Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

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

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

The revolution will be supervised.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

When we show up, we win.

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    @germy: ​
    Amazing. Nice touch that it’s within view of The Shard (fun fact: the architect is Italian). Frickin’ Romans got around.

    Found in a drain pipe, ancient Baby Ruth bar doubtless released by preteen Roman prankster.

  7. 7.

    raven

    I have never met Napoleon
    But I plan to find the time
    ‘Cause he looks so fine upon that hill
    They tell me he was lonely, he’s lonely still
    Those days are gone forever
    Over a long time ago,

  8. 8.

    cmorenc

    Um… the modern “statue of Liberty” woman beats discomforting resemblance to Melania Trump.  OTOH Melania is an American immigrant story, albeit not at all of the Ellis Island variety.

  16. 16.

    dmsilev

    Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability

    Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.

    His long-promised social network, Truth Social, has been almost entirely inaccessible in the first days of its grand debut because of technical glitches, a 13-hour outage and a [ed: self-claimed] 300,000-person waitlist.

    “The basic thing they needed to actually get right, to get someone in the door, they couldn’t get right,” said Bill Fitzgerald, a privacy researcher. The “ineptitude of the rollout,” he added, could be a warning of future issues ahead: “There is no better sign of a rushed implementation than the fact that you can’t onboard anybody. So I’m hard-pressed to understand why anyone would trust that these people would keep their information safe.”

    The site’s problems extend beyond its waitlist: Its logo — a broken capital ‘T’ with a period — is identical to the logo of Trailar, a British seller of truck solar panels. A company executive told The Washington Post that it is “seeking legal advice to understand next steps and options available to protect our brand.”

    Although Trump has criticized social networks’ “wildly aggressive censorship,” his site’s “terms of service” mark some extensive restrictions for acceptable speech. People are banned from trying to “trick” or “mislead” other users, violating anyone’s “privacy or publicity rights,” or posting messages that “depict violence” or include messages related to “sexual fetishes,” “sugar babies” or “sexually suggestive” phrases. People are also forbidden from posting anything “false,” “indecent,” “misleading,” “profane,” “obscene,” “filthy” or “otherwise objectionable.”

    How long until Trump gets banned from his own network?

    Also, 3rd-party grifters are getting in on the action:

    During the months of waiting, several copycat sites also beat Trump’s social network to the punch, including a totally unaffiliated “social app for truth” that charges users $4.99 a week. Another “Truth Social” look-alike showed a Trump rally photo next to boxes asking for people’s email addresses and passwords.

    But those sites offered something the real Truth Social could not: They worked. Even a copycat site, TMTGSocial.com, which someone unaffiliated with Trump registered after Trump’s allies first announced Truth Social in October, now has hundreds of users — posting pro-Trump content, seemingly under the impression they’ve joined the real thing.

    For months, many of them have been posting comments and photos, friending each other and following fake Trump accounts. Others have voiced their excitement that Trump is, as one said, about to “let the TRUTH PREVAIL.”

  17. 17.

    Ken

    @germy: I assume they’re cleaning the mosaic so the carpark’s asphalt will stick better.  Sure, in a sense it’s priceless as history of the very origins of London; but in the only sense that matters, it’s occupying quite a few square meters of the most expensive real estate in the world.

  20. 20.

    Baud

    @dmsilev:

    Its logo — a broken capital ‘T’ with a period — is identical to the logo of Trailar, a British seller of truck solar panels. A company executive told The Washington Post that it is “seeking legal advice to understand next steps and options available to protect our brand.”

     

    They better sue before they become the next AYDS.

  21. 21.

    Ken

    @dmsilev: Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability

    Has it lasted long enough for the marks’ payments to clear? Because I’m 99% sure that was the only design requirement for the site.

  23. 23.

    dmsilev

    @Ken: Well, it has lasted just barely long enough for Devin Nunes to accomplish one very important task:

    Truth Social has already banned an account named for a Twitter parody that targeted former congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who resigned from Congress to become the Trump company’s CEO.

  24. 24.

    CROAKER

    His long-promised social network, Truth Social, has been almost entirely inaccessible in the first days of its grand debut because of technical glitches

    reginod …

  27. 27.

    scav

    @Ken: Yup, carparks are inevitably exactly what get put on the world’s most expensive real estate.  Because the technology of lifting and moving shit is pure sci-fi fantasy.

  28. 28.

