Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Books are my comfort food!

Shut up, hissy kitty!

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

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Come on, man.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

This really is a full service blog.

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Florida Gator: Swimming Pool Edition!

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On Memorial Day the Sarasota Sheriff’s Office had to have a Fish and Wildlife Officer drag a large gator out of a swimming pool in Venice, FL.

Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Venice, Florida, home Monday to help relocate the uninvited guest, which was measured at 7 to 8 feet long.

Gators in Florida swimming pools are not uncommon. But this one was captured on video thrashing and rolling about as a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapper attempted to drag the critter out of the water.

This type of thing happens quite often in Florida and usually looks something like this:

 

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Late Night Open Thread — Christ: What An A**hole

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Maybe Erick Infinite Ericks is just envious of the “Dumbest Man on the Internet” title. At least he took the ‘studying for my preacher license’ line out of his bio, because it seems like he’s never actually read the New Testament. Where’s a [Jesus: facepalm] GIF when you need one?…

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Reciprocity?

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Tonight’s Trump-Russia news dump comes from the Washington Post, presaged earlier in the day by an article in Sputnik tweeted out by the Russian Embassy in the United States.

Last December, in response to Russian hacking of the election and harassment of American diplomats in Moscow, President Barack Obama ordered 35 Russian diplomats out of the country and demanded that Russia vacate properties in Long Island and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, supposedly for rest and recreation of the Russian diplomatic corps in the United States but suspected of also functioning to gather intelligence.

That was on December 29. The next day Michael Flynn, President-elect Trump’s presumptive National Security Advisor, spent a lot of time on the phone with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States. After those phonecalls, Russian President Vladimir Putin magnanimously decided against reciprocating, an unexpected move. Usually expulsion of diplomats is followed by an equal and opposite expulsion of the first country’s diplomats. But it was the Christmas season.

Earlier today, the Russian government Sputnik reminded the United States government of this principle of reciprocity. The Russian Embassy in the United States emphasized it with a tweet.

And a few hours later, Karen DeYoung and Adam Entous tell us that the United States government is indeed thinking of allowing the Russians to reoccupy the properties. Earlier, the United States had linked reoccupation to allowing the United States to build a consulate on a particular piece of land in St. Petersburg that the Russians had been blocking. But then that link was dropped.

Supposedly nothing is decided yet. It looks like Trump is willing to end part of the sanctions against the Russians for their election hacking just because he’s a nice guy. Or because the Russians were nice guys and didn’t reciprocate the expulsion.

 

Cross-posted to Nuclear Diner.

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Let’s go Pens

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The Penguins got lucky on Monday night. They looked like crap except for a ten minute flurry in the first period which gave them enough of a cushion to survive playing lazy defense against a team that was jumping on the counter-attack.

So now that they stole a game that they really should not win, let’s see cheer them on tonight as they try to reduce their magic number to two.

No politics in this open thread

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20 Years Ago Today…

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The mister and I tied the knot. Here’s my favorite picture from our wedding:

He’s eyeballing my food, a common theme throughout our life together. And yet he still looks the same, and I’m older and fatter despite him eating half my food all these years!

Oh well. Life isn’t fair. But it’s pretty damn sweet if you have good company for the journey. I’m a lucky woman.

Open thread!

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Hillary Clinton at CodeCon

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Hillary Clinton just wrapped up an interview at CodeCon. It went sorta like this:

I didn’t see the whole thing, but here are a few notable excerpts:

Will she run again? “No.”

On her future: “I’m not going anywhere, I have a big stake in what happens with this country. I am very unbroken about what happened because I don’t want it to happen to anyone else. I don’t want it to happen to the values and institutions that we care about in America. I’m going to keep writing and keep supporting people who are on the front lines…”

Democratic strategy going forward: “You’re absolutely right [Democrats] used to leave so many races uncontested, and we’re not going to do that anymore.”

On Russian interference in the election: “The Russians in my opinion could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided by Americans.”

On who was directing Russian interference: “I’m leaning Trump.”

Here’s the full interview (trigger warning: The intro and outro music is “Roar”):

The interview will launch thousands of dude-bro hot takes to the effect that Clinton should sit down and shut up. Trump may have to invent more genuine frontier gibberish to express the proper levels of outrage. Me? I’m glad she’s laying it all out there. We need her voice.

PS: One amusing detail: In response to a question about how well she knew Trump, Clinton said she went to “his third wedding on a lark” and noted that she sat behind Shaquille O’Neal, so she “didn’t see anything.”

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Double the intrigueingness

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So potentially talking about Presidential obstruction of justice….

And potentially following the money….

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