Welcome back to Wednesday folks. Today I want to spotlight ProPublica’s reporting on Russell Vought, director of the Office and Management and Budget. They describe him as the “shadow president,” and their investigation details his rise to power and his … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Says “F That Guy”

Hello and welcome back to Wednesday. For today’s header, I thought I’d spotlight some news from around the world — specifically news not directly related to the US or US foreign policy. Let’s see what’s happening: In news worthy of … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Pulls Off a Heist

Happy Wednesday, all! I’m out this week for a library conference. And since libraries are pretty great, I thought I’d ask folks to share what their favorite government services or examples of good government are. Everything sucks right now! But … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Celebrates Good Government

Happy Wednesday folks. Today I thought I’d share this news story from ProPublica about efforts around the country to introduce ethics reform in government — and the failures of those efforts. In Virginia this year, a legislative committee killed a … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread is the Grift that Keeps on Giving

Hi everyone! A big thanks to QHarp for covering last week’s thread while I was on vacation. Since I was visiting Berlin and Munich, I thought I’d give us a brief respite from the nightmare of American politics and talk … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Is Back from Germany

Y’all I just don’t care about Charlie Kirk discourse. I don’t care about the takes. I don’t care about the takes about the takes. So that’s my take. Be kind and thoughtful today. Cheers. Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Keeps At It

Welcome back to Wednesday. Today I’m spotlighting a heartbreaking story from ProPublica about a specific incident from Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign involving Ayman Soliman, a chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The story is certainly illustrative of the evils of the Trump … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread

Happy Wednesday. Apparently I’m just someone who has become an energy policy nerd, so today I’m bringing you another sad story about American energy! This one, from Futurism, is about our miserable power grid. The US electrical grid is facing … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Fights the Future in a Separate But Related Way from Last Week

Happy Wednesday folks. Today I wanted to share a story Science Friday recently did about the rise in solar power. Across the world, solar power is becoming a major contributor to energy — but the Trump administration is pushing back. … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Fights the Future

Happy Wednesday! It’s the start of the academic year, so I’m deep in all sorts of work at Cordy College, but I wanted to share an interesting article I saw from the Wall Street Journal the other day about American … Continue reading History Repeats in the Wednesday Politics Thread

Still bogged down in stuff! But as promised, I did put some actual effort into the header this week. ProPublica recently chronicled a story about misinformation. The focus was on wildfire risk maps in Oregon, which insurance brokers used to … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Still Can’t Catch Up