Thursday GNR: What was Once Unthinkable...
…is often Good News. All progress in politics and science and religion depends on thinking the unthinkable, overthrowing what everybody knew that turned out not to be the case. But 9/11 and 1/6 were...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: Let Go of Roe Car, or Bite Harder?
Letting up is their story, but everything they say and do makes it all much, much worse. “No, we don’t mean to do any of those horrible things the murderers accuse us of”—except it has all already...
View ArticleThursday GNR: What This Country Needed Was a Good Labor Shortage
Manchin Agrees to Climate, Economy Deal: Summary Below. Alan Greenspan defined rising wages to be the worst form of inflation. Real economists knew he was an Ayn Randian economic and moral idiot who...
View Article8/4 Good News: The Voodoo Economy and the Real Economy
Throughout history there have always been two economies, one for the rich and one for everybody else. One can boom while the other is in deep recession, both at the same time. What would Keynes tell us...
View Article2nd Thursday GNR: The Screaming Says We're Winning
As the shrinking, shrieking minority of Wrong-Wingers gets louder and more vicious, one can be excused for thinking that everything is going downhill. But this turns out not to be the case. At all....
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Dark Brandon & Co.
We usually follow the official Truth Brigade campaigns in this group, but Dark Brandon is too good to pass up. It takes over the obscene and vicious Let’s Go Brandon meme from the Dark Side, and...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Vast Wrong-Wing Charter School Conspiracy
Segregationists declared war on the public schools in the 1950s, after Brown v. Board. Their dastardly schemes came too close to success under Betsy DeVos, allied with the ultra-Christianist Hillsdale...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Oil and Gaslighters Again
The Blue Meanies in the natural gaslighting propaganda machine have launched a new barrage of lies, damned lies, and statistics, again telling us that we can’t AFFORD to save real money, lives, and the...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: My Pronouns are We/Us
Wacko Wrong-Wingers are making intensely stupid jokes about gender pronouns, such as “My pronouns are Bible Believer/Jesus Lover/Gun Carrier/Mama Bear”. Or “My pronouns are ‘Kiss my ass’“. (No, I won’t...
View ArticleThursday GNR: See, Here's the Deal
Do we have a deal for you! Did I say a deal? THE Deal! To provide the best of everything available to everyone. Even to the paskudnyaks who demand that that is Soshulizm and they aren’t having any...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: No Malarkey
Malarkey, disinformation, racism, and hate. We don’t have to take it any more. There are more of us, and we have plenty of ice cream on order. Polling and special elections have been turning our way,...
View ArticleSunday Good News Roundup: Open Season
Tradition says that campaign season starts right after Labor Day, but not any more. You have seen many campaigns running at top speed for months, and we just had President Biden’s well-received...
View ArticleThursday Good News Roundup: #MAGAlarkey and Ice Cream
Racist etc. Republican majorities cowed Democrats for decades. That time is over and done. We can tell them about themselves now without fear, no matter how much they caterwaul. Actually, we could have...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: #DarkMerrick #FindingOut
Dark Brandon Rising has become Dark Brandon Rules. I have been working hard on my Dark Brandon etc. collection, and now I’m ready to roll it out so that you can join in. You can use the hundreds of...
View ArticleFifth Thursday GNR: How Long Must This Circus Continue?
Thing0, 8-ring court circus. J6, I’ve lost count. Ukraine, fuggedaboudit, Pootie-Poot. Elections, here we go, six more weeks of meshugas. Then we GNUsies can start to feel slightly sane again. Not...
View Article1st Thursday Good News Roundup: It's October! Surprise!
The big, schadenfreudelicious question in these elections is what October surprises the would-be #MAGAlarQy is about to drop on itself. Dud lawsuits?✅ Dud candidates?✅ More crimes?✅ Plummeting poll...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: October? Surprise!!!!
Oh, you thought Hurricane Ian was bad? No, folks, the #OctoberSurprise storm and flooding, sprung by the WrongWingers on themselves, are well under way, with a month to go before #Roevember 8. I'm...
View ArticleOctober Surprise Watch
Just yesterday I Diaried about Wrong-Wingers here and abroad springing October Surprises on themselves, with a substantial list and links for those we had already seen. But now look at what has popped...
View ArticleOctober Surprise Watch: 10/10
After that great long list of election surprise panics that we went through yesterday, I had hoped that it was something of an aberration, and that the news would be less, um, whatever this is today....
View ArticleOctober Surprise Watch: 10/11
Trump demanding purloined document cache back—“It’s mine.” Legal experts agree—that’s a confession that will stand up in court.Did you have a good Indigenous People’s Day? How are the elections going...
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