Gus Venditto

Freelance writer on business, healthcare and technology. Author of six books. Surrounded by teachers at home.

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

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@BoLoudon Is that the same box Eric stole from those cancer kids?

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YouTube mega-influencer Rick Beato argues the investment in AI data centers will be a bust because individuals can run their own LM models and personal agents...
How AI Will Fail Like The Music Industry https://t.co/wFjTJFXVuI via @YouTube

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@BillSimmons @TheRewatchables @ChrisRyan77 @SeanFennessey Long time listener, first time caller: What the hell is CR Month? I wonder every time I hear you say it

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@AlexTran677026 Barbara Stanwyck
Bette Davis
Claudette Colbert
Grace Kelly
Deborah Kerr
Julianne Moore
Kate Winslet
Joan Crawford
Katharine Hepburn

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Iranian state-affiliated media is trolling Trump again.

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@JoyceCarolOates I worked at his literary agency (Scott Meredity) when The Executioner's Song was in development. I was surprised that the material for that book was just hand-delivered to him. Larry Shiller's interviews with Gary Gilmore was the book with only light edits from Mailer.

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@JoyceCarolOates Trump is panicking because he understands that if Democrats gain control of the House in November a third impeachment trial is almost guaranteed. If he loses the Senate, he'll be removed from office.

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@RepThomasMassie explains one of the ways that corruption is playing out right in front of our eyes. This is extremely complication but hats off to Massie for having the grit to challenge it

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”

Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.

The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.

Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!

The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.

Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.

Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I��m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.

The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.

There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.

This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.

The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.

The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.

If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

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@JoyceCarolOates Marty Supreme is far more violent than I expected. It’s well-crafted film, but it’s not the light-hearted story I was expecting after seeing the trailer.

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BREAKING: Newly leaked footage shows the video of Bruce Springsteen’s performance that sent Donald Trump spiraling. This is amazing.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“The first 100 days of the Trump administration will go down in history as the greatest grift in the history of our economy in terms of the amount of money stolen and the size of it over the shortest period.”
-Scott Galloway

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Worth reading https://t.co/gSiED7WcSu

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Earlier this week, federal immigration officials arrested a Tufts University student off the street, allegedly for an op-ed she wrote in a student newspaper.

We are partnering with @thefireorg to support writers residing lawfully in this country targeted by the government for the content of their writing.

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@DerrickNAACP @minakimes Another reason why she spoke out: she’s a decent human being.

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Seems obvious doesn’t it? https://t.co/5jcYCroCtt

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@ABCSharkTank Will there be a trademark battle with the ticket retailer TickPick? https://t.co/aEBxdGgSfm

[Sandra Mitchell @glabsandra]

What is more commonly known as ‘Carol of the Bells’ was originally a Ukrainian folk chant welcoming the New Year called ‘Shchedryk’. It was arranged by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1916. Here it is performed by Helena Androsova. (1/3)

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@wea1021 Ax or saw?

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@wea1021 I agree it’s not naughty but this is also the recipe for the fabled “egg cream”