Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

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

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

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  1. 1.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    Of course Twitter flags that as “potentially sensitive content.”

    Beautiful though!

  3. 3.

    Spanky

    Since the thread, it is open …

    In case you see your car insurance rates go up …

    (CNN)A Missouri woman was awarded $5.2 million in a settlement from insurance company GEICO after contracting a sexually transmitted disease from her partner in his vehicle, which was insured by the company, court documents show. The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld that award this week.

    The woman, a Jackson County resident, said she contracted Human papillomavirus (HPV) from her partner, according to court documents. On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals filed an opinion confirming the initial Jackson County Circuit Court arbitration award finding against GEICO.

  4. 4.

    Nora

    Totally appropriate that this happened during Pride Month. How Twitter sees this as “sensitive” is beyond me.

  5. 5.

    Spanky

    I would not be surprised if Twitter received multiple complaints about Randy Rainbow.

  7. 7.

    Mathguy

    I hear that Wyoming is now trying to ban the waterfall for being too pro LBGTQ.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @Old School: Rainbows are now sensitive content?  Started as gay rainbows, now all rainbows have gay cooties,I presume.  Un-fucking-believable.   The world is catering to bigots.  sigh.

  9. 9.

    Dangerman

    Yosemite Falls. The trail to the top can be seen to the left; very much worth the effort. Hell, every trail in Yosemite Valley is worth the effort.

  10. 10.

    Old School

    @WaterGirl:  Who knows?  “Rainbows”?  “Very high”?  “Undocumented”?

    Not sure what flags something on Twitter.

  12. 12.

    different-church-lady

    I’m sure this will all be much better when the insane white South African is running the thing.

  16. 16.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Spanky: IAAL and courts hate the notion of people gaming the system.  Arbitration happened and rather than go against the woman, the arbiter found for her.  The court didn’t strike down the award either, and then and only then did Geico try to object.  Worst thing you can tell a court is “After everything is done, we’ll object to it if we lose and not a second before.”

  17. 17.

    Matt McIrvin

    My guess is that some poorly-calibrated image-scanning AI thought it might be porn

    As for the image itself, I think the rainbow filling the whole waterfall is as much a product of the camera being exactly in the right place as anything else.

  20. 20.

    Ken

    @Anonymous At Work: Worst thing you can tell a court is “After everything is done, we’ll object to it if we lose and not a second before.”

    If only someone had told this to Rudy Giuliani and the rest of TFG’s election lawsuit squad.

  22. 22.

    brendancalling

    Since it’s an open thread—if any jackals are in Arizona, I’ll be backing the glorious Rebecca Jed on bass on the 17th, 18th, and 19th in the Phoenix area. Her voice is a cross between Kitty Wells and Loretta Lynn, and the new album—coming out any day—is just lovely. Y’all come out and see us!

  25. 25.

    eclare

    @Dangerman:   I went to the top of that waterfall where the trail to half-dome breaks off.  I knew I did not have the fortitude to hike that.

    I met someone a few months later who had done the hike.  He said the scariest part was people freezing in fear, refusing to leave the gripping of the cables, so he had to let go to go around them.

  26. 26.

    Splitting Image

    @Old School:

    What’s the sensitive content? Something with a rainbow?

    According to the Bible, the rainbow is the Lord’s promise that he will never inflict on mankind the world-ending catastrophe that evangelicals have been insisting for years will smite us all any minute now. The whole book is liberal propaganda.

    Plus it’s filled with exhortations to “wake”. Dead giveaway.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    @WaterGirl:

    Ken Ham, the president of Answers in Genesis, an organization “an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith,” is determined to take back the rainbow from the LGBT community, who he feels has appropriated it from biblical teachings. His first move? Decorating the Ark Encounter, a 510-foot-long reproduction of Noah’s Ark that he operates as a fundamentalist Christian theme park in Kentucky.

  34. 34.

    Peale

    @eclare: Freezing in fear describes me in the parking lot before any strenuous hike. Which is why I talk myself out of it and just stick to “scenic overlooks 500 feet or less from the road.”

  35. 35.

    Joe Falco

    @mrmoshpotato:

    No no. The waterfall is trying to turn us all gay.

    First, the waterfall came for the frogs, and I did not say anything because I was not a frog…

  37. 37.

    eachother

    Profound timing.  The Rainbow will not be silent.

    The Cosmic Comedian just trumped the supreme court.  Black robes?  What’s the message?

    If you really want to convince us all we can do better, bend the guns like you did the visible light while we sleep tonight.

  41. 41.

    Bill Arnold

    Twitter labeled the video “politically sensitive”.

    The rainbow, I presume.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    @eclare: That’s the Mist Trail past Vernal and Nevada falls. It’s a real workout, not helped by the hundreds of granite steps that can be very slippy from the…uh…mist.

    Now it takes reservations to snag a Half Dome summit permit, giving me a perennial excuse. Every few years someone slips and skitters their way down uncontrolled. This is 100% fatal. I will add picking a shoe that grips polished granite isn’t as simple as it sounds.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    Hey, we just got our new set of Biden Tests, eight this time. Thanks, Joe!

  49. 49.

    Gravenstone

    Okay Twitter, why in the Nine Hells was that flagged as “potentially sensitive” content?

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