Yes, there’s a plague. And for some of us, today really sucks. Doctors and nurses are getting burned out — and worse, sick — and things are still just ramping up. The numbers look bad and tomorrow they’ll look worse and a week from now we’re going to look back on today and wish it was still only as bad as this.
It’s tempting to focus on this (more…)
There are approximately one hundred and sixty Trump Administration appointments awaiting the pleasure of the United State Senate for hearings and confirmation.
Among these are names for a couple of dozen Federal judges, fifty or so assistant sub-undersecretaryships (not a real thing, but you get the idea), and ambassadors to such places as Haiti, the Bahamas, Croatia, Zambia, Lichtenstein, India, and Germany. (I find it somewhat disturbing that we lack an ambassador to India, particularly given that they’re a nuclear power with a history of friction with their neighbors. Quite unlike Germany, of course…) Most of these will fly through with minimal debate, which is as it should be; many are relatively innocuous, while some can be objected to solely on ideological grounds.
But there are a few that should make us all sit up and take notice, and one in particular that will make a really big stink. That last is Sam Clovis (more…)
(Note: This article is from 2017 and has not been updated.)
Today and tomorrow, if you happen to be in Alaska (and nearby), you can go to a public meeting about an EPA rules change. If you’re not one of the lucky few, you can still weigh in by email by clicking here. And you want to weigh in, even if you don’t know it yet. So do all your friends, so Share this post.
This hasn’t gotten a lot of airtime (more…)
In the days since the election, rumor and hysteria and raw unfounded panic have swept the Internet. The number of subjects is immense, and not all of them are horribly far-fetched.
“What is Donald Trump going to do to us?” This is the question on everyone’s lips, and the amount of terror that it causes is pretty amazing. It’s almost as though people lack faith in their own government for some reason. (more…)
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