H±. As of yet, undeterred. Trying to fix things. Pluralism and Complexity. Ohioan. MPA student at OSU. Former chair of Ohio Forward Party. The Dark Horse. Pataphysician. 🏴‍☠️https://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mwvsxrv7fa2iLike many reform movements of the 2010s, much of the new economic thinking activists have fallen into a general "Everything is evil" anti-establishment, populist slop. There were valid alternatives and still valid concerns! But I can't be lumped in with these people...02 Oct 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvsxrv7fa2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mwrxvo2goq2xThis campaign WILL be observing Halloween for all of October. And while VERY TOUGH TO BEAT, we will be the absolute Spookiest campaign in the country. 01 Oct 2026 04:01 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwrxvo2goq2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mwmed4soqh2wWe think too narrowly. Think "that part of town is bad, my part of town is good, I'm looking out for my part". It's too connected to think that way. We rise and fall together. It all comes back on us. Even self-interest requires us to consider the whole picture. 28 Sep 2026 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmed4soqh2whttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mweoqftj2w2aWe'll certainly continue to debate the tradeoffs of Flock cameras for many elections to come. But it seems pretty unquestionable that 4th amendment protections must apply now. To actually use Flock tracking, get a warrant. This would also prevent the abuses we're seeing.25 Sep 2026 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mweoqftj2w2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mw7fk4sbng2aWe are presently reliving all the mistakes of the 1970s oil shocks and stagflation. Democrats and Republicans rushing to institute bad policy, price controls, and export controls. Maybe we don't teach history enough? But all our leaders were old enough to live it!23 Sep 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7fk4sbng2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mvoq4vzivv2nSo much of the anti-data center posting is AI generated slop and it's killing me. 17 Sep 2026 03:38 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvoq4vzivv2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mult4zcd6f2rNever mistake gross incompetence for malevolence but you'd be hard pressed to believe the Ohio Democratic Party has been anything other than a controlled opposition strawman for a corrupt Republican Party the last 30 years. All they do is keep the GOP in office. 03 Sep 2026 06:29 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mult4zcd6f2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mul2kwcxko2dI HAVE EXTENDED AN INVITATION TO WLWT TO EXTEND ME AN INVITATION TO DEBATE WITH VIVEK. I HAVE PROMISED THE MOST INFORMATIVE, IMPACTFUL, AND HIGHEST VIEWERSHIP DEBATE IN RECENT HISTORY. REFUSAL IS TANTAMOUNT TO VOTER SUPPRESSION. I AM A VERY SERIOUS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.02 Sep 2026 23:09 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mul2kwcxko2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mui5vc2s7s25The American Dream is that in this country we can improve ourselves in our short time on Earth, that our lives can be better, and in improving ourselves improve the world around us, to leave something better for posterity. America asks us to try.01 Sep 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mui5vc2s7s25https://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mu44rtobmg2zTrump is massively disrespecting Ohio here but also...he lists Wilson as Great? I guess he's an FDR guy now too. Clinton is highly ranked but...Reagan, HW, and Bush didn't make the cut at all? No Nixon, LBJ, Ike, Truman. What an insane post. 28 Aug 2026 00:39 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu44rtobmg2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mu34i6nh4g2mPeter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime, has died and this one certainly hits hard for me. He narrated a NASA video which has inspired me for years. Enjoy it. https://youtu.be/N4_WXjp9Hzo?is=DnXQYfeVnjMlSKRx27 Aug 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu34i6nh4g2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mtmlpgoclc2gAt some point we should start to ask ourselves why some of the wealthiest communities in the country have the most data centers. Are they hoarding all the tax revenues and industrial investment for themselves? 21 Aug 2026 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmlpgoclc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mt32hqrvmx2wHearing a lot of antipathy toward new construction because "construction jobs are temporary". Folks, we can just KEEP BUILDING THINGS. We have a housing shortage, infrastructure in desperate need of updating, and maybe we start building factories again too. Let's build!14 Aug 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt32hqrvmx2whttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3msyd2cprfu2kEvery policy change results in someone, somewhere, being worse off. Which makes change impossible. Small benefits to hundreds of millions are easily outweighed by concentrated losses for hundreds. But stacking small benefits is how great progress is made. It takes determination13 Aug 