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Listen to our archived episodes: Pandora|LibSyn|YouTube Support the show: Patreon|PayPal: 1x or monthly|Square Cash * David Waldman is back! And so is Greg Dworkin! And they are hauling in two Rafts O’ Stories™! As you are aware, ExTwitter is full of...

A promise broken on day one In August 2024, Trump said, "When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One." America is still waiting. Overall, inflation is a sticky 3%. In particular, citizens are paying 11% more for electricity...

Tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la, etc. That is, unless you are among the majority of Americans who suffering under the burden of Donald Trump's disastrous economic agenda that places the interests of regular people below those of Trump's wealthy...

The Quantum Handshake Metaphor This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. And as a suggested topic, today lets talk about transactional handshake metaphor ...

By Trenz Pruca (Your faithful chronicler of human folly, political taxonomy, and the occasional well-timed sigh.) If political systems were animals, the modern world would look like an overfunded zoo run by a particularly careless graduate student....

Interesting scenario developing that might result in us flipping the House early. Aaron Parnas has a good video on it: margin by date when what Rep–Dem if WE WIN now current status 219 – 213 Dec 3 TN-7 special 219 – 214 Jan 5 GA-14 MTG retires 218 –...

Since the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, the mainstream spent a long time just presenting it as something that was done with no preceding history. Over time, at least some of the mainstream has expressed disagreement with over-reaction by Israel. I would like...

I do not live in Boston. The nuance of the city’s politics is likely lost on me. The closest i came to Boston politics was working with an engineer who was Mayor Menino’s (RIP) brother in law who had some interesting insights. Like when his sister...

Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� It’s gonna be a busy week, with Fangsgibbing on the way. So let us de-stress and kick back for a bit.� No worries, just lubs and laughs! If I fits, I sits…..AFTER fud,

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, � River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe,

All that work Steve Witkoff did to appease Putin and it’s all getting carved up. Poor Steve. Trump isn’t a details guy — unless it involves putting gold-plated crap all over the Oval Office. Trump was in a damn hurry to force Ukraine to accept by...

The Republican-led education department is now seeking to limit their backing for certain professions by withdrawing student loan support from graduate students seeking certain (formerly) professional degrees. Here are some of the degrees that would no...

MTG seems to just be the first of many.… More resignations are coming.. Though Johnson keeps the gavel even if Republicans become a minority, unless 9 Republicans band together and vote for a new speaker. This is a quote from a Senior Republican House...

With the end of Donald Trump's Presidential term in January 2029, already starting to show the beginnings of who will next be in MAGA power? Has MTGs, so called resignation, the first shot fired in the battle for the new "Dear Leader" of both MAGA and...

Robert Reich, in a Substack article describes and links to, a Montana Initiative limiting Citizens United. The idea is as beautiful as it is simple; Limiting the money corporations may spend on elections in the State of Montana. And it would apply to...

“Socialism” in the Marxist form, is practically mainstream: Bernie, AOC, Mamdani. The word appears to be cool even with Trump ( even though he likely couldn’t explain it to you, much less where he is at any given moment). But since the murder of...

Nebraska mattered in 1960 because it was one of only 16 states that held a presidential primary. The other 34 states held caucuses and conventions in which the selection of the delegates to the national convention were controlled by the party leaders....

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; River City Hash Mondays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Pam Bondi’s secret Epstein scheme is revealed. Then, on the rest of the menu, the...

The Polson Flathead Lake Museum�in Polson, Montana , has an exhibit of saddles.

The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ...

Reading Moby Dick. Who would have thought that Moby Dick was a religious text? They haven’t even set sail yet and Melville has more than one riff in his text that reads just like A Course in Miracles which I always am harping on. ACIM is one of those...

TAKE ACTION Write, Email or CALL Capitol Switchboard (202) 224‑3121 to tell your elected officials to stop dropping sh*t on our cities. CLICK HERE to find your officials’ contact information. We must stand up and speak out, not because something is...

It is Evolution Day , whatever that means. Allegedly it is a day to celebrate the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species , so it is not rally about evolution, per se. Evolution, at lest in ...

American society hates its kids. A strong position, granted, but one that is harder and harder to refute. �We have the big things, of course. Jeffery Epstein was given a sweetheart deal despite ...

Get a grip Activists, Commentators, Influencers etc… on the left. Now I don’t know if you’ve noticed but nothing gets done if it doesn’t have the blob’s seal on it. Therefor, you cannot expect elected folks not to meet with the blob if they need things...

Idrees Kahloon/ The Atlantic: The GOP Is Realizing That Trump Won’t Be Around Forever The intra-party fight over the Epstein files was only the prelude. The reality that Donald Trump’s ...

________________________________________________________ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them,...

It has gradually become clearer over time. Yes, it can’t be proved except perhaps by a CIA whistle blower. Nor will it ever be admitted by any of our intelligence agencies. But Trump’s behavior pattern is as obvious, at least to me, as a category 5...

Social Media's version of stochastic counterterrorism in X is Rentier Capitalism amok Translation of Mister Orange ‘accordion hands’ Krasnov killing the Department of Education (or putting it on life-support) demoting ‘professional’ college degrees:...

Average Russian daily losses over the past 10 days according to the Ukrainian military: men — 996� artillery — 18� AA — 0.8� vehicles and fuel tanks — 74.6� Average Russian daily losses ...

Some distractions I hope will entertain you during this often stressful week. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! (No turkeys were harmed in the making of this diary.) Fortune Feimster Grew Up in a ...

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, , annetteboardman, Besame,and jck,. Alumni editors ...

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It’s odd for a show that once had Robert Reich as a guest star to be disconnected from the economic realities that most Americans face. But disconnected The Simpsons are, contends JM McNab in an article for Cracked. A big reason why The Simpsons was...

Thanksgiving For 40 years at the farm we gave a large Thanksgiving dinner gathering. It began as a celebration for family, but as time went on it included extended family, then close friends, then even friends of friends. It was always a warm and...

Mother Jones dropped a crucial analysis this week: Lede: Hours after being sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump used his constitutionally vested powers to define “man” and “woman.” In an executive order, he said his administration would...

Campaigning for President, Donald Trump promised to end inflation and lower prices on necessities. In a lead-up to Thanksgiving, he announced that he had succeeded and that the proof was that the 2025 Walmart Thanksgiving dinner basket was 3% cheaper...

Jamie Raskin delivers a sweeping call to defend democracy, uplift voting rights, and reject rising authoritarianism at a Texas Democratic dinner. Rep. Jamie Raskin Electrifies Texas Crowd Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio)...

I generally consider origin stories for superheroes to be the best offering from each franchise, and Iron Man, for me, is no exception. Here is an excerpt from Roger Ebert's review: With "Iron Man," you get a glimpse into the depths. You get the...

The advice offered by Donald Trump and his Cabinet cronies has always been something less than credible, and more likely dangerous. It began years ago when Trump told people diagnosed with COVID to inject bleach, and it continues through his recent...

Mr. President: You have been talking a lot about delivering universal health care to the American people. Many Presidents before you have tried and failed, including that loser Obama. Obamacare is popular and considered a significant achievement....

The Myth of “Lost National Innocence” The assassination of John F. Kennedy is often remembered as the moment America “lost its innocence.” That phrase has become a fixture of white middle class liberal Baby Boomer memory. Yet as history, it collapses...

A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your ...

What a difference a year makes In 2024, Trump won because young men cut themselves a slice of the MAGA hype. But like many decisions that seem sensible through a late-night tequila lens, dawn's light illuminated the folly of an ill-considered choice....

I promise this isn’t about inciting violence!

Mother Jones just posted the how-to here. Have fun!

So COP30 just wrapped up. Those of us who were expecting next to nothing are unsurprised. Here’s a quick quip from the BBC, from a piece published just before the shindig wrapped up: Host Brazil had hoped countries would agree to set out how to move...

I thought I was way past being shocked by anything Trump does, but this story that broke yesterday will go down in history — and not in a good way. First, we have a bipartisan group of senators saying that they were told by Marco Rubio that the plan...

The people that voted for this administration, some admitted indicating they wrong…..there is more negative presence within this nation that is bringing down the American Dream….. people are suffering in many ways throughout this country. It is time...

After the world quieted, some chose the path of spirit, others the path of grit. This is the story of the two who chose both. [Next Chapter Coming Soon→] [Begin Previous Novel ‘Attuned’→] Chapter One: Stories from the Weave The long grass in the...