Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

Motown is Joe-Town!

The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

In my day, never was longer.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com)
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A little gift for those who need to update their protest calendars (hope Kay sees this!)…


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Apart from scheduling, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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  5. 5.

    Mustang Bobby

    I suggest that any Democrat that votes to confirm Gorsuch get their ass primaried the next time they’re up for re-election so we can put in a real Democrat, assuming there are any left.

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    p.a.

    I was at the Nathan Bishop town hall. It’s usually held in the cafeteria but had to be moved to the aud, then Whitehouse had to come outside to talk to those of us who couldn’t fit inside. He was outside for a mildly hostile Q&A for 70 minutes.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    It’s gonna get worse: Trump administration circulates more draft immigration restrictions, focusing on protecting U.S. jobs

    The administration would be seeking to “deny admission to any alien who is likely to become a public charge” and to develop standards for “determining whether an alien is deportable . . . for having become a public charge within five years of entry” — receiving a certain amount of public assistance, including food stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Medicaid.

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    rikyrah

    Saw an Al Jazeera report on a foreign born doctor. He was Syrian and got his visa because he would work in an underserved area. He was in Alabama. In a county that went 72% for Dolt45. Had a picture of the 25 doctors that worked in his local hospital: only 3 were American born. But, you know…Make America great… Don’t you know..

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    Iowa Old Lady

    I see the WH won’t send spokespeople onto CNN anymore. That should improve CNN considerably. I don’t know why anyone thinks they need to listen to “alternative facts” Kellyanne Conway.

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    Morzer

    http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/19/14322998/keith-ellison-dnc-ezra-klein

    Here we live in the age of Trump. This guy, the most misogynistic candidate, beats the first woman candidate. This is devastating to women in this country, and men too, but we’re going to feature women in these live casts and talk about equal pay, access to reproductive care. Talk about how the economic fortunes of a family are directly connected to reproductive access and the Hyde Amendment.

    We have to face the facts that the Republicans have out-organized us. They simply have. I know it’s true because I got a good friend of mine who was a Republican, now a Democrat. She’s a city council member in Northfield, Minnesota. She will say, “Man, when I was Republican and I was a city council member, they connected me. I was part of this. I was part of that. I was on calls. I got data. I got talking points. Now that I’m a Democrat city council member, I feel better about my soul because this is what I believe in, but you guys don’t stay that closely in touch with us.”

    The whole thing is worth reading and considering with care.

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    debbie

    @Morzer:

    We have to face the facts that the Republicans have out-organized us. They simply have.

    This from the party that slams community organizing!

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Dunno if anyone has noticed, but Wikileaks is all in for LePen….

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    Elizabelle

    @Morzer: is that another way of saying the Republicans are more “top down”?

    I did not yet skim the Vox article.

    Maybe it’s also a divide between “public service” and getting onto the grift train.

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    satby

    Good morning everyone. Have to leave in a couple of minutes to drive back to Chicago (2 hours each way) and I’m already tired. Better remember to support Starbucks against the rightwing boycott before noon in the future, I assume late expresso is what kept me tossing and turning all night ?

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    Ohio Mom

    @satby: I seem to remember ordering a decaf expresso once when I was at a Starbucks after dinner.

    Generally, I stop consuming caffeine by four in the afternoon. If we go out to dinner and I am served regular coffee against my wishes, and unknowingly drink it, I too toss and turn all night.

  27. 27.

    Spanky

    Baby Blue Satan sez:

    This point has been made a thousand times, but when one side decides it’s cool to play with 15 players on the field and keeps firing refs until they find one who agrees, the other side doesn’t get any points for sticking with 11. Qualified praise about sportsmanship from the Washington Post editorial page doesn’t count as a victory.

    Amen.

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    RoonieRoo

    Thank you. Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to suss out a local town hall meeting with any of my congress critters. But I’m determined to move from emails/phone calls to showing up in person when I can figure out they are in town. Thanks to Balloon-Juice, I have actually created an ongoing conversation with John Cornyn, of all people, on gun control. His staff is incredibly responsive and write me back with very thorough responses. I’ve been doing research based on the last letter to get more information on a gun control proposal HE actually did propose that appears to have died in committee.

