michaelmarinus.bsky.social

Sustainable-Responsible-Impact Investment Advocate, 3rd Culture Kid (🇳🇱🇺🇸🇸🇬), UC Davis alum. Be Excellent to each other 🤟 Get into good trouble ✌️

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

My view at the @UN 👋

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

Migrating to Blue Sky. Will depart/delete here sometime soon. Here’s my Blue Sky handle:

https://t.co/UgBmLyFKYA…

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@the_transit_guy Is that the boondoggle called Breezewood?

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@CynthiaMLummis How much do you own and will you completely divest before attempting this legislation? If not, then this is just loading more debt upon the federal government just to enrich yourself by backing your speculative position. Gross.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

Pretty surprising choice for Trump since he “disavowed” Project 2025 🙄

[The New York Times @nytimes]

President-elect Trump has picked a leading figure in Project 2025 to head the Office of Management and Budget. The would-be nominee, Russell Vought, has spent the last four years making plans to rework the American government to enhance presidential power. https://t.co/q3GYjdQOzJ

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@the_transit_guy Pittsburgh and DC.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

This. An authoritarian terrorist with nukes invaded their country, so they’ve been forced to fight an existential threat to their way of life. Appeasement fails.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Zelensky:
"We aren't ready to give our freedom to this fucking terrorist Putin".

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@howardlindzon 😂

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@prchovanec Thanks for posting this thread, Patrick. Well said. You aren’t alone.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@michaelianblack 👏

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

Be sure to thank your local poll workers!

Vital that citizens serve this role in every community across the nation.

Sadly, they’ve been under incredible pressure thanks to… well, you know.

My thanks and my vote so we get back to a normal environment for them.

#Election2024

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

#RightToRepair

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Thanks to @CopyrightOffice, McDonald’s franchisees now have the right to repair their own ice cream machines.

In March @FTC filed a comment in support of this change, and we’ll keep using our tools to protect people’s right to repair.

https://t.co/vzLV15dUEk

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 When one side is intentionally choosing to not govern, they aren’t a good faith problem solver. That’s where we are today. Their leader now calls anyone that doesn’t want him as POTUS again “the enemy within”.

Not the same as disagreeing on *how* to govern.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 Deflection by them to blame “teams” for the past two years. Nothing more obvious than the border bill: bipartisan work - led by R senator - ready to be passed… then sabotaged by Trump b/c it would hurt fearmongering campaign. House Trumpers kill it. The People get nothing.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 Definitely impossible when one party has no interest in governing. Literal pride in making government not work. What we witnessed in the House the past two years has been ridiculous. So many deeply unserious people. Like what happened with the border bill.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

40 years ago today, Bruce Springsteen released his classic song “Born In The U.S.A.,” and judging the sales on July 4th this year, the 40th consecutive year of people not listening to the lyrics.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 There’s no easy fix, but incremental improvement is better than “blowing things up” with no plan. So easy to break things. So so so hard to rebuild them.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 Obviously no, but I know something that will make life definitively worse for everyone: intentionally undermining the full faith and credit of the United States. I can think of some people that would want nothing less. And sadly, they have lined up to back one of our two choices.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 Right. Best case is to make the runaway train grow less big. For the moment, at least. Their budget forecasting is sober and consistent. For people that claim to care about fiscal responsibility... there's a stark difference in our 2 choices next week.

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 Sorry for thumb typos

Isn’t not “invent”/DJT not “DJY”

[michaelmarinus.bsky.social @MichaelMarinus]

@jimyoung2817 Sounds great but invent going to happen because Trump’s plan have INCREASES in spending and decreases in revenue. DJY proved he’s unmatched at blowing up spending and debt during his first term.

Would Elon cut from the DoD/National Defense spending that fund his ventures?

[Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis]

You *could* cut $2T a year out of federal spending as Musk suggests, but from where? Most federal spending = Social Security, health care (Medicare, Medicaid, ACA), Defense, Veterans benefits and Interest. https://t.co/y5jwKCQCMR