Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

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

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

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

This blog will pay for itself.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

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

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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I’ve Got a Golden Twinkle in My Eye

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This video portrays Fred Hiatt explaining his clever plan to give law enforcement access to Apple and Google’s encrypted data:

How to resolve this? A police “back door” for all smartphones is undesirable — a back door can and will be exploited by bad guys, too. However, with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant. […]

I believe we’ve been here before. Not gonna happen, but it’s nice to see that the Post’s Editorial Board has broadened their focus from neocon warmongering to ahistorical and technically illiterate commentary on encryption. The conversation leading up to this editorial must have sounded like outtakes from Harry Potter: “Why, we know that a back door could be opened by criminals, but if Albus Dumbledore conjured a secure golden key, then of course no criminal could open that black box! 5 points to Gryffindor!”

(via Kevin Drum)

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Egg on Their Facebook

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sister_romaFacebook has a “real name” policy, so a couple of weeks ago they started to flag accounts of drag queens who were using their stage names on their Facebook accounts. However, fucking with drag queens is foolish, so a shitstorm ensued, culminating with a meeting between Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Sister Roma, a queer nun who is a member of the Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. That’s Sister Roma at left. Then, Facebook ate crow:

Shortly after the meeting, Facebook CPO Chris Cox issued a lengthy apology, in which he admitted the site flagged LGBTQ users’ accounts because of a single user’s reports. He also clarified that as far as Facebook is concerned, “our policy has never been to require everyone on Facebook to use their legal name. The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the authentic name they use in real life. For Sister Roma, that’s Sister Roma. For Lil Miss Hot Mess, that’s Lil Miss Hot Mess.” Cox also spoke to the site’s reasons for implementing policies about names and anonymity, adding, “There’s lots of room for improvement in the reporting and enforcement mechanisms, tools for understanding who’s real and who’s not, and the customer service for anyone who’s affected. These have not worked flawlessly and we need to fix that.”

“A single user”–speaking of hot messes, those Facebook assholes sure made one.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

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Where the cake joke came from, ICYMI.

Apart from obvious jokes being obvious, what’s on the agenda today?

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Late Night Open Thread

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Greetings from JIHAD CENTRAL (and yes, I know it was two year old info- but I had never seen it before and it was on my fb timeline today). At any rate, dvr’d Gracepoint to give it a shot, and it turns out I have already seen it. It was called Broadchurch in England, which was awesome. I like these ten episode miniseries because unlike 22 episode monsters on most networks, the writers don’t run out of ideas and get all cheesy, so I was disappointed to see that it is just an imitation.

Watched an episode of Stalker on CBS, and it is creepy and cliched and stupid. I should have just finished watching On the Run with JayZ and Beyonce, but I didn’t want something that stimulating, so I need to watch that tomorrow. Right now I am giving How To Get Away With Murder, if for no other reason so I can understand commenter LamH’s facebook timeline.

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Friday (Not Exactly) Recipe Exchange: Putting Up, Putting By

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jeffreyw cat on a hot pepper bush

No recipe from TaMara this week (“Some experiments just go south!”), so I figured I’d swipe a great photo from JeffreyW and ask: What do you do with a harvest “bounty”?

The results of a family-weekend apple-picking expedition?

The last batch of half-ripe, somewhat cracked tomatoes gathered in advance of the first killing frost?

Morning-after overpurchase from the season’s last farmer’s market expedition?

Pumpkin guts from preparing the school Halloween party setup?

Let me know what I’m missing in the comments….

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Ain’t We Grand!

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Here’s what the nutters would like to be taught in history books regarding our nation’s history of slavery:

I’ve spoken with some history professors with very impressive credentials who told me this new framework doesn’t surprise them and is aligned with the content of college level history courses that downplay our noble history and accentuate the negative view. As an example, I note our slavery history. Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! Shouldn’t our students be provided that viewpoint? This is part of the argument that America is exceptional. Does our APUSH Framework support or denigrate that position?

We’ll just airbrush out the Civil War and the last 150 years of structural racism.

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Open Thread: Speaking of Clowns…

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… the GOP is gonna need a bigger car.

Politico is happy to highlight another aspirant:

Michele Bachmann will not go gently into the night.

The divisive four-term congresswoman is leaving Capitol Hill in January, but she has no intention of fading into post-congressional irrelevance.

Instead, the Minnesota Republican is fiercely courting media and speaking opportunities, likely in Washington, New York or Los Angeles, and looking to burnish her credentials as a foreign policy expert ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Her hope is to emerge as the “anti-Hillary,” a female conservative foil to likely Democratic presidential contender and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…

And let’s not forget last month’s new face:

She’s been to New Hampshire three times and South Carolina once. She’s heading to Iowa this weekend, and then North Carolina and Michigan after that. Clearly, Carly Fiorina is thinking about 2016…

“People ask me that a lot, so if you get asked that a lot you have to think about it—you have to consider it,” Fiorina told National Journal. “I’m flattered by the question and I have to consider it.”…

Demon sheep!
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Apart from that, what’s on the agenda as we start the weekend?

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