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Here’s how #minnesota is responding to ICE in our neighborhoods and the murder of Ms. Good. From ISAIAH MN.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1_glfqFDoPCLK3MdaK7Xxb01TzQdcKtAZFqOkk4K8qIA/mobilebasic?pli=1
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
We (US) took Denmark’s child vaccination schedule - can we also take their immigration policies and enforcement mechanisms? Having been an immigrant in both the UK and Switzerland, what we do in the US is barbaric.
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨

Reports of Dozens of US helicopters dropping American paratroopers into Caracas, Venezuela!
#aurefreepress #News #press #headline #gop #Politics #uspolitics #USpol #Breaking #breakingnews #Trump #mastodonnews
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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The best of 2025 : Accountabiility.
January 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
First entry in a series of blog posts on the #cdisc Dataset-JSON standard. Diving in on the future of #clinical #research #data (and related to the #pharmaverse and #rstats folks in #Biomedicalresearch)

https://brianrepko.github.io/blog/posts/2025-12-31-datasetjson-part1/
Dataset-JSON – Learning, Thinking, and Coding
Part 1 - intro to the series
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January 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
New blog post on #tiledb and #snowflake integration and what is possible for #biomedical #research and what I wish I could do in #duckdb

https://brianrepko.github.io/blog/posts/2025-12-20-tiledb-snowflake/
TileDB and Snowflake integration – Learning, Thinking, and Coding
Webinar on data integration
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December 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Here in #minnesota, on Dec 13th, there was a gathering of over 5000 people of all faiths (ISAIAH) to put forth an agenda we can advocate for with our various political parties - The People’s Agenda: Dignity and Affordability for All - https://bit.ly/PeoplesAgenda2026

The Christian coalition was […]
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December 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed […]
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December 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Here in #minnesota, on Dec 13th, there was a gathering of over 5000 people of all faiths (ISAIAH) to put forth an agenda we can advocate for with our various political parties - The People’s Agenda: Dignity and Affordability for All - https://bit.ly/PeoplesAgenda2026

The Christian coalition was […]
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December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
US tech (#software) companies used to hire and train and you could grow your experience with them. That was my experience of the 90s. Then it became hiring only those with experience - training really fell off - if lucky you could go to the big firms for those first jobs. Now, this feels like […]
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December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rstatsblazeemail/115685976251613412

For #clinicaltrials and #rstats - this is a big deal - CSRs (Module 5 in an eCTD) can now contain R packages within zip files (and html files - for WASM/Shiny?) and it looks like binary R package files for Modeling and Simulation […]
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December 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force. The post Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job appeared first on MS NOW.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I know #FrankGehry is dead (RIP) but everyone of his buildings that I’ve lived near - all northern climates - require mediation of falling snow and ice - typically closed sidewalks. Just don’t get that that is “great” architecture.
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
TIL about the Open Source Pledge - https://opensourcepledge.com - based on @Posit posting on their 2025 status on their pledge commitment - https://posit.co/blog/posit-open-source-pledge-2025/

Highly recommend sharing this internally at companies - particularly those with $$$. I'd really like […]
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I just realized the current stable version of Python is 3.14.1, which makes it Pi-thon
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea.

Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime.

In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]
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November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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🧵I spent 10 hours reading through the latest Epstein files that the Oversight Committee released.

One thing that stands out in it all is that Epstein was a huge threat to Trump throughout Trump's first term.

A huge threat.

Trump is mentioned in almost every email, every single one.
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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You'd think other Republican members who have already announced their retirement like Don Bacon (R-NE) would sign the Epstein files discharge petition.

You'd think any of those five endangered California Republicans who want to try and hang onto their seats like Kevin Kiley (R-CA) would sign […]
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November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Honored to be a speaker at R/Pharma - my presentation is a pre-recorded one that plays today. Kind of cool to take my experience as a software engineer in Java and share that with the R community and specifically the pharmaverse developers. Talk is about the […]

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November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Excited to be attending #rinpharma and very cool to see a summary of all the work from last year - the {pointblank} workshop was great
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM