Open Thread

Ringo Really Is Just A Cool Guy: Starr has the amiable manner of a goofy, wisecracking uncle who happens to have been in the most successful band in the history…

Can We Have Those Expanded Tax Brackets Now?: The ink is not even dry on the far-reaching domestic policy law that President Trump signed on Friday, and already state governments…

W-what?  Real news on the 4th Of July?  I mean, besides America's ongoing experiment with Fascism? Ladeez And Gentlemen--YOUR 20th RD Democratic Candidate: Alonna Berry has been selected as the…

The Final Day Of America As We Know It?  Yes.  There's no way the Rethugs get this close and fail to seal the deal on Fascism: The House took its…

Just Shut Up-Part One: Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the…

Major shout-outs to Joe Connor, The MoMo, and others who stayed up later than I do these days, for keeping the midnight oil burning in Leg Hall.  Were there any…

I'd first like to comment on Karl Stomberg's piece, which you should read if you have not already done so.  He captures my frustration more eloquently than I've so far…

DOGE Fights For More Guns.  No, not for them, necessarily.  But for Amerika: The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with…

Bernie Nails It.  So obvious, yet corporadems are so addicted to corporate cash: Look, he ran a brilliant campaign. And it wasn’t just him. What he understood and understands —…

NYC Elects Democratic Socialist As Mayor.  Well, not officially.  The ranked choice balloting needs to be counted, and Eric Adams and (remember him?) Curtis Sliwa await in the fall.  However,…

Once Again, The Press Misses The Point.  I'm not gonna link to any of the 'analysis' of the decision-making process.  Because it ignores the simple fact that the person who…

Artist Of The Week--Beuford Smith. This obituary contains quite a few of his photographs: “Lower East Side,” 1968.Credit...Beuford Smith, via Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York Beuford Smith’s “Boy on…