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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros)

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Small town kid. Joined the military. Stuck w/ it for 21 yrs. Stayed in defense. Planner & strategist. Inventor of the coffee egg cream & mocha coffee egg cream

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · Nov 27

We'd be lying to ourselves if scenarios (useful fictions) don't ultimately become the means by which people make their reality. You want them to be reasonable approximations to guide thinking when presented with a real-world event or trend. However, most leaders tend to devolve into recognitional<

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 54m

Looks like Norway is getting sanctioned and Venezuela is getting invaded.
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” The former op...

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, you called it.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 19h

Slavery? I don't think it ever existed.
We have a clause in the Constitution that addresses it specific to voting and representation.
Not in my version we don't.

Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 1d

Public Comment for D.O.E.
Deadline is Oct. 17

The U.S. D.O.E. is turning into a propaganda machine. “Patriotic education” is now a funding priority. Schools and museums, will be forced to whitewash history if they want to get grants. Sign the petition at www.regulations.gov/commenton/ED...

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 19h

Governments subsidize things for many reasons but not only and because "they are not working". He may want to look at how we've used susidies to preserve American industry and balance foreign competition while lowering costs for consumers. He thinks tariffs do that; because bad at math and policy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly.

a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

ALT: a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 22h

SCOTUS needs to be more bound by laws related to misconduct which creates a better framework for impeachment and removal. On point 4, I have no issue with that. I believe in publicly funded elections (see my condition on point 1) for every individual (not party) that qualifies to run.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 22h

On point 2, there are already required qualifications in law for many positions, they just choose to waive them under "the President should have the team they want." I believe in other parties, and we have them. What we have are barriers to participation by granting parties say in election process.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 22h

SBIR is broken. Doesn't overcome the valley of death, doesn't result in small business growth to introduce competition, and plays at innovation theater. I'm not against some of these ideas especially up an out since applications require a commercial use case too.
breakingdefense.com/2025/10/clea...

Pentagon's small business innovation fund in jeopardy

Senate lawmakers are at an impasse over DoD's Small Business Innovation Research program, a key seed funding initiative.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

If there is one thing you learn when reading replies: there are people out there who still don't understand the difference between treason, sedition, criminal violations, and civil violations but sure have conclusive opinions.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

People discuss how things may have to be reconciled in America if we have the chance to recover the system from the perverse actions taking place. The first order is for public officials to actually execute the tasks as Constitutional officers that they demured last time. It has to be done.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet goodness. Looking on the LinkedIn he's barely had 15 years of work experience and none of it in this part of the world from what I can tell.
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Skeptical senators grill White House pick to lead Indo-Pacific policy

The nominee to be assistant defense secretary for Indo-Pacific security affairs, backed the president's push for Taiwan to spend more.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

In other words, freedom of the press is a thing and prior restraint cannot be policy. News at 11.
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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

Seems more than qualified to address NAVWAR and PEO MLB's issues. I'm sure it will all work out.
defensescoop.com/2025/10/07/h...

Hung Cao tasked with modernizing Navy’s IT, business systems

Hung Cao, the new undersecretary of the Navy, has been tasked with spearheading digital modernization efforts across the department.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

Good on ya for making the case in the town square. It's what it is here for.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

This defines the type of outcome we need to correct:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

A week later, and we've just yawned & moved on. We're not a serious country, & it's really hard to say that we even live under a Republic of laws & the Constitution anymore. No one who swore oaths to those things on Bibles is doing their damn jobs.

Bart board: The institutions are not self-enforcing

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

That is hardly the takeaway from my comment. My point specifically is that re-writing the entire order for a replacement form of government is not the objective state. Certainly not a critique based on a "caveman" metaphor which is way off the mark.The forms must facilitate acting on the function.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

Illustrates the point I was making in this thread of party reform very well.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

What truly amazes me most about Pritzker is how long it took a Democrat to realize that if you simply did the right thing and kept doing it authentically, all you need to do is keep doing that and you’re going to become the president

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, not really buying it. Part in parcel to the fact that politics is also human and humans interacting. Never confuse the vices of execution with the virtues of the idea. It is not a failed ontology per se it is in the failed methodology. The form needs to reflect the function.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

>thanked for their service and sent on their way.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

This is why our system is designed in balance. Make the laws, execute and enforce the laws, interpret the laws and adminster justice. Declining to do one's job, assuming all the jobs, and preserving immunity from justice and illegal acts is a systemic issue. Every officer not doing that needs to be<

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

I totally feel the imbalance between "I'm just trying to survive" & "I need to do something". Made worse by fear of retribution in a Loomer way

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

That's on you friend. They aren't the issue as much as the message they fell for. Keep voting the way you need to.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

*diverting is not a fail.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

>independent "they" will have a spine and not get the "revenge" politics label but be viewed as law-abiding and enforcing public servants. Crazy I know.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 1d

>table economics was cover. The economy currently rides on AI gambles, data centers, and PE trying to acquire electric companies as a minor proof of the case. If Democrats can't actually divest from a corporate lean and go toward the people sincerely then it comes to the independents. Maybe an<

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