Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Sunday, October 11, 2026

Doom Report (Week 90: Didn't Get in the Way of Growth; It Got in the Way of Greed)

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I’ve talked about Gary Stevenson many times (specifically, in weeks 38 , 39 , 42 , 43 , 49 , 72 , 78 , and 81 ).  One of the things he’s e...
Sunday, October 4, 2026

Doom Report (Week 89: Could It Then Be that University of Iowa Is the Hawkeyes?)

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This week, I got a flyer in the mail explaining why I should vote “no” on California’s proposed wealth tax.  It boiled down to 2 points: ...
Sunday, September 27, 2026

Doom Report (Week 88: Reduced to the Equivalent of Bees Buzzing)

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This week, the opposition to the Paramount-Warner-Brothers merger fell apart.  California Attorney General Rob Bonta had sworn to oppose t...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Doom Report (Week 87: Brave, Brave, Brave Mike Johnson)

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I think the top story this week i s— certainly should b e— the Supreme Court ruling against Trump’s half-baked scheme to fuck with mail-in...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Doom Report (Week 86: Trumpapanausea, More Like)

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This week, the Republicans held a midterm convention, which is not a thing.  But Trump said that the reason that the Republicans aren’t do...
Sunday, September 6, 2026

Doom Report (Week 85: Expanding Our Judicial Horizons)

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This week, there’s been quite a bit of talk about Supreme Court reform.  Jamelle Bouie’s Takes™ has an excellent overview of court expansi...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

Doom Report (Week 84: No Asterisk after "Neighbor")

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I want you to imagine a time in the United States when we have an increasingly unpopular president, we’re staring down the barrel of a war...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Doom Report (Week 83: Novel and Dubious)

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This week has been all about Natalie Harp, who has gone from someone that very few of us had ever heard of to the butt of jokes for late-n...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Doom Report (Week 82: A Toll in the Strait of Hormuz Forever)

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This week, a couple of NBA dropouts signed up for the Culture Wars: they’ve announced that, since the WNBA doesn’t currently have any stan...