Marc Shaw

husband. dad. son. brother. dog wrangler. behavioral health architect/planner. grey haired runner. other things over time. i vent here. typos definitely mine.

[Marc Shaw @MarcShaw16]

@j_sexton333 @jchybow @BiankaB12 Perhaps the rule change so this IPO gets into index funds? The voting rules that give shareholders no power? The fact that most of the company's components are losers? The recent "acquisition" that links the losers to the one good piece?

Also, the owner is a criminal.

[Rock - NA-FO Raccoon @NAAF0Racoon]

Zelensky was told that the Kremlin thought his open letter was “rude”.

His response: “they should’ve seen the first version “

😆😂🤣

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

[Dad to the Bone @Dad_2_The_Bone]

Things for which he has cut funding
1. Cancer research
2. National Parks
3. Dept of Education
4. Public Broadcasting
5. Research grants
6. Centers for Disease Control
7. National Institute of Health
8. Housing and Urban Development
9. USAID
10. Medicare, Medicaid, SS
11. FEMA/EPA/NOAA
12. Everything that helps people

Things that cost more:
1. Everything

Things that are better:
1. Nothing

[Marc Shaw @MarcShaw16]

@Swan_Creek1 @GuntherEagleman He still won't love you.

[Marc Shaw @MarcShaw16]

@GuntherEagleman You mean allowing every legal voter the chance to vote, verifying that any ballots with questions are dispassionately reviewed and accepted or rejected consistent with the law? Oh the horror!

To be fair, if every staate did this, Republicans would lose much more often.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Constitution requires two-thirds vote from the Senate to bind us to another country.

They hid it in the bill because they knew it was unconstitutional.

It’s treasonous as far as I’m concerned.

Every single person who voted for this needs removed from office.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

After the dams came down on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe didn't wait for nature to fix itself.

For decades, four hydroelectric dams turned a living river into stagnant reservoirs. They blocked salmon and steelhead from 400 miles of spawning grounds, fueled toxic algae blooms, and raised water temperatures past what the fish could survive.

When the last dam came down in late 2024, the river ran free again. But the exposed reservoir beds, 2,200 acres of bare sediment, were unstable and wide open to invasive species.

So the Yurok Tribe got to work. Along a 38-mile stretch, tribal crews hand-sowed billions of native plant seeds, planted 76,000 trees and shrubs, and seeded 28,000 acorns.

Nearly 100 native plant species. All by hand. All from seeds collected locally and grown out specifically for the restoration.

It's already working. Salmon are spawning in the Upper Klamath Basin for the first time in over a century. Lupines and willows are stabilizing the banks. The river is breathing again.

The Klamath is now the largest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, and the people doing the heaviest lifting are the ones who have lived along that river for thousands of years.

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Trump held an agriculture roundtable meeting with farmers in Wisconsin yesterday.

The purpose was to raise the morale of farmers with new promises he will break as usual.

This is what Trump told them.

"I don't need this. I got elected. What the hell do I have to be here for?"

Well, if farmers haven't given up on him yet that statement should have given them a wake-up call.
#DemsUnited

[Marc Shaw @MarcShaw16]

@jchybow @BiankaB12 You're free to buy the shitty stock on your own. Go for it.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

The reason why a Danish pension fund banned its investors from buying any SpaceX shares is not just the appalling S-1 filings, where the ONLY profitable segment was Starlink (everything else - the AI, social media, the orbital data centre plans, is burning money at a rate that will bankrupt most companies on this planet).

It’s also the governance structure they don’t want to buy into.

Elon Musk holds roughly 85% of voting power through a dual-class share structure. He serves as CEO, CTO and chairman of the board, and he cannot be removed as CEO without his own consent.

Now, given his personality:

- erratic
- narcissistic
- with self-confessed (and self-evident) ketamine drug addiction
- appalling personal life (kids across multiple mothers, and yes - that matters in business)
- fringe political views, etc. etc.

It is NO surprise that competent investors would not risk the money of their clients.

The world is changing and people agreeing to play roulette with their clients’ money are coming to an end. Also, many haven’t forgotten 2008, and yes - the American system (or lack of one, especially guardrails) is still blamed for causing that global recession.

Scarcity will lead to investments flowing into more stable, reputable and sustainable ventures.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

If there is any justice left in this country, the entire Trump crime family will end up behind bars due to their obscene corruption.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “…if Susan Collins is re-elected, remember this, she will continue to rubber stamp the Trump agenda and all that means, and mark my words, there will be MORE chances for her to install right wing justices in the court to help cement conservative control of that institution for another generation. Sam Alito is 76 years old. He’s all but confirmed he’s retiring soon. Clarence Thomas is 77. He’s already threatened to quit at least once. If Republicans hold the Senate, it seems essentially assured that BOTH men will announce their retirement. Donald Trump will replace them with ideological zealots four decades their junior, and Susan Collins will hem and haw about how CONCERNED she is and then she’ll vote to confirm then anyway, as she did with Brett Kavanaugh. So that is what the stakes are in the [Maine] Senate race.”😳

[The Blue Torch @_TheBlueTorch]

fucking brilliant 🔥

[Marc Shaw @MarcShaw16]

@fire_starter457 While lecturing us on the wonders of the free market....

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE hit-and-run over photo journalist leaving detention center—rushed to hospital.

4 different videos of crime—including reporter's own camera—show the car deliberately swerve to hit them.

Car's wheels clearly turn sharply toward them—while every other car exits straight out of the parking lot.

Josh Pacheco wrote online that they were the one hit by the vehicle and were treated at a hospital.

Incident occurred outside the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DAGToddBlanche: You don’t get to decide to “move on” from the Epstein Files or from following the congressional law. That decision can only be made by the American people and Congress.

You will be disbarred. The files will eventually be released.

November is coming.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

they've built concentration camps and i'm expected to act like it's a mere difference of political opinion

[Karen Kenyatta Russell🍀 @Karen_Russell]

Now I get it!

“The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.”

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Top-secret clearance requires vetting for insider threats. One standard red flag: hostility to the US government. Another: foreign military interest.

Irizarry entered the Capitol through a window with a metal pole. Was convicted. Pardoned. Allegedly texted about joining Russia's military if America's wouldn't have him. Now works in Pentagon counterterrorism with top-secret clearance.

The vetting process produced this result because the vetting process is now loyalty. The clearance follows from the pardon. The pardon followed from January 6th. The circle is complete.