Open thread 1/25/2025
I watched all of these as a kid:
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Trump in North Carolina
Compare and contrast to the previous administration: True to his word, Trump, along with First Lady Melania Trump, touched down in the Old North State Friday morning. He was immediately swarmed by the crowd of well-wishers desperate for hope after … Continue reading →
Some hostages were held in UN camps – plus, the next group of promised hostage releases
Not a suprise: Reports that freed Israeli hostages had been held in U.N. shelters in the Gaza Strip amount to “a very serious allegation,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, told JNS on Wednesday. “We call on … Continue reading →
Ex-reporters at Politico: we really wanted to report on the Hunter laptop but our big bad editors wouldn’t let us
And yet those reporters kept silent about it till now, as far as I can tell: A pair of former reporters at venerable DC-focused outlet Politico slammed “cowardly editors” at their ex-outlet for burying stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop — … Continue reading →
Have you noticed …
… that it’s getting more and more difficult to “unsubscribe” to unwanted emails?
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The criminal illegal alien deportations begin
And the American people seem to be in favor of it, for the most part. I think Trump should add that he’s just following the lead of Sweden and other countries in northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland … Continue reading →
Trump’s executive orders
The sheer numbers and scope of the executive orders Trump has issued are overwhelming. The Trump team has apparently been preparing this for a long time, a sort of executive order wishlist that they now get to fulfill. I’ve only … Continue reading →
The varieties of Trump-hatred
Commenter “physicsguy” writes: I have a good friend from grad school who is a typical democratic liberal, bordering on left, with a mild case of TDS. Generally he is a good guy except his politics blinds him to some obvious … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/23/2025
RIP Jules Feiffer
I hadn’t thought of Feiffer in many years, but as a teenager I was a huge fan. I had several of his books of cartoons, and they were wonderful. He turned his satirical eye and his whimsical pen on the … Continue reading →
Just between us girls
Megyn Kelley on the subject of Jeff Bezos’ main squeeze, Lauren Sanchez, at Trump’s inauguration: I couldn’t help but notice, too. When I was a kid, I used to go to ballet classes in some very seedy Manhattan neighborhoods, and … Continue reading →