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Cheetoh-Stained Blogger Logs In To Pontificate, Updates Preferences to Ritz Crackers

October 19, 2024 - By ginny

It’s Saturday, I’m listening to a “clip show” retrospective version of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” and I’m trying to exercise my atrophied blogging muscles. I used to be a prolific long-form blogger, until Twitter, real Twitter, remodeled my brain to think in 240-character snippets. I have a desktop computer, and a wheezer of a laptop, that made this easy. And then I got more into wanting to say Something Important via my iPhone or my mini iPad, with their teeny on-screen keyboards. This is a frustrating process and I stopped blogging because it was hard to type and hard…

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You BET We’re Better Off!

October 19, 2024 - By ginny

Four years ago, an incompetent braggart screwed up the scientific, public health based response to COVID-19. The world economy was at a standstill. I was furloughed, spouse was job-hunting, we stayed home and hoped like hell things would improve after the election. They did, but not until 12:01pm, January 20, 2021. www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/18/us-voters-economy-inflation-growth-presidential-election

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Can’t Decide Which Color I Like Best…

November 11, 2023 - By ginny

www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Little-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Save-the-Environment-by-hollyatodds/69181176.121KU

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No Fair Remembering Stuff: The Brooks Brothers Riot

August 23, 2023 - By ginny

Excellent episode by @driftglass@mastodon.social and @bluegal@newsie.social at #ProfessionalLeftPodcast https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2023/08/ep-737-no-fair-remembering-stuff.html?m=1

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Because I Am Forever A Snickering Tween

January 30, 2023 - By ginny

The Manhattan DA revives the inert “hush money” case against TFG, and this little detail will never fail to make me snicker like a schoolgirl. I’m sure AG of The Daily Beans podcast will happily dust off her Pecker jokes! The Times reported on Monday that witness David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, a tabloid that helped broker the deal with Daniels, was seen entering a building in Lower Manhattan where the grand jury has been empaneled. — Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/donald-trump-hush-money-grand-jury-new-york

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Now Listening: The Cornfield Resistance with Driftglass and Bluegal for Friday, September 9

September 10, 2022 - By ginny

I’ve been a listener since stumbling into a Second Life group that used to host listing parties online during the Bush-W Administration. Do check out their Patreon! listen.stitcher.com/yvap/

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The Only Time Democrats Pay Attention To Rural America Is Before The Iowa Caucuses. That’s BS.

May 2, 2022 - By ginny

The only way for the party to regain traction in rural places is by running strong campaigns in districts that usually back Republicans. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/opinion/democrats-rural-america.html The future of America depends on young organizers connecting with rural voters. We liberals have forgotten the maxim: “All politics are local.”

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We Saw This Happening, We Knew This Was Happeining

April 30, 2022 - By ginny

He also indicated that CDC could operate more effectively “if the public health agency was independent,” based on his experience in the Trump Administration. — Dr Robert Redfield, former CDC director — Read on coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-releases/select-subcommittee-releases-new-findings-detailing-trump-administration-s

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Two progressive Democrats plot a new course to fight Republican gains : NPR

April 28, 2022 - By ginny

Reps. Khanna and Raskin say Democrats should reclaim issues of patriotism, stay out of the political correctness business and improve their dialogue on racial divisions to reach out to all Americans. — Read on www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1094288815/two-democratic-progressives-plot-new-ways-to-fight-back-against-republican-gains

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Can Democrats Win Back Rural Voters? | The New Yorker

April 26, 2022 - By ginny

I’ve said this for more than 20 years; we’re not helping rural voters if we snub them because it’s easier to canvass in the suburbs and cities. And rural voters control Congress. The Maine state senator Chloe Maxmin and her former campaign manager, Canyon Woodward, the authors of the forthcoming book “Dirt Road Revival,” join Dorothy Wickenden to talk about intensive grassroots organizing as the key to Democratic success at the polls. — Read on www.newyorker.com/podcast/politics-and-more/can-democrats-win-back-rural-voters/amp

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'Out here running toilet scams': Spectators dump on Trump's newest administration pick

Literally a poop emoji nomination. When we shit-can our link to NATO, this guy will be the one to flush our allies.

Link: 'Out here running toilet scams': Spectators dump on Trump's newest administration pick
WaPo Gift Link: 10 Books To Read

The 10 books I’d like to read from the Washington Post. Definitely the Osman, not so much the Penny as I find her Three Pines series a bit too precious. I need entertainment that doesn’t make me want to repeat the mantra of the current era: “don’t panic.”

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www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/20/best-mystery-novels-2024/
F’thaunck You, ‘Elno Skum

It’s possible we have ‘Elno to thank for the depressed (and depressing) turnout of Democratic voters for Harris. Or we wish him a hearty FOAD.

Link: Bait-and-switch ad campaign carefully planned to trigger potential Harris voters: study
The News Is Awful, So I’m Making #Sourdough Bread

Quote: The Best Sourdough Sandwich Bread - absolute crowd favorite! How to simply make homemade Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread

Link: Soft Sourdough Sandwich Bread - Lion's Bread
Well Played, Onion. Well Done, Sandy Hook Families

Some forgettable guy’s ass(ets) belong to The Onion and the Sandy Hook families he harassed. Now that’s justice.

The satirical news company plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.

Link: The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction