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@fettwalp
He/him and copywriter/former journalist/Quaker/KSER community radio board member. Opinions here are mine as I post about music, sports, radio, news, politics, etc. In love with dying media, especially shortwave and AM radio. Go Linfield Wildcats and Zags!
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The economic story just changed dramatically.
Payrolls fell -92k in Feb. Jan growth was revised down by -4k to +126k. And Dec revisions subtracted -64k to -17k.
Unemployment rate up a tick to 4.4%.
Recession questions are back on the menu
๐ Read the thread. During the Vietnam War, horrific images on TV news turned public sentiment sharply against that conflict. Since then, it seems like we've seen more sanitized images from places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
Despite that, war remains messy and deadly for all involved ...
What a huge, obnoxious disappointment of a senator he's become ...
Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.
Just yesterday, as Sen. Mullin was trying to backtrack about calling the Iran War a "war," I remarked to my wife that he had to be one of the dumber senators out there.
And now he's set to be the head of DHS! He can't be worse than Noem if he tried, but still ...
www.mediaite.com/politics/the...
My brain knows this. But my baseball fan's heart is irrational.
Hey, #Mariners. I know it's only spring training.
But are you OK?
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen stateโembroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
โOnce again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,โ Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Good news ...
In a functional country based on law and order, Sheehy would be arrested for battery
Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.
Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table?
We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.
At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US donโt begin until 1979.
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This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.
Ummmmmmm ...
Madonna released "Like A Prayer" as the lead single from her fourth studio album of the same name 37 years ago on March 3, 1989
album.ink/madonnaLAP
This is just nuts. Again, let good trans people live their everyday lives without state-sponsored harassment.
Sen. Tillis leaves office in January 2027, but it's better late than never that he's ripping the actions of DHS and this administration in general ...
www.mediaite.com/politics/gop...
Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin.
Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.
Imagine if Joe Biden started a war and then tried to explain it to the press, only to start rambling about his gold drapes and a ballroom. Fox News heads would explode.
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
George Orwell couldn't have come up with a better phrase for "1984" than this if he tried ...
Parts of the world are burning, we have a moron in charge, and costs keep going up. We all need our distractions at times, and British panel shows are one of mine. Since "Have I Got News for You" is in between seasons, I've been enjoying the reboot of "Mock the Week."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYbY...
An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
๐ฅ No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.
He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years.