Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Not all heroes wear capes.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

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

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

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Let there be snark.

How stupid are these people?

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

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

Republicans in disarray!

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

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On The Road After Dark – Mike in Oly – Fall Foliage – Olympia, WA

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Have the photos in the Fall Colors series inspired you to send in your own?  If so, now’s the time.  Thanks. :-)

Mike in Oly

Some of the fall foliage photos I have taken around my hometown of Olympia, WA. The native trees here are not all that showy for all color, but the city trees like to show off.

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Olympia, WA

Our State Capitol building above Capitol Lake. IIRC it was the largest free-standing done of its kind in the US when it was built.

Wednesday Evening Open Thread: The NYTimes Field-Trials Its Official Biden Hate-Stalker

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Sure, court stenographer Maggie Haberman may have provided four years of comfy-chair interrogation to the Trump Crime Cartel, but now that there will be a Democrat in the White House, the NYTimes is bringing back the snipers. And Politico alum Ken Vogel has been diligently laundering ‘troubling implications’ concerning the Biden family for years now!

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Georgia: Volunteer, Donate and Discuss

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This fight for the two senate seats in Georgia is a fight for everything.  Imagine a world without Mitch McConnel running the show in the senate.  Imagine that.  And let’s make it happen.

Lots of good information below – if you’re interested in learning more about Georgia and the organizing that helped turn Georgia blue.

I learned that Stacey Abrams is sharing some of the money that comes in to Fair Fight with some of the smaller organizations that have been on the ground for years – the ones that helped turn Georgia blue.  So fo folks who specifically want to give to organizers, that’s one more reason to give to Fair Fight rather than giving directly to the campaigns themselves.  Or want to do both!

Fair Fight provided a link to their events.  There are two new events: a training for both phone and text banking and one for phone banks for the coming weekend.

? Make a Difference in the Georgia Runoff Elections

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Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight are distributing some of their donations to organizations on the ground that need help.  So donating to Fair Fight is a great choice if you really want to make a difference.

Donate to Fair Fight.

Donate to GASenate.com  (donations split evenly between Ossoff, Warnock, and Fair Fight)

Fair Fight Georgia  Volunteer request form.

Phone bank into Georgia with Fair Fight.

Learn more about Fair Fight.

Stacey Abrams thanked these organizations for the win on Nov 3.

  • New Georgia Project
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (AAAJ – Atlanta)
  • Black Voters Matter
  • Georgia Democrats
  • GALEO

*You can learn about these organizations below.

 

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The New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register and civically engage Georgians.  It was founded by Stacey Abrams in 2010.

​Georgia’s population is growing and becoming increasingly diverse. Over the past decade, the population of Georgia increased 18%. The New American Majority – people of color, those 18 to 29 years of age, and unmarried women – is a significant part of that growth. The New American Majority makes up 62% of the voting age population in Georgia, but they are only 53% of registered voters.

Phone bank into Georgia with the New Georgia Project.

Learn more about The New Georgia Project.

 

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Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta  (AAAJ – Atlanta)

Protecting the civil and human rights of Asian Americans in Georgia and the Southeast.  We defend, protect, and advance the rights of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians and other immigrants at all levels of government.

Learn more about AAAJ – Atlanta.

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Our goal is to increase power in our communities.  Effective voting allows a community to determine its own destiny.

Donate and text bank for Georgia with Black Voters Matter.

Learn more about Black Voters Matter.

 

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Georgia Democrats

Learn more about the Georgia Democrats.

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GALEO’s mission is to increase civic engagement and leadership of the Latino/Hispanic community across Georgia.

Learn more about GALEO.

Take Action. Get Involved!

Warnock Volunteer request form.

GA Runoff Interest Form – fill this out if you want to help with the runoff

Jon Ossoff Campaign – get started here

Ossoff Upcoming Virtual Field Training


Volunteer for Georgia with Vote Save America.


Write postcards for Georgia with the Georgia Postcard Project.

 


Write postcards for Georgia with Postcards to Voters.

 

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Write postcards for Georgia with Postcard Patriots.

 

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Write letters to Georgia with VoteFWD.

 

Donate!

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

Goal Thermometer

Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 311,771, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount) and YES, this includes the 2018 race.

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 27,997, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount)

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Some Great Resources

How to help in Georgia (from Sam Wang)

Georgia Runoff Information Sheet (crowd sourced)

Toolkit for BIPOC & Civic Engagement GOTV for GA Runoff Election

Mobilize Events for the Georgia Runoff

Please let me know if you guys come across any great resources.

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Senile or Clueless, And Does It Matter?

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I realize this is minor compared to the horrifying display with Lindsey Graham, but she really, really needs to retire. It’s a pretty bitter pill to swallow that, if she were to get sick, her care would be so much better than the average 80-something year-old in pretty much any state in the USA. She should act as though she understands that.

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Some Real Courage

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The Dakotas are getting a lot of (well deserved) bad press because of their elected idiots and a bunch of allied COVIDiots, but there are a lot of very courageous healthcare workers there risking their lives in overcrowded, understaffed hospitals. Here’s one of them, Jodi Doering, an ED nurse, who got a few minutes of attention for this set of tweets over the weekend:


Of course, like anyone else telling the truth about COVID, she received a lot of threats, and her reply shows what she’s made of:


Here’s her interview on CNN. Really worth a watch, especially since I timed it to cut out Dollar Store Sarah Palin’s (Gov. Kristi Noem) stupid comments. And, by the way, that’s a real South Dakota/North Dakota accent. Marge on Fargo had a rural Minnesota accent.

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Precautions Work

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Monroe County (Rochester) New York is trending towards becoming an “orange zone” (average 4% positive rate on a 7 day rolling average). This would mean that schools would be required to go online only. But, as part of being a “yellow zone”, we are required to test 20% of the in-school population, and right now the positive rate in schools is 0.14% on a significant (~3650) number of tests.

This means, put simply, that COVID precautions work. Kids in the districts being tested are going to school daily with masks and distancing. They’re not coming to school obviously sick, and they’re not spreading it if they’re not obviously sick. Based on this finding, our county public health commissioner is going to recommend that schools stay open even if we become an orange zone.

The sad part of this is that the testing isn’t happening in the mostly brown, low-achieving Rochester City schools, because they’re online, for a variety of reasons that include total chaos in the administration after the last superintendent basically hid a $60 million budget shortfall. Our mostly white, high-achieving suburban schools are being tested and doing well, even though the suburban towns where they’re located have just gone through a post-Halloween spike. The kids who can least afford to miss school are being hurt the most.

Well, I guess it could be worse — they could live in North or South Dakota.

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