V
@va.coach
Inhabiting the forests of western NC. Former queer community organizer and builder of several companies.
I coach and support leaders in their development of self and the organizations around them.
I coach and support leaders in their development of self and the organizations around them.
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wouldn’t it be cool if the working class gays could retake san francisco
December 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
wouldn’t it be cool if the working class gays could retake san francisco
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thinkin about stuff
December 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
thinkin about stuff
Hell yes.
"Staunton announced this afternoon that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove the six automated license plate readers installed throughout the city."
Staunton cancels Flock contract, doesn't agree with CEO's ideology
Staunton has announced that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove all automated license plate readers installed in the city.
augustafreepress.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hell yes.
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“I think we are forgetting as a society that every human matters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Immigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“I think we are forgetting as a society that every human matters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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There are still a lot of smart people who seem to be surprised and upset that they can't make AI stop making shit up. Like that's literally what it does. "I told it not to do that!" Cool. But you it can't understand right? You're not giving it "instructions". It's just words.
December 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There are still a lot of smart people who seem to be surprised and upset that they can't make AI stop making shit up. Like that's literally what it does. "I told it not to do that!" Cool. But you it can't understand right? You're not giving it "instructions". It's just words.
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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Online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers, a new report says.
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
Instacart's AI technology is hiking prices as much as 20% for the same item, new study reveals
Online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers, a new report says.
ow.ly
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Online grocery delivery service Instacart used AI to charge different prices for the same item, up to 20% more for different shoppers, a new report says.
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
https://ow.ly/IIpT50XJ7wp
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the TSA went from security theater to Schutzstaffel spies in one easy step
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
the TSA went from security theater to Schutzstaffel spies in one easy step
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These 14 states have 3 close Senate races (ME, MI, NH) and about 25 close Congressional races - close to half of the competitive federal races in the 2026 election.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
These 14 states have 3 close Senate races (ME, MI, NH) and about 25 close Congressional races - close to half of the competitive federal races in the 2026 election.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
Great care by citizens, election administrators, and advocates will be needed to ensure fair and orderly contests.
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I badly need folks to up their game here
I have hated the technology industry's disgusting plutocrats for more than a decade, well before it was cool
it is entirely possible to do this and still, you know, imagine and pursue a role for technology in our future
technopessimism is a suicide pact
I have hated the technology industry's disgusting plutocrats for more than a decade, well before it was cool
it is entirely possible to do this and still, you know, imagine and pursue a role for technology in our future
technopessimism is a suicide pact
Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I badly need folks to up their game here
I have hated the technology industry's disgusting plutocrats for more than a decade, well before it was cool
it is entirely possible to do this and still, you know, imagine and pursue a role for technology in our future
technopessimism is a suicide pact
I have hated the technology industry's disgusting plutocrats for more than a decade, well before it was cool
it is entirely possible to do this and still, you know, imagine and pursue a role for technology in our future
technopessimism is a suicide pact
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🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨
Our @propublica.org video team is expanding and hiring for two new roles!
First up, there's a senior producer job focusing on YouTube.
Details (including salary range) and application here:
Our @propublica.org video team is expanding and hiring for two new roles!
First up, there's a senior producer job focusing on YouTube.
Details (including salary range) and application here:
YouTube Senior Producer
New York City, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨
Our @propublica.org video team is expanding and hiring for two new roles!
First up, there's a senior producer job focusing on YouTube.
Details (including salary range) and application here:
Our @propublica.org video team is expanding and hiring for two new roles!
First up, there's a senior producer job focusing on YouTube.
Details (including salary range) and application here:
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We're also hiring for a YouTube-focused producer to adapt our longform investigative journalism into mid-length videos for the platform.
All the details and application here:
All the details and application here:
YouTube Producer
New York City, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We're also hiring for a YouTube-focused producer to adapt our longform investigative journalism into mid-length videos for the platform.
