(via Upworthy) If that put you in a sharing spirit, here’s a suggestion from commentor SuperHrefna: Con or Bust auctions raise money to help non-white people attend science fiction and fantasy conventions. So not only might you get a cool prize, you get to help increase diversity in SFF and cock a snook at the …
Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread
.@mrsinisterlefty How can we ever know what the presidency is actually worth if the free market isn't allowed to work its magic? — Billmon (@billmon1) April 22, 2015 Doyle MacManus, in the LA Times: … The most important players aren’t the candidates; they’re the mega-donors. In American politics, money talks. That’s always been true, of …
“Fast Tracking” the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Against Us)
Hurrah, the scintillating spirit of bipartisanship is loose in DC again, per the NYTimes: …[I]ncreasingly, Congress, under Republican control, is pressing forward on broad aspects of President Obama’s end-of-term agenda. On a huge trade agreement, Republicans are pursuing legislation with virtually no Democratic support… The forward movement also reflects Republicans’ eagerness for legislative achievements before …
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Late Night Open Thread: Great Strangeness
dang penn and teller look like shit these days pic.twitter.com/4X4AxB8KBS — Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) April 22, 2015 Buzzfeed attempts to go even weirder than all those ‘favorite 1980s-tv-characters-choose-your-best-presidential-candidates’ listicles, with “Putin’s Action Hero: How Steven Seagal Became the Kremlin’s Unlikeliest Envoy“: Vladimir Putin knew his relationship with the United States was nearing breaking point when …
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Key Read: “The Day Political Journalism Died And The People Who Killed It”
Since anything I write is liable to be misinterpreted as yet another effort to shove That Woman down unwilling throats, I’ll just leave explanation of the latest “well, there are so many rumors… “ ratfvcking to a trained professional: There are three ur-texts that must be read if one is to understand the dynamics of …
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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Marketing Power
Son/brother of 2 former presidents & oil millionaires gets to audition for oil billionaires #MakingOfThePresident2016 pic.twitter.com/KguelDnOI4 — Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) April 21, 2015 Looks like yesterday’s Koch Bros public announcement that Scott Walker was their guy may have been a ploy to get Jeb Bush (well, Jeb’s handlers) to pay attention to their GOP insurgency… …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Local Greens
In the space between 4/20 Legalize Weed demos and Wednesday’s Earth Day, the Washington Post hopefully explains “How shipping containers are making fresh local produce a reality during bitter winters“: An ambitious attempt to change the way we eat is playing out in a shipping container plopped in a parking lot in Minneapolis. Ryan Sweeney, …
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