Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Let there be snark.

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

The lights are all blinking red.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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A couple of people have reported that Feedly is not loading our RSS feed since the malware problem last week. My feed service, Feedbin, is working fine, and I verified that Feedly is requesting the feed from us and getting a good response, so I think it is a problem with Feedly.

I know at least one of you has reported this issue to Feedly, but if you use Feedly and have a problem, please report it to them. Maybe a little more noise will get them to fix it. If anyone hears back from Feedly with a request to fix something or other, please let me know via email.

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  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Is this an open thread? cause I just saw this at Slate and I’m wondering if anyone will have the stomach to actually read it

    Rules for Racism
    How to think and talk constructively about race and racism.
    William Saletan | FRAME GAME | Monday, 3:00 PM ET

    Cause if you’re gonna talk about race, you need rules, and who better to establish said rules than a smug, elitist, neo-liberal, contrarian white guy?

  6. 6.

    taylormattd

    Also, I can no longer look at BJ at work, have to use mobile now :(

    The security software in place here appears to have permanently added BJ to a malicious site list after the malware incident :(

  7. 7.

    Redshirt

    Hey Mistermix, do you or any FP’ers have any control over the spam filter? Both in the sense of what’s on it, or if you even use it.

    Do you get a lot of bots attempting to spam?

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Heh, Martin Bashir is tying the royal baby into a slap fest on austerians. (Brits are excited about some lady having a baby because David Cameron instituted Paul Ryan’s economic plan)

  11. 11.

    The Dangerman

    Are bookies taking bets on names? Figure it will be something close to “Diana”. Daniel, maybe. Or, hell, Diana could work; better than Sue, anyway,

    /johnny cash

  12. 12.

    Rosalita

    I was having trouble with Feedly at first but not since you cleared up the problem.

  15. 15.

    Starfish

    I was having trouble with Feedly, but I resubscribed to the feed and dumped the old version of it. That fixed the issue for me.

  17. 17.

    catclub

    @Amir Khalid: I think the present monarch will never die.

    A coronation Fanfare by Handel had the words:
    “Long live the King, Long live the King,
    May the King live Forever.”

    It creeps me out 250 years later.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    I wuz rooting for a girl.

    Although, it’s not like England has not had a queen every single day of my life.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    @catclub:

    What happens if Prince Charles develops Alzheimer’s while he’s waiting for his mother to kick?

    How much do even royalists in the UK want to see a 95-year old monarch?

  22. 22.

    Mike B

    I deleted the feed from Feedly, then manually added the feed URL to my Feedly (via the website). It all works fine, now. Those having issues should try that.

  23. 23.

    Mnemosyne

    @Elizabelle:

    I was kinda hoping for one, too, but oh well. Weird how every time they talk about changing the law that gives males precedence in the succession, the couples involved produce nothing but boys anyway.

    I’m guessing that “George” will be at least one of the names, but that’s a pretty safe bet.

  25. 25.

    ed

    It was acting up over the weekend. I deleted and re-added it to feedly. Has seemed ok since.

  29. 29.

    Holden Pattern

    FWIW, using Feedly, still seeing the RSS Feed (never stopped seeing it, even when Chrome barfed on Feedly if I tried to view a post in-line).

  30. 30.

    Violet

    Ha! My money was on it being a boy and most people seemed to think it would be a girl.

  31. 31.

    Botsplainer

    Do any of y’all do show or competition dogs? My puppy is doing real great at training, real young, and I’m trying to figure out the extent of the pain in the assedness about it.

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    The kid’s probably going to have a whole string of names that goes like Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Mick Keith Bill Charlie John Paul George Ringo Harry Ron Hermione Yadda Yadda Yadda. He’ll go by one of those names picked at random, like Prince Wulfric, and use the surname Windsor if he goes into the military like his dad.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    @Violet:

    So maybe when the Duchess “slipped” and said “I will give this to my d –”

    she was about to say “my damn baby?”

  34. 34.

    DLew On Roids

    @Starfish:

    I did the same thing–i.e., reconnected the feed–and every was co-pa-cetic.

    And oh yeah, the only UK monarch worth his/her salt was Michael Kitchen in the BBC version of House of Cards.

  35. 35.

    Violet

    @Elizabelle: Yeah, or it could have been anything–dad, dog, doting grandmother. I listened to that video of her saying that, but it really didn’t seem like much of a slip to me.

  36. 36.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    Removed, then re-added manually using the “feed” link; seems to be working now.

    And good on Liz and Phil– it’s the shiznit to be a grampa, I can only imagine what its like to be a great-grand. (and no, kids, if you happen to read this, GRAMPS IS IN NO HURRY.)

  40. 40.

    justdale

    Deleting the balloon-juice feed and then re-adding it fixed the Feedly problem for me.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    NYTimes public editor weighs in on Nate Silver leaving for ESPN:

    I don’t think Nate Silver ever really fit into the Times culture and I think he was aware of that. He was, in a word, disruptive. Much like the Brad Pitt character in the movie “Moneyball” disrupted the old model of how to scout baseball players, Nate disrupted the traditional model of how to cover politics.

