Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

This fight is for everything.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

No one could have predicted…

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I really should read my own blog.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Consistently wrong since 2002

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I can’t take this shit today. I just can’t.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

This is all too absurd to be reality, right?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

GOP Death Cult Open Thread: TFG, *Deliberate* Plague Rat

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“Renfield” Meadows’ book has been in process for a while now, so probably it’s a coincidence that suddenly “Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows is cooperating with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot and is providing records”. Just another example of Murphy the Trickster God’s lazy scripting…

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Stacey Abrams for GA Governor!

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You want some good news?

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How About Some Good News? I’ll Start!

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If We Were All in Florida, and There was No Covid, How Would We Celebrate Betty's Birthday?

It’s a tough day out there!

I’m not denying that this is a rough day, and I have been feeling sick to my stomach with worry and anxiety.  But that doesn’t help a thing.

How about some good news to remind us that it’s not hopeless, that there’s more good than bad out there, and that there’s always something we can do to make a difference?

So pull up a chair at the tiki bar and let’s celebrate the fact that the extra $5,000 we raised for Four Directions Wisconsin has indeed been double matched – turning our extra $5k into an extra $15,000.  

That’s $90,000 for organizing the Native vote in Wisconsin.

We did that!

And we have a jackal getting married today – VeniceRiley.  That’s definitely worth celebrating!

What else good is going on?

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Jen Psaki and Dr. Fauci (LIVE) and Alexandra Petri

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Straight from the horse’s mouth:  Jen Psaki & Dr. Fauci at 1:30 Eastern

While we wait, Alexandra Petri: Woman savoring last few hours before getting turned back into vessel

Those 49 years had flown by. But when the court’s clock struck, her run would in all likelihood begin to end. She would stop being a person with autonomy over her own body that the law was bound to respect. She would go back to being a vessel that might potentially contain a person, a vessel whose rights ended once that possibility was considered.

It had been so nice, thinking that she could go anywhere in the United States and the laws would have to acknowledge her right to decide whether she wanted to be pregnant, that any doctor who treated her could give her correct information about what risks she faced, that if her life were threatened, her life would carry weight.
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She sat on a bench and watched the leaves fall. It had been nice while it lasted, being a person. Getting turned back into a vessel would be unfortunate. But maybe she would not stay a vessel long.

It was a little surprising they thought they had the power to do it.

She could see them salivating already at the prospect of having so many people transformed so quickly, and overnight. They seemed to think it was a real possibility.

As if they got to decide. As if she would not fight.

“As if she would not fight.”  Read the whole thing.

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I’m Not Listening

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I really have no desire to listen to the coverage of the Supreme Court abortion hearings because it’s a foregone conclusion. They’ve worked for decades to stack the court, they’re gonna do whatever they want to do, and pretending there is some legal justification for what they are going to do and providing a thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires, and I just have no interest listening to bullshit artists put on a show.

Literally the only thing holding them back is personal restraint and a fear of overstepping, and I think maybe only John Roberts is mildly concerned about that. The rest of these guys are fanatics and movement conservatives and like their counterparts in the House and Senate, they don’t give a fuck. They understand what Democrats don’t, which is just use your power now and worry about the consequences later, and 99.99% of the time there won’t be consequences. There never are for Republicans.

Right now we should be focusing on how we can help women get from the deep red states where abortion will be completely outlawed to providers in the remaining states where it will be legal. And sorry to be grim, there will be no solution at the ballot box, because Republicans have things so aggressively gerrymandered that until there are fucking riots, we are looking at majority minority rule for a while.

It’s gonna be grim, so keep your head up and keep working and getting out the vote, it is going to matter. And don’t feel like you failed, this has been inevitable since 2016 when Hillary lost.

And btw- they are coming for contraception and gay marriage next.

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Watching Roe Go (Open Thread)

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As you’re doubtless aware, the United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case right now. If you’re an egg-bearer, chances are the court’s religious fanatics will remove your constitutional right to bodily autonomy this term.

My guess is they’ll strike down the insane Texas pregnancy bounty hunter law (which is in effect right now and drastically altering real people’s lives in all kinds of ways) as a ruse to make a decision to uphold the Mississippi law seem more “moderate.” This court’s conservative fanatics are exquisitely sensitive to suggestions that they’re activists who are using raw judicial power to overturn precedent when it benefits Republicans and drive an unpopular conservative agenda.

I look forward to Justice Sotomayor’s fiery dissent.

Open thread.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Keep Calm & Carry On

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My online philosophy, made graphic:

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