Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

We’re not going back!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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#LibsofTikTok Open Thread: Be Sure Thy Sin Will Find Thee Out

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In parochial school, I was taught that the Old Testament quote in the title was akin to Tony Hillerman’s Coyote is always waiting, and He is always hungry. We all have a proclivity towards some variety of community-damaging chaos, and the Lord of Chaos never stops looking for lures. In modern Puritan-based American thinking, it’s come to mean Whatever wrong you do, your community will discover and you will be publicly shamed. The noisy kerfuffle over Chaya Raichik’s #LibsofTikTok lies at the intersection between those ideas (i.e., internal vs. performative ‘morality’).

Recap:

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Latest update:

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  2. 2.

    Lyrebird

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Break a leg, Mustang Bobby.

    Ditto!

    And Anne Laurie, I wonder if the best of your former teachers are laughing in the afterlife, seeing how you have applied your education.

    No need to believe in any afterlife, just in irony.  Your writing is amazing.

  3. 3.

    Cameron

    Christ, an old colleague of mine works for the Trevor Project.  She’d probably strangle this person if she could get her hands on her.

  5. 5.

    burnspbesq

    Manafort thought Trump got him off the hook. Well, not so fast, boyo.

    DOJ has filed suit to collect the better part of three million bucks in civil failure-to-file-FBAR penalties assessed by the IRS for 2013 and 2014.

    The jury in his criminal case deadlocked 11-1 for conviction on the counts involving those years. Those years are pretty clearly outside the scope of the pardon, which only covers offenses for which he was convicted. Really poor drafting.

    The assessments were made in 2020, so there is no statute of limitation issue.

    Pay up, muthaf***a.

    BWAHAHAHA.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/28/paul-manafort-trump-lawsuit-00028717

  6. 6.

    Cameron

    And, since this is an open thread, has anybody else here seen the upcoming celebration referred to as “Cinco de MAGA?”  I saw it on Eventbrite but couldn’t find it again.

  7. 7.

    Suzanne

    HAAAAY, so some good news…. the quality human specimen who broke into my house got arrested! It’s been really weighing on us, because ever since the incident, there have been two other instances in which he has gotten fucked up on drugs and caused trouble. This weekend, Mr. Suzanne and I went to dinner and I got a call from my neighbor… dude got high and went out on his fire escape and started screaming that he was having an overdose. She called 911 but he ran by the time they arrived. Anyway… YAY.

    I am in Philly and masks are a joke. I was walking down Chestnut Street at 6:30 pm and there was this dude, wearing an untied bathrobe and mismatched shoes talking to himself and yelling at women. Anyway, he turned and looked at me and said, “UGHHHH”. And I am sorry that I don’t meet his evidently high visual standards.

  13. 13.

    Cameron

    @eclare: I’m assuming it was a takeoff on Cinco de Mayo, celebrating Mexico’s victory over the French occupiers.  It could have been a mistake, though, since ignorance appears to be a source of pride for Trumpers.

  14. 14.

    CaseyL

    @Suzanne: So this guy lives in the neighborhood?  Shit.

    I’m glad he was arrested.  On what charge, though? Public intoxication, public indecency, he won’t stay in jail very long.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    @Suzanne

    And I am sorry that I don’t meet his evidently high visual standards.

    Well, there go your dreams of being crowned Ms Ripple.

    :)

  18. 18.

    Suzanne

    @CaseyL: Oh, he lives directly behind my house!

    He was charged with indecent exposure, breaking and entering, criminal mischief, and destruction of property in regards to our incident. I don’t know if he was charged with anything w/r/t the other incidents.

  19. 19.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Spanky:

     

    Stevie B, Lisa Lisa, Expose, Montell Jordan, Rob Base, Pretty Poison, Tag Team and Timmy T

    What a difference one letter makes. That may or not be a mega lineup, but it ain’t no maga lineup!

  24. 24.

    Cameron

    Damn.  Just saw on Reuters that the Russians fired two missiles into Kyiv while UN Secretary General was there.  Those boys sure know how to make friends and influence people.

  25. 25.

    CaseyL

    @Suzanne: Why is he already out of jail?  He’s a habitual offender, and the B&E into your house takes issues well beyond intoxicated hijinks.

  27. 27.

    BellyCat

    The reference to Brooklyn Library’s depth of offerings in that last tweet was brilliant.
    :-* <chef’s kiss>

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    Can’t decide whether the new host of The 11th Hour on MSNBC is doggedly simplistic or congenitally insipid.

  29. 29.

    Patricia Kayden

    So let me get this straight: conservatives love free speech for Elon Musk, but hate free speech for Colin Kaepernick?— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 28, 2022

  32. 32.

    Steve Gravelle

    How about, repeal the Communications Decency Act (1996), which protects ISPs, social media platforms, and website hosts from defamation claims? That law prohibits courts from treating an ISP as the publisher of a statement made by another content provider.

    Make Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. liable for damages, like any other publisher. This will also create lots of jobs.

  34. 34.

    EthylEster

    I learned pretty much nothing from the “recap”.

    I guess I will never be able to parse tweets. I can never recognize a narrative. It just seems like a bunch of people trying to make gotcha statements in a very few words and little to no punctuation.

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