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November 23, 2023

Tidbits – Nov.23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Thanksgiving; Stop Calling It a Conflict, It’s…; Ceasefire; Trump’s Calling Opponents Vermin, Repeats Language of Hitler; the Real Bayard Rustin; Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Dangerous Conflations; Cartoons

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Reader Comments: Thanksgiving; Stop Calling It a Conflict, It's...; Ceasefire; Trump's Calling Opponents Vermin, Repeats Language of Hitler; The Real Bayard Rustin; Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations; Cartoons; and more....

October 21, 2023

The Real Reason House Republicans Can’t Elect a Speaker

Alex Shephard The New Republic

Turns out there are consequences for not having any policy ideas or purpose.

October 5, 2023

The Republicans Booted Their Leader, So of Course It’s Democrats’ Fault

Alex Shephard The New Republic

To say that anyone outside of the House GOP caucus had a hand in McCarthy’s downfall requires superhuman amounts of ignorance. It assumes Democrats exists to bail out the GOP from their mistakes and provide a bulwark against their own worst instincts

October 5, 2023

Now Republicans Are Trying To Redefine Abortion Itself

Jessica Valenti New York Times

In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points and messages on abortion in an attempt to make its anti-abortion policies sound less extreme.

October 5, 2023

Tidbits – Oct. 5, 2023 – Reader Comments: Trump Says Shut It Down, House Goes Limbo; the Race To Be Speaker; Lots of Cartoons; It Could Have Been Me by Holly Near; Indigenous Peoples’ Day Resources; More…

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Reader Comments: Trump Says Shut It Down, House Goes Limbo; The Race to Be Speaker; Lots of Cartoons; It Could Have Been Me by Holly Near; Indigenous Peoples’ Day Resources; more....

October 2, 2023

Matt Gaetz Accuses Kevin McCarthy of Behaving Like an Adult

Andy Borowitz The New Yorker

“Kevin McCarthy needs to look at himself in the mirror and ask if he wants to be an adult, or a Republican,” the congressman said.

September 14, 2023

Our Supposedly Glorious Past Existed Only for Some

Esau McCaulley New York Times

Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast forward to the Red Summer, Jim Crow laws, “strange fruit” hanging from poplar trees?

September 7, 2023

‘There’s a Very Real Danger Here’: AOC on 2024, the Climate Crisis and ‘Selling Out’

David Smith The Guardian

Twice re-elected and comfortable in her political skin, the Democratic congresswoman makes clear that Biden can't take progressives for granted.

August 31, 2023

Conservative Groups Draw Up Plan To Dismantle the US Government and Replace It With Trump’s Vision

Lisa Mascaro AP News

With a 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with the “deep state” bureaucracy, firing 50,000 federal workers.

August 31, 2023

Tidbits – Aug.31, 2023 – Reader Comments: Racist Gun Violence Fueled by MAGA; March on Washington, Chicano Moratorium; GOP “Debate”; Capital Destruction, Maui; Hollywood Runs on Low Pay; Dolly Parton–The Book Lady; 50th Anniversary of Chile Coup;

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Reader Comments: Racist Gun Violence Fueled by MAGA; March on Washington, Chicano Moratorium; GOP "Debate"; Capital Destruction and Maui; Hollywood Runs on Low Pay; Dolly Parton - The Book Lady; 50th Anniversary of Chile Coup; Cartoons; more....

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