Keith S
@sensibleovershare.bsky.social
Tech and leadership consultant. I love travel, museums, reading, music, and film. Independent, Queer/Pan and partnered 👬
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
Stand With Trans Americans
You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
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Newt Gingrich says the "McKinley Model" requires high tariffs over a three-year transition period.
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
March 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Newt Gingrich says the "McKinley Model" requires high tariffs over a three-year transition period.
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.
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This resignation letter from 21 people who were working for the USDS (DOGE before it became DOGE) is definitely worth a read.
archive.is/AKhKO
archive.is/AKhKO
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February 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This resignation letter from 21 people who were working for the USDS (DOGE before it became DOGE) is definitely worth a read.
archive.is/AKhKO
archive.is/AKhKO
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Think of Congress and its budget as the broke husband on his way to put a $250,000 Ferrari on the family credit card, and DOGE as the $2-off gas card he used on the way.
Sure, saving $2 on gas is nice. But his wife may be a bit too focused on burying them in $250k of debt to congratulate him.
Sure, saving $2 on gas is nice. But his wife may be a bit too focused on burying them in $250k of debt to congratulate him.
February 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Think of Congress and its budget as the broke husband on his way to put a $250,000 Ferrari on the family credit card, and DOGE as the $2-off gas card he used on the way.
Sure, saving $2 on gas is nice. But his wife may be a bit too focused on burying them in $250k of debt to congratulate him.
Sure, saving $2 on gas is nice. But his wife may be a bit too focused on burying them in $250k of debt to congratulate him.
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Laying off thousands of IRS agents will worsen budget deficits.
I understand the IRS is deeply unpopular, but the more we encourage tax evasion among high-earners and corporations, the more they'll eventually need to raise your taxes to plug the gap.
washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I understand the IRS is deeply unpopular, but the more we encourage tax evasion among high-earners and corporations, the more they'll eventually need to raise your taxes to plug the gap.
washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Layoffs to hit IRS as DOGE targets tax collections
Several people briefed on the matter said cuts to the IRS cuts numbering in the thousands. One target is tax collections.
washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Laying off thousands of IRS agents will worsen budget deficits.
I understand the IRS is deeply unpopular, but the more we encourage tax evasion among high-earners and corporations, the more they'll eventually need to raise your taxes to plug the gap.
washingtonpost.com/business/202...
I understand the IRS is deeply unpopular, but the more we encourage tax evasion among high-earners and corporations, the more they'll eventually need to raise your taxes to plug the gap.
washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.
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The "Don't Tread on Me" crowd really want's to Tread on others.
February 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The "Don't Tread on Me" crowd really want's to Tread on others.
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The other shoe. Is dropped. Like I said, this is coordinated.
February 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The other shoe. Is dropped. Like I said, this is coordinated.
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All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.
February 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.
While the cybersecurity stuff around DOGE engages me because it's easy for tech industry folk to see the constitutional issues at play, maybe the message to general moderate business owners could be simplified to "Would YOU give your junior IT staff line-item vetos over the yearly budget?"
February 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
While the cybersecurity stuff around DOGE engages me because it's easy for tech industry folk to see the constitutional issues at play, maybe the message to general moderate business owners could be simplified to "Would YOU give your junior IT staff line-item vetos over the yearly budget?"
So Russell Vought will be Christ-washing the technofascists’ punch list. Watch what he does closely, but don’t emotionally fixate. No one has to answer to his projected outrage or demanded shame: that’s his leverage.
He’s just a man. Calculating and cruel, but being scared misses the point.
He’s just a man. Calculating and cruel, but being scared misses the point.
February 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So Russell Vought will be Christ-washing the technofascists’ punch list. Watch what he does closely, but don’t emotionally fixate. No one has to answer to his projected outrage or demanded shame: that’s his leverage.
He’s just a man. Calculating and cruel, but being scared misses the point.
He’s just a man. Calculating and cruel, but being scared misses the point.
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I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses.
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses.
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And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media
Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
February 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media
I know the DOGE team building a chatbot called GSAi sounds wonky, nerdy, and boring, but the project is also anti-competitive as hell. Real-life municipal data, even just empty data structures related to government processes, is scarce and would be worth A LOT to train chatbots for municipal use.
February 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I know the DOGE team building a chatbot called GSAi sounds wonky, nerdy, and boring, but the project is also anti-competitive as hell. Real-life municipal data, even just empty data structures related to government processes, is scarce and would be worth A LOT to train chatbots for municipal use.
For most, “apprenticeship” means structured training from an expert for a specialized role. Be aware that Christian Nationalists also use the same word to represent a doctrine of replacing accredited colleges with only apprenticeship, in law/tech/anything. It’s a closed system, y’all.
February 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
For most, “apprenticeship” means structured training from an expert for a specialized role. Be aware that Christian Nationalists also use the same word to represent a doctrine of replacing accredited colleges with only apprenticeship, in law/tech/anything. It’s a closed system, y’all.
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This is a good time to note that I started at the Wall Street Journal last week! If you work with or around DOGE, I'd love to speak with you. My email address is katherine.long@wsj.com and I'm on Signal at longka.38. Use a non-work device to contact me.
February 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is a good time to note that I started at the Wall Street Journal last week! If you work with or around DOGE, I'd love to speak with you. My email address is katherine.long@wsj.com and I'm on Signal at longka.38. Use a non-work device to contact me.
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
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Elephant calf update: very baby
February 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Elephant calf update: very baby
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The White House has said that any of Elon Musk's conflicts of interest regarding his work with DOGE will be monitored and addressed by....Elon Musk.
He's determining which government contracts are "fraud" while he himself has billions in government contracts.
Hello?
He's determining which government contracts are "fraud" while he himself has billions in government contracts.
Hello?
White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest
The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...
www.bloomberg.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The White House has said that any of Elon Musk's conflicts of interest regarding his work with DOGE will be monitored and addressed by....Elon Musk.
He's determining which government contracts are "fraud" while he himself has billions in government contracts.
Hello?
He's determining which government contracts are "fraud" while he himself has billions in government contracts.
Hello?
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Favorite sign so far
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Favorite sign so far
It's a weird time to have a Poly Sci degree...to have a tech career...to have lived and worked in Russia with Christian nationalists in the 90s...to have once interned for Republicans...to have marched and protested for LGBTQ rights...to have helped set up DEI workshops and affinity groups...WEIRD
February 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It's a weird time to have a Poly Sci degree...to have a tech career...to have lived and worked in Russia with Christian nationalists in the 90s...to have once interned for Republicans...to have marched and protested for LGBTQ rights...to have helped set up DEI workshops and affinity groups...WEIRD