Nik Marda
@nrmarda.bsky.social
CM for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social. Used to do AI stuff in the Biden White House OSTP and at Mozilla.
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The chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Brad Finstad has been reimbursed for more than $125,000 in travel expenses from a taxpayer-funded account since 2023.
That makes him one of the biggest spenders on travel among top congressional staffers.
That makes him one of the biggest spenders on travel among top congressional staffers.
Minnesota congressman’s chief of staff tallies travel expenses among highest in Congress
David FitzSimmons has expensed at least $40,000 a year while serving in Republican Rep. Brad Finstad’s office, putting him near the top for congressional staffers.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Brad Finstad has been reimbursed for more than $125,000 in travel expenses from a taxpayer-funded account since 2023.
That makes him one of the biggest spenders on travel among top congressional staffers.
That makes him one of the biggest spenders on travel among top congressional staffers.
AI for social good
AI can be a helpful educational tool. For example, if you’re trying to figure out who spearheaded the largest cut to SNAP, it gives you a pretty clear answer.
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
AI for social good
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I was a SNAP kid. Now I'm running for Congress against the guy who gutted SNAP.
November 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I was a SNAP kid. Now I'm running for Congress against the guy who gutted SNAP.
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I’ve been a public school teacher for 20 years. My wife is a paraprofessional who works with deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
So let me tell you why these cuts to special education will be absolutely devastating 🧵
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
So let me tell you why these cuts to special education will be absolutely devastating 🧵
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’ve been a public school teacher for 20 years. My wife is a paraprofessional who works with deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
So let me tell you why these cuts to special education will be absolutely devastating 🧵
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
So let me tell you why these cuts to special education will be absolutely devastating 🧵
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
I'm running the Madison Marathon this fall to raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention @afspnational.bsky.social
Here's the link if you'd like to donate!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-am...
Here's the link if you'd like to donate!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-am...
Donate to Madison Marathon for Suicide Prevention, organized by Nikhil Marda
We're a group of friends who grew up together in Rochester, Minnesota. On Novembe… Nikhil Marda needs your support for Madison Marathon for Suicide Prevention
www.gofundme.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I'm running the Madison Marathon this fall to raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention @afspnational.bsky.social
Here's the link if you'd like to donate!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-am...
Here's the link if you'd like to donate!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-am...
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We raised more money than Congressman Brad Finstad last quarter, and we did it without any corporate PAC donations.
No one has ever beat him like this in a fundraising quarter, and we’re just getting started. #MN01
No one has ever beat him like this in a fundraising quarter, and we’re just getting started. #MN01
July 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We raised more money than Congressman Brad Finstad last quarter, and we did it without any corporate PAC donations.
No one has ever beat him like this in a fundraising quarter, and we’re just getting started. #MN01
No one has ever beat him like this in a fundraising quarter, and we’re just getting started. #MN01
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We had an incredible time at the Rochesterfest parade yesterday! Over 50 volunteers turned out and marched with us.
June 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We had an incredible time at the Rochesterfest parade yesterday! Over 50 volunteers turned out and marched with us.
I'm fired up to start a new job as the campaign manager for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social, my high school math teacher who is running for Congress in MN-01!
This used to be Tim Walz's district. Today, it's repped by a founding member of the DOGE caucus.
He's going to flip this seat again.
This used to be Tim Walz's district. Today, it's repped by a founding member of the DOGE caucus.
He's going to flip this seat again.
May 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I'm fired up to start a new job as the campaign manager for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social, my high school math teacher who is running for Congress in MN-01!
This used to be Tim Walz's district. Today, it's repped by a founding member of the DOGE caucus.
He's going to flip this seat again.
This used to be Tim Walz's district. Today, it's repped by a founding member of the DOGE caucus.
He's going to flip this seat again.
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I’m a teacher, union leader, and father, and I'm running for Congress in southern Minnesota.
I grew up poor here, so I know what high prices and gutted public programs mean to working families.
Meanwhile, Brad Finstad is jacking up prices and won't listen to us.
I grew up poor here, so I know what high prices and gutted public programs mean to working families.
Meanwhile, Brad Finstad is jacking up prices and won't listen to us.
April 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m a teacher, union leader, and father, and I'm running for Congress in southern Minnesota.
I grew up poor here, so I know what high prices and gutted public programs mean to working families.
Meanwhile, Brad Finstad is jacking up prices and won't listen to us.
I grew up poor here, so I know what high prices and gutted public programs mean to working families.
Meanwhile, Brad Finstad is jacking up prices and won't listen to us.
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I was pleased to join others in the research community in signing this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI.
www.aibiasconsensus.org
www.aibiasconsensus.org
March 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I was pleased to join others in the research community in signing this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI.
www.aibiasconsensus.org
www.aibiasconsensus.org
Over 100 researchers are issuing a statement today that reiterates the scientific consensus that AI can exacerbate bias and discrimination.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
March 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Over 100 researchers are issuing a statement today that reiterates the scientific consensus that AI can exacerbate bias and discrimination.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
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We released a letter with 16 of our closest friends telling the Trump Administration: Transparency is essential for public trust. It is imperative you maintain the federal agency AI use cases inventories at the current level of detail.
Read more ➡️ fas.org/publication/omb-ai-use-case-inventories/
Read more ➡️ fas.org/publication/omb-ai-use-case-inventories/
March 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We released a letter with 16 of our closest friends telling the Trump Administration: Transparency is essential for public trust. It is imperative you maintain the federal agency AI use cases inventories at the current level of detail.
