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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A great addition that makes up for the rebrand away from a unique name. Loyal chinatalk listeners demand Second Breakfast!

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Dudes will practice their tactical reloads on the weekend but never practice a tactical gear shift to reverse.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Like how dads are assigned periods of history to specialize in with each successive child

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I should add that any senate move to decouple probably triggers a shutdown or necessitates a CR because senate passed bills would need to be sent back over to House if negotiations do happen. So maybe Rs opt for a short term CR to work this all out.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They’re combined in the senate currently. House peeled the dhs bill off the package to help manage the politics. They could be separated again, but senate will likely need to do some sort of negotiation in order to pass a dhs approps bill.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Sounds difficult. There’s few things as rewarding / humbling as watching a former near-peak professional teach their craft. Helps most of us realize we’ll never get close to the mountain top.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Can you describe the drill?

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The 14th is the expiration date of the current budget CR, not the date we’ll hit the debt ceiling. If not raised, the debt ceiling date will be sometime in May, June, or July and is variable depending on tax receipts during the ongoing tax season.

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John Amdor @johnamdor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Good but let's do counties, school districts, and municipalities so we can really get cookin'.

Tribune: One initiative Pritzker plans to present is a proposal to make it easier for voters to reduce or eliminate local township government by petition. The move would resurrect a decades-long effort to abolish townships, a centuries-old form of government that has perpetuated itself by providing powerful fiefdoms for local politicians and a place for nepotism and double-dipping. Critics argue that township services could be accomplished less expensively by cities or counties at a savings to property taxpayers.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

As a Michigan-based advocate, I wish I was so lucky as to be experiencing nothing right now.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It’s probably time for another Andor rewatch.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Yes. Thank you, it’s been a while since I moved. Multiple great bike trails. I used to ride one of those trails to downtown almost everyday. Austin has great bike infrastructure!

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Austin bouldering project on Springfield is what you’re looking for. Stay in the Govalle neighborhood so you can get breakfast tacos at Marcelino’s.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Move your ebooks into calibre on a computer and just transfer to kobo then.

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I don’t have a reference handy, but Guelzo’s excellent book on Gettysburg refers to a specific Union Corp that largely spoke German and whose officers were made up of mostly ‘48ers’

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Tom in GR @tomingr.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Have worked closely with pollsters. Sophisticated ones use the voter file and match info from that with commercially obtainable data sets. If a respondent answers a question in a way that doesn’t match the back end info the pollster has, they toss the respondent.

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