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| What are you reading? December 8, 2023
In WAYR? , I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…got no reading done this week but I do ... |
Chitown Kev | 12/08/2023 | 5 |
| Good News Roundup for Friday, Dec 8, 2023: Progress through Persistance Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News!
Sometimes itâs hard to keep going. Even when weâre making real progress, we donât always feel like weâre making progress.
I think there are ... |
chloris creator | 12/08/2023 | 37 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A close race is a winnable race Mark Murray /NBC News:
Too many are misreading the 2024 polls. Here’s a better way.
Analysis: Whether Biden or Trump is up by a few points, almost every survey is saying the same thing — the ... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/08/2023 | 131 |
| Is higher education being set-up again for the coming election season with language policing The House subcommittee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing to call on the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT to answer for the rampant antisemitism engulfing their campuses and threatening their Jewish students. They used the occasion to... |
annieli | 12/08/2023 | 3 |
| Notes from South Asia: BJP Wins State Elections, India, Counteroffensive, Myanmar, Justice in Nepal Hello, everyone! Welcome to this edition of Notes from South Asia. You can find the previous edition here. Today, we will cover the Indian National Congress’s (INC’s) failure in three state elections in India, The 1027 counter offensive against Myanmar... |
AVeng | 12/07/2023 | 13 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 653: lots of different operational tempos in the battlespaces Russian forces may be suffering losses along the entire front in Ukraine at a rate close to the rate at which Russia is currently generating new forces. The US pushed for large-scale, combined arms offensives. But Ukraine faced unexpected difficulties... |
annieli | 12/07/2023 | 27 |
| Overnight News Digest: Earth on the brink of five catastrophic climate tipping points
Tonight’s news awaits your comments. Everyone is encouraged to share their 2¢ or articles, stories, and tweets. This is an open thread. |
Magnifico | 12/07/2023 | 23 |
| 📚 Write On! The audience and the connect. Hiya, writers and friends. So, last week we were talking about the necessity of engaging readers/audience, and that it’s really pretty biological with them! Some of that has to do with the audience identifying with the characters or situation, and we... |
mettle fatigue | 12/07/2023 | 71 |
| For those who think just one vote won’t make a difference Every vote counts — and it’s okay to vote for yourself. What Roth didn’t know was that he was casting the decisive ballot in a race that would be determined by one vote. His opponent, Damion Green, had chosen not to vote for himself in the election,... |
thehecticdialectic | 12/07/2023 | 3 |
| It's high time: 6 Democratic governors urge Biden to push DEA to reschedule marijuana by end of year Six Democratic governors have sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging the administration�to push the Drug Enforcement Administration to “reschedule”�marijuana as a less dangerous Class III ... |
Charles Jay | 12/07/2023 | 59 |
| I was scammed and lost everything, don't let it happen to you. So we decided to flee Indiana. For background, my name is Alexis, I'm a nonbinary trans person, married to my trans husband Ian, and we have 2 kids, Felix, aged 12, and Zinnia age 9. Indiana is currently attempting the "Florida Speedrun" insofar as it... |
A Bleeding God | 12/07/2023 | 99 |
| Loyal, angry, and ready to break the law: How Trump plans to staff his Cabinet In a lot of ways, it’s a dream job: good pay, great benefits, lots of power, and the ability to break the law with impunity. All it requires is surrendering your soul to Donald Trump.
