Open Thread

If you live in an area with lots of trees, you might want to check out some spectacular winter sights this morning.  The heavy snow has clung to the trees,…

Trump To Veterans: Drop Dead Sooner: The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs including doctors, nurses…

Circle yesterday on your calendar.  I think it might mark a bounce off the bottom.  I also think it might be a turning point. Not because of anything that Democrats…

Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker.  Um, why?  Chris, you're on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  Care to hazard a guess?  Or say anything?: The United States seized an oil tanker…

When Does The Anecdotal Become The Empirical?  Rethugs lose two more elections: Georgia: Georgia Democrats scored a major upset in a special election on Tuesday night, flipping a conservative legislative…

Absolute Corruption--Trump Mobilizes To Stop WBD/Netflix Merger Because...: Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what used to be Time Warner and now goes by the…

Trump Has Early Stage Alzheimer's?  It's as plain as the orange makeup caked on his hand: Trump’s deteriorating physical and cognitive condition stopped being a punchline somewhere around the moment…

Why 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' Resonates: My parents were atheists; I knew almost nothing about Christianity as a child, although I got the lay of the land when I…

Gotta make this quick--it's Claymont Parade Day... CDC Goes All-In On Anti-Vax: ATLANTA — For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fought attempts by the anti-vaccine movement…

Corrupt Supreme Court OK's Corrupt Texas Gerrymander.  Did you expect any other result?: The Supreme Court was simply hamstrung, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, unable to knock down Texas’ hyper-partisan, likely…

Trump Knows That Tariffs Will Be Ruled Illegal By Supreme Court: Since oral arguments on Nov. 5, Trump has removed or otherwise modified IEEPA tariffs for myriad goods imported from…

"Schumer:  Trump Is Clearly Demented And Needs To Step Down." Yes, it's a fake headline.  You could put the name of any Democratic officeholder in there, and it would still…

Hegseth Tries To Make Admiral Scapegoat For His War Crimes.  I don't think this will go well: Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned that…