Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will see evening thunderstorms with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:33 for 15 hours 17 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 18.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1936, inventor Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting to an audience of engineers at the FCC in Washington, DC.
Jeffrey Dahmer was accused of multiple murders committed in Milwaukee. He was tried in Milwaukee County in 1992 on the question of whether he was responsible for his actions, and was found responsible for his crimes, without mental disease or defect. Dahmer received a fair trial. His actions were all over the news, yet he received a fair trial.
Now along comes James Troupis, charged in Dane County with multiple felony counts for his alleged role in a fraudulent electors’ scheme after Biden carried Wisconsin in the 2020 election. Troupis claims, among other defenses, that he cannot get a fair trial in Dane County. He’s asking for a change of venue to another county.
Does James Troupis believe that he’s more notorious than Jeffrey Dahmer? Dahmer received a fair trial in Milwaukee County; Troupis — far less known or controversial than a cannibalistic killer — would receive a fair trial in Dane County.
Anya van Wagtendonk reports on Troupis’s request for a change of venue:
In one brief, Troupis’ attorneys argued that the publicity that has surrounded the case for the last half-decade has irreparably hurt Troupis’ ability to get a fair trial. They argue that Dane County public figures including state Supreme Court justices and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway disparaged Troupis, and that local media has tainted public opinion.
See Anya van Wagtendonk, Jim Troupis argues he can’t get a fair trial in Madison over false electors criminal charges (‘Attorneys for the 2020 Trump campaign lawyer say he cannot get a fair trial in Dane County’), Wisconsin Public Radio, June 10, 2026.
I’ll not venture whether any of Troupis’s defense motions will be granted (he has through counsel filed more than one motion).
It’s enough to know that other Wisconsin counties have held trials — fairly and efficiently — for acts and culpability alleged within their borders by defendants far more notorious than Jim Troupis will ever be.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, Outcome-Driven Argumentation, and a New Ethics Ordinance.
Whale graveyard discovered 7 kilometers under the sea:
Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…
0:00 The whale necropolis
1:10 Journey to the bottom of the ocean
1:49 Deep-sea creatures living on whale falls
2:50 Discovering fossils
4:12 A million-year-old map of beaked whale evolution
5:39 The mystery of the Diamantina Zone’s huge whale graveyard
7:32 The deepest whale fall ecosystem and a unique site in paleontology