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@wuputah.com
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man + dog + computer; manager, engineer; pilot, cyclist, skier, world traveler, "The Matrix" superfan; alum of YCombinator, Heroku, RPI. github.com/wuputah

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JD @wuputah.com · 25/09/2026
Feckless Fetterman.
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JD @wuputah.com · 17/09/2026
Always remember the shareholders.
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JD @wuputah.com · 11/09/2026
Repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). #NeverForget
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JD @wuputah.com · 07/09/2026
Your daily reminder that the US health care system is a scam. Over 90% of this lab bill was "adjusted" away without the health insurance company paying a cent, and then they won't even cover the re bymaining $21. And I'm on the best plan healthcare.gov offers, almost $1000/mo in premium.
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JD @wuputah.com · 25/08/2026
I found Scott Bessent after using his hammer.
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Hammer Spongebob
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JD @wuputah.com · 07/08/2026
"Best economy ever." For grifters and investors, maybe? We can tell which graphs POTUS looks at, and which graphs Americans feel the most.
Monthly job growth declining over the last 4.5 years. Most recent month shows -23k job growth.5 year graph, showing S&P 500 hitting new all-time highs.Cost of living has increased by 23% in 5 years. 5-year graph of Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same
a simple Google line chart titled "What The Fuck Is Going On" that shows growth in What The Fuck from 2021 to 2026, with a significant increase in 2024 to 2026

x-axis is Year
y-axis is What The Fuck

the values are:

Year        What The Fuck
2021	11
2022	8
2023	17
2024	19
2025	42
2026	84
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JD @wuputah.com · 27/07/2026
SWE problems caused by AI I don't see talked about: 1) The sense of accomplishment is diminished. "AI wrote it" and thus I didn't. 2) No clear way to know if what I'm doing is "enough." Am I too slow? Or even too fast? No innate human limit on shipping. 1/2
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JD @wuputah.com · 24/07/2026
Is This Fascism? 🫴🦋 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/is-this-fa... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-22-2026
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July 22, 2026
“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I cannot resist observing that the Trump crowd have launched major American military action to retaliate for Iranian military action that did not target Americans. There is no plausible claim of self-defense, and both houses of Congress have expressly disapproved military action.
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JD @wuputah.com · 22/06/2026
The problem with American health care and the "cost of living" crisis in a screenshot. This is a $650/month "silver"-level ACA plan, which most Americans cannot afford to begin with. If anything goes wrong, or heaven forbid the missus gets pregnant, you are dipping into savings… you don't have.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The Minneapolis 15 ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up | Will Bunch
An outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
24 years is a very long time to have accomplished as little in the Senate as John Cornyn did. He was always a loyal Republican soldier, a backbench Congressman with a nicer office and larger staff. Texas Republicans wanted financial scandal and moral depravity instead. By @sahilkapur.bsky.social
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JD @wuputah.com · 27/05/2026
Cornyn didn't do Texas many favors, he wasn't loud nor MAGA enough for Texas. His loss is no surprise. It's a wild idea, but it would be nice to send impeached politicians to jail (or at least retirement) rather than to Washington.
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Sarah Iannarone @sarahiannarone.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Same as it ever was.
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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
A screenshot with a block of text:

Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965.
Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
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JD @wuputah.com · 20/03/2026
The correct time for Tesla's FSD project to have adopted LIDAR was years ago or anytime before now, but the next best time would be today.
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JD @wuputah.com · 14/03/2026
A very stable genius would know the difference between incursion and excursion.
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JD @wuputah.com · 11/03/2026
Tired of all the winning.
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JD @wuputah.com · 10/03/2026
presidential pro tip: when bringing forth the evangelical christian apocalypse, you don't need a plan for the future.
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JD @wuputah.com · 09/03/2026
Prediction: Trump wasn't kidding when he said he would be hitting Iran even harder. Expect the largest bombing campaign since Vietnam.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.
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JD @wuputah.com · 09/03/2026
🎯 (Written in 1998)

“I have also read that the Pox was caused by accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crises. It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas. We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
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JD @wuputah.com · 08/03/2026
Happy semiannual reminder of the arbitrary nature of human time measurement to all who celebrate. 🥳
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JD @wuputah.com · 06/03/2026
I'm so tired of winning! "jobless expansion"… "no job growth in 2025"… "we're not creating jobs"… "we've been in this for over a year now" Unemployment has continued to tick up. Oil has gone from ~$55-60/bbl to ~$90/bbl. This will raise prices of *everything* = inflation risk.
src: cnbc.comsrc: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/06/february-jobs-unemployment/src: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/06/february-jobs-unemployment/
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JD @wuputah.com · 05/03/2026
Fired by swamp-skeet or whatever we call these. Also, shield of the what you say? nationalinterest.org/feature/the-...
nationalinterest.org
The “Shield of the Americas” Summit and Donald Trump’s Latin America Strategy
The US cannot sustain its influence in the Western Hemisphere through only multilateral bodies that the Trump administration chooses to engage with.
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JD @wuputah.com · 05/03/2026
BREAKING: Trump focuses on affordability by raising oil prices by 45%
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JD @wuputah.com · 05/03/2026
Dow's not above 50,000… so we can protest now?
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fearformz 👻 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @freeformz.me · 03/03/2026
“Cool”
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JD @wuputah.com · 01/03/2026
Bored of Peace
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JD @wuputah.com · 01/03/2026
We have not forgotten ICE murdering and overreach, the Epstein files, elimination of health care subsidies, defunding of SNAP, nor the attack on democracy that is being attempted by the SAVE act.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/03/2026
it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now
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Remember who we are fighting for!
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JD @wuputah.com · 28/02/2026
No AUMF. #ImpeachTrump
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Does 200 lines of Python code *understand anything*?" this by @rusty.todayintabs.com is a must-read
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A.I. Isn't People
How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?
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JD @wuputah.com · 23/02/2026
Someone is going to have to touch it eventually.
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JD @wuputah.com · 22/02/2026
Not to mention the extra work, travelers are going to be extra cranky. This helps TSA agents do their jobs... how? Saves money... how? #ImpeachNoem
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
You know this is a completely deliberate choice that is not required, because there was JUST another shutdown and they didn’t do it then. Anyway, not good that the admin is deliberately making air travel more annoying to try to win a political fight. Lot of people will miss flights.
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JD @wuputah.com · 20/02/2026
War is peace.
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JD @wuputah.com · 18/02/2026
Trump suing his own administration for billions only demonstrates he is an unsuccessful cash-poor businessman and has only been able to make money recently by running the most corrupt administration in American history.
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JD @wuputah.com · 12/02/2026
FAA and ATC are fully funded. DHS funding affects TSA and passport control agents (CBP).
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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JD @wuputah.com · 06/02/2026
Where's the 698% savings??
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JD @wuputah.com · 30/01/2026
ICE goons are the domestic terrorists. Literally.
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JD @wuputah.com · 28/01/2026
We were always at war with *checks notes* Disputed Territory
A map of the world according to 1984. Iran is shown as part of the "Disputed Territory".
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/01/2026
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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JD @wuputah.com · 23/01/2026
The 1984 project. "Who controls the present, controls the past." www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books...
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