Open Thread

D's Ignored Yellen, Now Paying Debt Ceiling Ransom.  Can't anybody here play this game?: In the days after November’s midterm elections, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was feeling upbeat about…

Red State MAGAts Can't Dump People Off Medicaid Fast Enough: Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks as part of a sprawling unwinding of…

Omigod, omigod, omigod! Just got this in my e-mail in-box, and my pulse immediately quickened: Hi friends and family! Hope you all are doing well. Some incredible people are hosting…

Rethugs Try To Reframe Abortion Bans As 'Mainstream'.  You know, b/c The Overton Window: Nebraska antiabortion groups and GOP lawmakers were stunned. In late April, their effort to ban most…

Debt Ceiling Blues, Featuring The Profound Shittiness That Is Chris Coons: So, are Democrats negotiating on the debt limit? “The president is,” replied Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with…

A Real Headline From Today's Washington Post: "World Watches In Disbelief And Horror As US Nears Possible Default".  Apocalyptic, much?  Here's a sentence I can get behind: And foreign economists…

Three Headlines From This Morning's NYTimes: South Carolina House Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban Texas Legislature Bans Transgender Medical Care for Children Montana Governor Signs Total Ban of TikTok in the…

Rethugs Fundraise, Pocket All The $$'s For Themselves: A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of…

About That Proposed Truth Social Merger...man, there's always some shady outfit ready to do business (aka launder money) with Trump: An obscure financial entity with connections to a Caribbean-island bank…

First, a Very Special Crossover from yesterday's Post-Game Wrap-up/Pre-game Show.  The LLC's And Corporations In Seaford Are People bill was not worked.   Which doesn't mean it's dead.  Four reps were…

Delaware House Administration Committee:  LLC's Are People.  Release bill that will enable business owners who don't reside in Seaford to vote in Seaford elections. Southern Baptist Churches Losing Members In…

'Thoughts And Prayers' For Texas Gun Victims.  This. Is. Intolerable: A gunman opened fire on an outlet mall in a Dallas suburb on Saturday afternoon, killing at least eight people…