Sure Why Not

 "MAGA Mean Girl"

Afternoon

Gonna go see the big worm movie.

Always Relevant

"Prompting"

For Iraq, you could put the New York Times in the category of "heroes in error" if you were generous.  Not now.

Is the normal response to a "stampede" - if that's even what happened - to shoot people?

Morning

Sunday funday

The Real Victims

 

Saturday Afternoon

A little break.

Nothing Is Acceptable

Voting "uncommitted" in the Michigan primary was the most minor inconsequential Democratic process protest imaginable, and yet:

This cartoon in today’s ⁦@WashPost is a malicious insult & deliberate distortion of the views of ⁦@RashidaTlaib⁩ & 101,492 MI voters. This was a Dem primary & so “uncommitted” had nothing to do w/ voting for Trump. Voters were demanding that Biden act to stop the killing pic.twitter.com/iZJaHh2Am3

— James J. Zogby (@jjz1600) March 1, 2024

I even saw people I respect(ed) complaining about this. My list is getting very small.

A Deeply Rotten Institution

It's long been bad, but it's pretty clear Dash is, indeed, the worst Sulzberger.

The union representing New York Times employees accused the company Friday of targeting employees with Middle Eastern or North African backgrounds in a weeks-long investigation into leaks from its newsroom regarding the paper’s coverage of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.

In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, NewsGuild of New York president Susan DeCarava said managers picked out particular employees — “targeted for their national origin, ethnicity and race” — who had raised concerns about the paper’s reporting for “particularly hostile questioning.”

Racially profiling your own employees to find the leaker! In a newspaper!

In a separate statement sent late Friday to Guild members, union leaders said Times managers had questioned employees about their involvement in an affinity group for employees of Middle Eastern and North African heritage and “ordered them to hand over the names of all of the … active members, and demanded copies of private text-message conversations between colleagues about their shared workplace concerns.”

The Times calls it preposterous, which means it's 100% true!

In her letter, DeCarava said some of the employees who had been selected for questioning had no connection to “The Daily.” Instead, she said, they had previously raised concerns about the sexual-violence reporting to standards editors. “These members went above and beyond to follow company policies in bringing feedback internally to Standards, as The Times encourages its journalists to do,” she wrote.

There are plenty of earlier reports about the Times not even allowing internal criticism.

One hears these possible apocryphal stories about monarchs and similar having absolutely nuclear-level reactions to minor slights and those don't seem very ludicrous anymore. It's just what happens when you are on your 4th or 5th generation of failson, with or without the inbreeding.

Morning

Slacker Saturday.

Friday Night

 Rock on.

Friday Evening

enjoy

America's Worst Newspaper

That fucking newspaper.

Let's Work Together

Again, I know the troll is, "Donald Trump says he wants to solve the 'border problem' but then he prevented us from solving it!" But the "problem" as defined by Trump and the Republicans is not one Democrats should be acknowledging!!!

Well Then

[Jim Halpert looking at camera dot gif]

Biden has privately told some Democrats that he’s not sure withholding weaponry from Israel would be effective because while Israel wants more military aid, it doesn't need it, according to a person familiar with his comments.

Previous paragraph:

Some of the president’s Democratic allies hoped Biden’s standing among voters in battleground states like Michigan might convince him to make policy changes toward Israel. But so far, the president has resisted making changes, and officials said they don’t expect that to change as long as a deal to release hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a temporary cease-fire is possible.

This is "victory tour" stuff. Biden wants to redeem himself by being the great savior, and he's gonna let people be slaughtered until he gets to be.

Lunch

eat

Julián, My Man, That's Popularism!

I thought we voted for Biden so that Trump couldn’t hurt immigrant families by making immigration policy anymore. Did I miss something? https://t.co/6V4IvEs3x5

— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) March 1, 2024

Zing

Could someone at least suggest to the Biden administration that the condescending sarcastic PSAKIBOMB style of press conference doesn't work quite as well when it's gross animated Victorian horror dolls justifying US support for ethnic cleansing.

"You keep saying that you don't wanna see any Palestinians dead...but you saw the numbers I am sure you did today...30k dead, 70k wounded...7k are missing would you respect math; many people in the Muslim world don't believe you?"

Matt Miller: "What's their solution to Hamas" https://t.co/35V9QebZq3 pic.twitter.com/xOdi2LnoJJ

— HalalFlow (@halalflow) February 29, 2024

[Snuffy Walden Theme Song Swells]

 

I get this is Biden's version of trolling, but the troll doesn't work once you've conceded *Trump is right*.

Morning

The Ides of March Madness.