Axios ... |
Mark Sumner | 12/07/2023 | 56 |
| Do Biden and Harris need to propose "Radical Change?" I got a shock a few weeks ago around a Thanksgiving table that my family and I did not get to share. Our plans for a happy turkey meal together had been dashed by the hosting family getting COVID only a few days before. Trying to make the best of a bad... |
rflctammt | 12/07/2023 | 23 |
| Pioneer farming Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. The ... |
Ojibwa | 12/07/2023 | 8 |
| Sen. J.D. Vance demands Justice Department investigate Trump-critical Washington Post editorial On Nov. 30, Washington Post Editor-at-Large Robert Kagan wrote an extended opinion piece arguing that Donald Trump is on a "clear path" to establishing a dictatorship in this country, and that ... |
Hunter | 12/07/2023 | 254 |
| PWB Theme Thursday: Naughty or Nice? It’s eighteen�days till Christmas, and some of our furry friends are getting nervous!� Ai reely tried... Being cats (and woozles�and ellyfants�and horsies), it can be hard sometimes to ... |
userexists | 12/07/2023 | 137 |
| Texas judge allows Kate Cox to abort fetus with lethal abnormality By Eleanor Klibanoff The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For the first time in at least 50 years, a judge has intervened to allow an adult Texas... |
Texas Tribune | 12/07/2023 | 139 |
| New report unsurprisingly shows that profiteers have raised prices well above the rise in costs A new report from progressive UK.-based think-tanks IPPR and Common Wealth says profiteering played a major role in jacking up prices far above the rise in costs, reinforcing a previous but narrower study showing such an impact. Among other things, the... |
Meteor Blades | 12/07/2023 | 148 |
| Dear GOP: You’ll Never Wash the Stink of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never. Dear Republicans, After the corruption of the Coolidge and Hoover administrations crashed the world economy, kicking off the Republican Great Depression in 1929, it took your party decades to rid itself of the stink. After Nixon extended the Vietnam... |
thomhartmann | 12/07/2023 | 198 |
| The gag order's back, as is Previous Guy, prior to Monday's testimony in the New York fraud trial "Trump is really here as a spectator. He did not have to be here until Monday when he's expected to take the stand once again," An angry Donald Trump called New York Attorney General Letitia James a "lunatic" as he attended his $250 million fraud trial... |
annieli | 12/07/2023 | 4 |
| Latest letter to Hunter Biden is a prime example of Republican hypocrisy Republicans provided another textbook example of massive hypocrisy on Wednesday with a letter ordering Hunter Biden to appear for a hearing on Dec. 13. The letter to Hunter’s attorney says that he has no choice. He must appear for a closed-door... |
Mark Sumner | 12/07/2023 | 154 |
| Caribbean Matters: Understanding Venezuela's efforts to seize two-thirds of Guyana While most U.S. media has its international news attention trained on events taking place in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana is making Caribbean and South American headlines. I doubt that most Americans would... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 12/07/2023 | 207 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The early legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic We begin today with David Wallace-Wells of The New York Times, citing a rather obvious underlying reason for continuing American economic pessimism: the COVID-19 pandemic. But in fishing for causes, an obvious contributor is often overlooked: the... |
Chitown Kev | 12/07/2023 | 286 |
| GOP debate: Ron DeSantis saying Muslim men wear “man dresses” was not on any bingo card The fourth GOP primary debate was as stupid as the others. The debate, hosted by NewsNation and moderated by Megyn Kelly, Elizabeth Vargas and Eliana Johnson, devolved into conspiracy theories and confusing personal attacks. Sartorial splendor included... |
annieli | 12/06/2023 | 191 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 652: more than an invaded "former Soviet republic" Funds and firepower remain the key issues as drones continue to strike. Russian forces conducted a notably large series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of December 5 to 6. Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces launched... |
annieli | 12/06/2023 | 52 |
| Overnight News Digest for Dec 6 2023 (Night before Chanukah edition) Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)... |
jeremybloom | 12/06/2023 | 14 |
| Bookchat: Mysteries and binge reading Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Last Tuesday I wrote ... |
bookgirl | 12/06/2023 | 70 |
| Disarray alert: House Republicans struggle with slim majority and chaos With the exit of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the ejection of George Santos, and the impending resignation of Rep. Bill Johnson, House Republicans' bare majority is getting delectably precarious. Daily Kos Elections political director David Nir games it all... |
Kerry Eleveld | 12/06/2023 | 41 |
| George Santos finds his calling On Friday, former Republican Rep. George Santos was expelled from Congress, half a year after being indicted for embezzling money from his campaign , one month after being indicted again for ... |
Hunter | 12/06/2023 | 71 |
| Not happy about the economy? There is good news, and better targets for anger about it. If you’ve seen the post by dmontaine, there’s a list of ways The economy sucks - for many of us. I won’t go into them all here — you can find the list at the link. There’s a lot there to be angry about — but there’s something to remember about much of... |
xaxnar | 12/06/2023 | 19 |
| Who does The Atlantic hope to reach with its 'If Trump Wins' issue? Hint: It’s not MAGA World The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg recalls a short-lived period when it seemed impossible to imagine that Donald Trump would once again be a candidate for president. That moment lasted from the night of Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack on... |
Charles Jay | 12/06/2023 | 55 |
| Will Haley, DeSantis target Trump in final pre-Iowa debate? During the first Republican presidential debate in August, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley arguably took the strongest stance against GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump. "We have to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America,"... |
Kerry Eleveld | 12/06/2023 | 28 |
| Racism is Driving Republican Politics The only black Republican Senator[Tim Scott] has said more than once that race is no longer a determinant in American life. Senator Scott has railed against people who say America is a racist country. In the GOP response to President Joe Biden’s... |
ReasonaBill | 12/06/2023 | 7 |
| Wisconsin GOP fake electors evade prosecution in a “possible steal” that sought to install dictator Unlike the criminals in the GA RICO case, Wisconsin fake electors evaded criminal prosecution by admitting something a few GOP legislators still cannot do, admit that @POTUS won the 2020 election. MADISON, Wis. — In a legal settlement Wednesday, the 10... |
annieli | 12/06/2023 | 7 |
| To Honour Our Beloved Observerinvancouver, Giving The Gift Of Reading And Writing This is really down to Maudlin, who shared the following information.� With her kind permission, I am sharing it here and hoping that all of us who knew and loved Observerinvancouver will do a bit ... |
The Marti | 12/06/2023 | 29 |
| Big Media create ads helping greenwash the fossil fuel industry and hurting reporter credibility If you’re unaware of Drilled, an award-winning website dedicated to focusing on climate accountability, you would do well to add it to your collection of substacks to read and support. It was founded six years ago by veteran climate reporter Amy... |
Meteor Blades | 12/06/2023 | 22 |
| Jim Jordan's selective outrage: Document demands and dismissals It sometimes seems Republicans are intent on testing the differences between irony, satire, and plain old hypocrisy. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan provided a prime example on Wednesday morning when he sent a letter demanding that Fulton... |
Mark Sumner | 12/06/2023 | 89 |
| New bill to make assault weapons less lethal shows waning influence of gun lobby over public opinion Yet another mass shooting occurred on Oct. 25, this time in Lewiston, Maine, that killed 18 people and wounded 13 others. As of Oct. 26, that makes an astounding 35,275 people that have been killed by gun violence in this country just in 2023. Maine... |
Charles Jay | 12/06/2023 | 77 |
| MAGAists want to throw Democrats off the Voter Rolls; Hope Springs battles to keep them registered October was a difficult month to keep everyone abreast of what Hope Springs from Field PAC had been doing — outside of our intense focus on GOTV (Get-Out-the-Vote) in Ohio and Pennsylvania. And, to be honest, i needed a little recovery time after the... |
snowbored | 12/06/2023 | 20 |
| From Capone to dictatorship: Trump's troubling interview with Hannity During an interview on Tuesday evening, Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked Donald Trump whether he would abuse power if he was returned to office and noted that Trump has been using the line “I am your retribution” in his campaign. Trump responded by... |
Mark Sumner | 12/06/2023 | 176 |
| Team Biden: Feeling lukewarm on the economy? Just wait until Republicans strip your health insurance The Biden campaign wants voters who may feel lukewarm on the economy to know they have a choice next year: They can opt for MAGAnomics and lose their health insurance. On Tuesday, President Joe ... |
Kerry Eleveld | 12/06/2023 | 30 |
