The Evening Blues - 3-3-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 3:35pmOpen Thread
Submitted by randtntx on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 6:08am

Sad News: Neera Tanden Won't Be America's Next Office of Management and Budget Director
Submitted by Le Frog on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 12:06amThis headline is from the Guardian, but the story is straight out of the Onion:
Neera Tanden withdraws as Cabinet nominee after facing opposition
The Evening Blues - 3-2-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 2:47pmfrom the brave and award-winning journalist Eva Bartlett:
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 1:23pm‘Seven years after Maidan divided country, Ukraine intensifies shelling of Donbass to sound of deafening silence from Western media’, March 2, 2021, ingaza.wordpress.com
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In re Alligator Ed
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 12:10pmHello everyone. You may notice that this post is not written in the same colorful prose that you may be used to. That’s because it is not written by Alligator Ed. I am the real-life brother of Alligator Ed who he referred to in several of his posts. I am very sad to say that Ed passed away on Saturday morning February 6. His death was unexpected and shocking although he had some serious health issues. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on Friday evening and died the next morning.
Coffee and Accountability III
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 5:00am
Spring (End of) Break
The markets keep getting further and further from reality
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 10:33pm How does one measure a "good" financial bubble versus a "bad" financial bubble?
One way of doing that is to look at individual components, like this one.
The Evening Blues - 3-1-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 4:01pmPsaki on the Biden WH and press freedom
Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 12:00pmCued to start at point of press discussion starting with Biden letting MBS off for murdering a Wash Post journalist.
a California Prison Eugenics Storify
Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 10:20amYou may not want to click in, but sometimes all that’s left is for us to bear witness...and remember forever. My apologies for having failed not to double some up, even with 'hide the replies' in Customization.
Retrospect on about one year of COVID...
Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 7:54am...is it headed for the rear view mirror? Probably.
I wanted to post this commentary because I found it to be the best summary of the pandemic and our dysfunction in appropriately addressing the disease. Hope you enjoy the analysis. 15 min
Monday OT: 03/01/21 is Nuclear Victims' Day or Nuclear Survivors' Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 5:00amBiden's foreign policy is Trump's foreign policy
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 7:08pmThere's been a couple minor changes in foreign policy since Biden took over.
The Paris climate accord is a big example. Biden appears to be less chummy with Saudi Arabia and Israel. And he's less antagonistic against China.
But other than that the machine rolls on.
Today Biden says that we stand with Ukraine and will never recognize the Crimean annex.
Biden continues the useless and pointless policy of sanctioning Russia on everything.