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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16h

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 5h

That quote is going to appear in the lawsuit and also the ruling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 5h

That team did signal work.

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 5h

“Look what you made me do.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 6h

Two years ago, Republicans defunded the DOL Office of UI Modernization, which was building shared software infrastructure for state labor agencies. And now Republicans’ brilliant idea is to start that work over again…but in a way that centralizes the data on DOGE servers? Aw, hell no.

Michele Evermore @micheleevermore.bsky.social · 12h

What's different than what has been explored before? “When DOGE is tweeting about UI data, that’s not good stewardship of [personally identifiable information],” Evermore said.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Labor Department looks to pilot intaking unemployment claims for states

The effort follows the department’s notice that it may create a national claims database, a move critics say raises cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance risks.

www.nextgov.com

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 6h

If your grandfather was saying this you’d be looking into long-term care options.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11h

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11h

Let’s fucking goooooo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

I love hearing that agencies employ developers. I love when agencies want those developers to support the work of vendor scrum teams. But it’s crucial to position that support correctly to avoid accidental self-sabotage.

~fin~

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

Agency developers can also work in parallel with the vendor team, building or improving supporting infrastructure or related infrastructure, applying the knowledge learned by the vendor team as they conduct user research. Whatever they do, they need to leave the vendor team to work in their own way.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

So what can those agency developers do? Well, one of them can act as the technical lead for the agency, working under the government product owner to ensure that the code delivered by the vendor on a sprintly basis is in compliance with the quality standards laid out in the contract.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

Your agency’s devs are on the customer side of the fence, putting the vendor team in an uncomfortable position if they disagree with a decision made by your devs. If the agency CO thinks the vendor is not in compliance with the contract, and the agency’s devs are involved, you’ve got a mess.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

The vendor team is a cohesive unit, working under a single organizational structure, under a single manager, under a shared HR system, using common tools, norms, and practices. Your agency’s developers are part of *none* of that.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

Agencies sometimes tell me that they employ some software developers and that they intend to assign those developers to supplement the labor of the vendor team that they have hired for an Agile software development project.

This is a terrible idea. Please don’t do this.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

Blog entry: Why government agencies should not try to have agency developers "help" a vendor team's developers.

No, your agency’s developers cannot “help” your vendor’s devs.

The vendor team is a cohesive unit, working under a single organizational structure, under a single manager, under a shared HR system, using common tools, norms, and practices. Your agency's developer...

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14h

This is, improbably, what the gyroscope looks like in an iPhone (as of the iPhone 4). It's the same width as about a half-dozen human hairs. This is what allows your phone to know how you're moving it in space as you play a game or something. www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPh...

An image of a chip that looks more like pixel art. It's entirely cold and yellow colors, and it looks like an overhead diagram of the center of some ancient capital city. A scale indicates 200 millionths of a meter, and the main rectangular shape appears to be about 3x as wide as that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 16h

Black families tend to have strong preferences against nursing homes, usually driven by concerns of inadequate care. Seeing that Black nursing home patients have significantly worse outcomes, and that they are driven by *within-nursing home* differences in care, confirms this suspicion.

NBER @nber.org · 17h

Nursing home value-added for black patients is 30 percent lower than for white patients, with most of the gap reflecting differences within, rather than across, nursing homes, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and James C. Okun www.nber.org/papers/w34324

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18h

Arc de Trumph

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

"We should give up control over our IP to anybody at all to do anything they want with" is an extremely unlikely rallying cry.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

Wow, I do not believe this claim for a *moment*.