Brad
@bradamj.bsky.social
Adventures in the mountain west. Walker (pedestrian).
It is funny all the stress over congressional machinations when article 1 basically isn’t in effect.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It is funny all the stress over congressional machinations when article 1 basically isn’t in effect.
bluesky is obviously not reality, most people dont understand the intricacies of this, and GOP senators seemingly gleeful willingness to extend this into 2026 (!) mean that the actual structural impacts to the federal government are important to consider here. if it all hollows out, they win anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
bluesky is obviously not reality, most people dont understand the intricacies of this, and GOP senators seemingly gleeful willingness to extend this into 2026 (!) mean that the actual structural impacts to the federal government are important to consider here. if it all hollows out, they win anyway.
it is something that the dems have now setup a vote on ACA subsidies that will be hurting pretty bad in December - but the amount of media mobilization to make that vote really hurt is just something thats extra hard in the current environment.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
it is something that the dems have now setup a vote on ACA subsidies that will be hurting pretty bad in December - but the amount of media mobilization to make that vote really hurt is just something thats extra hard in the current environment.
its just pretty lame that the entirety of the political press has just given up on the republicans being reasonable governing actors so it all just rests on democrats, who are currently without any real power. Just fundamentally wild. Meanwhile corp elites are investing like the dictatorship is on.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
its just pretty lame that the entirety of the political press has just given up on the republicans being reasonable governing actors so it all just rests on democrats, who are currently without any real power. Just fundamentally wild. Meanwhile corp elites are investing like the dictatorship is on.
one does not need to agree with mamdani to just appreciate a candidate who seems happy in the place they are running and wanting to make that place better. we've nationalized politics so much that we often forget to ask - to our detriment - why do you even want to represent this place?
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
one does not need to agree with mamdani to just appreciate a candidate who seems happy in the place they are running and wanting to make that place better. we've nationalized politics so much that we often forget to ask - to our detriment - why do you even want to represent this place?
So Nevada has a pretty entrenched bipartisan opposition to the yucca mountain nuclear storage facility, a relatively remote deep mine storage site, I’m sure open air testing here is gonna go over great.
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
So Nevada has a pretty entrenched bipartisan opposition to the yucca mountain nuclear storage facility, a relatively remote deep mine storage site, I’m sure open air testing here is gonna go over great.
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By an entire parsec, the Trump administration has undertaken the most illegal set of budget actions in history. This is why we desperately need guardrails to restrain and go after budget malfeasance from the White House.
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
By an entire parsec, the Trump administration has undertaken the most illegal set of budget actions in history. This is why we desperately need guardrails to restrain and go after budget malfeasance from the White House.
the republicans want to share the blame for the bad effects of the budget bill, especially on healthcare, by keeping the filibuster around. they could change the rules tonight and end the filibuster - even narrowly (e.g. 50+1 for situations when there is an imminent shutdown in less than 12 hours).
October 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
the republicans want to share the blame for the bad effects of the budget bill, especially on healthcare, by keeping the filibuster around. they could change the rules tonight and end the filibuster - even narrowly (e.g. 50+1 for situations when there is an imminent shutdown in less than 12 hours).
It’s not impossible for members of marginalized communities to commit violent acts, but it’s very unlikely because we have centuries of knowing how to handle ideologues coming for us. Community building and mutual aid is where we turn first. Basically never violence.
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s not impossible for members of marginalized communities to commit violent acts, but it’s very unlikely because we have centuries of knowing how to handle ideologues coming for us. Community building and mutual aid is where we turn first. Basically never violence.
Gpt should be a liberating moment for writing.
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Gpt should be a liberating moment for writing.
It’s as if we built a bunch of political play boxes for adults with fake knobs.
August 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
It’s as if we built a bunch of political play boxes for adults with fake knobs.
If the top five thing that to use ai for continues to be rewrite very simple things that are barely longer than a prompt I’m not sure the tech is gonna catch on.
August 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If the top five thing that to use ai for continues to be rewrite very simple things that are barely longer than a prompt I’m not sure the tech is gonna catch on.
