Trek Glowacki
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Trek Glowacki
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Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️‍🌈. 📍Chicago.
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We already had the technology
I actually do think we should extend some grace around stupid shit people say and do during their formative years, but can't buy into the apparent conservative worldview that this period extends all the way to your 40th birthday.
JD Vance, probably: "He's just some 30 year old kid! You gotta let the youths make mistakes and not pearl clutch about it."
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
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“All Systems Down”

It’s surreal going on a walk over the lunch break and seeing entire storefront businesses closed due to the AWS outage.
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I don't know what visual metaphor you need for the moment, but this should do it
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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Halloween party including James C. Darby (left) and other members of Chicago's LGBTQ+ community. (1958)

Photo: James C. Darby / Chicago History Museum
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that was a load-bearing symbol of the american people's right to self governance, boss. the roof is sagging
ChatGPT, generate a headline and photo that are a little too on the nose to explain the current political climate
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Had to explain this repeatedly during the 2020 interregnum: the Insurrection Act and martial law are not the same thing
Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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Destroying the hard-won reputation and credibility (such as it is) of the U.S. government in every domain - built up over decades, destroyed in months.
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
That’s hopeful. Pretty close to “3.5% rule” territory and we’re only a few months in.
The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
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Based and democracy pilled
Michelle Wu’s address at No Kings was basically “We are actually awesome, cities like this and LA and Chicago are what make America great and that bothers some people” lol
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As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:
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Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"
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During a shutdown only the most essential government services continue, like having maladjusted groypers break the Hatch Act on Bluesky to own the libs.
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Given how packed all these trains are heading downtown, it seems people are displeased with the government