    His entire probability-based way of looking at politics ran against the kind of political journalism that The Times specializes in: polling, the horse race, campaign coverage, analysis based on campaign-trail observation, and opinion writing, or “punditry,” as he put it, famously describing it as “fundamentally useless.” Of course, The Times is equally known for its in-depth and investigative reporting on politics.

    …
    * A number of traditional and well-respected Times journalists disliked his work. The first time I wrote about him I suggested that print readers should have the same access to his writing that online readers were getting. I was surprised to quickly hear by e-mail from three high-profile Times political journalists, criticizing him and his work. They were also tough on me for seeming to endorse what he wrote, since I was suggesting that it get more visibility.

    Who? Which 3 high profile politiporn purveyors?

    It seems the public editor has some issues with traditional NYT political coverage too.

    Going to be fun to watch this story play out.

  44. 44.

    raven

    Call the Midwives!

    If the Duchess had decided to come and have her baby here she would have got just as good care, if not better, than in London,” insisted Ange Winstanley, lead midwife on the labour ward. “We might be busy, but for us each and every one of those women is as important as a royal.”

  46. 46.

    Jay S

    I’ve been using Feedly on Firefox and Linux without a problem, at least that I have noticed. It is probably something specific ether to a platform or a user, or both. One thing I did do was remove the Firefox plug-in for Feedly when they converted to the web app. It didn’t seem to add anything very useful, and adding plug-ins you don’t need is asking for trouble.
    ETA no problems with the Android app either, at least in reading the feed.

  47. 47.

    Belafon

    The whole world watches us elect a president; we watch the British royalty have a baby. And before you say they’re not the same, remember it was the queen who had the final say in legalizing gay marriage.

  48. 48.

    Violet

    @Elizabelle: Just saw that over at TPM. Hilarious. Some butthurt political “journalists” all upset because people want to read Nate Silver’s facts instead of their opinions.

  49. 49.

    Eric U.

    @Elizabelle: I only vaguely recall the horse race coverage of politics taking over. Seems like it happened after Carter, but I could be wrong. The whole, lazy, “omg, a new poll just came out showing the president trailing” kind of story seems to be even more recent than that. In the past, they may have had stories about polls, but they actually had stories that informed you about the candidate’s positions on issues. This is no longer allowed because the Republicans are simply lying about everything

  51. 51.

    SuperHrefna

    @Elizabelle: she was about to say “dog” and stopped herself just in time. Can you imagine the firestorm that would have been?

    As to our new infant overlord ( US resident Brit here) all I have to say is *sigh*. I was hoping for a girl because the female Windsors are marginally more tolerable than the male sort. My guess is George, but Albert and Alfred are hugely trendy right now. And Philip if they are trying to suck up to H M the Q, but I don’t think there is any precedence for it?

  52. 52.

    Amir Khalid

    @Belafon:
    It’s been a while — centuries, I think — since a British sovereign had any real option to withhold their assent to legislation approved by Parliament.

  53. 53.

    Jay C

    @Amir Khalid:

    More likely the surnames “Wales” or “Cambridge”, since that seems to be his birth moniker: according to the BBC the newest royal is/will be titled “Prince of Cambridge” – which actually makes (“Prince Cambridge”? “Prince O. Cambridge?”) kind of a decent name by itself….

  55. 55.

    YellowJournalism

    @raven:

    “We might be busy, but for us each and every one of those women is as important as a royal.”

    What she doesn’t understand is, to the royals, that’s a problem. Can’t have the monarchy treated like everybody else!

  56. 56.

    SuperHrefna

    @Amir Khalid: the last time was Victoria, when she refused to sign legislation outlawing lesbianism on the grounds that women would ever do such a think. That’s why only male homosexuality was illegal in the UK, and Agatha Christie was full of tweedy dog loving women who lived with their devoted companions.

  57. 57.

    SuperHrefna

    @Amir Khalid: the last time was Victoria, when she refused to sign legislation outlawing lesbianism on the grounds that women would ever do such a think. That’s why only male homosexuality was illegal in the UK, and Agatha Christie was full of tweedy dog loving women who lived with their devoted companions.

  59. 59.

    catclub

    @Elizabelle: “Much like the Brad Pitt character in the movie “Moneyball” disrupted the old model of how to scout baseball players, Nate disrupted the traditional model of how to cover politics.”
    THAT was the NYT public editor?

    Wow. Just come out and say it: He had a much better model for election predictions, but we will keep the older but much worse model here. Wow.

    Was there also mention that about 77% of all the hits on the NYT politics website went to Nate Silver’s page. The NYT is a huge site on the web, Nate Silver drove a huge fraction of its hits, and he leaves.
    Wow.