Looking forward to public water provision being called too socialist and woke.
July 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Looking forward to public water provision being called too socialist and woke.
Diving into how gpt works and it’s about as misunderstood in the zeitgeist as social media feeds, and both are really bad for understanding reality.
July 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Diving into how gpt works and it’s about as misunderstood in the zeitgeist as social media feeds, and both are really bad for understanding reality.
It’s hard to see a city of 8m people have a political machine that should be modeling a future away from our current national trajectory doubling down on a nepo baby who is barely from the city, has a poor managerial track record, and is a serial sexual abuser and general asshole bully.
June 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It’s hard to see a city of 8m people have a political machine that should be modeling a future away from our current national trajectory doubling down on a nepo baby who is barely from the city, has a poor managerial track record, and is a serial sexual abuser and general asshole bully.
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1/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
June 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
the bad part is cutting funding for basically what exists as a safety net. the wild part is allocating more funding for camps for a nonexistent immigration crisis (really, we wouldn't be deporting lawfully here people if it was what they say). the sneaky awful part is undermining the rule of law.
May 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
the bad part is cutting funding for basically what exists as a safety net. the wild part is allocating more funding for camps for a nonexistent immigration crisis (really, we wouldn't be deporting lawfully here people if it was what they say). the sneaky awful part is undermining the rule of law.
so wild we have reached a point where government spending is just not considered real so that taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of the economy is just not talked about as a huge economy tanking thing.
May 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
so wild we have reached a point where government spending is just not considered real so that taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of the economy is just not talked about as a huge economy tanking thing.
every person has an idea of what a leader is, but given the complexity of situations in the world, this archetype often wrong, or at least, wrong for the moment. unpacking our own assumptions that guide our preferences, especially in the workplace, is the only way to healthier more effective orgs.
May 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
every person has an idea of what a leader is, but given the complexity of situations in the world, this archetype often wrong, or at least, wrong for the moment. unpacking our own assumptions that guide our preferences, especially in the workplace, is the only way to healthier more effective orgs.
since I do not understand how it works but see it behaving with as much confidence as the hype guy at my overvalued tech firm, I assume that ai will take over shortly, and probably should for the good or civilization or something.
May 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
since I do not understand how it works but see it behaving with as much confidence as the hype guy at my overvalued tech firm, I assume that ai will take over shortly, and probably should for the good or civilization or something.
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If we continue burning fossil fuels and warming the ocean, coral reefs will become a thing of the past.
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
If we continue burning fossil fuels and warming the ocean, coral reefs will become a thing of the past.
a pretty durable personal opinion is that there are over 300m people in the United States, many of whom could if called upon lead reasonably well. The idea there are special people whose lack of values, ethics, or compassion nonetheless make it necessary they lead is dumb.
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
a pretty durable personal opinion is that there are over 300m people in the United States, many of whom could if called upon lead reasonably well. The idea there are special people whose lack of values, ethics, or compassion nonetheless make it necessary they lead is dumb.
The fact that so many of the people that they’re disappearing without due process are lawful residents without criminal records should be a clue that the migrant crime wave hysteria was all made up. If they could find thousands of actual criminals they’d be going through public due process on tv.
April 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The fact that so many of the people that they’re disappearing without due process are lawful residents without criminal records should be a clue that the migrant crime wave hysteria was all made up. If they could find thousands of actual criminals they’d be going through public due process on tv.
The still rapid illegal destruction of much of the federal government is ongoing and is directly undercutting most of the rhetoric. A massive disaster amid many massive disasters.
April 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The still rapid illegal destruction of much of the federal government is ongoing and is directly undercutting most of the rhetoric. A massive disaster amid many massive disasters.
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This is an excellent piece on the current threat to regional universities, which educate and impact far more people than the Ivies, but are completely ignored in the legacy media and national debate.
A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural regi...
www.propublica.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is an excellent piece on the current threat to regional universities, which educate and impact far more people than the Ivies, but are completely ignored in the legacy media and national debate.