Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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Meeting the Neighbors

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I had to drop Lily off at the vet this morning, as she is having her teefus cleaned and having a benign tumor removed from her bum, so keep her in your thoughts. Afterward, I went berry picking at some of my spots, and on the way ran into a nice young family:

You can’t really tell from the stationary picture, but you can see almost a dozen little jakes and jennys there:

I like how after I complimented them, they talked back (you gotta listen closely). Good haul at the spots- picked another gallon back in under an hour. I’m up to about 4 gallons frozen, so I’m going to have to start setting it up soon as preserves.

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The ACA is going back to SCOTUS next year

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The Affordable Care Act is heading back to the Supreme Court for next session.

But this is case will not rule on the constitutionality of a bananapants lawsuit from Texas saying that Congress truly meant to repeal the ACA when they made the mandate penalty a zero dollar penalty. That case is still percolating. Instead, this is a case about the risk corridors that weren’t paid out from 2014-2016.

The fundamental question at issue is where does the “full faith and credit” of the United States end when Congress wants “take backsies?”

Nick Bagley of the University of Michigan Law School has been bird dogging this case as a matter of administrative and appropriations law. He has a great summary at The Incidental Economist:

In a surprise, the Supreme Court agreed this morning to hear cases arising out of the risk corridor mess. At issue is $12 billion in federal money, and the case’s outcome will hinge on what Congress meant when it placed limits on the use of appropriated funds in an effort to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

The Federal Circuit held that Congress, in placing those limits, qualified an earlier promise made in the ACA to make risk corridor payments to insurers that lost big on the exchanges. As I’ve explained many times, I think that decision is wrong. We’ll see if the Supreme Court agrees….

I will let the lawyers lawyer. The relevant question I can poke at is what does this mean for premiums and plan offerings going forward?

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: RESIST

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On the Road and In Your Backyard

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Good Morning All,

As we move closer to the new site launch, I wanted to remind you to submit things now via the form or to hold off until the new site is live.  The old email address is dead and until the new site is live, there’s no replacement.

I will push all submissions I get into drafts so that, when the new site launches, there’s a bunch of posts ready to go while the dust settles. I don’t expect the new site to launch immediately, but that time is fast approaching, and when it’s ready, it will birth. Now is the time to “stack up” some submissions to ease any content woes when the time comes.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the picture!

 

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2020 Election Open Thread: The Debate Countdown

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NBC, “Here are the rules for the first Democratic debate”:

… Candidates will have 60 seconds to answer questions and 30 seconds to respond to follow-ups. And there will be no opening statements, though candidates will have a chance to deliver closing remarks.

The two-hour debates will zip by quickly, with five segments each night separated by four commercial breaks…

“It’s a little bit of exaggeration calling it a debate,” former Vice President Joe Biden joked in Iowa earlier this month. “It’s like a lightning round.”…

Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart will moderate the debates from the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.

(To repeat: Chuck Todd has no business being on that stage.)

Reminder, not everybody — not even likely voters! — is caught up on their reading:

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Another SpaceX Launch – Most Complicated Satellite Deploy Evah!

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Folks,

Tonight at 11:30 Eastern, the launch window opens for yet another Falcon Heavy launch from SpaceX, reusing side boosters from the April 2019 Arabsat 6a Falcon Heavy launch. The turnaround time – 73 days from that April 11 launch – is impressive, to put it mildly. They’re on their game.

After the launch, the boosters should land (in unison!) and the center rocket will hopefully touch down on the offshore drone ship. Watching the boosters begin to descend, burn, drift, turn, burn, drift, etc. is just amazing.  It never gets old watching it happen for each new launch. And of course the final landings – solo or couple, land or sea – are just a nailbiter every time.

This will be an ambitious, complicated launch of a number of classified satellites and is a “demo tape” to gain a bunch more US military contracts. I expect their experience with the recent Starlink launch to deploy a host of satellites will inform their approach, but as Elon Musk has called this the most risky launch they’ve done, there’s a not-inconsiderable chance of spectacular failure.

Should be fun. I’ll be asleep hopefully but will watch the recording tomorrow morning and be able to FFWD through much of the slow time. I wish I was a Mountain Time/West Coaster or the night owl I was in my 20’s for such events.

 

 

Enjoy, night shift, and open thread!

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