A gift should mean cost-less in this context, shouldn't it? I've never seen this before. The piece might not be worth effort. Still:

* Opens ok Chrome, Edge, Firefox on Windows.

* As you say on Safari on Mac. View menu, Show reader, refresh opens text.

* iOS Safari Reader may work.

Key bits:

Yes! Federal civilian employment hasn't changed much in 70 years, and is single-digit % of spending. They're really reducing capacity to do what they don't like or understand because they don't wanna pay taxes. As @pkrugman.bsky.social says, the Fed Gov't is like an insurance vendor with an army.

The piece is good but not specific. I read it to say:

* We hate this and don't believe climate change. You promise development and jobs, so ok.

* We swallowed hard, but don't see many jobs and didn't have a voice in development.

* Oil & gas jobs, we know. We exchanged several for 1 green job.

Oh, we can imagine it; we just can't *build* it. Damn it. Our inability to build things we want isn't a new story -- here's Ezra Klein talking about what's happened in Calif:

Two weeks ago. Bubbled every blue dot on the ballot in my blue-dot Indiana city.

And thank you for YOUR service, Senator.

One metric from the piece: wapo.st/40isbQs

I have a lot of work to do. But man, I am tempted to squander all kinds of time. There's just something about a TUI. I used to burn up all kinds of time with rn and trn. This is why I never finished...

Perhaps he once saw a funny movie.

A @nytimes.com bit linked from a linked piece noted that it's not unusual for a primacy candidate in Colorado's 4th district to have been arrested* ... "and the crowd went wild." ;-)

* Not a charge or a conviction of course.

Stories like these should remind us (including secularists like myself) the role churches *could* play as but one institution in a healthy civil society -- alongside *other*, "cross-cutting" cleaved institutions (C. Lindblom 1977 IIRC).

We need more cross-cutting and less overlapped institutions.