Monte P
@jazzmaven.bsky.social
Software, Politics, Science Fiction and Music
As Trombone Shorty sang so prophetically:
"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
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"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel?
Today, I want to share some additional thoughts with you on this...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
As Trombone Shorty sang so prophetically:
"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
"The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet on your way down
You think the sun rise and set for you
The same sun rise, set, and shine on the poor folks too"
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-t...
House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/house...
House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein
Every time I think Donald Trump is putting some distance between himself...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/house...
Abbott and Patrick have been in office since 2015, $1 million for a warning system was too much. With 80 lives lost that works out to be $12,500 per soul!
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Kerr County asked Texas for help multiple times in 8 years. It said no.
Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority have tried several times to get funding to upgrade flood alerts on the river, dating back to 2016.
www.houstonchronicle.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Abbott and Patrick have been in office since 2015, $1 million for a warning system was too much. With 80 lives lost that works out to be $12,500 per soul!
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Teddy was all tired out from screwing the people of Texas and he needed a break! Now, it's back to work on his podcast!
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'Cancún Cruz' spotted on another trip abroad amid deadly Texas flood
Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, must have had flight miles expiring soon, otherwise it’s hard to explain the extreme inopportune timing of his luxe family vacation.�
Cruz was spotted on a ...
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July 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Teddy was all tired out from screwing the people of Texas and he needed a break! Now, it's back to work on his podcast!
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice — theonion.com/letter-to-co...
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
Share This Editorial
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June 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice — theonion.com/letter-to-co...
I wanted to share a link to an interesting album featuring my friend, Mark Rubin. If you buy from bandcamp, all proceeds go to the artist.
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
Texas Fiddle - Okie Guitar, by Mark Rubin and Sean Orr
12 track album
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wanted to share a link to an interesting album featuring my friend, Mark Rubin. If you buy from bandcamp, all proceeds go to the artist.
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
jewofoklahoma.bandcamp.com/album/texas-...
Yet another cautionary article on the enshittification of society thanks to our AI tech overlords.
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet
We face a less dramatic but even more exasperating doom.
open.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yet another cautionary article on the enshittification of society thanks to our AI tech overlords.
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
Our AI Future Is Worse Than Skynet open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...
I was reading an article in WIRED magazine about the Kentucky Crypto Craze in 2021 this afternoon. Let me share a quote from Nina McCoy, a former school teacher in Inez, Kentucky, discussing the possibility of AI data centers repurposing the resources from abandoned crypto-mining ventures:
May 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I was reading an article in WIRED magazine about the Kentucky Crypto Craze in 2021 this afternoon. Let me share a quote from Nina McCoy, a former school teacher in Inez, Kentucky, discussing the possibility of AI data centers repurposing the resources from abandoned crypto-mining ventures:
A plea for tech workers to unionize written by one of my favorite new sci-fi writers:
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/s...
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/s...
Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
May 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A plea for tech workers to unionize written by one of my favorite new sci-fi writers:
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/s...
pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/s...
Maybe Leon's DOGE Bros should read this sad tale involving "Clean Slates" and code rewrites:
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Why We Rewrote Everything (And Immediately Regretted It)
The dangers of rewriting code from scratch.
medium.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Maybe Leon's DOGE Bros should read this sad tale involving "Clean Slates" and code rewrites:
medium.com/@all.technol...
medium.com/@all.technol...
Once again, I turn to world-renowned economist Paul Krugman to explain the rationale behind Trump's economic policy. He confirms, there is no rationale, it's all the hallucinations of a old man in the grips of dementia.
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness
There’s no plan, secret or otherwise, behind Trump’s tariffs
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Once again, I turn to world-renowned economist Paul Krugman to explain the rationale behind Trump's economic policy. He confirms, there is no rationale, it's all the hallucinations of a old man in the grips of dementia.
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
I have 47 years experience working in software development, most of it on government applications. I made my bones with COBOL and IBM job control language. I’ve worked with Java the last 12 years.
March 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I have 47 years experience working in software development, most of it on government applications. I made my bones with COBOL and IBM job control language. I’ve worked with Java the last 12 years.
Krugman seems to find Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.") inadequate to describe the actions of Trump's merry band of pranksters. You be the judge.
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy
Trump’s people can be and are both
open.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Krugman seems to find Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.") inadequate to describe the actions of Trump's merry band of pranksters. You be the judge.
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Incompetent or Evil: A False Dichotomy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
No one can match Jonathan Pie for foul-mouthed, insightful invective concerning Donald Trump's "beautiful" deal-making prowess.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0n...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0n...
The Art of The Deal
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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February 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No one can match Jonathan Pie for foul-mouthed, insightful invective concerning Donald Trump's "beautiful" deal-making prowess.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0n...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0n...
