I Miss Molly Ivins
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When old SVU episodes don’t hold up in modern times.
Cartoon by R J Matson | cagle.com/matson . And the trade war with Canada continues, because apparently insulting our neighbors wasn’t enough without also making things more expensive.
Mike Johnson believes in the divine right of kings
Mike Johnson believes in the divine right of kings
The Speaker serves only Trump
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Maricopa County, Arizona, often sends out more than 2 million ballots in its initial mailing. Under new regulations ordered by Trump, it’s possible that one ballot with a bad barcode or wrong voter information could delay the entire batch.
New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
propublica.org
WTF did Trump even mean with his unhinged threat to stop foreign trade?
WTF did Trump even mean with his unhinged threat to stop foreign trade?
I guess we’re fairly inured to Trump’s daily bellowing at this point. Practically every day presents us with another Oval Office press-thingee, with Trump surrounded by fawning corporate executives or...
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Former Trump labor chief shows why Democrats should never play ball
Former Trump labor chief shows why Democrats should never play ball
New revelations about Lori Chavez-DeRemer underline the perils of aiding and abetting President Donald Trump.
dailykos.com
Trump's favorite economic nitwit fails to explain high gas prices
Trump’s favorite economic nitwit fails to explain high gas prices
“It’s a very short-term thing,” said National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, never removing his trademark grin.
dailykos.com
US is lone objector to map showing Africa's true size
US is lone objector to map showing Africa’s true size
On Friday, the United Nations passed a nonbinding resolution encouraging wider use of equal-area projections, particularly Equal Earth. The vote was 164-1. The US was the sole dissenter.
dailykos.com
Bernie Sanders: AI Was Discovered Secretly Self Organizing To Thwart Human Control, To What End?
Bernie Sanders: AI Was Discovered Secretly Self Organizing To Thwart Human Control, To What End?
In an alarming new video, Bernie Sanders is revealing new insider information to the effect that thousands of AI “agents” were recently discovered having self organized into a hierarchical structure…
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So it’s both a fake story and we have plenty of munitions, and they’ve given over 50 polygraphs to attempt to find the leaker. Makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it
Rest in Power: Gloria Steinem, Ms. Cofounder and Feminist Visionary
Rest in Power: Gloria Steinem, Ms. Cofounder and Feminist Visionary
Gloria Steinem, the journalist, organizer and cofounder of <em>Ms.</em> whose name became inseparable from the modern movement for women’s equality, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, at her home in New York Ci...
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