Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

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

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

The revolution will be supervised.

When we show up, we win.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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More candidates need our help, and these 6 have been aded to the thermometer for Protecting Elections in Key States.

Top 3 Executive Offices in Nevada

Cisco Aguilar  (running for NV Secretary of State)
Steve Sisolak  (incumbent running for second term as NV Governor)
Aaron Ford  (incumbent running for a second term as NV Attorney General)

Ohio Supreme Court Justices

Jennifer Brunner  (running to be Chief Justice)
Marilyn Zayas  (would be the first Latina to ever serve on the high court)
Terri Jamison  (would be the 3rd  black woman to serve in Oho SC history)

$12,000 or so was raised for the top 3 executive offices in Arizona:  Governor, AG, SOS.

The 3 recipients in Arizona have been paused – it’s time to raise money for Nevada, where the races are getting so tight that it’s scary, and for the Ohio Supreme Court.

You Need to Pay Attention to the Ohio Supreme Court Justice Race if Abortion Rights Are Important to You

Democratic Justice Jennifer Brunner has been sitting on the high court since 2020. Previously, she was the Ohio Secretary of State and a judge on both the Tenth District Court of Appeals and the Franklin County Common Pleas Court. She has nearly 20 years of private law practice experience.

Judge Jennifer Brunner, who was elected to the court just last year but is now running for chief justice, and Judge Marilyn Zayas and Judge Terri Jamison, who are running as first-time justices.

If they win, Zayas would be the first Latina to ever serve on the high court, and Jamison would be the third Black woman in Ohio state Supreme Court history.

The Democrats will gain control of the court if either Zayas or Jamison wins, which will come in handy if (or really, when) Governor DeWine and the Republican-controlled state legislature try to push more abortion restrictions through.

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  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    Remember – if you want to choose who gets how much of your donation – choose Customize Amounts BEFORE you enter your donation amount.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    Thursday at 1 pm Eastern (tomorrow) is what appears to be the last public hearing of the Jan 6 committee. (thread goes up at 12:30)

    Friday at 7 pm Eastern is the debate between Rev. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker.  (thread goes up at 6:30)

  7. 7.

    Ohio Mom

    The flip side in Ohio is that the Republicans running further court have made clear they will support any and all abortion restrictions. We also need Democrats on the Court to continue the effort against gerrymandering.

    Remember when judges wouldn’t discuss how they would rule in advance, before a case was before them? Quaint.

  8. 8.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Ohio Mom: My understanding was that the OH state legislature passed a law that mandated party affiliation on ballots for judicial candidates, after Jennifer Brunner won her seat on the OH Supreme Court in 2020. At any rate, it seems to have paved the way for sitting judges to speak of their personal stances on political issues.

    It’s weird, isn’t it.

  13. 13.

    Suzanne

    Fun fact about Cisco Aguilar: he was the student body president when we both attended the University of Arizona. I think that was my sophomore year, his senior year. He’s running for Secretary of State, not Gov.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @Suzanne: Dammit, I even googled as I was putting the post together to be sure I had it right.  I apparently had the bad luck of finding a bad source.

    Someone was wrong on the Internet – how can that be??? :-)

    Do you agree that this is correct now?

    Cisco Aguilar  (running for NV Secretary of State)
    Steve Sisolak  (incumbent running for second term as NV Governor)
    Aaron Ford  (incumbent running for a second term as NV Attorney General)

  17. 17.

    H.E.Wolf

    In my haste to get it done before I go into a meeting at half-past the hour, I added a comment with 3 links for the 3 Democratic Judges in OH… and of course it went into moderation. Gotta run, so I hope it pops up eventually! :)

    PS: Guess which of the 3 judges was once a coal miner in West Virginia?!

  20. 20.

    lowtechcyclist

    A thread from Twitter about the Ohio supreme court election:

    An American state of almost 12 million people—Ohio—is weeks away from holding an election for Congress on a map of districts that its own (bipartisan) court has ruled are unconstitutional.

    No court has ruled otherwise.

    But that election is about to begin, because…

    …those overseeing the map-drawing process chose to violate the law & court orders for so long, they forced that illegal map onto the ballot

    There is no minimizing this. There is no sugarcoating this. There is no “both sidesing” this.

    It is utterly lawless. And illegitimate

    The same body lawlessly rigging that map also changed the rules of how Ohio elects Supreme Court justices for THIS year, to favor their candidates. And their clear goal is to ignore the current court’s orders for long enough, that their new election rule…

    …gets them a partisan and favorable court, that will retroactively undo the rulings they are violating.

    And national Republicans are sending millions in Ohio to get that done.

