I want to build on Betty’s post from late last week regarding universal coverage. I’m grateful to Gillibrand for stating outright that a market-driven system will never achieve affordable, universal coverage, so the public aspects of the ACA will have to be expanded to move in that direction. President Obama and the Democrats who worked …
On the Road and In Your Backyard
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into …
Monday Morning Open Thread: It’s Always White Nationalism Week At the Trump White House!
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) . This is from the beginning of August, but I didn’t get a chance to link it earlier because there’s always so much damned news. Paul Waldman, in The Week, “It’s white nationalism week in the Trump administration”: … The power of Trump’s campaign for so many of his voters was …
Chill Pre-Dawn Open Thread: At Least You Don’t Have This Guy’s Job
The WSJ‘s foreign correspondent in Seoul… Just FYI persuading the U.S. president not to launch a preemptive strike on N. Korea is an ongoing process.@gluboldhttps://t.co/STcMjnfVJo pic.twitter.com/WdPGWxRg3t — Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) August 13, 2017 Now you know why Kelly and McMaster won't leave the country at the same time https://t.co/mhiXG9SRt3 — Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) August 14, …
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Not Ready for Monday Open Thread
Here is Bixby doing Bixby. Squeezing into the smallest place on our huge sectional. This is where he likes to curl up. Silly pup. Can’t believe I picked him up three years ago, yesterday. And Bailey has almost been here a year. Anyway, it looks like we could use an open thread. How are you …
You’re a White Man, Can You STFU for a Single Minute?
From the New York Times opinion page, right now: The notion that Erick son of Erick finding the level of racism and hatred that’s too much even for him, and some navel gazing by Frank Bruni, are two of the most important opinions that need to be voiced at this moment in our country’s history …
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Sunday Respite Open Thread
i've just come across one of my favourite videos on the internet pic.twitter.com/g85NX3doFN — Phil (@PhilStarkz) July 30, 2017 . Got the morbs. And the woefuls. Lyrical Victorian slang. pic.twitter.com/CbaX678qZn — Catherine Slessor (@cath_slessor) December 31, 2015 . "Foxes are just cat software running on dog hardware." pic.twitter.com/bKgLycMsC7 — Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) August 7, 2017 …