As 2022 winds to close, Donald Trump finds himself in an accelerating downward spiral of legal, political, and personal distress. His mood is decidedly dour and consumed by hate. And true to form, he is handling it like a colicky infant who thinks his whining and tantrums will deliver relief...
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The sky is falling, because 22 metric tons before re-entry might still have some mass remaining. An inch is as good as a mile. BEIJING — China’s government defended its handling of a rocket booster that burned up over the Indian Ocean and said Monday it was unfairly being held to...
“We might (and I stress might) have already reached and passed a point where there is really no turning back for Thwaites, no matter what we as humans do to our climate,” Alastair Graham, the University of South Florida and co-author of the study. New data from under the ice stream...
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is not climate change, though it will likely end much of what we experience today, but rather our war on bio-diversity. Bio-diversity is under attack from...
We’re not even at the Silly Season yet, even as we’re reminded of the predictions of Harold Camping about the end of the world in 2011. But DHS has taken it seriously by keeping troops in DC until Mid-March. Accordingly the nutters are casting about for prophetic revisions to maintain...
“Imputation of Guilt”, Flynn’s loss of a 5th Amendment exception could figure in the subsequent, yet unfulfilled prosecution of justice obstruction by the Mueller investigation. Abuse of power continues, as his pardoning spree further hardens his de facto concession. Trump personally benefits from pardoning Flynn, so the pardon is an abuse of power. Abusing...
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is spreading reports that Putin has Parkinson’s and may resign in January: The Sun: PUTIN 'TO QUIT' Vladimir Putin, 68, ‘stepping down as Russian president early next year amid fears he has Parkinson’s’ VLADIMIR Putin is planning to quit early next year amid growing fears for...
This is how I see the outcome. Ohio will be close but ultimately will go to Trump. Florida, from what I’m hearing from Miami and Pinellas, will not be close. Texas will also be close, but given that the courts are refusing to disenfranchise the Houston drive-through voters, I believe...
Final poll before the election! I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll ofpossible presidential election outcomes. Please select the one that you think, today,is most likely to be what happens on Nov 3rd, after all the votes are counted. On the first of...
Beto O’Rourke, who narrowly lost to Ted Cruz for Texas’s Senate seat in 2018, and Tory Gavito, cofounder of Way to Win, have an op-ed in today’s WaPo urging Biden to fight for Texas’s 38 EVs: Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do...
Please rec this diary so I can collect enough data. I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll ofpossible presidential election outcomes. Please select the one that you think, today,is most likely to be what happens on Nov 3rd, after all the votes are...
The Princeton Election Consortium posts a daily map of the electoral college predictions based on current polling. In addition to the most likely scenario, they also post maps showing how the results change if either candidate outperforms the polling by 3%. This is important because 3% is the difference between...
538 has a new web page up, 2020 Election Forecast, which shows the current state of vote predictions state by state, and is updated daily. It starts with 24 maps showing the combination of states that give either candidate a win. Right now, there are 5 winning combinations for Trump...
Early voting has started, and Democrats are doing well: Politico: Democrats build big edge in early voting The Democratic dominance spreads across an array of battleground states, according to absentee ballot request data compiled by state election authorities and analyzed by Democratic and Republican data experts. In North Carolina and...
This is a true virtue-signal as Trump announces he’s now open for more griftable influence money not unlike the cash infusions he received in 2016. This is beyond the skimming that has now shown Trump to have blown through $800 million. x Trump doesn’t have anywhere near that amount in...
I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll ofpossible presidential election outcomes. Please select the one that you think, today,is most likely to be what happens on Nov 3rd, after all the votes are counted. On the first of every month from now through...
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge,” and Donald Trump’s creativity, however limited, remains confined to cowardly name-calling. “Slow Joe” and “Phony Kamala” are weak sauce. x Trump only took questions from friendly reporters during today's short press conference. He offered up a few more smears of Kamala...
Please rec this diary so I can collect enough data. I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll of possible presidential election outcomes. Please select the one that you think, today, is most likely to be what happens on Nov 3rd, after all the...
Laurie Garrett and John Moore discuss herd immunity which is the default position of leaders like Trump who don’t care how many people die. Trump continues to make excuses and even regress to debunked remedies. He will sacrifice a quarter-million people to achieve re-election, making the actual death toll attributable...
Circuit Court Judge Richard Brueggemann showed his true pro-COVID-19 colors today with his ruling that all of Governor Andy Beshear’s actions against the coronavirus are unconstitutional. For those not in the know, a group of businessmen and Republican State Attorney General Daniel Cameron went forum shopping for a judge who...
Most of us have been experiencing warm to hot temperatures. It doesn’t appear that the misery will go away any time soon. There is a lot of news lately on our warming planet. I shared a few articles on the subject, but they barely scratch the surface of what is...
Please rec this diary so I can collect enough data. I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll ofpossible presidential election outcomes. Please select the one that you think, today,is most likely to be what happens on Nov 3rd, after all the votes are...
When you reach the point where absurdity obscures reality, we generally call that jumping the shark. The history behind the phrase dates back to an episode of the tv show Happy Days. Arthur Fonzarelli, The Fonz, dressed in his trademark leather jacket and shorts jumped a shark while water skiing....
Please rec this diary so I can collect enough data. I’m conducting an experiment here, and I need your help. Below is a poll of possible presidential election outcomes. Please select the one that you think, today, is most likely to be what happens on Nov 3rd, after all the...
