Chris Becker
@chrisbeckerr.bsky.social
🚀 Engineer | Innovator | Problem-Solver 🔧⚡
Building the future, one design at a time | Turning ideas into reality with precision & passion 🏗️💡 | Breaking limits, creating solutions | Engineering the impossible, making it possible 🔩✨
Building the future, one design at a time | Turning ideas into reality with precision & passion 🏗️💡 | Breaking limits, creating solutions | Engineering the impossible, making it possible 🔩✨
Confidence isn’t just in the fit—it’s in the mindset.
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Confidence isn’t just in the fit—it’s in the mindset.
The connections we make, even in the smallest moments, have the power to shape our days in ways we don’t always realize.
February 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The connections we make, even in the smallest moments, have the power to shape our days in ways we don’t always realize.
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"Trump thinks the US electorate gave him an unchecked mandate. It follows that any interference in his power — including an Alice-style belief that the US constitution means what he chooses it to mean — amounts to a block on democracy." Me on the republic's ultimate test. on.ft.com/4jQACdc
What if Donald Trump calls the courts’ bluff?
[FREE TO READ] The US judiciary poses the ultimate test of whether the president will break the system
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February 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Trump thinks the US electorate gave him an unchecked mandate. It follows that any interference in his power — including an Alice-style belief that the US constitution means what he chooses it to mean — amounts to a block on democracy." Me on the republic's ultimate test. on.ft.com/4jQACdc
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Waltz: “We need to recoup the costs, it's going to be a partnership with Ukrainians in terms of their rare earths, natural resources, oil and gas and also buying ours. Europeans have to own this conflict going forward. Trump is going to end it, and then security guarantees will be squarely the EU.”
February 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Waltz: “We need to recoup the costs, it's going to be a partnership with Ukrainians in terms of their rare earths, natural resources, oil and gas and also buying ours. Europeans have to own this conflict going forward. Trump is going to end it, and then security guarantees will be squarely the EU.”
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"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
-- René Descartes, who died #OTD 1650
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
-- René Descartes, who died #OTD 1650
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years
A four-year Fact Checker project comes to an end.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
-- René Descartes, who died #OTD 1650
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
-- René Descartes, who died #OTD 1650
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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If you had to search the world for the best person to lead Canada through this trade war, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone with the smarts of Mark Carney. He has successfully led banking in two G7 countries: Canada and England. Carney for PM. We're smaller but we won't be outsmarted.
February 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
If you had to search the world for the best person to lead Canada through this trade war, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone with the smarts of Mark Carney. He has successfully led banking in two G7 countries: Canada and England. Carney for PM. We're smaller but we won't be outsmarted.
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@business: Private-jet flights, tuition and even snacks are among more than 140 expenses big multistrategy hedge funds pass through to investors, a Bloomberg analysis of regulatory filings shows.
Read The Big Take ⤵️
Read The Big Take ⤵️
Main link in OG tweet
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February 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
@business: Private-jet flights, tuition and even snacks are among more than 140 expenses big multistrategy hedge funds pass through to investors, a Bloomberg analysis of regulatory filings shows.
Read The Big Take ⤵️
Read The Big Take ⤵️
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This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.
January 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.
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"A darkly, disturbing tale that stands as one of the best thrillers of 2024....Not to be missed."
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February 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"A darkly, disturbing tale that stands as one of the best thrillers of 2024....Not to be missed."
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Meanwhile... we the people have spent 7 million dollars on Elon and his stooges for a weeks worth of "work". Make it make sense. rollcall.com/2025/02/04/w...
White House opens funding spigot for DOGE expenses - Roll Call
Nearly $7 million over the past week has gone to cover the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s expenses.
rollcall.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Meanwhile... we the people have spent 7 million dollars on Elon and his stooges for a weeks worth of "work". Make it make sense. rollcall.com/2025/02/04/w...
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Trump just said on Fox that Palestinians would NOT be permitted to return to Gaza as part of his plan for the U.S. to take ownership of the territory.
February 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trump just said on Fox that Palestinians would NOT be permitted to return to Gaza as part of his plan for the U.S. to take ownership of the territory.
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ON THE DOCKET: The Pentagon reveals a new memo from Secretary Hegseth pausing all accessions for transgender recruits and pausing all related medical procedures. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ON THE DOCKET: The Pentagon reveals a new memo from Secretary Hegseth pausing all accessions for transgender recruits and pausing all related medical procedures. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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ALERT: CBS News has confirmed President Trump will issue a pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich today
February 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ALERT: CBS News has confirmed President Trump will issue a pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich today
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Interesting, Ari Emanual and his firm Endeavor are in on this deal. They're the ones that withheld funding from down ballot democrats until and unless Biden dropped out of the race three months before the general election. I'm sure it's unrelated. www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...
