Matt Miller
@lawbeard-mrm.bsky.social
Lawyer representing landowners in disputes with energy companies in PA and WV. More beard than sense.
It is better to err on the side of helping too many than on the side of helping too few.
Making it harder or impossible for people who need services to get them because you are worried about "fraud" is not good policy.
Making it harder or impossible for people who need services to get them because you are worried about "fraud" is not good policy.
February 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It is better to err on the side of helping too many than on the side of helping too few.
Making it harder or impossible for people who need services to get them because you are worried about "fraud" is not good policy.
Making it harder or impossible for people who need services to get them because you are worried about "fraud" is not good policy.
The lack of evidence of conspiracy theories has always been received by the conspiracy theorists as showing that the conspiracy is even worse than they thought.
February 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The lack of evidence of conspiracy theories has always been received by the conspiracy theorists as showing that the conspiracy is even worse than they thought.
You aren't wrong. But I keep coming back to "these are the voters we have to work with." There are certainly gotv efforts, work to expand ballot access, fighting against gerrymandering, etc...but we can't ignore or wish away 80million voters.
February 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You aren't wrong. But I keep coming back to "these are the voters we have to work with." There are certainly gotv efforts, work to expand ballot access, fighting against gerrymandering, etc...but we can't ignore or wish away 80million voters.
You aren't wrong. But also, to JVL's point...it sort of doesn't matter whose fault it is...better outcomes depend on voters making better choices, and we don't get to pick the voters.
February 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You aren't wrong. But also, to JVL's point...it sort of doesn't matter whose fault it is...better outcomes depend on voters making better choices, and we don't get to pick the voters.
I don't think there is anything per se wrong with a government changing the name of geographic features. Its dumb. And in this case xenophobic, jingoistic and super dumb. But aside from the motives, who gives af what the government calls things?
February 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I don't think there is anything per se wrong with a government changing the name of geographic features. Its dumb. And in this case xenophobic, jingoistic and super dumb. But aside from the motives, who gives af what the government calls things?
We've got another bill here in WV thats all "congress can't regulate coal production or use if its all inside of the borders of WV" that may or may not actually be passed. www.dominionpost.com/2025/02/13/n...
February 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
We've got another bill here in WV thats all "congress can't regulate coal production or use if its all inside of the borders of WV" that may or may not actually be passed. www.dominionpost.com/2025/02/13/n...
It's the housecat phenomenon.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's the housecat phenomenon.
I mean yeah. But also voters either knew or should have known that they were lying. There's no reasonable argument that the voters who picked Trump either wanted this or didn't have a problem with it either way.
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I mean yeah. But also voters either knew or should have known that they were lying. There's no reasonable argument that the voters who picked Trump either wanted this or didn't have a problem with it either way.
By making everyone too poor to fly.
February 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
By making everyone too poor to fly.
See, fellow millennials, having a 401k or pension wouldn't have helped, anyway.
February 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
See, fellow millennials, having a 401k or pension wouldn't have helped, anyway.
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also...like, the core definition of fascism is not "hyper competence". you can be a bumbling dolt and be a nazi. it's not even that uncommon!
February 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
also...like, the core definition of fascism is not "hyper competence". you can be a bumbling dolt and be a nazi. it's not even that uncommon!
Yeah it sounds like it, at best, let's you opt out of the return to office requirement until sept 30 when you then lose your job.
January 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yeah it sounds like it, at best, let's you opt out of the return to office requirement until sept 30 when you then lose your job.
I do! Its here somewhere...but as soon as we find it, I do intend to return it. (I don't even know how my kids lose these things)
January 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I do! Its here somewhere...but as soon as we find it, I do intend to return it. (I don't even know how my kids lose these things)
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/2 Winds are strong in the foothills of the San Gabriels at the edge of the Angeles National Forrest. One year they blew our front doors open, tearing the deadbolt through wood. This year they have scattered the precious detritus of lives, of the history of people, across the area of the Eaton fire.
January 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
/2 Winds are strong in the foothills of the San Gabriels at the edge of the Angeles National Forrest. One year they blew our front doors open, tearing the deadbolt through wood. This year they have scattered the precious detritus of lives, of the history of people, across the area of the Eaton fire.