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyd2cprfu2khttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3msobhlifwb24We are a nation and a world in crisis. Hard choices lay ahead of us. Right now though, we are rewarding those who make empty promises of a free lunch. I say let's give our support to those who will lead in hard times for the long haul. We can turn this around. Let's fight.09 Aug 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msobhlifwb24https://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3msmwdxn4on2fI asked the SOS office for a list of qualified independent candidates and apparently that's a public record request instead of, you know...here is the link to the list of people on the ballot because that's obviously something that we maintain and voters should see.09 Aug 2026 06:09 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmwdxn4on2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mslhrbho4n2eJim Webb would have won. 08 Aug 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mslhrbho4n2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3msgcrlmudl2bYou can just do things. And you can just write memos. Which is just suggesting people do things. And then people will just do things. Write memos -> run the world. 06 Aug 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgcrlmudl2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3msbfhxikuq2eNew York politics gets lots of focus because so many reporters and influencers live in or are obsessed with New York. Ohio is so lacking in cultural impact that really interesting things happen and go totally unremarked. How did we become so marginalized? Turn it around!04 Aug 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbfhxikuq2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mrzntm4l652xThe uncomfortable fact is that for our multitude of impossible problems, the government can't solve them. Government needs to do many things well and stop doing things badly but in the end it falls to people, to all of us to change and do better and no one wants to hear that. 01 Aug 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrzntm4l652xhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mruuvqwwzy2uIf we had a land value tax instead of a property tax you wouldn't have to worry about your taxes skyrocketing because of a housing shortage. We wouldn't have a housing shortage either. 30 Jul 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruuvqwwzy2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mrukp7tfn62w"DAtA ceNTEr CoNSTruCTIoN jObS aRe TemPORAry And Don't COUnt" Comrade, you think the 10 million people the construction industry employs in the US are just emptying and filling the same ditch again and again? Construction projects get completed (*except in California*)! 30 Jul 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrukp7tfn62whttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mrstm4xhiz2wLooking at my campaign finance reports like:29 Jul 2026 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrstm4xhiz2whttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mrqwrmx2if2uIn Nebraska and now Idaho we're seeing Democrats do the right thing and embrace Lesser-of-two-evils voting. Where Democrats can't win and there's a credible Independent in the race, they should step down. MAGA Republicans must lose for what they've done. https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/07/28/idaho-democrat-david-roth-ends-campaign-for-us-senate-seat-held-by-risch/29 Jul 2026 03:02 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrqwrmx2if2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mrdqtblhds2sI can see my highly tuned contrarianism being beneficial in the age of AI.23 Jul 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdqtblhds2shttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mqz56vpqbb23All the conspiracy theories about the military industrial complex or oil just make no sense given actual events. Not a good way of understanding global events. More the incoherent passions and ideologies of politicians and people without thinking. And certainly not a plan.19 Jul 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqz56vpqbb23https://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mqwtj4oxto2wThe history of the last 40 years of America is the squandering of immense opportunity by leaders who chose the path of least resistance. The history of the last 10 years of America is endless self-inflicted wounds by a self-indulgent ideological class of too-online leaders. 18 Jul 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwtj4oxto2whttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mqu5jzor5w2aAll else equal, if you're going to use AI in your writing I'd prefer you use it to make it more succinct. AI is making words cheaper and cheaper so time is becoming more valuable. Don't swamp us with fluff!17 Jul 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqu5jzor5w2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/timgradyforohio.com/post/3mqrdums3i72uThe bipartisan backlash to data centers which could drive reindustrializing, high tech manufacturing, cheap and clean energy, and much needed jobs and tax revenue to Rustbelt Ohio, has been deeply demoralizing. I'm struggling to stay involved when politics rewards only lies and impoverishment.16 Jul 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:vt6t3efr6w3o7gb2ne3sx34m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrdums3i72u