AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar1 day agoThe World Is Literally Spinning More Slowly These Daysverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceThe culprit? Climate change, of course. Feeling a bit sluggish these days? Feeling as though you're walking knee-deep in oatmeal? Feeling like the world around you is suddenly slowing down, the way you always hoped it would, so you could catch up? You're not wrong, Bunky. From NBC News: A study …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar1 day agoWell Lookie Here, It's a Rare Win For Voting Rightsverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceTough luck to the Montana secretary of state trying to impose more voting restrictions. Musical Accompaniment To This Post) Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where the princess and prince …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar2 days agoYou Can’t Say Trump Didn’t Earn This Most Recent Gag Orderverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceThe former president*, in a galaxy-brained gambit, went after Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter. I have a question. You may have noticed that El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago got himself slapped with a personalized gag order on Tuesday by Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over his hush-money trial in New …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar2 days agoThe Plaintiff's Argument In the Mifepristone Supreme Court Case Is Frankly, Batsh*tverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceAnd what, you may ask, is the Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine? Glad you asked. On Tuesday, in the Supreme Court of the United States, reality went up on trial. (Tell you the truth, given the Roberts Court's track record, and given the carefully manufactured conservative majority, if I'd been …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar2 days agoMonday Was a Banner Day for Trump Ducking and Dodging Consequencesverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceThe guy’s done everything except tie himself to the railroad tracks. I don't mean to pile on that don't-worry-be-happy Politico piece about not panicking over a second El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago administration, but here's what it says about how the judiciary will protect us: Instead, the U.S. has …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar2 days agoIt’s Easier Than Ever to Buy Bitcoin. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t.verified_publisherEsquire - Adam LashinskyWall Street is peddling new products that let you trade the cryptocurrency like a stock. And the price is spiking. But that doesn’t make it a real investment. Bitcoin is finally legit. Hooray! Time to load up. That’s the message, anyway, that crypto enthusiasts heard earlier this year when Wall …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar3 days agoThe ‘Mainstream Media’ Isn’t the Bulwark Against Totalitarianism We Wish It Wereverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceIt’s not 1993 anymore, so we better stop acting like it. On the electric Xwitter machine, Brynn Tannehill brilliantly eviscerated this hopeless Politico piece about the consequences of a Trump presidency that makes Pollyanna read like Mickey Spillane. I recommend reading all of Tannehill’s demolition, …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar4 days agoArizona Is Sticking Election Workers In 'Encampments' For Their Own Protection Nowverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceLook, if U.N. election monitors are good enough for Sudan, they're good enough for the U.S. I don't mean to sound rude or, worse, panicky, but I think it's time to call in United Nations election monitors. We pretty clearly have degenerated to a state in which we can't be trusted to run our own …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar3 days agoThe Supreme Court Just Stepped Into Our Country’s Most Fundamental Minefieldverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceEverybody congratulate Texas on being allowed to set its own foreign policy. On March 19, the Supreme Court of the United States, Leonard Leo proprietor, issued a ruling regarding a Texas immigration law that arrogated to the state the power to enforce immigration law, which by statute and custom is …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar5 days agoThe Morons Are Circling Mike Johnsonverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to give the Speaker of the House the boot. Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian) My advice to Speaker Moses Johnson is to avail himself of the wisdom of his fellow Louisianan Ignatius J. Reilly, because …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatarMar 22A Donation to Trump Is a Donation to His Lawyers Before It’s a Donation to His Partyverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceAlways important to read the fine print on your invite to a $25,000-a-plate dinner. What could possibly go wrong with this arrangement? From The New York Times: The invitation shows that the first $6,600 donated will go to Mr. Trump’s campaign. The next $5,000 will go to his Save America PAC, which …
AvatarEsquireAvatarAvatar6 days agoThis Bizarre Shooting in Arkansas Is Conjuring the Wingnutsverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceIt all brings to mind symptoms of the prion disease going back to the 1990s. You have to hand it to Fox News—it knows its audience. Look at the first sentence of this account of a bizarre shootout at an Arkansas airport. The executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in …