    Ohio Mom

    @Another Scott: That was very believable, until Lincoln smiled broadly enough to show his too-perfect teeth. Obviously, I don’t know what his teeth looked like but I am guessing not like he’d recently been to a cosmetic dentist and gotten veneers.

    On another, completely different unrelated note, Ohio Dad has just come in with the mail and yet another of my doctors is retiring. Looks like her replacement is barely out of medical school, and I already have one of those. Not happy about this!

  30. 30.

    bbleh

    @CaseyL: @Roger Moore: @dr. bloor:

    Shakespeare keeps having his screenplays rejected by the studios for “old-fashioned dialogue,” works part-time at a library to make ends meet.

    Da Vinci took a buyout from Bell Labs, went solo in Silicon Valley and sold out for just under a billion, and now lives in Sonoma.

    Beethoven does porn.

  31. 31.

    Kayla Rudbek

    The US Patent and Trademark Office historian has been having a good time with Black History Month on Facebook. He started off with telling the story of Henry Baker, who was a Black patent examiner at the turn of the century. Mr. Baker picked up patent examining after getting his law degree from Howard (and being racially hazed out of the Naval Academy before that). So Mr. Baker drew up a list of Black inventors/patent holders (eventually writing books on the subject); the list got read into the Congressional Record in 1894 and used by W.E.B. DuBois. And when the historian started looking

    at the list, one of the inventors (Richard America) has a living son who still has his dad’s patent information. I’m curious to see what the historian is going to find out about the other inventors on Mr. Baker’s list…

  34. 34.

    trollhattan

    @dmsilev:

    BBC interviewed chinless Trump assistant Jason Miller, unironically, about the forthcoming social medium launch and how it would be totally unlike any of those other social media launches Trump has already tried. He promises.

    Why come it’s not called TROOF? Branding fail.

  37. 37.

    A Ghost to Most

    Sounds interesting, but I have more fun assigning current actors to co-conspirators in the upcoming films. Especially the comedies.

  39. 39.

    Peale

    @Baud: Christ. So some intern responsible for the design concept when and back clicked on someone elses logo and plopped it into a PowerPoint deck. I bet they took the deck and rather than paying to complete the work, told them they were fired and went and used it as is, saving themselves $1,000.

    They are mean, but very cheap thieves.

  40. 40.

    Roger Moore

    @Ken:

    I assume they’re cleaning the mosaic so the carpark’s asphalt will stick better.  Sure, in a sense it’s priceless as history of the very origins of London; but in the only sense that matters, it’s occupying quite a few square meters of the most expensive real estate in the world.

    OTOH, the English have plenty of experience transporting antiquities from the far corners of the Earth back to London and displaying them in museums there.  It should be a piece of cake with something that’s already in London!  Maybe it can replace the Parthenon Marbles on display when they’re finally repatriated to Greece.

  46. 46.

    Bill Arnold

    @dmsilev:

    People are also forbidden from posting anything “false,”

    Well, every post on the site is a “Truth”. I imagine that a logician could amuse themselves playing with this.( I’m betting that they do not have even a basic filter that blocks posts like “True is False”?)
    Also, from screencaps, they are asserting that everything somebody posts is a Truth. The aggregate of an individual’s truths apparently must be true, and perhaps the aggregate of all truths must be true.

  50. 50.

    Ohio Mom

    @rekoob:
    My new internist is only a few years out of medical school and she does not yet have a sense of proportion. Not everything in my history is especially currently pertinent. But my policy is to give new (to me) doctors a couple of visits before passing too much judgement.

    I think a 40 year old doctor is perfect: old enough to have acquired judgement, young enough to have many years left. But twenty years later, they retire, just as you are old enough to start falling apart!

  54. 54.

    Origuy

    @Roger Moore: According to the article in the Guardian, it will be lifted and conserved. I know there have been mosaics found in fields that have been covered back over, because it’s expensive to lift them, but apparently this one must be moved. Some Roman sites in London have been built over with public access to the ancient level.

  55. 55.

    evodevo

    @Origuy: that’s the way it is in Chester…you can walk down to the sub-basement and view the Roman underpinnings of several different bldgs

  58. 58.

    Paul in KY

    @James E Powell: There’s a scene in Count Belisarus where they are trying to dismantle/break a cistern built by the Romans hundreds of years before. Turns out they can’t do it as it is built so well & strongly.  Count Belisarus notes the old ones ‘built for the ages’.

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