Kyle Cheney of #Politico on X says the #KennedyCenter has certified to the judge that Trump's name has been removed.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/06/2026
as someone who knows a bit about IHL, while Ukraine is right about this, I also will professionally state that I hate that they’re right about this
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Washington National Opera, which recently severed its longstanding relationship with The Kennedy Center, has filed a lawsuit that demands more than $17 million from the center that the opera company estimates it's owed.
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Opera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
When I first shifted from cello to research, I worked at the Watergate. So the Kennedy Center was a daily reminder of my connection to the arts. Seeing the removal of Trump's narcissistic graffiti has deep meaning to me, curtain be damned.
Worker removes letters from Kennedy Center, Pete Kiehart, NYTimes.
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Dick Mac (alive!) @dickmac999.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Estimates are in that more Americans watched the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center than watched the USA v. Paraguay World Cup match. #KennedyCenter #WorldCup #USAPAR
Worker removing Trumps name from Kennedy Center.
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Stephen C. Smith @wordsmithfl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
#Politics #Trump Overnight from AP: Workers started to remove Trump's name from the #KennedyCenter but left around 3:30 AM EDT. They placed tarps around the scaffolding so the public can't see, but a photographer found a gap and got a picture of a letter being removed. apnews.com/article/trum...
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This crew is going to take at least 2-3 more hours to enclose that structure, before they even prep for letter removal. It might even be a second crew with expertise in marble that replaces the scaffold crew. This will still be going at dawn.
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John Crowley @jcrowley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The next tarp is going up. As slowly as possible.
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