Paul DiMilla

Tough to seat an impartial jury of your peers when potential jurors despise you

I thought the MAGA crowd wanted to take care of Americans first, although perhaps he is oblivious to the concept of providing affordable and effective medical care to people in the US.

Hope your offer is accepted!

The happiest of happy songs!

There definitely is trouble in the heartland ...

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

This is long and grim, but interesting and well written: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

anytime a sentence begins with "trump says..." or "musk says..." it's a real time-saver because then i know i can ignore the rest

Just because some people can't be happy all of the time doesn't mean the rest of us can't be happy at least some of the time.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Used to be so here once upon a time ...

This thread shows a deliberate defunding of U.S. science, engineering, social science, innovation, and education excellence. It’s a U.S. national security, competitiveness, and economic disaster.

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration.

even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

A tragicomedy (OK, mostly tragedy) that comes in grossly over budget ...

North Carolina’s @katebarrcanwin.bsky.social gave us the perfect metaphor for what we are all doing in this perilous moment.

From today’s Politics Chat, watch now on YouTube.

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...

Our grasp on reality is slipping. The response rate to the survey behind the unemployment rate (and the rest of the household survey) is now lower than during the pandemic.

The decline in response rates during the first year of the Trump Admin 2.0 was larger than at any time outside the pandemic.

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When Bereleh and Faygel Krugman emigrated from Belarus to New York, which was mostly Catholic and Jewish in 1920, I don't think they did for the Scots (with one t) Irish culture

And registered voters who fail to vote also are bad for democracy.

To be followed by another EO announcing the best previously-neglected bottom scientists are being tasked with testing the hypothesis the Earth is flat and each morning a brand new sun is born to replace the one that fell off the Earth's edge the previous day.

One of the funniest things I've seen on this site in some time

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Of course the answer is E) All of the above (and more))

It's at the foundation of everything going on in the world today. Democracies eating themselves alive because guys who have two cars and five TVs are mad at some grad student named Rainbow

Nothing conveys a sense of calmness like a memo using the wording "smashing through the chaos and destruction" ...

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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I'm always happy to learn that there's still a significant portion of the country who wants the US to be the US.

Perhaps not if the next "chapter" leads to bankruptcy for the Post?