It's been so bad for me too. I don't think the jobs numbers the Biden admin posted are accurate. Everyone I have talked to looking for work have been struggling. I've been looking for well over a year and a half. Always getting the ghost jobs.
Yea, I tried DDG using Claude and was also extremely disappointed. On the other hand, I love my actual Claude account. It's only given me shit one time, weirdly when I was asking about how to hack my own laptop. The most uncensored AI I have played with is Amazon's Perplexity. Weirdly enough.
The article discusses the impact of President Donald Trump's return to the White House on federal judicial nominations. Key points include:
President Biden's diverse judicial appointments are likely to be reversed under Trump's second term.
Trump's previous judicial nominees were predominantly white and male, with 85% being white and 80% being men.
Currently, there are 41 current and 8 future judicial vacancies, mostly in district courts and in states with Republican senators.
Some Democratic-appointed judges have rescinded their conditional retirements to prevent Trump from choosing their replacements.
The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Chuck Grassley, will oversee the confirmation process.
Democrats have limited power to delay nominations but can use procedural tactics to slow down the process.
The confirmation process typically takes at least two months, but can be longer.
Senate Democrats, now outnumbered 53 to 47, are unlikely to defeat nominees but can make the process challenging for Republicans.
The article predicts significant changes in the federal judiciary under Trump's second term, with a shift away from the diversity achieved during Biden's presidency.
If it makes you feel any better the actual voter turnout was better:
The results of this special election were: DFL candidate Doron Clark won with 90.91% of the vote (7,783 votes) Republican candidate Abigail Wolters received 8.71% of the vote (746 votes)
Yea... uhhh. I have no happy thoughts on any of this, to be frank. We kind of need a miracle? Historically speaking, though - we are looking at what any other population saw as they went from democracy to dictatorship. Not much comfort in that. All I have been doing is building curated news sources in RSS and getting to know friendly decentralized communities. The sooner I can get off the Meta based socials, the better. Also, I have been reading about past dictatorships. I'm learning about the Nicaraguan one right now. Lot's of parallels. The one silver lining, I guess, is - after a while most dictatorships turn thier own supporters.... violently. Yay?
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It's been so bad for me too. I don't think the jobs numbers the Biden admin posted are accurate. Everyone I have talked to looking for work have been struggling. I've been looking for well over a year and a half. Always getting the ghost jobs.