Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

People are complicated. Love is not.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

I really should read my own blog.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Republicans in disarray!

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

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Late Night Open Thread: Big Mouth, Tiny Thumbs

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… Trump’s 10 most-engaged Twitter followers over the past 30 days include five confirmed robots and three accounts that appear to be bots, according to audience data collected by Social Rank. Trump’s most prolific respondent, @Trump2016_Fan, has posted more than 18,000 times in the past year, mostly all-caps messages of support for the 45th president. The account appears to be automated and did not respond to a request for an interview.

But there are plenty of humans in the 20,000 or so replies generated by a typical Trump tweet. These are piled like building blocks beneath each tweet, a tower of typos, insults, and encouragement that stretches on and on. Scrolling through the replies to a single Trump message is enough to test the fortitude of any reader; getting to the last reply is the sort of task it’s hard to imagine any human doing voluntarily. Yet the replies bundled nearest to @realDonaldTrump—in a sorting determined by Twitter’s mysterious algorithm—are likely to be seen by hundreds of thousands of users. If Trump is the most powerful and visible user of Twitter, the replies appearing closest to his messages must occupy some of the most influential real estate on the internet.

… According to beta content-analysis software used by Social Rank, 19 percent of Trump’s followers are women. Among Trump’s 20 most-engaged followers, only two had traditionally female names—and both of those accounts appear to be automated…

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  3. 3.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    100 Daze

    Black History Month
    -Frederick Douglass is alive

    Women’s History Month
    -Has anyone ever heard of Susan B. Anthony?

    Sexual Assault Awareness
    -O’Reilly did nothing wrong

    Passover
    -Hitler didn’t gas anyone

  11. 11.

    The Dangerman

    @opiejeanne:

    Don’t we all have one?

    Well, there’s ogling and and then there’s ohhhhhhgling. Do we always see both of The Donald’s hands in those pictures?

  12. 12.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    It’s like that Twilight Zone: The Movie remake of the cornfield kid scene where he sends his sister so she’s inserted into an insane cartoon on TV. Except instead of the sister it’s the whole country.

  13. 13.

    Raoul

    I had never encountered this Paul Kane character before tonight. (@pkcapitol) Apparently a WaPo congressional reporter. He dismisses KS-04 as a ‘rural’ district that doesn’t matter. Only GA matters, he says.

    He’s fucking idiot. Wichita is a metro area of almost 640,000 people. Wichita’s MSA is larger than Des Moines MSA. Would a reporter dare call a House seat centered on Des Moines rural? Maybe, if he’s an east coaster who sees all of middle America as flyover country.

    FFS, these are the idiots in our press who were totally gobsmacked by Trump’s win. Because they have no fvking idea what anything outside the coasts and the tony cocktail parties and big DNC quants or RNC pooh-bahs are like.

    And with that short rant, I bid you all a good night!

  15. 15.

    Major Major Major Major

    Twitter is a cesspool rivaling Reddit and YouTube comments, film at eleven.

    I went to the art museum and they had a big exhibit mourning the king. I thought this was a cool piece. Now I’m having Thai(!) food for lunch.

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    @opiejeanne:

    Gold Easter eggs, really?

    I know, right?

    Also, I’ll predict news of a price-gouging scheme where Trump tries selling the ‘extra’ eggs to his deluded email donors… or the next few international delegations. (Extra wooden eggs have apparently always been sold after the event, but any funds raised that way went to the cost of the event. As though Lord Smallgloves would be able to resist even that tiny little grift!)

  22. 22.

    BlueDWarrior

    I am glad I was asleep during the noon hours (I work nights, sue me); otherwise that Sean Spicer press conference would have had me on tilt the entire day.

  25. 25.

    opiejeanne

    @Anne Laurie: Yeah, I saw your post earlier; that photo of the gold eggs is just disappointing.
    I read a lot of the posts here, coming in to most threads when they’re either very long or very dead.

  29. 29.

    Amaranthine RBG

    You’re highlighting a tweet from Ted Frank, the man who vetted Sarah Palin and who is all around douche canoe?

  35. 35.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @efgoldman: He got 9% of the vote in Manhattan. That’s not a misprint. The turd has been living in Manhattan for 50 years and 91% voted against him.

  36. 36.

    efgoldman

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I’m eating a whole fried red snapper.

    mrs efg had a gift card that was going to expire, so we drove an hour down to Point Judith RI to one of the seafood restaurants that buy directly off the boats. Freshest lobster I ever had, and she had a delicious baked cod. Worth the drive.

  40. 40.

    Major Major Major Major

    @efgoldman: many years ago in Puerto Vallarta my parents rented a little catamaran to troll around with and do some whale watching. They had a couple lines off the stern on the way back in and we hooked a mahi-mahi. The gaff was broken, so they had one of us hold a beach towel while they flung it into the boat. My mom the towel holder caught it and swaddled it to the ground and they beat it to death with a truncheon. Quite bloody, and my mom still has a scar on her arm from the dorsal fin.

