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

Remember how last week I said I get one phone-it-in header a month? Well unfortunately yesterday I was kept at work late in a meeting in which people had THOUGHTS on whether American Library Association Round Tables should only have … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Had an Overly Long Meeting

I feel like every few weeks I earn one no-effort header, so I’m cashing that in. Be kind and thoughtful today. Cheers. Continue reading Your Wednesday Politics Thread

Happy Wednesday. In addition to all of Trump’s current unhingedness, I was also bummed by this sobering ProPublica article about our ability to handle this year’s wildfires: Despite the Trump administration’s public pronouncements that it has hired enough wildland firefighters, … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Wishes for Some Good News

It feels like it’s only been a week since our last Wednesday, and yet here we are again. A recent study in The Lancet pointed to changes stealthily made some government datasets. These datasets form the backbone of a lot … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Salutes the Heroes

Happy Wednesday, y’all. Texas is feeling the impact of major flooding. Consider donating to relief efforts if you’re able. Otherwise, why not disappoint yourself with news before you disappoint yourself with more news? Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Does Its Thing

Welcome back to Wednesday. I’ve been doing a bit of traveling and supplementing that by actually doing things in Cordytown. Because of that, I have not been as engaged in the news as much these past few days — and … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Takes a Break