David Bergman
@dmbergman.bsky.social
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With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
www.propublica.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
(Published 2019)
(Published 2019)
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This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”
April 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”
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Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
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March 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop
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I am an empathetic person, or I try to be. I cannot get myself anywhere near the headspace of someone that would make that phone call.
NEW from @davidgilbert.bsky.social: "According to a Federal Communications Commission response to a FOIA request from WIRED, the single biggest source of anger was not about the performance itself. It was that there were not enough white people on stage."
www.wired.com/story/super-...
www.wired.com/story/super-...
Super Bowl Halftime Show Complaints Focused on Lack of DEI for White People
The FCC received 125 complaints about Kendrick Lamar’s concert, according to public records obtained by WIRED, with many focusing on the lack of white performers.
www.wired.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I am an empathetic person, or I try to be. I cannot get myself anywhere near the headspace of someone that would make that phone call.
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The thing I admire most about Jeffery Goldberg right now is that he didn't sit on his incendiary scoop, waiting to reveal it only when he could make money from it in a book, like so many other selfish people who know shocking things about this administration have done and will continue to do.
March 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The thing I admire most about Jeffery Goldberg right now is that he didn't sit on his incendiary scoop, waiting to reveal it only when he could make money from it in a book, like so many other selfish people who know shocking things about this administration have done and will continue to do.
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Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
February 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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So here's the deal with Facebook's new fact check & hate speech rules.
Let me explain who I am: from January to July of 2021, starting with the insurrection - actually, because of it - I co-led a team that deplatformed extremists for Facebook. These are our numbers.
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Let me explain who I am: from January to July of 2021, starting with the insurrection - actually, because of it - I co-led a team that deplatformed extremists for Facebook. These are our numbers.
🧵
January 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
So here's the deal with Facebook's new fact check & hate speech rules.
Let me explain who I am: from January to July of 2021, starting with the insurrection - actually, because of it - I co-led a team that deplatformed extremists for Facebook. These are our numbers.
🧵
Let me explain who I am: from January to July of 2021, starting with the insurrection - actually, because of it - I co-led a team that deplatformed extremists for Facebook. These are our numbers.
🧵
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The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸
January 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸
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“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
January 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
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She is more of a journalist than every motherfucker at the New York Times put together.
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
January 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
She is more of a journalist than every motherfucker at the New York Times put together.
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Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ?
Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.
Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.
Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.
Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.
January 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ?
Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.
Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.
Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.
Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.
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We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
Help us gain our following back
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@altyellonatpark.org
Help us gain our following back
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December 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM
We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
Help us gain our following back
Follow
Retweet
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Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...
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Your daily reminder that NYC Mayor Eric Adams, in addition to being corrupt, is also a fascist who’ll do anything to curry favor with Trump to get himself a federal pardon, at the expense of New York’s weakest & most vulnerable persons. He’s a villain & a coward.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
New York mayor closes shelters for asylum seekers amid rightward turn
Eric Adams will close 25 shelters in next two months including Floyd Bennett Field, which houses 2,000 people
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Your daily reminder that NYC Mayor Eric Adams, in addition to being corrupt, is also a fascist who’ll do anything to curry favor with Trump to get himself a federal pardon, at the expense of New York’s weakest & most vulnerable persons. He’s a villain & a coward.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine
Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer
medicine.washu.edu
December 6, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
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Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply
Detected in half of California farms. Now the question becomes, if H5N1 has migrated to cows, can people be far behind?
Is there potential for an novel H5N1 outbreak in Humans?
No one knows.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Detected in half of California farms. Now the question becomes, if H5N1 has migrated to cows, can people be far behind?
Is there potential for an novel H5N1 outbreak in Humans?
No one knows.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply
The U.S. issued a federal order on Friday mandating that the national milk supply be tested for bird flu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters, as authorities seek to grapple with rapid spread of the virus among dairy herds.
www.reuters.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Exclusive: US issues order mandating bird flu testing of milk supply
Detected in half of California farms. Now the question becomes, if H5N1 has migrated to cows, can people be far behind?
Is there potential for an novel H5N1 outbreak in Humans?
No one knows.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Detected in half of California farms. Now the question becomes, if H5N1 has migrated to cows, can people be far behind?
Is there potential for an novel H5N1 outbreak in Humans?
No one knows.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
December 6, 2024 at 11:47 AM
There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.
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The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day as early as 2027, with a likely window within 9-20 years after 2023. This won’t bring dramatic change overnight, but it marks a fundamental shift in the Arctic’s natural environment—a stark warning about climate change. #ActOnClimate
December 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM
The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day as early as 2027, with a likely window within 9-20 years after 2023. This won’t bring dramatic change overnight, but it marks a fundamental shift in the Arctic’s natural environment—a stark warning about climate change. #ActOnClimate
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We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.
December 2, 2024 at 2:08 AM
We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.
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Spoiler: Everything. Some things because of tariffs, and some things because tariffs will be used as an excuse for price-gouging in general.
I mentioned a few days ago I'm budgeting for 2025 on the assumption overall costs are going up 20% generally. That still stands.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/b...
I mentioned a few days ago I'm budgeting for 2025 on the assumption overall costs are going up 20% generally. That still stands.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/b...
What could get more expensive if Trump launches a new trade war with Mexico and Canada | CNN Business
During President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, America launched an all-out trade war with China to boost US manufacturing, secure US national security interests and resolve what Trump believed was ...
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Spoiler: Everything. Some things because of tariffs, and some things because tariffs will be used as an excuse for price-gouging in general.
I mentioned a few days ago I'm budgeting for 2025 on the assumption overall costs are going up 20% generally. That still stands.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/b...
I mentioned a few days ago I'm budgeting for 2025 on the assumption overall costs are going up 20% generally. That still stands.
www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/b...
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America's four largest potato producers allegedly conspired to raise prices on frozen fries, hash browns, and tater tots by 47%.
This tater trust controls more than 95% of the potato market.
If we want to bring down grocery prices, we must take on corporate consolidation.
This tater trust controls more than 95% of the potato market.
If we want to bring down grocery prices, we must take on corporate consolidation.
‘Potato cartel’ mashed competition to raise french fry prices, lawsuits say
Several antitrust lawsuits accused top producers of conspiring to raise prices of frozen potato products, like french fries.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
America's four largest potato producers allegedly conspired to raise prices on frozen fries, hash browns, and tater tots by 47%.
This tater trust controls more than 95% of the potato market.
If we want to bring down grocery prices, we must take on corporate consolidation.
This tater trust controls more than 95% of the potato market.
If we want to bring down grocery prices, we must take on corporate consolidation.