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Joe Verruni

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Joe Verruni@verruni.bsky.social · last mo.

Having gone yesterday, it’s difficult to overstate exactly how bad and embarrassing the Great American State Fair is. It is bad enough I recommend going just to see how bad it is. The Room, but for patriotism.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · last mo.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

linuscatt · 1d ago I worked at Smithsonian, specifically raising money for 250th. What I want people to know is we secured millions of private philanthropy to host a month long Folklife Festival on the mall, "The Festival of Festivals". Was going to feature well known festivals, think Burning Man, Farm Aid, Grand Ole Oprey etc. as well as smaller local and regional festivals from across the U.S. and territories. Goal was to feature truly the best and most beautiful creative expression in music, dance, arts and craft traditions, food, community etc. Can't name names but plan was to have headliners every night for free concerts.... Think the types of names who might be affiliated with the aforementioned large festivals. Stars were willing to perform because was under banner of Smithsonian. It had to all be scrapped bc the administration would not release permits to host on the mall. The money went elsewhere, but our nation was robbed of what would have been a once in a generation cultural moment.
Joe Verruni@verruni.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One important thing FERC got right today was word choice: “large energy users, like data centers and manufacturing.” Load-neutral framing ages better than rules built around one industry. Watch whether the compliance filings honor it.