Instead of taking action, Republicans on the Hill went on a two-week vacation. pic.twitter.com/HZcgjU8d4X — President Biden (@POTUS) February 19, 2024 And it may just break a few of them, over the next eight months… Kayleigh: If I'm Biden and looking at this, I'm not pleased with the enthusiasm of the Trump base, they are …
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Dank Grey Dawn Open Thread: CPAC — Fewer, But Meaner ‘Conservatives’!
CPAC is very sleepy this year. As I was preparing I reached out to people I met here previously, 95 percent of them said they weren’t coming this year. pic.twitter.com/riMSsyytPf — Ben Goggin (@BenjaminGoggin) February 22, 2024 There’s a couple of competing events this weekend, but the main reason CPAC attendance is down just might …
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Friday Evening Open Thread: Seal the Damned Bubble!
It is interesting how social media and media discourse are again diverging from actual realities. Social and traditional media are becoming more rw, meanwhile the actual rw is losing juice https://t.co/wVkvwFL6as — vocational politics appreciation account (@Convolutedname) February 22, 2024 2024 is not 2020 or 2016. Interest in political news is down across the board, …
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Fool Them Thrice…
It’s a good thing for House Republicans that they lack the capacity for shame. Otherwise, the revelation that Russian operatives have been leading them around by their dicks would cause them to die of it: CNN — The former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine told investigators after his arrest that Russian intelligence officials …
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Democrats Deliver, Repubs Block & Obfuscate
Biden on House Republicans: "The way they're walking away from the threat of Russia, the way they're walking away from NATO, they way they're walking away from meeting our obligations … I've never seen anything like it." pic.twitter.com/y2atKaLq2q — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 19, 2024 Given the intense level of stated interest in Biden doing …
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Sad news about debbie
Sad news to share. I believe that our debbie on Balloon Juice was this this Debbie L. Bowman. Nothing would make me happier than to find out that this is not our debbie, but the timing fits; many of the details fit. Our debbie’s last name was Bowman, and like the debbie in the obituary, …
Climate Solutions: Carbon Cowboys and Regenerative Farming
As I wrote previously, I want to start combining our good news posts with climate solutions. I want to highlight good people doing good things in regard to the climate crisis. It’s important to know, despite what is often a deluge of bad news on the climate, good things are happening. I’ll be highlighting regenerative …
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