Glonzo the Great and Powerful
@snarkranger.bsky.social
park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, telling stories about America's public lands. Volunteer EMT, wildfire PIO, Draymond stan, erstwhile racing flack, forever believing in the better angels of our nature. opinions are mine. 🏳️🌈
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Yep, one way to tackle the illegal immigration crisis is to make your country as awful and dogshit as possible so its unappealing to immigrants
This is gonna have apocalyptic effects in places like southwestern Ohio, where we’ve got a higher percentage of foreign medical grads doing the work than the 25% that this article cites…
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
www.npr.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Yep, one way to tackle the illegal immigration crisis is to make your country as awful and dogshit as possible so its unappealing to immigrants
I'm leaving Tuesday for a 10-day holiday in England, so I'll be doing a fair bit of UKposting over the next couple weeks...
People in the U.S. need to be paying attention to what’s happening in the U.K., because it’s going hand in hand with what is happening in the U.S., the agitators at work on both sides of the pond are working hand in hand with each other, and both have similar goals of ethnic cleansing.
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm leaving Tuesday for a 10-day holiday in England, so I'll be doing a fair bit of UKposting over the next couple weeks...
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I'm thankful whoever runs this account wasn't riffed this year
Wait. Wait. Use this one. With the safety tips on it. That's #PublicHealth
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm thankful whoever runs this account wasn't riffed this year
this chart is absolutely insane. just look at the UK - went from above-US private consumption levels pre-COVID to 10% below after. never recovered. just a complete economic policy failure.
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this chart is absolutely insane. just look at the UK - went from above-US private consumption levels pre-COVID to 10% below after. never recovered. just a complete economic policy failure.
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Today - and every day - is a good day to read Justice Stevens’ dissent in Heller v DC. The bonkers 5-4 decision that not only made it legal to carry firearms in DC but also declared that the first 13 words of 2A were “merely preferatory”. www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/0...
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. HELLER
www.law.cornell.edu
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Today - and every day - is a good day to read Justice Stevens’ dissent in Heller v DC. The bonkers 5-4 decision that not only made it legal to carry firearms in DC but also declared that the first 13 words of 2A were “merely preferatory”. www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/0...
are you fucking kidding me refs
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
are you fucking kidding me refs
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i fuckin hate NBA refs
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
i fuckin hate NBA refs
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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Want to know what it’s like to be a paramedic in an urban environment with some Very Special Considerations?
Great!
You can begin by memorizing this 500 page document. There will be multiple tests and people will die whether you get all the answers right or not.
fems.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
Great!
You can begin by memorizing this 500 page document. There will be multiple tests and people will die whether you get all the answers right or not.
fems.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
fems.dc.gov
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Want to know what it’s like to be a paramedic in an urban environment with some Very Special Considerations?
Great!
You can begin by memorizing this 500 page document. There will be multiple tests and people will die whether you get all the answers right or not.
fems.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
Great!
You can begin by memorizing this 500 page document. There will be multiple tests and people will die whether you get all the answers right or not.
fems.dc.gov/sites/defaul...
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my only take is that murder is wrong
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
my only take is that murder is wrong
you mean becoming the face of a kleptocratic project to destroy government with a chainsaw didn't endear Elon Musk's companies with buyers of electric vehicles? I am shocked. Shocked. Well, maybe not that shocked.
Tesla's EU sales were down 48.5% in October, and are down 30% in a year-to-date when EV sales are up 26%.
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
you mean becoming the face of a kleptocratic project to destroy government with a chainsaw didn't endear Elon Musk's companies with buyers of electric vehicles? I am shocked. Shocked. Well, maybe not that shocked.
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National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
Posted without comment, the 2026 America the Beautiful Pass for national parks and public lands.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Posted without comment, the 2026 America the Beautiful Pass for national parks and public lands.
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The Civil war is pretty incomparable in terms of the Types of Guy it mustered together
Brigadier General Charles Harker, leading a brigade of Illinoisans and Ohioans in Sheridan’s division tried to copy his commanding officer’s stunt but mounted a gun that had just been fired. The red-hot barrel scorched his ass so badly he couldn’t sit a horse for weeks (18
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Civil war is pretty incomparable in terms of the Types of Guy it mustered together
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Another USN program stopped short after massive overruns, incoherent design decisions, and changes in strategy. While the PLAN churns out DDGs by the dozen, the USN persists in its quest of the ideal how-so-tailored ship, a perfect metaphor of America’s decline. They’ll all be sunk by DF21s anyway
I applaud the Navy for innovatively streamlining their cancellation of boondoggles sooner in their lifecycle. Much improved over the LCS.
