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I'm really rooting for Wisconsin's Scott Walker in this year's election. No, not the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries - hat tip to Charlie Pierce! - that you're thinking of. The anti-Scott Walker Scott Walker. In other words, the good Scott Walker, who's educated, pro-union and pro-choice! From Todd Richmond of AP: Scott Walker loves unions, thinks women should have the right to an abortion and wants to expand health care coverage. If you’re confused, get in line. This Scott Walker isn’t the former Wisconsin governor whose battles with teachers and other public unions made him one of the most polarizing political figures in the battleground state’s recent history.

Representative Glenn Grothman (R-The nearest Brat Boil) took the floor of Congress and used his time to complain about - checks notes - the French Revolution. No, really: In fact, there have always been powerful people in history, beginning with the radical leftists in the mid 1800s, who felt the family was restricting and felt it's something that we should break away, destroy.

Former President Donald Trump's mental decline was on full display at last night's Tuscon, Arizona, rally when, among other things, he thought he was in Pennsylvania. "So Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote," Trump told the crowd at the small venue. Trump again veered off-topic to peddle his outrageous pet hoax, and that's remarkable since the former President became a laughingstock over his "They're eating the dogs!" baseless claims at the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. "A recording of 911 calls show that residents are reporting that the migrants are walking off with the town's geese," Trump said on Thursday night.

On Thursday, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted overwhelming to turn down a tentative contract and to go on strike: We strike at midnight @IAM751! #OurFuture #IAM751Machinists #Solidarity pic.twitter.com/Xs78ECAhli — IAM Union District 751 (@IAM751) September 13, 2024 This is really going to put a crunch on Boeing, who already has their share of problems: More than 30,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers are poised to strike as soon as their previous contract expires at midnight PT, hobbling airplane assembly at Boeing’s factories in the Seattle area.read more

For most of the aughts, JoJo was everywhere. After signing her first record deal in 2003, her debut single, “Leave (Get Out),” found its way onto the Billboard charts shortly after its release a year later. By 2006, she had two full-length studio albums under her belt—JoJo and The High Road, which featured her second massive hit, “Too Little Too Late”—and had already starred in two major movies, Aquamarine and RV.