Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Bark louder, little dog.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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    Anne (formerly Daize)

    Dear Beth, thank you so much for your reminders and the dedication of your time to the calendar. It helps indeed so much when one is still having trouble with current events.

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    Pogonip

    1). Will Walter have before-and-after pictures?

    2). Have you ever thought about doing a (Grand)Children of Balloon Juice, or is it too dangerous?

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    Miss Bianca

    Oh, I may have to dig out some of the screaming adorbs photos of the Office-turned-Ranch-Kitties after all!

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    Miss Bianca

    @schrodinger’s cat: Long story short: My boss decided he didn’t want the kitties in the store anymore and tried to give them away to some friends of his. I pitched a tiny little fit when I heard about it and told him that if they were going to go off-premises, I wanted them to go somewhere that *I* was going to see them – so after his friends failed to come get them, I said, “I’m taking them, mmmm-kay?” and brought them up to the hunt club kennels. Now they wrassle around a 40-acre spread filled with horses, dogs, and chickens, and like to ride on the ranch hands’ shoulders.

    We miss them terribly at the store – and the mice have, surprise surprise, started snacking on the candy and the bird seed and all that stuff, but OH NO, *some* people didn’t want *cats* sround – but they’re happy and growing like weeds and napping in the hay and going nose to nose with all the horses on the place. I just saw them today, in fact, and got a big old kitty hug from Pancho!

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