Mark Healey

Read about what “DOGE” did to the NEH and remember that we really have no idea how much crime and damage they did at other agencies.
Someone needs to thoroughly investigate what they did at NASA.

A thread.
(1/n)
🧪🔭

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

@wsj.com
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This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”

Maybe Delcy Rodríguez is a savvy heir to Chávez after all: outfoxed her boss, outmaneuvered the opposition, made such a craven deal with the US as to tempt the US into immediately trying to replicate it with Iran, with predictably catastrophic results.

"you're currently living through one of the largest positive technological revolutions in modern history - solar and batteries replacing fossil fuels - and you're hearing more about chatbots because the people who run our country make money selling oil" --‪@mtsw.bsky.social
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Echoes of Iran 1953 or Guatemala 1954 -- and both of those were much less "smooth" at the time.

Good morning! Yes, this is he

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

oooh, lucuma is always so good

God tier political nerd Dad joke

that amazing detail struck me too

I mean when has a hopeful moment of popular uprising against a despised regime ever given way to a new revolutionary government that came to be just as corrupt and repressive and sclerotic as the one it replaced. Certainly never before in Iran.

I have adapted
the poem
that you wrote
like a hundred years ago

and which
you were probably
thinking
was exclusively about plums

Forgive me
it was low-effort
so reusable
and arguably funny

Maybe Delcy Rodríguez is a savvy heir to Chávez after all: outfoxed her boss, outmaneuvered the opposition, made such a craven deal with the US as to tempt the US into immediately trying to replicate it with Iran, with predictably catastrophic results.

Speed running the greatest hits

Paul Musgrave O @protmusgrave Around the department: Americanists: how bad can it be really? Comparativists: dictatorship, purges International relations: nuclear war 2017-01-12, 9:18 AM 708 Retweets 944 Likes Paul Musgrave © @profmusgrave • 2017-01-12 Replying to @profmusgrave Americanists: haha but seriously IR and comparative: who is joking LI89 · 194 Jacob T. Levy @itlevy- 2017-10-10 Replying to @profmusgrave Theorists: "We will go and view the city of tyranny, and once more take a look into the tyrant's soul." 172 Daniel W. Drezner © @dandrezner - 2017-01-12 Political theorists: oh, so now you want to talk to us, do you? Paul Musgrave © @profmusgrave Around the department: Americanists: how bad can it be really? Comparativists: dictatorship, purges International relations: nuclear war L109 O230

Feeling vindicated in my decision to bring this printout with me when I changed jobs

Ah yes, global hedge funds, experts in assessing and pricing risk

Adam Tooze: The Trump trade is dead. Long live the anti-Trump trade. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.

Welcome to New England!

An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War People will die and nothing will be accomplished

My thoughts

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Same here, querido. Fuerza!

There are no new laws, or more court orders, that can solve the problem of a president & an administration that systematically & completely ignores the law, court orders, & the Constitution.

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

I mean, we'd love to have you ;) But on the buy in part, yes, sadly not the case.

The potential for catastrophic mayhem is HIGH, though our institutional bias is towards conflict avoidance, high rotation in leadership, and slow degradation as an overall strategy.