BREAKING: Navy Cancels Constellation-class Frigate Program, Considering New Small Surface Combatants — USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Another USN program stopped short after massive overruns, incoherent design decisions, and changes in strategy. While the PLAN churns out DDGs by the dozen, the USN persists in its quest of the ideal how-so-tailored ship, a perfect metaphor of America’s decline. They’ll all be sunk by DF21s anyway
the surface fleet in 20 years is going to be three Zumwalts (still with no guns), the four Fords we could build, a score of LCSes with Patriot TELs welded to the deck, and the prototype Flight XVI Burke, with the displacement of a fully-loaded Baltimore-class gun cruiser.
oh, and Old Ironsides. 🇺🇸
oh, and Old Ironsides. 🇺🇸
BREAKING: Navy Cancels Constellation-class Frigate Program, Considering New Small Surface Combatants — USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
Navy Cancels Constellation-class Frigate Program - USNI News
The Navy is walking away from the Constellation-class frigate program to focus on new classes of warships the service can build faster, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced Tuesday on social me...
news.usni.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
the surface fleet in 20 years is going to be three Zumwalts (still with no guns), the four Fords we could build, a score of LCSes with Patriot TELs welded to the deck, and the prototype Flight XVI Burke, with the displacement of a fully-loaded Baltimore-class gun cruiser.
oh, and Old Ironsides. 🇺🇸
oh, and Old Ironsides. 🇺🇸
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
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New Paper: Presidential Control of the Civil Service.
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Presidential Control of the Civil Service
<p>Conventional wisdom treats the federal civil service as largely beyond the president’s reach. This Article challenges that assumption. Legal scholars too oft
papers.ssrn.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New Paper: Presidential Control of the Civil Service.
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Conventional wisdom holds that the civil service sits safely beyond the president's reach. Does it? (1) Not nearly as much as legal scholars think. (2) That's a problem for the execution of the law. 1/12
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Lord High Admiral is displeased and embarrassing himself.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The Lord High Admiral is displeased and embarrassing himself.
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How would the average “law and order” supporter react to intensive unbiased enforcement of speed, red light, distracted driving, and DWI laws,
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
How would the average “law and order” supporter react to intensive unbiased enforcement of speed, red light, distracted driving, and DWI laws,
they ran into the small problem of Alcatraz being designated as a national park by Congress, which would require that the law be repealed, which lol.
but hey, some Trump people got a free Alcatraz tour out of it, so there's that.
but hey, some Trump people got a free Alcatraz tour out of it, so there's that.
Whatever happened to Trump "re-opening Alcatraz"
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
they ran into the small problem of Alcatraz being designated as a national park by Congress, which would require that the law be repealed, which lol.
but hey, some Trump people got a free Alcatraz tour out of it, so there's that.
but hey, some Trump people got a free Alcatraz tour out of it, so there's that.
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Fixed for the present age.
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Fixed for the present age.
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maybe it'll work this time
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
maybe it'll work this time
firing government employees because of their personal beliefs is the weapon of the enemy. we do not need it. we will not use it.
seriously, that's what Donald Trump wants to do. if you are on the left and you want to do the exact same thing Donald Trump wants to do, that is a sign you've lost it.
seriously, that's what Donald Trump wants to do. if you are on the left and you want to do the exact same thing Donald Trump wants to do, that is a sign you've lost it.
this is saying nothing of the absolutely deranged idea that he cannot be authentically anti-Zionist if he doesn't purge Zionists of all stripes from city government.
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
firing government employees because of their personal beliefs is the weapon of the enemy. we do not need it. we will not use it.
seriously, that's what Donald Trump wants to do. if you are on the left and you want to do the exact same thing Donald Trump wants to do, that is a sign you've lost it.
seriously, that's what Donald Trump wants to do. if you are on the left and you want to do the exact same thing Donald Trump wants to do, that is a sign you've lost it.