JD D'Cruz
@jdcruz.bsky.social
Used to be an international civil servant. Here to hang out with my friends.
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A chart didn't make it into the piece — ICE has arrested >1,000 toddlers since 2023
July 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A chart didn't make it into the piece — ICE has arrested >1,000 toddlers since 2023
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First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people.
Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat.
As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.
Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat.
As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.
June 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people.
Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat.
As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.
Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat.
As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.
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UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.
SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...
US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated, say officials
Conservative critics have long accused the department of helping to censor the American right.
www.technologyreview.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.
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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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People should look at things like this and Musk and Zuck and realize that, when informed people suggest you should give some business models, tech and entrepreneurs a closer look, and perhaps hold them to some standard, it's not doomerism. Saying this for my and many other's late 2000s selves.
23andMe files for bankruptcy as CEO steps down
23andMe files for bankruptcy as CEO steps down
Customers can still access their data and delete accounts.
buff.ly
March 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
People should look at things like this and Musk and Zuck and realize that, when informed people suggest you should give some business models, tech and entrepreneurs a closer look, and perhaps hold them to some standard, it's not doomerism. Saying this for my and many other's late 2000s selves.
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Top-shelf interview of the always-amazing @madelineashby.bsky.social by Friend of Refuturing @paulgrahamraven.com. So much to consider on the importance of good writing (and considering your audience) when constructing narrative scenarios. www.worldbuilding.agency/interviews/a...
the scenario doesn’t know it’s a scenario: an interview with Madeline Ashby
Few folk are better equipped to understand the art of worldbuilding from both sides of the futures/fiction border than Madeline Ashby, who has a fully justified reputation for excellence in both aspec...
www.worldbuilding.agency
March 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Top-shelf interview of the always-amazing @madelineashby.bsky.social by Friend of Refuturing @paulgrahamraven.com. So much to consider on the importance of good writing (and considering your audience) when constructing narrative scenarios. www.worldbuilding.agency/interviews/a...
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I want everyone to know what DARVO is. I explain DARVO to people multiple times a week. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Created by scholar Jennifer Freyd to describe the pattern of gaslighting abuse victims face, it applies to so much happening in politics, too
March 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I want everyone to know what DARVO is. I explain DARVO to people multiple times a week. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Created by scholar Jennifer Freyd to describe the pattern of gaslighting abuse victims face, it applies to so much happening in politics, too
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I confess to total impatience with the handwringing over the future of the Democratic Party. It's obviously irrelevant: what is happening in the United States now means we need an entirely new politics. Neither justice nor democracy will be possible until the decks have been cleared.
March 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I confess to total impatience with the handwringing over the future of the Democratic Party. It's obviously irrelevant: what is happening in the United States now means we need an entirely new politics. Neither justice nor democracy will be possible until the decks have been cleared.
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Like watching an end-of-career boxer stumble through those last punishing fights, each crash to the canvas extracting more of a toll each time…
March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Like watching an end-of-career boxer stumble through those last punishing fights, each crash to the canvas extracting more of a toll each time…
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Whatever happens, somebody needs to establish an independent, non-partisan civil service school in the US to transfer useful institutional knowledge for the post-Trump reconstruction.
February 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Whatever happens, somebody needs to establish an independent, non-partisan civil service school in the US to transfer useful institutional knowledge for the post-Trump reconstruction.
Happiness, health and prosperity this Year of the Snake. May the months ahead bring better times for all who are scared and vulnerable.
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Happiness, health and prosperity this Year of the Snake. May the months ahead bring better times for all who are scared and vulnerable.
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We’re going to see any expression of virtue in the face of vice depicted by legacy media as a vicious attack on an innocent victim
January 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
We’re going to see any expression of virtue in the face of vice depicted by legacy media as a vicious attack on an innocent victim
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this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
January 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
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Look: The thing you need to understand about genAI is that every Next Big SV Thing of the last 15 years—NFTs, Web3, Metaverse, VR—has been utterly rejected by the market and the tech grifters know this is their last chance, no more. That’s why there is an apocalyptic level of capital invested in it.
January 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Look: The thing you need to understand about genAI is that every Next Big SV Thing of the last 15 years—NFTs, Web3, Metaverse, VR—has been utterly rejected by the market and the tech grifters know this is their last chance, no more. That’s why there is an apocalyptic level of capital invested in it.
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We lost our home and the majority of everything I cared about six years ago (because of a roofer who was an idiot, who’s been ducking legal efforts for recovery since years.)
Doesn’t make me an expert on the subject, but I have some thoughts if they are helpful to anyone who just experienced this.
Doesn’t make me an expert on the subject, but I have some thoughts if they are helpful to anyone who just experienced this.
January 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We lost our home and the majority of everything I cared about six years ago (because of a roofer who was an idiot, who’s been ducking legal efforts for recovery since years.)
Doesn’t make me an expert on the subject, but I have some thoughts if they are helpful to anyone who just experienced this.
Doesn’t make me an expert on the subject, but I have some thoughts if they are helpful to anyone who just experienced this.
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Thank you for posting this, Dave! This is why I report them and this is why you must mute them then block them then click to report them to bluesky. Bluesky is moderating and suspending these accounts, but it’s clearly getting overwhelming for them because there must be thousands of these every week
January 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Thank you for posting this, Dave! This is why I report them and this is why you must mute them then block them then click to report them to bluesky. Bluesky is moderating and suspending these accounts, but it’s clearly getting overwhelming for them because there must be thousands of these every week
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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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What an absolutely delightful thread to start 2025. The replies here are full of regenerative visions of possible futures.
Thanks for inviting these micro stories, @bethsawin.bsky.social. And thanks for pointing to it @jdcruz.bsky.social. 🦋
Thanks for inviting these micro stories, @bethsawin.bsky.social. And thanks for pointing to it @jdcruz.bsky.social. 🦋
Give me sentence (or two) from the future. Something that if it were to happen would mean that the world has made it through this current constriction of confusion, foolishness, and violence.
January 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
What an absolutely delightful thread to start 2025. The replies here are full of regenerative visions of possible futures.
Thanks for inviting these micro stories, @bethsawin.bsky.social. And thanks for pointing to it @jdcruz.bsky.social. 🦋
Thanks for inviting these micro stories, @bethsawin.bsky.social. And thanks for pointing to it @jdcruz.bsky.social. 🦋
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At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
lithub.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."
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“It was in those years that we learned that hope had a shape, and learned, slowly, to fold our world to match it.”
Give me sentence (or two) from the future. Something that if it were to happen would mean that the world has made it through this current constriction of confusion, foolishness, and violence.
January 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“It was in those years that we learned that hope had a shape, and learned, slowly, to fold our world to match it.”
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"Biden’s legacy will be more than a year of virtually unchecked Israeli carnage as the so-called “rules-based international order” he championed dissolved into nothing."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Monster of 2024: Joe Biden
It's the hubris, stupid.
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM
"Biden’s legacy will be more than a year of virtually unchecked Israeli carnage as the so-called “rules-based international order” he championed dissolved into nothing."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Human H5N1 bird flu cases by year and country, according to the CDC.
After eight years of almost no cases, 2024 is set to be one of the years with the most reported cases. The US stands for the vast majority of cases.
After eight years of almost no cases, 2024 is set to be one of the years with the most reported cases. The US stands for the vast majority of cases.
December 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Human H5N1 bird flu cases by year and country, according to the CDC.
After eight years of almost no cases, 2024 is set to be one of the years with the most reported cases. The US stands for the vast majority of cases.
After eight years of almost no cases, 2024 is set to be one of the years with the most reported cases. The US stands for the vast majority of cases.
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