Zach Lipton
zachlipton.com
Zach Lipton
@zachlipton.com
🌉🚌🚲 || San Francisco || Data infrastructure @COVID19Tracking alum || To stop the train in cases of emergency pull down the chain; penalty for improper use, five pounds (he/him)
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This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug.

We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Everyone: Do something about our healthcare premiums.

Senate Dems: Here is legislation that's going to fuck up the internet.
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
he bar mitzvah'd me. what a time warp this picture is and what a rabbi he was
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The solution, as always, is that we need a robust safety net such that people aren't living on the edge and at risk of being destabilized by the slightest possible change
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It seems to be going pretty poorly, per the student newspaper:

"Nolan experienced hate speech at the walkout.

'I’m pretty sure this [walkout] brought more antisemitism than it did solidarity,' Nolan said."
Branham students walk out
Students walk out in the quad during fifth period after antisemitic incident
bhsbearwitness.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We haven't even gotten to the part yet where Nuzzi and *spins giant wheel of random public figures who haven't yet inexplicably appeared in this saga* the new Pope danced together to Come Sail Away
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Next up is a ride up 40th Street on the 57. And, for the first time in at least five years, my transfer from AC Transit to AC Transit is free!

@therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social was instrumental in getting this free transfer policy approved by AC Transit's board years ago - thank you!
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM