Driftglass is a lefty political curmudgeon, and a national treasure.
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Click link to dKos to follow cartoonist Jen Sorensen. Her details are masterful. Link: Cartoon: The last firewall
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The part about outrage was when one lone protestor flipped the bird and yelled “F- Trump!” at the MAGA devotees waiting to enter the place of worship. They erupted in fury, and one guy yelled “Get deported.” So that’s how we know it’s all they want. Link: ‘Very Hitlerian’: Protesters cause MAGA outrage at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally – Raw Story
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Ann Telnaes still getting kudos for that cartoon./ Paper has been pilloried for what some call ‘anticipatory obedience’ in preparation of a new president next year Link: Washington Post cartoon team skewers paper’s decision not to make endorsement
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There are nice, thoughtful, diverse people who live in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district. A brown-skinned immigrant with a foreign accent talked to them about everything except politics and was rewarded with interesting conversations. He was initially apprehensive, but found only friendly locals. It sounds like someone needs to give them an alternative to MTG in two years. Gift Link: Washington Post “Brown Immigrant Visits MTG’s District”
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Records show Thomas Klingenstein is at the forefront of donors pushing polarizing politics in the Republican party Link: The far-right megadonor pouring over $10m into the US election to defeat ‘the woke regime’
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This gives me hope. People are literally crawling over broken glass, and the mess left by Helene, to vote in North Carolina. “Haven’t stood in a line like this to vote since Obama 2008,” blogger Tom Sullivan posted on X, photographing dozens lined up out the doors of one Asheville polling place. Source: North Carolina sets record for first day of voting with more than 350,000 ballots
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Four years ago, an incompetent braggart screwed up the scientific, public health based response to COVID-19. The world economy was at a standstill. I was furloughed, spouse was job-hunting, we stayed home and hoped like hell things would improve after the election. They did, but not until 12:01pm, January 20, 2021. www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/18/us-voters-economy-inflation-growth-presidential-election
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Dang it, WordPress forces me to use the Jetpack app now, I prefer the web interface admin page.
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The infection could be called the Helsinki Virus, but it probably started long before that. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out the problem in his party. …In an interview with Puck News’s Julia Ioffe, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) — none other than the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — flat-out said that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame. “There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some…