THEFEDERALIST (Chris Bray) - The Democrat Party Correctly Rejects Its Useless 2024 Post-Mortem
This is what consultant-driven politics looks like, and it's stale enough to bundle off to the landfill.
BABYLONBEE (Babylon Bee) - New Polls Show Dead Heat Between ‘Make Everything Worse’ Candidate And ‘Fix Everything’ Candidate
U.S. — New polling data in an ongoing political race showed a dead heat between the "Make Everything Worse" candidate and the "Fix Everything" candidate.
NYTIMES (Victoria Kim) - How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia
Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the practice.
NYTIMES (Reis Thebault) - ‘No Labels’ Arizona Wants to Rebrand as the Independent Party
Both the Democratic and Republican parties in Arizona have been locked in a legal battle with a chapter of the group “No Labels” as it tries to rechristen itself.
NPR (Tovia Smith) - In Vermont, small town meetings grapple with debate on big issues
Typically concerned with local issues, residents at town meetings in Vermont and elsewhere increasingly use the forum to debate polarizing national and international events.
Municipalities in New England and elsewhere are increasingly grappling with major national and international issues at the local level.'/Open
NYTIMES (Thomas B. Edsall) - Let’s Start Project 2028
An outline of items in a hypothetical Democratic Party platform.
BABYLONBEE (Babylon Bee) - Republican, Democrat Party Platforms Now Just Lists Of People They Would Arrest
U.S. — The political system in the United States took a sharp turn away from addressing practical issues facing the nation, as both the Republican and Democratic party platforms were replaced with lists of people they would arrest.
AI:The American political landscape has reached a state of total absurdity where both the Republican and Democratic party platforms have abandoned substantive policy discussions in favor of nothing more than curated lists of individuals they intend to arrest. This shift signals a complete departure from addressing practical national issues, as partisan agendas are now defined solely by weaponizing the legal system against political opponents.Open