Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

This fight is for everything.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

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

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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Twas a Bad Day Today…

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When I lived in Scotland, I was told the legend of a lone MacDonald highlander, perched on the edge of the battlefield after the battle of Killiecrankie. The story goes that he was overheard keening:

Twas a bad day today.

As bad a day as yesterday.

Will be a bad day tomorrow.

The person who related the story to me called this MacDonald’s Lament. I have never been able to validate it, but it seems to fit the weekend.

Here’s some of the living descendants of Frederick Douglass reading his classic essay What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July:

Here’s the abolitionist version of My Country Tis of Thee:

And since I know you’ll riot if I don’t post it, your daily Patron!

Here’s new video from Patron’s official TikTok:

@patron__dsns

Побував на уламках Чернігівського мосту…😔 #песпатрон #патрондснс #славаукраїні

♬ У мене немає дому – Один в каное

The caption says:

I visited the wreckage of the Chernihiv Bridge… #pespatron #patrondsns #slavaukraine

I’ll be back tomorrow night with a regular update.

Open thread!

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  2. 2.

    Spanky

    Glad I am that the title didn’t reference a turn for the worse in Ukraine. Or in Patron!

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Here’s some of the living descendants of Fredrick Douglas

    Douglass.

    Please to fix.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    ‘@NotMax

    Inadvertently glossed over the other oopsie.

    Here’s some of the living descendants of Fredrick Douglas

    Frederick Douglass.

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    Jerzy Russian

    Thanks for the links to the videos.    The one with Fredrick Douglass’ speech was very well done.

  6. 6.

    Bill Arnold

    @Ksmiami:

    How can we bring the pain to Russia? seriously

    Well, a usual answer would be delivering more PGMs.
    Also, and with less death:
    – Working international politics/economics/oil producers to keep sanctions in place and even strengthened. With ruthlessness when appropriate.
    – Vigorously countering and/or helping counter Russian influence operations, world wide/all languages. E.g. allowing Russians to paint their utterly amoral use of famine as a international political weapon as the West’s fault should not be tolerated. (Basic causality – if Imperial Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine there would be no problems with grain/fertilizer exports.)

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    Ksmiami

    Tell Putin that if he continues the blockade, we and our Allies will Sink the Black Sea fleet. One ship at a time.

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    Alison Rose

    @Ksmiami: As much as I would love to see it in theory, you know neither the US nor any other country is going to do anything like that unless and until Putin sends his minions somewhere other than Ukraine. I hate that this is the case, but it is.

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    Ohio Mom

    The great-great-great-great-great grandchildren iof Federick Douglass remind me that although I know who my grandparents were, and a tiny, tiny smidgen about their parents, all I know about the preceding generations is that they were struggling Eastern European Jews.

    Just underlines for me the Americanness of American Blacks, even as we as a culture only half-heartedly take them as full citizens.

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    Gretchen

    During the early days of Covid in New York City, when there were morgue trucks outside the hospitals, my daughter asked her husband how work went.  He told her not to ask. « Worse than yesterday, better than tomorrow. «

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    Adam L. Silverman

    @Bill: That’s MacDonald of Morar’s Lament. The piper playing it is named Macleod. It’s not what I’m referring to.

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    Adam L. Silverman

    @Yutsano: I have no idea who allowed that out of moderation. Was in Cole’s post too. I both trashed the comment and banned whomever that was.

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    Ksmiami

    @Alison Rose :  it’s doable in that the blockade is a declaration of war with the world and in flagrant violation of maritime law on the open seas. We need to stop being afraid and start maximizing pressure mob style

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