Why Did Your Favorite News Outlet Go Under? Tabs, Thurs., March 7, 2024
That's not a clickbait, that's messed up! Morning news roundup!
Oh right, tonight’s the SOTU! You will of course be watching it with us!
Patriotic Millionaires says the State of the Union will focus on Joe Biden telling rich people to shut the fuck up and pay their taxes. I’m so old I remember when I liked Kanye because of an interview he gave where he talked about how he loved paying taxes, it meant he’d made it. But I’m probably disremembering and it was Sean Combs anyway.
So I just said “hey why haven’t I heard of Sean Combs in 10 years” and went to google it and … wow. I feel like maybe my news consumption has really narrowed to ONE TOPIC AND ONE TOPIC ONLY.
Is he okay?
Joan Walsh says auf wiedersehen goodnight to Nikki Haley. (The Nation)
So why did the Supreme Court insert “official acts” into their question of whether Trump is immune to consequences for crimes committed in office? Because they’re shitbirds is why. (MSNBC)
Lucian K. Truscott IV would also like to know what on earth is going on with the New York Times, its polls, and its political coverage. He has helpful numbers and such as! (Salon)
The National Guard is going to be mandatory-checking your bag on the New York subway. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, ma’am, what are you doing? (Gothamist)
Explaining whatever bullshit lies Elon Musk was lie-spewing about Joe Biden importing “voters” (bullshit, lies) from Latin America. Everyone knows Elon Musk is the ONLY FOREIGNER ALLOWED. (Popular Info)
From last year, but on Joe Biden presiding over a “labor renaissance.” (Noah Berlatsky at Public Notice)
Somehow it didn’t occur to me we’d be losing Katie Porter and Barbara Lee in the US House? I am good at politics! (The Fucking News)
We have sorely neglected our duty to make North Carolina loot gov and gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson a Wonkette STAR. He just seemed like such an irrelevant goofball, you dig? Here he is saying of course women should not vote, everyone knows that! (HuffPost)
Federal judge rules Minority Business Development Agency has to serve whites. So that was obviously coming. (Gift link Washington Post)
Over the counter birth control has shipped to retailers. How long before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, and it fucking kills me that I can spell his name by heart, outlaws them? (CNN)
I really really do not want to read this Goldberg on how American Jews are coming to the end of our American Jewish good times, but Evan says I should read it. Maybe I will read it tomorrow! (The Atlantic)
Johnny Depp and Prince Bone Saw are perfect for each other, and they’re bosom bestie friends! I’m not reading this one either, and haven’t for the three weeks it’s been open in my tabs. BLECH! (Vanity Fair)
From the comments: This supposedly extinct gray whale is not extinct? Is it gay? Should we nuke it??? (WBUR)
Josh Marshall shows what happened to Talking Points Memo’s ad $$$. Same thing happened at yr Wonkette, which is when we said FUCK YOU ADS, YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF US and just asked y’all to send us straight cash instead. (Unlike TPM, we didn’t and never will have a paywall.) Send some love to TPM, if you love them. And thank you as always for loving your Wonkette. (Gift link TPM)
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Swamp in the winter, pretty! Some brief info on your hed gif:
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/the-red-maple-swamp-trail
About the NY subway story. I am fearful when I ride mass transit. Because I have been harassed on the subway/buses in the past year and half way too many times. And these incidents were scary, some traumatizing. I have been called homophobic slurs several times by angry people, I have been spat at, threatened with violence and trapped on a subway car with a knife wielding man, TWICE!
BTW none of those incidents were reported to police. If you ain't bleeding you just keep moving on. I fear the incident that does bring blood. NYC is a traumatized city, covid fucked us HARD and we all were expected to just go back to normal. How do you treat a city for PTSD?
But you know what would not have helped in any of the things I've dealt with? Bag checks and the National Guard. Number one, they aren't on the trains. Number two they're deployed to busy areas, know where this shit happens? Not busy areas. And bag checks are the dumbest shit and most likely to be abused by cops thing they could do. The men with knives, they had them in their pockets.
It's all a show.
I want to feel safe on mass transit but this is not the way!