Promising news, from the NYTimes: Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator who captured the national spotlight with an 11-hour filibuster against restricting abortion rights, turned up in Washington on Monday with the news that she was considering a run for governor. “I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two …
Late Night Open Thread: Few Besos for Bezos
Memo to Post staff: Effective immediately, no AC in newsroom, 13 hour shifts, work schedules at OUR discretion, metal detectors. Love, Jeff — billmon (@billmon1) August 5, 2013 The Amazon-Bezos underbelly, like Graham and Kaplan. Allentown Call could get Pulitzer. http://t.co/9na4TJb2dL — Thomas Edsall (@Edsall) August 6, 2013 Via Billmon, Ian Welsh: … Even though …
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Monday Evening Open Thread: Citizens Against Sex Toys
John Dolan at NSFWCorp interviews Ian “David Koch” Murphy about his recent incarceration: Ian Murphy, notorious reporter and artist for The Buffalo Beast, just got out of the Erie County jail after being sentenced to 15 days for “disturbing a religious service,” the prosecutor’s dubious term for disorderly conduct/obscenity at an anti-gay demonstration. His real …
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SOD Us All
Why I subscribe to the Washington Post, despite its flaws. Brian Fung, “The NSA is giving your phone records to the DEA. And the DEA is covering it up.” A day after we learned of a draining turf battle between the NSA and other law enforcement agencies over bulk surveillance data, it now appears that …
“Spy” Stories Are Boffo Boxoffice
(Mike Thompson via GoComics.com) Salon‘s Andrew O’Hehir, who usually reviews movies, calls for some cinematic political action: In an op-ed for the Guardian earlier this summer, Máiread Corrigan Maguire, an Irish activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 and has devoted her life to working for peace in Northern Ireland and around the …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Clown Car Redux
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) Happy Monday! From Professor Krugman, “Republicans Against Reality“: … How did the G.O.P. get to this point? On budget issues, the proximate source of the party’s troubles lies in the decision to turn the formulation of fiscal policy over to a con man. Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House …
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Open Thread: “Turtle and the Her”
(Jeff Danziger’s website) . Anybody from the region want to weigh in as to whether we should put together an ActBlue page for Alison Lundergan Grimes? From the Washington Post: FANCY FARM, Ky. — Kentucky’s longest-serving U.S. senator, Mitch McConnell, waited for the chants of “We want Mitch!” to die down Saturday afternoon. He smiled …