Open Thread

Happy Whatever-It-Is-You're Celebrating-Or-Not-Celebrating-Day! Child Poverty Is Back: All of this was data from just a couple of months. The real power of money like this comes over time. A different…

Stop Minor Traffic Stops. Save Lives: Los Angeles last month became the biggest city to restrict the policing of minor violations. In Philadelphia, a ban on such stops has just…

Absolute Must-Read: Pro Publica On Tax Avoidance By The Wealthy.  Award-worthy, great graphics, and exceedingly aggravating. You Ever Get Mail From Hillsdale College? I do.  Buncha RWNJ's pretending to be…

Putin Names General Responsible For Syrian Atrocities To Head Invasion Of Ukraine.  There must be a way to take Putin out. Meet The New Murdoch, As Despicable As The Old…

Michigan Conspirators Skate On Plans To Kidnap Michigan Governor.  In case you missed it, justice isn't blind. Never was. Wow--Federal Funds Being Used For Something Other Than Tax Rebates:  The…

Ketanji Brown Jackson Becomes First Black Woman To Be Confirmed To Supreme Court: The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, felling one of…

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Set To Be Elevated To Supreme Court Today.  Hey, we dodged the Breyer nightmare.  That's something: A final vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation is…

Merrick Garland: Justice's Rain Delay.  He would have been terrible on the Supreme Court--worse than Stephen Breyer.  He's enabling criminals and insurrectionists: The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to…

Re: Clarence Thomas: D's Are Total Wusses.  The usual suspects doing the usual thing. Nothing: Given his wife’s role in encouraging the effort to overturn the election that culminated in…

Not a big fan of April Fool's posts.  This will not be one of them. At least, not on purpose. Fools, however, will almost inevitably be present. Did Everybody See…

I Sure Hope That Madison Cawthorn Is Telling The Truth For Once.  He almost certainly isn't, but still: After Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) went on a podcast and alleged that…

Fascinating Portrait Of Vladimir Putin. Why he is the way he is.  Well worth a NYTimes subscription.  Too much to even excerpt.  Read it online, or try to find a…