    THE entire sequence is a blatant attack on the rule of law you’d expect to see in another country…

    …not here. There is no sugarcoating it. There is no normalizing it. There is no “both sidesing” it.

    But it gets WORSE.

    If their plan succeeds, the swing justice who would reverse the current court’s rulings and uphold their illegal maps is the son of the Governor..

    …who voted for the illegal map and a defendant in the case. Even though required by judicial ethics rules to recuse, this son:justice refuses, and rules in dad’s favor every time. Again, he will be the swing vote holding up the maps 4-3 if they win.

    That too is an attack on…

    …the rule of law. It can not be normalized. It should not be minimized. There is no both sides.

    But it gets WORSE.

    In case you think this is an Ohio-issue, think again.

    The race for the House majority will be close. Maybe a few seats. The gerrymandered Ohio map is…

    …basically taking a map that the Ohio Constitution mandated should have 6-7 Dem seats and will likely cap that number at 3-4. (If they win their court races, likely 2-3 in ‘24 because they will draw a WORSE map and the new court will uphold it).

    Now compare all this illegality and lawbreaking to New York State, where court orders there were followed (because that’s how it’s supposed to work in a country with the rule of law). The lawful response to the court ruling in NY cost the Dems some seats.

    So when you add just those two states up—where Ohio Republicans simply broke the law and forced on Ohio voters an illegal map, and NY followed the law—you could very well be talking about the difference between a Republican versus Democratic majority in the US House.

    So an outcome that could forever change our nation because of how extreme the House GOP has become could all be to brute-force lawbreaking and oath-breaking by the Ohio GOP.

    And again, there is no sugarcoating that.

    There is no normalizing that.

    There is no both side-sing that.

    Lawlessness should not be the determining factor in who runs our country at any level.

    END

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @H.E.Wolf: I would not have guessed correctly!

    Judge Terri Jamison’s journey from the coal fields of West Virginia to the highest reaches of the legal profession is a testament to her strength, intelligence, perseverance, and persistence.

    Judge Jamison worked as one of the few women in the underground coal mines, made Columbus her home, later opened and ran her own insurance agency for over 16 years, and attended college while working full time. Terri sold her agency and enrolled in the Capital University School of Law and obtained her Juris Doctorate in 2004.

  23. 23.

    sab

    They may be working with very old mailing lists. I wonder if Trump guys are hoarding the more recent ones.

    My mother, a life-long Republican until W, died in 2012. The single issue she cared the most about was abortion Choice. When we sold their house and put Dad into assisted living I put a change of address for the whole household and now I get their mail.

    Today Mom got a mailer from Ohio Right to Life with a picture of a baby on the front, and JD Vance and  whats-her-face Gilbert on the back. Waste of postage on that card, which gave me a laugh. She hasn’t been registered to vote for ten years, and she was an imdepemdent for five years before that.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    @sab:

    They may be working with very old mailing lists. I wonder if Trump guys are hoarding the more recent ones.

    Who may be working with very old mailing lists?  Republicans?  How / why would Trump people hoard more recent lists?   Trump people would keep good lists from Republicans?

  25. 25.

    sab

    @lowtechcyclist: The four in the majority on the Court had it well on hand until Trump appointees on the federal court decided to step in and impose an earlier than necessary deadline to settle it, and then went with the illegal legislative map for lack of time. Shades of Bush v Gore.

  26. 26.

    Mousebumples

    I’ve been doing #PostcardsToVoters for the Ohio Supreme Court –

    Lizzy (@mousebumples) tweeted at 7:26 PM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:

    3/ @DemocratWit & the #PostcardsToVoters team, I’ve got another 10 postcards going out to Ohio tomorrow! 🗳️

    If you live in Ohio, please vote for Justice @JenniferBrunner, Judge Terri Jamison, & Judge Marilyn Zayas. #TurnOhioBlue https://t.co/OltkHwPU1f

    (https://twitter.com/mousebumples/status/1579267010839851009?t=MKN_GfWCdw0H4MMV0XbXug&s=03)

    Whether you use Postcard Patriots or Postcards to Voters, it’s a great way to get through election anxiety.

    (WG, if you see this, I got your email – response to come later tonight… 😊)

  27. 27.

    sab

    @WaterGirl: Ohio Right to Life using Republican Party lists from years ago. You’d think they would have better lists off of 2016 or 2020 mailing lists.  It has been at least twenty years since Mom was an active Republican, and ten years since she died.

  30. 30.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: I am getting “VOTE FOR ROJO” mailings under my maiden name, which is no longer registered to vote. Idk if they’re that hard up for voters (🤞🤞) or just don’t have current data. Please continue to waste the GQP money on stuff that goes straight into the recycling.

