Remember James Bennet, the NYT editorial page editor who got shit-canned in 2020 for publishing a guest essay by Tom Cotton, the twitchy MAGA fascist from Arkansas? Of course you don’t because you have a life. But it was a big deal at the time. It was at the height of the Black Lives Matter …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Things You Might’ve Missed
Vice President Harris responds to Kevin McCarthy criticizing President Biden’s negotiating skills: With all due respect, when anyone who has had the experience McCarthy just had, I don’t think he’s a judge of negotiations pic.twitter.com/jfZHl1NJ5z — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) November 29, 2023 LOL The real time reaction from President Biden seeing video of an unhinged …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Strengthening the American Economy
Yesterday was the busiest day ever at airports in the US, with the @TSA reporting 2,884,783 people screened. It was also an incredibly smooth day of travel with fewer than one-half of one percent of 51,332 scheduled flights canceled. pic.twitter.com/6ZUVmaHyDR — Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) November 27, 2023 Pete fixed the planes https://t.co/kJO1OxFG87 — The okayest poster …
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Late Night Open Thread: Thanksgiving Travel, Always A Hassle
Another casualty of rock and roll. https://t.co/yo8vBPfG6I — Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 23, 2023 Fox News: We regret to inform you that the explosion at the Rainbow Bridge was not in fact a terror attack. — The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) November 22, 2023 Nicole Hollander’s Sylvia cartoon strip had a running gag about hapless …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: T-Day Countdown
The president and first lady serving food at a Friendsgiving at Norfolk Naval Station pic.twitter.com/SkuWWntjCU — Sophie Hills (@sophiemhills) November 19, 2023 Some *very* happy Midwestern Thanksgiving gatherings… “The United Auto Workers confirmed that members at General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV have ratified record four-and-a-half-year agreements, securing wage increases, investment commitments …
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Late Night Open Thread: The ‘Narrative’ the Horserace Media Prefers
If only someone were able to influence the degree to which the explicit "I'm going to do the authoritarianism" statements – the ones that are five-alarm fires for ???? democracy – were platformed and centered in the National Conversation™? instead of the horse race & theater ??????? https://t.co/fWO9EUWprW — Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov) November 11, 2023 …
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: It Can’t Happen Here…
The media doesn’t care about this because they don’t imagine themselves as being part of the “vermin” he’s going to root out. Management at the big corporate outlets continue to mistakenly believe Trump returning would be good for business rather than an existential threat. https://t.co/Whh593Achm — Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) November 12, 2023 It is Nazi …
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