Scott Grabo

I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:

Wait, YOU VOTED FOR HIM? Thinking he'd make things better? As an immigrant?

I guess all that education didn't take.

Anybody else getting "freedom fries" vibes?

Let's get to work.

How is it possible that Hasan manages to make Crenshaw sympathetic? Sometimes shouting somebody down is, I dunno...not the best approach.

I wanted to hear Crenshaw's justification, and THEN refute it.

YouTube video by rlcarnes Rockwell Retro Encabulator

I believe the Retro Encabulator represents the zenith of American technical leadership, only surpassed at the margins by Rockwell Automation's later enhancement adding the half-gap binder to the jamwheel bypass.
youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?...

This really isn't that complicated.

Step 1: double prices
Step 2: bring prices back to normal
Step 3: claim success!

Narrator: step 2 proved to be harder than step 1

It's almost like Trump is going out of his way to remind other democracies of what's at stake, and what's possible when you behave rationally.

#LawOfUnintendedConsequences

I've been an active investor in the market for decades. This pattern seems pretty new:

Market tanks on open
Regains almost all losses
Repeats the next day

Over and over again. Seems maybe like somebody forcing a dip then buying on it?

1000% this

The find out part

Terry Gilliam at his absurdist best

Sounds like it's time for Aiyuk to demand a renegotiation of last year's contract based on his OUTSTANDING contributions. 🙄

Brazil feels very much on point. Authoritarian regime spurring the need for ever-more elaborate and absurd workarounds in an attempt to maintain dignity.

Also: Robert Deniro's appearance as the heroic, anti-fascist HVAC repairman is classic.

Well, duh. Because we built that big, beautiful wall.

Yep, it’s hard to disagree with this.

Amen, brother.

UI, UX, interoperability...all just window dressing on fundamentals of data quality and integrity.

This doesn't seem complicated.

Democrats should
* Boycott the SOTU
* Hold the response on the Capitol steps with every D member of the House and Senate
* Have several speakers, including the obvious ones - and a governor or two

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

This is what they're after. This is why you disassemble critical, successful, efficient agencies: there's no good way to compete with them, so you build a wall around their value and charge admission.

The public good be damned.
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"was, in effect, trying to force the U.S. taxpayer to pay all over again for what the National Weather Service might be able to tell him or her for free."
(5/6)

"...on international data-sharing treaties made on behalf of the U.S. taxpayer, and on the very forecasts that the National Weather Service generated...
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As Lewis writes: "A private company whose weather predictions were totally dependent on the billions of dollars spent by the U.S. taxpayer to gather the data necessary for those predictions, and on decades of intellectual weather work sponsored by the U.S. taxpayer, and...
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One man angling to lead Trump's NOAA was Barry Meyers, who had spent a career building AccuWeather, which made most of its money by reselling/repackaging data assembled by NOAA. He resisted every effort to make NOAA's lifesaving forecasts available to the public for free.

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How oligarchy takes hold (a very brief thread).

In 2018 Michael Lewis (the same guy who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short) wrote The Fifth Risk. As with his other books, this was a well-researched narrative.

One illustration in the book regarded NOAA, and how it was lead under Trump I.
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FAFO