Balloon Juice - $1,000 Balloon Juice Angel for VAAC

In case it helps to dust off the cobwebs, VAAC is the amazing group we are raising funds for.

VAAC stands for Voting Access for All, and this is the part where I go back to the previous introductory posts and pull out some fun things from the introductory post and the Ask Them Anything post and share them again here to remind you of how awesome these guys are, and how righteous their cause is.

We had an absolutely terrific zoom with these guys on 5/24! You really have to watch it! I think we had 6 people from VAAC participate in the zoom and I so wish they lived here because I would love to get to know them better. Smart. Interesting. Dedicated. Inspiring.

Oh, right. You can’t watch the zoom yet because I have been a little busy and haven’t gotten it up on YouTube yet. Once I get it edited and up, I’ll embed the video in a post. Promise.

Yes, You Can Vote in Michigan—New Video!

We have a new Balloon Juice Angel – Torrey – who generously offered a $1,000 match in yesterday’s One Good Thing thread! Torrey’s match is now complete and her $1,000 donation has been added! That brings the thermometer to $9,275!

You may recall that we had just completed the first $1k angel match and were at $925 on our second $1k angel match before our world was so rudely interrupted.

Balloon Juice Angel #2 just added her $1,000 in the thermometer, so we made the jump at $7,000! Laura Too jumped in right away last night to contribute the first $50 toward that match as soon as Torrey volunteered to match. All while I was sleeping! :-)

Big thanks to the two earlier angels, which seems like a lifetime ago, and to Torrey for stepping up last night.

Remember, we have an external match for $21,500 of the $25,000 we hope to raise. Between the Balloon Juice Angel and the external match, everything you donate toward this match – up to $50 – gets multiplied by 4.

$25 covers all the costs of one hour of community engagement, so a $25 donation covers half a day’s work!

What a great return on your investment!

And we have another Balloon Juice angel for $1,000! Patrick G stepped up in the comments! Thank you Patrick!

Update at 930 pm: If you guys blow through Patrick’s match, we have another match waiting in the wings, so you can be sure that anything up to $50 (in each match) overnight will be multiplied by 4.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

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

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

You cannot shame the shameless.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

$1,000 Balloon Juice Angel for VAAC