Dave Luetger
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Dave Luetger
@dlootz.bsky.social
Designer in civic tech. Former 18F + NASA. Musician, video game enjoyer, and Chicagoland transplant. Mostly re-posts of people cooler than me. he/him.

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Reposted by Dave Luetger
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
No, keep posting! 💀
September 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
When I worked on a hazard reporting system for ISS there were some great titles like "Failure to Contain Feces"
September 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
# hi
September 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
B) The worm branding wasn't really socialized well through the agency and ultimately the next administrator reverted it. It's a huge lesson in buy-in at the scale of government agencies. But folks' understanding seems to be "these nerdy losers just didn't get it."
August 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM