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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 1d

Whose heritage did they think they were promoting?? It was White Heritage all along.

Heritage is having the "are we the baddies?" discussion today (answer: yes, they are)

www.rawstory.com/heritage-fou...

Right-wing think tank staff revolt as boss defends interview with neo-Nazi

Several staff members of the Heritage Foundation took to X today to protest their own boss's defense of a recent softball interview by Tucker Carlson with avowed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.Kevin Roberts, p...

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 6d

I feel like the least you could do here is note that the first part is an obvious lie.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 8d

Soldiers that are paid by private entities are called mercenaries.

Just saying.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 9d

I was wrong on this. SNAP and some other entitlement programs rely on annual appropriations even though they are considered mandatory spending because the authorization is written as an entitlement, I guess.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 9d

I finally found a good reference on SNAP appropriation: www.cbpp.org/research/foo.... You were right that it relies on an annual appropriation.

Protecting SNAP and Child Nutrition From Appropriations Lapses

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the child nutrition programs (school lunch, school breakfast, summer meals, etc.) are the only major entitlement programs whose beneficiaries.....

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 10d

Is that normally the case though? If there had been a Farm Bill would SNAP now depend on appropriations?

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 10d

Normally SNAP comes out of multi-year mandatory spending and wouldn't be subject to an appropriations lapse, but SNAP itself expired on Sept 30, also, by coincidence. At least that's the best I can make of what's happening.

So this is not actually caused by the shutdown, I guess?

Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday DSS informed states they won't be providing SNAP benefits on Nov 1 due to the shutdown
I spoke to a number of affected people
The abject panic is real
Young families, senior citizens
GOOD people

Make no mistake:
This is on Republicans
They MUST negotiate and end this shutdown
Now!

At least 25 states plan to cut off food aid benefits in November

The pause in benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would begin in states from California to Alabama just before the busy holiday season.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 11d

The White House demolition is being privately funded by Google, Lockheed, and others, according to The Hill.

If the President can just privately fund whatever government programs lack appropriations, that's another nail in the coffin of the Constitution.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12d

Covering all the bases!

David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 13d

Republican Leaders are simultaneously saying that the Jews funded No Kings rallies AND No Kings rallies were promoting antisemitic h/t @atrupar.com

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 14d

i am the guy at antifa hq who makes sure everyone has their 1099 in order before a big "protest"

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 14d

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 15d

Definitely wasn't meant to be a personal attack on you sorry!

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 15d

Christian white men are going to have to work a lot harder to convince me they don't actually talk like this. Because the evidence is piling on that that's actually how they are.

Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 16d

Torba is a piece of shit, but this idea that men talk like racist assholes by default and it’s somehow anti-masculine to criticize it is fucking untrue and men should push back against it. No, “male communication” is not racist and sexist and hateful when the conversation is being had by good men.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16d

No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 16d

I will be honest with you I don't know what Babydog is.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 16d

Zing.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 19d

I thought it was well said fwiw.

Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 26d

Bari Weiss, now leading CBS News, peddled the conspiracy theory that I personally - called out by name - shilled for the Harris campaign in how I ran GovTrack.

This shit is personal to me. The Right made it personal.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Oct 2

In “As a Jew” Sarah Hurwitz is on a search for blame. And I don't like where it leads. A book review.

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In “As a Jew” Hurwitz is on a search for blame

If you can relate to Sarah Hurwitz’s ambition, as I very much do, of wanting to connect deeper and more authentically to what it means to…

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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · Sep 21

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Sep 9

I could come around for this guy if he goes bigger and bans more AI.

bryan metzger @metzger.bsky.social · Sep 9

News: Sen. Josh Hawley wants to ban self-driving cars, is planning legislation on it soon.

“I think we ought to ban autonomous vehicles,” he told me, calling them “not safe” and saying it would be “terrible for working people” if they become the norm.

www.businessinsider.com/josh-hawley-...

Sen. Josh Hawley wants to ban driverless cars — and says he'll introduce a bill on it 'soon'

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri told BI that he wants to see driverless cars banned nationwide, and that he's introducing a bill on the topic soon.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Sep 9

What does it say about me that that's the only main character archetype that I like.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Sep 9

The only thing I was afraid of walking around downtown #DC today (as always) wasn't other people but being hit by a motor vehicle at one of those intersections where roads don't come in at right angles.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Sep 8

In terms of having consistent principles Paul is among the top. Why lead with team Vance's lie? Paul demonstrably doesn't have TDS. Just say the WH invented a lie about Paul in response. What interest is served by propagating the lie in the tweet?

Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Sep 6

Wish I could be there.

(I am currently scheming an online national civic tech conference for winter/spring. Get in touch if interested.)

Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · Sep 5

Were we go!!!

Citycamp.NYC is tomorrow. We have 280+ people registered for the first public interest tech / data / design unconference in 10 years.

We still have tickets to the after party!!!

donorbox.org/events/79431...

#nerdsassemble #citycamp #citycampnyc #pitech #civictech

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · Sep 6

There should be an ad hoc emergency conference of the states and Illinois should convene it. Not because it'd have any legal power, of course, but because there should be a united front in the form of a body able to speak with their combined voice, a coordinating committee if you prefer.

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · Sep 3

Which "Judeo" views is he talking about? The right to abortion? (No.) The importance of debate? (No.) Jews not going to hell? (No.) Education? (No.) Health? (No.) Welcoming guests and immigrants? (No.) Repairing the world? (No.) It's bullshit and orthodox jews fall for it every time.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Sep 3

OMB Director Russ Vought speaking at NatCon now.

Says US "has a religious heritage, that in which its civic life is based on — Judeo-Christian worldviews. And that, while we may give religious liberty to everyone, that there is an importance in a foundation and a structure to our system…"

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