Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
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Idk if it's true, but when I was a budget analyst working with the Ohio Dept of Ag, they said you could never touch the appropriation for meat inspection, bc last time they tried that, a bunch of meat inspectors chucked rotting dead cows onto the statehouse lawn. Just a fun little story for ya.

He's going to use taxpayer dollars to pay civil servants not to work so that he can choose his own auditors. Got it.

Trump Administration Offers Millions of Federal Workers Payouts to Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

When you fly from DC into Cincinnati, you spend a lot of time over the Ohio. She so pretty.

Fine. I'll tell my soundtrack obsessed teens not to sing along to Wicked. But they're would have been more joy in the world if youda let that shit go.

I think more targeted social media might help, said...all of us, apparently