Profile avatar
pmmii.bsky.social
192 posts 43 followers 316 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

This is the slap back to Stephen Miller’s “arrest everyone” madness. And an admission that Trump is under pressure from multiple industries that rely on migrant workers. This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.

"witness a qualitative regime shift from a world dominated by individual climate-related hazards and impacts to one where compound occurrences become the norm." #discontinuity agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

As jaded as I am, I still wasn't prepared for how sanguine the US media would be about the appearance of gangs of masked gunmen abducting people in broad daylight all across America.

Sinking land is a global climate risk, but insurers are leaving the tab to homeowners. The ECB estimates the region’s potential damage from "subsidence" at more than €2.5 trillion across all euro-area financial institutions... www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social

it’s because he has no ability to inhabit another mind — he thinks he is the only person!

El Faro, a Salvadoran publication, has led the way on the reporting on this: elfaro.net/es/201806/el... elfaro.net/en/202205/el... beta.elfaro.net/las-confesio...

UPDATE: Sounds like Trump’s rich farming and hotel buddies told him to stop his Gestapo from attacking innocent, hard to replace workers

Whistleblower Sam Salehpour, a Boeing engineer, alleged in 2024 that Boeing took shortcuts when manufacturing its 777 and 787 Dreamliner jets, and that the risks could become catastrophic as the airplanes age. Today a dreamliner 787 crashed in Ahmedabad edition.cnn.com/2024/04/09/b...

Holy Shit: Seth Moulton asked how many commercial ships have transitted the Red Sea since his purportedly successful Houthi operation. Whiskey Pete answers that two military ships have transitted. Moulton answers: Zero. The answer is zero.

Yep. I hear folks in leisure and hotel biz are just loving the collapse of tourism into the US.

just found out that Google shut down its internal professional development arm and replaced every single class with prompt engineering slideshows

🧵 NYC: Zohran Mamdani is an extraordinary political talent and he CAN win this. What a signal that would send to the country and to the world. If you have been on the fence, this is the moment to go all in.

Army picked crowd of only Trump supporters and made sure no one behind the President was fat. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Strangely, this makes me feel a little better. This wasn't just a raw mass of soldiers bellowing their love for Trump - they were vetted first to ensure they were Trumpists. Oh, and the screening for appearance is another gem. He's trying to manufacture the illusion of full military support.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

Climate Risk + Post-Event Recovery + Insurance + Housing / Real Estate / Lending = Potential of Short / Long-Term Rise in Asset Distress

Musk suddenly realized he was facing an unscheduled flight out of a very tall window. Wonder how that was communicated to him? Horse's head-in-the-bead Godfather style?

Trump said this past week that Musk was “a big-time drug addict” which raises the somewhat awkward question of WHY HE GAVE HIM THE KEYS TO THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"In pockets of climate-risky real estate all over the country, the risk of foreclosures is likely being greatly amplified by higher levels of debt being borne by consumers, backed up by currently overpriced houses - for the moment..."

Advocates of "abundance" have a lot of good ideas—which is why it's so important that they break with some of their billionaire, anti-labor backers.

“His goal is to eliminate incentives to develop vaccines.” www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

🤡

My latest @bloomberg.com: Trump's FEMA keeps denying state requests for resiliency funds. As of June 10, the total number of rejections is up to at least 7. States can only apply for this $ after disasters & it helps them better prepare for future ones. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines. This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive. today.yougov.com/topics/polit...