Part of why you see a lot of doom and gloom coverage is because the people who do it for a living are themselves in a very precarious position and most people they know in their industry are too. https://t.co/9olvfIhjWV — Alex גדעון בן װעלװל (@JewishWonk) January 25, 2024 I’m genuinely sad about the demise …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread: We Cherish Our Wins
(Joel Pett via GoComics.com) Be Best. https://t.co/uiPoZgjQzm — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 26, 2024 Biden needs to retweet this. Better yet, te campaign needs to tweet a picture of Biden, where you can clearly see his hands, holding a phone or iPad looking at this tweet. https://t.co/R4Yz2J7NBZ — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 27, 2024
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Late Night Open Thread: Dean Phillips Is Making No New Friends
N.H. Democrats had a chance to say they wanted someone other than Joe Biden to be the nominee but they did this opposite, despite Biden not being on the ballot. This is a total rejection of Dean Phillips and his reason for running. His campaign now is only about personal vanity. — Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin) …
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Saturday Night Slap Fights Open Thread: News of Davos
Heard in Davos: What we learned from the WEF in 2024 https://t.co/GqzZQiYLGI pic.twitter.com/W4eewZYDUY — Reuters (@Reuters) January 19, 2024 Things seem to have finished off on a more upbeat tone than expected — per Reuters, “Heard in Davos: What we learned from the WEF in 2024″. FTFNYTimes has its priorities, though: Other newspapers: we are …
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Good News (Maybe): No Shutdown *Just Yet*
House Democratic Caucus Chair, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), said on Wednesday that “extreme House Republicans” are “fundamentally incapable of governing,” as the government faces a looming shutdown. pic.twitter.com/HyudDibrXs — CBS News (@CBSNews) January 17, 2024 Why “right now” was important, even to the Tantrum Toddlers Caucus: More SNOW in the forecast has accelerated deadline pressure …
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Foreign Affairs Open Thread: Merrie Englund, Proud & Free
Excl: The Home Office has hired an aircraft hangar and a fuselage so they can practice forcibly removing migrants on to planes. It’s part of the government’s preparations for the first Rwanda flights: https://t.co/UIOBrE5b56 — Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) January 18, 2024 Sometimes, when an American official like Greg Abbott or Ron DeSantis is being particularly …
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Dimon Dogs (Open Thread)
U.S.-based oligarch Jamie Dimon is glib and clueless in the way all plutocrats are, coasting along the upper strata with maximum arrogance and entitlement. But perhaps in a nod to egalitarianism, he’s glib and clueless in the common way too: (CNBC) JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday praised former President Donald Trump’s record and …