Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I was promised a recession.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The willow is too close to the house.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

In my day, never was longer.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

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

Come on, man.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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Thank You, Adam!

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No, not that Adam.  The other Adam.  Adam Lang, who works on our Join the Fight! project as the “database guy” and who hosts our database and the WordPress server for the social media initiative.

I spent part of yesterday testing and repurposing our Join the Fight WordPress server for the Balloon Juice home away from home, showed it to John, got the nod from him, called Adam to let him know, and was writing the newsletter note to let everyone else know… when Adam volunteered to host a separate WordPress server just for this.

One way or another we were going to have a home away from home today, but this is even better!

Thanks, Adam, for your generosity and your time.

In other good news, late last night we received an update from our site hosts.

365 Data Centers identified the root cause of the May 14 cyber incident. I would have thought the root cause was the hacking, but that’s just me! :-)

Seriously, though, this is spectacular news.  It was becoming clear that the “investigation” phase was going to continue until they figured it out, and now that they have, they are finally saying words like “developing recovery action plans” and “timetables”.

Because of the sheer volume of sites involved, I think it’s still going to be a long slog to get them all back up, and there’s no way to know yet exactly what the process will be and where we’ll be in line.

Developing recovery action plans?  Be still my beating heart.

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41Comments

  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks also to Subaru Diane for the awesome image and thanks to all the jackals for all the encouraging messages you guys have sent over the past week.

  2. 2.

    japa21

    Good news X2. And again, thank you. You are indefatigable.

    It is encouraging that they are being as thorough as they are.

  5. 5.

    Spanky

    I gather they didn’t name the root cause?

    “Too many cat pictures” is never a reason you want to give your customers.

  6. 6.

    Joy in FL

    I am so happy to have a home away from home. And Zoom Balloon Juice today and tomorrow.
    I really appreciate all the behind the scenes time and work that happened (is happening) to make these two things happen : )

  8. 8.

    CaseyL

    This is awesome!! Thanks so much. As I said in an email to WaterGirl, I hope we get to hear what happened and who dunnit.

  9. 9.

    geg6

    OMG, thank heaven. Thanks to you, WG, and Adam. I’m sure this has been very difficult for you, especially, WG.

  10. 10.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)

    I am so happy to have this home away from home. I think I went through withdrawal. I was clicking several times a day, hoping the site would pop up. I even looked up 365 Data Centers to figure out what had happened, but there was no news. It was getting ugly when WaterGirl posted her message with the email subscription. Balloon Juice keeps me informed and connected. I missed the front-pagers and the jackals that make it so worth visiting. Crossing my fingers that it’ll get sorted sooner rather than later!

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    The link to our home away from home is now up on the BJ splash page. Until now, the only folks who knew about it were the 600+ people who signed up for the mailing list.

    Now anyone who checks the BJ site will know we are here.

  14. 14.

    Jeffery

    I thought Steve had pulled the plug cable out and was hiding it from Cole until his demands were met.

  15. 15.

    Geo Wilcox

    So glad to have this place to see the important stuff. I hope the old site gets back soon.

  16. 16.

    Elma

    What a relief to have some form of BJ back again!! All week I have been checking to see if we were any closer to home; feeling more depressed that it was going so slowly. WaterGirl’s email rants were a sort of lifeline. It is good to know that I was not the only one feeling adrift.

  19. 19.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    So glad this Balloon Juice is back in some form again! Missed everybody : )

  21. 21.

    Someone

    I never realized how important BJ was until it was gone. Just a long time 20 year lurker here that follows along.

    Thank you John, WG, Adam, and all of the rest! If we have to move to a more expensive host at some point, I’m in for contributions!

  22. 22.

    zhena gogolia

    I am completely uninformed about world affairs because I can’t stand any other sources. Somebody wrote me, “How about those primaries?” and I had no idea what they were talking about.
    I miss you all. Thanks, WaterGirl, for keeping us connected. I’m sitting waiting for the Zoom right now — when I tried earlier, it looked as if I was the only one there?

  23. 23.

    frost

    I’ll echo geg6: Thank you WaterGirl, this is amazing! I missed B-J but I didn’t know how much! “You don’t miss your water ‘til the well runs dry”

  24. 24.

    frost

    Edit: and echo Tokyocali and others. I was also obsessively checking the site hoping it was back.

  25. 25.

    ljt

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t believe how much I missed checking in here. B-J withdrawal was harder than getting sober!

  26. 26.

    feebog

    Thanks Water Girl for getting this site up. Looking forward to dropping in on the Zoom gathering today and Saturday, hope to see some of you lthere.

  28. 28.

    Bex

    So glad B-J is back! Thought it was me, but the tech said he couldn’t access it either. Got a computer clean-up though.

  29. 29.

    Carlo Graziani

    Hi WaterGirl. Thanks for the heroic work, and keep that ass-kicking leg limber. Hello everyone, how are the shakes? Keeping mine under control so far.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    ‘@Gin & Tonic

    That was the first setting I changed! Threaded comes as the default.

  32. 32.

    The Pale Scot

    You know you have reached a certain point in your life when you have excited anticipation about a vacuum cleaner delivery

  33. 33.

    Carlo Graziani

    Oh, a propos of nothing: I found a good news resource on Russia recently, that perhaps some of you (e.g. G&T, ZG) already knew about, but which I found offered perspectives on Russia that are at a minimum different, and seemingly better-informed and better-sourced than a lot of Western media: The Moscow Times (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/).

    Obviously they are not publishing or reporting directly in Russia any longer, but their reporters are apparently still in communication with Russian sources. Andrei Soldatov writes for them, but also a lot of other folks who seem rather well-informed, at least to me.

  34. 34.

    stinger

    “the “investigation” phase was going to continue until they figured it out,”

    Merrick Garland would approve!

  39. 39.

    alang

    I’m glad I could help.

    Pretty amazing what a ten year old Mac mini sitting in a data center in Atlanta can do. Thing is barely even ticking over.

  40. 40.

    EmanG

    I never thought I’d consider the phrase “Developing recovery action plans” with such enthusiasm!

  41. 41.

    ronno2018

    This technical issue made me realize how much I like balloon-juice. I hope it gets resolved soon! Maybe there is a way to architect a multi hosted site? i.e not totally reliant on one provider???

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