The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Son of Return of More Stuff

    By PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 12:09pm |

    The Terrible Tabula Rasa

    The way to go?

    By artappraiser on Sun, 07/19/2020 - 12:38am |

    Thread:

    Trump campaign TV ad with "defund the police" topic

    By artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 9:18pm |

    I've seen this played on commercial breaks on CNN three times now in a couple hours (both Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo shows; I'm in NYC  market):

     

    Major Dem attack on Senator John Cornyn going on?

    By artappraiser on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 11:51pm |

    Obama recommends on police reform

    By artappraiser on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 10:22pm |

    the other three after the jump

    Wokey-dokey

    By EmmaZahn on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 1:20pm |

    Made me laugh ...

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    Smile

    By barefooted on Thu, 07/09/2020 - 6:00pm |

    Hi, guys.  Nice to see you.

    I was looking at my last letters to you, and after wondering why I waded there, I teared up. 

    The news is omnipresent, the battle seems impossible.

    But it is not.  Honestly, we can do this.

    Smile behind your mask.

     

    DoJ Krazy Thread VI

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/09/2020 - 3:29pm |
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    99% Of Covid Cases are mild...

    By jollyroger on Wed, 07/08/2020 - 7:04am |

    New data show a really disturbing set of sequelae after seemingly uneventful recoveries from "mild" cases of Covid 19.

     

    Ominously, they mirror what is a widely unrecognized part of the story of the 1918 Spanish Flu., which led to brain disease in over a million survivors.

     

    Serious and potentially fatal brain disorders triggered by coronavirus, as they emerge in mildly affected or recovering patients.

     

    Trumpism Is ‘Identity Politics’ for White People

    By artappraiser on Mon, 07/06/2020 - 4:23pm |

    Adam Serwer retweeted his Oct. 2018 article today with that title and it definitely is worth a reminder right now:

    From, but it’s even more clear now that Trump has fumbled the response to the coronavirus, the economic crisis, and the george floyd protests, while running against statue vandalism. White identity politics is all Trumpism has ever had to offer. https://t.co/A4ZzsNbFVV

    On human creativity

    By artappraiser on Sat, 07/04/2020 - 6:40pm |

    Karens

    By artappraiser on Sat, 07/04/2020 - 3:09am |

    I am intrigued by this brand new stereotypical enemy of the left, Karens. One month there's all these new heroines, the suburban woman centrist voters who helped give us a Democratic House of Representatives and are going to save us from Trump. And they are cis, and have kids and a husband, and are going #MeToo. The next month very similar women,  they are ridiculed if not totally despised. Got me thinking: is Hillary Clinton a Karen? Who else? Just ran across--this woman looks like another unfortunate Karen, worthless even as a token?

    James Lindsay on Joe Rogan's Show

    By EmmaZahn on Fri, 07/03/2020 - 12:30pm |

    A three-hour conversation. 

     

    More Docks and More Vids

    By A Guy Called LULU on Thu, 07/02/2020 - 5:56pm |

    Brett Weinstein has ab idea about a third party challenge. This is the best short description I have seen. 

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    Herman Cain in hospital with the 'rona

    By jollyroger on Thu, 07/02/2020 - 1:34pm |

    Nein, nein, nein! (also NINE days since pizza man was at the Tussle in Tulsa).

     

    No doube he is walking point for a robust cohort of attendees soon to get their angel wings.

     

    On the numbers, he's dead in another nine.

     

    Trump kills everything he touches.

    Stuff. Room for stuff.

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:50am |

    Yeah, everyone needs an overflow room, things that kinda fit, (maybe when you lose a few pounds?), So we'll just pít em over here.

    Read this girl's thread. She's Indonésan So you dont.

    DoJ Flynn & co Death March Kraziness V

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/30/2020 - 12:04pm |

    Roger effing Stone  - whooda believered it.

    Little boy spanked by teacher. Will He ever learn?

    Sasha Cohen "Inject Fauci With the Wuhan Flu"

    By NCD on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 11:22pm |

    Sacha Baron Cohen infiltrated the Washington militia event in Olympia today. see link

    A last-minute big donor paid to sponsor the event, and hire security & then that security kept the organizers from getting on stage to stop Cohen.

    "WHO? Whatcha gonna do? Chop em up like the Saudis do".

    Sacha Baron Cohen pranks crowd at conservative rally in eastern Washington state.

    Protests concerning the death of George Floyd started at the end of May

    By artappraiser on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 7:30pm |

    This classic "herding cats" problem is why Joe is a good candidate at a time of national crisis?

    By artappraiser on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 2:56pm |

    It's also why his V.P. pick is extra important? As to what happens after the election

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    BABALOOO! Trump declares himself cross with Vlad...

    By jollyroger on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 5:55pm |

    Can we hope that the revelation (suppressed for months) that Russian intelligence has been paying the Taliban bounties for dead GI's will rouse Trump to irritation?

    Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says

    The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.

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    Juggernaut!

    By jollyroger on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 12:46am |

    As you read this, AOC has been re-nominated in a blowout win over a Wall Street Republican newly converted to a Democrat who received over 5 million dollars from panicked plutocrats, including Blackstone and Goldman honchos.

     

    Updated 23m ago75% reporting

    CandidateVotesPct.
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez*20,983   72.9%
    Michelle Caruso-Cabrera5,664       19.7
    Badrun Khan1,4605.1
    Samuel Sloan6962.4

     

    More importantly, her endorsed fellow Dem aspirants are in train to knock off centrist incumbents at the Federal and State level.

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    Lifting the stain from my soul...

    By jollyroger on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 6:18am |

    Juneteenth...

     

    Not just an African-American holiday of deliverance.

     

    Anyone who has celebrated a Passover knows the enduring power that attaches to the commemoration  of liberation for an oppressed people.

     

    Consider, for a moment, the liberation that also is felt by the oppressor's heirs.

     

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