Shutdown Divides Services Into Essential And Non-essential

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Importantly, this is a completely non-exhaustive and subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy or discontent. Enjoy. Dean Phillips is a Democratic congressman from Minnesota. He is quite rich and seems to have been an average-to-good representative in Congress.

“President Biden has less than a month to go until his one-term presidency ends, and he is feeling reflective,” the New York Times reports. “He is voicing regrets about his decision not to sign his name to Covid relief checks and about his longtime reputation — once considered a virtue — of being the poorest lawmaker in Congress.

“China abruptly ousted two military lawmakers from its national parliament without explanation, as a purge of key personnel in the upper echelons of the nation’s defense establishment shows no sign of easing,” Bloomberg reports.

I always wondered how long it took the elves to clean up once Santa got home! Open thread below. We hope you had a good Christmas!!! read more

It’s Christmastime, and while you might think we don’t have much to celebrate this year because of you-know-who, you’d be wrong! When Karoli allowed me to play with y’all in the C&L sandbox over two years ago, I got much more than a job. I have a family; all commenters and readers are included.

His tweet about the statistics behind the illegal alien burning up a woman on a subway is just chilling.