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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · Mar 2

Wiped out or fired up? ❤️‍🔥Thank you so much to @matteowong.bsky.social for writing about us!

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 2

18F, a team in the General Services Administration, was tailor-made for government efficiency and technology, writes @matteowong.bsky.social. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wiped it out.

DOGE Killed a Government-Efficiency Team

“It’s chaotic, and it feels like it’s chaotic on purpose.”

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · Mar 1

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 13

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect

WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Feb 16

“VOTING FOR THE MAYOR WHO PROMISED TO BLOW UP THE CITY DOESN’T MEAN I APPROVE OF THE MAYOR BLOWING UP THE CITY”

A masterclass from @mikedrucker.bsky.social

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City

It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Jan 28

The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.

Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.

We must stop him.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · Jan 29

Oakland DOT set up a nice bike & pedestrian detour around this temporary construction closure at the Telegraph protected bikeway.

I worked w staff way back in 2017 to develop the construction controls guideline ensuring safe & accessible facilities past construction closures.

photo of a “detour” sign in Oakland’s Telegraph protected bikeway pointing toward a construction fence in the distance

a photo of separate bike and pedestrian detours past a fenced off construction site

photo of a ramp and solid barrier connecting the sidewalk to the pedestrian detour path around a construction fence

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jan 23

One way to reduce drug spend is to have the FDA do an analysis of how long medicine retains it's potency. It can do it one drug at a time.

No one should throw away medicine they shouldn't have to. Whether pharmacy or patient.

www.propublica.org/article/the-...