    Competed my ballot to vote for Mandela (aka NOT ROJO) and Tony and others earlier tonight. Planning to take to the post office later this week.

  35. 35.

    Jackie

    @H.E.Wolf: Do you have links to WA judges – including Congressional District 4? I’m having difficulty figuring out which R judges are the least trumpiest.

  36. 36.

    sab

    @H.E.Wolf: I really didn’t know much about Jamison before this year, other than that she has been a lower court judge for quite a while. What a history!

  38. 38.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: lol, idk. He’s not worth the effort to type more characters.

    @WaterGirl: I’ve gotten lots of mail reminders to (and how to) return my mail ballot. Hoping those stop coming after I get that returned and marked as received.

  40. 40.

    BlueGuitarist

    Speaking of Nevada,

    from Political Wire:

    “Fourteen members of Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt’s (R) family announced that they would collectively endorse his opponent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D), the Nevada Independent reports.

  42. 42.

    columbusqueen

    I’ve known Jennifer & her husband Rick for at least 20 years, & she will make a great Chief Justice.  It would also be wonderful to outvote the worthless weasel Pat DeWine (Mike’s son), who won’t recuse himself from redistricting cases despite Daddy being Guv. Is any Republican not corrupt?

  43. 43.

    Urban Suburbanite

    Republicans in Washington are starting to turn on Joe Kent, after his unfortunate condition of hanging out with fascists flared up again – with a Nazi podcaster who was briefly a Republican staffer. He was also at a beach party with some fascists well known for violence (these were the type who would go into Portland and attack people, usually while hammered, often with the protection of local cops). And there’s an obligatory mention of his wife who died in Syria. Always mention the wife who died in Syria.

    There’s also Tiffany Smiley, who has an unnerving MLM mom aspect and wants everyone to know that she’s too scared to buy coffee in Seattle, because of all the crime and the wokeness. However Go Hawks (except the Seahawks are not having anything to do with her campaign ads, just like they wanted nothing to do with a really transphobic talk radio douchebag).

  44. 44.

    Ohio Mom

    @lowtechcyclist: I could tell that was David Pepper even before I followed the link. He’s up there with Katie Porter when it comes to laying out the facts in a clear sequence anyone could follow.

    WaterGirl, sorry I turned a few hairs on your head gray with that hastily made comment. What I was trying to get across is that the Republican candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court aren’t even playing coy, murmuring that they can’t possibly say how they would rule.

    It’s a pretty stark choice and it’s hard to tell if Ohioans fully understand that. Most Buckeyes are pro choice but most probably paying enough attention to get it.

  45. 45.

    Ohio Mom

    @sab: Scary thought but maybe the Ohio anti-Choicers have so much cash on hand that they can’t find enough addresses for all their mailers. So they are digging into old lists.

  46. 46.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Jackie: ​@H.E.Wolf: Do you have links to WA judges – including Congressional District 4? I’m having difficulty figuring out which R judges are the least trumpiest.
     Well… I googled “WA State bar association judge ratings” and a number of links showed up.

    The Vietnamese-American Bar Association of WA has an evaluation committee, which publishes its findings – the link to the findings (including a few judges in Yakima County, if that’s helpful) is at this link: https://www.vabaw.com/judicial-ratings

    More in my next comment….

  48. 48.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Mousebumples: I’ve been doing #PostcardsToVoters for the Ohio Supreme Court –
     Me too! I like to think of them as the Three Righteous Judges. :)

    I get a great deal of pleasure out of writing the “Z” in “Zayas”. (As in Zorro, another protector of the vulnerable.) Her background also is uncommon – and I appreciate her ongoing work to mentor students and bring them in to see how courts function.

  49. 49.

    H.E.Wolf

    Oh, and at least two of the 3 righteous judges mention their pets in their “About” pages. (I wanted to know more about the dog named Sparkle Lou.) Between the pets and the WV connection, they seem at least a little bit Balloon Juice adjacent.

  52. 52.

    Mousebumples

    @H.E.Wolf: awesome! I did a bunch of Texas postcards yesterday, which was great therapy. (and I texted a pic to my cousin living there – I doubt she was randomly one of my addresses, but give her a GOTV nudge!)

  55. 55.

    sab

    @Ohio Mom: I am hopung that they are merely extremely tone deaf. My parents’ neighbors were solid Republicans. Husband a middle class doctor. Wife a retired doctor from a family with serious money. They bought my parents’ big house at market rates and then knocked it down to have a bigger yard. Always had Republican yard signs.

    But they have yard signs up for Democratic judges.! First time ever! Apparently the ignoramuses in the legislature stomping into doctor-patient relationships has hit home. Or she was another pro-choice Republican who realizes that Choice and Republican do not go together ever.

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