An underlying theme in my career is helping people clarify and align personal and career goals with their core values—their Unique Organizing Principle(sm).

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Joined March 2008
"If President Trump had his way, I'd be in prison" If YOU had YOUR way every 20-yr old working in conservative politics would be in prison. Spare me.
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Denmark spent decades building nearly 5,000 wind turbines Together, they produced 21.6 TWh in the last 12 months One nuclear plant in Sweden made 23.3 TWh Oh, and nuclear runs 24/7 — wind doesn’t There's one big reason Denmark has some of the most expensive electricity in the world transparency.entsoe.eu/gener… api.energidataservice.dk/dat… eia.gov/electricity/monthly/… iaea.org/publications/16059
Fun fact: Sweden has four nuclear reactors that have each generated more electricity than all Danish wind turbines ever. Forsmark 3 and Oskarshamn 3 started in 1985, the year Denmark banned nuclear. Both still ahead of Denmark’s entire wind fleet.
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Consider this Democracy Files 3.5. Note in the video that they are pretty confident that a "breakthrough" will happen that gets rid of Trump sometime between now and January 3rd, and Mike Smith allegedly acknowledges RAD's role in writing the government that comes after. Another drop coming later this morning.
Replying to @DataRepublican
Bonus clip which shows how close it could have been:
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There’s a world of difference between user-authorized agents (Muse, Instinct, Grokbot, etc.) and true unauthorized/rogue agents that could constitute cyberattacks. Most of the activity described in the Axios story appears to be the former: customers sharing credentials with agents so they can take actions on their behalf. This may violate bank terms requiring humans to log in themselves, but these are in no way cyberattacks. The direction banks should go is to support user-directed agents. For example, Amex is an authorized connection in Muse, making it easy for users to grant, limit, and revoke access. Read-only permission levels are a sensible interim step. Several banks already support or are moving toward them. Full write access (with user credentials) is a different risk category and should be approached carefully. Frightening the public by blurring the line between user-authorized agentic behavior and cyberattacks is irresponsible.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 5: Washington state's Secretary of State weighs in 🚨 The below clip shows Danielle Reiff of DRG pitching her vision to an audience including Washington state's Secretary of State, Steve Hobbs. She explains the red-line scenarios and ultimately a vision of creating a "cross-partisan" government in the wake of an illegitimate federal government. Her three "democratic emergency" scenarios should be familiar by now: · Election meltdown - which includes a widespread public loss of trust in election results · Insurrection Act deployed against protesters · An attempt to delay seating of legitimately elected officials post-election If the federal government becomes illegitimate in her view because of the above, then she proposes a cross-partisan system of transitional governance. She names a cross-partisan board of governors, as well President Obama and President Bush as potential transitional leaders. WA SoS Hobbs replies to Reiff that he has had the exact same conversation with German and Japanese officials regarding how to deal with AfD and right-wing nationalist parties. Now, to be fair, he does not want to commit because, in his words, "we're winning." But he doesn't disagree either. Note also that here and in other recordings, "election meltdown" does not mean some sort of flashy media crisis. It means, simply, a large segment of the population doesn't believe the election results are legitimate.
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Counting bumblebees one-by-one 😂
California hasn't built its bullet train because the state has required 130,000 pages of environmental reports, making absurd demands like: • counting bumblebees one by one • rebuilding woodrat stick huts • hiring specialized dogs to sniff lizard scat
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Either the French Police are delusional or the trick is up for the American left in denying the existence of Antifa. While Democrats have long denied the existence of the group, the French just declared that it is the largest and most violent group behind the riots. jonathanturley.org/2026/10/2…
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James Talarico just joined other leading Democrats in throwing the Supreme Court to the mob by declaring that he is "open" to packing the Court. Apparently, he does not want to be taunted on the playground as "chicken" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. jonathanturley.org/2026/10/2…
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Yup
Hillary wants the Supreme Court expanded to 13 Justices -- but not until "Democrats are in power." Because it's all about making the court less partisan and has nothing to do with entrenching Democrat power, of course.
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants young people to think twice before working for the Trump administration: “I want that deterrence message sent.” @BarbaraMBoyd on the coup plan @DataRepublican is exposing, and why the midterms must be too big to rig 👇
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The new Android @Kindle update is an absolute trainwreck for anyone reading technical books. The "Connect with Pen Editing" bar floats on screen and blocks the text permanently—even when my stylus is tucked away. Fix your UI coding, @Amazon. 🛑📱 #Kindle #Amazon #Android21
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This is how you know my recordings are real and they're scared. Washington Post already doing counter-messaging. "A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections, according to people involved in the effort. The group includes about 10 current and former officials with experience in the Defense Department, some of whom have previously focused on countering authoritarianism abroad."
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"I think the Democratic Party is in the worst place it's ever been, in the 250-year history of the country." Billionaire investor Bill Ackman delivers a scathing assessment of Democrats, describing the party as "crazy, radicalized" and "anti-American." Ackman acknowledges that there are still high-quality Democrats in Congress but argues the party as a whole has lost its way. He also singles out Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a politician he says he once respected, accusing him of compromising his values to protect his political career. His criticism extends beyond Washington. See what Ackman says about New York City's mayor and his own political ambitions: foxnews.com/media/bill-ackma…
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And for the record, a significant number of these jobs are due to the success of Anthropic. Anthropic and @DarioAmodei need to stop talking about P Doom and start talking about the job boom!
$8,000 a week building data centers 👀 Let’s keep this boom going America!
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Some fools still think the legacy news is real. Amazing.
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This woman is dangerous. Where is the press? Oh, i remember, complicit. Follow @DataRepublican she is all over this plan from the left.
U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin says she’s prepared for a situation in which the Trump administration attempts to change the outcome of the election: “Right in the last two weeks of the election, they somehow come up with a national security incident that only they can protect us from.”
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71% of Massachusetts' Democrats said they would not vote for someone who voted for or supported President Trump. (Suffolk Oct 20, 2026) President Trump saved Massachusetts from the burden of mass immigration when it has been unable to generate private jobs for seven years.
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There's nothing more dangerous than weak men and weak institutions. It's a provocation that'll eventually be answered by predators. Not all swords should be turned to plowshares.
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🚨🚨Massachusetts Voters🚨🚨 Do you want four more years of this? Where is the accountability?
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