Ian Walter

@iangineering.com

Interested in building extraordinary software. Dumb dad. "So don't you forget (no way) your youth who you are and where you stand in the struggle" - Bob

Trump is warning of a "final battle" against Democrats, who he calls "communists, Marxists, and fascists". He is using OUR taxpayer dollars to fund these ads calling us Democrats "the enemy". This is illegal and unconstitutional, like everything else he does. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”

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The only thing more infuriating than seeing the universe conspire against my fantasy team is seeing election ads paid for by our tax dollars. This has to be illegal.

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

Susan Collins likes to say she brings home the bacon. But in helping to advance the Big Beautiful Bill, she cost Maine $675 million more than all her earmarks combined. And that’s before counting her other (in)actions #mepolitics www.mecep-action.org/senator-coll...

Senator Collins is Costing Maine

Over 10 years, Senator Collins brought Maine $3.45 billion. Her vote to advance Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) will cost Maine $4.125 billion.

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Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?

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As companies grow, they build processes that leave no room for judgment calls. The default posture becomes oriented around fear of idiot / bad-faith actors, putting a huge tax on good-faith actors who have a good reason to do something a little bit risky. It destroys velocity.

Connecticut families pay some of the highest energy costs in the country while the CEO of Eversource earns more than $19 million a year — over 100 times what a frontline lineman makes.

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Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.