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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 · 1h

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 · 23h

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 · 19h

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.
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

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 · 19h

In other words, freedom of the press is a thing and prior restraint cannot be policy. News at 11.
thehill.com/policy/defen...

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

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

This defines the type of outcome we need to correct:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

Illustrates the point I was making in this thread of party reform very well.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 23h

>thanked for their service and sent on their way.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

*diverting is not a fail.

Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

>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 · 23h

>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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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

>that diverting from the moribund and flacid politics of the so-called Centrists is a fail. Recognize that swing voters threw in with MAGA over rising costs and inflation. What they were too ignorant to recognize was that every conspiracy they thought MAGA resisted was their actual plan and kitchen<

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

>parties. It is clear that the Republican party doesn't exist anymore. It is simply the MAGA party decorating themselves in legacy Republican decor in the same way their Trad Catholic cabal just likes playing dress up medieval religion while flipping the bird to the Pope. Democrats should take note<

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

>being played back in power. This bespeaks the need for more independents in elections. You can't really paint representatives not affiliated with legacy parties as "revenge" seekers. Given that a majority of Americans are dissatisfied w/ existing parties 2 choices exist: independents or remake the<

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

There is much punditry that engages the topic of a political revenge cycle that can begin of mid-terms follow normal historical cycles. It's not revenge to stop illegal and unconstitutional acts before they do more harm. Conversely it gets painted that way when the same parties and actors keep<

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

*are an awful choice...

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

News outlets keep presenting illegal acts as though they an awful choice but have merits to be debated. No. The disclaimer needs to precede any discussion: this is illegal and will need to be added to an impeachment and legal action in the future. That being said, here's how lawbreaking harms us...

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

Every discussion about the current political climate needs to begin with: this is both obviously illegal & Unconstitutional. It cannot be ascribed to the benign transactions that exist between one party being in the majority over the other. The latter is a minor condition and the former is dominant.

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 23h

Too many times in my career and life I've seen when leaders are presented with the requirement to act as an agent of an organization to implement rules that they fail. Their courage falters and their clarity dims to make something obvious to all somehow hazy and unclear. That malaise must go.

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