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Mornin’ Politocadoes! Today, Veterans Day is observed in the United States. Originally known as Armistice Day, to commemorate the end of World War I, as the armistice was signed at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Observes Veterans Day
At a time when Black Maternity wasn’t an integral or meaningful part of Maternal Healthcare or Climate Change conversations in Congress, let alone a preoccupation, then Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Representative Alma Adams (D-NC12) introduced in April of 2018 … Continue reading The Momnibus of Wednesday Politics Thread
Yesterday DOJ tweeted that there was BIG NEWS at 12:30 PM and we should ALL BE THERE. I scrambled to get my popcorn and party streamers ready. Turns out it was something about cybercrime in Ukraine. I’m sure it was … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread is at a loss…
‘Finally, infrastructure week!’ Biden says, cheering $1 trillion bill A giddy President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed congressional passage of a long-delayed $1 trillion infrastructure bill as a “once in a generation” investment and predicted a broader social safety net … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Finally Celebrating Infrastructure Week
♫ A push from the left and a shove from the right ♫— No, no one said they wanted a revolution Calm yourselves. Your agitating Weekend Politics Thread host has not joined a revivified Symbianese Liberation Army. Even if he … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Picks a Bone
That’s right! I’m selling out! After the latest major artist/brand/NGO announced it was joining the blockchain and getting in on those nifty Non Fungible Tokens I took a good long look at everything and realized I too can be making … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Joins Them
Mornin’ Politocadoes! While we Americadoes still absorb the impact of the recent elections, (looks like NJ Governor Phil Murphy squeaked out a win so that’s nice) it’s important to look abroad to other things happening, if for no other reason … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread
“But we must accept one central truth and responsibility as participants in a democracy: Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread
…but not as many places as the team doing the AZ Fr-audit. Imagine the “there are dozens of us” .gif here. Or Nelson pointing and laughing. You know what? There are dozens of .gifs that fit here. DOZENS. And you … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics Thread has places to go…
It’s not just sugar skulls. Dia de los Muertos offers a chance to remember the children Washington lost. But as an adult, whenever the calendar nears Nov. 1 and 2, those post-Halloween days when the Day of the Dead is … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Celebrates Diá de los Muertos
♩ Lost sight of groundNever been so downNothing here to stand on It’s a war-weary roadAnother faceless tombstoneNothing here to stand on I turn to face the windMay never get outForever caught in a spinNo better place to begin ♩— … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Makes Its Stand
Much like how Jay Leno subbed for Carson before taking over the Tonight Show desk so to is Wasp a popular substitute for the old host taking over the Friday Show desk. Unlike Leno though she promises to be funny. … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread: The New Adventures
Mornin’ Politocadoes! Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Garland has been getting heat for a perceived lack of boldness from politicians to us lowly plebs in investigating the Crime President’s past crimes and the attempted coup … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Defends Local School Boards
For the first time ever in United States’ fascinating and passionate history, a sitting President made it openly his mission to center Women and put forth a national strategy with the objective of achieving Gender Equity and Equality. In a … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread
And our own Headphone Princess said it best, so I’ve asked her if I could repost her comments yesterday as the header for today. So, without further ado: *takes headphones off, taps mic* Okay, I think this thing is on. … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread has some important stuff to say.
How Puerto Rico became the most vaccinated place in America The Caribbean island — in recent years pummeled by deadly hurricanes, rocked by earthquakes, beset by political unrest and saddled by debt — has quietly managed to outpace even New … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Continues to Endorse Science
♫ And there’s always something moreLost in talk, I waste my timeAnd it’s all been said beforeWhile further down behind the masqueradeThe tears are thereI don’t ask for all that muchI just want someone to careAnswer right now ♫— A, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Rides an Emotional Roller Coaster
That’s right, NJ has early voting again this year! And we get to vote for Governor, like our friends in VA. Currently, incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy holds a lead in the polls of 6-8 points, which has shrunken over the … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Voting Next Week
Mornin’ Politocadoes! Senator Joe Manchin (?-WV) has threatened to leave the Democratic Party if his demands to gut the environmental protections, an expanded Child Tax Credit, and extensions to Medicare and Medicaid. He has said that his exit strategy is … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Threatens To Leave
Is anyone keeping count of the many actors – whether low-level or high level, national or international, civil servants or oligarchs – suspected of having conducted, aided, and/or abetted foreign meddling in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections or the January … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread
Even though I just finished the latest Opening Arguments podcast about how Roe v. Wade is toast, and Griswold v. Connecticut is probably next (that would be the challenge to Connecticut’s law outlawing contraception). Glad I re-upped my Mirena IUD, … Continue reading Tuesday’s politics thread is trying to stay positive.
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