It’s Halloween AND, for many of us, time change weekend! It’s gonna start getting dark at like 5PM, and I’m going to become a weird feral nightbeast and I’m SO EXCITED. This is one of my favorite times of year. … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Becomes a Nightbeast

Sorry. Be nice to each other today, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. Continue reading The Friday PT Shows Up Eventually

I had a really great idea for a PT, and then, like Coleridge or whoever it was writing Kublai Khan, then I fell asleep and lost it. Unlike Coleridge or whoever it was, I did not start before I fell … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Gets Kublai Khan’d

Be nice to each other today, be nice to yourselves, be nice to the mods, don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Out of the Office

Happy Friday, ‘cados! We’re coming up on primo flu shot season! I got the Covid/flu 1-2 and feel like I want to sleep for a week! I keep using exclamation points because I’m hoping it will work like chewing gum … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Gets Jabbed

I’m writing this last night and my lamp just turned off at the exact moment of a Widow’s Bay jump scare and seriously, fuck everything right now. A sentiment also applicable to politics. Be nice to each other today, be … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Says Hell With This

I’ve watched this Mon Laferte El Tiny like 15 times since it was posted two days ago; it’s tremendous: (pro tip: El Tiny concerts have English captions! Definitely worth it in this and most cases! Also, song #4 will probably … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Will Have the Most Extremely Normal Life

Be nice to each other today. Be nice yourselves. Be nice to the mods. Be nice in general. Tell your loved ones they are loved. Don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. (about New York’s Daffodil Project) Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread

By that I mean that I cannot get this song out of my head: Be nice to each other today, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. Try to put yourself in the other person’s store window … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Studies International Relations

Look, I’m posting this on principle because it’s my favorite Dolly song and relevant in many, many ways, but it’s a weeper on the best of days so obviously don’t click play. Be nice to each other today, be nice … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Won’t Let Sorrow Bring It Way Down

My friend with a baby introduced me to rave music for toddlers, so I’ve had this stuck in my head for the past week, and now you get to have it stuck in your head too. Honestly, I’m kind of … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Hops, Hops, Hops

Well, no Urkel, so I guess half-TGIF. Because thank GOD it’s Friday. Be nice to each other today, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. LFG (Let’s Friday Go). Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Going Full TGIF

As in, brief. Just a bunch happening right now (nothing bad, it’s just a volume thing). So have at it. Be nice to each other today, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Probably Just Gonna Be Like This for August

Let’s rock and roll. Be nice to each other, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread

I just searched the media library for ‘polotics,’ Not as a typo, I just thought that was how it was spelled for a second. ‘Relaity’ is a typo though. Have at it. Be nice. Don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. Continue reading The Friday Polotics Thread Makes the Fiction the Relaity

Or real content–I’m a step behind Blur on that one. Be nice to each other today, be nice to the mods, and no threatening Mayor McSquirrel, even if he’s coming up behind you and yelling ‘Woo-hoo!’ every five seconds. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Doesn’t Have a Real Title

Have one queen dancing to another this morning: Rest easy, Ms. Tyler, and keep resting easy, Ms. Dupree. Even if you can’t belt out bangers or make the best drag entrance ever (it sounds hyperbolic; it’s not), you can be … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Holding Out for a Hero

Happy July 4 Eve/ Friday in July, ‘cados! The QHarp superfans among you may remember that last year at this time, we illustrated forgotten American values using the nation’s greatest art form: 80’s music videos. But did you know there … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Celebrates Forgotten American Values, Pt. II

Have some Olivia Rodrigo on this Friday morning: La Rodrigo, as you may know, is a real one, and her songs are catchy as hell, but I really love this behind the scenes video for the single ‘The Cure’ because … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Unraveled

Let’s celebrate Juneteenth, ‘cados! First, Phil Lewis has curated a list of Juneteenth celebrations around the country, should you be inclined to go out and celebrate. Second, should you be more inclined to an indoor celebration, the radio station KEXP … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Celebrates Juneteenth

Oh, this is not going to help my perpetual ‘don’t know what day it is’ problem. We may be screwed for Friday. Be nice to each other, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel no matter what … Continue reading The Emergency Tuesday Politics Thread