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Jim Verquist @verquist.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I remember the days when messages from government agencies were professional and nonpartisan. Not anymore. Here's an email I received from the VA today.

Email Title: How the government shutdown impacts VA

Email Body: As you may be aware, funding for some government agencies, including portions of the Department of Veterans Affairs, expired at midnight this morning.

President Trump opposes a lapse in appropriations, and on September 19, the House of Representatives passed, with the Trump Administration’s support, a clean continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands.

During the current lapse in funding, the vast majority of VA benefits and services will continue uninterrupted, but the government shutdown is not without consequences to VA. Here is what you need to know:
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Jim Verquist @verquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Reading a fabulous biography of Thomas Jefferson. While far from perfect, Jefferson gave America our enduring ideals of freedom and liberty. He was the Aristotle of the founding era. We are lucky he played such an outsized role in defining what America aspires to be. Post 1/2.

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Jim Verquist @verquist.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Is that a Toy Fox Terrier? Here’s ours also trying to fight off sleepiness. :-)

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Jim Verquist @verquist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The movie “Glass Onion” was prescient. Here’s Edward Norton as idiot billionaire Elon Musk:

$That’s the infraction point. That’s the place where you have to look within yourself and ask, “Am I the kind of person who will keep going?” Will you break more things? Break bigger things? Are you willing to break the thing that nobody wants you to break? Because at that point, people are not gonna be on your side. They’re gonna call you crazy. They’re gonna say you’re a bully. They’re gonna tell you to stop. Even your partner will say, “You need to stop.” Because as it turns out, nobody wants you to break the system itself. But that is what true disruption is. —Miles Bron$

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Jim Verquist @verquist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I love that Tesla owners are rebranding their cars!

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Jim Verquist @verquist.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Our dog Momo loves milk and Matcha. Freyja loves coffee. They take after their parents. :-)

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Jim Verquist @verquist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Here’s our little guy, Momo. A Toy Fox Terrier playing with his best friend Tippi.

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