Evan Harmon

@evanharmon
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Trail mix sommelier, software #developer, and #DevOps engineer from #KansasCity. Currently nerding out over #pkm / knowledge management tools like #Obsidian. I also tinker with new #tech in my #homelab, #bike as much as I can, and will talk #philosophy with anyone who promises to agree with everything I say.
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If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

Empathy (The ability to Feel Someone's Pain) is one of the main Attributes that makes us Human. The Moment when you start Enjoying the Suffering of other People Only because they Do Not belong to your Community, then you Lose the Most Important thing inside you, which is Your Heart ❤️. 

- Danish Akhtar

#Empathy #quote #saying #feelings #truewords #truth #thought #pointofview #thoughtfull #insights #reflection #philosophy #lifequote #realityoflife #mastodon #fedithought #fediquote #observations

At least 200 Afghan Americans in the U.S. military have relatives who applied for refugee status only to be blocked by Trump’s refugee ban.

“We serve this country because it protected us, but now it is abandoning my sister,” said one soldier.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-refugee-executive-order-afghan-allies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Refugees #Military #USPolitics #Trump

These Soldiers Risked Their Lives Serving in Afghanistan. Now They Plead With Trump to Let Their Sister Into the U.S.

Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for thousands of Afghans, including those who worked with the U.S. military and their relatives. Two brothers hope answers come quickly for their sister and her husband, who they say are in danger.

ProPublica

As our editor-in-chief said back in November: Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.

At ProPublica, our mantra is that we bring the receipts to every story we publish.
https://www.propublica.org/article/second-trump-administration-investigative-journalism?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

What We’ll Be Covering in a Second Trump Administration

We’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing what are expected to be dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.

ProPublica
Despite opposition from over 350 civil liberties and other organizations, H.R. 9495 passed the House. Tell the Senate this is an existential threat to nonprofits of all stripes, and they must vote no on this dangerous expansion of executive power: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/tell-senate-dont-weaponize-treasury-department-against-nonprofits
Tell the Senate: Don’t Weaponize the Treasury Department Against Nonprofits

Last week the House of Representatives passed a dangerous bill that would allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. If it passes the Senate and is signed into law, H.R. 9495 would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch. Nonprofits...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Just in case.
Not sure I love that one of the first links on the #nixos wiki page on #haskell is to a webpage by a guy who also has webpages titled "Wokeism", "Climate Alarmism" and "Vegan Propaganda"

If you make less than $360,000 per year, your taxes will actually INCREASE under Donald Trump.

Anyone making more than $360,000 will get a tax cut.

Trump's pitching more trickle-down economic nonsense, but please tell me again that he's the candidate for working people.

Check my math: MSNBC says 79m have voted early; out of 185.6 registered voters; that's 42%. In pre-covid 2016, there were 58.3m early votes, 42% of total ballots cast, 36% of 157.6m registered voters then.