iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Do we still have Tariffs on India for this very thing?

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Denver and other front range cities in Colorado are about as boxed in as you can get, and yet we've done a great job building lots more housing recently, and as a result lowering rents (finally).

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have frequently been frustrated by the fact the Colorado Dems have not gotten more kudos in recent years for lifting so many regulations to get more housing built. It has helped the rents in this state so much.

021

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Seen any polling on 134? If national polling is to be believed roughly 45% of Dems oppose trans women in women's competitive sports. But curious how that will translate to this.

100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pretty appalling story. As white nationalism becomes a bigger part of the right wing identity I'd expect to keep seeing more of this. @friendlyatheist.com might find this interesting. Know the school they were supposed to play this weekend is not playing now. www.denverpost.com/2026/10/07/l...

denverpost.com

Students at Lutheran High School accused of making monkey noises, whipping belts at Black students at football game

Four cheerleaders from the Colorado Springs school and their coach alleged Lutheran students and community members called Black cheerleaders “Harriet Tubman,” made monkey noises and used racist slurs.

210

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not sure I can count the times on The Gazette's FB page I've pointed out that CSI is very right leaning, although always introduced by The Gazette as Non Partisan.

100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Always been curious where Vetrinary Assistant's end up? Seems like more and more that job is requiring some post secondary education, and from what I know seems to pay horribly due to so many wanting to do it.

110

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why haven't you opted out of texts? It's always been this bad if you don't opt out at the end of the month.

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Going to hear Jack Smith speak next week. Might have a chance to ask a question. What is the best question you would ask him if you had the chance?

001

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I will say I agree, but it feels to me like becoming a life long learner is way more important. Not sure how much history from school I even remember, but I have read probably 2 history books a year as an adult which has been invaluable to being a better citizen.

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's behavior like this that is why minumum wage has not passed federally for 20 years. Encourage people to not vote democrat, because that will make things better. Feels like Jill Stein is in the house, pulling votes away, and then complaining about the damage she caused.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Multiple times dems tried to gather a few senate repubs to pass it. Was in the news many times

100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Familiar with the fillibuster?

201

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seriously why the both sides childish arguments? At the federal level one party has tried to raise the minumum wage, the other has stopped them every time. It's garbage arguments like this that make people think both parties are the same.

200

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The media paradox of competence. Something Democrats have to do a better job of criticizing the media about. When a politician is slightly more competent, significantly smaller items become far larger issues that get vastly more media coverage and to the unsophisticated news consumer look larger.

100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When was she last on one of the right wing propaganda stations, like we've seen others on the list doing frequently?

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Has she started talking to those she disagrees with frequently? We don't need another Biden.

100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of missed my point that Republican's are getting off too easy. They are complicit. Not disagreeing with a word you say, but for many unsophisticated voters, there it not nearly enough blame going on these standard Republican policies.

110

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why keep saying Trump rather than Republican? At least on healthcare, virtually all of this originated in the House and Senate from Republicans and Trump simply signed it. On healthcare, Republicans won't be fixed when Trump is gone.

100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And looking closer, it may just be that although lean hog prices are pretty cheap compared to post pandemic numbers. They are still only about average when looking at pre-pandemic prices.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What I don't understand is why pork ribs and shoulder have not gone down in the store, or even got close to what they used to cost. Despite hog prices being pretty cheap these days.

100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Didn't he previously say there were 'Good people' on the side chanting "Jews will not replace us" in Charlotteville? Do we expect a different answer from him?

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So he bore false witness by saying they reported 'fake' news?

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Stop sounding like Ronald Reagan! 😁

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Facebook is the one that just never seems right to me, no mattter what I do, FB likes to feed me 10 right wing crazies pages. Seems like if I block 10 of them they go away for the day, but in a day I'll have to block 10 more to get rid of them.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Do we expect different from the man who does not understand 6th grade math?

020

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

But too be fair, Putin and Trump have accelerated adoption of greener energy through their stupidity faster in many cases than what was even being discussed before the Ukraine war and now likely the Iran war.

0100

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What I tell people is there are so many things working against the economy right now, what will set off a downside could be anything. What I dread is that it waits until the next President is elected.

020

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Perhaps if the NCBA had come out a bit more strongly opposed to the SNAP cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill, they'd have had more luck.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Facism? They also had price controls. The parallels today to the lead up to WW2 that @braddelong.bsky.social mentions in his book Slouching Towards Utopia as both Communism (really-existing socialism) and Fascism were both reactions to unbridled capitalism has just been glaring as of late.

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think one of Bernies biggest failures in the US was blurring the line between European Social Dems and Democratic Socialists.

080

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It is fascinating how delusional some are in thinking the only issue in Israel is Netanyahu, and totally ignore how conservative Israel has shifted in recent years. Netanyahu with his 18 years as PM is not an outlier in Israel, but American supporters at any cost, hope many aren't paying attention.

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Do note, I never said people were not talking about it. But there is a difference between talking about it, and gaining messaging traction through how they are talking about it.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I think the most surprising thing here is that no Democratic politician has learned to message on this (states that pay less taxes are getting more federal funding) as a precedent, promising to follow the precedent until congress presents bipartisan legislation to keep it from happening again.

2331

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The first options are not in food deserts. They will put other stores out of business.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hard for me not to think Government run grocery stores that sell staples will not actually reduce the number of other grocery stores nearby, thus making the problem even worse in the long run. I think some type of couponing system that gave a discount on staples locally would be far more efficient.

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

They are not, most Grocery stores operate with the 1-4% margins. This goes into where the prices have gone up. www.economist.com/business/202...

economist.com

Don’t blame supermarkets for your expensive groceries

Saying greedy shops have caused rising food prices is populist nonsense

121

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Also Matt is pulling this from FRED which makes it super easy to create your own charts with a start date of whatever you'd like. If you have many economic discussions having a basic understanding of FRED is super helpful. You can literally go create that chart in 1 minute

150

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

But not to mention such sweeping declarations that proved so wrong after just a few minutes. S&P and Nasdaq both down today.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Do think one of Bernie's biggest failures was conflating Democratic Socialism with Social Democrats. I've had so many people who were big Bernie supporters say that Democratic Socialists don't support public ownership of companies. We're not doing ourselves any favors continuing to conflate the 2.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Have to say, that article was great. Not sure you hid your bias well, but I chuckled quite a bit. Some of those sub headlines, oh my! 😜 Have to say, if those men are truly unable to control themselves, maybe it's for the best.

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The media narrative has to be that the Republican base has no moral and intellectual core and will go wherever the propaganda leads them.

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Not looked lately but does Colorado with mail in ballots have higher primary participation?

000

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Funny thing is Polis, until he went crazy lately probably had the best case around housing of everyone. Vacancy rates mostly in the 6%+ range and rents actually falling in some parts of the state.

010

Greg Motter @gregmotter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

How many of those things were worse after his tenure than before? Don't get me wrong, CA is still just awful on the housing front (everything you mentioned is housing related). What's sad is several likely to run have policies far worse than what he's tried to push for regarding housing.

110