Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The willow is too close to the house.

T R E 4 5 O N

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

“woke” is the new caravan.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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  3. 3.

    japa21

    Will this money go to the real Dem candidates, or the Republicans they are having pose as Dems?

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    Douche Baggins

    You looking for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anything?

    Spinal Tap FTW!

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    Three-nineteen

    By the way, there’s a WI Supreme Court hearing going on right now to determine if Judge Sumi had the right to stay the (get rid of the) collective bargaining law. It was supposed to last for 2 hours – it’s been about five hours, with a break for lunch, and may still be going on (I’m getting Twitter updates and there hasn’t been one for about 30 mins).

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    kideni

    I chipped in. I can’t really afford it, but I’m glad to do it. The recalls are so important, and these are the legit candidates (although Jen Shilling got left off for some reason).

    Today there was a midday march to the Capitol, led by the firefighters’ bagpipe crew and Russ Feingold! Interesting that he took a prominent role, as he was conspicuously absent for much of the winter’s events; I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s not planning something. It was 90 degrees and there were thousands of us. Yes, whether it’s snowing, raining, or unseasonably hot, we’re still out there, reminding Walker and his gang that Badgers don’t give up so easy.

    The big thing in Madison right now is the Walkerville tent city on the sidewalks around the Capitol to educate people about the budget plan and keep a constant presence. I continue to be impressed at how creative and resourceful people are around here: make it so that people can’t really protest inside the Capitol? No matter, we’ll camp out outside the Capitol. You can’t get rid of us.

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    Jazz Superluminar

    Not much luck in getting to double figures, so consider this an alternative contribution.

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    Jazz Superluminar

    Oh, and props here to regulars who put in the protesting groundwork to get to this stage (Omnes, Little Boots et al). Good on you all.

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    Shinobi

    I come to ask of the wisdom of the Balloon Juicers-

    I have an FHA loan that I refinanced in 2009. I have a pretty good rate, but I’m paying mortgage insurance because of my low down payment plus my loan included the closing costs.

    My lender just called me to tell me they could refi for me AGAIN and lower my insurance, possibly refund some of it and there would be no closing costs.

    I’m trying to figure out what program this would be under, and whether I’d have to actually qualify for a loan modification? Or if they just want me to refi again? Which I don’t really need to do, at all.

    Are any of you familiar with what changes were made to the FHA program that they could be trying to give me the benefit of? Or are they just trying to get themselves the benefit of my money?

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    Violet

    Spinal Tap! Excellent choice. I wish I could donate right now, but money is just too tight. If things get a little less so, I’ll see what I can do.

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    lol chikinburd

    I really, really don’t like being a wet blanket about Wisconsin, but today has been thoroughly depressing.

    The aforementioned protests today featured five arrests inside the Capitol, plus another two at the M&I Bank on the square; arrestees included those two documentary filmmakers from Vermont, who didn’t seem to do a damn thing wrong, and a couple of the direct-action contingent who seem intent on doing damn near everything wrong (including that Segway dude, who’s apparently also receiving a Netroots Nation scholarship — Christ on a crispy cracker crust). Throw in some reports of unnecessary uses of force by state troopers, and you can see it all turning into the same movie we’ve seen too many times before. Did I mention it was mid-90s and humid today, and will stay that way for most of the week?

    Meanwhile, inside the state Supreme Court chambers, all outward indications point to a straight ideological split in everything the Court will do re: Sumi’s order. A third link will probably put me in moderation, so, go read the lead story at madison punto com. There’s talk that the Court could reach a decision on hearing the case and/or outright vacating Sumi’s order tonight. The prospect looms of the principle of universally-applicable law vanishing on the state level in Wisconsin if the Court goes ahead and legislates from the bench on the Fitzes’ behalf as expected. And then it gets worse to think about — who knows whether Democratic winners of recall elections could even expect to be allowed to take office, for example, if the Supreme Court signal continued willingness to act as political operatives.

    (“Come on, that’s paranoid-silly — they wouldn’t go that far, would they?” Yes. Yes, they would. You don’t know how vicious some of these people are.)

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