Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

In my day, never was longer.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

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.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

No one could have predicted…

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

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

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

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Call To Action: One Tiny Thing You Can Do To Help Today

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Hey BJ Peeps,

I assume that most of you have seen or heard talk of the Join the Fight! project some of us are working on, or at least have heard about one part of the project – our Social Media Initiative.

I have one simple ask of every person who sees this today.  If you have an account on twitter, please follow us.  We set up our group account on Saturday, so we are just getting started, and the (fucking) Twitter algorithm will allow our content to be seen more widely if we have a bunch of followers.  So I am asking you to please follow us, even if you don’t get any more involved than that.

Our full group name is: Actual Citizens United – Join us in the Fight and you can find us on twitter as:

@Actual_Citizens

All our tweets will use the hashtag #ActualCitizensUnited

This tweet from the Palmer Report seemed appropriate for our pinned tweet:

Open fucking thread.

Update at 4:45:  oops. I have one more ask, and I’m sorry I didn’t think of it sooner.  There is a group that is doing something similar to what we want to do, only their focus is entirely on the state of Michigan.  That would be another strategic follow to help them amplify their message, just by increasing the number of followers.

They are: @DistillSocial

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  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    PSA: Folks on the CONTENT CREATION Team, remember our standing zoom meeting is tonight at 8 pm.  This is an opportunity for folks who want to help create “print” pieces and/or video pieces.

    Folks on the STATE-SPECIFIC CONTENT Team, I hope you are working your Insurrection spreadsheet for the state you chose. If you haven’t signed up for a state yet, please get in touch.  It only takes a couple of hours to do the research for a state, and your effort will help us name and shame the candidates and elected officials who participated in the insurrection or the “alternate electors” bullshit.

    If you haven’t signed up but you think you might want to get involved, please speak up in the comments or send me email.

    Big thanks to everyone who is already involved in the project in one form or another.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    @delk: Oh, that’s a good idea!  We only have one tweet so far, the pinned one, but I will add a couple more and then put the link in the sidebar.

  6. 6.

    Suzanne

    Another thing to do is share information about resources. Hey Jane is an online abortion clinic accessible to people in six states. It would be good to know of others.

  7. 7.

    Rileys Enabler

    Followed! Also created a video for the last day of early voting in Texas, it’s in my feed.  @salcamCDS

  11. 11.

    CaseyL

    I have had an utterly exhausting morning, one crisis after another*, but I can do that one little thing.  Consider yourself followed!

    *Had to cancel the Hawaii trip**, had to go into office to figure out what’s wrong with my access to a database, and a friend is gravely ill.  Now I’m home and hoping for NOTHING ELSE to happen today, thanksverymuch.

    **Travel company acting very strange as in, not responding to any communications.  My Aunt is convinced they’re going out of business, and she may be right. Finally got through to a customer service person, after 3 hours on hold, to cancel the trip.  We’ll see if they follow through with the refund.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    Credit where credit is due.  MazeDancer made our Join the Fight! banner, and WolvesValley made our Actual Citizens United “circle”, which i suppose is our avatar.

  22. 22.

    Jinchi

    CNN is reporting that Vladimir Putin may declare war on Ukraine as part of Victory Day celebrations on May 9th.

  26. 26.

    Jinchi

    @WaterGirl: I’m trying to figure out the logic behind denying a war is going on for two months, only to declare it on Victory Day.

  29. 29.

    CaseyL

    So the people of Russia will be allowed to call the war a war, starting on May 9?

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Meanwhile…

    Sam Stein @samstein 1h

    In interview, Sen. Johnson says it ‘may be true’ that COVID vaccines cause AIDS (it doesn’t).

    (yes, the actual story is a tiny bit nuanced… make him deny the headline)

  31. 31.

    debbie

    FYI: For those who were interested in Andrei’s serial epic “My Ukraine Is in Pain,” Dan Gutman has recovered all four chapters and reposted them on his FB page. Probably also his Twitter page.

  33. 33.

    Mallard Filmore

    @Suzanne:   It does not have to be data trackers.  Virginia used to, and maybe still does, have Alcoholic Beverage Control agents park in sight of liquor stores in Washington DC, then follow customers with cars that have Virginia license plates back across the river.  It was a way to arrest people for violating liquor tax laws.

    Anyone from an abortion-banning state should not drive their own car to an abortion clinic.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    oops. I have one more ask, and I’m sorry I didn’t think of it sooner.

    There is a group that is doing something similar, only their focus is entirely on Michigan.

    That would be another strategic follow to help them amplify their message, just by increasing the number of followers.

    They are: @DistillSocial

  36. 36.

    Billcoop4

    Declaring war is a legal thing — it changes the law which applies, so this is Putin being cute.

     

    BC

  37. 37.

    JAFD

    I remember when “Russia may declare ware on Ukraine” would have been a headline-in-another-reality …

    I’ve often followed the ‘Twitter lists’ here and at LGM, clicked on links, found myself at bottom of some interesting rabbitholes and awake past my bedtime…  Then, as you may know, Twitter edicted that ‘if you ain’t a member, you can’t read anything but the thread that was linked to.’  So signed over my soul opened an account.  Haven’t posted anything, yet, maybe I never will.  But if you want to give me the record for ‘Most Followers for a Totally Empty Account’, go to @KinsaleJAFD

    Now, I have signed up for @Actual_Citizens.  Plan to read the previous posts and comments on this (They’re amongst my umpteen open browser tahbs.), and contribute something useful in the near future.  But gotten stuck in Bunch Of Other Stough this past week.  Apologies.

