Andrew
@andrewdavies.bsky.social
Interested in the information ecosystem, especially in difficult places, AI's impacts, politics all over the place, and cat photos. Strongly convinced that bad pizza is still better than no pizza.
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So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
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I don't know, but I believe we are living through the biggest money laundering operation in history.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I don't know, but I believe we are living through the biggest money laundering operation in history.
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Today, I’m remembering the courage of John McCain when he voted to protect the ACA and keep millions of Americans from losing insurance.
Protecting and strengthening healthcare for the American people should be something both parties can agree on, and I won’t stop fighting for it.
Protecting and strengthening healthcare for the American people should be something both parties can agree on, and I won’t stop fighting for it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Today, I’m remembering the courage of John McCain when he voted to protect the ACA and keep millions of Americans from losing insurance.
Protecting and strengthening healthcare for the American people should be something both parties can agree on, and I won’t stop fighting for it.
Protecting and strengthening healthcare for the American people should be something both parties can agree on, and I won’t stop fighting for it.
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Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
3 San Antonio Officers Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Woman in 2023
Melissa Perez, 46, swung a hammer in their direction and appeared to be in distress in her home when the officers arrived, officials said.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
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Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... It will never be forgiven when world leaders are not leading the world to a save world instead of not acting to prevent the looming disaster. Shame on US for not even be present.
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/... It will never be forgiven when world leaders are not leading the world to a save world instead of not acting to prevent the looming disaster. Shame on US for not even be present.
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Today on Can We Still Govern, I got to share new research on how my team at USDS drove around the country in a van to protect Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans after the pandemic - and share some lessons learned for the coming crisis.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Lessons from Pandemic Era Medicaid Automation for Work Requirements
Small tech capacity investments offer big returns
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Today on Can We Still Govern, I got to share new research on how my team at USDS drove around the country in a van to protect Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans after the pandemic - and share some lessons learned for the coming crisis.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
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Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy
The Democratic appointees, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. The ruling, which applies during litigation, effectively reverses two lower court rulings.
www.lawdork.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Few things have made more more mad over recent months than the attention given to this while the Supreme Court is actually taking step after step to make life more difficult for trans and nonbinary people.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
Like, this actually happened last week — in an unsigned order.
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“These luxuries and amenities … mark Ms. Maxwell more as a guest at a Trump hotel than a federal prisoner and child sex offender,” Raskin wrote.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“These luxuries and amenities … mark Ms. Maxwell more as a guest at a Trump hotel than a federal prisoner and child sex offender,” Raskin wrote.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
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4️⃣ The BBC is the only online news provider in the UK more widely used as a source of online news than search engines and social media, which are increasingly important and popular ways for people to find and access online news
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
4️⃣ The BBC is the only online news provider in the UK more widely used as a source of online news than search engines and social media, which are increasingly important and popular ways for people to find and access online news
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You cannot make this stuff up. #ICE indiscriminately spraying pepper spray into cars while driving by should be immediate felony assault.
In this instance, tack on felony child endangerment + whatever else puts them away forever. They maced a 1-year-old baby FFS.
In this instance, tack on felony child endangerment + whatever else puts them away forever. They maced a 1-year-old baby FFS.
From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: ICE pours a large canister of pepper spray directly into family car, hitting 1-year-old baby. "They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said Matt, who filmed t...
Explore this post and more from the ICE_Raids community
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November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You cannot make this stuff up. #ICE indiscriminately spraying pepper spray into cars while driving by should be immediate felony assault.
In this instance, tack on felony child endangerment + whatever else puts them away forever. They maced a 1-year-old baby FFS.
In this instance, tack on felony child endangerment + whatever else puts them away forever. They maced a 1-year-old baby FFS.
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50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
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The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
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People ask a lot about whether protests matter. While Trump’s approval rating is driven by many factors, events like the No Kings rallies likely play a role, too. Media coverage and people seeing their neighbors take a stand help convey that disapproval is not just acceptable but widespread.
Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People ask a lot about whether protests matter. While Trump’s approval rating is driven by many factors, events like the No Kings rallies likely play a role, too. Media coverage and people seeing their neighbors take a stand help convey that disapproval is not just acceptable but widespread.
