Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

We won’t go back.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

The lights are all blinking red.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

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

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

Please don’t feed the bears.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

In my day, never was longer.

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

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

We still have time to mess this up!

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Everybody saw this coming.

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  3. 3.

    Fair Economist

    After a recent record heat wave in CA, I’m about to see 97 again next week.

    I am SO ready for fall.

  10. 10.

    SpaceUnit

    Henry looks like he’s contemplating some of life’s bigger questions.

     

    I’m ready for fall.  I’m not really a summer person because there’s not much I feel like doing when it’s 90 degrees plus for three months straight.  Bring it on.

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    trollhattan

    @WaterGirl:

    Cold and rainy gets old, especially six continuous months like in Seattle (although I understand that’s not how it is now) but our heatwave three weeks ago, which peaked at a new record of 116, skips annoyance for trying to outright kill.

    Death weather.

    Today, however, is PERFECT.

  20. 20.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    After the insanity here a couple weeks ago where it hit 115 freaking degrees, we had a stretch of mild 70s-low 80s. Now we’re back into low 90s, but I will happily take that over that absolute bullshit we went through before.

    In other news, Olena Zelenska has started a foundation and you should all go give it a like on FB!. The basic description in the About section says “The rebuilding of the country begins with the recovery of people’s lives.” Yes, indeed.

  28. 28.

    Delk

    I had surgery this morning for an Inspire implant. Went well but throat is a little sore. I made the surgical team laugh by singing Hit Me With Your Best Shot as they knocked me out.

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    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Based on my knowledge of the evidence, I would be surprised by such a decision.

    That is…ominous. I mean, it’s good in the sense of “yes please I want to see this disgusting bastard punished” but it’s also like…I do not ever want to know the full extent of that “evidence” y’know??

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    The recent funeral of Queen Elizabeth II brought to mind this recent tidbit….

    California has joined a growing number of states that allow residents to compost their bodies after death. …

    Often coined Human composting and legally termed Natural Organic reduction, Return Home calls it Terramation. …

    However, Terramation optimizes the process and allows the body to transform to soil in just 60 days. The price for a human composting disposition is currently between $4,000 – $5,500.

    Your remains could be used in a garden where you could actually be pushing up daisies.

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    HumboldtBlue

    @Origuy:

    Saw two video clips last night of Russians fleeing — or trying to flee — over the Mongolian border, including one that was located right next to a military base for an infantry unit.

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    MazeDancer

    Legit nippy here in Upstate NY. Love it!

    But refuse to turn on heat in September.

    But will make fire. And sit under comforter. And cats.

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    J R in WV

    Since this is an open thread, I’m going to provide a link to a report on the fire that destroyed the naval vessel USN Bonhomme Richard not long ago. The TL;DR is that the Navy Brass did not adhere to their own requirements regarding keeping the Bonhomme Richard prepared to deal with an on-board fire, especially during its years long overhaul in San Diego. Ships in shipyards are especially prone to fires because of the amount of cutting steel and welding steel involved in a yard overhaul.  I spent a year on a ship in a major yard overhaul 50 years ago, and was a trained USN fire fighter at the time, tho only a lowly E-2.

    The fire destroyed the Bonhomme Richard — it was scrapped afterwards, and the ProPublica story informs us that the USN has decided, without any actual hard evidence whatsoever, to accuse an E-1 sailor of arson causing the fire and the scrapping of billions of dollars of War Fighting Ship!

    Here is the link to the story of the Bonhomme Richard’s death by fire. 
    It is a sad story of no one from the E-1s cleaning the decks all the way up to the ship’s Captain, who was not a surface war trained officer, but a pilot not qualified to lead a complex ship like the Bonhomme Richard. He didn’t even know what he didn’t know! The LtCmdr in damage control didn’t know anything about the fire fighting systems that were still capable of operation, nor the majority of fire fighting systems which were no longer capable of fighting a fire because of the yard work.

    Read it. It’s just like the stories about the USN ships that rammed giant cargo ships late at night — incompetence on the part of the Admirals in charge of the Fleet !!!!​

  50. 50.

    Brachiator

    @Baud:

    Can you specify whose garden? It might be the only way I can provide some content for the Sunday Garden Chat post.

    The primary family members could split it up. Spread it around, as it were.

    Imagine a loved one being able to say, “That Baud is good for your sod.”

  53. 53.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​
      It’s been approximately 2 years since the investigation began and if they haven’t built a case by now, then it’s not going to happen.

    Anthony Weiner went to prison for 18 months for sexting. There wasn’t even actual sex involved. Gaetz pays a minor for sex which is substantiated by actual receipts and corroborating witnesses and gets a free pass from Uncle Sammy.

    It’s okay if you are republican.

  55. 55.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    Part of this is because Dump and Barr corruptly began an investigation of Hunter Biden. They were hoping to create another “but her emails” hysteria. After all that’s why Dump got impeached the first time, trying to create a false investigation into Joe Biden.

    If DOJ simply says there was nothing to the Hunter Biden case, the usual suspects amplified by the Village start a multi year circus demanding an investigation of the investigation (like bengahzi or whitewater).

    Which is partly why Biden appointed Judge Garland, seen by the media as a jurist with an impeccable reputation. And like any professional outfit, they will try to foreclose any counter arguments and what better way to say there were no politics involved in dismissing a case against a Democrat than by saying we also didn’t charge any republicans who were in hot water.​

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    livewyre

    *sigh* Okay, I’ll do it.

    @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: You cracked the code. The entire reason Merrick Garland was appointed, and his primary mandate in office, is to refrain from prosecuting anybody for political reasons. Er, to refrain, for political reasons, from prosecuting anybody. He’s loyally safeguarding the principle of prosecutorial discretion by avoiding having to engage in it. Any investigation that would take longer than two years is expressly (but tacitly) barred from taking place. And all for the reason that it might look bad to the opposite party – because, as we’ve seen in detail, this is Biden’s foremost consideration. Can’t put one past you.

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    zhena gogolia

    @Omnes Omnibus: The article made clear that things could change as the situation changes and that the DOJ had not made a decision yet. This was just a recommendation. This smacks of somebody in his camp leaking the memo.

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    piratedan

    @zhena gogolia: in believe I saw some counter threads that Gaetz was still likely to be indicted and that the story was planted in the WaPo by some Stone friendly sources…

     

    cited was the idea that this DOJ only releases information when they choose too and tbh, we usually only find things out from them after the mic has dropped, so some folks are betting that the release of Gaetz from any prosecution is unlikely.

  69. 69.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @livewyre: Which is why he indicted Dump for obstructing Mueller, which is why he indicted Dump for the Stormy Daniels  money laundering scheme which landed his co conspirator in jail; which is why he indicted Giuliani for not registering as a foreign agent and for the Ukraine conspiracy that landed his co conspirators Lev and Igor in prison, investigations that were already complete and waiting on the shelf.  Oh wait he didn’t.

    As bad as Mueller was, at least he actually indicted some of Dump’s cronies.

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