Open Thread

How Cops Justify Killing Those Stopped For Traffic Offenses:  'The Car Was The Weapon': In a New York Times investigation of car stops that left more than 400 similarly unarmed…

Big Pharma Breaks Lobbying Spending Records To Fight Drug Pricing Initiatives.  They've already got Carper and Coons in their pockets--although maybe they can rustle up some spare change to further…

Opinion: D's Have To Confront Rethugs' Relentlessly Racist Dog-Whistles.  It's been the R strategy since Nixon, and it works when D's ignore it: Crucially, the Republican nominee, Glenn Youngkin, was…

How/Why Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deadly Confrontations.  Short take--Because they're trained that way. And because they can get away with it: The deaths are among a series of seemingly…

Final Call For The Claudettes.  Tonight.  Prices are incredibly affordable: $20 for the general public. Tickets available at the box office.  Here's how Downbeat  described them: “The Claudettes hit listeners…

Biden's Agenda: How Not To Negotiate.  Cut it in half, then beg: “The House and Senate majorities and my presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week,”…

Silly Russians, Don't You Know The NRA Is Bankrupt?  Russian hackers allegedly post NRA stuff on dark web: The gang behind the attack—which calls itself “Grief”—recently began sharing images of…

“Their (Black Christians) voices contradicted the proposition that America is the story of the gradual expansion of freedom and opportunity to a wider and wider group of people,. The moral…

Kathy McGuiness Has No Shame.  Of course, that's a 'dog bites man' headline.  But this isn't: Delaware Auditor Kathy McGuiness has asked a local judge to make taxpayers foot the bill…

BREAKING: Rep. Paul Baumbach Running For Reelection.  I wrote a speculative piece, turns out it was fiction. At least in part: I am running for re-election, to continue to serve…

Rabbi Joins Proud Boys, Hands Out 'Religious Exemptions' From Covid Vaccinations.  'Backwards reeled the mind'.  Who can quote the original sentence, and who wrote it?  No, it wasn't Sondheim. WH:…