Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

In after Baud. Damn.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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  6. 6.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @efgoldman: /highfive

    I never had the audacity to attempt to bluff my way through an English class without doing the reading. Cliff’s Notes, perhaps, but never totally in the full bull mode.

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    rikyrah

    Woman prosecuted by Jeff Sessions can’t forgive
    11:19 AM ET, Fri January 6, 2017

    Marion, Alabama (CNN) – Evelyn Turner says she still has nightmares about what happened in this small Alabama city more than three decades ago. And it involves President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions.

    The year was 1985 and Sessions, then a US attorney, prosecuted an infamous voter fraud case that captured the nation’s attention, and had civil rights leaders rallying behind the accused. Known as the “Marion Three,” Turner, her husband Albert, and Spencer Hogue Jr. faced dozens of charges that their attorneys said were racially motivated. Session’s office disputed that, then and now.
    Today, at 80 years old, Turner doesn’t hold back her feelings.

    “I hate him just that bad,” she told CNN. “And he shouldn’t be up for anything, not even a dog catcher.”

    Albert Turner Sr. was a civil rights activist who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. He was King’s field director in Alabama, and began building political power in the black community in Perry County, Alabama, where he formed the Perry County Civic League at a time when segregation was the norm. Evelyn Turner said her husband was devoted to registering blacks to vote, getting more political representation for minorities, more services, and she says, he frequently ran into opposition from the politicians who were used to having Perry County run by their own rules.

    “They didn’t want us to be in charge because there’s more black folks in Perry County than there is white,” Turner said, adding her husband “just wanted equal rights for all citizens.”

  8. 8.

    rikyrah

    Paul Krugman Verified account
    ‏@paulkrugman

    Some musings on the next few years: We are, I’d argue, in much deeper and more treacherous waters than even the pessimists are saying 1/

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    Conservatives Now Willing to Explode National Debt
    January 6, 2017

    Some of the most conservative members of Congress say they are ready to vote for a budget that would — at least on paper — balloon the deficit to more than $1 trillion by the end of the decade, all for the sake of eventually repealing the Affordable Care Act, the Washington Post reports.

    In a dramatic reversal, many members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus said Thursday they are prepared later this month to support a budget measure that would explode the deficit and increase the public debt to more than $29.1 trillion by 2026, figures contained in the budget resolution itself.

  10. 10.

    Applejinx

    Oh, good, we do have writers’ thread. I thought it had been forgotten. It’s monthly, then?

    I’m underway on the new book, finding it tough going to get back in the saddle but haven’t missed a Monday yet :)

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    I said a few days ago that I realized I’m going to need to do my own personal NaNoWriMo this month to get back on track with my word count. I’m slightly behind my 1,700 daily goal (I missed Wednesday night because we went to see The King and I) but I’m pretty much on track.

    Also, I’m feeling a little insecure about structure, so I’m going to do a beat sheet for another author’s book this weekend so I can get down into the substructure. I haven’t quite decided which one, but it will probably be one by either Tessa Dare or Lisa Kleypas since they usually have well-paced books.

  15. 15.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    @rikyrah:

    Conservatives were never about balancing the budget, or deficit reductions, or reining in the debt.

    Conservatives were ALWAYS about wasting the money on themselves and to hell with everyone else.

    Every time they claimed themselves the “serious” party of “fiscal responsibility” I wanted to pick up a phone and hire a law firm to sue the Republicans for false advertising. (sadly, I am too poor to afford a lawyer)

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    opiejeanne

    @Fair Economist: I can’t find anything about the ex-Representative Jane Harmon writing this book, nor can I find any mention of who this author is. Did you?

  20. 20.

    RavenLunatic

    Hi there! Tarragon (my husband) told me about this writer’s group and I’d love to check it out! Hope to see you all there.

  22. 22.

    Miss Bianca

    I can’t believe it – again hunting has been moved from Saturday to Sunday this week! I will miss you all in real time AGAIN! Oh, well…I’ll catch up on comments later, you groovy peoples!

  23. 23.

    Jack the Cold Warrior

    @opiejeanne: I could only find the cover on Pinterest . It’s on Amazon, but no info on author, generic cover shown. It’s got me wondering.

    Cover art Definitely from 1971, I was 18 then…

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