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davidpham5
@davidpham5.bsky.social
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Self taught in many things. Slightly above average software engineer. Work for the local paper. Privacy and data protection is my racket. Studied history. Gen 1 American. 99.99.99hrs+ on FF7 on PS1. My new years' resolution is to eat more homemade carbs.
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davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Sep 25
We dream in the dark. Darkness everywhere we see. Blind to what is to come next. Fear and dread make our bed. Gentle heads slumber in the dead of night.

Do not wake me. I need to sleep deeply. I want to see what could be — dreams of democracy.
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Trump finally accepts ownership of the current economy.

In an interview with NBC, Trump says the U.S. is experiencing the Trump economy.

"I'd say we're there now," he says. "I'm very proud of it."

Trump is polling at near-historic lows because of his handling of the economy.
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
The Spook Who Sat By The Door, a novel by Sam Greenlee
February 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
David Remnick on the destruction of the WaPo: "I feel like someone forced to watch an arsonist torch the house he grew up in."
www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight
The dismantling of the Washington Post is a choice, not a necessity, and the blame lies with Jeff Bezos.
www.newyorker.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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chronotope.aramzs.xyz
aramzs.xyz/thoughts/cod...
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
This is a wonderful piece of reportage and data-illustration by @jacobbogage.bsky.social in battered WaPo.

-See @timothynoah.bsky.social's ongoing work on this theme, eg newrepublic.com/article/2042...

-Seeing our shrunken, barely-there print Sunday WaPo was poignant, artifact from "before."
February 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
NYT: Howard Lutnick, Trump's billionaire commerce secretary, interacted with Jeffrey Epstein regularly over at least 13 years while they lived next door to one another on Manhattan's Upper East Side, records released by the Justice Department show.
Files Detail Epstein’s Dealings With Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Good for them.

NBC's Olympics coverage this morning had recruiting ads from Bovino's CBP.
jimacosta.bsky.social Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 7h
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market.

Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.

A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.
How TrumpRx drug prices compare to generic alternatives
Patients could save more buying non-branded copycat drugs, even if they don't have insurance.
www.axios.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
MAGA saw a Black man become president and decided they’d rather burn it all down than let it ever happen again.

There was nothing racist about Obama, he was simply Black.

Meanwhile their guy posts videos of the Obamas as monkeys during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Hot startups being acquired by Big Tech isn’t new. The Instagram and YouTube acquisitions come to mind as hot startups that sold versus going solo.

What is new is that this is happening at the individual co-founder and employee level. Individuals are being headhunted like free agents in sports.
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley
Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.
www.wired.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
youtu.be/Yepnhe1T-9U?...
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet.
February 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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peterbakernyt.bsky.social
The Super Bowl in Silicon Valley "is tech billionaires who got picked last in gym class paying $50,000 to pretend they’re friends with the guys who got picked first in gym class." Ken Belson @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...
A Super Bowl in Silicon Valley Filled With Valley Billionaires
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
And btw

Trump carried this district by 13 points. (But this is not a flip; the seat was held by a Democrat.)
February 8, 2026 at 4:28 AM
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atrupar.com
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
February 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Whew, this new ending to the updated story
Early in his tenure, Mr. Lewis made personal overtures to The Post's journalists to inspire confidence in the future. On a summer night in August 2024, he met Josh Dawsey, then a political enterprise reporter for The Post, at the Four Seasons in Georgetown and pitched a new vision for The Post, according to two people familiar with the matter. Over several drinks, Mr. Lewis told Mr. Dawsey that he intended to be there for the long haul — at least seven years — and that he would outlast his critics, the people said. After the meeting, Mr. Dawsey told colleagues that he had offered to make introductions for Mr. Lewis to help him build relationships in newsroom. Mr. Dawsey never heard from Mr. Lewis again.
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
davidpham5.bsky.social
Reading @masnick.com resonate computing piece.

And thinking about those 300 journalists laid off at the Washington Post, what if journalists own their work in the form of Personal Data Store?

What if legacy news organizations adopted and really integrated at-protocol infrastructure?
ATproto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, which was inspired by my “Protocols, Not Platforms” paper. But this post isn’t about Bluesky the app. It’s about the underlyin…
www.techdirt.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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faithfalkner.com
Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔
9:02 a.m. Feb. 7 | Becca Good: 'Renee always showed up' Becca Good released a statement Saturday, one month after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis: "Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other. For that, I want to say thank you. Thank you to this incredible community for showing up again and again — organizing food and rides, making sure our kids get to school, checking in on neighbors, and standing together in the cold. I am so proud to call Minneapolis my home. Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last. You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine. They are neighbors, friends, coworkers, classmates. And we must also know their names. Because this shouldn’t happen to anyone. Renee always showed up — as a volunteer, a teacher, a mom, a friend — always helping out, making things a little better for others. Seeing the world now celebrate the parts of her that I’ve always known — the kindness, the humor, the warmth — reminds me of her spirit. Renee and I believed that if we lived every day in the world as we wanted it to be, we could build toward making that world a reality. So I am doing that every day — and every night, as I kiss my son at bedtime and tell him things are going to get better. “
February 8, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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courthousenews.bsky.social
News group sues ICE for raid footage www.courthousenews.com/news-group-s...
News group sues ICE for raid footage
The Center for Investigative Reporting says ICE hasn't responded to public records requests and is violating federal transparency law.
www.courthousenews.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says
Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tues...
www.reuters.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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katzish.bsky.social
If you’re not the kind of guy to stop by when we get Pulitzers, why would you show up just because Trump raids your reporter’s house
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23h
I still cannot get over this detail reported by the Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/5fa6...
Senior management at the Post were livid when they discovered that Lewis was attending festivities around the Super Bowl in San Francisco around the time of the news of the job cuts. It came off as “callous”, said a newsroom source, adding that “the Super Bowl thing was the last straw”. “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing”, the source added. Lewis was criticised in the newsroom last month for not offering words of public support after a reporter’s home was searched by FBI agents, which was seen as a further escalation of President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media. “We’re under siege from the FBI and the Pentagon and he just walled himself off,” the person said.  The sense that Lewis had lost the newsroom only increased on the day the job cuts were announced. “There was no communication from him about buyouts,” the person added. “He didn’t put out a statement. Senior editorial leadership was furious.”
February 8, 2026 at 1:55 AM
davidpham5.bsky.social
Looks like the posters worked

"Disgruntled Washington Post Union Members Pepper Publisher's Neighborhood With Grievance Posters"

dailycaller.com/2026/02/06/w...
Disgruntled Washington Post Union Members Pepper Publisher's Neighborhood With Grievance Posters
Angered members of The Washington Post's union hung up posters around publisher Will Lewis' neighborhood on Thursday in retaliation for the mass layoffs.
dailycaller.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM