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Eric Mersch

@emersch.bsky.social

Senior financial executive with 25 years of civilian experience working in subscription and SaaS. Equity partner at FLG Partners. Author of ”Hacking SaaS - And insiders guide to managing software business success”

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Opinion | Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her.

Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

28.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe the GOP wants to institutionalize sex trafficking: Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement - WSJ

06.10.2025 23:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

More evidence that we live in and autocracy - Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

06.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

question for the blue sky Community: will Trump allow the midterm elections to take place?

13.09.2025 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

unfortunately, we’re looking at the worst case scenario, which is stagflation

11.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Consumer prices were up 2.9% in August from a year earlier, hotter than July’s gain of 2.7%

11.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A U.S. military aircraft struck a boat suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean several times from the air last week, even though the vessel had turned around before the strike began

11.09.2025 04:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rudy Giuliani was involved in a car crash in New Hampshire on that left him injured, said Michael Ragusa, head of the former New York City mayor’s security - Sending thoughts and prayers, which will be just as helpful as those offered by Republicans to gun victims.

01.09.2025 01:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Florida Governor Says He Is Undeterred by Court Ruling on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Florida Governor Says He Is Undeterred by Court Ruling on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

23.08.2025 05:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From the WSJ: “The weather service’s Houston-Galveston office, which straddles an area that sees frequent hurricanes but is also known as “flash flood alley,” currently has no chief meteorologist, science operations officer or warning-coordination meteorologist…”

11.07.2025 22:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs

Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...

23.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is what happens when law-enforcement is granted the power to assault civilians without accountability.

18.06.2025 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maybe she’s allergic to accountability

18.06.2025 12:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An appeal to Republicans. Please don’t let this bill go through. This ran in today’s Wall Street Journal.

18.06.2025 12:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, it looks like something in Iraq, not on our home soil

14.06.2025 03:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is fake. Trump administration says “cocked and loaded.”

14.06.2025 02:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yes, agree. Order a daily press conference with the top senate leader ship and explain what crimes have been committed on that day by the Trump administration.

13.06.2025 20:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it’s felony assault

13.06.2025 20:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Officials Intensify Attacks on Judges as Court Losses Mount White House reactions to unfavorable court rulings appeared designed to undermine confidence in the judiciary.

Meanwhile, Stephen Miller, posts photos of judges who disagree with the administration: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

10.06.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

..excluding African immigrant, of course.

10.06.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.”

“just go out there and arrest illegal aliens”

www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

10.06.2025 02:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and we did

10.06.2025 02:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Active marines just deployed

09.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

WSJ: “Roughly 500 Marines are deploying to the Los Angeles area to protect federal buildings and personnel in the wake of weekend protests over immigration” Trump is desperate for a fight.

09.06.2025 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I found this article in the Wall Street Journal today. Really disturbing. It talks about how the Trump administration turned it into a memorial for the Far Right with a director of religious programming and a prayer wall. It included this image, which looks scarily like a dictatorship.

08.06.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oprah Shamed Him. He’s Back Anyway.

There’s a real problem with the New York Times credibility in that any disgrace celebrity with a checkbook can seek redemption through some puff piece. Elizabeth Holmes, Mario Cuomo, and now this guy who made up facts in his bio.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...

08.06.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Issues Proclamation Suspending Foreign Students at Harvard The action is the president’s latest attack on the Ivy League school.

When one man destroys a university that won’t teach his ideology, you know you’re in a dictatorship. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

05.06.2025 01:25 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Relays Putin’s Plans to Retaliate Against Ukraine

Kremlin news straight from its most prominent mouthpiece: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

04.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Megabill Would Expand Deficits by $2.4 Trillion, CBO Estimates The number underlines Republicans’ challenges in selling the measure as fiscally sound and comes as GOP senators are making demands with additional price tags that will challenge party leaders’ abilit...

After all the boasting about cutting government expenses, this is what we get:

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

04.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

For God sakes why are the Democrats not doing anything about these ICE raids besides complaining about it. It’s illegal. End of story.

04.06.2025 04:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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