Hi, everyone. I hope you’re all doing well. Under the circumstances I decided that I want to collect some resources regarding what we can do and how we can help the protesters and victims of police brutality. Now… this is … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Is Hoping For The Best

Anna: Alright, tell me everything. Monty: Okay. Last week, Suriname had a Presidential election. For those not in the know, Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking country in South America, having become independent from the Netherlands in 1975. Despite its relative … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Spills the Beans

Good morning Politicadoes. I was already in a bad mood and wasn’t going to be funny in the header today, but things have managed to get much worse overnight. In Minneapolis, protests continued. so the President said to go ahead … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread

Morning folks, I feel, frankly, that I am ill-equipped to really cover what’s been happening in Minnesota. So I’ll summarize briefly, the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has ignited a fresh wave of Black Lives Matter … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Protests Injustice

Hi everyone, hope you and yours are doing well. Migrant workers in Lebanon have been facing unique hardships for years, and now their situation has been worsening due to the pandemic and the Lebanese government’s strict lockdown. Trigger warning / … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Supports Migrant Workers In Lebanon

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 Gets Back To Work

Anna: Today, brought to you by the “everything is political” school of thought, I’d like to spend a header discussing some COVID related life changes. My own state will be lifting the stay at home order on May 29th, at … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Is a Way of Life Now

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