    Anyway, tomorrow brings The Great New Jersey Bagopocolypse.  Also the anniversary of the killings at Kent State and Jackson State.

  38. 38.

    Mallard Filmore

    @WaterGirl: 

    It’s 1970 all over again, only worse.

    I have a paranoid and cynical mind, so it can get MUCH worse. democraticunderground.com has a thread posting of Jamie Raskin:

    https://democraticunderground.com/100216653863
    https://twitter.com/repraskin/status/1521495388771033099

    Any right-wing state powerful enough to jail you for having an abortion is powerful enough to compel you to have one and sterilize you.

    Combining this with Stephen Miller’s border policy of snatching babies from refugees at our southern border, gives me visions of forced sterilizations of non-whites with questionable papers.

  40. 40.

    Jackie

    I wonder when Putin officially declares war, he’ll release all the media from jail – who were jailed for saying the word ‘war.’??‍♀️?

    I see CaseyL wondered the same lol

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    this seems interesting

    Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Congressman Antonio Delgado to be New York’s next lieutenant governor, after Brian Benjamin resigned last month following his indictment on federal corruption charges. Her decision comes hours after she signed new language into law that would allow for the removal of her former running mate from the ballot. Hochul and Delgado are slated to make their first joint public appearance in Albany this afternoon.

    I’ve found Delgado impressive. And I get so much email from him I sometimes forget we don’t actually know each other.

    This is suboptimal perhaps, but….

    With Delgado heading to Albany, Democrats will have to defend an open U.S. House seat in a swing district at a time when their party risks losing control of the chamber to Republicans.

  44. 44.

    Another Scott

    @Jinchi: There were twitter rumblings a day or so ago that there would be a russian national mobilization called soon.  Presumably it’s related to that.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  48. 48.

    RaflW

    Oh man. Is Perjury Taylor Greene a new thing, or have I just missed it up to now. LOL

    @Actual_Citizens

    Perhaps Perjury Taylor Green can supply the word for what it’s called when a person lies under oath. #ActualCitzensUnited

  49. 49.

    West of the Rockies

    Tried to sign up for a Twitter account.   Couldn’t make it past the damn birthday part.  Rather than the usual fill in the blank 2/19/67 sort of set up, they have a calendar with today’s date and no intuitive way to go back 50+ years

    We did just donate to ActBlue.

  50. 50.

    RaflW

    @Mallard Filmore: Feels biblical, almost. “When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for we had warned them not to return to Texas by traceable vehicle.”

  51. 51.

    Starfish

    @West of the Rockies: Are you trying to sign up on desktop or mobile? That sounds like potentially a bad mobile interface? From desktop, I am seeing a drop down for each of month, day, and year.

  53. 53.

    Taphozous

    Added.  Also have been busy donating and getting ready for a People’s Health Rally in Olympia, WA.  

  54. 54.

    zzyzx

    I had conversations with a few people today asking if they had any sort of exit strategy and making sure they know that I’ll help them if it’s needed.

    I figure being in the bluest part of one of the bluest states, I personally should probably be safe for a while, so I’m going to see who else needs help.

    Maybe that’s paranoia but I’m a Jew who was raised in the generation after the Holocaust. It’s kind of ingrained.

  56. 56.

    debbie

    Guess she had to speak up eventually.

    You are as responsible for this debacle as anyone. This is a good time to keep your mouth shut. https://t.co/3KrINFvI2l
    — Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) May 3, 2022

    ?

    A lot of good that did in 2020.

    Dems are going to use this to fundraise and get you to vote for them again despite sitting on their hands for the last two years. Instead of actually standing for anything, their only strategy is scaring you into voting blue. https://t.co/LQNbKYwPI1
    — Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) May 3, 2022

  58. 58.

    japa21

    Now following.
    MomSense decided to follow me. I hope she likes a lot of tweets about the Milwaukee Brewers.

  60. 60.

    MomSense

    I just went and followed a bunch of people who follow actual citizens United. Unfortunately I hit the max – Twitter probably thinks I’m a bot.  I’ll follow more of you later.

    I’m picking up my parents at the airport tonight.  They’re coming home from FL after six months.  The flight is delayed so I’m killing time at a brewery.

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @debbie: good for Norm for telling Big Pharma Spokesmodel and Murdoch family business partner (though I gather that business partnership failed?) to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

    Let’s hope all her fellow travelers get the same message

  73. 73.

    Kathleen

    @japa21: I tweet about the Reds! One of them lives in my building. They had the nerve to trade Amir Garret who was our neighbor for 3 seasons and an absolute delight.

  76. 76.

    different-church-lady

    But most of you don’t understand that your goddamn job as an activist….

    Pssst… they’re not really activists.

  82. 82.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Does MNSBC have Kornacki hopping around for the Ohio primaries?

    Dave Wasserman @Redistrict. 23s

    If Matt Dolan (R) isn’t carrying Delaware Co. (suburbs north of Columbus) over J.D. Vance (R), the math just isn’t there. #OHSEN

    I can’t keep track. Is this the third non-trumpy hope of the OH GOP?

  83. 83.

    schrodingers_cat

    I followed. If you are interested in news about India  from the sources on the ground there including political parties and the media you can follow me  @ManyWorlds1Cat and help me publicize how the BJP’s increasingly fascist policies.

  91. 91.

    meander

    Please have @Actual_Citizens send out some generic-ish “what we’re doing” tweets so I and others can retweet them. Ideally our followers will see the retweets, follow @Actual_Citizens, and work with Actual_Citizens.

  92. 92.

    Ruckus ??

    @WaterGirl:

    Possibly. But he’s not sure. I’ve decided that I shouldn’t pressure him in this area. He’s been burned before.

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