All the details and application here:
All the details and application here:
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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
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Coming tomorrow in @revenuerulebreaker.com: what options do you have for healthcare in 2026 besides just paying more money???
@reywrites.bsky.social and I walk you through your options
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@reywrites.bsky.social and I walk you through your options
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December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Coming tomorrow in @revenuerulebreaker.com: what options do you have for healthcare in 2026 besides just paying more money???
@reywrites.bsky.social and I walk you through your options
join.revenuerulebreaker.com
@reywrites.bsky.social and I walk you through your options
join.revenuerulebreaker.com
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The EEOC, the main federal agency in charge of protecting American workers' rights, has abandoned trans, nonbinary, and other gender non-conforming workers, leaving them with little ability to get justice www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Agency That Protects US Worker Rights Isn’t Helping Trans People
Under the Trump administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has thwarted nearly all cases filed by trans workers.
www.bloomberg.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The EEOC, the main federal agency in charge of protecting American workers' rights, has abandoned trans, nonbinary, and other gender non-conforming workers, leaving them with little ability to get justice www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Every Democrat should be an ICE abolitionist.
None of this “we all agree you need to come here legally” or “we all agree the immigration system needs reform.” Fuck focus groups and polls.
Inform the public of these atrocities and shift the Overton window to a presumption of equality for everyone.
None of this “we all agree you need to come here legally” or “we all agree the immigration system needs reform.” Fuck focus groups and polls.
Inform the public of these atrocities and shift the Overton window to a presumption of equality for everyone.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Every Democrat should be an ICE abolitionist.
None of this “we all agree you need to come here legally” or “we all agree the immigration system needs reform.” Fuck focus groups and polls.
Inform the public of these atrocities and shift the Overton window to a presumption of equality for everyone.
None of this “we all agree you need to come here legally” or “we all agree the immigration system needs reform.” Fuck focus groups and polls.
Inform the public of these atrocities and shift the Overton window to a presumption of equality for everyone.
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Increasingly tech is seeking to solve for the problem "humans exist," which is what you'd expect to see in a system where humans are seen as a cost and not a value.
“Humans get tired; some days are better than others. The AI does not get tired. It doesn’t get grumpy. It doesn’t have a bad day. The AI is consistent,” says Juan Espinoza, vice provost” demonstrating that humans can be profoundly ignorant and make vibe-based decisions.
Replace him with a chatbot
Replace him with a chatbot
Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Increasingly tech is seeking to solve for the problem "humans exist," which is what you'd expect to see in a system where humans are seen as a cost and not a value.
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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You will receive a lot of entreaties today, all of them worthy. I just want to bring your attention to Hope for Haiti, which does amazing work. My dad is on the board and one of the best things about HfH is that in the ground it is run by Haitians hopeforhaiti.com/givingtuesday/
Giving Tuesday - Hope for Haiti
As one of the most trusted organizations working to reduce poverty in southern Haiti, Hope for Haiti is focused on providing support and partnership to the Haitian people every single day.
hopeforhaiti.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You will receive a lot of entreaties today, all of them worthy. I just want to bring your attention to Hope for Haiti, which does amazing work. My dad is on the board and one of the best things about HfH is that in the ground it is run by Haitians hopeforhaiti.com/givingtuesday/
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Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
apnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
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Commander White is one of the very few people involved in family separation from the inside who acquitted himself well. He raised alarm bells, pushed back, and got ORR to start tracking separations long before DHS did, so that it was possible later to reunite kids and know the scale.
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress.
Jonathan White, a longtime civil servant who fought Trump officials’ efforts to separate migrant families, says Democrats must do more to combat the president.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Commander White is one of the very few people involved in family separation from the inside who acquitted himself well. He raised alarm bells, pushed back, and got ORR to start tracking separations long before DHS did, so that it was possible later to reunite kids and know the scale.
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When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
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“Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
-Tom Stoppard
-Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
-Tom Stoppard
-Tom Stoppard