Aunt Mary's Politics

03/25/2023

Love the back and forth between Axe, Gibbs, and Murphy. Might be my favorite political podcast.

03/25/2023

Yet another reason to boycott Florida. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/politics/desantis-travel-records-florida-republicans.html?fbclid=IwAR2jKcjdO1HjvVt8kHrfE4mLoQjRZERd6Kn_H-JOEeJb-CfSVSxc660DjTw

A bill advanced by state legislators would exempt the governor, as well as other officials, their families and staff members, from having records of their trips released to the public.

05/29/2022

05/29/2022

Parenti spitting once again

08/26/2021

Roll up your sleeves, folks. Afghan families are on their way!

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08/15/2021

The same perspective from an interview on PBS, if you can't get behind the paywall for the London Times.

Former UK Member of Parliament Rory Stewart knows Afghanistan and the Afghan people very well, having worked and lived there, even walking across the span of the entire country in 2002. He joins the show to react to the withdrawal of America and its allies.

08/15/2021

I disagree with Rory Stewart that withdrawing from Afghanistan was a mistake, but he could be right that staying in Afghanistan with a small contingent of soldiers would have been cheaper than paying for the looming humanitarian crisis.

It is almost 20 years since the September 11 attacks and the fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan. At the time, Rory Stewart was walking across Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Afghanistan. “The most extraordinary part of the journey, which went on for two years, was the walk from Herat t...

08/11/2021

Don’t you wish.

The former president's legal woes keep mounting.

08/10/2021

Stuff I’m reading these days.