Patricia Plonsker

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

@lawdorknews.bsky.social
Today’s letter (about the DOJ dropping the appeals on its cases against law firms) was really good.

Thank you, Chris.

The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia - Nature Medicine A natural experiment including more than 200,000 people who received a shingles vaccine reveals that, within 6 years of vaccination, the recombinant vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia t...

Perhaps trump listened
to his “health secretary”
and did not get the Shingrix vaccine.

Friends, read about the near-miraculous Shingrix vaccine here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

True.

But no spinning needed.

It was out of control from the first moment.

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Commodities trading just nuts today.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

you know what? If you come on here and you say, "There is no use in voting. We're never getting out of this by voting," you're going to get pushback. And you should.

If you have suggestions, fine. Make them, but right now, we are actually flipping districts that haven't been Democratic for 40 yrs

I need to remind people. The midterms have never been so important.

Don't let people use scare tactics or make you think it won't happen.

also if voting didn't matter gerrymandering wouldn't exist.

Futures market snapshot showing West Texas and Brent crude up 8-9% this morning, with natural gas and gasoline up 5%. Heating oil is up nearly 15%.

In case you’re wondering
about the direction of the
“affordability crisis,”
here we are at the open, Monday, March 2.

WTI and Brent crude are up nearly 8% tonight.

That’s roughly $5 a barrel in a single day of pre-market futures trading.

If you thought life was expensive in the USA on Friday, February 27, 2026,
you’ll be nostalgic for those prices in very short order.

Just feels like Enron.
Exactly like Enron all over again.

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

DukeEnergy only allows payment up to $1,000 per transaction. People will have to pay in 2 or 3 transactions. The charges for Duke’s transmission has skyrocketed as has cost of the electricity itself!

Example: modest house’s monthly bill went from $350 to $1,945

People are going to be desperate.

Expect US consumer prices to rise sharply over the next 6mos as the rising cost of utilities flows through market pricing mechanisms.

In addition, thanks to trump’s unlawful attack on Iran, the cost of gasoline in the US will be sharply higher for some period of time.

Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."

Chris Murphy: "This is a disaster. It's illegal."

Because when you consider the lives of people different from yourselves, when you take a less self-centered, a less selfish view of life and of the world, there is new common ground to find.

Having young people in the room is guaranteed to break that selfish, self-centered grip on subject matter.

trump getting americans killed to prevent americans from getting killed when they weren’t getting killed?

They are all old.
Where are the young?
Is living in the isolation of “retirement” communities part of their disconnect?

My mother rolled her eyes when discussing her friend, Barbara:

“She has no interaction w/anyone who isn’t old or on Fox News. Fox News is her friend. Fox News keeps her company.”

We must push back against the US government with all of our strength.

Simultaneously, we must take small sips of joy from every moment of our small lives.

Actively love loved ones.
Actively love neighbors.
Be kind to animals.
Care for the earth.
Make/appreciate art& lit.

We have just one life.

John Junker on vocals.

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago

www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

I went to Catholic school,
so I can parse a sentence,
and use the Oxford comma
like nobody’s business.

Also, this means I grew up
knowing absolutely nothing
about geography and civics,
BUT EVEN AS A SIXTH GRADER
I KNEW THAT ONLY CONGRESS
CAN DECLARE WAR!

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Violating. It’s called violating the constitution

No justification, no authorization from Congress, and no clear objective.

But none of that matters to Donald Trump — and apparently neither do the safety and lives of American service members.

CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump “lost patience with negotiations”.

I don’t believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that.

Frog and Toad jumped away. Frog was trembling.

“I am not afraid!” he shouted.