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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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.
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.
@willsommer.bsky.social Good article — I worked with JS at the AP. He was my editor and hired me. He had the same tendencies even way back then.
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social As a fellow Bond fan, I should mention that I spent last weekend at Goldeneye, in Jamaica. Pricey, but exclusive and very Bond.
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)
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
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“For God’s sake, it seems like I was just on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and now they’re making me come back in to do Never Mind The Buzzcocks,” said Arthur Batts
@ianoland.bsky.social Hey Ian - do you know what happened with Jerrod Wronski? Just saw the guy’s post, and the announcer tonight botched many of the starting lineup names.
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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...