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the Joe Biden patrol
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Guess who is helping Joe Biden.
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Let's Go Brandon!
(at least, we think that's what they were saying)
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Kyrsten Sinema
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Our illegitimate governance
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“Trump carries much blame for our crisis of legitimacy, but the threat doesn’t begin and end with him.”
Be afraid, Democrats. Be very afraid
David Shor started modeling elections in 2008, when he was a 20-something blogger, and he proved good at it. … Now he’s scared. … “We’re screwed in the Senate,” he told me. Only he didn’t use the word screwed. … Shor’s model suggests they’ll lose a seat, and so the Senate. But it’s 2024 where things get very grim for them. ... Shor’s model predicts they’ll lose seven seats.
This might be the high-water mark of power they’ll have for the next decade. — Ezra Klein, NY Times.
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How progressives think
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New York City to phase out its gifted & talented program
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The NY Times explains it this way: "The highly selective and racially segregated program will be replaced for incoming students. ...
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"in which one relatively small, largely white and Asian American group of students gain access to the highest-performing schools. ...
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"The mayor has not yet solicited feedback from parent groups or elected officials on his gifted and talented plan, which was kept under wraps for months as it was finalized."
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Get your special Blaska Policy Werkes
decoder glasses now! 
Tag Archives: Liz Cheney
Taking the Republican purity test
RITOs are a RIOT! Wherever Republicans gather, it is striking that a goodly number of them think there are too many people in the room. They would like to see more empty chairs. They want to cull the herd before … Continue reading
Blaska gets out of Facebook jail
Facebook redemption We have escaped Facebook Jail! For three days and nights we rotted inside the rank hole of oblivion, unable to share our paranoia and recrimination with the rest of the world. Was it something we said? We crawled … Continue reading
Saying the most unpopular and unwelcome thing
‘I do not withdraw a single word’ “A former president, who provoked a violent attack on this capitol in an effort to steal the election, has resumed his aggressive effort to convince Americans that the election was stolen from him. … Continue reading
G.O.P. does not stand for Get Out and Purge
‘Nothing can stop what is coming.’ That’s the dire warning some of our MAGA acquaintances are posting on social media. They posted the same apocalyptic claptrap before the January 6 assault on the nation’s electoral process. No winning hearts and … Continue reading
Liz Cheney is a real Republican
Pilloried for speaking out against the attempted coup If some future national leader wants to update JFK’s book, Profiles in Courage, he should add a chapter on U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who this weekend was censured by her Republican party in … Continue reading
