First Looks category archive
Recommended Viewing 0
The capsule description says it’s a trip to the past, but, watching it, it felt like a trip to the present.
We caught in on MGM+.
Stray Question 0
Does this headline make you think of anyone in the news?
The Republican Health Scare Proposal 0
Farron looks at the Republican plan to make health care even more expensive for those who can least afford it.
The United States made a terrible decision when it chose to put profit-making insurance companies in charge of health care. They value the profiting over the insuring any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Bob Cesca, commenting on how some right-wing commentators have delighted at the suffering inflicted by the Trump maladministraton’s attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats:
That’s the danger of populism–you’re so easily driven by reflecting the whim of the mob.
DOGE Bull 0
Elon Musk’s DOGE is no more.
This is likely its most effective contribution to improving government efficiency since its de inception.
Recommended Listening 0
Kimberley Johnson’s interview with Jared Yates Sexton.
Methinks Sexton makes some really good points about today’s dystopian politics.
(Okay, yeah, so I’m behind on some of my podcast listening.)










