Dctrojan
@dctrojan.bsky.social
neither here nor there, whether that's my citizenship or my opinions
I'm for immigrant rights and also - importantly - immigrant wrongs
I'm for immigrant rights and also - importantly - immigrant wrongs
using commercially available equivalents where possible is not a bad idea, but they are going to be up to their ass in extra paperwork to both manage bids and awards if they're dropping prime / subcontractor arrangements
also good luck enforcing consistency w/ officers used to getting their own way
also good luck enforcing consistency w/ officers used to getting their own way
DOD/DOW Acquisition Transformation Strategy is out, and as people on X have pointed out, it's a doozy
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
using commercially available equivalents where possible is not a bad idea, but they are going to be up to their ass in extra paperwork to both manage bids and awards if they're dropping prime / subcontractor arrangements
also good luck enforcing consistency w/ officers used to getting their own way
also good luck enforcing consistency w/ officers used to getting their own way
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who am i to diss this brie
sweet dreams are made of cheese
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
who am i to diss this brie
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It's very funny for Schumer to try this penny-ante three-card monte routine on BlueSky, the world's largest gathering of Senate procedure sickos
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It's very funny for Schumer to try this penny-ante three-card monte routine on BlueSky, the world's largest gathering of Senate procedure sickos
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COME ON, KYLE
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November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
COME ON, KYLE
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There’s a lot of focus on Richard Burton today, but did you know that the actor and author Alistair MacLean were once involved in a punch-up at the Dorchester? (The Scot won). And that the two men are buried in the same graveyard in Switzerland? www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
Alistair MacLean: Meet the Gaelic-speaking Highlander whose Arctic heroics fuelled his books
Alistair MacLean never had any pretensions about his literary talent even though many of his books became international blockbusters. As he said: "I don’t
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There’s a lot of focus on Richard Burton today, but did you know that the actor and author Alistair MacLean were once involved in a punch-up at the Dorchester? (The Scot won). And that the two men are buried in the same graveyard in Switzerland? www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
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The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.
Meanwhile, '3rd world' India has almost electrified all of its vast network in record time. infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/railway...
Over 99% electrification of Indian Railways network complete
Indian Railways Electrification: The Indian Railways has completed over 99% electrification of its broad-gauge network, with a significant push towards renewable energy, including rooftop solar panels...
infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.
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Man who started his career by promoting a zero tolerance stance on crime reaches the 'how it's going' part of his meme.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Man who started his career by promoting a zero tolerance stance on crime reaches the 'how it's going' part of his meme.
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Aris never quite grasps that a regime that forces mass deportations to enforce ethnic purity might also target people with surnames like Roussinos
Incredible things are happening on the other place (this is about the UK).
September 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Aris never quite grasps that a regime that forces mass deportations to enforce ethnic purity might also target people with surnames like Roussinos
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now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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It's weird to me the lack of shame leaders at certain institutions have, even though they helped create our current disaster
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's weird to me the lack of shame leaders at certain institutions have, even though they helped create our current disaster
I was thinking the other day that I've never understood people's fascination w/ the Edmund Fitzgerald (bad maintenance / management) or the Titanic (bad design / management), but OTOH I'll be mad decades on re: Brexit & current demolition of the US republic & those are pretty good analogs so...
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I was thinking the other day that I've never understood people's fascination w/ the Edmund Fitzgerald (bad maintenance / management) or the Titanic (bad design / management), but OTOH I'll be mad decades on re: Brexit & current demolition of the US republic & those are pretty good analogs so...
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I genuinely feel bad for Chuck Schumer, I know what it's like to suck at your job.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I genuinely feel bad for Chuck Schumer, I know what it's like to suck at your job.
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Someone called the Dem defectors The Hateful Eight and I'm sticking with that one
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Someone called the Dem defectors The Hateful Eight and I'm sticking with that one
I tend to agree with this. My frustration with Democratic party senators (not all, but a lot of them) is that they don't seem to even acknowledge that "harm reduction" might be a real problem & the dismantling of the republic an even bigger one. Just not fit for purpose at this point.
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I tend to agree with this. My frustration with Democratic party senators (not all, but a lot of them) is that they don't seem to even acknowledge that "harm reduction" might be a real problem & the dismantling of the republic an even bigger one. Just not fit for purpose at this point.
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shout out to men on the subway with ereaders. you may not get the attention men with physical books get for some reason but i appreciate that you're signaling to the world "moving apartments is a lot easier for me"
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
shout out to men on the subway with ereaders. you may not get the attention men with physical books get for some reason but i appreciate that you're signaling to the world "moving apartments is a lot easier for me"
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senate twink getting fucked in the senate was actually a metaphor for all of us
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
senate twink getting fucked in the senate was actually a metaphor for all of us
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
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Good riddance, you musty rat-tailed heaux.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Good riddance, you musty rat-tailed heaux.
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I mean, if you had asked those of us from Latin America, we could have told you that populist disasters most certainly do not imply that the populists get punished by voters...
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I mean, if you had asked those of us from Latin America, we could have told you that populist disasters most certainly do not imply that the populists get punished by voters...
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The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...
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We always need an eccentric older David who’s everywhere in pop culture and I’m thrilled that David Byrne has taken on the responsibility from Davids Bowie and Lynch
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We always need an eccentric older David who’s everywhere in pop culture and I’m thrilled that David Byrne has taken on the responsibility from Davids Bowie and Lynch
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The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
Air Force Academy’s accreditation under review after cuts to civilian faculty
Concerned alumni and former faculty told The Denver Post they believe the academy is losing too many civilian Ph.D.-level instructors without the ability to replace them with qualified military mem…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
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lol at ms rachel correctly instructing the nyt about the work of real journalism & then just being like no, i don't think we will be doing that.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
lol at ms rachel correctly instructing the nyt about the work of real journalism & then just being like no, i don't think we will be doing that.
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The Chiberian tiger stalks his frigid realm.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Chiberian tiger stalks his frigid realm.