Charlie Thomas

Abidjan Arrived and well.

Arrived and well.

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To be fair, most of my rodeos have been the cattle variety 😅

As Congress works to end the government shutdown, it’s crucial to remind your elected officials to pass clean spending bills.

The initial House bill, H.R. 4754, included harmful riders, including Section 128, which would remove protections for gray wolves in 44 states.

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just purely as a game, the Reconstruction period would be an incredible setting

How do you make a deal with people that gleefully talk about how they intend to break every aspect of the deal if they feel like it?

all stick no carrot included the troops

Except now folks will challenge these on Antideficiency Act grounds because an OPM memo saying th eh think this is cool isn’t actually law!

Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.

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Absolutely- and we have a long way to the primary and I would bet we can learn a lot more about Platner that might turn him into a more formidable candidate. I actually hope so because primaries are going to be key here! But to dismiss Mills' bonafides here because of age is just abrasive to me.

the whole thing was an exercise in learning who not to trust.

A small town nestled between many mountains. It is around dusk and there is a light frost on the ground.

I mean, it's not a terrible view for the afternoon dog walk, is it?

Mills won her last two races in a purple state by nearly 10% each time and when the current admin tried to bully her about trans kids she publicly told them to piss up a rope and she'd see them in court. Do people want a senate majority? Because this is a must win seat and Mills has won statewide.

So we have a candidate who wins by double digits statewide in a purple state and has already publicly told President Trump to go piss up a rope when he tried to intimidate her, but her primary opponent is an unknown to everyone but performs working class. Dems need that seat. What are we doing here?

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Army expands MOS program that allows soldiers to skip certain training Recruits who meet certain skill requirements are eligible to go into the service with modified training and at a higher rank than their peers.

Recruits who meet certain skill requirements are eligible to go into the service with modified training and at a higher rank than their peers.

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

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Fully disclosed in the byline, I’m sure. (Not).

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I believe it

GOOD

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

YES! USAID, State, and even parts of the DoD were absolutely furious at that nonsense. We did irreparable harm to vulnerable communities we had made commitments to as well as our international relations for a harebrained scheme that hadn't even been briefed to those bureaus that were most effected!

Oh, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, a willingness to believe that these missions are being largely undertaken in good faith by people that believe in them. Yeah, some dickheads in the USAID hierarchy did some sketchy things. I would be willing to bet most USAID people were really mad!

And I get it, the US government is a massive enterprise and there's a lot of details that aren't as important or get us into Gorpman and Bleemer territory, but just a basic idea of what does what, what actual missions are being undertaken, and how is often badly needed.

This has often been my biggest stumbling block dealing with potential fellow travelers in these spaces. I really don't want to seem like the FP version of "lol you said clip but its a magazine!" but there needs to be basic knowledge in critiques and it often isn't or is bent for ideological reasons.

Re:Public has the potential to be an essential source of news about public lands. Quite the time for launching, too!

wtaf are you talking about

Let me tell you, GLHM, that all of this feels awesome to me as a furloughed government employee.