JoshData 🐢 / is on Nostr

I am a turtle. No. Wait. I am a human.

I founded GovTrack.us (https://www.govtrack.us, @GovTrack) in 2004 and have been creating a more accountable U.S. Congress ever since. Also created Mail-in-a-Box (https://mailinabox.email). During the day I lead an engineering team at a scientific software company.

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2023-12-19 13:37:54

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@npub1ddp…2tax That's the case regardless of the salary.

2023-12-19 01:43:47

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@npub1ddp…2tax Plenty of good people exist who would serve at the current salary!

2023-12-18 14:23:48

On the one hand, SCOTUS shouldn't be a playground for only rich lawyers who can afford a government salary.
On the other hand, if you can't live happily at a ~$300,000 salary with a spouse who also has income then --- absent some tragedy like extreme medical debt --- you probably should not be serving on SCOTUS.

2023-11-05 01:42:49

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@npub1jma…0as2 @npub1fd9…r3z5 How nice for you that you never felt like people might want to hurt you. (I don't mean Palestinians. I mean Nazis here in the US, for example.)

2023-11-05 00:31:27

"Free Palestine", which is graffitied all over DC, has the expected sort of ambiguity that's covert to folks who aren't sensitive to it but a red flag if you think you might be a target of bigotry.
Does it refer to freeing the State of Palestine, that is, the Hamas regime in Gaza and the PA in the WB? (Somewhat concerning if you're concerned for Hamas's freedom.)
Or does it refer to the land of Palestine, that is, what we now call Israel? Does it mean the dismantling of Israel?

2023-10-30 19:11:00

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@npub1k4q…3lsq It seems like you're saying that condemnation of Hamas is in the past. One and done. Don't need to worry about them anymore. Israelis are safe now that Hamas got it out of its system and all of the hostages are... freed into Gaza's tunnels, I guess.

2023-10-30 18:43:53

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@npub1k4q…3lsq The issue is that if you don't think Hamas deserves condemnation (also), it's hard to imagine why you would think that other than anti-Semitism.