Our shitty political press has been trading credibility for access and pushing horse race coverage as news forever, so it wasn’t surprising when NBC News hired Ronna McDaniel as a paid election analyst. But it was still an outrage because she is (or at least was until the conditions attached to receiving a paycheck changed) …
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Saturday Good News: Basketball Stories/March Madness Open Thread
As we settle in for more March Madness, thought some good news basketball stories would be fun: This one is old, but get the tissues: There’s always one of these proving kids are just…amazing And just because Pink makes me happy. Love that it was like the world’s largest game of charades as they try …
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More chaos in the House
As of thirty minutes ago, the Daily Beast reports: On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to formally boot Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the office, according to a source familiar with the matter. The fundamental problem in the House is the GOP is nuts and can’t coordinate its way out of a wet paper bag. More formally, …
Respite Open Thread: Creativity Can Be Overrated
the best part about being in a ton of 2023 pregnancy/baby groups is getting to see all the absolutely wretched names parents are coming up with these days. here are some highlights i’ve collected pic.twitter.com/UNMUHeAmKB — henny gesserit (@heyyitsdidi) March 20, 2024 Madden Raige, Kyzier, Triniteigh and Brexleigh. I’ve spent the past fifty-plus years telling …
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Republicans Chip Roy, Andy Biggs, Tom Finnany, Clay Higgins, Eric Burlison, Thomas Massie, Matt Rosendale, Warren Davidson, Marge Greene Publicly Support Putin Kidnapping Ukrainian Children
Wow. Speechless. Furious. @TristanSnell The House just voted to condemn Putin’s kidnapping of Ukrainian children. 9 Republicans voted against the resolution. Chip Roy Andy Biggs Tom Tiffany Clay Higgins Eric Burlison Thomas Massie Matt Rosendale Warren Davidson Marjorie Taylor Greene Remember in November. I wonder what fake moral stance they are using to explain this …
Late Night Open Thread: Prosecutors Consider Sam Bankman-Fried Incorrigible
NEW — The sentencing memo from the federal government against Sam Bankman-Fried just dropped. They want him to go away to prison for 40 to 50 years.https://t.co/EUIGAt3lxi pic.twitter.com/kIwGJUyVEt — Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) March 15, 2024 And they make a good argument, IMO. Per the Associated Press: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s orchestration of one of history’s …
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Monday Evening Open Thread: Readership Capture
we are just cleaning up in this divorce https://t.co/RtCQEe05bv — zeddy (@Zeddary) March 18, 2024 In the ‘national divorce’ the GOP loves to talk about, Dems already got ice cream, football, Taylor Swift… Genuinely good news, assuming it happens: 🟡SCOOP: There's a deal for a clean one-year extension of the lifesaving PEPFAR program in next …
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