Robb Hudson (he/him)
@robbhudson.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Orlando, Floridian by birth, DC resident by choice Energy Economist & Structured Data advocate (he/him)
Did you know that the longest solo filibuster in U.S. Senate history was by Senator Strom Thurmond, clocking in at 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957? He was trying to block the Civil Rights Act—a move as outdated as his views.
April 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Did you know that the longest solo filibuster in U.S. Senate history was by Senator Strom Thurmond, clocking in at 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957? He was trying to block the Civil Rights Act—a move as outdated as his views.
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He’s basicially Igor www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...
Meet Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE
Steve Davis, a longtime Musk loyalist, is effectively the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Musk has likened him to chemotherapy.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
He’s basicially Igor www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...
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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
nymag.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.
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Federal workers, we recognize that this is an unpredictable time.
Our team is actively pairing your tips with reporters on this list and across our newsroom to make sure you're speaking to someone with the right expertise. How to get in touch:
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What ProPublica’s Reporters Will Be Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them
From Trump’s relationships with billionaires to immigration, here are some of the issues and topics our reporters will be keeping an eye on as his second presidency begins.
propub.li
February 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Federal workers, we recognize that this is an unpredictable time.
Our team is actively pairing your tips with reporters on this list and across our newsroom to make sure you're speaking to someone with the right expertise. How to get in touch:
Our team is actively pairing your tips with reporters on this list and across our newsroom to make sure you're speaking to someone with the right expertise. How to get in touch:
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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
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State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE.
DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.
DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.
February 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE.
DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.
DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.
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I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...
The destruction of politics is coming for the economy
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
What fresh hell will tomorrow bring?
February 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
What fresh hell will tomorrow bring?
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Wait wait wait also they've added "accessibility" to DEI now as a thing that is banned? To what extent does the screenshot amount to flat-out ordering grantees to violate the ADA??
NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility.
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
January 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Wait wait wait also they've added "accessibility" to DEI now as a thing that is banned? To what extent does the screenshot amount to flat-out ordering grantees to violate the ADA??
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Everyone spare a thought for your local “DC friend” who is being absolutely firehosed with insane questions under the assumption they have magical inside information. It’s a frankly insane amount of unpaid emotional labor going on rn.
November 9, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Everyone spare a thought for your local “DC friend” who is being absolutely firehosed with insane questions under the assumption they have magical inside information. It’s a frankly insane amount of unpaid emotional labor going on rn.
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Also, please, please, please turn on alt text as a default in accessibility settings to demonstrate inclusive posting. We have had a terrible time getting people to make their images accessible to low visibility and disabled users.
November 11, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Also, please, please, please turn on alt text as a default in accessibility settings to demonstrate inclusive posting. We have had a terrible time getting people to make their images accessible to low visibility and disabled users.
Took the day off because. Well, because.
Heading to my folks tomorrow, hopefully that will bring me out of this funk I've been in for a week.
Heading to my folks tomorrow, hopefully that will bring me out of this funk I've been in for a week.
November 12, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Took the day off because. Well, because.
Heading to my folks tomorrow, hopefully that will bring me out of this funk I've been in for a week.
Heading to my folks tomorrow, hopefully that will bring me out of this funk I've been in for a week.
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Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
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Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.
Hard to describe as a journalist how grateful I am to have a text-based app that does not suppress hyperlinks. I don’t know if people realize exactly how hostile the corporate internet has gotten toward news.
November 12, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.
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I'd love to be able to share a feed on 16th century sheep herding techniques! ☺️🐑🐏
November 12, 2024 at 11:18 AM
I'd love to be able to share a feed on 16th century sheep herding techniques! ☺️🐑🐏
If you begin with “no disrespect”, everyone is expecting some disrespect. You better deliver.
October 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
If you begin with “no disrespect”, everyone is expecting some disrespect. You better deliver.
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‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President
‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President
Throughout its venerable 268-year reign, The Onion has always made it a top priority to endorse the correct presidential candidates. From George Washington to Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this insti...
theonion.com
October 25, 2024 at 6:45 PM
‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President
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October 25, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Why is every newsletter in DC reporting on Love is Blind, like it is newsworthy every day? It isn’t. Please stop.
October 23, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Why is every newsletter in DC reporting on Love is Blind, like it is newsworthy every day? It isn’t. Please stop.
This election cycle, AI-generated images have proliferated on social media platforms after politically charged news events. They often spread partisan narratives rather than facts.
AI-generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season
This election cycle, AI-generated images have proliferated on social media platforms after politically charged news events. They often spread partisan narratives rather than facts.
www.npr.org
October 19, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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This election cycle, AI-generated images have proliferated on social media platforms after politically charged news events. They often spread partisan narratives rather than facts.
AI-generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season
This election cycle, AI-generated images have proliferated on social media platforms after politically charged news events. They often spread partisan narratives rather than facts.
www.npr.org
October 18, 2024 at 9:29 PM
This election cycle, AI-generated images have proliferated on social media platforms after politically charged news events. They often spread partisan narratives rather than facts.
I still can’t figure this place out. I don’t know who to follow. Is there anyone here?
Hello?
Hello?
October 12, 2023 at 2:30 AM
I still can’t figure this place out. I don’t know who to follow. Is there anyone here?
Hello?
Hello?