Ian Hopper

Ian Hopper

@imhopper.bsky.social

Retired diplomat, immigration wonk, post-solo student pilot, gamer, NHL Caps and AHL Bears. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇸🇳🇮🇳🇯🇴🇩🇪🇮🇶🇨🇦

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The Trump II admin also made posts shut these monitors down. In many cases they were the only reliable air monitors in country, and they were little shoestring operations

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When a member of Metallica came to our consulate for a passport and then dropped off t-shirts, I organized a consulate wide giveaway raffle in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety. For a passport he was eligible for and paid for.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromises FCC commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. The agency’s chair, Brendan Carr, has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

Thanks to ITT and US Steel for the highway system.

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

Endorse all except purses/fanny packs. This can be solved with a Securid/Ridge wallet and getting rid of all the extra crap

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Ian Hopper reposted

Happy 102nd Birthday to the U.S. Foreign Service! Today, we celebrate the Foreign Service Officers who strengthen America’s partnerships and advance security worldwide. I will continue to stand with them against dangerous cuts and firings that make the United States less safe.

The Wire The Americans SNL Monty Python’s Flying Circus The Office Deadwood Battlestar Galactica (remake) Firefly The Good Place M*A*S*H Better Call Saul Sherlock Wolf Hall Last Week Tonight w/John Oliver 90 Day Fiance (come at me, bro)

Frank Conniff@frankconniff.bsky.social

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, but instincts only— DRAGNET THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW THE SIMPSONS MAD MEN THE SOPRANOS MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL GILMORE GIRLS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU? SGT BILKO DICK VAN DYKE SHOW MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW ROCKFORD FILES NEW GIRL COLUMBO

I mean, otherwise the parade is just a bunch of idiots walking in the street.

McNally 🗺️@likethemaps.bsky.social

My annual family baseball trip is to Cincinnati for opening day and I expect to hear this very correct opinion 10,000 times.

We have tickets for the Caps/Sabres game on Thursday. Uggghhhhh….

NHL (Bot)@notnhl.bsky.social

SEVEN STRAIGHT WINS 🔵🟡 FIRST PLACE IN THE ATLANTIC 🔵🟡 IT IS ELECTRIC IN BUFFALO RIGHT NOW 🔵🟡

And if you are a hockey person, what happened here is the world sees just how trying-to-remember-to-breathe stupid Brady Tkachuk is.

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I’d just point out that fucking Connor McDavid, in addition to waving weakly at that shot from Hughes and screening his goalie, is continuing his streak of blowing finals. 2024, 2025, 2026.

I was the one State Dept officer in my 24-person cohort at USAWC. I did not make them more like me; I appreciated and understood them more. In words they understand, fuck these morons.

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Ian Hopper reposted

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

youtube.com"Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s…

Geez, can't even trust Dr. Forrester when he promises to kill a guy! THE BAND IS BACK TOGETHER

RiffTrax@rifftrax.com

THE MADS ARE BACK! Full details here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif... @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social @frankconniff.bsky.social