It seems like Dr. Anthony Fauci has rediscovered his independence. He showed it with his methodical stinging decomposition of a squirming Rand Paul’s hubris based on fake science. Dr. Anthony Fauci schools Rand Paul Watch the entire episode here. When it was time for Senator Rand Paul to start his questioning, he sounded...
The Hill had a piece this week that goes into how U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R. SC) full embrace of Trump might be putting his re-election bid in danger: Graham’s alliance with Trump has helped him avoid a nasty primary fight, while fueling Democratic efforts to unseat him in November....
Trump hasn’t yet reached his personal Vietnam death toll numbers, because bone spurs. The GOP will parse his numbers because somehow Democrats are to blame, what with all the stress of impeachment and all those conspiracy theories. This assumes that we believe all that disinforming gaslight and malarkey incessantly repeated...
Will Trump wear a mask today, May 5, during his visit to a mask factory in Phoenix. President Trump will begin traveling again in earnest starting tomorrow, starting with a tour of a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona The Honeywell plant is now making N95 masks for first responders and...
Robert Reich tells the truth in an op-ed at the Guardian: Trump wants you to choose between your job or your life — because work makes you free. Trump preferred “cheering an economic revival rather than managing a catastrophic health crisis” — Nothing has changed. Trump’s hope of timing a “re-opened economy” to victory is that...
Live Blog below. Summary: any attempt to “change” the pattern for these events was lost today. It had no different structure than other COVID taskforce briefings. It was the same as before. Trump blamed others and lied again. The biggest lies related to the reality of testing in terms of rates per thousand...
Politico has what I think is a good article on the overly optimistic coronavirus pandemic model proposed by the IHME and the Trump Administrations latching onto this model. While not part of this article, Trump was once again asked by a reporter if he felt responsible for the 50,000 coronavirus...
We are getting a pretty good look at what a rapid transition to green energy would look like if we ever act to slow down the looming apocalypse. Of course, we are in one now because of the trifecta of coronavirus, climate change, the sixth mass extinction, and predictions of...
Kudos to Brad Reed at Raw Story for bringing this to our attention: x #CoronavirusCornyn doesn't mention 26,211 Americans are dead. I guess that's not important. He also doesn't mention https://t.co/7WKPbPKSIEâ” xxxJDxxx (@xxxJDxxx3) April 15, 2020 Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Wednesday tried to spread some purportedly encouraging news about...
Today’s Trump presser had a couple of lies today, which seems normal as he’s become rehearsed with his excuses and his usual projection. However he’s continuing to attack the WHO to draw blame from his 70 days of delay and denial, leading to the February and March COVID-19 spread in...
National thirty day stay-at-home order, even if Trump’s too cowardly to declare it as a policy. x One takeaway from Jared Kushner briefing: we did not start active response phase of dealing with this crisis until 13 days ago. 13 days! — Susan Glasser (@sbg1) April 2, 2020 x From...
So glad that Donald Trump decided to put all his chips on the table. Unfortunately, he was gambling with other people’s money — and lives. In a CNN story on Trump’s coronavirus-related decision-making (honestly, I’d feel better if we fed llama fart noises into Google Translate, printed the translations on...
The Italian death rate may be ahead for the US as the numbers now follow Italy’s, which wouldn’t have happened had Trump not wanted US companies to profit from the contagion (as well as not accepting non-US testing solutions). It’s should always be people’s health before profits. Italy’s current rate is 6.8%...
x Have you read about our team yet? âÂÂï¸Âðºð¸ Kremlin Annex: Five women have been protesting outside the White House for over a year – The Washington Post https://t.co/NhHHZV420V â Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) August 17, 2019 “Hasta la victoria, siempre!” x A LAYPERSONâÂÂS GUIDE TO TRUMP-RUSSIA: ItâÂÂs komprocated. So many...
If you're asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you're really asking when's it going to happen to “me,” because it's already happened to many other people. Eric Roston Swarms of Desert Locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) have haunted parts of Russia, Spain, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and, SW...
If you’re asking when climate change is going to “happen,” you’re really asking when’s it going to happen to “me,” because it’s already happened to many other people. Eric Roston Swarms of Desert Locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) have haunted parts of Russia, Spain, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and, SW...
The firestorms continue unabated in smoldering Australia. If you are a praying person, now would be the time as extreme conditions threaten the lives of thousands of our brothers and sisters down under. From Huffington Post Australia, authorities warn that fire conditions may not be survivable as it is for...
So here’s the latest news about impeachment: House Democratic leaders are bracing for some defections among a group of moderate Democrats in swing districts who are concerned a vote to impeach President Trump could cost them their seats in November. Lawmakers and senior aides are privately predicting they will lose...
The Arctic is unraveling before our eyes. As our understanding of the changes continues, scientists have been fine-tuning models to give us a sense of how quickly we can expect tipping points to arrive. One of the most terrifying is the permafrost feedback. A new study finds that the feedback...
Safe Bets For Tonight: It’s hosted by CNN and NYT, so the questions to the candidates are going to suck. The moderators want this to become a professional wrestling match, so look for lots of questions crafted to spark fights among the candidates. I predict Erin Burnett will ask Warren...
A study done by Wallethub found that Kentucky ranks near the bottom of state economies coming in at 45th. This same website has the rankings of all the other states if you wish to take a gander at them. As to their methodology: Methodology In order to determine the best...