Eric Mersch
@emersch.bsky.social
Senior financial executive with 25 years of civilian experience working in subscription and SaaS. Equity partner at FLG Partners. Author of ”Hacking SaaS - And insiders guide to managing software business success”
Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Opinion | Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Maybe the GOP wants to institutionalize sex trafficking: Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement - WSJ
October 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Maybe the GOP wants to institutionalize sex trafficking: Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement - WSJ
More evidence that we live in and autocracy - Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition
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October 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
More evidence that we live in and autocracy - Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
question for the blue sky Community: will Trump allow the midterm elections to take place?
September 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
question for the blue sky Community: will Trump allow the midterm elections to take place?
Consumer prices were up 2.9% in August from a year earlier, hotter than July’s gain of 2.7%
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Consumer prices were up 2.9% in August from a year earlier, hotter than July’s gain of 2.7%
A U.S. military aircraft struck a boat suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean several times from the air last week, even though the vessel had turned around before the strike began
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
A U.S. military aircraft struck a boat suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean several times from the air last week, even though the vessel had turned around before the strike began
Rudy Giuliani was involved in a car crash in New Hampshire on that left him injured, said Michael Ragusa, head of the former New York City mayor’s security - Sending thoughts and prayers, which will be just as helpful as those offered by Republicans to gun victims.
September 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Rudy Giuliani was involved in a car crash in New Hampshire on that left him injured, said Michael Ragusa, head of the former New York City mayor’s security - Sending thoughts and prayers, which will be just as helpful as those offered by Republicans to gun victims.
Florida Governor Says He Is Undeterred by Court Ruling on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Florida Governor Says He Is Undeterred by Court Ruling on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
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August 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Florida Governor Says He Is Undeterred by Court Ruling on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
From the WSJ: “The weather service’s Houston-Galveston office, which straddles an area that sees frequent hurricanes but is also known as “flash flood alley,” currently has no chief meteorologist, science operations officer or warning-coordination meteorologist…”
July 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
From the WSJ: “The weather service’s Houston-Galveston office, which straddles an area that sees frequent hurricanes but is also known as “flash flood alley,” currently has no chief meteorologist, science operations officer or warning-coordination meteorologist…”
Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...
Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs
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June 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/b...
Maybe she’s allergic to accountability
June 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Maybe she’s allergic to accountability
An appeal to Republicans. Please don’t let this bill go through. This ran in today’s Wall Street Journal.
June 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
An appeal to Republicans. Please don’t let this bill go through. This ran in today’s Wall Street Journal.
WSJ: “Roughly 500 Marines are deploying to the Los Angeles area to protect federal buildings and personnel in the wake of weekend protests over immigration” Trump is desperate for a fight.
June 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
WSJ: “Roughly 500 Marines are deploying to the Los Angeles area to protect federal buildings and personnel in the wake of weekend protests over immigration” Trump is desperate for a fight.
I found this article in the Wall Street Journal today. Really disturbing. It talks about how the Trump administration turned it into a memorial for the Far Right with a director of religious programming and a prayer wall. It included this image, which looks scarily like a dictatorship.
June 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I found this article in the Wall Street Journal today. Really disturbing. It talks about how the Trump administration turned it into a memorial for the Far Right with a director of religious programming and a prayer wall. It included this image, which looks scarily like a dictatorship.
There’s a real problem with the New York Times credibility in that any disgrace celebrity with a checkbook can seek redemption through some puff piece. Elizabeth Holmes, Mario Cuomo, and now this guy who made up facts in his bio.
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Oprah Shamed Him. He’s Back Anyway.
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June 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
There’s a real problem with the New York Times credibility in that any disgrace celebrity with a checkbook can seek redemption through some puff piece. Elizabeth Holmes, Mario Cuomo, and now this guy who made up facts in his bio.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/s...
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When one man destroys a university that won’t teach his ideology, you know you’re in a dictatorship. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Trump Issues Proclamation Suspending Foreign Students at Harvard
The action is the president’s latest attack on the Ivy League school.
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June 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
When one man destroys a university that won’t teach his ideology, you know you’re in a dictatorship. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Kremlin news straight from its most prominent mouthpiece: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Relays Putin’s Plans to Retaliate Against Ukraine
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June 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Kremlin news straight from its most prominent mouthpiece: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
After all the boasting about cutting government expenses, this is what we get:
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Trump Megabill Would Expand Deficits by $2.4 Trillion, CBO Estimates
The number underlines Republicans’ challenges in selling the measure as fiscally sound and comes as GOP senators are making demands with additional price tags that will challenge party leaders’ abilit...
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June 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
After all the boasting about cutting government expenses, this is what we get:
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Here’s another guy that continues to serve while mentally impaired: www.wsj.com/politics/fet...
Fetterman Defends Job Performance as Health Concerns Persist
The maverick senator, who has missed 30 votes this year, says questions about his job performance and mental health are politically based.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Here’s another guy that continues to serve while mentally impaired: www.wsj.com/politics/fet...
Trump’s depravity knows no bounds - “Personalizing attacks on individual judges, publicizing who they are in ways that suggest action should be taken against them, that’s deeply concerning,” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...
Trump Officials Intensify Attacks on Judges as Court Losses Mount
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May 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Trump’s depravity knows no bounds - “Personalizing attacks on individual judges, publicizing who they are in ways that suggest action should be taken against them, that’s deeply concerning,” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...
Even conservative columnist David Brooks is furious “over the past 4 months, a small cabal at the top of the administration — Trump, Vance, Miller and Russell Vought — have brought a series of moral degradations to the nation those Union soldiers fought and died for”
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Opinion | I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Even conservative columnist David Brooks is furious “over the past 4 months, a small cabal at the top of the administration — Trump, Vance, Miller and Russell Vought — have brought a series of moral degradations to the nation those Union soldiers fought and died for”
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u... Another sign that MAGA is a cult
For These Trump Voters, a Rubber-Stamp Congress Is a Key Demand
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May 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u... Another sign that MAGA is a cult
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... The federal government is trying to bankrupt Harvard University because it will not teach the right wing ideology. Many autocratic moves. I thought I would never see in my lifetime.
Trump Administration Blocks Harvard From Enrolling Foreign Students
The move is the latest in the government’s growing pressure campaign against the Ivy League school.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... The federal government is trying to bankrupt Harvard University because it will not teach the right wing ideology. Many autocratic moves. I thought I would never see in my lifetime.