Thought of the title days ago. Step two was, of course, to elegantly gather disparate threads together into a final grand statement on politics. Step three was just to plagiarize Jeb 👏 & with that, my work here is done! Next week, A One-Cordy Open Sleigh will be your new Wednesday PT Header custodian, so let me be the first to thank them for taking up the mantle. Thanks 🥑 Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread is Old, is New Again
Bounced off the round walls of the Disqus redesign until I gave myself a headache. Then looked at some politics elsewhere and made it worse. The pervasive musk around the usual sources has me keeping my distance, so not really sure what’s happening in the world. I’ll catch my breath at some point and dive back in no doubt, but until then please accept this meagre header (or don’t, and take over writing them 🙂 ) Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Gets Around
Soaking in politics feels to me more akin to a cold shower than a warm bath of late. My own engagement with current affairs feeling like all penetration and no thrust doesn’t help either. For as much as I pay attention to politics, I’m still privileged enough to enjoy it primarily as a form of entertainment. So, when heinous bullshit occurs, there’s no preparation for a healthy and reasonable response. Plenty of emotional response to lay on fools, sure, but the McSquirrel Rule is in effect for a reason and it’s probably not just for the health of our hosting … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Has a Cow
Trump lamely announced his 2024 candidacy last night. Notably absent were some family and ‘friends’ grounded by inclement weather. Some remarked that the forecast was perfectly compatible with travel, so blinded by the blue skies that they didn’t see the Blizzard of Lawzz bearing down upon Mar-a-Lago. Trump whipped himself into a relatively minor frenzy over the course of the overlong event, but my (crushing) verdict is that he’s guilty of being too boring to override the media’s budding dismissal. I doubt it lasts, but I’m not so pure of heart as to deny myself enjoyment of the mounting conflict … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread at the Wire
Midterm Discussion Thread for the record, but also let me know what happened in the comments below 🍹 Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread After Tuesday
Yesterday was a special day in the SaragossaManuscript household, much fun was had, and this rough beast of a header slouches its way to completion at 7am, its complete non-existence having awoken me in fright several hours earlier. The bed … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Gathers Dust
I’ve been so wrapped up in a photo archival project that I’ve hardly had time to appreciate all of your contributions to the PT lately. These observations of our political moment will surely last for some time to come, so … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread is Gonna Live Forever
Nigeria Floods Kill Hundreds and Displace Over a Million Nigeria is suffering its worst flooding in a decade, with vast areas of farmland, infrastructure and 200,000 homes partly or wholly destroyed. At least 603 people have died, more than 2,400 … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Precipitates Change
Greetings Politicados, and welcome to that magical time between ball-tanning season and nog season when the war on xmas shapes the battlefield in advance via Halloween handouts. The Emerging Raw Food Movement and the ‘Great Reset’ The ‘Great Reset’ was … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Just Gives It to You Raw
Once upon a time someone had to write the news, draw the picture, film the scene, censor the blank — but now it’s apparently the robots’ turn to have a proper go at all that. All manner of exciting/terrifying technological … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Makes Hay While The Sun Shines
The January 6 Committee hearing scheduled for today has been postponed in light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on Florida, so nothing to do but all of us just pretend there was an awfully insightful writeup about it that I … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread is Rapidly Intensifying
Desperately inebriated late; bedeviling even righting this. Alright, that’s my 77! No breaking the Mayor McSquirrel Rule (even for just reasons against a lazy thread header writer). Oh, and go get that new remix of the COVID booster if you … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread is Out of Newspapers
This is Biden’s moment; what he’s trained his entire life for — railroad politics! Will his affection for the locomotive help to resolve the crisis, or is Dark Brandon come to launch an early salvo in the War on Christmas, … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Parks Its Caboose
It’s been a rollicking tumble into September and when not (unprompted) trying to excuse my infatuation with AI text-to-image generation to my educated artist spouse, I peeked at the news. Good news? Updated COVID-19 boosters! Go jab ’em if ya … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Read The News Today
I swear I was writing a header about fungi and climate change but scared myself. Be cool like fungi and build a climate resilient underground network, but please resist the urge to segment, break off and become airborne when disturbed. Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Phones It In
Primary elections were held yesterday in Florida and New York (and also Oklahoma I’m told). I caught some of the results but fighting Disqus has cut into my politics news consumption habits lately, so I’m counting on fellow Politicados to … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Has Seen Enough
Once again I stumble out of bed, lurch towards the computer, and shield my eyes from the rising sun as I undertake my duties as a worker in that that oldest and noblest of professions: Avocado Header Writer. Rarely is … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Composes Itself
I wrote an intro I swear but the cat tore it up and tried to flush it down the toilet. I’d write another but now she’s staring at me with those Dark Brandon eyes… Voting Is Over in Kenya’s Election. … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Checks all the Boxes
Behold! Wednesday!! ::breaks leg:: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan amid threats of Chinese retaliation Pelosi’s stop in Taipei is the first time that a US House speaker has visited Taiwan in 25 years. Her trip comes at … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Releases Theatrically
All is borking in Disqusville, but what else is new? Wouldn’t you like to know‽ … No? Skip to end 👇 Canada’s Indigenous people want action to follow Pope’s apology Canada’s indigenous people made a list of demands years ago, … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Has 50 Comments
So much stuff and nonsense out and about, and in this heat no less! Beat the heat by hanging out here with your fellow Politicados — they’re real cool cucumbers and sure to get on like peas in a pod. … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread is Full of Hot Air
