Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Infrastructure week. at last.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

T R E 4 5 O N

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Let there be snark.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Bark louder, little dog.

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  2. 2.

    debbie

    I think this is the first time this week my heart’s been gladdened. This is all good news!

  5. 5.

    Kay

    Enforcement in the state’s public school systems of Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates has been dropped, for now, the Texas Education Agency said Thursday.
    In a public health guidance letter, the TEA said enforcement was being dropped because of ongoing court challenges to the ban. The letter said the new guidance is effective immediately and further guidance will be issued once the litigations are resolved.
    In an emergency order issued last month, Abbott reiterated his ban on mask mandates by any government entity, although federal agencies have mandated masks in their facilities. The governor and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have said they would sue any entity that does not comply with the emergency order. No such lawsuit has been filed. The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the ban, but that hasn’t stopped dozens of entities from imposing mask mandates.
    The TEA guidance was issued in the wake of multiple court challenges mounted by parents, advocates for disabled children and local governments and school boards. Seven counties and 48 school districts have implemented mask mandates, Abbott’s ban notwithstanding. A state district court judge also has granted restraining orders to Harris County and several South Texas school districts that allow those entities to proceed with mask mandates. Another state district judge issued an order Thursday that allows Fort Bend County, which adjoins Harris County, to order mask-wearing in county buildings.

  6. 6.

    JPL

    In GA when you get your driver’s license, you are automatically registered to vote, unless you opt out.    Stacy was involved in getting the rest registered.   Now we have to get them out to vote.    We need to send Warnock back to the Senate.

  7. 7.

    Balconesfault

    But how many of those voter registrations will Georgia manage to purge before the next election without notification so the registration holders wait in line for four hours and then get to the front of the line before they find out?

    I’m sure that is the goal of the provision preventing counties from sending out voter registration forms … the county can identify that you have been purged and don’t know it, but they can’t just send you a form unless you request it …

  8. 8.

    Balconesfault

    @Kay: my favorite is the Paris Tx ISD, which circumvented to order by just making masks part of the dress code.

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:

    Uh huh

    Uh huh ?

     

    Going to try and kill children with this.

    Not giving parents the means to try and protect their children, all the while this muthaphucka is tested everyday ??

    And has a booster shot already ?

  13. 13.

    Mary G

    @JPL: In California we can go online to check the status of our voter registration – do you have that in GA?

  16. 16.

    JPL

    @Mary G: Yes    In fact right before your comment, Low Key pointed that out.    There were a little over a hundred thousand purged recently and thousands already fixed their registration.   Here it is easy to register, but it will be key to get out the vote.

    Local elections are coming up and they are non partisan.   One of the candidates for council is an anti-masker.    ugh    Even though her children are graduated, she made a point of going to the Fulton County School Board meeting.

  22. 22.

    rikyrah

     

    Putting her on your radar. She is an excellent candidate

    Cheri Beasley (@CheriBeasleyNC) tweeted at 1:09 PM on Thu, Aug 19, 2021:
    It was the pursuit of justice that led me to become a public defender after law school. It was the pursuit of justice that inspired me to become Chief Justice. And it is the pursuit of justice that inspires me to serve the people of NC as your next Senator from this great state. https://t.co/y2tUar36LK
    (https://twitter.com/CheriBeasleyNC/status/1428418874358255619?s=03)

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    Some news from Malaysia: Ismail Sabri Yaakob, currently deputy PM in outgoing PM Muhyiddin Yassin’s caretaker Cabinet, has received the formal support of a majority of Members of Parliament to succeed Muhyiddin in the big job.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    It is pleasantly dark and rainy here in my patch of NoVA this morning. Currently 73° and going up only to about 80° today. Nice change from the heat.

  27. 27.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Steeplejack (phone): I left yesterday’s morning thread because there was stuff to do, but you asked about computer-based Go. I’ve run several apps over the years. Currently I have one called PVGo on my phone – “PV” stands for “practice and verify” which is a mode I like. You can work through situations, go back and forth, see what the AI is suggesting, without necessarily committing to a whole game. But, life being what it is, I don’t spend that much time at it.

  29. 29.

