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Please follow @thenerve.news!

Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line.

We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏

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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

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Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

A few ex-Guardian journos working together to do some solid independent journalism. pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

The Nerve Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech.

Excited to see this female-founded new media title launch on Tuesday!

www.thenerve.news

“But don’t be mad. This is an evolutionary jump. 18F and USDS were always meant to go away.” _paraphrasing_ 😖

The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost. ( (ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

@cityplanto.bsky.social Biidaasige Park is amazing! And…it desperately needs shady spots. It’ll be lovely in a decade if the trees stay healthy, but in the meantime you need to put some covers over some of the park benches and picnic tables.

Great interview with @emilytav.bsky.social and @kathypham.bsky.social on “civic tech.” Love the comment that civic tech = civic duty + technology.

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

Those ears! 😍

If you’re with a state agency or legislature who needs help figuring out how you’re going to modify your benefits systems to deal with federally mandated changes (e.g. employment verification), contact us at @usdigitalresponse.org. We can help for free, thanks to grant funding. There’s no catch.

Agree. She’s incredible. Love that she’s writing and pushing on that moral arc.

Anyone still using Swarm? The latest update makes me think the only people using it are in their 40s & 50s. 👀 🤣 (bigger fonts for old eyes)

Nvidia’s market cap passed 4 TRILLION. Someone tell me why we need companies worth trillions of dollars. Similar to billionaires…..I think the answer is: We don’t.

See you there this weekend? :)

FAFO… 👀 ready to see the 34 million able bodied folks on Medicaid get right to work harvesting crops.

The Death of US AID The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale

“This will be one of Elon Musk’s legacies, and the most consequential one for human life. A man who talks about saving our species condemned millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.”— @donmoyn.bsky.social
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Civic Spark August 16-17, 2025 Toronto civic-spark.com

We’re putting on a conference!

Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025

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Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside.

Help change that. 🧵

If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors.

Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. government created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized.
— @djrothkopf.bsky.social

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. It's already happening.

To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

Live Updates: Man Impersonating Officer Kills Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband

When the public sees a US Senator tackled and cuffed at a press briefing, of course this shit is going to happen. 😭 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

So, this takes Elon’s tweets about how Trump would have lost without him a little beyond just messing with X’s algos.

open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

FWIW, I still think this; but two weeks later and now we’ve got Elon claiming he’s with the 80% that are in the centre. So, can’t tell if this is aging well or not. 😆

Republicans' new Medicaid red tape will push Missouri to the brink and block healthcare for millions • Missouri Independent The budget bill passed by the U.S. House will kick millions of people off of Medicaid by piling on new red tape.

Today in the @missouriindependent.com
I shared how new Medicaid red tape imposed by Republicans will kick over 10 million people off their healthcare, including more than 180,000 people in Missouri ‼️

missouriindependent.com/2025/06/06/r...

Hot take: it’s time for the Democrats to go hard to the center. They’ll lose the most left-leaning but they might just save the U.S. from fascism.

Proud of this team! 💪🫡🥹

The Internet of Consent - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.

We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...