The human mind may not grapple with it well in placing context where it needs to be, but the Memorial Day weekend celebrations are now starting to manifest with incubation periods and indicators are showing some serious increases. CNN says … Continue reading The Politics Thread Sees The Uptick

Anna: Fuuuuuuuuuck this. Like, I could post a graph here of police brutality stats or something to be educational, but nah, we all know the problem. We have probably seen footage of cops using police brutality against people protesting them … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Pleads the Third

Happy Friday Politicadoes. Short and sweet, because anything I write on Thursday afternoon will be hopelessly out of date by the time you read this. NJ will be moving to Phase 2 next Friday, which means Al Fresco Dining! Let’s … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is still in Phase 1

Morning folks, I have nothing to say today. I just don’t. This week was always going to be the end result of this sociopath being in the Oval Office. Like, Mad Dog Mattis wrote an op-ed decrying the President as … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread

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