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Alex Parker

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USA super fan and patriot. write.as/alexparker

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 07/09/2026
Ebola is ripping through the Democratic Republic of Congo in what may be the worst outbreak in history. But health workers on the frontline face not only disease and death, but violence, threats and the distrust of their own communities. Read the dispatch on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/yGZwM5D
Line chart comparing Ebola outbreaks by cases reported over time. The 2026 outbreak in DR Congo rises dramatically faster than previous outbreaks, exceeding 6,000 cases within 110 days, compared with fewer than 1,000 in West Africa in 2014 and roughly 350 in DR Congo in 2018.
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Blanche Neige, Esq. @blancheneigeesq90.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026
New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
this is very clear: if you claim christianity but don't follow the teachings of Jesus, you aren't a christian, you are a fraud and a heretic. if you claim to be an American, but don't follow the Constitution and you undermine democracy, you aren't a patriot, you are a fraud and a traitor.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/11/2025
Nerding out about the question of whether the client or the server should be the one who speaks to the PDS
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The politics of purely client-side apps
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
LOL foreign countries are “eating the tariffs” — by charging us more. 🤡 @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Wishing Charlie Kirk and Altrincham FC best of luck against Carlisle United! Go Alty! altrinchamfc.com
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Altrincham Football Club
The official website of Altrincham Football Club. Altrincham Football Club exists to inspire greatness and create lasting memories through football – one pass, one experience, and one fan at a time. Altrincham FC are members of the Vanarama National League.
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 07/08/2025
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
> @murray.senate.gov
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Bombing Iran is a great way to distract from how your administration is bombing elsewhere.
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
meta.ai has been in the news recently because of Mark Zuckerberg’s latest attempt to revive his organization’s AI efforts by poaching engineers. I decided to ask a few of the AIs about the ethics of such an approach. write.as/alexparker/c...
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Chats with AI: I ask meta.ai if Meta is being ethical?
meta.ai has been in the news recently because of Mark Zuckerberg’s latest attempt to revive his organization’s AI efforts by poaching eng...
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Ducky the Parakeet @birdbrain23.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Yup Joni Ernst made that clear as she walked through a cemetery saying you are going to die! Democrats want you to live and to be happy!
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/06/2025
A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
PAGING RFK Jr— “The assumption that children and teens recover completely from COVID has been shattered by mounting evidence that their developing respiratory systems are uniquely vulnerable to long-term damage.” rollingout.com/2025/06/03/l...
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Long COVID destroys teenage lungs in ways doctors never saw
Long COVID destroys teenage lungs in ways doctors never saw - silent damage persists months after mild infections in developing adolescents.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Brief explanation of some other authorities Trump might use to revive tariffs here. Most of these would take some time to implement and/or will be vulnerable to their own legal challenges, creating yet more uncertainty for businesses. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/t...
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It seems like SignalGate is not over. micahflee.com/ddosecrets-p...
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DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage's archive server
This morning, Distributed Denial of Secrets published 410 GB of data hacked from TeleMessage, the Israeli firm that makes modified versions of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat that centrally arc...
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Trying out @leaflet.pub It’s pretty cool! leaflet.pub/94a9c8b5-d9e...
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What a US Treasury Default Might Look Like
originally from: https://write.as/alexparker/what-a-us-treasury-default-might-look-like
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/05/2025
Breaking news: The UK and EU have agreed a historic post-Brexit reset of ties ahead of a summit in London on Monday, officials said www.ft.com/content/78f1...
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
RFK Jr and Statistics:
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Interesting take! US trading partners agreed to US IP rules to receive tariff free access to US markets. Now that tariffs have been reimposed, those countries should rescind those anticonsumer IP rules. on.ft.com/3GBYqT1 The digital countermove to Trump tariffs
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The digital countermove to Trump tariffs
America’s mid-air dismantling of the global system of trade represents a one-time chance to compete
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
Madeline helps get fresh produce to local food pantries in Skagit County. Trump & Elon cut federal funding that helps stock food banks with products from local farmers. Families go hungry, farmers lose out, and why? More tax cuts for billionaires, of course.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
Trump's tariffs are a massive tax that YOU will pay. That means higher prices and serious pain for families and small businesses across our country. Repost if you agree Republicans need to join Democrats and vote to END the chaos & REVERSE these reckless tariffs.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/04/2025
Have you wondered how much the US really has spent on Ukraine and where that has gone? Or what has Europe done? I break it down he on my YT channel (like and subscribe) in a new series called “DeCoded: politics, explained.” Take a look and share! youtu.be/ZROD0LjN3HU?...
