Open Thread

If You're Not Already Watching CNN, You Almost Certainly Won't Watch After Reading This.  One of the best long-form pieces of journalism on, um, journalism and journalists I've ever read. …

Just a quick TV critique:  It was a shame that both Succession and Barry aired their final episodes on the same night.  While both, in critical terms, 'stuck the landing', …

Biden Breaks Word, Negotiates With Terrorists, Cuts Shitty Deal.  Retire, you fucking old fart!: President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached an “agreement in principle” on Saturday to…

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…