Read more ➡️ fas.org/publication/omb-ai-use-case-inventories/
Read more ➡️ fas.org/publication/omb-ai-use-case-inventories/
Turns out if you keep "harnessing the benefits and mitigating the risks" of tech on the margin, you won't do enough to prevent the owners of that tech from amassing this much power
February 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Turns out if you keep "harnessing the benefits and mitigating the risks" of tech on the margin, you won't do enough to prevent the owners of that tech from amassing this much power
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"guardrails so basic that any engineer should be ashamed to release a product without them"
This is exactly what OMB's guidance on AI (m-24-10 & 18) put in place for fed gov use of AI. But it's now being revised.
Glad consumer and tech groups are speaking up!
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/t...
This is exactly what OMB's guidance on AI (m-24-10 & 18) put in place for fed gov use of AI. But it's now being revised.
Glad consumer and tech groups are speaking up!
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/t...
Tech and consumer groups urge Trump White House to keep 'key rules' in place for AI
A joint letter from the Consumer Federation of America and Mozilla implored the White House to keep "key rules" in place for AI testing and transparency.
www.cnbc.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"guardrails so basic that any engineer should be ashamed to release a product without them"
This is exactly what OMB's guidance on AI (m-24-10 & 18) put in place for fed gov use of AI. But it's now being revised.
Glad consumer and tech groups are speaking up!
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/t...
This is exactly what OMB's guidance on AI (m-24-10 & 18) put in place for fed gov use of AI. But it's now being revised.
Glad consumer and tech groups are speaking up!
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/t...
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We have built a state that relies on nonprofits and industry to do its basic tasks.
Pausing funding breaks in this framework breaks the current us social safety net.
Though the legality of this directive is quite suspect, it goes WAY beyond research.
Pausing funding breaks in this framework breaks the current us social safety net.
Though the legality of this directive is quite suspect, it goes WAY beyond research.
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."
They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We have built a state that relies on nonprofits and industry to do its basic tasks.
Pausing funding breaks in this framework breaks the current us social safety net.
Though the legality of this directive is quite suspect, it goes WAY beyond research.
Pausing funding breaks in this framework breaks the current us social safety net.
Though the legality of this directive is quite suspect, it goes WAY beyond research.
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The new order says that AI systems should be "free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas."
While an AI-focused order from Trump 1.0 pointed to civil rights/liberties protections, the latest order makes no such reference
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
While an AI-focused order from Trump 1.0 pointed to civil rights/liberties protections, the latest order makes no such reference
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
Trump signs AI executive order
The order calls for the development of an AI action plan and sets up a process for revoking actions taken under President Biden’s previous AI executive order signed in October 2023.
www.nextgov.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The new order says that AI systems should be "free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas."
While an AI-focused order from Trump 1.0 pointed to civil rights/liberties protections, the latest order makes no such reference
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
While an AI-focused order from Trump 1.0 pointed to civil rights/liberties protections, the latest order makes no such reference
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
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President Trump’s Executive Order re: DOGE is not the most important nor most inhumane EO from yesterday, but here’s a thread about it.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Establishing And Implementing The President's "Department Of Government Efficiency" – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
President Trump’s Executive Order re: DOGE is not the most important nor most inhumane EO from yesterday, but here’s a thread about it.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
1/
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
1/
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The scope of the birthright citizenship executive order is broader than some rumors had it. The denial of birthright citizenship would apply not just to U.S. born children of *undocumented immigrants* but to anyone who did not have a parent who was at least a permanent resident.
January 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The scope of the birthright citizenship executive order is broader than some rumors had it. The denial of birthright citizenship would apply not just to U.S. born children of *undocumented immigrants* but to anyone who did not have a parent who was at least a permanent resident.
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New article by @andrewrchow.bsky.social on the potential ethics issues and well oligarchy, (my term not his) raised by the David Sachs appointment as AI czar. With quotes from @nrmarda.bsky.social and me, among others.
time.com/7200518/davi...
time.com/7200518/davi...
What Trump's New AI and Crypto Czar Means For Tech Industry
David Sacks campaigned hard for Trump, and will now likely attempt to grow both the AI and crypto industries.
time.com
December 7, 2024 at 7:30 PM
New article by @andrewrchow.bsky.social on the potential ethics issues and well oligarchy, (my term not his) raised by the David Sachs appointment as AI czar. With quotes from @nrmarda.bsky.social and me, among others.
time.com/7200518/davi...
time.com/7200518/davi...
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This press release from Ted Cruz is very concerning. It's a standard authoritarian move (I've seen this in India) to start tracing money trails as a way to harass NGOs and others doing work in a space. 1/2 www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/12/cruz...
Cruz Calls Out Potentially Illegal Foreign Influence on U.S. AI Policy
www.commerce.senate.gov
December 3, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This press release from Ted Cruz is very concerning. It's a standard authoritarian move (I've seen this in India) to start tracing money trails as a way to harass NGOs and others doing work in a space. 1/2 www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/12/cruz...
best spam message i've ever gotten
December 2, 2024 at 4:04 AM
best spam message i've ever gotten
I would like to meet one (1) person who user tested the new iOS photos app just to confirm that they actually exist
November 29, 2024 at 8:15 PM
I would like to meet one (1) person who user tested the new iOS photos app just to confirm that they actually exist
Can't wait for BART service alerts to be rebranded as State-of-the-Bart Performance
November 27, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Can't wait for BART service alerts to be rebranded as State-of-the-Bart Performance