Trump sends mixed signals to the nearly 700,000 Dreamers, saying he would be open to citizenship after "10 to 12 years," just days after killing a bipartisan plan—in his "shithole" meeting—that offered a path to citizenship. 1/21 Dara Lind on Twitter: "
Lovely work by Hugo & Marie using eye-popping fractals and other shapes.
The government shutdown only broke because Senators had to wait their turn to hold Susan Collins's "talking stick." 1/17 Democrats fail at Republican tactics—like government shutdowns—because they don't hate the government sufficiently. 2/17 Illinois’s Sen. Duckworth says she’s
Amazing to watch YouTube's frame rate try to keep up with the improvisations of the great Charlie Parker, bebop master on the alto saxophone. (This author will admit he tried and failed to work the lick at 0:59 into every high school jazz solo he ever performed.
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The government shutdown ends (for the next three weeks, anyway) and the big question is: Who won? Democrats or Republicans? This question represents everything wrong with our current politics, in which we've become preoccupied with rooting for one side and lambasting the other, to the point that actual
The Republicans have become the first party in American history to control the White House and both houses of Congress and manage to shutter the government. 1/13 Here is what’s open, what’s not. And here’s a handy list of Hill reporters to follow on Twitter for
To avoid a government shutdown, the House has passed a stopgap spending bill. Now the Senate must approve the measure by midnight tonight—which looks unlikely. 1/19 Even as the GOP tries to pin the shutdown on Democrats, three Republican senators say they won't approve the measure.
In the world's coldest town—Oymyakon, Russia—a bonfire must be lit to warm the ground before burying any dead bodies. 1/20 About 2,000 people live in a Paris replica in China, many of them working in a nearby France-themed amusement park. 2/20 The
After a federal judge revived most of the DACA protections on Jan. 9, Sessions announced yesterday that the DoJ would sidestep the US Court of Appeals and take the case directly to the Supreme Court. 1/15 Hoping to avoid a government shutdown, and with immigration at an impasse, Congressional
