Open Thread

Long-Term Unemployment Is Back: More than 1 in 4 workers without jobs have been unemployed for at least half a year, new data shows.That number is a post-pandemic high and…

How The Progressive Set To Debate Kirk Was Set To Debate Kirk: On September 25, the left-wing Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was supposed to debate Turning Point…

Fascism never takes a day off to mourn.  The latest: Trump Invades Memphis.  You might ask why.  Here's why: The CEO of one of the nation’s most powerful freight railroads…

BREAKING: Trump says with a 'high degree of certainty' that a suspect is in custody. Time To End The Canonization Of Charlie Kirk.  Our commenters unearthed two excellent pieces on…

A Worthy Epitaph?: "It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other…

Just an idle question:  Is it possible that the reason why the Governor and certain legislators are at such loggerheads over the Port issue is because it looks like the…

Any illusion that the Supreme Court was gonna pull us back from the creation of a Fascist State was crushed yesterday.  Oh, sure, permitting ICE Agents to move through US…

Trump's Gone Stark-Raving Mad.  25th Amendment, Anyone?  Which American City Will He Attack Next?: On Saturday, Trump posted online that Chicago was "about to find out why it's called the…

Has Elon Musk Gotten Bored With Making Cars?: Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the…

'He's A Walking Disaster, He's A Demolition Man'--Trump's plan to turn the White House into a casino continues apace: President Donald Trump needs to build his gold-plated monstrosity of a…

We're Officially At 'War' Now:  Even weirder than you might think: President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday to give the Department of Defense a new name: the…

Florida Chooses Disease.  Perhaps it's just me, but killing off your citizens hardly seems the way to expand your electoral dominance.  But who am I to judge?: Florida plans to…

It All Ends At The Supreme Court: A federal appeals court late Tuesday blocked President Trump from using an 18th-century wartime law to quickly deport a group of Venezuelans, rejecting…