Happy Friday Politcadoes. It’s a 3-day weekend for many of us, and the unofficial start of Summer 2020, what with all the foreboding horror that implies. If you are in a Safe-at-home state, you get to celebrate with masks and … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread – Unmasked!

Morning Politocadoes! As states across the country enter varying phases of re-opening (even if they probably shouldn’t), parts of the country are still seeing an increase in coronavirus cases. Although the federal guidelines for re-opening require a downward trend in … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Reopens

Hi everyone, hope you’re doing well. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, and right now there is a lot of AAPI activism and community organizing going on, most of it related directly to the current crisis. … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Supports AAPI Activism

Considering the way fears of each generation, or even each decade, can change, it’s sometimes hard to remember what it was like living under past ones. We’ll all certainly remember the COVID-19 pandemic for the remainder of our lives, but … Continue reading The Politics Thread Asks If You Want To Play A Game

This week we have a guest PT host, whose social studies project this week was learning what the news is from reading articles. She has attempted an article of her own below. She’s also just fresh off a quarantined 8th … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread with special guest

Good Morning Politicadoes.  Happy Friday!  You may have heard that Obama did something so horrible, so criminal, so unjustifiable that they locked him up in a gated community and threw away the key.  Or something like that.  Look, you all … Continue reading The Friday Politics Threadgate

Morning Politocadoes! An amendment to H.R. 6172, a bill that will re-authorize lapsed surveillance powers under FISA would have forced the government to get a warrant before compelling a telecommunication company to hand over browser or internet search history deemed … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Has Its Browser History Seized

Hi everyone, hope you’re doing well. As we somehow, maybe, kinda, start to make our way out of this pandemic, some doctors and researchers are sounding the alarm about how much climate change can exacerbate the spread of current and … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Wants To Prevent The Next Pandemic

The weirdness of writing this a week in advance continues to sink in because as I think of what things will be like on the day of its posting, I’m mired in the events of that day itself and what … Continue reading The Politics Thread Looks Back On May 12th

Anna: Well, we were going to talk about the Polish Presidential Election, but then between COVID-19 and a security leak it has been postponed. Nine former Polish Presidents and Prime Ministers called for a boycott of the election, and now … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread’s Plans Fall Through

Good morning Politicadoes.  Yesterday it turns out that you can basically commit any crime as a political figure and it doesn’t matter anymore.  At least not for the “justice” department.  But whatever.  It’s Friday, and you don’t read these headers … Continue reading The Friday Politics thread is hopelessly corrupt

Morning Politocadoes! Pretty concise appraisal of the last week or whatever Simpsons from 27 years ago. Data: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins; Chart: Naema Ahmed/Axios Try and guess which line is the US (excluding New York)  … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Needs A Cure

Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing well. Trigger Warning / Content Warning – violence against women, for the header and the links included. Yesterday was the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). The … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Supports a National Day of Action

The weirdness of writing this a week in advance continues to sink in because as I think of what things will be like on the day of its posting, I’m mired in the events of that day itself and what … Continue reading The Politics Thread Looks Back On May 5th

I am frustrated. If you’ve been following Israeli politics at all, or have been patiently tolerating my updates in these threads, you’ll know that Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz finally formed a national unity government after over a year of … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Happily Sells Out

Good Morning Politicadoes.  Welcome to May, 2020.  I bet you thought we’d never get here.  May is the time for reopening states so that everyone can get sick in June.  And as we all know, summer colds are the worst.  … Continue reading The Friday Politics thread sends out a mayday!