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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Judges and uncapping the size of the house. It's not 1928 and a FPTP system, for it to be viable, needs a lower ratio between constituents and representatives. Also build out congress' ability to form its own worldview. Expanded CRS, LOC. Bring back OTA.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also need to uncap the house... Remove every incentive to mess with the 2030 census

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think Regal is kind of screwed by when his career took place, and where he chose to work. I'd have loved to see him in King's Road AJPW or early NOAH. But he also worked in company cultures that discouraged workers from showing their skills. I remember loving his matches with Fit Finley.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It does sound like a slightly different key from the song they were singing when the Biden DoD was actually trying to shift to the Pacific. RE: Korea....as someone who did my MA on the Army's response to Korea.

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Jose Mourinho: I Prefer Not To Speak

ALT: Jose Mourinho: I Prefer Not To Speak

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Isn't that very famously the job of the three other branches? Considering we're a maritime power by geography vs our interests, they kind of have to get their fat asses there. Also, we really need to expand airlift and NDRF.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sugar is great but somehow less than Mould's previous band, which deserved so much more.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Should I be concerned I don't see myself in any of those 4.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The funny thing is, he was, in a way, the opposite of Harry Carey, who was very open about letting players have it if there was a lack of effort.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Japanese hobby magazines are just so much better across the board....like I used to love their watch magazines when I'd go to newsstands.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trying to access, and it's throwing an error.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am referring to the "Bureaucratic Politics Model" as originated by Allison and Halpairn, which explains the effects of bureaucracies in making decisions that deviate from strict rational choice dynamics.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you, super helpful. I've read Halperin as part of this review, but not this particular case.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am asking because I am surveying the literature (I think it works well for explaining state behavior in situations with large information asymmetries), and there are many valid critiques of how it's operationalized. I am doing work on political influence and I think it's a fit, but a lift.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Political scientists, is there any really explanatory case for the bureaucratic model not related to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Des Moines, IA? (I am asking because there's a Des Moines, WA, that has 30K people) If so, I choose Des Moines, IA. It'll be like Chinatown meets Fargo.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As someone who came up as a Battletech player, I think GW's contribution to the UK economy suggests the US should posthaste declare an embargo and break off diplomatic relations with the UK. (s/)

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Shinjuku or Hibiya/Yurakucho/Ginza (yes, all connected) would like a word.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The funny thing is the actual policy preferences of Nixon are to the far left of the modern GOP.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The thing that drives me absolutely nuts that people think that Watergate was just about the breakup and not about a sustained pattern of awful behavior.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm happy they're doing the only wrestling venue actually in Chicago.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Jesuits are one of the most collectively intellectually intimidating group of people that I've ever met.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am the son of a truck driver who is no longer mobile because of the kind of work he did. I have significant disability from 8 years of shipboard life. I always get very suspicious when people from silver-spoon backgrounds promote blue-collar professions or discuss "elite overproduction."

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Never did this with London, have done it with Yokohama

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The most simple explanation is the admin views defense as a piggy bank, and the military as an institution to be made ideologically reliable.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm just waiting for the extra oath for the Catholic chaplains.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The most frustrating thing for me is that the most important function of military chaplains has zero to do with religion. They're the first line mental health professionals for the military... And they're going to undermine that by proselytizing.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So I get the goofy mission designs... But I'm floored they made the A-6 handle poorly - there's stories of them giving MIG-17s all they can handle in Vietnam.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am in this post and I do not like it,

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Although that's the second best work of Robert Caro!

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm having an aneurysm over here. My partner lost her job and we seriously considered me suspending my program while we figured it out.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think this is an interesting counterpoint to what's going on with the LA Clippers. Like, Ballmer, in many ways, is an objectionable man, but this is simply next level.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks, I know the floaty things, not the things that fly.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mine did, but I also went to Temple's Japan campus, but I understand I am special.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My question....why that specific one? There must be others closer to flight status.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The biggest technical change they could make is to make it non-algorithmic, but yes, it is inherently an attention-economy problem.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point, respectfully, not a hot take, it just makes sense.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

East side, for the win. Way off of I-5

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Was gonna say, the old best way to tell a good shop on the ship was the state of its coffee mess.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am now convinced that the latter category was pulled together to form Post Malone, like the squad in Saving Private Ryan thought Tom Hanks' character was formed.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Still get embarrassed by the end of "Money Trees"

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/09/2026

EFF joined an amicus brief urging the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violated the First Amendment right to record law enforcement. The government can’t avoid accountability by punishing those who exercise their rights.

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D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents

EFF joined an amicus brief with ACLU, ACLU of D.C., National Press Photographers Association, and Professional Photographers of America to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restricti...

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Never go into any typhoon with no fewer than 3 tall strongs and like 4 bags of chips. Like 2 of the 7/11 chorizo and beer cheese.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes. It does not matter if you think the Kennedy Center is bougie: private individuals do not get to destroy public goods. If you budge one iota on this stance, then you lose the right to object when he demands bits of the national parks as a treat. You've already agreed with him on the principle.

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Bobby Maxwell @rmaxwellusn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I forgot how much listening to music and riding trains in Japan is my favorite thing.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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