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This was certainly an Obama era mistake—what needs to happen now is to invite supporters and constituents to stay involved. We all have a stake in the outcome of what comes next.
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This was certainly an Obama era mistake—what needs to happen now is to invite supporters and constituents to stay involved. We all have a stake in the outcome of what comes next.
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The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?
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“The number of people publicly identifying as Jewish experienced a steep year-over-year decline in a University of Berlin telephone poll conducted in 1934.”
hmmmmm i wonder if that has anything to do with society and the government brutally suppressing it over that exact period of time
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“The number of people publicly identifying as Jewish experienced a steep year-over-year decline in a University of Berlin telephone poll conducted in 1934.”
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I admin a FB group for the high school I graduated from. This is what I received the other day from “someone” requesting to join our group.
Same sort of brackets!
Same sort of brackets!
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I admin a FB group for the high school I graduated from. This is what I received the other day from “someone” requesting to join our group.
Same sort of brackets!
Same sort of brackets!
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #lunchtime, featuring a Cedar Waxwing in pure berry bliss.
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #lunchtime, featuring a Cedar Waxwing in pure berry bliss.
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography
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“Donald Trump bars himself from entering the US.”
Cool cool, glad to know we're following in the footsteps of NZ's bizarrely terrible fat people immigration policies
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
On the same day as his ‘fat jab’ launch, Trump issued new reason to deny visas to foreigners: obesity
The guidance describes obese foreigners as a ‘public charge’ and orders visa officers to guess how much they would claim in benefits
www.yahoo.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“Donald Trump bars himself from entering the US.”
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The top replies are bleak, but expected.
Musk made it so that blue checkmarks (the people paying him for a meaningless badge) are pushed to the top.
It’s one of many ways he manipulates the platform so that he primarily sees positive feedback.
Musk made it so that blue checkmarks (the people paying him for a meaningless badge) are pushed to the top.
It’s one of many ways he manipulates the platform so that he primarily sees positive feedback.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The top replies are bleak, but expected.
Musk made it so that blue checkmarks (the people paying him for a meaningless badge) are pushed to the top.
It’s one of many ways he manipulates the platform so that he primarily sees positive feedback.
Musk made it so that blue checkmarks (the people paying him for a meaningless badge) are pushed to the top.
It’s one of many ways he manipulates the platform so that he primarily sees positive feedback.
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Musk used Grok to animate Sydney Sweeney to make her say “you are so cringe.”
Not only does it look and sound awful, I don’t think he understands how embarrassing this is for him.
Not only does it look and sound awful, I don’t think he understands how embarrassing this is for him.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Musk used Grok to animate Sydney Sweeney to make her say “you are so cringe.”
Not only does it look and sound awful, I don’t think he understands how embarrassing this is for him.
Not only does it look and sound awful, I don’t think he understands how embarrassing this is for him.
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Instead of engaging in a peaceful transfer of power, Trump rallied supporters on Inauguration Day, told them to “fight like hell” and then sat watching on TV saying and doing nothing while those supporters rioted their way into Congress. Some BBC goof up doesn’t change that.
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Instead of engaging in a peaceful transfer of power, Trump rallied supporters on Inauguration Day, told them to “fight like hell” and then sat watching on TV saying and doing nothing while those supporters rioted their way into Congress. Some BBC goof up doesn’t change that.
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Back in Tokyo. I may have chosen the hotel with the creepy robots because I am an easily amused child.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Back in Tokyo. I may have chosen the hotel with the creepy robots because I am an easily amused child.
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You see that? How “far right” views are routinely re-packaged as “populist”?
A prominent far-right German activist has applied for political asylum in the U.S., as the Trump administration has signaled plans to prioritize protections for White refugees and Europeans who claim they are being targeted for their populist views.
German far-right activist seeks asylum in U.S. as Trump ties deepen
Social media influencer Naomi Seibt, a supporter of the nationalist AfD party, said she is being persecuted in Germany for her political views.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
You see that? How “far right” views are routinely re-packaged as “populist”?
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