I send $20. Thanks for your work with Mutual Aid!

This was a lot of fun to deploy last night with plenty of bugs left to fix. My ETL to grab data from the SoS website was pretty reliable though!

texas-election-board.onrender.com

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Honoring the legacy of the Black cowboy as told by the Black Cowboy Museum in Rosenberg, Texas. Learn more and join us in raising funds for the museum: www.losverdesatx.org/blog/2026-se...

📷 1: @zachlyons.com; 2: Katie Ensign

ZORHAN IS ONLY PLOWING THE BIKE LANES!!!!

screenshot from a traffic camera nearby

POOR roadway grip reported at: Lakeline Boulevard at US-183, was previously FAIR.
Current roadway condition is: ice.

Just to reiterate

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

With a big Arctic cold front aiming for #Austin this weekend, I recommend following this account and checking updates before you hit the road. Great work @modalshift.co! 🥶

Imagine if serving in government was as prestigious as landing a job at Google.

In Finland and Singapore, it basically is. Public service is seen as a privilege, a place where the most ambitious people go to solve the biggest problems.

That’s the culture we should be striving for.

Zillow’s climate risk reversal looks like a setback. It’s really a wake‑up call. When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps,

This is the conclusion that I hope we will draw from the Zillow drama... that we need a gold-standard national data source for property-level risk to climate hazards that is transparent, accessible, and legally defensible. Private companies can help build it but the public needs to own it.

I’m proud to have worked on this initiative from the data and software side. 🦇💚

Day 10, only 2 more days left!

modalshift.co/nov-25-election

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

Chantal makes landfall near Myrtle Beach and now moving inland as a rainmaker In brief: After yesterday’s post on Texas, we wanted to raise a couple additional points after some reactions. Plus, TS Chantal made landfall near Myrtle Beach and is now a flooding threat fo…

please, please dive deeper than NWS/NOAA budget was deeply cut so that’s why what happened in Texas happened.

go a layer deeper like: theeyewall.com/chantal-make...

A donation to an abortion fund would surely piss off a pro-natalist anti-feminist.

protesters surround federal detention center in Los Angeles

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

Direct File is now open source. Finally.

A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire...

Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.

‘We’re being hunted. That’s how we feel.’ ICE activity puts an MLS fan group on pause For members of Nashville SC's Latin American supporter group, there's a fear of attending games amid local immigration-related raids

NEW: As ICE's raids stoke fear, La Brigada De Oro has paused its Nashville SC matchday involvement. Co-founder Abel Acosta spoke about a harrowing reality.

“Our community is being terrorized right now. It’s in shambles. ... we’re being hunted. That’s how we feel.”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...

It's like they're speedrunning all the mistakes civic tech learned over the past 25 years.

Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers.

First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.

Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

The literal opposite of the goals of civic tech

@burgundywave.bsky.social

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

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

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

How Congress Can Delete DOGE | TechPolicy.Press Rebecca Williams explores how DOGE’s budget can be restricted—if Congress decides to act.

Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE:

www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.

100% of his salary is paid by WA state.

Elon fired him. Share his story.