Short and Sweet Above the Fold This Morning
As Russia’s illegal and immoral war crime against its peaceful neighbor enters its fifth year today, we at C&J wish to make one thing abundantly clear:
Slava Ukraini!
If you feel so inclined, the Daily Kos humanitarian relief fund is here.
Thanks for your ongoing support, especially now. In your honor, Ukraine will catapult a rotten cabbage with your name on it into Red Square.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Note: For a delicious blizzard stew, mix one part snow with two parts snow, bring to a boil, simmer, add two cups of snow and then gently stir in half a tablespoon of snow. In a separate bowl, mix snow, snow, snow and snow, then add mixture to the snow. Add snowballs. Season with snow. Whip with 55 mph wind gusts until snowy. (And if you feel daring, toss in a pinch of snow for a dash of "Zing!") Serves several million...whether they want it or not.
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By the Numbers:
7 days!!!
Days 'til the next full “snow moon”: 8
Days 'til the World Champion Cheese Contest in Madison, Wisconsin: 7
Trump's approval rate among U.S. adults polled by The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos (60% disapprove): 39%
Rate of 4th quarter U.S. economic growth, lower than economists' forecasts: 1.4%
Number of plows that were prepped to deal with the blizzard in New York City: 2,200
Number of Olympic gold medals won by Norway, who dominated the medal board with 33 overall: 18
Age of Mexico's-most-wanted drug cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, aka "El Mencho," when he was killed during a military operation in Jallisco Sunday: 59
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Puppy Pic of the Day: A final salute to the real hero of the winter Olympics…
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CHEERS to union power. As a calamity known as a "blizzard" was gearing up to pelt New York City, another calamity was coming to an end. Once again, the bargaining power of employees banding together triumphed again:
The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended this weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labor action overwhelmingly voted to ratify a contract and agreed to return to work, officials said.
Another benefit: no more marching in the freezing cold.
Around 4,200 members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) employed by the private New York-Presbyterian system approved on Saturday a contract that includes more than a 12% increase in salaries over the life of the three-year deal. The nurses and management of the New York-Presbyterian system also agreed to improve enforceable safe staffing standards, boost protection for nurses from workplace violence and, for the first time ever, provide safeguards for employees against artificial intelligence.
"This is a proud moment for our union," NYSNA President Nancy Hagans said in a statement. "We are so happy with the wins we achieved, and now the fight to enforce these contracts and hold our employers accountable begins."
And you know what the managers of those hospitals get in return? Nurses who will show up for work in a fucking blizzard. Quite a bargain.
JEERS to must-not-see TV. Very Bad Man (VBM) slurs and slobbers through his first State of the Union address of his second term tonight. But why bother watching? He's repugnant—an eczema-addled fascist freak felon, mentioned a million times in the Epstein files, with rotting limbs and Adderall stalactites hanging from what’s left of his sinus cavity. He'd give a restaurant waiter a hundred-dollar tip in front of TV cameras one moment, then take away his health insurance and go find his girlfriend to cop a feel the next, all under the watchful gaze of his master Vladimir Putin. No thanks. If I want to watch a piece of shit talk to me for half an hour I'll throw on a Mr. Hankey episode of South Park. But I'll pop in to catch the Daily Kos live-debunking. I don’t know which Kos member is planning to do it, but I hope whoever it is gets hazard pay.
CHEERS to the original inkster. During this week in 1455—I remember it well—"Johnny B." Gutenberg printed the first book: the Bible. While proofing it the first time, he noticed that the page numbers went 361, 362, 364...and all he could do was weep.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to the son who became president...and didn't embarrass his dad. During this week in 1848, Anthony Hopkins—played in a Steven Spielberg film by John Quincy Adams—died of a stroke at the age of 80, after a lifetime of noble service to a young nation. Pay your respects here. Then utter your epithet of choice to the current Spawn-in-Chief.
JEERS to today's boring correction. USA Today may be a shell of its former self, but it's still considered by many to be a decent source of truth and accuracy. So it was like nails on a chalkboard for my eyes to see The Nation's Newspaper publish this sentence in its story about our president reading some bullshit about everyone in Greenland suddenly developing rickets (or some damn thing) and ordering Louisiana to immediately send out two military hospital ships there, apparently oblivious to the fact that the vessels are in drydock for repairs until at least July:
The Department of War had no immediate comment.
From Military.com:
[D]espite the dramatic rebranding, the Department of Defense remains the legal name. Only Congress can amend or replace statutory titles. The Department of Defense currently remains the legal entity established by Congress in 1949. […]
For now, the name “Department of War” is more stagecraft than statecraft—a symbolic revival of an older identity that carries no new authority.
We're sure USA Today regrets the error. (Quietly, behind closed doors, so as not to incur the wrath of nutball Grandpa.)
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Twenty years ago in C&J: February 24, 2006
CHEERS to a capable, honest company. We're sure that Dubai Ports World will do a splendid job overseeing port operations in New York and Baltimore and Corpus Christi and... What's that? They're taking over Portland, Maine, too?? Over my dead body. Mama...pack a wad in my musket.
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And just one more…
Today's "Just one more" feature will not be seen today because of yesterday's blizzard, thus granting Mr. Bill in Portland Maine a few actual minutes of "snow day” time. We will resume our regular schedule tomorrow. In the meantime, please enjoy two cats fighting over a box:
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Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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