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April 23, 2021, 10:50 a.m. ET Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Independence, Mo.Credit...Charlie Riedel/Associated Press This article is a wonky edition of Paul Krugman’s free newsletter. to receive it. Today’s column was focused on the remarkable announcement by the United Mine Workers that the union is ready to support the Biden infrastructure plan — if that plan helps miners and mining communities transition out of coal. This looks li...

Staten Island: I’ve never done this before but I have to take the time to write about an opinion piece I just read by Steve Lawton (“The hypocrisy of Staten Island Republicans,” Dec. 5). It was full of trigger words and virtue signaling. Comparing race-fueled riots from coast to coast that lasted months to one night at Mac’s Public House over de Blasio’s ridiculous restrictions is completely ridiculous!

This whole columns in rhyme and in meter. Frankly, given the year that we all have been through, We could use something to make it sweeter. • â€¢ â€¢ Theres Moderna, J&J, and Pfizer! With a half-million dead in this country, its clear That to take more precautions is wiser. And Im glad many friends have now gotten their shot, With most others wholl soon have one pending, Which means finally this endless plague that weve got Might be closer to actually ending! • â€¢ â€¢...

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Fort Worth Weekly Photo by Ozzie Garza. What kind of shithole do you live in when the politicians in charge want to make it harder to vote? Not a trick question. I’ll save you the brain power and time. Texas. You live in Texas. Or! Or it could be any one of the other 45 states whose Republican-controlled legislatures are now working overtime to pass voter-suppression laws because voting is apparently so unnatural and gross. Instead of coming up with better ideas, or even just idea...

In my Trumpy little corner of the world, you can chart the stages of grief among the local MAGAs in the Letters to the Editor section. I’ve smugly watched them cycle through denial and despair and anger and depression while hoping for eventual silence. Increasingly, I’m getting my wish. In a column yesterday, WaPo’s Philip Bump charts — literally — the astonishing collapse of The Former Guy as a media sensation: For about half an hour Tuesday, a former president of the United States ...

— kilgore trout, a student of martial arts (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 4, 2021 A reassuring indicator that The Former Guy is truly Former — The NYTimes is now willing to tell us that he (and his party) would happily steal the pennies off a corpse’s eyes: … Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election. Contributors had to wade through a fine...

Fair (trigger) warning: I’ve tucked all images of The Former Guy below the fold, so DON’T BLAME ME if you click through. Now that the miserable sumbich is safely out of power & the limelight, we (or, at least, I) can take pleasure in the suffering of his whole pack of lampreys… Apparently, the word went out to say "hes looking great!", which might suggest that they know hes not looking all that great. pic.twitter.com/jA0LnezRsa Dispatch from DC, via the Guardian, “Trump’s Washingt...

Media outlets are making a BFD of the fact that The Former Guy and the Third Lady were the only living ex-POTUS/FLOTUS who didn’t participate in COVID-19 vaccine PSAs. Here’s a link to one such report from CNN: Washington (CNN)All living former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and their respective former first ladies — with the exception of the [Fucknuckles] — are part of a newly released ad campaign urging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine when...

"A lot of Americans are saying..." said the reporter. "Who are the Americans?" said Jen Psaki. LOL. This isn't the failed, twice-impeached president's briefing room [...]