Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Books are my comfort food!

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

In my day, never was longer.

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

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Let me file that under fuck it.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

The National Guard is not Batman.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

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  5. 5.

    something fabulous

    OMG miraculous. What great news! My dad had a series of small strokes in the late 90s and then again about 10 years later. Amazing how much more that could be done even in that span– I am hopeful treatments have continued to improve at that pace. All paws crossed for Minna!!

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    “Mom’s coming from Taiwan?”

    “GET ME THE FUCK OUTTA THIS BED NOW!!!”

    Called it. I was not expecting this much good news this quickly however.

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    Great!

    @Yutsano: When I first came to BJ, I was under the impression that you and she were a couple in real life and you used the comment threads here as love talk.

  22. 22.

    Mary G

    In other fine news:

    Gavin Newsom will pass 600,000 small donations for more than $13 million. 90% from Californians. He has 20,000+ vols, and 9,500+ in a volunteer Slack – they’ve sent more than 40 million texts. All in 6 months. Compares favorably to almost all presidential campaigns. t.co/I20paxpUfl
    — Tim Tagaris (@ttagaris) September 11, 2021

    New: Gavin Newsom’s surge to the recall finish line has been powered by a mountain of big money.

    More than $48 million from $100,000+ donations.

    He’s outspent his whole 2018 election.t.co/Aguagwh1xV
    — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) September 11, 2021

    Thanks for all the money you Koch ratfuckers poured into our economy, assholes, let’s do it again sometime!

  26. 26.

    trollhattan

    Wonderful news. I hope it portends more good things to come.

    In handegg news, Farley is having too much fun over the Ducks defeat of the Buckeyes. It’s always a good day when the Buckeyes lose, except when playing SEC. #FuckYouCorpseOfWoodyHayes

  40. 40.

    JWR

    I actually had a stroke back in 2011, (at age 53!), and my recovery was a very long, incredibly strange journey, with equally strange fantasies and dreams. (I’ve never mentioned it here, til now, because I’m just not wired that way.) But all my best to Asiangrrl, for a complete recovery.

  49. 49.

    J R in WV

    Great news. One of my dad’s best friends had a terrible stroke, and recovered to have her annual Bastille Day picnic for many years. So expecting Asiangurrl to make a clean and full recovery! YaY!!

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