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Nicholas Hunt-Walker

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Software engineer, teacher, Pythonista, Astronomer, Black guy, Father. Always looking to build and maintain dope shit.

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Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to β€œEnd Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:

04.03.2026 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 18
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Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.

The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

04.03.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 544    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 28

it should be that when God forgives your transgression, evidence of that forgiveness is seared into your skin with divine fire

05.03.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not like any god visits unambiguous consequences upon the villains that just make shit up in their name. These malcontents just get to muck about, leaving chaos and destruction in their wake, growing fat off their unpunished sins

05.03.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stuff like this is one of the legion of reasons I know I’ll never be religious again. There’s never any realized accountability! There’s the unproven metaphysical hypothesis that your earthly sins are called to account when you die, but theres another hypothesis that you could just make shit up!

05.03.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican and married father of six under a House ethics probe over an alleged relationship with a married aide who later set herself on fire and died, said in an interview he believes God forgave him.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/congressma...

05.03.2026 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 27
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After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X - The Boston Globe City councilors in the liberal enclave voted unanimously to leave a platform they said had become toxic under owner Elon Musk.

Hey, the City of Cambridge finally left X! May more orgs follow suit. (You can find them here at @cambridgemass.bsky.social instead...)

05.03.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 290    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

The people crave analog experiences; how tactile a game is is a part of how it plays. The plastic feel of a controller is as much a part of the experience as what's on the screen, and so are the papers and dice of a ttrpg. And the d20 feels the best.

05.03.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

*stabs self in the eye* Oh my god, the quality of my vision has somehow taken a turn for the worst! I need to convene a panel of doctors to explore why this happened and how we can course-correct. Also, since when did my face start leaking blood? This isn’t a natural, normal process right?

05.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s amazing the amount of money and time some businesses will spend trying to demystify what has been in front of their faces, plain as day, the entire time. People stopped fucking with Target when they abandoned DEI initiatives. It’s not market forces lol. It’s principled customers.

05.03.2026 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In world filled with Targets, be a Costco.

05.03.2026 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 379    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Target was a place I enjoyed. Totally fine the way it was. I was a target demographic with my new baby etc.

Capitulating to a gross admin is what turned us off and "dolling up" the place won't be the way out.

05.03.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I doubt I’m the first person to tell you that β€œBibi wants war with Iran far more than Trump does” and β€œTrump is following Netanyahu’s instructions” are both perfectly valid statements and not anti-Semitic per se.

05.03.2026 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Epstein’s circle doesn’t need to have consumed babies in any way to be wholly evil. They still committed a litany of sexual crimes, as well as being accessories to murder, market manipulation, and overall the intentional destabilization of several societies. That’s quite enough

05.03.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It comforts people to believe that systematic sexual exploitation of the young and powerless is only done by abnormal freaks with abnormal desires instead of normal people with abnormal power.

05.03.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

For months, @jacksonwryan.com has been looking into why so many video games sites have become full of gambling and casino stories, unusual author images, and, most recently, the use of AI. We've connected these sites to Clickout Media. Here's what we've learned.

02.03.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 936    πŸ” 444    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.

04.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 604    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11

Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesn’t include bombing people.

05.03.2026 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7355    πŸ” 2120    πŸ’¬ 280    πŸ“Œ 96

More from the country's "young Republicans." I wonder why MAGA thinks this shit is ok? πŸ€”
I don't really wonder...the party leader is a racist fucknut

05.03.2026 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This thread nails it. Competence is completely out the window this time around in favor of obedience and loyalty, and we’re seeing this play out across the government in so many terrible ways.

05.03.2026 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To the degree there were β€œadults in the room” during Trump’s first presidency (I still quibble with the notion, in certain respects), those people do not exist here. They simply don’t

05.03.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

In trump term 1 there was this flawed but pervasive media narrative that while trump made shit up as he went along there was a federal senior appointee machinery underneath, chugging along with a basic plan

In term 2, everyone from Stephen miller to Rubio to Hegseth is also like trump just…

05.03.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Five key impacts of Brexit five years on The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Always worth noting that while the politicians that instigate disastrous national policies largely based on racism come and go, the effects remain. For instance: Brexit has been shit from the getgo and ever since. Happy Thursday! www.bbc.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"If you run out of arrows, make sure to loudly announce this to your enemies. Be sure they know you have run out of essential munitions. Be sure they are aware you are having severe logistical problems." - Sun Tzu

04.03.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 911    πŸ” 252    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3
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Republican candidate charged with assault after 'body-slamming' Guardian reporter Audio of Greg Gianforte attacking Ben Jacobs corroborated by Fox News journalists in the room, who described candidate β€˜slamming him to the ground’

also, remember Greg Gianforte? Upstanding men of Montana. 🫠πŸ₯΄ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

05.03.2026 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œA US senator just broke the hand of a Marine!”

Yep, make it known that dipshit Tim Sheehy did this.

05.03.2026 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

04.03.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5970    πŸ” 1493    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 46
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What clues reveal about a possible Windows 12 According to various rumors, Windows 12 is set to replace Windows 11 in 2026. We explain the chatter surrounding the new Windows version and its features, and what "Hudson Valley Next" and "CorePC" ar...

So Windows is becoming a full-on subscription SaaS. The F/LOSS community needs to go into deep sprints because this is their chance.

04.03.2026 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0