Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

He really is that stupid.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Good lord, these people are nuts.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

It’s the corruption, stupid.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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Voces Fundraising: Just When You Need One, An Angel Appears! (Your $50 turns into $200!)

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We have our first Balloon Juice Angel for this round of fundraising for Voces de la Frontera!

Donations matched up to $25k!

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There’s more than one way to fight this SC ruling.
We need the House and the Senate and the statehouses.

Just When You Need One, An Angel Appears! (for our Voces Fundraising)

 

Mousebumples is our first angel for our Voces fundraising this week. I offer this photo in honor of Mousebumples and the new Mouse Baby – now 7 weeks old – you can have a baby mouse sticker for your donation, if you wish.

She is matching up to $50 of Voces donations that are listed in the comments for a total of $1,000.

Thank you, Mousebumples!

 

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  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Hey, mousebumples, I hope you forgive my use of the threat of you cutting people if they didn’t donate as encouragement yesterday.

  4. 4.

    the pollyanna from hell

    OT. Does Mike Myers read BJ? Someone in my house was watching Pentaverate this morning, and balloon juice was clearly named.

  7. 7.

    H.E.Wolf

    This is wonderful! What we’ll collectively cut is the Republicans, off at the knees.

    Also, a warm welcome to the newest member of the angel Mouse family. :)

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: Mousebumples is super busy so she hasn’t been reading the comments.

    So this can be our little secret, or I can send her your comment by email.

    edit: oh, and here she is!

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @eachother: Bill Nye isn’t political, is he?

    We are not including all the interesting people, just those we think have some influence.  Perhaps there is more to Bill Nye than just being the science guy?

  13. 13.

    janesays

    OT: Very cool news…

    Karine Jean-Pierre has just been named the new White House Press Secretary. I’m really gonna miss Psaki, but I think her successor is a great choice.

  14. 14.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: yeah, I’m super behind on blog things and only checking in the comments periodically. Maternity leave is great – but with 2 kiddos, it’s not terribly restful! ?

    I asked WG to let me know when the match was met since I’ll probably miss that, but I’ll try to keep an eye on this thread, as time allows… Though it may be hours before I come been here, or i might be distracted by something shiny and forget altogether…

  15. 15.

    MazeDancer

    Yay, Mousebumples!

    WG, you might consider more blaring of “Double Match” in the headline. Like adding “Doible Match Time!” after “appears”. Or something more elegant.

    Double Match brings in donors both high and low. It makes even 5 bucks worth something nice. And $50 is suddnly ooh-la-la.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    @janesays: Oh, I’m bummed. I wanted it to be Kate Bedenfield (sp?) I thought she was much better than Karine. But i know a lot of people like her; i just think Kate is better.

    Oh well.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @MazeDancer: Well, “double match” is what I call it when there are two external matchers.

    But yeah, right now, with the Mousebumples angel match, a $50 donation turns into $200!

    edit: I did add (your $50 turns into $200) in the title just now.  Let’s see if that helps!

  23. 23.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    The great thing is the deep bench. Joe chose well from Day One. Kate Bedingfield also would have been great in the job — and given the shelf life of press secretaries, she may very well have her chance in a year-18 months.

  26. 26.

    eachother

    @WaterGirl: Seeing Nye debate religion vs evolution, talk about the environment, young people’s affection for him, his long term popularity on media platforms might be he has a widespread political influence.

    There is a streaming program about him other than the Science Guy. A biopic.
    Also I recall a realism addressed to TFG and the like which made me go humm. To me it seems he has become more political than my dated perception of him at the time.

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    @joel hanes: not 128? :-)

    Just speculating where the choice of 64 came from, guessing computer related, so I thought of 128.

    Of course, your $64 turned into $256! $226! (only the first $50 gets the angel match)

  32. 32.

    banditqueen

    Yesterday for $10 and today for $10. It’s something, I guess. Glad to see all the voces y votes.

  38. 38.

    eachother

    Off Topic

    • bill nye trump 
    • Opens with an ad.  Sorry.
    • Was searching Nye to find out if thinking of him in a political frame was appropriate.  This video suggests to me yes.  This is a soft spoken individual, a restrained individual.  But I think this 2018 video convinces me I did see something political in his presentations of the time. He does possess an assertive, political personality.
    • Many connections to Bill degrasse Tyson.  A couple of big Bills.
  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    We just passed the $500 mark!  So nearly $500 left for the external match + the angel match that multiplies any donation up to $50 by a factor of 4!

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