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TRUMP LIED: The Truth About US Spending in Ukraine Revealed!
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 09/04/2025
Elon needs to answer to Congress.
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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
funny you should ask bsky.app/profile/unus...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 08/04/2025
Dollar swap lines is not exactly a super-sexy topic most of the time, but it is a hugely important one. And it can potentially become cataclysmically important, so we should probably start thinking through some of the consequences of the recent American regime change. 👇 www.ft.com/content/6761...
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Avoiding Kindleberger’s Trap
Why doubts over the Fed’s dollar swap lines are such a big deal
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Ok what’s going on here? Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down. Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset. Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it. Means the world may be abandoning America. We are flirting with a true crisis.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Read. Every. Word.
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Look, I like March madness too - but the point of college is to grow the knowledge base of the nation. Given that Trump is cutting federal funding for education - perhaps college sports need to go (or go pro?) slate.com/life/2025/04...
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There’s a Nuclear Option to Fight Trump’s War Against Colleges. You Aren’t Going to Like It.
Like watching NCAA basketball? What if you couldn’t, because schools went on strike?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/04/2025
Tell me again why we’re letting a 78 year old, legit smelly, odorous, frail, loser old man who bankrupted a CASINO bankrupt the country? Congress? Any answers?
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Today is Day One of humanity’s Idiolithic Era.
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Mijury @mijuryg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Biden created over 16 million jobs. He was the only president who never presided over job losses. From that to this! Unbelievable.
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Why does everyone think the Us doesn’t make stuff? We do. we make a lot of stuff. write.as/alexparker/i...
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Is it me, or does anyone else find the billionaire love for Curtis Yarvin to be weird and cringy write.as/alexparker/t...
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
An excellent long read about the development of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Force 14th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment, and how it plans and conducts integrated long-range range strike operations. Many lessons for western military organisations here! www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...
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They set targets deep inside Russia on fire: the untold story of the 14th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment
For the first time, Ukrainska Pravda tells in detail the story of how the 14th Regiment was born – out of the audacity of a few officers who stumbled upon a drone in a warehouse, the willingness of se...
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“That to live by one man’s will became the cause of all men’s misery.” Richard Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.” - Edmund Burke
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites. Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/03/2025
Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
www.tampabay.com/news/health/... “Any federal-government cuts to Medicaid could affect about 700,000 seniors in Florida now covered, including those in long-term care facilities, as well as those who may need skilled nursing or home health care in the future.”
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Medicaid cuts could devastate elderly in Florida nursing homes
What would happen if Florida no longer had the money to pay for senior care?
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Since World War II, America has been far and away the world’s most dominant power. In just 7 weeks of Trump, we’ve seen him do things that directly undermine that and give away American dominance to authoritarian nations.
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Great comment by @repauchincloss.bsky.social on his town hall: The biotech entrepreneurs in my district want a high bar at the FDA, they don’t want to see it turned into a GNC Vitamin Shop
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Alex Parker @l1l1l1l.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The President is our employee. If 300M of us owned a corner store, Trump would be the shop manager (Congress, the Board). Right now, Trump is screaming at every customer, vendor, and supplier, abusing employees … and the business is tanking. And this is Biden’s fault how?
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe. If Elon doesn't understand that, maybe he should leave it to those of us who do.
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Musk calls Sen. Kelly a 'traitor' over trip to Ukraine, Kelly hits back
Elon Musk called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly a "traitor" in a post on X after Kelly posted that he had visited Ukraine over the weekend.
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JaneHayes315 @janehayes315.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The plan is to kill the weakest of us first. How can anyone go along with this?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup
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Country Over Party 🌵 @mmc123.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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5 Key Facts about Medicaid Coverage for People with Disabilities | KFF
This brief considers options under consideration to cut Medicaid spending by $2.3 trillion over ten years and their potential impact on people with disabilities. Policy changes such as per capita caps...
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