John Crowley
@jcrowley.bsky.social
Humanitarian, technologist, musician, historian. Proud Harvard Kennedy School grad.
As I review ACA plans from insurers with 1- and 2-star ratings, where I pay exorbitant fees for the privilege of being one accident from bankruptcy, I shake my fist at the Democrats who caved to bullies. It is time for a generation of leaders to retire and hand the reins to mobilizers and fighters.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
As I review ACA plans from insurers with 1- and 2-star ratings, where I pay exorbitant fees for the privilege of being one accident from bankruptcy, I shake my fist at the Democrats who caved to bullies. It is time for a generation of leaders to retire and hand the reins to mobilizers and fighters.
It is time for Democrats to choose a Minority Leader who both understands this unique moment in US political history AND who will stand and fight for what is right. If he chooses (and it is not an easy choice), @chrismurphyct.bsky.social could be that leader.
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It is time for Democrats to choose a Minority Leader who both understands this unique moment in US political history AND who will stand and fight for what is right. If he chooses (and it is not an easy choice), @chrismurphyct.bsky.social could be that leader.
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As a Bostonian, I am conflicted about how many positive feelings I'm having about New York at this moment
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
As a Bostonian, I am conflicted about how many positive feelings I'm having about New York at this moment
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As my cynical soul watches a blue tsunami, it cannot hide a Judy-Dench smirk as the necromongers falter...
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
As my cynical soul watches a blue tsunami, it cannot hide a Judy-Dench smirk as the necromongers falter...
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More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
October 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
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It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...
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These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
Maps matter. Maps are a product of ethical and moral choices about how to represent an analysis of people over space and time. Here, there is a shortcoming that needs to be addressed.
🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.
Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Maps matter. Maps are a product of ethical and moral choices about how to represent an analysis of people over space and time. Here, there is a shortcoming that needs to be addressed.
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It’s like this comic was made for him:
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It’s like this comic was made for him:
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I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
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Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
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Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.
SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
October 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
www.bloomberg.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
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We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
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Rear Adm. James E. McPherson, former top judge advocate general for the Navy who later served in first Trump administration:
“I would be interested if they could come up for any legal basis for what they did. ... if they turned back, then that threat has gone away.”
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“I would be interested if they could come up for any legal basis for what they did. ... if they turned back, then that threat has gone away.”
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Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Rear Adm. James E. McPherson, former top judge advocate general for the Navy who later served in first Trump administration:
“I would be interested if they could come up for any legal basis for what they did. ... if they turned back, then that threat has gone away.”
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“I would be interested if they could come up for any legal basis for what they did. ... if they turned back, then that threat has gone away.”
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How should an organization support open source? A key goal for 2i2c is to lead by example in contributing to a healthy open source ecosystem. We've learned a lot over the years - here's our framework for building healthy open source relationships.
👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/go...
👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/go...
On being a good open source citizen: supporting a healthy ecosystem through directed and foundational contributions | 2i2c
Any organization building on open source faces a fundamental tension: how do you serve the needs of your organizational stakeholders while also acting as a responsible steward of the upstream…
2i2c.org
September 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
How should an organization support open source? A key goal for 2i2c is to lead by example in contributing to a healthy open source ecosystem. We've learned a lot over the years - here's our framework for building healthy open source relationships.
👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/go...
👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/go...
Racial profiling is anathema to US democracy. SCOTUS continues to denigrate the concept of equality before the law.
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Racial profiling is anathema to US democracy. SCOTUS continues to denigrate the concept of equality before the law.
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People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
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After US DOGE Service fired COVID technologists & designers in cruel, public ways & deleted 18F, devastating state capacity to deliver, the acting USDS administrator now says… the US government needs to hire more technologists & designers.
After federal workforce cuts, DOGE chief says ‘we need to hire’
Federal News Network reported in June that DOGE has been inviting federal employees to join the organization.
federalnewsnetwork.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
After US DOGE Service fired COVID technologists & designers in cruel, public ways & deleted 18F, devastating state capacity to deliver, the acting USDS administrator now says… the US government needs to hire more technologists & designers.
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In case you missed it here's a senior Trump official admitting, on camera, to what has to be the most consequential scandal and coverup in American history:
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DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list.
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
September 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In case you missed it here's a senior Trump official admitting, on camera, to what has to be the most consequential scandal and coverup in American history:
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