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I am aware - look closely at the picture...

George Washington created the US Marshals Service to protect the judiciary. Suddenly, for some reason I cannot fathom, certain judges feel threatened and need their own, separate Marshals Service - but not answering to Pam Bondi. Exec branch has been how to fund it - Legislative can self-fund.

If only there were a group of armed protectors whose primary mission was to protect the federal judiciary... Maybe - since 1789 or so...

I read Contagious by Jonah Berger.

The book is about why ideas and products go viral.

Jonah is a Wharton professor who studies behavior, social influence, and marketing.

He created the STEPPS framework!

It helps you make your ideas more shareable and memorable.

Here are the STEPPS:

When you can't find it by looking down, gotta find it somehow...

Giving credit to Patel is just some low-hanging fruit so that he can claim an immediate win. Bigger issue is that Huntsville is now the same price as DC because of the expansions there. People actually worse off because of no location bonuses.

The actual favor has been cooking for a while - Dale Strong, Katie Britt, etc. being put into positions of remarkable committee power to fast-track their influence. the FBI jobs focus is just part of an existing move out of DC and CJIS (West Virginia) that was already in place.

not wanting to uproot their families, change schools etc. from some of the best in the nation, and move to Alabama.

This will bring an annual payroll of over $500 million per year to Alabama and the Huntsville/Madison metropolitan area." The biggest issue is the "take rate" of existing FBI and industry professionals

"It took 14 years to secure these funds, and the resulting facility will bring nearly 5,000 jobs to Huntsville with an additional 2,500 employees anticipated to travel for training on an annual basis.

The magic of Senator Shelby: "Senator Shelby’s ability to make a strong deal and work in a bipartisan manner to get things done. This led to his success securing the $3 billion investment for this project.

The FBI at Redstone | Federal Bureau of Investigation Information for FBI employees relocating to Huntsville, Alabama.

This isn't new. The FBI campus in Huntsville has been years in planning and development. Thousands of jobs are slated to move there over the next several years from around the country, not just DC. www.fbi.gov/about/huntsv...

It’s quite clear by now that the answer to “why is the Trump administration doing x terrible thing?” is that they are *trying* to dismantle America and destabilize the entire world.

You should definitely never download and remove DRM from your Kindle books, that would be highly unethical. So definitely never do what's described in this guide. Outrageous! www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/co...

Man-in-the-middle attack. This seems relevant when considering the Starlink connections to election-tallying servers: www.dni.gov/ncsc/e-Learn...

Or zero - you don't need it and it makes everyone else get an even 2 slices?

What does that choice mean- when no one is looking?

1 - Everybody should get some pizza, even if I'm still hungry.
2- Some get 2, some get 1, I'll be one of the 2-slicers and be better off.
3- I'm hungrier than others so I get more, even if that means someone else gets none.
4-8 - screw everyone else, I can't even eat it all but I'm taking it!

Recently I had a discussion about the nature of conservatives and progressives as relates to "the pizza principle". Imagine you are at a dinner party with 4 of your friends. Pizza has 8 slices. You're alone in the kitchen - nobody's going to know, how many slices do you take?

Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...

I don’t think we have enough info right now to say one way or the other what was responsible for the horrific crash over the Potomac, but Trump is anti-air traffic safety. (A friend who works as an airplane mechanic posted this, which got lost with a lot of the firings.)

apnews.com/article/coas...

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America, wake up!

It’s happening before our eyes—eyes wide shut.

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