Open Thread

Ukraine Offensive: Blip Or New Reality?: As the advancing Ukrainian troops regained lost territory with shocking speed, liberating the town of Balakliya and raising their blue-and-yellow flag over the city…

I Finally Cut The Cord!  No, not cable, not yet, although that's coming soon.  I finally unsubscribed from the Team LBR e-mail list that, come to think of it, I'd…

Isn't Charles The Guy Nobody Likes?  Oh well, I'll always have that commemorative bottle opener.  You know the one that reads, 'Drink Up, Chuck and Di'.  Say it three times…

Steve Bannon: A Case Study In Conservative Grift: The outsize role of grift in American conservatism is a story that goes back at least a half century. But Trump glommed…

News Of Lydia York's Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated.  She had a great day of campaigning at the Arden Fair.  Three hours spent equally between the parking lot where the visitors…

Happy Arden Fair Day! Sen. McConnell Is--Mitcher Lonely: Not even Peter Thiel will return his calls: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s grand vision for a Republican sweep in the midterm…

Trump And MAGAts Threaten Democracy, Biden Says.  Yes, they do.  Or, at least, what passes for democracy: “We are still at our core a democracy — yet history tells us…

Trump Tries His Hand At Three-Dimensional Chess, Loses At Checkers.  His call for a special master to review documents led to this photo: Those Secret and Top Secret documents are…

Trump Judge Makes New Law To Give Trump 'Special Master' To Review Classified Documents.   Pure insanity: And now the Trump-appointed judge has broken with all legal precedent, and written wholly…

Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of 'Probable Cause' To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the…

Don't Intellectuals Have Anything Better To Do?  'Some' argue against using the term 'progressive': But a backlash has been brewing. Some thinkers on the left question whether embracing “progressive” implies…

Student Debt Forgiveness: More Creeping Incrementalism From Biden.  Did you expect anything--more?: The Biden administration has already approved nearly $32 billion in loan forgiveness to 1.6 million people through targeted…