Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Not all heroes wear capes.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

This fight is for everything.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

We will not go back.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

“Alexa, change the president.”

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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

So many bastards, so little time.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

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  1. 1.

    Steeplejack

    Hurricanes? Plural? I thought Henri was a hurricane for about 20 minutes and missed any “major” metropolis.

  3. 3.

    CCL

    Power is back.  Trees are down.  Everyone here is safe and sound.*

    *actually not so sure about the sound part.

  4. 4.

    Bruuuuce

    We’ve gotten a couple of inches of rain here in Poughkeepsie and are slated for maybe another couple of inches as the storm wanders west then gets blown out to sea via Massachusetts, but so far, no ill effects.

  5. 5.

    Chacal Charles Caltrop

    Henri was just a lot of rain – and it looks like the flooding is worse in Tennessee.

    That said, it was amusing tonight to walk around Manhattan & realize that the exceedingly expensive new buildings facing the Hudson that had put up their “acqua  fence” and “fence guard” now had flood protections that….didn’t touch each other where the two buildings met at their property line. So any tidal surge would just go through that gap and flood both buildings.

    ‘narrator voice: there was no flood surge.

  6. 6.

    Poe Larity

    My sisters/bils boat in Newport weathered the storm. It was supposed to be pulled tomorrow for a road trip. They’re always spectacular in their timing.

    Missed the party. Reading her twitter, perhaps young ABL should do performance art bannings once a week here to keep the cranky olds between the lines.

  7. 7.

    Bruuuuce

    @Chacal Charles Caltrop: There was a lot of flooding, in New Jersey, especially. There were also areas flooded in Westchester and on Long Island. Not as badly as feared. fortunately, but there were folks being taken out of floods on rafts.

  12. 12.

    Nutmeg again

    Supposedly I was — not so much flooding, since I don’t live right at the shore. But was supposed to get high winds (60-80 mph) and lots ‘o rain.  Never happened!  We got rain on and off during the afternoon, and a bit of wind. I’m grateful that no trees came down, unlike last summer when I lost a really nice big sugar maple. Grumble grumble. But no, around here Henri has been a non-event. Just as well! (eta I’m in CT near the Big River)

  13. 13.

    Redshift

    The subdivided old house in Salem where my niece rents an apartment got flooded in the earlier rains (Thursday, I think.) Her apartment isn’t in the ground floor, so her stuff is okay, but she’s going to have to find a new place to live because of the damage to the building.

  15. 15.

    DC

    @Chacal Charles Caltrop:

    That’s amazing, I wonder if they’ll fix it next time.
    I’m curious where exactly you saw the misaligned fences since I used to live in Battery Park City. Seems like it could be there.

  18. 18.

    laura

    This was the first non smokey day in at least a week or so but the Caldor fire is raging and has closed highway 50 -if we could get some of the excess rain, we’d be so grateful. These are sure worrisome times.

  19. 19.

    Steeplejack

    @CCL:

    Thanks! With BJ’s national (and even international) commentariat, some idea of location provides essential context.

  21. 21.

    TMC

    Visiting friends in Trumbull, CT where less than an inch of rain fell in 24 hrs; then clear sailing more rain tomorrow. Headed for Maine on Wednesday where the weather is predicted to be glorious.

  22. 22.

    FlyingToaster (Tablet)

    We had a power spike that set off the fire alarm in WarriorTeen’s bedroom, right at the height of the wind — which was only ~25mph sustained.  Disconnected and set outside, batteryless, to discharge.

    No uprootings, limbfalls or power outages from Henri so far, but he’ll be back in the morning so we’ll see.

    Most of the wind damage was RI and CT.  The rain, on top of our already saturated soil, will cause uprootings tonight if the wind gets high enough up here in MA and tomorrow in NH & ME.  I think NY is seeing the flash flooding right now.

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    Redshift

    @Chacal Charles Caltrop: Some years back, developers in DC built a high-rise retail/condo building with a six-level underground parking garage right on the river. They were very proud of the flood gates that could be raised around the riverside retail portion. It took a couple of years, but when a hurricane eventually came through, the flood plain they’d built on flooded, and the river came around to the street side and filled up the parking garage, which had no flood barriers. There were news stories about totaled Bentleys.

    Locals like us were just waiting for this to happen. Did I mention that they’d gotten the city to rename the street it was on, which used to be called Water Street because it flooded during storms, and that still wasn’t enough of a clue for them?

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    frosty

    I clicked on everyone’s links here and would like to thank the commenters who gave the advice of getting rid of the Twitter cookies. It’s back to the way it used to be with no annoying pop-up asking me to sign in. Yay and thanks!

  30. 30.

    Kattails

    @frosty: oh good for you, I couldn’t see how to do it in my system, but didn’t try that hard.
    Cole thanks for asking, all’s well so far in NH. Got more rain a couple of weeks ago, 5” in a day. I had been visiting my sister and during the drive home, usually 40 minutes, it came down so hard I could not see the road & had to backtrack to a friend’s house for the night. Some nasty washouts.

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    Shit be on fire here, so a demicane would be welcome. Instead we get smoke. Ugh.

    Nevertheless, be safe, you overly rained folks. We know what that’s like too. Just not in recent memory.

  34. 34.

    Barney

    @oatler:  “22 dead, many missing”. Horrible, and, as far as I can tell, not connected with Henri – just wave after wave of thunderstorms in a few hours.

  35. 35.

    bluefoot

    @HumboldtBlue: ​
      The analogy he uses that the vaccine is like game film is freaking brilliant. Your cells read the mRNA to learn how to attack the virus the same way you watch game film to learn how to beat the opposition.

    I’m not on Twitter, but I am going to share that as far as I can.

  37. 37.

    Kosh III

    @Chacal Charles Caltrop: The flooding here in Tennessee was far far worse. the town of Waverly is demolished, 22+ dead and dozens unaccounted.  The foreman of Loretta Lynn’s ranch was killed by the flood.
    We should be moving all habitations away from water but it won’t happen.

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