MarkTr
@markt322.bsky.social
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'Yes, but, well, Baltimore.' Engineer, dad, utility cyclist, runner. 🐘: @[email protected]
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Thinking of the times in N95 I wanted to move a few hundred k around to fix things or meet urgent Fleet needs and I couldn’t but they’re just going to pay the whole payroll from RDT&E.
A cartoon of Calvin and Hobbes playing Calvinball.  Calvin says ha ha I’ll just use RDT&E to pay MILPERS this week.  Hobbes says No fair, that’s an Anti-Deficiency Act Violation.  Calvin says I declare the ADA moot in Calvinball.
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I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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I’m going to remind everyone every day this week that the Baltimore Running Festival is SATURDAY.
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Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.
Read your thread earlier and then this came through my Facebook feed just now:
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Actually one of the most salient quotes I've seen today, and reminding of the fact that there always be good people being very brave.
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There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.
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blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada
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Read this if you want to know why people in the country think Baltimore is a shithole.
This Fox article today might belong in the hall of fame of bad faith use of statistics.
The headline cites a "spike in car thefts in some Baltimore districts" and the body goes on to point out some crazy increases: 62% in Northwest! 30% in Central! Sounds like a real City in Crisis, right? A 🧵:
Fox Baltimore headline: Man's car stolen from garage amidst spike in car thefts in some Baltimore districts Recent data from the Baltimore Police Department indicates a rise in auto thefts in three of the city's nine districts over a seven-day period, with a 30% increase in the Central district, 62% in the Northwest district and 12% in the Eastern district.

Last week, five districts reported increases.
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White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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While @GovBillLee @JasonMumpower and others boast about the Boring Company’s record, in reality Musk’s Nashville tunnel digging company is accused of a massive amount of violations in Vegas. www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?
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Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
www.construction-physics.com
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“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
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Plenty of gripes to be had w David Simon but this rocks
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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The bad kind of parasocial enemy to have is a stranger you hate because of their political posts. The good kind of parasocial enemy to have is a stranger you hate because they’re also on Strava and run in the little park by your apartment and log faster segments, eat shit Francois you motherfucker
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I mean this sincerely: If the presence of the National Guard at Union Station is supposed to make it feel safer, they could patrol the dark parking lot at 10:30 at night instead of hanging out in front of the closed Starbucks or whatever.
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