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They just 'temporarily' suspended ALL federal grants and spending on current grant awards. Researchers from all fields are going absolutely batsh--t tonight. (I personally have nearly $5M waiting to be funded.)
"The memo states its orders should …
From the article: "The metric is based on a calculation of how much stocks yield, which is derived by dividing the stock market’s expected earnings by its price."
Not actual, expected. So analysts' dreams are part of the equation, and even with tha…
That was sure fun to sing along with some of the soundtrack of my early life, in the 'Nam era, esp. Buffalo Springfield/CSNY, Dylan, Pete Seeger and more.
Kinda stunned, tho to see a top 100 like that with no Joan Baez. (The Byrds' Deportee is ter…
Yep, the agents doing the harassment, and their supervisors badgering them to meet quotas, are much more deserving of deporting than the Navajo. I've been wondering how this whole thing was going to be organized, and of course it turns out it's not.…
Think of how to resist, in even the tiniest of ways. Don't give in to despair. Beyond the performative supertrolling and the destructive cruelty, the emoluments stuff alone is to enough to ... well, I don't know what.
No despair here. There's plent…
And maybe hook up with western Oregon and Washington, a la the classic novel Ecotopia. Most eastern Oregon counties have declared by public referendum that they want to be part of Idaho, so it should be open season for realigning.
Appears though, …
Right, OJ, free prison labor has a long history in the good ol' U.S.A. Some corporate farm(s) could get a big profit bump out of a deal like that.
I could almost swear I've seen Miller as a Gestapo officer in some WWII movie.
@FD1000
@hondo
Trump received 77,301,997 votes
Harris received 75,017,626 votes
Yes, there are a whole bunch of very concerned people, including countless Republicans, and growing by the day.
+1. And it might be worth mentioning here that essentia…
The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are now his foot soldiers forever. Wouldn't surprise me if they became a thug unit comparable to the Brownshirts, a la Hitler.
How about changing Denali back to the ridiculous McKinley for a mountain WMc never had any connection to? It does show us where we're headed -- the 1890s, bank panics and all. (FWIW, the two U.S. senators from AK, both Rs, are against the name chang…
Great essay, absolutely right on.
The opposition party needs to get its stuff together ... to OPPOSE the insanity and make it as clear as possible to the country that it is insanity if what people want is a government that works for the people at …
@Crash: "The Repugnant majority is not going to change that."
Right, but like OJ said, they're going to make the situation far worse. The pro-fraud, pro-consumer-ripoff party takes over the administration tomorrow.
Excellent!!!! I couldn't see how JR could hang around very long after the WaPo lurch to the dark side. It's great to see she didn't, and the new venture looks, well like @Mark said, promising.
Another JR quote about the mission of The Contrarian: …
AndyJ said: "He needs to get in touch with physical reality."
He and his sort believe that whatever they say is "reality". Facts need not apply.
Yeah, and they're utterly pathetic.
@BenWP, here's a piece on two WaPo staffers who joined The Atlantic last week, with a few other interesting tidbits. Says The Atlantic is beefing up for covering the new administration "rigorously."
I'm in the WaPo cancelled ranks too. It's slid a long way downhill since the Watergate glory days. I've also been thinking about The Atlantic, and wondering if they'll have a shot at picking up J. Rubin and a few others from WaPo.
I contribute to …
I'll pile on too. Per the 9-day local postcard delivery @Crash mentioned in the OP: similar occurrences began here after our city's sorting machines were taken out of service and supposedly trashed (so no future official can bring them back?).
So …
Snippets of a memoriam post for Pres. Carter by Caitlin Rivers, Johns Hopkins public health professor. (I subscribe to an email public health report she authors.)
President Carter dedicated decades of his post-presidency to advancing global health …
Panama might want to sell the canal to the U.S. to hand somebody else the problem. The zone is drying out and the system has lost enough water that the number of transits is down by something like 35% (from an average of 38 a day to 24).
And Canad…
@Crash, especially in the case of public parks, Republicans have been cutting park budgets for thirty years, forcing the park managers to enact entrance fees and raise them time after time. That's the price we're all paying (elections have consequen…
Right, @Old_Joe, and that's what I hope happens too, @Mark. Jennifer Rubin had a post praising ProPublica recently (my 'scrip ran out a week ago and I didn't renew). Made me think she might have a CV or two out there already.
The NYT story on it is that the Senate passed a previous bill that had already passed the House "in the spring" with the cancer research and other provisions. I looked for an article on what happened because if the Senate added any provisions to the…
“Inauguration Day is still a month away, yet the chaos monkeys have already taken over.”
— Paul Krugman, the former New York Times columnist, in his Substack newsletter (Dec. 19).
All right, it's PK unchained. The post after chaos monkeys is The G…
So ya know the one person who brought the travesty of what Orban & his crew were doing to Hungary was Paul Krugman, who knew a colleague who was tracking it in real time. PK put up several guest NYT posts by the colleague, can't recall what year…
JD: "Mar-A-Lardo". We really do need humor as we face the coming fiasco. It will not go well for most of the population.
Yes! I highly recommend The Daily Show (Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Desi Lydak) for newsy humor. When sharp sarcasm is needed…
I'd really be surprised if a significant percentage of the people who voted for Trump have the slightest idea who Viktor Orban is or what he stands for.
Maybe it's the same with those who voted for Harris... I have no idea.
I'd say very, very few …
