Posts by Steve M.

[ad_1] President Trump is making preposterous claims about what’s happening to the Reflecting Pool in D.C. He’s ordering people to be detained for imaginary crimes. President Trump said on Saturday that “multiple individuals” had been arrested for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and that problems with a more than $14 million renovation project had become so severe that the…Read More

[ad_1] The New Republic‘s Greg Sargent recently wrote about some research conducted for the Democratic group American Bridge that tried to determine the kinds of party messages that might appeal to white working-class voters who’ve lost faith in Donald Trump. I know that Democrats always try to win over disaffected Republicans, and it rarely works — but it’s true that…Read More

[ad_1] California is counting ballots slowly, as it always does. Mail-in ballots are largely from Democrats, as is the case in most states, because more Democrats than Republicans prefer to vote by mail. In California a ballot counts if it arrives up to a week after Election Day as long as it was postmarked by Election Day. This is similar…Read More

[ad_1] So this just happened: The Washington Post told employees on Wednesday that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage.The company is laying off about 30 percent of all its employees, according to two people with knowledge of the decision. That includes people on the business…Read More