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Jacob Harris

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Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · May 30

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data

It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info

Enjoy!

DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage

A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!

dogetrack.info

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 38m

this is a good thread that finally reckons with the more primordial politics at play. there is a long, rich research tradition in conflict studies about the behavior of and strategy towards influencing audiences - by state security forces, by non-state armed actors. they all apply in the US now.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 3h

non-black users using the blacksky.app handle is a bannable offense

BUT non-black users are welcome to join the blacksky SERVERS (not the blacksky feed) under either "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles

source: docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 40m

"I'm just a wittle baby" he went on to say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 39m

My usual concerns about this of course, but it has always puzzled me for years why I have to wait an hour to get a standard course of antibiotics for instance

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 43m

“One Medical customers can request pickup for a prescription at an on-site Amazon Pharmacy Kiosk in the Amazon app as soon as it’s handed to them, with the company promising that most medications will be available to collect within minutes.”

Amazon will start dispensing prescription drugs through vending machines

In theory, it means no more queuing at the pharmacy.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 51m

i think if i were supreme master of the universe, one of the first things i'd do is outlaw affiliate programs

they distort things far beyond their seemingly innocuous power

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 49m

I hate that America has forced families into this

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe."

How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"

How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

www.motherjones.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

Journalist, podcast creator, and Punk Planet founder Dan Sinker's I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!: Terror, Truth, and the Editor Who Took on the Klan, a narrative account of crusading journalist George Dale, who faced off against a powerful, ascendant Klan movement in 1920s Indiana, and who serves as a model of journalistic integrity and defiance in the face of fascism, to Eric Kerl and Katy O'Donnell at Haymarket, at auction, by David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 4h

“lol” I say unconvincingly to myself as I quickly scan my email to replace some periods with exclamation points in the text at the right places before sending it, “lmao”

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · Aug 27

Never ask a woman her age, instead ask her what tales have carved their mark on her flesh. Ask if she is wizened, bent low from the sins of the past. Ask her if she believes in retribution

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Is That Vyn Vamp?! 🦇 @vynvox.com · 1d

I will say my Factotum inadvertently took Detective Pettigrew as a submissive after tripping him up + stepping on him in the hedge maze 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Is That Vyn Vamp?! 🦇 @vynvox.com · 1d

I know it’s edited to be quicker/snappier but GODDDD I wanna be that shocking

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 4h

Like social masking, but it’s being Gen X in an office of millennials

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h

I was completely unprepared for the threat posed by the Antifa super soldiers.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 18h

Isn't this the literal definition of a monarch?

Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 19h

These tariffs. We pay them for things we need; they’re a tax. Trump scoops them into a huge slush fund which he apparently can spend at will. He doesn’t have any oversight; he doesn’t provide exact figures; Congress has no role in deciding proper expenditure.

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 20h

Honestly not even king shit as much as it’s a basic refusal to stick to any social compact or obligations

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Breaking News: President Trump signaled that he may try to deny federal workers back pay after the shutdown, in contradiction to U.S. law.

Trump Suggests Furloughed Federal Workers May Not Receive Back Pay After Shutdown

Union leaders and Democratic lawmakers say the move would run afoul of a law adopted under President Trump’s first term.

nyti.ms

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 22h

Sorry but you actually can’t hold me accountable because the computer did all that bad stuff. Unrelated, the computer is now alive.

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 20h

SCOTUS is very good at conjuring up hypothetical harm to one group of people while simultaneously ignoring plausible harm to other groups like immigrants or federal workers

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

IMO it is bad that congressional hearings involving Cabinet members have transformed entirely into public lying and groveling competitions for an audience of one

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21h

Also, I think he's referring to the differential privacy that Census was using for data shared with researchers. It had nothing to do with how people were counted and seats apportioned.

Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 21h

Also: by law, "illegal" immigrants get counted.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 21h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 22h

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 21h

(Gritting my teeth so hard I'm gonna need to see the dentist) Theo Von, welcome to the resistance

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21h

What a terrible time to dismantle the CFPB

kottke.org @kottke.org · 21h

Everything Is Becoming a Bank. “Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy.” [jacobin.com]

Everything Is Becoming a Bank

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling productive capacity and setting the stage for the next crash.

jacobin.com

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