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Jennifer Gardner
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Design and tech for better government. Washington, DC.
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It’s important to see Trump’s occupation of Washington, D.C., as a trial run for a possible military occupation of the United States.

Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trial-run
The trial run
Trump’s occupation of Washington, D.C.
robertreich.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I am done slightly diminishing bands. We must increase bands.

Dimeback
i am done slightly diminishing bands. we must increase bands.

Grand Larceny Williams
i am done slightly diminishing bands. we must increase bands.

LINKIN NATIONAL PARK
August 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
slightly diminish a band

Moderate Attack
slightly diminish a band

the velour underground
Slightly diminish a band: REN
August 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
“Other cities are hopefully watching…And if they don't learn their lesson, if they haven't studied us properly, because we're going to be very successful…I'm going to look at New York…we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster…hopefully, LA is watching…the city is burning.”
Trump is reportedly planning a military "rapid reaction" force to police civil unrest. That's dangerous, Brennan Center's Joseph Nunn says: “You don’t want to normalize routine military participation in law enforcement."
Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest
Documents reviewed by The Post detail a prospective National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready around-the-clock.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Reposted by Jennifer Gardner
In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.

(Published April)
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Meryl Streep taught me how to use the espresso machine at the photo studio (“I have one just like this!”) where I was staffing a weekend shoot over the holidays. The portafilter (just learned this word) blew off and I pushed her out of the way, hollering, “Miss Streeeeep!”
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM