News, mostly bad

After sanewashing Trump for four years in office and then all through the 2024 campaign, the mainstream corporate media is now sanewashing all his ludicrous nominations. Each is worse than all the others, but the reporting is bland, as if this is ordinary.

If Trump nominated a dead man, the headline wouldn’t mention that the nominee is dead, and the coverage would be a genteel recitation of the dead man’s resumé.

Republicans are still obsessed with trans people and where they pee

1 in 8 N.Y.C. public school students was homeless last year

Miscarrying patient was passed around ‘like a hot potato’ due to Idaho abortion ban, doctor testifies

Texas education board signals support for Bible-infused school curriculum

Private segregated schools across the South are getting millions in taxpayer dollars

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

My poop access at Burien Transit Center has been extended to 2025

Do not accept an unScientific American

American police are out of control

Ignoring the climate emergency

The Lord works in mysterious ways

Dead people

I’ve got a hundred stories to write, several of them possibly worth reading, including several restaurant reviews, a bus ride review, and a bus-load of bus adventures. Maybe I’ll write the long, boring piece about abortion that’s been bouncing in my brain for months, or maybe I’ll abort it.

The gumption it takes to write keeps eluding me, though, and a silly “bomb cyclone” doesn’t help — we got bombed yesterday, leaving most of the metro area without power for 2-20 hours. I will never be able to hear “bomb cyclone” without snickering, though. What a stupid, clickbait name for “severe storm.”

Anyway, stay tuned. Something better is coming, I hope.

11/20/2024

Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Ensalada de lengua de pajaritos, 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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8 responses to “News, mostly bad”

Mark Alexander

11/21/2024

I take no small amount of Schadenfreude in watching the MAGAs realize that 45’s (NEVER say his name) policies are going to fuck them over just as royally as everyone else.

Yes, a lot of people are going to be hurt (or worse) over the next four years, but I think the only thing that will ultimately save us from the worst of his intentions is the fact he surrounds himself with absolute imbeciles who couldn’t rip themselves out of a paper bag if trapped in one.

I hope I’m correct

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1. Doug Holland
  
  11/21/2024
  
  I’ll join in that hope, but mostly I worry. These freaks seem determined to dismantle and (maybe) reassemble America, and none of them have the brains to do it right, but some of them have the brains to do it.
  
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  1. Zeke Krahlin
    
    11/21/2024
    
    How to BLOCK PROJECT 2025 (and other things you can do! ) | Zaid Talks
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9UKnU3dRDM
    
    How Harris could still be president and what the Constitution has to say about it
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX4PJcehyJw
    
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    1. Doug Holland
      
      11/22/2024
      
      Zaid’s video is unwatchable, thanks to all the standard YouTube visual hijinks, but it’s listenable, and pretty smart. What makes it worth hearing is that he’s reading text he’s written, *not* ad libbing on camera.
      
      Zaid’s mistake, in my opinion, is his assumption that ordinary rules will apply — that Trump can’t do this or this or this, because there are laws to prevent it. The man has lived his entire life above the law, and has all the apparatus of government behind him in his plans to violate the law.
      
      I listened for 14 minutes, until he started pitching for his sponsors. Homey don’t play that. I like the guy, though. He seems smart, but needs to take a deep breath and chill.
      
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El Pessimisto

11/21/2024

Here in America, undocumented immigrants provide MOST of the labor in harvesting crops, meat processing, and restaurant kitchens. Trump’s mass deportations would cause massive inflation in food prices, like never seen before, with crops rotting instead of reaching grocery stores. Republicans are all about money so you hope they wouldn’t be so stupid, but stupidity seems to be their recent branding so brace yourself.

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1. Doug Holland
  
  11/21/2024
  
  Trump One was a lot of random stupidity, but Trump Two seems to be stupidity with a stupid plan.
  
  I’m braced. Two months to go.
  
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pp

11/21/2024

That thing about the restrooms in congress… In any job except congress, would be a slam dunk sexual harassment suit.

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1. Doug Holland
  
  11/22/2024
  
  Yup, Congress always writes themselves as the exception to any workplace rules.
  
  Freaks me out how much it freaks out the Republicans that not everybody is straight white male and Christian.
  
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