Richard Switzer

@rswitz

Product guy & Torontonian. CBC, Globe and Mail, TWG, eCampusOntario, Bad Gateway, PaymentEvolution. Old hipster-> hip oldster.

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Richard Switzer@rswitz· 16d

Between 2014 and 2016, three massive LNG (liquified natural gas) export terminals were built in Queensland, Australia. Local producers could now sell on the global market, with predictable results. australiainstitute.org.au/report/impac...

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Jul 5

From the original NYT article

New York Times article May 11, 2026: • Safari
The general manager of President Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J., has offered suggestions to guide the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and helped recruit one of the contractors for the job, according to federal documents and a government spokeswoman.
The manager, David Schutzenhofer, who has run the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster since 2006, is a private citizen with no known training in engineering or architecture.
An Interior Department spokeswoman said Mr. Schutzenhofer had advised the government on the repair project without becoming a temporary government employee. Had he become one, he would have been required to take ethics training and pledge to avoid contlicts of interest.
"Mr. Schutzenhofer is unpaid and is volunteering his time to offer suggestions on this project because he is an American patriot," the spokeswoman, Katie Martin, said in an email. She called Mr.
Schutzenhofer a world-renowned leader in the hospitality industry and said he did not
"direct" any federal contracts.

New York Times article May 19, 2026, part two: As part of that contract, Atlantic Industrial Coatings is spreading a waterproofing material called Rhino Pipeliner 5000 across the pool's concrete slabs. An added tint is giving the pool a blue hue that Mr. Trump has called "American flag blue."
That was a departure from the Park
Service's previous plans for fixing the pool.
The agency had called for sealing leaky joints between the slabs, but not
waterproofing the eight-inch-thick concrete slabs themselves.
Kevin Griess, the Park Service official overseeing the National Mall, said in a court filing this week that the idea had come from "the administration" and had not previously been considered by his team.
Government documents seen by The Times provide more detail: They identify the source of the plan as an adviser to the administration, whom they refer to as David S.

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Jul 2

Big Chuck McGill energy

Jimmy and Chuck McGill from “Better Call Saul”

Richard Switzer@rswitz· May 26

Screenshot showing a table titled “Here are the top 10 U.S. states by number of tax returns reporting over $1 million in annual income (AGI), based on 2022 IRS data.” The table has three columns: Rank, State, and Million-dollar tax returns. The rows are:
1. California — approximately 128,900
2. Florida — approximately 77,670
3. Texas — approximately 73,930
4. New York — approximately 69,780
5. New Jersey — approximately 31,390
6. Massachusetts — approximately 27,270
7. Illinois — approximately 24,000
8. Washington — approximately 21,530
9. Connecticut — approximately 16,320
10. Pennsylvania — approximately 15,000

Richard Switzer@rswitz· May 9

I see Shane has last none of his unflappable P.T. Barnum ambitions: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Some silly nonsense about Adobe spending a huge chunk of marketing dollars to push software that nobody wants onto customers that are never going to show up in the first place. There is only one winner here, and that’s the storyteller with an incredible track record of convincing media executives with hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal to indulge in kayfabe ‘media empire, but cool’ fantasies.

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Apr 25

Future students will study the second half of this decade and wonder how everyone stood by while an aggressively stupid politician single-handedly engineered the greatest act of demand destruction in history and accidentally solved the climate crisis in the process. bsky.app/profile/volt...

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Apr 18

You probably have better things to do @mod.bsky.app but these FactFusion posts are consistently spreading wildly inaccurate information posing as feel-good science. It’s spring, time to remove some weeds.

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Mar 23

What a paragraph:

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Mar 13

Imagine if this war creates the economic conditions for a rapid shift from oil to renewables? What if it creates so many jobs and cheap, abundant power that Capitalism demands it?

Transcript of Chris Hayes podcast discussing Bill McKibben’s book ‘Here Comes The Sun’

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Nov 29

Colin Powell holds up a vial he said could contain anthrax as he presents evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs to the United Nations Security Council. | Elise Amendola/AP Photo

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Nov 29

According to the US State department Venezuela is a transit hub for about 10 to 13% of Colombian-produced cocaine that enters the United States. Almost all meth and fentanyl comes from Mexico, with China supplying chemicals. Is Venezuela Flooding the U.S. With Drugs? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w...

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Nov 9

Worthy competition for the reigning champ?

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Nov 9

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Nov 1

Erm, what are doing here?

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Oct 25

The most insane real estate deal in Toronto history has to be Skydome, which cost ~$600m in late ‘80s dollars ($1.2b adjusted) being sold to Rogers for a mere $25m in 2005, roughly 4% of the construction cost. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d351f97...

Screenshot text: The triumph, for some, was short-lived. Construction costs ballooned and by 1993, the publicly owned Stadium Corporation was more than $400-million in debt. The province assumed full control, but in 1998, the corporation declared bankruptcy and sold the facility to a private consortium. Several years later, a Canadian telecommunications giant bought it for $25-million and renamed it, to the lasting consternation of many, the Rogers Centre.

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Oct 8

He’s flying

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Sep 16

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Aug 27

And it was international dog day!

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Aug 16

@samuel.bsky.team @pfrazee.com @hailey.at What’s going on here? These are the top 4 results for Hurricane Erin:

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Aug 9

I miss biking through Trinity Bellwoods as part of my morning commute. Used to get lots of great photos.

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Aug 5

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Jun 26

I would personally raise $1M to pay Premier Doug Ford to do a bicycle tour of Paris with @annehidalgo.bsky.social and @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Jun 19

This makes absolutely no sen… oh.

Richard Switzer@rswitz· May 9

Bring African refugees to the U.S., but make it Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

Refugees can often wait years in camps around the world before they are processed and approved to travel to the United States.
Before the first Trump administration, refugee resettlement took an average of 18 to 24 months, according to the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group for immigrants. Many refugees must wait years longer.
The Afrikaners, however, had to wait no more than three months.
The arrival of the white South Africans comes after Mr. Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee admissions when he came into office. Then, in February, Mr.
Trump created an exception for the resettlement of Afrikaners, while also cutting all U.S. financial assistance to South Africa.

Richard Switzer@rswitz· May 4

Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti from the HBO series Silicon Valley

Richard Switzer@rswitz· May 3

Richard Switzer@rswitz· May 1

What happened to @clayjak.substack.com is yet another example of an administration determined to treat compassion as a crime. He offered informal, pro-bono legal advice to a local family terrified they were going to be deported. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Apr 28

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Apr 22

Classic tough on crime posturing: transparently pandering while being totally redundant! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Richard Switzer@rswitz· Apr 15

Incredible band. Lucky enough to see them a few times, stayed a couple of nights at Brent and Marc’s band house in Vancouver (‘93?)