MBA @IEbusiness / Formerly @WorldBank & @luminategroup / #OpenGov #OpenData #CivicTech / Globetrotter / Doer / Existentialist / Views are my own
Washington D.C.
Joined June 2010
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Raphael Shepard retweeted
Some positive thoughts from @IEbusiness, another #MIINT participant: "We have been using WhatsApp and video streaming solutions to stay in touch since last Fall. This made the transition after the #COVID19 crisis a bit easier to tackle! A laugh tends to be around every corner."
Raphael Shepard retweeted
The VP is staying a 3 hour drive from Irish capital, necessitating costly helicopters, all so that his visit to Ireland can put cash in the boss’s pocket. Normal federal employees go to prison for such schemes
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Probably the most riveting picture tonight, the kind you can only take in #HongKong: an odd mash-up of skyscrapers, smoke, trees, barricades, umbrellas, laser, and masked protesters in the backdrop. This is revolution in our 21st-century postmodern metropolis 🌃💨🌲🚧☂️🔦👥👥👥👥
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Onion editors just died
Scoop: Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S. axios.com/trump-nuclear-bomb…
Raphael Shepard retweeted
2) This common claim about “if we don’t have the Electoral College then a handful of states will determine the presidency” is BS.
a. It’s the *EC itself* that breaks down power by state, pop vote decentralizes it
b. The EC makes it so a handful of states DO determine elections
Raphael Shepard retweeted
I see Fox News is big mad about abolishing the electoral college.
So let’s talk about it.
1) If the GOP were the “silent majority” they claim, they wouldn’t be so scared of a popular vote.
They *know* they aren’t the majority. They rely on establishing minority rule for power.
Raphael Shepard retweeted
It’s hard to find words to describe this interaction besides profound, beautiful, and simply: human. – at Berlin, Germany
You said "what punishment of gods are not gifts. Do you really believe that?" @andersoncooper, choking back tears, asks Stephen Colbert, as they discuss grief.
"Yes," replies the comedian. "It's a gift to exist and with existence comes suffering. There's no escaping that."
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Spotted at the Detroit Institute of Art. Is this kid living inside of my head? – at Detroit, MI
Raphael Shepard retweeted
White people insisting their European ancestors came “legally” during a period where the US had open borders and didnt even require immigrants to learn english is one of the dumbest and most harmful myths guiding our current politics. xitter.gq/billoreilly/status/102…
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Mnuchin - whose administration engineered a tax cut that has helped spike the federal budget deficit 23% in the first nine months of the year to $747 billion - begs Congress to raise the debt ceiling so the government doesn't run out of money in September bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Most international summits result in warm words, but no follow through. It's welcome @EmmanuelMacron + @G7 are committed to advancing gender equality - so let's make it meaningful. @FredRoder @ONECampaign and I suggest how based on @opengovpart experience euractiv.com/section/global-…
Raphael Shepard retweeted
There should be a climate debate. And a healthcare debate. And a wages debate. And a racial justice debate. And so on.
Debates should go deeper on fewer issues. Generalist debates make it easier for candidates to hide ignorance and harder for audiences to follow along.
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Isn’t the real story with the census case that the admin got caught lying about its rationale and four justices basically went along with it?
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Here’s a snapshot of the #AlabamaSenate that just passed (25-6) the nation’s strictest abortion laws. When will old white men stop policing women’s bodies?? – at Washington, DC
Raphael Shepard retweeted
⚡HOY lanzamos #RegiónDeDatos, una serie de textos periodísticos sobre las historias que están transformando la región con datos y tecnología cívica.
En esta primera entrega compartimos el trabajo de nuestros aliados de @ladiaria a través de #RíoAbierto altec.lat/tecnologia-civica-…
Raphael Shepard retweeted
We don’t know who sent the bombs. We do know this.
Words of incitement do incite.
Words of encouragement for acts of violence lead to more violence.
Words matter.
This is not a game. – at Santa Monica, CA
Raphael Shepard retweeted
Step 1: GOP explodes the deficit with $1.5 trillion in tax giveaways to wealthy donors.
Step 2: GOP uses the deficit they created as an excuse to slash Social Security and Medicare.
Americans see right through this shameless and destructive two-step, @SenateMajLdr McConnell.
