Open Thread

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…

Yes, Honorables. Data Centers Are A BFD.  Ignore at your own peril: The Democratic sweep of gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and public service commissioner races in Georgia…

Hegseth Commits War Crimes: The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were…