from #BethMole arstechnica.com/health/2025/... ht Doug Bostrom

it’s criminal to remove life-critical support with no notice under terms of no actual urgency.

I don’t think so. A resolution is not a law, and this role, per the Supreme Court, is Congress’, not the President’s.

Suppose that Congress resolved, by a simple majority, that Trump engaged in insurrection and is therefore ineligible for any office of the United States? Such a resolution shouldn’t be necessary, under the Constitution’s plain language, but after Trump v Anderson, that would do it, right?

the choice has always been social democracy or catastrophe. we've been dilatory.

at some level i think this whole thing is just a well-executed plan to make members of the United States’ leadership class have to work as taxi drivers like Vladimir Putin did.

a bit of good news ht @ProjectFearlessness.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy breakingthenews.net/Article/Tesl...

“One million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

they finally took away our avocado toast. it is for our own good.

i guess i anticipate things breaking to a degree that renders prior experience of stability except at the margins perhaps less reliable. i agree they’ll try to scapegoat. but they’ve been so boldly breaking things, their success pretending later they didn’t break anything may be limited.

all crypto is now $TRUMP.

remember when we were going to help out red states, bring forward the “left behind”, overcome divisions between rural Americans and “Washington”, by dispersing Federal offices throughout the nation? i thought it was a pretty good idea.

i never strangled you. i simply effectuated a pause on your breathing. if you choose not to restart after the pause, that’s on you.

“trade unionist.”

didn't they campaign on bringing back the romance, that sense of surprise, when, um, the tornado demolished your home?

"The murderous insanity of all this is scarcely possible to describe." @ryanlcooper.com speaks plainly about what one is doing when one purposefully shatters the global public health system with no transition or replacement. prospect.org/world/2025-0...

this is so beyond Donny's mere incompetence. Musk is running the show, and the GOP is encouraging it. i don't think they walk away so innocently. if everything breaks, they will find themselves in competition with one another for some path to redemption.

public opinion is a fickle thing. right now, no. but in the teeth of the depression, despised by erstwhile friends, all of our true claims about the lawlessness and Constitution-shredding of this administration — high crimes and misdemeanors if ever there were — might get a stronger hearing.

north korea? where there's a will there's a way. certainly any developed country, if not hindered by adversaries, could afford a nuclear program. serious enough to be an effective deterrent, while adversaries may be provoked by the greater threat? that's a hard question. some will calculate "yes".