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I’m sorry, but if Mitch McConnell is either brain dead or no longer alive, I think his constituents — and the American people — deserve to know.

EXCITING NEWS!!: The first batch of #PyConUS 2026 recordings is now available on the PyCon US YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/pyconus 🐍 📷 Stay tuned - more recordings will be added soon!

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There's a lot of unintended irony in Trump capitulating to Iran at the Palace of Versailles. #irandeal

Looking for a #Python job? The #PyCon US 2026 Job Fair is happening May 17 in Long Beach, CA, and we've got a great linup of organizations participating! Registration info 👉 us.pycon.org/2026/attend/... Here's who's coming 👇 (1/5)

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

A benefit of AI assisted development that I don't see talked about is the ease of keeping docs up to date. After making changes, you can just ask the AI to update the documentation (checking it of course). It's a huge time saver AND makes it more likely you keep things up to date. #AI #Claudecode

Pure "vibe coding" might work, or it might lead to disaster. But working with AI to develop architecture / requirements / design notes before coding? Speed and quality.

Virginia has just become the 19th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Can you help get your state to join? myemail.constantcontact.com/Virginia-bec...

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Email from National Popular Vote Presidents should be elected by the national popular vote View as Webpage - For easy sharing Governor Spanberger Makes Virginia the 19th State to Enact National Popula

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I've been working on building my first RAG chatbot, and building it so that it would run entirely locally. I've written a blog post on the project (www.mcgurrin.info/robots/8318/) and the code is up on GitHub (github.com/ViennaMike/T...)

Trump is very underwater on immigration. There is no reason for Dems to cave on ICE funding. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.

LLMs (e.g., Claude) can speed up coding but can also short-circuit learning. When I want to learn new skills/tools, I use AI sparingly; for other elements, I lean on it. E.g., I used AI sparingly for RAG development, Llama Index, etc., but used it freely to wrap the results with Gradio for the UI.

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Building on the RAG course I took, and with help from Claude, I've got a tax chatbot running locally. Granted, it takes several minutes to answer a question, but far less water and electricity than ChatGPT and its like. Next up: a RAG for our HOA covenants, bylaws, and architectural guidelines...

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Free read: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

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A reminder that the United States did not have an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency until 2002. ICE is not essential to the U.S. ICE is corrupted beyond reform and needs to be abolished as a failed law enforcement agency and reconstitute whatever functions are actually needed

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

I tested whether ChatGPT could pass the IRS VITA/TCE volunteer tax preparer exams. Although it performed well, it failed to reach the required 80% passing score on either the basic or advanced tests, even when I provided official IRS training manuals. Read more here: www.mcgurrin.info/robots/8298/

I think that there are more people who could benefit from DIY investing than do so. But the person who posted this evening that rather than pay a 1% Assets Under Management fee to an advisor, you should rely on ChatGPT for advice? THAT person would be better off with an advisor! #investing #chatgpt

No community should be forced to bear the weight of a system that profits from human suffering. Private, for-profit prisons have no place in a fair and free democracy—and especially profiting off the suffering of an inhumane and undemocratic detention system. Period.

You can’t define the problem, explore its origins, and propose a solution in a 10 second sound bite. A bit long, but both entertaining and enlightening. I recommend this read. And not just for Canadians 😊 pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/d...

Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.

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Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging servicemembers and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by ...

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A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading. This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?

For fellow Virginians: Let Senator Tim Kaine know how you feel about his defection and vote on cloture for the CR. Go to www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/shar... or dial (202) 224-3121 (Capitol switchboard) and ask for Senator Tim Kaine's office.

Despite billionaires spending obscene amounts of money and the Trump regime putting the entire weight of its propaganda machine behind slandering Mamdani, he still won, because we, the people, will always be more powerful than them. They want us to believe they’re inevitable—the truth is: we are.

Today, millions of Americans sent a message to the Trump regime. We are not scared. We will keep fighting. We will organize, we will mobilize, and we will resist—over and over again—until this corrupt wannabe authoritarian regime is removed from power. Because in America, we have No Kings.