The New York Times kinda sucks.

Florida’s Republican Governor bans sex ed classes from mentioning anatomy and contraceptives Then what’s left to be taught?

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In Alabama, prison guards accused of violence and misconduct carry out secretive executions 

About half a million people in American jails have a legal right to vote, but don’t get to cast ballots

Attention Kmart shoppers:
The last full-size Kmart in the mainland United States is closingIt’s not nostalgia. It’s the scene of a crime.

Remember that DNA you gave 23andMe? 

Ohio residents flock to Springfield’s Haitian restaurants: “They are family” 

It’s unclear who paid Melania Trump $237,500 for a campaign speech 

OpenAI looks to shift away from fake nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company 

A court reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.

Republican attorneys general from 17 states join Texas in defending politicians’ right to ban books

US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year 

As death rate surges, Texas asks Supreme Court to let it keep denying care to pregnant women 

Hundreds of women were prosecuted over pregnancy-related crimes the year after Roe v. Wade fell 

Trump tells women they won’t be worrying their pretty little heads about abortion when he’s president 

Trump-appointed judge lets over 8,000 Catholic employers deny worker protections for abortion and fertility care 

Freedom from Religion Foundation:
Your body belongs to you — not the church, not the state 

Trump says he’ll use federal forces to invade U.S. cities over immigration policy

Trump says people who criticize Supreme Court justices should be jailed 

Trump says he’ll seek criminal charges against Google if re-elected president, because search results unfairly favor Kamala Harris and display negative stories about him 

Childless Republican candidate borrows friend’s wife and kids for photo ops 

Green stooge Jill Stein paid $100,000 to a Republican consulting firm led by a suspected January 6 rioter 

The New York Times kinda sucks.
As a lifelong reader and ex-subscriber to the Times, my opinion is that its ordinary day-to-day reporting has problems, but it’s generally within arm’s reach of accurate. The Times‘ coverage of politics, however, is so laughably hollow and bend-over-backwards subservient to America’s right-wing lunatics, it’s best ignored.

Scientists have finally worked out how to save earth from a huge asteroid 

Hilton, Marriott and Chipotle bankroll climate opposition, despite green claims It’s so startling to hear this, yawn.

Pollen allergies drove woolly mammoths to extinction, study claims 

From 2000, and still a classic:
“The only moral abortion is my abortion” 

⚰️  OBITUARIES  ⚰️ 
bear
shot and killedJohn Boos
in county jail Melvin Chavez
shot and killed Frances Conley
neurosurgeon without penis Santino Contreras
shot and killedFrank Coppa
squealer Paul Cripple
rock’n’roller, Reagan Youth Clive Everton
snooker journalist Andrea Nicole Garcia
in county jail Nick Gravenites
rock’n’roller, music for The Trip John Green
shot and killed Fredric Jameson
author, Postmodernism Minhaj Jamshidi
shot and killed Carrie Marie Kwok
shot and killed William Lucy
“I am a man” Ricardo Martinez Olguin
shot and killed Malik Mebane
kid who played football Message Tree
tree  Dick Moss
baseball’s free agency Coby Palmer
activist Anthony Rivera
shot and killed Jordan Alvin Simon
shot and killedMaggie Smith
actress, The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMichael Valentine
accomplice to vehicular mass murder  Marcellus Williams
probably not guilty

   9/28/2024   Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. All opinions fresh from my ass. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Atomic Raunch, Bleepity-Bleep, Breakfast at Ralf’s, Depsidase, Ensalada de lengua de pajaritos, A Sudden Violent Jerk, Mr Souza’s Happy Place, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce,
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra
special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and
proved that the world isn’t always shitty.

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5 responses to “The New York Times kinda sucks.”

  1. granville Avatar
    granville

    Jill Stein is coasting along on what some tiny fragment of the left imagines something called "the Green Party" could be rather than what it is. It's not a working class party, there's little intra-party democracy and Stein is an absolute ignoramus, as revealed last week when she couldn't remember how many members of the House of Representatives there are (she guessed "about 600"). The Green Party itself is practically invisible when it comes to organizing around environmental issues in this country. It just doesn't exist in that context or any other. The party is a fraud and there's an actual socialist on the ballot if one wants to go that way.

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    1. Doug Holland Avatar
      Doug Holland

      I'd probably be a member, if we had a genuine Green Party in America. But I keep seeing nothing from them, except the Jill Stein Show every four years. If I can afford it, and they promise not to sell my name, I might pay $25 to be a member of Democratic Socialists of America.

      I'll confess, I couldn't come up with the number of Reps without Googling it. It's 435. I thought it was 441, which is at least lots closer than 600. Plus if Putin invited me to dinner, I'd say no.

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  2. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    So many congressmen and senators are elected paupers and leave multi-millionaires on a $180,000 salary. The Justice Department has to know something fishy is going on but don't seem to pursue the big fish.

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  3. johnthebasket Avatar
    johnthebasket

    Hi Anon. There are bigger fish than a senator, but not much bigger. The senator from New Jersey is out of a job and likely headed for jail. Unfortunately, there are other ways to make money than out and out bribery: speaking engagements, board positions, campaign funny money. . . there does need to be more enforcement.

    jtb

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    1. Doug Holland Avatar
      Doug Holland

      The Mayor of New York now. Lots more such arrests and prosecutions are needed.

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