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(((Charles Fishman))) 💧 Profile picture
@cfishman
May 23, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
What happened to the Great American Logistics Machine?

A reported essay by @DSegalNYTimes.

'The country is flunking a curriculum that it basically wrote.'

nytimes.com/2020/05/22/bus…
2/ You know who civilian invented 'big project management'?

@NASA did.

During #Apollo50.

A massive project: on time, on budget, & a success — across a decade & $24 billion.

'Fortune' magazine's cover story about the 1st Moon landing was 'The Unexpected Payoff of Apollo.' ImageImage
3/ The US learned civilian logistics to get to the Moon.

20,000 companies made parts for Apollo. That required some fresh ways of thinking — imaginative ways of managing, motivating, organizing work.

That's what 'One Giant Leap' is all about, in fact.

amazon.com/One-Giant-Leap…

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Aug 6
Two satellites have changed the game in the last 10 years for farmers, scientists, oil & gas companies, other companies.

They are the OCO satellites—Orbiting Carbon Observatories.

Used daily.

The Trump Administration has ordered one destroyed, the other turned off.

Why?

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2/ The Trump Administration won't say why it ordered NASA to destroy the free-flying OCO-2 (launched 2014), & why it wants the instruments mounted on the space station (in 2019, OCO-3) decommissioned.

They cost minimal money to operate.

Congress has ordered them funded.

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3/ Companies & farmers rely on them all day, every day to make smart business decisions.

They monitor plant growth worldwide & CO2 emissions.

Wait…could that be it?

They are the only dedicated US gov't satellite operations that monitor Earth carbon emissions from space.

—>
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Jul 1
Here's how crazy, broken & deceitful our federal budget process is.

Do you like some of the sweet elements of the 'big beautiful bill'...?

>No tax on tips
> No tax on overtime
> Reduced tax on Social Security
>Tax deductible interest on new car loans

Well, not for long —>
2/ Every one of those provisions only lasts until Dec 31, 2028.

Four full tax years—2025, 26, 27, 28.

There's a touch of MAGA politics there: Look what Donald Trump gave you! It ends when he leaves the White House.

But mostly it's completely fanciful, fake 'accounting.'

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3/ Those provisions—no tax on tips & overtime, lower taxes on Social Security, tax deductible interest on auto loans—those changes are so expensive, if the House & Senate were to simply make them law, they raise the deficit so much, that they aren't allowed in this bill.

—>
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May 28
Here's the latest crisis at Harvard.

If you're an especially talented graduate student in STEM, you can get a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help pay for graduate school.

These are competitive, much sought-after awards called NSF GRFPs.

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2/ You apply as you head to grad school. NSF awards about 4,000 a year—but each fellowship is for 3 to 5 years of funding.

The award is tuition + a small stipend to reduce the need to TA.

Students get the grants, but in practice, they go straight to universities from NSF.

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3/ These are prestigious. Yes, you're in to Michigan or Texas or Stanford or MIT—and top of that, you got an NSF GRFP to pay for a couple years.

They go to the top of the top grad students.

US citizens only. No international students.

What's the crisis?

—>
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May 23
If you’re curious when fascism arrives in the US, it has. A US President attacking individual companies & institutions by name—and threatening ‘punishment’ if they don’t comply with his whims.

6 days ago: Walmart
Yesterday: Harvard
Today: Apple — *must* make iPhones in US

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2/ That’s not the way American democracy & capitalism work. Trump doesn’t get to decide what Walmart charges for back-to-school supplies.

Trump doesn’t get to decide who enrolls at Harvard.

Trump doesn’t tell Apple where to make products.

This is the test.

Right. Now.

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3/ Trump didn’t pick small, less powerful, less well-known organizations.

Walmart.
Harvard.
Apple.

Everyone in the whole world knows those names. Knows those brands. Knows they are the pinnacle of American achievement.

Those are the places Trump is maliciously attacking.

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May 12
We got nothing.

In the trade 'deal' with China, the US got nothing.

We're mostly back to where we were before the global trade war started—before Donald Trump started the global trade war.

The Chinese conceded nothing.

Indeed, from the outside, China won this round.

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2/ An economist from Hong Kong explains:

'From China’s perspective, the outcome of this meeting is a success, as China took a tough stance on the US threat of high tariffs & eventually managed to get the tariffs down significantly without making concessions.'

The chaos…

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3/ …The chaos for American business these last 5 weeks has been incredibly costly—financially, psychologically, in terms of planning, morale, a sense of predictability about the future.

And it has been costly in China as well.

Millions of dollars in wasted…

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May 2
You know how sometimes, you follow the weather & you know the blizzard is coming tomorrow morning, but today it's 39º & crystalline sunshine, & you can't quite believe the blizzard's coming?

But you can look at the radar and, yup, it's coming.

That's where we are now.

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2/ We know that in the next month, almost nothing is coming by ship to US from China & Chinese factories.

Ships full of merchandise, not coming.

The Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach has said cargo for the next couple weeks is down 36%.

—>

cnbc.com/2025/04/22/bus…
3/ If I had school-age children, I'd be thinking ahead right now.

This weekend.

I'd be thinking about:

> Camp supplies, like lunch boxes and bathing suits, athletic socks and sports equipment

> Back to school clothes

> Back to school supplies

> Christmas decorations

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