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Daily Deal: The Python & Django Web Development Bundle

2 years 6 months ago
The Python and Django Web Development Bundle has 7 courses to help you learn how to build your own sites and apps. Courses cover the basics of Django and Python and then build upon those skills by having you create your own to do list app and user authentication app, and more. It’s on sale […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Will Donald Trump really make $3 billion from his sham stock offering?

2 years 6 months ago
Donald Trump's plan to take his worthless social media company public has been approved by investors. At the current valuation of the acquiring vehicle, his 80 million shares (give or take) will be worth north of $3 billion: But what's really going to happen when the newly merged company starts trading? It currently has 37 ...continue reading "Will Donald Trump really make $3 billion from his sham stock offering?"
Kevin Drum

Missouri Medicaid application delays exceed federal limits for third straight month

2 years 6 months ago

Missouri’s backlog of Medicaid applications dropped in February, but the average time it took to determine eligibility for them continued to exceed the federal limit. The median time it took Missouri’s social services department to process Medicaid applications for low-income Missourians in February was 77 days, an agency spokesperson told The Independent.  That means half […]

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Clara Bates

Mike Johnson has pissed off the Freedom Caucus again

2 years 6 months ago
Is it time to play Speaker Roulette again? Reigning House lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene is mad that Mike Johnson passed a budget package with the help of Democratic votes: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, on Friday took the first step toward ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, filing a resolution calling for his removal ...continue reading "Mike Johnson has pissed off the Freedom Caucus again"
Kevin Drum

Nick Gusman's Smart Songwriting Is Bringing New Fans to Roots Music

2 years 6 months ago
When Nick Gusman answers the door of his Tower Grove South bungalow, he's wearing a T-shirt from a writers' week festival for high school students that I booked him for back in 2019. Performing on stage in the high school auditorium, Gusman had been in solo acoustic-and-harmonica folkie mode, playing and singing songs from his then-new debut album, Dear Hard Times. Despite playing for an audience of teenagers who had never willingly listened to folk music much less had ever heard of Nick Gusman, the troubadour nonetheless won the kids over, one of whom later told me that he "didn't think he liked that kind of music" but that he loved the songs and sounds coming out of Gusman that day.
Steve Leftridge