Headlines for CNBC articles published morning of 02/13/2025:
With Trump all-in on crypto, bitcoin bulls bet the trillions in corporate cash hoard are next
Crypto scams likely hit a new record in 2024, driven by ‘pig butchering’ and AI, says Chainalysis
With Trump all-in on crypto, bitcoin bulls bet the trillions in corporate cash hoard are next
Crypto scams likely hit a new record in 2024, driven by ‘pig butchering’ and AI, says Chainalysis
February 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Headlines for CNBC articles published morning of 02/13/2025:
With Trump all-in on crypto, bitcoin bulls bet the trillions in corporate cash hoard are next
Crypto scams likely hit a new record in 2024, driven by ‘pig butchering’ and AI, says Chainalysis
With Trump all-in on crypto, bitcoin bulls bet the trillions in corporate cash hoard are next
Crypto scams likely hit a new record in 2024, driven by ‘pig butchering’ and AI, says Chainalysis
DOGEbros hard at work being the a(i)pocalypse. Reporting indicates some of the agency developers and admins have been assisting in an effort to minimize failures. That is f*cked up. OPPOSE OPPOSE OPPOSE. Sand in the gears.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
DOGEbros hard at work being the a(i)pocalypse. Reporting indicates some of the agency developers and admins have been assisting in an effort to minimize failures. That is f*cked up. OPPOSE OPPOSE OPPOSE. Sand in the gears.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
For friends and family in Texas, something to cheer you up. A diagram indicating states hardest hit by tariffs - from Axios:
February 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
For friends and family in Texas, something to cheer you up. A diagram indicating states hardest hit by tariffs - from Axios:
Josh Marshall with an insightful piece today.
What Are Democrats Supposed to Do? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
What Are Democrats Supposed to Do? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
What Are Democrats Supposed to Do?
I wrote a series of posts over the weekend about how to...
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February 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Josh Marshall with an insightful piece today.
What Are Democrats Supposed to Do? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
What Are Democrats Supposed to Do? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...
Worried by Musk's DOGEbro antics with the Treasury, OMB and USAID computer systems, we logged in to the SSA system this morning and downloaded/printed the following for each of us:
1. Social Security Statement
2. Benefits verification
3. Lifetime Earnings
4. Payment History
1. Social Security Statement
2. Benefits verification
3. Lifetime Earnings
4. Payment History
February 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Worried by Musk's DOGEbro antics with the Treasury, OMB and USAID computer systems, we logged in to the SSA system this morning and downloaded/printed the following for each of us:
1. Social Security Statement
2. Benefits verification
3. Lifetime Earnings
4. Payment History
1. Social Security Statement
2. Benefits verification
3. Lifetime Earnings
4. Payment History
Here is some light reading to fuel your insecurities and paranoia:
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Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
By Samuel Bagenstos NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short)...
buttondown.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Here is some light reading to fuel your insecurities and paranoia:
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
Regarding Musk's "Team" federal employees need to preserve any communications and document the source on non-governmental devices. Employees should disconnect their personal phones from any government wi-fi network. /1
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Musk’s Xperiment Disaster🔥
Elon Musk’s behavior recently reminded me of a song I’ve had on heavy rotation: Getting Away with It. It pains me to berate someone at the…
medium.com
February 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Regarding Musk's "Team" federal employees need to preserve any communications and document the source on non-governmental devices. Employees should disconnect their personal phones from any government wi-fi network. /1
medium.com/@tsecretdeve...
medium.com/@tsecretdeve...
Updated version of that old parlor game "Who goes Nazi?" Try it the next time you're at a large social gathering! And encourage your political representatives to OPPOSE OPPOSE OPPOSE!
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Who Goes MAGA?
In 1934, a courageous, flawed, complicated journalist named Dorothy Thompson was kicked out of Nazi Germany for reporting with relentless, brutal accuracy on...
buttondown.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Updated version of that old parlor game "Who goes Nazi?" Try it the next time you're at a large social gathering! And encourage your political representatives to OPPOSE OPPOSE OPPOSE!
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Reposted by Monte P
Schumer needs to go. It's as urgent as when Biden needed to go after the first debate.
Some intel: I've talked to journalists and folks on the Hill about this. Last night after OMB's action, some Senate Dems tried to unify the caucus to vote against Duffy. Schumer, among others, opposed it, and it flopped.
The current Dem leadership strategy is to use strong language but not do shit.
The current Dem leadership strategy is to use strong language but not do shit.
Yesterday, every Democrat voted to advance Sean Duffy (DOT)'s nomination.
In protest against Trump's unconstitutional freezing of federal funds, 22 Democrats voted NO on confirmation today.
Glad to see more demonstrated urgency. But that 22 should be 47.
In protest against Trump's unconstitutional freezing of federal funds, 22 Democrats voted NO on confirmation today.
Glad to see more demonstrated urgency. But that 22 should be 47.
January 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Schumer needs to go. It's as urgent as when Biden needed to go after the first debate.
Whelp, Trump continues his foray into illegal activity with an executive action that is unconstitutional and violates the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. This latest illegal act will affect red states as well as blue ones. The opposition party needs to gird its loins and OPPOSE OPPOSE OPPOSE!
January 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Whelp, Trump continues his foray into illegal activity with an executive action that is unconstitutional and violates the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. This latest illegal act will affect red states as well as blue ones. The opposition party needs to gird its loins and OPPOSE OPPOSE OPPOSE!