| Cartoon: The Texas GOP The Texas Tribune reported Saturday that the Texas GOP executive committee rejected a proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers. This comes in the wake of another ... |
Nick Anderson | 12/06/2023 | 27 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Reasons for hope in these bleak times Greg Sargent /The Washington Post:
Enough with all the fatalism about a Trump dictatorship
Are you afraid of a � Donald Trump � dictatorship? Well, know this: The only thing you have to fear is ... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/06/2023 | 361 |
| Overnight News Digest December 5, 2023
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �... |
Chitown Kev | 12/05/2023 | 12 |
| Nonfiction Views: This week's notable new nonfiction Good evening, everyone. Forgive the hiatus I took with Nonfiction Views for a couple weeks. Just too busy. But you didn’t miss much. The publishing world was rather slow those couple weeks, and it ... |
DebtorsPrison | 12/05/2023 | 4 |
| Contemporary Fiction Views: When two wounded souls meet More than one woman has felt she has lost her voice, that she is not heard, that no one heeds her feelings or ideas. In Greek Lessons , Han Kang brings to life a woman who literally loses her voice. ... |
bookgirl | 12/05/2023 | 29 |
| Climate Brief:'US coal use drops to levels last seen in 1903'(but we have to keep pushing) Global carbon emissions set record high, but US coal use drops to levels last seen in 1903 Coal plant closures, fuel-switching and renewables in the US led to an 18.3% decline in coal use, bringing it down to its 1903 level. The EU saw a drop of... |
Angmar | 12/05/2023 | 28 |
| Happy days (health update) I am so happy! My health continues to improve since being prescribed vitamin D and iron supplements. It's amazing to me how much of my suffering for YEARS and YEARS was apparently due to vitamin and mineral deficiency. Tonight, for the first time in at... |
bluePNWcats | 12/05/2023 | 14 |
| Black Kos: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. They didn't have social media; they had a mimeograph machine Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez Today we celebrate the history, and success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which began December 5, 1955 with a call for a one-day boycott of buses ... |
Black Kos | 12/05/2023 | 170 |
| Hidden History: "The Gael" and "Last of the Mohicans" The�1992 film version of The Last of the Mohicans �has one of the best and well-known musical scores ever done for a movie.
"Hidden History" is a diary series that explores forgotten and little-... |
Lenny Flank | 12/05/2023 | 17 |
| Indians 201: An Indian victory in Eastern Washington in 1858 In the 1850s, the policy of the United States regarding the Indian nations in eastern Washington was to force Indians onto a few reservations and open up the land for the railroad, for farming and ... |
Ojibwa | 12/05/2023 | 2 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The Library of Babble? Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include Tel Aviv’s response to allegations of short sales ahead of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. We begin today with George Packer of The Atlantic, wondering if journalism is ready for a second-term Trump... |
Chitown Kev | 12/05/2023 | 305 |
| Overnight News Digest: The war on Gaza has resumed Nearly 100,000 Gaza buildings may be damaged, satellite images show
BBC
Satellite images commissioned by the BBC reveal the extent of destruction across Gaza, showing that nearly 98,000 buildings ... |
maggiejean | 12/04/2023 | 12 |
| The Language of the Night: Murderbot is back! Before all else, thank you, Clio2 , for stepping in last week with such a great discussion of YA fantasy/romance, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s� Storm and Fury �and the Moms for Liberty professional ... |
DrLori | 12/04/2023 | 34 |
| Palestinian, Israeli, Arab & Jewish Women speak and act for peace while men make war. JTA - November 24, 2023 ‘We will choose a new path’: How Israel’s peace activists are responding to the war in Gaza __________________________________________________________ TheGuardian — Oct 31Violence rages in Gaza, but a meeting of Jewish and... |
mettle fatigue | 12/04/2023 | 32 |
| Cartoon: Trump attacks the judge A cartoon by Jeff Danziger. |
Jeff Danziger | 12/04/2023 | 32 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A bad week for Trump among many more to come Joyce Vance/”Civil Discourse” on Substack: Not a quiet Thursday A surprising number of things happened today for what should have been a quiet Thursday in October. That seems to be true more days than not with a former president, his party’s... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/04/2023 | 331 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: American media horror stories We begin today with a somewhat rambling piece from the editorial board of The Kansas City Star about the GOP’s lack of truth and the media’s complicity in broadcasting untruths and disinformation. ...can we note that Donald J. Trump is still besting... |