Exclusive | Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI
The unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman’s plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company.
www.wsj.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Interesting, Ari Emanual and his firm Endeavor are in on this deal. They're the ones that withheld funding from down ballot democrats until and unless Biden dropped out of the race three months before the general election. I'm sure it's unrelated. www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...
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Breaking:
A federal district court judge in Boston just temporarily blocked the Trump admin from reducing health research grants.
Judge Angel Kelley has issued a temporary restraining order. 22 states had sued to block the reductions.
A federal district court judge in Boston just temporarily blocked the Trump admin from reducing health research grants.
Judge Angel Kelley has issued a temporary restraining order. 22 states had sued to block the reductions.
February 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Breaking:
A federal district court judge in Boston just temporarily blocked the Trump admin from reducing health research grants.
Judge Angel Kelley has issued a temporary restraining order. 22 states had sued to block the reductions.
A federal district court judge in Boston just temporarily blocked the Trump admin from reducing health research grants.
Judge Angel Kelley has issued a temporary restraining order. 22 states had sued to block the reductions.
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BREAKING: DoJ moves to drop the charges against Eric Adams. Because of course they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/n...
Justice Dept. Seeks Dismissal of Federal Corruption Case Against Adams
The New York City mayor cultivated a close relationship with President Trump, who said they had both been persecuted.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
BREAKING: DoJ moves to drop the charges against Eric Adams. Because of course they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/n...
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What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.
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This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.
🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.”
EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣
EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣
February 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.
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SHOUT-OUT to my friend’s at Independent “Talking Animals Books”📚 in historic downtown Grapevine(North Texas).
The women-owners are passionate supporters of K-12 public schools & promoting the power of reading📖
PLEASE READ ARTICLE 👇 & come visit our town!
#booksky
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
The women-owners are passionate supporters of K-12 public schools & promoting the power of reading📖
PLEASE READ ARTICLE 👇 & come visit our town!
#booksky
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
How Talking Animal Books is bringing a love of reading to Texas
Owners of Talking Animal Books say their store aims to educate and show books have the "power to connect communities."
www.usatoday.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
SHOUT-OUT to my friend’s at Independent “Talking Animals Books”📚 in historic downtown Grapevine(North Texas).
The women-owners are passionate supporters of K-12 public schools & promoting the power of reading📖
PLEASE READ ARTICLE 👇 & come visit our town!
#booksky
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
The women-owners are passionate supporters of K-12 public schools & promoting the power of reading📖
PLEASE READ ARTICLE 👇 & come visit our town!
#booksky
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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The problem with calls for “discourse,” is that MAGA isn’t interested in an exchange of ideas. It wants to leverage the rules of polite to destroy discourse. It wants to walk in, shout us all down, spit lies, and thumb their noses at us.
Shout “if you’re so tolerant why don’t you tolerate my hate?”
Shout “if you’re so tolerant why don’t you tolerate my hate?”
February 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The problem with calls for “discourse,” is that MAGA isn’t interested in an exchange of ideas. It wants to leverage the rules of polite to destroy discourse. It wants to walk in, shout us all down, spit lies, and thumb their noses at us.
Shout “if you’re so tolerant why don’t you tolerate my hate?”
Shout “if you’re so tolerant why don’t you tolerate my hate?”
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Breaking News: President Trump ordered the Treasury to stop minting pennies, saying the coins cost more to produce than their face value.
Trump Orders Treasury to Halt Minting New Pennies to Cut Waste
President Trump said that the coins cost more to produce than their face value.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Breaking News: President Trump ordered the Treasury to stop minting pennies, saying the coins cost more to produce than their face value.
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Typical MAGA characterize “real discussion” to contain insults, name calling, “yeah-but” and (my favorite) “you just don’t like him, there is no point in talking to you.”
February 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Typical MAGA characterize “real discussion” to contain insults, name calling, “yeah-but” and (my favorite) “you just don’t like him, there is no point in talking to you.”
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Endless blue above, a world full of possibilities below. Take a deep breath, embrace the moment, and let the sky remind you..there are no limits. #BlueSky #NewDayNewOpportunities
February 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Endless blue above, a world full of possibilities below. Take a deep breath, embrace the moment, and let the sky remind you..there are no limits. #BlueSky #NewDayNewOpportunities