Trip McNeely
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For the moment, the best suggestion I can offer is that everyone should be studying the effects of the Trump tariff madness for what it can tell us about climate and trade. So many exogenous effects!
And here concludes what turned out to not really be an especially short thread.
And here concludes what turned out to not really be an especially short thread.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For the moment, the best suggestion I can offer is that everyone should be studying the effects of the Trump tariff madness for what it can tell us about climate and trade. So many exogenous effects!
And here concludes what turned out to not really be an especially short thread.
And here concludes what turned out to not really be an especially short thread.
Were they “boycotting”. No. But they were targetted by candidates and campaigns, with messaging yea but also with policy ideas.
October 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Were they “boycotting”. No. But they were targetted by candidates and campaigns, with messaging yea but also with policy ideas.
I think people should be required to vote, personally. But, I wonder, what’s the difference between this and targeting the disengaged non-voter. Turnout rates soared in ‘08 and again in ‘20 and ‘24. Some group that hadn’t felt seen all of a sudden felt represented? Think younger, working class men.
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I think people should be required to vote, personally. But, I wonder, what’s the difference between this and targeting the disengaged non-voter. Turnout rates soared in ‘08 and again in ‘20 and ‘24. Some group that hadn’t felt seen all of a sudden felt represented? Think younger, working class men.
Police being defunded, critical race theory in grade schools, covid mitigation as a net society negative, inflation being caused by covid relief.
September 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Police being defunded, critical race theory in grade schools, covid mitigation as a net society negative, inflation being caused by covid relief.
The $19B for farmers last time was done without any act of Congress, just existing emergency authority that Rs seem to be great at using and we seem to suck at.
September 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The $19B for farmers last time was done without any act of Congress, just existing emergency authority that Rs seem to be great at using and we seem to suck at.
Not to pick nits but you sure that suit was filed as a CEQA? That’s not how it reads. Seems more like some state permitting or land use law, even one designed to prevent local governments from stopping development. But I’m not a CA expert.
September 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Not to pick nits but you sure that suit was filed as a CEQA? That’s not how it reads. Seems more like some state permitting or land use law, even one designed to prevent local governments from stopping development. But I’m not a CA expert.
I hear that, but like some state legislators in WA, I just define the first problem as increasing the number of voters in muni elections, which even years would fix. Increasing the number of informed voters has to be the second problem, and already needs to be fixed in even year elections as is.
September 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I hear that, but like some state legislators in WA, I just define the first problem as increasing the number of voters in muni elections, which even years would fix. Increasing the number of informed voters has to be the second problem, and already needs to be fixed in even year elections as is.
Like, MI under D trifecta could have tried to enact a Civics test requirement for the right to vote. it might have reduced turnout from less informed voters and helped Dems. But we’d rightly see it as undemocratic.
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September 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Like, MI under D trifecta could have tried to enact a Civics test requirement for the right to vote. it might have reduced turnout from less informed voters and helped Dems. But we’d rightly see it as undemocratic.
It certainly sucks, I just can’t get with efforts that sound like an intentional effort to limit de jure or de facto the number of Americans doing electing.
September 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
It certainly sucks, I just can’t get with efforts that sound like an intentional effort to limit de jure or de facto the number of Americans doing electing.
“A republic, if you can keep it?”
September 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“A republic, if you can keep it?”
Yes so if we know they care generally, whether super-informed about candidates or not, really, we should I believe bend over backwards to let more of them vote with even year elections. If they elect an ass clown they will be better positioned to vote that ass clown out 2-4 years later.
September 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Yes so if we know they care generally, whether super-informed about candidates or not, really, we should I believe bend over backwards to let more of them vote with even year elections. If they elect an ass clown they will be better positioned to vote that ass clown out 2-4 years later.
It’s not like this hasn’t been tried during the last decade of record even year turnouts.
September 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It’s not like this hasn’t been tried during the last decade of record even year turnouts.
Seattle gives each voter $100 worth of “democracy vouchers” to donate to municipal candidates in odd year elections that dominate media coverage through Sinclair-owned local news and an active paper. The percentage of Seattlites deciding their leaders remains less than half the even year turnout.
September 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Seattle gives each voter $100 worth of “democracy vouchers” to donate to municipal candidates in odd year elections that dominate media coverage through Sinclair-owned local news and an active paper. The percentage of Seattlites deciding their leaders remains less than half the even year turnout.
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OTOH, when Netanyahu attacked Iran he KNEW that he didn’t have the weapons to attack Fordo. Only the US has bombers that can penetrate the deep bunkers where that enrichment happens. It is hard not to conclude that he assumed he could play Trump like a fiddle. And Trump got played.
June 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
OTOH, when Netanyahu attacked Iran he KNEW that he didn’t have the weapons to attack Fordo. Only the US has bombers that can penetrate the deep bunkers where that enrichment happens. It is hard not to conclude that he assumed he could play Trump like a fiddle. And Trump got played.
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In order to meet our climate goals, we are going to need so much more electricity than almost anyone is planning for.
June 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In order to meet our climate goals, we are going to need so much more electricity than almost anyone is planning for.
Yes. And, I’m feeing bad for the entities having their contracts violated, for the thousands of communities and projects planing to pursue these green bank loans for nearly 3 years since IRA passed, and I feel bad for the unnecessary stall or loss of climate action and economic development here.
February 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Yes. And, I’m feeing bad for the entities having their contracts violated, for the thousands of communities and projects planing to pursue these green bank loans for nearly 3 years since IRA passed, and I feel bad for the unnecessary stall or loss of climate action and economic development here.
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2/ Very important here that Citibank appears to be extra-legally locked down the funds at the behest of the Trump administration. It's so transparently corrupt judge wouldn't sign off on a freeze.
February 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
2/ Very important here that Citibank appears to be extra-legally locked down the funds at the behest of the Trump administration. It's so transparently corrupt judge wouldn't sign off on a freeze.
To the degree this is partially real, it’s because, as the tech industry knows well, lots of people with intergenerational wealth exist. They have more freedom and access to pursuing fulfilling jobs of service that pay well but perhaps not as well as a comparable corporate job.
February 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
To the degree this is partially real, it’s because, as the tech industry knows well, lots of people with intergenerational wealth exist. They have more freedom and access to pursuing fulfilling jobs of service that pay well but perhaps not as well as a comparable corporate job.
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Yet the OMB memo makes clear that the whole point of the pause is to make sure the spending appropriated by Congress is consistent with "the President's priorities." That's an impermissible reason to delay spending.
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Yet the OMB memo makes clear that the whole point of the pause is to make sure the spending appropriated by Congress is consistent with "the President's priorities." That's an impermissible reason to delay spending.
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A spending law, passed by Congress and signed by the President, sets the policy per Article I of the Constitution. A new President can't unilaterally override that policy, even temporarily. And that's the point of this provision of the ICA -- to enforce Congress's power of the purse.
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A spending law, passed by Congress and signed by the President, sets the policy per Article I of the Constitution. A new President can't unilaterally override that policy, even temporarily. And that's the point of this provision of the ICA -- to enforce Congress's power of the purse.