New York City Is Considering a Laundry Pods Crackdown Laundry and dishwasher detergent pods made with polyvinyl alcohol, or PVA, contribute to plastics pollution in US waterways. Bloomberg ‘Fleeing under the cover of darkness’: How Idaho’s abortion ban is changing pregnancy … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Wants to Be Your Valentine

Democrats’ Historic SC Primary is A Promise Kept to Black Voters As we kick off the presidential election year, the American people are tuning in more and more to the stakes of the 2024 election, which couldn’t be higher – … Continue reading Starring, the Monday Politics Thread

A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane — and may have found it A pilot and former US Air Force intelligence officer believes an image he captured using sonar on a high-tech … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Brought the Popcorn

What Black Women Activists Want You to Know About Organizing for Reproductive Justice January 22 would be the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, had the Supreme Court not overturned it in June 2022. Here, Black women weigh in on … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Says Dump Trump

Martin Luther King is not your mascot But Hajar Yazdiha, the author of a new book about the struggle over King’s memory, argues that it’s worse than that — that Dr. King’s legacy has been used quite intentionally as a … Continue reading The Martin Luther King Jr Day Politics Thread

Pressured by record migrant crossings, White House weighs tough concession in border talks with Congress While the senators and the White House have reached high-level agreements on tightening asylum interviews, expanding expedited deportations and creating an authority to expel migrants … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Finally Sees Snow

Beyond Times Square: A giant Peep, a wrench, a crab. A look at the weirdest NYE drops. New York’s Times Square may get much of the attention with its ball drop on New Year’s Eve, but there’s some pretty unique … Continue reading The First Monday Politics of the New Year

In their own words, new U.S. citizens look to voting in 2024 New Arizona voters like Nilesh Patel are registering in a state that next year has key congressional races and could play a crucial role in the presidential election. … Continue reading The Happy Holidays Thread

Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay more than $148 million to two Georgia election workers he defamed A Washington, DC, jury has ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay nearly $150 million to two Georgia election workers for the harm caused by defamatory … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Demands a Re-Trial

What to watch when former President Donald Trump returns to testify in New York civil fraud trial Former President Donald Trump is returning Monday to testify at his New York civil fraud trial, this time under questioning from his own … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread 2: The Legend of Trump’s Golden Showers

Exhausted air traffic controllers are making more mistakes on the job amid a stretched workforce doing 10-hour workdays and 6-day workweeks, report says For years, air traffic controllers have seen their ranks diminish, to the point where 10-hour days and … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Not a Representative, But Plays One on SNL

Inside the Historic Lesbian Cafes That Fed the Feminist Movement From Mother Courage’s solidarity with local farmers, to the revolutionary sign-up sheet outside the Brick Hut Cafe, lesbian cafes have a long history of seeding revolution. them People are leaving … Continue reading The Cyber Monday Politics Thread is 30% Off B1G1F

Rosalynn Carter, mental health activist, humanitarian and former first lady, dies at 96 Rosalynn Carter, who as first lady worked tirelessly on behalf of mental health reform and professionalized the role of the president’s spouse, died Sunday at the age … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Needs to Buy Cranberries for Thanksgiving

Is Biden Risking 2024 Over No Israel Ceasefire? Some Youth Groups Say Yes Yesterday, when asked about the chances of a ceasefire in Gaza during a press conference, President Joe Biden replied, “None. No possibility.” The statement effectively rejected the … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Wondering How This Will Be Bad for Biden

Donald Trump to take the stand: What to know before he testifies in real estate fraud trial Donald Trump is set to take the stand Monday as he fights a New York civil fraud lawsuit seeking $250 million and restrictions … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Has Finally Made it To The Fireworks Factory

How the US supreme court and an Idaho couple upended wetlands protection This case, brought by an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett, who wanted to fill in a section of wetland to develop a house in Priest Lake without … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Is Not Ready for Christmas

In 2023, nobody knows how to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2013, Anthony Bourdain did We’re talking about “what is easily the most contentious piece of real estate in the world. And there’s no hope, none, of ever talking about … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Just Tired

Will Jim Jordan bully his way to the speakership? Jordan once again wants something that a whole lot of his colleagues don’t want to give him. As he makes a final push for the speakership, he faces his own choice: … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Needs the Votes for Speaker of the House

Netanyahu Vows Powerful Vengeance On Hamas After Deadly Attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Israel would take “powerful vengeance for this black day” on the terror group Hamas for its surprise attack on Saturday. Zengar Powerful earthquakes kill 2,053 … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Supports Humanity

Fetterman blasts the government shutdown near-miss and says lawmakers can’t ‘allow’ the Freedom Caucus to turn governing into ‘The Steve Wilkos Show’ “Pushing the snooze button solves nothing because these same losers will try to pull the same shit in … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is NOT a Thundering Volcanic Halfwit

Hasan Minhaj plays first show after controversy in Milwaukee. We can’t discuss his jokes. I understand and respect comedians demanding phones get sealed up so videos of jokes don’t leak, as Minhaj did Friday. But for comics like Minhaj, who … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Still Waiting For Bribes