/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/54137909/mrsmith.0.jpg "Your occasional reminder of the abomination before the Lord that is the filibuster")
Quick historical refresher: Prior to the 1970s, filibusters were very rare, as it was considered a radical thing to do to hold up the entire Senate in order to blockade a bill. A total of 58 cloture motions were filed in the 43 years between...
Author: Paul Campos
One of the stranger things in contemporary American politics is that Maryland -- a state that voted for Biden by more than a two to one margin over Trump --.
Isaac Chotnier interviews Alan Dershowitz. It is everything you might possibly imagine such a thing could be. I don't smoke but I had a cigarette afterward anyway.
The first rule of fascist club is: Lie about everything all the time. The Secret Service is preparing to notify the House Jan. 6 committee that it has found no new text messages related to the Capitol riot, a source says -- the same day...
I realize this is the ultimate dog bites man story but still: It's inflation, stupid.James Carville's famous 1992 Democratic election mantra about the economy needs an update to encapsulate the depth.
Western Europe is going through the kind of heat wave that is becoming increasingly common as the systemic effects of climate change change the weather throughout the world: Wildfires are.
We haven鈥檛 had a post on the COVID situation in some time. Here are some current numbers: After last winter鈥檚 Omicron wave, the seven-day moving average of deaths in the USA fell to about 325 per day by mid-April, and has stayed close to that...
If only that were true. Remember when the White House told Mitch McConnell the day before Roe v. Wade was overruled that it was going to nominate an anti-choice Federalist.
I'd like to ask y'all how we can synergize the proactivities, all things considered: https://twitter.com/goodpostguy6465/status/1547811954051297287 OK that sounds like a good idea in theory, but this is what the current.
I have nothing in particular to say about this but I gather some people want to discuss it. OK, I do have a couple of things: (1) Ivana made up a story about being on the Czechoslovakian national ski team that survived decades of fact...
I've noticed that LGM's "you have no idea how this kind of investigation works" crowd has been maintaining a discreet and yet very voluble silence lately about Merrick Garland's super.
Reading Erik's post below about how Joe Biden and the rest of the Democratic leadership pretty much continue to act as if it's business as usual with the Republican party,.