Chitown Kev | 12/03/2023 | 306 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: George Santos has the locks changed on him at his ex-office Ex-Congressman George Santos is the first Republican congressman expelled from Congress. And the locks were immediately changed—while some Hill staffers posed for selfies. Cook Political Report: NY-03: With Santos Expulsion Likely, Toss Up Special... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/02/2023 | 406 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review Commentary: African American Scientists and Inventors� By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Benjamin T. Montgomery � (1819–1877) was an influential African-American inventor, landowner, and ... |
Black Kos | 12/01/2023 | 194 |
| Elections are not Binary It is widespread belief and even logical to say that elections are binary: two parties, two candidates, and one outcome. I contend that elections are not binary. I do not mean the Green Party or the fledgling No Labels. The third party in America is... |
ReasonaBill | 12/01/2023 | 9 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Henry Kissinger's legacy is unique (and that's not a compliment) David Rothkopf/Daily Beast: Henry Kissinger’s ‘Celebrity’ Could Only Happen in America More complicated than just being a hero and a villain, Kissinger leaves a legacy of unmatched influence, for better and for worse. Henry Kissinger was the celebrity... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/01/2023 | 285 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Why? We begin today with Charles Blow of The New York Times offering some explanations why large segments of the American electorate are considering a second term for Donald Trump. We shouldn’t be here. We have a president who, on the whole, has had a... |
Chitown Kev | 11/30/2023 | 277 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Elon Musk's Israel visit draws scorn David Rothkopf/Haaretz: Why Netanyahu Loves Antisemites Like Elon Musk So Much By cosying up to the world’s most prominent Jew-haters while denouncing his critics, Netanyahu is betraying Jews wholesale. Musk is only the latest, dangerous example, but... |
Greg Dworkin | 11/29/2023 | 249 |
| Black Kos Tuesday: Unplugged Unplugged Commentary by Chitown Kev It’s the last week of November�2023 with the end of the year fast approaching.� 2024 is, of course, a presidential election year. The stakes could not be ... |
Black Kos | 11/28/2023 | 104 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: 'If you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you' We begin today with Heather Digby Parton of Salon writing about the dangers of Number 45’s political rhetoric. Now, it's perfectly true that there was never a time in America when everyone just got along beautifully. Our history of racism and... |
Chitown Kev | 11/28/2023 | 306 |
| Collective-Selfishness is an Oxymoron Every four years, the ultra-left loses its collective mind while indulging in its selfishness. I am still raw from 2016 when actor Susan Sarandon made a public appeal for revolution instead of voting for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Some... |
ReasonaBill | 11/27/2023 | 6 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Biden's hand clearly seen in the hostage talks New York Times: Hamas and Israel Prepare for 3rd Exchange of Prisoners for Hostages The Egyptian government said it had received a list of those who would be swapped. Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, said that at least one... |
Greg Dworkin | 11/27/2023 | 261 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Sore losers We begin today with Univision correspondent Jorge Ramos Ávalos writing at his personal blog that journalists cannot continue to normalize Number 45’s behavior and threats. Trump has been a sore loser. Trump today faces 91 charges for different alleged... |
Chitown Kev | 11/26/2023 | 240 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: What to be concerned about in 2024 (and it's not horse race polls) Amy Walter/Cook Political Report: Can Democrats Count on Abortion Ballot Measures To Swing Key States in 2024? The same Republican strategist I spoke with earlier agreed that Republicans can’t hide from this issue, but also argues that both their... |
Greg Dworkin | 11/25/2023 | 324 |
| Black Kos, Week In Review ~ Michelle Obama ignoring the haters and doing good works Commentary by BlackKos editor JoanMar I clicked on Twitter the other day and saw “Where’s Obama” trending. Even after going through a dozen or so tweets, other than the fact that this was ... |
Black Kos | 11/24/2023 | 97 |
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