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It hit me as I was thinking about what to write this morning. Yesterday someone posted about flags on the Washington Mall to commemorate people who died from COVID. Hundreds of Thousands of Flags on the National Mall Will Commemorate … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread has run out of empathy
Mornin’ Politocadoes! California Governor Gavin Newsom has survived the special recall election referendum and will continue to serve out his term. The referendum question was thoroughly rejected by California voters by a margin of 63 % answering ‘No’ to Recall … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Did Not Recall
Good morning, Politicadoes! First things first, just in case you missed it: After months of peddling lies to an already disarrayed base, amplifying dangerous anti-science propaganda, pushing incompetent, unqualified, self-hating xenophobic, anti-Black nazi-loving grifters, the most unhinged faction of the … Continue reading The Road To Meaningful Greatness – Wednesday Politics Thread
And I’m tired of coming up with pithy titles. So here we are. Larry Elder walking on the path TRE45ON laid for him. Welcome to every election for the rest of forever. Thanks media! The Economist pulled its collective head … Continue reading It’s Tuesday’s Politics thread.
Mudslide on scenic Colorado highway tests limits of aging infrastructure in era of climate change The physical alterations have led to road closures, hours long detours, environmental disasters and economic displacement. And they have prompted hard questions about aging infrastructure … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread Celebrates Infrastructure Week
♫ It’s not easyNothin’ to say ’cause it’s already saidIt’s never easyWhen I look on in your eyesThen I find that I’ll do fineWhen I look on in your eyesThen I’ll do better ♫— Heck, listen to the whole album … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Reflects on the Recriminations of Reminiscing
Today’s the 20th anniversary of the last ‘normal’ day before America went insane. I’d rather remember that anniversary than tomorrow’s. Keep your chins up, politicadoes! Garrison-Owens is a no-go zone. As the kids are back in school, please drive slowly … Continue reading Untitled Friday Politics Thread Project
And here I was thinking we’d already done that. Or maybe dismissive? Both? It can be both. Mornin’ Politocadoes! The Biden Administration has asked at least 11 members of the Trump Administration to resign from positions at various military academy … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Dismisses Kellyanne
After spending a good portion of 2020 and 2021 pretending that Covid-19 is a hoax, resisting every precautionary norm to stop the spread of that hoax, opting to ingest horse deworming paste as preventive cure and treatment of said hoax, … Continue reading The Dire Consequences of Coddling Privilege – Wednesday Politics Thread
Boo. So here we go. First, this doofus is gone finally: Soledad O’Brien continues to excoriate the press….hmmmmmmm, maybe that should be the name of a new show NOT hosted by Chuck Todd: This is delicious: So, just because I … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread is sad the weekend is over.
History of Labor Day Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers. The holiday is rooted in the late nineteenth century, when labor activists pushed for a … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Brought to You By Labor Day and Back to School Sales
♪ I smiled cos I loved you bothSo, I put the apron onI put the apron on ♪— The Once and Future Wesley Stace Think British folk rockers with a deep catalog of paeans to proletarians, and the brain brings … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Belabors a Point About Working It Out
I’m not in the mood for fun and games today, sorry. The Texas GOP and the GOP run Supreme Court have me in a 3 day rage streak. I can’t even talk to Wifebaby about it, because she can’t deal … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is $*&!#@^ Angry
Mornin’ Politocadoes! I say ‘Mornin”, but it’s actually the afternoon and I am posting in the past. Internet is out in my place and I am currently typing this up elsewhere and setting it up in advance. So that does … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Is Logged Off
The biggest frustration for commonsense people who believe in, and follow the science has always been the propagandists intent on distorting information in order to amplify wariness of a political party that has stopped centering White privilege decades ago, the … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread
So here I am, typing at 5am. I will truly be bringing the news from today instead of yesterday evening. Or you know, 7:45am my time when I panic and remember I haven’t written anything yet. First up! We have … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread can’t sleep
The big difference between this pandemic and the one that killed 50 million people As Nancy Bristow wrote in her 2012 book, which cited Ravenel’s appraisal, “American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” the pandemic that would … Continue reading The Monday Politics Thread is Sponsored by Vaccine Science, not Horse Dewormer
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch— Nothing starts as a cliche Marvel to think “What if[footnote]See what Uvular did there? Clever. Worth every cent of the free admission to … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Threads Speculates of Late
Good morning Politicadoes and Happy Friday. It’s been a bad week both here and abroad so I’ll just cut to the RoRo anecdote. Last weekend Wifebaby went to a party that RoRo and I were not invited to, so we … Continue reading The Friday Politics thread asks qu’est-ce que c’est?
Mornin’ Politocadoes! The January 6th Select Committee has requested a massive tranche of documents related to the events leading up to and concerning the Insurrection that took place on January 6th. The scope of the request is broad with requests … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Demands Some Records
“It was many, many years ago, when we would visit the little town of Troy, visit Montgomery, visit Tuskegee, visit Birmingham, I saw those signs that said: White Men / Colored Men White Women / Colored Women White waiting / … Continue reading Wednesday Politics Thread Gets In Good Trouble
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