Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The willow is too close to the house.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Everybody saw this coming.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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Apples-to-Oranges COVID-19 Coronavirus Update – Wednesday / Thursday

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Election Year Open Thread: Onward to Nevada

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It’s on February 22, which is a Saturday, and ‘concerns are (already) being raised‘.

Some of you probably remember the less-than-salutatory 2016 caucuses in Nevada… at least when the term chair-throwing is mentioned.

Opening salvo, last night:

I don’t know much about Nevada politics (Jon Ralston is an expert), but IIRC, the Culinary Union is justly proud of its ‘Cadillac’ healthcare plan. The union fought really hard and risked a lot to get that plan, because a lot of the members work part-time jobs, often more than one; there’s a lot of second-income workers and ‘retirees’ who keep working specifically to hang onto those medical benefits. You can read the mailer in the tweet below, and it’s clear that not messing with their healthcare is a high priority with the CU for *every* Democratic candidate. It’s not exactly favorable towards Warren’s proposal, either:

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Election Year Open Thread: Elizabeth Warren Is Not Going Away

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Even if she doesn’t end up in the White House next year, Senator Warren has an important job where she can do what she loves: teaching people how to fight for their own rights. Even when she first announced her candidacy, I was afraid that would do her no favor in the eyes of the Media Village Idiots, and the coverage of Iowa and New Hampshire has verified my worst fears.

These guys don’t want to hear This is a sustained battle, and we’re all going to have to work hard and work together — they want to sit in the bleachers trading quips, while carnival barkers compete to sell the rubes the biggest, most brightly-packaged cones of cotton candy. But cotton candy soon melts into cloying insubstantiality. It won’t fill you up, but eventually it will make you sick of it…

Not to be overlooked, as the primaries wear on: Warren started with plenty of enemies, but she’s not deliberately making new ones…

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Social Media Open Thread: Minor Technical (Twitter) Bleg

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I’m not actually a registered Twitter user, because there’s only so many hours, but obviously I reuse it quite a lot. (I’m given to understand embeds count when their advertising rates are set, so fair use, IMO.)

Up until the beginning of last week, I read my favorite tweet threads on what I suspect was an obsolete ‘desktop’ version, which gave me the default-out choice of ‘Include media’ and ‘Include previous (threaded) tweet’ when I hit the Embed button. I’ve been switched, without consent, to a much more sprawling version that doesn’t seem to include these important-to-me functions… which means I can’t clip down embeds to avoid big blocks of extraneous data, random gifs, or repetition of the same ‘foundation’ tweet in multiple-tweet threads.

So, question for you media tech experts: Is there a way I can switch back to my preferred (desktop?) version? If not (I’m guessing), is there a secret hidden setting where Jack Dorsey’s minions have hidden the ‘Include media’ and ‘Include previous tweet’ editing tools? (I haven’t been able to find one, but their help functions are notoriously un-helpful.)

(I suspect the answer is no, but hope springs eternal… )

(In a better world, the funds would be used to pay down the national debt.)

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Pour One Out

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A moment of silence for Deval Patrick, who is exiting the race the way he entered it, a day late and many dollars short. Another candidacy I didn’t understand – maybe a Patrick supporter in the comments can give his campaign a more fitting eulogy.

Another moment of silence for the rule of law, which is apparently being beaten about the head and face by Trump on Twitter, though I really don’t want to look.

Open thread.

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Amy, Whatcha Gonna Do?

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As we know, four prosecutors quit the Roger Stone case yesterday, since Bill Barr decided to reverse his department’s sentencing recommendation of 7-10 years, after a Trump tweet. In my Twitter feed this morning, some lawyers (or at least some shithouse lawyers) were putting odds at 70/30 for Judge Amy Berman Jackson to call Barr to her court to have him explain the reversal in person.

Stone was in trouble with ABJ before the case even began trial, because he was distributing pictures of her head with a sniper scope image imposed on it. That resulted in a gag order from Jackson.

At the time that order was issued, I read the stories about Stone’s day in court with ABJ, and it sounded like she was extremely careful in her ruling, and definitely didn’t do any “I’m a big bad Federal judge, you are a peon” shit talking. She doesn’t seem like the type to haul Barr into court, but that’s me being a shithouse lawyer.

I’m actually surprised that Trump gives a tinker’s dam about Stone, but maybe Trump’s acquittal has emboldened him, or maybe Stone is not in the Manafort bucket in Trump’s mind. It may be that Trump has decided that Manafort was part of a Ukranian scheme to get him, but who knows what his brain worms tell him every day. My guess is that Michael Flynn, who basically went back on his plea agreement and is now trying to withdraw his guilty plea, is the next possible recipient of Trump’s largess via his wartime consigliere.

Whenever I get too infuriated with Bill Barr, piece of shit that he is, I am comforted by John Mitchell’s mug shot:

(“Shithouse lawyer” is a term I learned from an Army officer describing the legal strategies some of his troops used when they were defending themselves in what I think is called an “Article 15”. It was because they came up with their strategy while sitting in the shitter that morning. Seems apt here.)

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