Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Everybody saw this coming.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

T R E 4 5 O N

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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Monday Evening Open Thread: Ramadan Mubarak!

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Best wishes to those who observe this month; may your daily fasts be uneventful and your prayers powerful.

From the AP:

… Ramadan, which begins Tuesday in Egypt and other countries across the Middle East, comes as much of the world has been hit by an intense new coronavirus wave. For many Muslims navigating restrictions, that means hopes of a better Ramadan than last year have been dashed with the surge in infection rates though regulations vary in different countries.

A time for fasting, worship and charity, Ramadan is also when people typically congregate for prayers, gather around festive meals to break their daylong fast, throng cafes and exchange visits.

Once again, some countries are imposing new restrictions. But concern is high that the month’s communal rituals could stoke a further surge.

“The lack of adherence that happened last Ramadan, hasty lifting of the curfew imposed at the time and re-opening of places of congregations … led to grave consequences that lasted for months,” said Ahmed Al-Mandhari, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean…

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  2. 2.

    Martin

    Wondering when the grievances about the NCAA pulling events out of states that pass anti-trans bills will start to hit. Those bills violate NCAA qualifying rules, and it’s not just bowl games, but also a zillion lesser followed sports that gets sprinkled around the US. Right now they’re pretty heavily sprinkled in the anti-trans states because they’re opening up to sporting events sooner. Lot of money involved.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    “I can confirm that the president of the United States does not spend his time tweeting conspiracy theories,” Psaki told reporters during a news conference, in an apparent jab at former President Donald Trump’s Twitter habits before the social-media platform permanently suspended his account after the Capitol riot on January 6.

    Psaki’s comments were in response to GOP Sen. John Cornyn after he tweeted excerpts from a Politico article that called Biden’s tweets “unimaginably conventional.”

    “The president is not doing cable news interviews,” Cornyn tweeted, quoting the Politico article. “Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional. The public comments are largely scripted. Biden has opted for fewer sit down interviews with mainstream outlets and reporters.”

  5. 5.

    dmsilev

    @Baud:

    Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional

    This was one of the things I liked about Biden in the primary, and it’s even better now that he’s in office.

    I mean, sure, Cornyn is, once again, trying to push that ‘Biden is a mindless puppet’ attack line, because goodness knows it worked so well the first umpteen times it was tried.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    I chased down the tweet; apparently Cornyn didn’t say it himself. Rather, he cut and pasted from Politico without using quotation marks or providing attribution (i.e., plagiarism). Many of the replies are funny, but this one wins the day:

    Imagine being so fucking stupid you think a president behaving competently is actually a problem.
    — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) April 12, 2021

  10. 10.

    Joe Falco

    @espierce:

    Florida saw what happened when North Carolina passed its own anti-trans bill a few years ago with the NCAA pulling out events as a result and said, “Hold my beer.”

  11. 11.

    laura

    Wishing a joyful and contemplative Ramadan to all who adhere and especially beloved commenter Amir Khalid.

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    Vice President Harris is making her mark on the Washington-area crochet scene

    When Vice President Harris visited a woman-owned yarn shop in Alexandria last month, she mentioned a little-known fact about herself that left the fiber arts community a bit giddy.

    The new vice president is a crocheter.

    “I was raised by a mother who said ‘I am not going to let you sit in front of that television doing nothing.’ And so I have crocheted more afghans than I can tell you,” Harris said while visiting the store. “And our daughter is a knitter.”

    At the shop, Harris found out about a special hand-dyed yarn named in her honor (Observatory Circle) from Neighborhood Fiber Co., a woman-owned Baltimore-based business. Five days later, on International Women’s Day, a crocheted mural of Harris’s likeness and the words “I’m Speaking” was installed at the Wharf. And with all the Googling of “Kamala Harris and crochet” there was a spike at craftyiscool.comof online sales for a pattern to crochet a Harris doll in the Japanese style of amigurumi. (Translated from the Japanese, amigurumi means little knitted toy, says Allison Hoffman who owns the Austin business, “but I tell people that I crochet small dolls and cute toys out of yarn.”)

  14. 14.

    PST

    I remember a few years ago wishing a cheerful Ramadan Mubarak to a business acquaintance who I assumed was a Muslim because he had an Arabic name. He laughed and said thank you, but his family had been Christians for about as long as that was even possible; nevertheless he appreciated the thought.

  15. 15.

    Gin & Tonic

    So I know there’s been some commentary here from some bozos about how the Mazda MX-5 is a feminine car. Since I am comfortable with my masculinity, I went and bought one today. What a fun car (for those people who think cars are fun.)

  16. 16.

    Gin & Tonic

    @dmsilev: Back in 2008, I was at an event where I met an older white woman who mentioned that she was a member of “knitters for Obama.” I don’t hear all that well when there’s a lot of ambient noise, so there was kind of an awkward, long pause before I figured out how to respond.

  18. 18.

    Dan B

    Now the presence of men in dashiki’s in the neighborhood makes sense.  There are a couple mosques around.  One seems nice.  The other is not.  There are a couple markets which reminds me I should get some Injera the soft pancake like bread.

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    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    I’m eligible for vaccines at midnight!

    I 100% credit Joe for accelerating the schedule. PA was stuck in group 1A week after week, month after month. Biden started pushing for acceleration and around Apr 1 PA announced that they would be opening groups 1B, 1C and 2 on Apr 5, 12 and 19 (that was actually before Biden announced Apr 19 as a new national target).

    Well today Gov. Wolf has announced that the doors open for everybody tomorrow, Apr 13.

    This is what leadership looks like.

  20. 20.

    Bill Arnold

    Can somebody explain why the contemporary depicted crescent moon is always lit past 180 degrees?
    The Sumerians usually got it right, with a common depiction of Innana (venus), Nanna/Suen/Sin (the new/crescent moon[1], depicted, is his peak), and Utu/Shamash (sun).
    (Is the star in elongated crescent it just artistic license? Did somebody observe a small lunar asteroid impact during a crescent moon? Etc.)

    [1] Moon is new in several hours! https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/

  23. 23.

    Ken

    @Steeplejack (phone): I must say I admire how Matthew Gertz is taking his sudden fame.  Does anyone know his politics before this started?  He seems fairly sane, and willing to call out idiocy, now.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    @Ken:

    He works for Media Matters for America, “the nation’s premier progressive media watchdog,” so I think he’s one of the good guys.

    The “I am not Matt Gaetz” thing has been around for a while, just rocketed into the stratosphere lately because of—well, you know.

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