    Then we went straight into a beachfront bar and they cooked the whole thing up for us in three different preparations. It was a ‘pregnant’ lady fish so we got fried roe too. To this day the best fish I ever ate.

  41. 41.

    efgoldman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    of course the alternative was English food.

    When my kids went to London and Paris last spring, they had great food, both places. They sent a pic of the table set for a very pricey tea that they reserved a month in advance. Holy crap, what a spread.

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    The turd has been living in Manhattan for 50 years and 91% voted against him.

    What’s the old cliche about familiarity and contempt? I’m surprised he has that many family members and employees who can vote in Manhattan.
    If you recall, he won bigly in the primary in a Brooklyn precinct where you wouldn’t expect it. There was one Republiklown ballot cast, and he won 100%.

  43. 43.

    mai naem mobile

    @Raoul: i follow Paul Kane on twitter and he’s a good reporter. Definitely not some Fox wannabe reporter and not a NYT Dolt 45 fluffer. I’m not saying you’re wrong about KS 04, just that he’s a good reporter.

  45. 45.

    opiejeanne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yes, and that was SOME GAME. 9-2 going into the 9th, won it 10-9.

    And they just won it in the 9th, 6-5. This is the team I remember from the late 70s/early 80s: you never left early if you liked baseball.

  46. 46.

    efgoldman

    @opiejeanne:

    This is the team I remember from the late 70s/early 80s: you never left early if you liked baseball.

    I thought leaving early was mandatory in Southern California.

  48. 48.

    opiejeanne

    @efgoldman: Dodgers games are known for that, I think it’s mainly because their stupid parking lot is a mess to get out of. Angels’ parking lot is a breeze by comparison but some people do leave early. Lots of people go who aren’t actually baseball fans.
    We had friends we bought season tickets with (shared venture with them and another couple) who always left in the 7th because they lived in Riverside. So did we, but we learned early to stay until the bitter end because late in the game was when it was going to happen in 1979; that was the first year they went to a playoff game and we got to see them play the one they won.

  52. 52.

    efgoldman

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I like living on the edge, the bleeding edge

    You have everything in your house which is electricity powered, hooked up to the internet of things, yes?
    My fridge, stove, toaster, microwave, TVs…. don’t spy on me and can’t be hacked.

  57. 57.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @efgoldman: I don’t have a TV, I watch SlingTV on my computer. The Fridge, stove, toaster, and microwave are all old school; in some cases, very old school. The lights, locks, heating is compute controlled.

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yeah, I know about 1607. My computer’s been choking on it for a couple of months. I’m hoping that if I skip ahead to the Creators Edition it’ll solve the problems. Wishful thinking, I know.

    Thanks for the link. I’ll give it a go first thing in the morning.

  63. 63.

    Origuy

    I installed the Anniversary Update right when it came out. As soon as the desktop appeared, the system froze up. I don’t think Microsoft ever acknowledged that problem. I decided to wait until they got a stable version and made do with my work laptop, phone, and tablet. Once I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled Windows, it worked fine. I’m going to wait on this one for a while.

  64. 64.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I’ve installed it on 6 machines today, I’ve had a couple that needed to do the first part(part within the Windows GUI) twice(tablets with a low amount of free disk space) and my backup machine got some errors looking for the recently deceased ‘D’ drive. Other than that, pretty smooth update.

  66. 66.

    hellslittlestangel

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Well, May is both Older Americans Month and National Barbecue Month, so don’t let Trump near your grandparents.

    And for everyone who has to live through the Trump era, it’s National Blood Pressure Month.

  67. 67.

    TriassicSands

    @Mnemosyne:

    I think the biggest reason this United thing is blowing up so huge is the sheer volume of people who have horror stories with that airline.

    Kevin Drum has a post up about the four big US carriers and passenger bumping. It doesn’t sound like United is the worst. The problem is the law, though individual airline policies can make things better or worse. Legally, the guy yesterday was totally in the wrong, but United should never have allowed it to come to violent removal. A better incentives program is needed.

  69. 69.

    wuzzat

    @TriassicSands:

    A better incentives program is needed.

    Any incentive would be better than “To compensate you for screwing you over, here’s a coupon for the opportunity for us to screw you over again. P.S. — there are multiple limitations on when/where you can use said coupon, and most of our customer service agents are highly confused by them.” Hell, I’d take a $300 SkyMall voucher over that.

  70. 70.

    VOR

    @wuzzat: The problem is the flights are ALL so full they can’t offer acceptable alternatives. In this case, the re-booking offer was for a flight at 3pm the next day! If it was a matter of a couple hour delay then people would take the offers.

    And who trusts the airlines these days? They are offering a voucher with a lot of conditions – who knows if it will even be usable?

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