Joe Kubicki

I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.

This is not a thorny issue. This is not fraught. It is extrajudicial killing. It is the killing of civilians under any standard of law. He killed them on the basis of his-say so that they are drug smugglers, mere criminals. It was premeditated. And he's saying he's going to do it again and again.

About the worst (weirdest?) part was the random pairs of guys in military gear doing absolutely nothing. Along with the seemingly empty humvee right out front in a walking area maybe 100 feet from the "F*ck Trump" tents. There were still tour buses and the humvee is what was scaring people not DC.

Unfortunately as a grad student I've seen people just in the process of finding research to write about in final papers admit to using chatgpt to find studies to use (and even say they had to sort through fake results) instead of figuring out how to use the online library database.

If you aren't already against AI this sort of stuff should make you against it. The amount of water and energy required for it will only increase as people try to force AI into every industry. You'll either be asked to use less water or the pollution created will destroy your environment.

As I was saying:
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Yikes is the right word for sure

Exactly.

Love Not Just Bikes for their in depth look into transportation and development. One of the largest voices speaking about how to actually make public transportation as good as it can be in its varied forms.

How did I miss this absolute banger?

Should know 2 things in transportation. 1 - you aren't going to ban cars anywhere in America probably ever. 2 - banning cars isn't the proper way to go about it or talk about goals related go transportation because of how easily that is misinterpreted.

I think someone who boils their take on transportation to 'ban cars' have only a passing interest in. I know very few people who would say this because anyone actually talking about decreasing car traffic doesnt go around just suggesting a ban on cars because thats silly. Anyone interested...

Oh boy those improvised rehearsals must have been scary all around

Absolutely outrageous.

See this anti-DEI purge for what it is: a radical political project to erase--literally erase--the accomplishments, leadership & heroism of PoC, women & the disabled.

The MAJORITY of Americans belong to 1 or more of those groups.

"Anti-DEI" is an anti-American revolution.

What does he say? "I deal in everything. Guns so they can shoot each and medicine to make them all better for round 2"
Yeah. Definitely Chuck

The priest who gave a Nazi salute faced some accountability, I believe. But musk has not --not in any way. Nazi salutes are being normalized.

Anyone who has watched Snatch knows to always fear a man who keeps a pig farm

Or, they are angry I got in the way of their "innocent" fun. I find that men are very often angry with me in these circumstances. 😬 Hence, my Medieval Cause of Death is Womannely Mouthyneff. 🤣

So nowadays, the racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, etc, they dont have to defend their words or actions cause they're just joking around and you're the bad guy for bringing it up. So they get to claim they don't even believe it but can spew it all day long.

So around other men, you tend to accept that "boys will be boys" mentality so broadly that suddenly your friends are ACTUALLY using slurs or whatever. You don't know what to do either cause they're your friends but you know they're wrong. If you bring it up you'll be killing the vibe and ostracized

As a young man growing up in the internet age this is one of the biggest problems of our gen. Around other men all politeness and pretext drops. You know what they mean when they say certain words. A lot of men know that certain things are unacceptable today but a lot them still want to say it

Many states have kept taxes low or lower them further by relying on these fed funds for things they may normally have to fund themselves. No state should be in favor of these cuts.

Really trying to echo this idea.
It's also not like most states have the funding systems in place to cover lost funds from the fed govt. Especially say, education. The only thing pulling mass fed funds will do is crater these services across the country especially in poorer states.

Love it. Proper usage of these internal levers to get rid of incapable or corrupt leadership. It SHOULD be an example for Congress to look at and consider what tools they have... too bad

Evolving the OODA Loop for Strategy - Marine Corps Association The work of the late Col John Boyd has significantly influenced the doctrine and concepts of the U.S. armed forces for the last 30 years. Boyd’s achievements

I really enjoyed this. A big question in my MPA classes seems to be trying to streamline strategic decisionmaking without compromising decision quality, so this caught my eye.
www.mca-marines.org/gazette/ooda...

Of course

I think the biggest concern outside of specific policies is that the average American can't possibly be asked to understand the best choices to them in the voting booth with the influence of big money donors, etc. This is intensified by media/social media leading to people spreading misinfo

I think a lot of people in the classes find that with current admin tactics it is only leading towards negative impacts as nothing is being done well/correctly. The idea of cutting unneccesary costs, fraud, etc, isnt unpopular, but what is being done to 'cut' is NOT at all popular.

Just started the GMU MPA program. A lot of worried people, across the political spectrum. Also, a lot of these base classes talk about classical ideas of PubAdmin generally from implementation to culture/organization and management and regularly people are questioning how applicable these ideas are

This is how we can build trust again, through approachable methods like this. Utilizing technology and creativity allows us to make it so much easier to digest complex ideas that most people are never going to spend time researching