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    @SuperHrefna:

    “My d[og.]” That’s funny. Do you recall what she was given? Was it a stuffed animal? Some gift more suited to a kennel than a nursery?

    I am so burned out on US politics. It’s fun to watch the Brits for a moment.

  61. 61.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @SuperHrefna: PD James has a lot lesbian-vague couples, too, I wonder if it’s in tribute.

    Good lord, MSNBC and CNN are still talking about the royal delivery. Calling it “breaking news”. I wonder if Fox is, too. I also wonder what kind of panel Chris Hayes will put together for it.

  62. 62.

    catclub

    @YellowJournalism: The British Royals can probably make a better case that theyare being treated like everyone else ( I note the guy who served in the Military) than can the present royalty in the US.

  64. 64.

    BruceJ

    @Jay S: Working fine in chrome on my desktop and my ipad/ihone app are also working fine; unless feedly is just filtering out everything but cat posts :-P

  66. 66.

    SuperHrefna

    @Elizabelle: as far as I remember it was a stuffed animal given as a gift from a tiny working class girl to the royal baby. Saying she was going to give it to her dog would have been / was a huge insult.

  67. 67.

    raven

    It is fucking incredible how stupid Tweety is. He’s just blabbering on about how beautiful Kate is in the dumbest way possible.

  68. 68.

    SuperHrefna

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: not tribute, just descriptive, until gay pride came along the UK was hopping with lesbian- vague couples. It wasn’t illegal, but it wasn’t considered quite nice either. Hence the vagueness.

  69. 69.

    Jockey Full of Malbec

    This is actually a serious setback for the Reality Based. And, frankly, a total waste of ability and talent (not a sports fan, so IMO I could think of no greater waste of stats knowhow).

    Oh well. Maybe Sam Wang will step up. He was even slightly more accurate ISTR.

  70. 70.

    Apsalar

    A friend of a friend on Facebook said (regarding the royal birth): Its a shame this much publicity wasn’t available when baby Jesus was born.

    All I could think was then there definitely wouldn’t have been room at the inn.

  71. 71.

    SuperHrefna

    @Jockey Full of Malbec: if the NYT has any sense (I know, I know…) it will sign Wang, pronto. I think Silver is wasting himself on sports too, but I totally get why he wants to get away from The Village.

  72. 72.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Let Freedom Reign!

    Mass Jailbreak at Abu Ghraib
    A massive armed attack – with mortars, suicide bombs and car bombs – has successfully freed hundreds of inmates, reportedly many al Qaida militants, from Abu Ghraib prison.

    Dick Cheney’s daughter will eventually be in the Senate (not this time, I think), and Condi Rice is paid to talk about world events by what was once one of the best news organizations in the world. Also, too, Tom Friedman and John McCain.

  73. 73.

    Elizabelle

    The Guardian on Nate Silver’s move to ESPN:

    If Silver was not the most popular figure inside the Times newsroom, he was hugely popular outside it. … On the day before the election [NYT traffic via Silver’s site] hit 20 percent.

    It’s no mystery why people were reading Silver. His forecasts for the 2012 election were spot on for all 50 states. In the weeks prior to the election, when members of the political chattering class from George Will to Joe Scarborough were lecturing about how close the race was, Silver saw the president with a better than 90% chance of re-election. The democratic victory vindicated Silver and gave the lie to his detractors’ supposed expertise.

    His detractors’ supposed expertise.

    Not to mention the loss came as a huge surprise to candidate Romney, master of numbers.

  74. 74.

    afishstick

    I was having trouble with Feedly, but I resubscribed to the feed and dumped the old version of it. That fixed the issue for me.

    I did the same. The “old” BJ doesn’t work. The new one does. Still have to delete the old one.

  76. 76.

    Jay S

    You might check your link and feed settings as well.
    I’m starting feedly by a bookmark to “http://cloud.feedly.com/#index” not the original “www.feedly.com” (the old link redirects, it shouldn’t matter, but BJ used to do weird stuff without the www. so who knows?)

    My RSS feed is specified as “https://balloon-juice.com/feed/” that you get from the rss icon at the top of the screen I used to the WordPress atom feed a few BJ generations ago, but that would fail intermittently. You can check your feed by selecting “organize” and then “export html” and looking for the BJ feed definition for the type=rss, xmlUrl=. There may be a more straight forward way, but I haven’t found it. Or you could just delete and re-add it, it should take the default settings automatically, but it would be interesting to know if the problem is in the settings.

  79. 79.

    maus

    I use the feed.ly android app and this hasn’t been happening (chrome warnings) for several days.

  80. 80.

    fuckwit

    I’m generally against gun violence, but that pun in the headline really ought to be taken out and shot.

  82. 82.

    Thomas

    I had this problem with Feedly. Unsubscribed from the B-J feed and resubscribed, then everything worked fine. I think it may have been because I tried to access the B-J feed too many times while The big G still had it on the danger list. Perhaps some safety feature of Chrome or Feedly, or a combination of both.

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