Open Thread

Most Fired Workers Lost Their Jobs For No Good Reason Last Year: These conditions are perhaps why 2022 was a big year for unionization. Unions won more elections than they…

How A Walk In The Park Became Putin's War.  Talk about mis-overestimating (H/T to Dubya) your capabilities...: They never had a chance. Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from…

Latest Muskmare:  Investigative Reporters Tossed Off Twitter.  For allegedly telling people where the 'Free Speech Absolutist' was.  Which wasn't true: Twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen…

AG's Office Concludes That Fort DuPont Redevelopment Corporation Broke Law.  Tip of the sombrero to one of our fave tipsters: "The petitions allege that the Fort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation…

We're back.  Didn't know what happened to Jason--until I got that 'Wish You Were Here' postcard from Hawaii.  Did he win the lottery, or did he merely abscond with the…

Pa. Rethugs Lose Election--Try To Steal It In Court.  By, you know, opposing special elections for vacant seats: The top-ranking Republican in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives asked a court…

For All You Science Nerds, (Let's see, there's Unstable Isotope, and that's about it), Is This How To Beat Covid?: As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolves to escape…

The Sinema Enema.  Flushed herself out of the bowels of the Democratic Party.  Here's my quick early take: Well, we know she can't run as a D in Arizona again. …

Brittany Griner Released!  In exchange for an arms dealer: The deal, the second such exchange in eight months with Russia, procured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad.…

Dominion Vs. Fox Case Heats Up In Delaware Superior Court.  For once, I'm a Dominionist: Although the law leans in the media’s favor in defamation cases, Dominion has what independent…

Last Call For Albert Cummings--We already have what I call a 'Covid sellout', meaning a sellout minus the 20% or so of our audience that still hasn't come back.  For…

Medicare Dis-Advantage.  Just remember--this is what Carney and DeMatteis is trying to sell to state employees: Medicare Advantage plans, which are private insurance plans for seniors paid for with federal…

DeSantis' Role Model--Michael Dukakis?  This former R strategist thinks so--with the same result: Not satisfied with the obvious Dukakis-in-the-tank comparisons sparked by DeSantis’ “Top Gov” campaign ad, it’s as though…