DrewHoo

DrewHoo

@drewhoover.com

I’m a software engineer focused on early stage startups, interested in social justice and building cool, free, accessible tools for everyone.

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Holy shit, Abdul’s got the juice!

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

I love the quakers. I’ll never forget falling into a deep depression in college while researching anti-slavery arguments (yes, the ANTI arguments) from the 18th century and feeling utterly aghast at their inhumanity. But the quakers (Elias Hicks) showed up with modern-feeling moral sensibility.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

They played a big part in the abolition movement as least as far back as the 17th century, and here they are, four centuries later, doing reparations.

I wonder what the odds are somebody calls the cops on me if I start deadheading other people's shasta daisies. It pains me to see a bunch of brown daisies in late July.

If a hat brand bills itself as environmentally-focused (‘every hat sold removes one pound of plastic waste from the oceans’) but sells hats with golf designs on them… do you find the design at odds with their identity?

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What you need to understand is that the data center conspiracism and the tech oligarch grifting go hand in hand. The kind of moron who thinks data centers emit special rays that give you cancer is the same kind of moron who is eagerly buying SpaceX stock because Musk will put it all in space

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The politics of data centers are insane because progressives have all convinced each other that it’s driven by public hatred of AI and tech capitalism. Then you talk to the actual people worked up about it and it’s straight NIMBYism driven by myths about water use plus 5G-style conspiracy theories

I made a cool thing today: a chart of every day in which 1) a given stock closed on an all time high 2) it was the last day you’d ever be able to buy the stock at that price around 10% of ATHs meet this criteria, but many ATHs are only one day away from meeting it. drewhoover.com/buy-it-now-o...

drewhoover.comBuy it now or never — every ATH that was never undercutWhen a stock closes at a new all-time high, how often is that price gone forever? 216 tickers across Nasdaq 100, S&P 100, tech ETFs, gold, and BTC.

Pretty wild to still be seeing these takes, given how rapidly software engineering (my career) is changing due to LLMs. IDK how to disagree with people who believe this now, but I think the days in which you can make this argument in good faith are quickly running out.

Almost exactly a year later, Pokémon, an anime about resurrecting small animals to make them fight, would be released to such critical acclaim that the Wednesday before Good Friday would become known by its protagonist, Ash Ketchum.

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The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S. Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them. (Published Nov. 2025)

propublica.orgThe White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal InvestigationFederal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

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Every time we try to get policy that actually helps working people, Republicans say "it's too expensive." That lie has never been more clear. If they can find $1 billion a day to bomb schools overseas, it's not a budget problem. It's a priorities problem.

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REMINDER: Megan Keller comes from Michigan, a hockey-crazy state that shamefully doesn't have a single Division I women's hockey program.

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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

cbsnews.comOfelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancerOfelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

“They all hate each other and none of them can read” … are we living in a dystopian Vonnegut novel

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

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From the Epstein files: were Paul Volker and Tom Brokaw really members of a secret society with a "no minorities or women allowed" rule? Brokaw is still around -- worth asking him!

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Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

I imagine Trump’s cabinet cares as much about Trump as Ramsay Bolton’s starved dogs cared about Ramsay Bolton.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

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NEW: One of Pope Leo XIV’s top U.S. allies, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, is calling for the defunding of ICE. Tobin says the “lawless organization” is a “machinery of death.” This marks the first time a senior Church leader has called for ICE to be defunded. More are expected in the coming days.

thelettersfromleo.comPope Leo’s Top U.S. Ally Says ‘No’ to Funding ICECardinal Joseph Tobin calls ICE a “lawless organization” perpetuating a “machinery of death” and urges Congress to defund Trump’s deportation force.

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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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The new conservative position on gun control is apparently that lawfully carrying a licensed handgun means you deserve to be executed in the street by masked federal agents

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Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Heather Randell@heatherrandell.bsky.social

The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...