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Named for a Soccer Star

January 9, 2023 Buck Banks

700%

The percentage jump in babies named Lionel or Lionela in Santa Fe, Argentina, after Lionel Messi led his country to victory in the World Cup.

Raskin: GOPers Make Him Question Evolution

January 9, 2023 Buck Banks

“This is a body where James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and Thaddeus Stevens once served. I don’t buy the GOP’s whole attack on science, but this week definitely casts doubt on the theory of evolution.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), on Twitter.

Weaker Speaker Squeaker

January 9, 2023 Buck Banks

McCarthy’s win last week was a squeaker.
The wingnuts got strong while McCarthy got weaker.
They handed Kevin his nuts
And a thousand small cuts,
Now he’s less of a man and even less of a Speaker.

Tucker: ‘I Have No Freaking Idea What Goes on in American Politics’

January 5, 2023 Pensito Editors

Month: January 2023

Named for a Soccer Star

700%

The percentage jump in babies named Lionel or Lionela in Santa Fe, Argentina, after Lionel Messi led his country to victory in the World Cup.

Raskin: GOPers Make Him Question Evolution

“This is a body where James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and Thaddeus Stevens once served. I don’t buy the GOP’s whole attack on science, but this week definitely casts doubt on the theory of evolution.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), on Twitter.

Weaker Speaker Squeaker

Tucker: ‘I Have No Freaking Idea What Goes on in American Politics’

“I did learn that, like, I have no freaking idea what goes on in American politics.”

– Fox News top rated political commentator, Tucker Carlson

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.