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.

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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.”

rollcall.comChatbot bills look to address safety fears as midterms loomHearings filled with heart-wrenching stories of children who died by suicide after their interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots have made it easy for those on both sides of the aisle to ag...

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Republicans are racing to give Trump $1 billion for his ballroom & Trump is spending your tax dollars—not to lower your costs—but to repaint the Reflecting Pool. Are Republicans going to say anything or keep silently bending the knee?

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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...

eff.org👎 California's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Social Media Ban |We'd all like the internet to be a better place—for kids and adults alike. But in the name of online safety, governments around the world are racing to impose a dangerous new system of control. Are

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Sean Duffy’s road trip reality show is just one tiny piece of this administration’s brazen corruption. Stuart Stevens breaks down how our politics has devolved on MSNOW:

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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.

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

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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Q: Do you think it's affordable to live in America right now? Alabama voter: No, not like it used to be. Costs are going up, but what you make on the job is not going up. People are suffering right now.

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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.

thehill.com250+ Democrats urge Supreme Court to overturn abortion pill rulingA majority of Democrats in the House and Senate submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to protect access to the abortion pill mifepristone.  Forty-seven Democratic senator…

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Enrique is a TPS holder who has been legally living and working in the United States for over 13 years. If his TPS is terminated, he could be deported to unsafe conditions immediately — a limbo that millions are living with under Trump.

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Trump ran on retribution. When Dems take back control, they need to go after this corrupt administration and their lawless revenge tour. LP's Stuart Stevens has more advice for the Democrats in the clip.

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Every week, we force a vote on the Senate floor to end the war in Iran. While there are signs Republicans are starting to break, so far we can't get to 50. But we will keep trying. Because the Iran war cost crisis is getting devastating for American families.

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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

njspotlightnews.orgWeighing privacy and security, Congress punts again on spying law | NJ Spotlight NewsDigital surveillance net, intended to thwart subversive acts by foreigners, often sweeps up data on U.S. citizens

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The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

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This morning I was notified of another death in ICE custody — the 48th death since Trump returned to office. There must be urgent accountability and oversight, and Congress must take action to dismantle ICE and CBP.

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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...

eff.orgUtah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next WeekFor the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private

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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.

notus.orgICE Is Detaining DACA Recipients. It's Growing Harder for Them to Get Out.The Trump administration views DACA recipients as deportable as any undocumented immigrant.

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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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Trump can lie all he wants, but working families know the truth: groceries, gas, & electricity are getting more expensive—and it's because of his tariffs, the war he started, and his billionaire-first policies.

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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.

frac.orgHunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: The Reach of Summer Meals - Food Research & Action CenterPublished April 1, 2026 Hunger doesn’t stop when school lets out — and for millions of children, summer can be the hungriest time of year when they no longer have access to school meals.  This week, t...

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Replying to @govpritzker.illinois.gov

The people, like me, who didn’t vote for him knew that he was going to fuck this shit up. He did in with COVID, January 6, and now this. The people that voted for him voted for this, period!!!

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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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Conversion therapy is a harmful practice that poses serious danger to young LGBTQ+ people. It has zero place anywhere in this country. This decision is further proof that we need a national ban.

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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.

buff.lyPrivate Equity’s Great Escape - The American ProspectThe industry bought companies for too much money and made a bunch of bad loans. Now they’re scrambling to avoid the reckoning.

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El Paso. Fort Hancock. DCA. Has this Administration learned nothing? Certainly doesn't feel like the time nor the place for this, but if Hegseth insists, Congress and the American people deserve to know what FAA and DoD are doing to ensure the public's safety.

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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.

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Kids should be focused on going to school and playing with their friends, not living in fear that their parents will be kidnapped by ICE. Listen to Nicole Isern’s heartbreaking testimony about how Trump’s cruelty has impacted the kids and families she works with.

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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.

apnews.comSupreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kidsThe Supreme Court has ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice.

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Republicans will talk all day long about their voter suppression bill and fake voter fraud—but they won't say a thing about how they'll actually lower your costs.

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The most immediate threat to Social Security is Donald Trump. From pushing out Social Security workers, worse customer service, and more, Trump is creating new problems and making it harder for seniors and people with disabilities to get their benefits.

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Historic levels of insider trading are occurring here,,,and now.

ian bremmer@ianbremmer.com

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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Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.

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The SAVE America Act is a disaster for democracy and I'm not going let it get passed into law. Are we seriously going to ask rural seniors to buy a $165 passport and drive miles and miles to register to vote in person?

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Trump is dragging us into a senseless, unauthorized war of choice in Iran. And every time his officials come before us in committee, they deflect, ignore, and cover up the truth. The American people deserve to know why we are in this war, and they deserve to know the threat it poses.

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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/...

npr.orgYour data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrantData brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.