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Open Thread: ‘Tis the Season for Giving!

by Anne Laurie|  November 27, 20196:20 pm| 137 Comments

This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Open Threads, Fuck Yeah!

Legal Twitter: I’m dressed in a black suit outside a restaurant waiting for a friend and a curmudgeonly gentleman pulls his sports car into the driveway. While walking past, he dismissively looks at me and barks “Key’s in it.”

The Porsche is now mine, right?

— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) November 26, 2019

As long as you itemize its value as a taxable gift

— RicardoSabroso (@ricardo_sabroso) November 26, 2019

Quite. The correct thing is to draw yourself up and say, "Do you know who I am?" When he says, "No", say, "Good" and drive off.

— Zoe Samuel (@zoe_samuel) November 27, 2019

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Friday Night Impeachment Watch: Nancy Pelosi Talks to Steven Colbert

by Anne Laurie|  November 1, 201910:26 pm| 30 Comments

This post is in: Don't Agonize - Organize, Excellent Links, Impeachment Inquiry, NANCY SMASH!, Proud to Be A Democrat, Fuck Yeah!

Good for Madam Speaker, now and forever…

Translation: we intend to squeeze every drop of blood from this that we can https://t.co/7CgxgDYuaJ

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 1, 2019

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Friday Morning Open Thread: SURPRISE!…

by Anne Laurie|  September 27, 20195:28 am| 194 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Impeachment Inquiry, Indict the MOFO, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality, Fuck Yeah!

I both want and don’t want tomorrow to be another big news day.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) September 27, 2019

It would be easier to listen to congressional Republicans defend the actions of POTUS if they just said “whatever he does, we don’t really care” rather than spinning these justifications.

— julianzelizer (@julianzelizer) September 27, 2019


 
SHADE THROWN:

"I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election."

Every American should read this whistleblower complaint. https://t.co/9Mk6kLNsIL

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 26, 2019

Hmm, that seems a little long for a re-election slogan.

You're never going to fit that on your bumper stickers. https://t.co/W3UGGZ8Jok

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 26, 2019

[ding] Who is Donald Trump? https://t.co/So8f2GYRtg

— shauna (@goldengateblond) September 26, 2019

At least he’s got the title of his memoir settled https://t.co/uWBUzf4RVY

— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 26, 2019

Here is the NPR/PBS/Marist poll trend on impeachment.
April: 39% support, 53% oppose
Today: 49% support, 46% oppose

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) September 26, 2019

Interesting from Morning Consult poll:

43% for starting impeachment, 43% against. Of those "for," 59% say for impeachable offense.

But when told Trump withheld aid to Ukraine before phone call, support moves to 44 for, 41 against. Of the 44, *66%* say for impeachable offense.

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 26, 2019

But what of the BoBo demographic?

Speaking of overconfident takes pic.twitter.com/kUu0rdZxv5

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 27, 2019

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— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) September 26, 2019

Friday Morning Open Thread: <em>SURPRISE!…</em>Post + Comments (194)

Thursday Morning Open Thread: Today’s Magic Number

by Anne Laurie|  September 26, 20195:27 am| 182 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Fuck Yeah!

BREAKING: Here's the 218th lawmaker to support an impeachment inquiry (217 Dems plus Amash). This puts a majority of the House on record in support.https://t.co/3RIKRLxnic https://t.co/KWCHpQdazA

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 25, 2019


 
Meanwhile, Individual-1 remains Murphy the Trickster God’s gift to political cartoonists…

(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com)
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(Tom Toles via GoComics.com)
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Excellent Read: “Why Ex–Sanders Supporters Are Backing Warren”

by Anne Laurie|  September 21, 201910:44 am| 177 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Excellent Links, I'm With Her, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for President 2020, Fuck Yeah!

So grateful to have had @MauriceWFP with me at our Washington Square Park event. @WorkingFamilies has been on the front line of the fight for racial and economic justice, and I'm honored to have their support. We're going to build this grassroots movement together. pic.twitter.com/WMxCY62IZF

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 20, 2019

Tip O’Neill always warned candidates not to neglect the voters who could be assumed to be on their side: People like to be asked.

