Skip Williams

@skipwaw42.bsky.social

Public Policy Research&Analysis; who would’ve predicted it 😎 Opinions mine. Senior RAND & USAF Veteran UT-Longhorn, Creighton-MA —still just off I35 Current mischief: encourage community activetransportation infrastructure & Transit. Curling is a thing 🥌

90 minutes after Trump appealed, the DoJ filed a motion to dismiss my slush fund lawsuit saying it’s moot because the fund isn’t moving forward. Can’t make this up.

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It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

⚠️ News outlets using algorithmic pricing to decide how much news subscribers should pay. If you have a news subscription, your renewal email may have some interesting fine print. Take a minute to read it and let us know what you find ⤵️ www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/this...

“This price was set by an algorithm”: News subscribers are surprised by a new line in their renewal emails

Outlets like Wired, NJ.com, and The Wall Street Journal are setting renewal prices just for you — and being forced to disclose it.

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