Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

People are weird.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

So very ready.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

This blog will pay for itself.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

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Last Twelve Hours

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The voting ends at 8 pm:


Krista:

You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.

And when I look out my window I can see the moon. Doesn’t make me a fucking astronaut now, does it?

Michael D.:

Ahmmm, I’m a ghey, and I wouldn’t do anything with the words “Cruise” and “Hugh Hewitt” in it.

Of course, with all those social conservatives in one place, it’ll probably sound like Riverdance in the bathrooms.

JasonF, with the Auto Industry as a Play. A sample (and really, read the whole thing):

ACT THREE

UAW: I have fulfilled my end of the deal by building the automobiles that you have asked me to build.

BIG THREE: Oh no! I am undone! My automobiles are no longer competitive due to my years of poor planning and poor judgment!

MITT ROMNEY: This is all UAW’s fault!

And, our final entry, Tbone with Hillary Clinton’s Tuzla War Journal, a fictionalized version of the sniper fire incident (and again, click the link for the whole comment):

It was a simple mission, they had told me – get in, shake a few hands and mouth a few platitudes, get out. Simple. Yeah.

Things had started going wrong while we were still in the air, and only gotten worse from there. So here we were, pinned down, choking on the acrid tang of cordite and the heady scent of human blood. The mission was even simpler now: survive. Whatever the cost, survive.

There was a grunt and a clatter of equipment as Sinbad threw himself down at my side. Sweat glistened on his bare arms, and I could see tendons contracting and relaxing as he squeezed off bursts from his M14. The motion was hypnotic, like a snake about to strike. Perhaps, when all this was over-

No. Concentrate. Focus on the mission. Survive.

A shout from my left drew my head around. Sheryl Crow, guitar still strapped to her back, had taken cover behind a pile of decaying corpses. Her once-lustrous hair, now limp and stringy, was held back from her eyes by a dirty red headband, and her slim nostrils flared, seeking air free of the funeral taint permeating the airfield. Still, I saw a fierce exultation in her expression that I knew mirrored my own.

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And That is That

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I guess it is over in Minnesota:

A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, state officials told CNN Sunday.

The canvassing board on Monday will say a recount determined Franken won by 225 votes, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN.

However, Coleman’s campaign, which contends the recount should have included about 650 absentee ballots it says were improperly rejected in the initial count, has indicated it will challenge the certification.

Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan said his team believes the recount process was broken and that “the numbers being reported will not be accurate or valid.”

“The effort by the Franken campaign, supported by the secretary of state, to exclude improperly rejected absentee ballots is indefensible and disenfranchises hundreds of Minnesota voters,” Sheehan said.

After the results are certified, Coleman’s campaign will have seven days to file a challenge.

The initial count from the November 4 election put Coleman, a first-term senator, 215 votes ahead of Franken — known for his stint on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and as a former talk-show host on progressive radio network Air America.

The real joy in this election is that no matter which side wins, the other is going to claim it was robbed.

*** Update ***

Double heh.

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Michael Goldfarb’s Deep Thoughts

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The other day, I passed along a particularly offensive post by Michael Goldfarb to Glenn Greenwald. The comment by Goldfarb was disgusting even by his low standards, and I am glad that Glenn took some time to take the Weekly Standard’s OD Original Dungeonmaster to task. What is so disturbing about it is that Goldfarb is just glibly contemplating the possible positive outcome of killing a bunch of civilians. Those are not the thoughts of a healthy mind, notwithstanding the fact that we know from past experience that their deaths will serve as a rallying cry to inspire more martyrs. In other words, vile and counter-productive- a genuine twofer.

If twisted folks like Goldfarb are an example of the next generation of conservatives, then the Republican party has more to worry about than a disparity in conservative media.

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If You Haven’t Done Anything Wrong

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You don’t have anything to hide:

The Maryland State Police surveillance of advocacy groups was far more extensive than previously acknowledged, with records showing that troopers monitored — and labeled as terrorists — activists devoted to such wide-ranging causes as promoting human rights and establishing bike lanes.

Intelligence officers created a voluminous file on Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, calling the group a “security threat” because of concerns that members would disrupt the circus. Angry consumers fighting a 72 percent electricity rate increase in 2006 were targeted. The DC Anti-War Network, which opposes the Iraq war, was designated a white supremacist group, without explanation.

One of the possible “crimes” in the file police opened on Amnesty International, a world-renowned human rights group: “civil rights.”

According to hundreds of pages of newly obtained police documents, the groups were swept into a broad surveillance operation that started in 2005 with routine preparations for the scheduled executions of two men on death row.

The operation has been called a “waste of resources” by the current police superintendent and “undemocratic” by the governor.

People need to be fired, people need to go to jail, and those spied on illegally deserve redress.

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