Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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

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

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

It’s possible to be a liberal firebrand without crapping on the party.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

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Saturday Afternoon Happy News Open Thread

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From the NYTimes:

On Saturday night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences here will give Harry Belafonte an Oscar for his long fight against injustice, racial and otherwise, at its annual Governors Awards banquet. And one thing is sure: Mr. Belafonte, true to form, will speak his mind.

“I do think things have to be said,” Mr. Belafonte promised in an interview last month. He added, “There are lot of things it will be wonderful for the industry and my colleagues to hear.”…

Mr. Belafonte, 87, makes clear that his deep gratitude for this Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which honors his fight for social justice, is salted with the memory of wrongs that helped motivate his quest for industry changes that are only now arriving.

Mr. Belafonte’s activism showed the way for a post-McCarthy generation of progressive-minded performers — Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn and Jane Fonda, among others — who put aside career risks and found a strong political voice…

On his mellower side, which is considerable despite his political engagement, Mr. Belafonte has been a good-will ambassador for Unicef and worked to raise money to fight AIDS and famine in Africa.

But he has never avoided controversy. During last year’s mayoral campaign in New York, he supported the winner, Bill de Blasio, who distanced himself from some especially caustic remarks by Mr. Belafonte; he had referred to the conservative Koch brothers, Charles and David, as “white supremacists,” comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan…

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Apart from honoring the warriors, what’s on the agenda for the day?

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Open Thread: Another Call for Pet Photos

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In lieu of the missing Friday Recipe Exchange (TaMara has a teenage Great Dane puppy on her hands), I swiped Jeffrey W’s excellent portrait of Toby. Beth S. is still collecting pet pics for the 2015 Balloon Juice Pet Calendar. Here are her rules:

the usual rules apply: you have a pet (or six) and you send me a photo (or six) and your pet(s) makes an appearance in the 2015 pets of balloon juice calendar. tell me his/her/its name and i will put it on their photo. the highest resolution photo you can provide is best. i accept the usual photo formats. any questions, don’t hesitate to send me an email.

send photos here: [email protected]

Deadline for photo submission is tomorrow, Saturday, November 8 — you still have time to take some new pics, if you decide none of the ones on hand do your animal companion(s) justice.

Any questions (or problems), post a comment, or email me (click on my name in the right-hand column, or annelaurie (at) verizon (dot) net).

All pets welcome (if you look at previous calandars, we’ve had rabbits, ferrets, horses, turtles, at least one iguana… )

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Missing Person – San Francisco

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Because Ha’s friend, commentor Major Major Major Major, asked:

SOMA resident and Metromile iOS developer, Dan Ha, went missing last Friday. Since his disappearance his friends and family have organized a “Find Dan Ha” search party group in hopes to spread the word about the missing East Coast native. The 26-year old Asian male is 6’1”, 210lbs. with black hair and brown eyes. Ha’s roommate, Dominique Chainee, last saw him leaving the apartment in a hurry, wearing a red hoodie. Ha last used his cell phone near 2nd St. and Brannan…

Today’s search party will begin at 3 p.m. in the parking lot across his apartment at 530 Brannan. The group’s organizer, Steve Liu, will be there with postcards and flyers. A second group will comb the area at 6:30 p.m. The group plans to continue the search efforts into the late evening, as well as tomorrow…

More detail at the link, if you want a copy of the image to paste into your social-media feeds.

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Better Late Than Never, I Guess

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This is just infuriating:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is stepping down from an honorary leadership position at No Labels, a group that was founded to foster bipartisan cooperation in Washington.

“Given my position as a sitting United States senator, who cannot be involved in the day-to-day decision making of the organization, I believe it is appropriate for me at this time to step down as honorary co-chair,” Manchin said in a statement. “I still support the original goals of No Labels and will continue to work with them to foster bipartisan communication and bring some common sense back to Washington.”

His resignation follows the group’s backing Rep. Cory Gardner (R) in his successful challenge of Sen. Mark Udall (D) in Colorado. The endorsement from No Labels outraged Democrats, including Manchin.

No Labels launched in 2010 with the stated mission of ending gridlock, but has been accused of violating its bipartisan ethos.

Yahoo News obtained an internal document earlier this year that suggested the group was hoping for a shift in the Senate majority, so they could then “bridge the gap between Congress and the White House.”

It was the group’s backing of Gardner that reportedly infuriated Democrats and Manchin.

Now if he would just step away from ALEC, although that doesn’t really matter, anyway. He’s going to run for Governor, and he now will have to deal with a Republican Senate there because WV State Senator Daniel Hill left the Democratic party yesterday to give the Republicans the majority. Which means we’re going to end up with US Senator McKinley or Raese.

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Purely in an Advisory Capacity

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Haven’t we been training the Iraqi military for 10 years now, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars? They’ve got to be the most trained motherfuckers in the world by now.

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