David Gould
David Gould
@traildave.bsky.social
Citizen systems scientist, retired faculty, researching issues in systems science, sustainability, and evolutionary systems. Pragmatic progressive in shaping a more sustainable, equitable, and inclusive world.
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Taxpayer dollars should be spent on helping you. Instead, Donald Trump wants to take $1.7 billion of your money to help his political allies, election deniers and insurrectionists. He is obsessed with using the Presidency to steal from you and enrich himself and his cronies.
BREAKING: The Trump administration announces a $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted allies after dropping a lawsuit against the IRS.
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“We really don’t have any sort of comprehensive federal privacy legislation,” EFF’s Maddie Daly told Roll Call. “And that’s really the harm that people are getting at here, is that these companies can siphon up all of your data and sell it and use it to… target advertising to your kids.”
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Governments are selling age verification as a silver bullet for online safety. It's easy to see that we're just being sold a bill of goods. EFF's EFFector Podcast explains why age gates won't fix the internet, and what they'll break: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Help with daycare? Too expensive. Healthcare you can afford? Nope. But paying his friend millions of taxpayer dollars to paint the bottom of the Reflecting Pool? Absolutely. The corruption never ends.
The cost to repaint the Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC blue is now estimated to be over $13 million. Trump initially promised it would cost only $1.8 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...
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Hundreds of people came out for a Climate Town Hall, hosted by @actonclimateus.bsky.social, to share their thoughts and discuss how we can fight forward to protect our communities and our planet. The climate crisis is here and now, and we won’t stop fighting.
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Trump tore down nearly half the White House, without approval, then told you this ballroom would not cost any taxpayer money. Now, Republicans are requesting $1 Billion of your money for security features related to it. #ballroominflation https://bit.ly/4tdZaAg
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Radical judges tried to rip mifepristone away from women in America. SCOTUS paused that ruling—and I just led every Senate Democrat in an amicus brief making the case the science already made: mifepristone is safe & effective. Extremists shouldn't decide how we get our medicine.
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"When an FBI agent wants to look through Americans’ conversations scooped up as part of a national security intelligence program," it should require "a warrant signed by a judge just as if they were trying to search your email account or your house,” @mguariglia.bsky.social told @njspotlightnews.org
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Platforms aren’t what they promised and Big Tech is cashing in. Join us live on May 14 with Cory Doctorow and Wendy Liu to talk about how we fight back. www.eff.org/event/effec...
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Next week, Utah will become the first state in the nation (to our knowledge) to target VPN use to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates. They won't create a safer internet, only a significantly less private one. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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DACA recipients are experiencing major delays in renewing their status. As a result, people are losing their jobs and facing detention and removal. This is unacceptable. I’m joining @chuygarcia.house.gov and Rep. Lou Correa to demand answers from DHS.
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After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Replying to @eff.org
At the meeting, we identified 6 pillars for open, people-centered technology: 1️⃣ Democracy and participation. 2️⃣ Decolonization and diversity. 3️⃣ Autonomy and tech appropriation. 4️⃣ Territoriality, collectivity, and community 5️⃣ Access and equity. 6️⃣ Economic justice and power decentralization. 4/5
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This is great news! It is time that the rich pay their fair share, and I’m so glad that my home state of Washington is leading the way.
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While the Trump admin kicks millions off of SNAP, the Summer EBT program I helped to establish has reached over 21 million kids nationwide. No kid in America should go hungry—it’s really that simple. I'll keep fighting tooth & nail to save SNAP and fight against child hunger.
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Donald Trump’s record now includes the largest 4-week increase on record of gas prices and the biggest one-day price increase in six years of oil. Americans didn’t want this; what they wanted was relief.
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Trans and nonbinary people are essential to the movement for sexual and reproductive health and rights — the fight for trans rights is our fight. You should be free to live your life as your authentic self — with dignity and respect. Trans and nonbinary communities deserve that and more. 💞🏳️⚧️ #TDOV
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I was proud to push the Biden administration to enact a national ban on noncompetes from the FTC. After Trump reversed this policy, it’s great to see Washington state stepping up banning noncompete agreements. This is a huge win for workers.
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If we had a functioning rule of law, private equity’s self-created losses would be crammed onto their own balance sheets. As it is, the Trump administration is enthusiastically aiding the industry’s efforts to use other people’s money to pay for their mistakes.
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This is unconstitutional. Voting is a fundamental right for every American. Illinois will keep administering free and fair elections – and what Donald Trump puts on a piece of paper will not change that.
BREAKING: President Trump signs an order directing the creation of a national eligible voter list, a move expected to face swift legal challenges.
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Ports are the engine of our economy in WA state. So when federal law put us at a disadvantage, I pushed to change the law & deliver a solution. Today I was at the @portofseattle.bsky.social to highlight the historic federal funding I secured to support our ports, the local economy, and job growth.
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Conversion therapy is child abuse. It should be banned nationwide—and I have a bill to do just that. I’m not going to stop fighting for a world where every person, no matter their gender or sexual orientation, can live with dignity and without fear.
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In the last year, Trump's ICE arrested 125 Veterans—most without criminal warrants. They tried to deport 282 Vets and their family members. There is no higher betrayal to our Veterans than to be deported by the same nation they sacrificed to defend. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Historic levels of insider trading are occurring here,,,and now.
6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public. 7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move. someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.
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Location records from data brokers are typically unlinked to a device owner's name, but police have tools to track where a device has gone, where it spends every night, and where it goes during working hours, EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @NPR.org. www.npr.org/2026/03/25/...