    Anonymous At Work

    Job Report gets even (anecdotally) better: I ran into two fast-food places that have recently shut down to insufficient staffing and heard my first radio ad for 7-11 and Racetrack cashiers. So, not only are more Americans finding work, they are finding better work than McJobs.
    I’d say that the CREW legal win was good news if I thought that he had any inclination to follow the law. Maybe this will be excuse to fire DeJoy but if the USPS Board had those votes, he’d be out by now.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Thanks for getting back to me on that. Seems like I looked some years ago and didn’t see anyything good, but I know the app/​game world changes rapidly.

    My skills have atrophied so much I would have trouble defending a 5×5 grid. ?

  33. 33.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Balconesfault: ​, @Low Key Swagger: ​, @JPL: ​
    @Dorothy A. Winsor:
    “Here’s what Abrams has to say about this:
    Reminder – voter suppression has 3 tests:1. Can you register & stay on the rolls?2. Can you cast a ballot?3. Does your ballot get counted?States (like GA) mix & match obstacles. We need #ForThePeopleAct + #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct. Stay alert. Stay the course. #OurTimeIsNow https://t.co/PtaEotwe1j— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) August 20, 2021″
     ​ 

    Here’s one of the ways Balloon Juice readers can support the GA effort: https://balloon-juice.com/all-2021-fundraising/

    Contributions to Four Directions, which is joining with Stacey Abrams and her Fair Fight Action team, are focusing on Democratic victories in GA’s 2022 election.

    We can help! (If online contributions are unappealing, Four Directions’ mailing address is:
    Four Directions, Inc.
    PO Box 731
    Chamberlain, SD 57325
    and their website is: http://www.fourdirectionsvote.com​

  34. 34.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    @rikyrah: saw a quiet (because it was like six people) vigil at esther short park in vancouver wa this past weekend for that covidiot jimbo that got his shit wrecked in portland last august.

    i restrained myself from telling his patriots pride compatriots that their homie fuckedaround n’ found out.

  38. 38.

    Jeffro

    Thank you, Stacey!

    Now get with the program, Dems, and register everyone in the fucking country.  You can skip those without proof of vaccination or a mask, though.

  39. 39.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: A lot of people want to see their stars on the national stage. But Stacey Abrams knows how much the people of Georgia need a good Governor, and I think she intends to be a great one.

  41. 41.

    WereBear

    Recent discussions of Republican idiocy here have focused on the danger of being primaried from the right. From a recent VICE article:

    Abbott, who is up for re-election next year, is notably facing a primary challenge from former state GOP chair Allen West, who has criticized his handling of the pandemic as somehow too restrictive.

    They won’t stop until they are stopped.

  42. 42.

    Geminid

     

    @WereBear: Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will also face real challenges in their primaries next year. Kemp could be in trouble, especially if former Senator David Perdue runs. It is said that trump still considers Kemp a traitor for not helping subvert last year’s Georgia Presidential election result, and would endorse Perdue.

    I think Abbott and DeWine will win their primaries, but some of the radicals in their party hate the “RINO” establishment as much or more than they do Democrats, and could sit the general election out. Republican candidates in Texas and Ohio can’t afford to lose many voters from either end of their coalition.

    Republican disaffection may have turned the Georgia Senate runoffs. Historically, Republicans have a turnout advantage in Georgia runoffs, and consistently win them. This time, though, the Republican vote dropped by 200,000 from November to January, while Democtatic turnout dropped by only 100,000, and this made the difference.

  43. 43.

    Feathers

    Great news about the student loan forgiveness for the disabled. Hope this isn’t where it ends.

  44. 44.

    J R in WV

    Interestingly, I tried to reply to a rickyrah comment, my internet connection failed and my comment didn’t post, leaving me with a try again button.

    Well, when the internet connection recovered and I clicked on the try again button, which would normally post the comment data, I got the Duh, “You’re posting too quickly, please slow down!” screen, and my comment was lost and gone.

    The absurd weather makes sat connections very unstable. I wonder if what’s his name’s web of sats will every really work for internet connectivity? Could be a shit ton of money thrown down the climate change rathole.

  45. 45.

    Kayla Rudbek

    Good news: my insurance company finally approved the lactose free tamoxifen. Now to get the pharmacy to actually fill the prescription before we leave on our trip to Maine.

    And I’m one of the people who’s looking at changing jobs. So far I have applied to two different ones with my current agency. I’ve even been looking at the CIA but I’m really going back and forth on that.

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