Leo Neumeyer
@leoneu.bsky.social
Software, algorithms, travel, photography. Live in San Francisco. Originally from Argentina.
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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I tell everyone I know this
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
propub.li
April 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I tell everyone I know this
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Why didn't the president include Russia on list of countries that are facing tariffs?
HASSETT: There's an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine and he made the decision not to conflate the two issues
S: But Russia is one of the only countries not subject to these new tariffs
HASSETT: There's an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine and he made the decision not to conflate the two issues
S: But Russia is one of the only countries not subject to these new tariffs
April 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why didn't the president include Russia on list of countries that are facing tariffs?
HASSETT: There's an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine and he made the decision not to conflate the two issues
S: But Russia is one of the only countries not subject to these new tariffs
HASSETT: There's an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine and he made the decision not to conflate the two issues
S: But Russia is one of the only countries not subject to these new tariffs
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
February 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
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RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Russell Vought, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Elon Musk … just an unimaginable horror show. Cranks and drunks, fanatics and lunatics, traitors and idiots, megalomaniacs and liars. Again: we need to keep expanding our imaginations as to how bad this could get.
February 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Russell Vought, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Elon Musk … just an unimaginable horror show. Cranks and drunks, fanatics and lunatics, traitors and idiots, megalomaniacs and liars. Again: we need to keep expanding our imaginations as to how bad this could get.
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February 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📣 Feeling helpless? Looking for some way to take action? There's ~2 dozen STATE Special Elections coming up you can help with (+3 for U.S. House!), including 6 in February!
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2/15: DE SD-05
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As a parent of two kids with special needs, I'm pretty damn excited to know that a racist billionaire who routinely uses the slur "r*tards" is destroying the federal department that's a bulwark for special education and support for disabled children.
February 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As a parent of two kids with special needs, I'm pretty damn excited to know that a racist billionaire who routinely uses the slur "r*tards" is destroying the federal department that's a bulwark for special education and support for disabled children.
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It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.
February 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.
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This is what a Nazi billionaire calls “eliminating fraud and waste.”
I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
February 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is what a Nazi billionaire calls “eliminating fraud and waste.”
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Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:
- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more
#NIH #MedSky #research #science
- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more
#NIH #MedSky #research #science
February 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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Hi all, We’re still here at OPM.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
February 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hi all, We’re still here at OPM.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.
Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.
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🧪
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
January 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🧪
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
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Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!
January 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!
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Not today, Satan
January 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Not today, Satan
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My coworker is an immigrant from Afghanistan. She said “I survived three wars. If you have lentils and water, we can get through this. I will make sure.”
January 31, 2025 at 6:39 AM
My coworker is an immigrant from Afghanistan. She said “I survived three wars. If you have lentils and water, we can get through this. I will make sure.”
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Happy Birthday Dr.Fauci and thank you for saving us! 💙
December 26, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Happy Birthday Dr.Fauci and thank you for saving us! 💙