Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

Books are my comfort food!

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Giving up is unforgivable.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

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

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

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Election Year 2020: Elizabeth Warren Is Ready to Do the Work

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Under the Radar

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There’s a lot of negativity about Bernie in the comments, but he’s at a steady 15-25% in the polls and he sure can raise money from his small donors:

Sen. Bernie Sanders raised $34.5 million in the final three months of 2019 for his White House bid, his campaign said Thursday — a massive sum fueled by his online fundraising machine that may send a financial jolt throughout the Democratic race.

Sanders raised more than $96 million in 2019 alone, and his fourth-quarter total is one of the biggest quarterly hauls reported by a presidential candidate at this point in the campaign.

I’m not supporting Bernie, but we need to get real about his candidacy. He is a contender and pretending he’s not, shitting on him because he’s an Independent, complaining about his asshole supporters (there are plenty of them, but ~20% of the Democratic electorate are not assholes), hating on AOC because she endorsed him, etc. is not a strategy for consolidating his supporters after his likely but not inevitable primary loss. A better strategy is to figure out why people like Bernie, and to pick the winners in his positions and rhetoric for the 2020 race. The best strategy is to learn how to raise money the way his campaign has been doing, and adopt that for the general.

If he was polling at 2%, we’d have the luxury of daily ragegasms directed at Bernie and his supporters. He isn’t and we don’t, if we want to beat Trump.

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Julián Castro Ends Presidential Bid

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From The Times:

Julián Castro, the former housing secretary who was the only Latino candidate in the Democratic primary, said Thursday he would end his bid for the presidency, capping a yearlong campaign where despite struggling in the polls, he remained an enduring contender and policy pacesetter on immigration and fighting poverty.

Does this mean identical twin brother Joaquin can shave his beard? On a more serious note, I don’t think this is the last we’ll hear from the Castro brothers.

Open thread.

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On The Road – arrieve – Newfoundland

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Good morning, all, I hope this finds you well in this new year.

Today we’re off to Newfoundland, wahoo!

 

I spent two weeks traveling around Newfoundland in August. It wasn’t a place I’d ever planned to visit, but I wasn’t up to the Arctic trip I originally had planned, and stumbled across this Road Scholar tour when I was looking around for something less strenuous and closer to home. It turned out to be a wonderful trip, not remotely a consolation prize, to a quirky, rugged and beautiful island, and I would love to go back.

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St. John'sAugust 16, 2019

Quidi Vidi (pronounced Kitty Viddy, or occasionally, Kwydah Vyda) is an old fishing village now part of St. John’s. The greenish building in the back is the Quidi Vidi Brewing Company, creator of much of the beer for sale on the island.

Thursday Morning Open Thread: Back to the Work

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2020 Don't Be Like 2019 - Tom Toles

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(So much for comforting fictions about improving one’s diet in the new year… )

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Nope, Joe Biden Is (Still) Not A White Supremacist

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I’d like to believe this particular calumny will be obsolete by morning, but I suspect it’s actually a warning that 2020 is gonna be even dumber than 2019…

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The Death of Shame

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Some things just leave me speechless:

A year ago, Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher was wearing drab prison scrubs at a brig near San Diego, facing murder charges that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life. Now he is modeling his own lifestyle clothing brand, endorsing nutrition supplements and positioning himself as a conservative influencer with close ties to the man who helped clear him — President Trump.

It wasn’t always this way, was it? People used to have some shame, right? Like, William Calley didn’t launch a cologne brand or something and I just missed it, right?

We live in the worst timeline.

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