Do you remember the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday? C'mon Natalie, I know he was before your time but still. [SL]: Andrew Johnson "average", Grant a "failure." Wonder if it was JD Vance or Miller who provided the Dunning School edit to...
Author: Paul Campos
Michael Tomasky has a piece highlighting that the economy performs radically better under Democratic presidential administrations than Republican ones: The last three Republican presidents—Bush, Bush, and Trump—have been disasters. The.
Thanks to commenter Judas Peckerwood for flagging this fascinating if terrifying essay from the Guardian, about the evolving understanding of the varieties of human psychopathy. It wasn’t from a forensic.
I vaguely remember hearing about the idea of Trump holding a "convention" for the midterms, but figured the idea was too stupid to actually carry out. Well that was not a very wise assumption: The Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention is quickly becoming a Trump-style...
Frankly at this point I do fear the Reaper, or at least his twisted sense of humor:* Tim Curry. I got quite a shock this morning when maybe three-quarters of.
Interesting video from Paul Krugman, on the last (?) days of Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP1Smaktwhs Krugman points out that Nazi analogies, which back in the day produced enough pearl clutching to turn.
I'm sure Erik and others will have much more to say about this, but I imagine lots of people would like to discuss it now. A message from Dolly Parton's family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9govup-IG3c I know very little about country music, or really the whole cultural space...
The answer seems to be: a huge number. "Researchers considered every former N.F.L. player who died from 2016 to 2021. There were 878. Some died in their 20s, some in.
What sort of people are we dealing with? A couple of stories from an immigration lawyer friend about what the Trumpists have done to the DOJ: Neither of these involve.
I'm far from an election law expert but this seems really bad: A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections. In an emergency order, the justices said President Trump could...
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested.
This is a followup to yesterday's post about Hakeem Jefferies meeting with Jared Kushner covertly. The reactions to this development seemed to fall into two broad categories, which in turn.