    But, the point I want to make is even if your Senator or Congress critter is a complete RWNJ (i.e. John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, and Mike McFaul), you should reach out to them. They might just surprise you. John Cornyn certainly has surprised me.

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    tarragon

    @debbie:
    That’s because they don’t do community organizing. They do top down.

    And that sounds like it should have a really dirty metaphor but I can’t come up with it.

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    laura

    @rikyrah: Good morning Rikyrah.@NeenerNeener: That Jack Ohman is a really, really good editorial cartoonist.
    It’s going to be a good day for calling Congress and the Senate. I’m still 0 for 100 in getting through to Feinstein and Harris but did speak with Doris Matsui’s staff on Fred Koramatsu’s b-day. Was encouraged to keep calling. Because she was born in an internment camp and he husband’s family was also subject to removal, the current ban is an issue that she has personal experience with and has taken a strong stand in opposition.

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    gene108

    @debbie:

    This from the party that slams community organizing!

    They do not believe in community organizing. They believe and use top-down billionaire funded organizing. They have very wealthy people willing to put money up to fund what is needed for organizing.

    Easy access to money and what it brings to an organization is the biggest difference between how conservatives sustain themselves versus liberals.

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    MelissaM

    My asshole congresscritter isn’t in that list, because his scared weasel ass is afraid of town halls. He’s promised to have one, but won’t schedule. This is IL, and it won’t help that his district goes from ECentral IL to the Mississippi and close to St. Louis. He’ll probably choose to hold a town hall is BumbleFuckistan, where the 9 registered voters are Rs. And we’ll have an ice storm, so no travel there!

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    debit

    I hope everyone is calling their senators, especially if one is on the Judiciary committee. I called Amy Klobuchar’s office yesterday and let her staffer know that unless the nominee is Garland there should not be a hearing. Period.

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    Shalimar

    @Mustang Bobby: The important vote is for cloture, so we never get to a vote for confirmation. If we lose the vote for cloture, or Republicans eliminate the filibuster, it really doesn’t matter how anyone votes for or against confirmation. He is going to get confirmed.

    Note, just because betrayal at the cloture stage would outrage me but I don’t care about the final vote does not mean I am telling other people they shouldn’t get outraged over whatever they feel strongest about. All outrage is good at this point. We are dealing with the constantly outrageous.

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    Jinchi

    @efgoldman:

    If anybody knows how to keep things going, it’s the people who actually do the jobs every day.

    I like to think that the people who handed Trump the nuclear codes gave him last weeks winning lottery numbers instead.

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    Larkspur

    John Scalzi has an essay over at Whatever that’s bursting with good insights, of which this is a tiny portion. The whole thing is worth a read. I mean, well, duh: it’s Scalzi.

    …And most of all, I’m encouraged by the millions of people from everywhere and all walks of life who went out into the streets in the last couple of weeks, and who called their elected representatives, and who donated money and time and expertise to protest against Trump and his people, and their plans, and their morality, or lack thereof. As many people have noted, the alt-right have called them “snowflakes” but you get enough snowflakes in one place and you get an avalanche.….

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    Larkspur

    Well, I called Feinstein’s DC office, and while I got a message, it’s a change. The recorded message is from Dianne herself, explaining that all the lines are busy, and I can wait on hold, but the call will automatically disconnect after two minutes, so I should consider waiting a little and calling back later. So I’ll try her local offices, but at least it’s not a busy signal.

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    JustRuss

    Glad to see my senator at the top of the list. I went to Merkley’s first town hall in our city, he was soooo stiff, almost Gore-ian. He’s way better now, really seems comfortable with the format.

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    SgrAstar

    @tarragon: But they DO use organizing techniques. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, supposedly the chief bugbear of the rwnjs, is the bible of the tea party. And, it worked. Alinsky is crucial for us…imho.

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