Elaine Godfrey, at the Atlantic:

In 2016, Bernie Sanders described the Working Families Party (WFP), a grassroots progressive organization, as “the closest thing there is” to his “vision of democratic socialism.” The group endorsed him in his primary race against Hillary Clinton, and it’s grown more powerful in the past three years, as it has sought to build a multiracial populist movement nationwide. But this time around, with Sanders taking another shot for the White House, the group is throwing its weight behind someone else: Elizabeth Warren. The group’s surprising decision could be an early indicator of how progressives—including those who backed Sanders in the past—are planning to organize and vote next year.

“The political conditions are different” in this election, Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the WFP, told me earlier this week, after the group announced that Warren defeated Sanders in a vote of WFP members and leadership, earning 61 percent compared to Sanders’s 36 percent. Unlike in 2016, there is more than one progressive candidate in the race to choose from, Mitchell said. Warren “has a track record of finding that nexus between visionary structural change and also the tools to operationalize it.”

Mitchell’s reasoning echoed the sentiments of other progressive voters I’ve spoken with recently. They have affection for Sanders and appreciate what he’s done for the movement, as roughly one dozen voters explained to me this week. But Warren, they argued, is proffering a kinder, gentler version of progressivism—one that is rooted in her experience, simple to understand, and compelling enough to attract a broad swath of voters.

“She’s everything Bernie is—but a bit more electable,” said Joe Piluso, a 71-year-old former Sanders supporter and former social-services worker living in San Diego…

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Late Night Open Thread: Furries Prove Themselves Braver / More Ethical Than the ‘Mainstream’ GOP

by Anne Laurie|  September 16, 201911:35 pm| 64 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Popular Culture, Fuck Yeah!, Rare Sincerity

Bravo for the furries!

UPDATE: I just got a statement in from Midwest FurFest:

"The board of Midwest Furry Fandom, consistent with our posted code of conduct, has rescinded Mr. Yiannopoulos’s registration. He is not welcome to attend this or any future Midwest FurFest event.” https://t.co/M5ynm0tcyP

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) September 16, 2019

My story from this morning has been updated with new information:https://t.co/cX4BAggul7

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) September 16, 2019

Didn’t take months of ‘but free speech’ equivocation for the Fur-Folk to reject blatant fascism:

… Yiannopoulos posted an email screenshot to one of the few platforms he has left—his Telegram messaging channel—on Saturday and claimed he registered for Midwest FurFest, a convention “to celebrate the furry fandom” hosted in the suburbs on Chicago this December…

Yiannopoulos also claimed on Telegram that he had submitted a form to suggest he host a panel called “The Politics of Fur.” He asked his followers who plan to attend Midwest FurFest to message him to arrange “dinner, drinks, photos or anything else.”…

In a statement later provided to Right Wing Watch, organizers wrote that they had rescinded Yiannopoulos’ registration for the event and that he would not be welcome to attend Midwest FurFest or any future event.

“Hate is not welcome at Midwest FurFest. We are dedicated to providing a safe, harassment-free convention experience for all, regardless of age, race, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, or personal beliefs,” organizers wrote. “Midwest FurFest can confirm that Mr. Yiannopoulos has registered for the event this year. While the convention generally does not comment on anyone’s registration status, Mr. Yiannopoulos has already stated as much publicly.”

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  August 17, 20196:02 am| 165 Comments

This post is in: Gun Issues, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Fuck Yeah!

In the middle of our road trip home today, Sherrod and I started talking about how the first few words of favorite songs can trigger years of memories.

Sherrod’s: “Here comes the sun….”

Mine: “Screen door slams….”

What’s yours? pic.twitter.com/pyc8fDo2ql

— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) August 16, 2019


 
And now for something completely different…

The House Judiciary Committee will return early from August recess to consider three bills that address gun violence in the wake of two deadly mass shootings earlier this month. https://t.co/iVYg1UOGEO

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) August 16, 2019

NEW: House Judiciary Cmte. Chairman Nadler announces that he is calling cmte. back from recess on Sept. 4, the week before rest of Congress returns, to work on gun-related legislation.

Nadler also says the cmte. will hold a hearing on military-style assault weapons Sept. 25.

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) August 16, 2019

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