Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Letā€™s not be the monsters we hate.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just donā€™t know how.

Letā€™s delete this post and never speak of this again.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

When someone says they ā€œlove freedomā€, rest assured they donā€™t mean yours.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. Whatā€™s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

ā€œMore of thisā€, i said to the dog.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Usually wrong but never in doubt

You canā€™t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

In my day, never was longer.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

if you canā€™t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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Margin of Error or Margin of Effort? Let’s Win This!

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Let’s win this!

h/t GeminidĀ 

We have MET the $1,000 Match for Barry’s WORKER POWER Angel Match!

Up to $50 per person will be matched by Barry ā€“ if you post your match and amount in the comments. Even if you were matched yesterday by Almost Retired, this is a new match so you are eligible for this one, too.

With our fundraising yesterday, we sent the equivalent of 2.5 people to work in AZ for a week! Ā Can we do it again?

Open thread.

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  4. 4.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue team

    Just gave $50.

    Ty Barry and ty WG for putting all these together.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    Thanks, everyone! Ā We are at $225 for the match already

    edit: though this may slow down considerably now that another post has gone up right on top of it.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    Also, if anyone is retired or temporarily out of work or on vacation ā€“ and you want to go to AZ for a week or more ā€“ we could send you! Ā You get one day of training and 6 days of work, with travel and lodging covered unless you want to cover the cost yourself!

  17. 17.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    In for another $50 because I’m not up to doing any physical GOTV this year. I’m going to let my checkbook do the walking.

  19. 19.

    BlueGuitarist

    In for 25, thanks for this!

    of relevance to some others: found out from credit union i’m limited to 20 transactions per day. Problem: for the 22 downballot swing state candidates, they count each candidate as a separate transaction.

    I did the remaining transactions today to get me to the 330 i had originally intended.

    slowly realizing i can’t use the card again today, and looking at the time, how long i spent prying this info from the credit union.

    The downballot candidates include 6 Arizona candidates:

    Here’s a story about one of them:

    When her classroom ceiling collapsed, Laura Terech shielded her kindergartners; then she decided to run for AZ House to address the poor funding for Arizonaā€™s schools. Toss-up district for state house, state senate, US House (AZ-01 D Jevin Hodge) and Maricopa County Attorney and all the state-wide races: US Senate, Gov, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Corporation Commission, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mine Inspector.

  23. 23.

    brendancalling

    Iā€™m in the middle of moving and canā€™t really afford to give $$$. However, Iā€™m out every weekend knocking on doors for the Dems here in PA. Itā€™s all I can do this yearā€”so thatā€™s what Iā€™m doing.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    @BlueGuitarist: That’s good to know. Ā I thought maybe it was a fluke when paying with ApplePay.

    Next time I promote the down-ballot thermometer, I will ask people to just pick one or two people from the list and donate to them.

    edit: I put a note to that effect on the thermometer link in the sidebar.

  27. 27.

    BlueGuitarist

    @brendancalling:

    That’s great that in the middle of everything else you’re getting out the vote!

    “All you can do/is do what you must

    You do what you must do/and you do it well”

    Bob Dylan, Buckets of Rain

  28. 28.

    BlueGuitarist

    @WaterGirl:

    Thanks!

    Also: love “margin of effort”

    Thanks to everyone here for your efforts

    bending the arc toward justice!

    have to say again: love “margin of effort”

  30. 30.

    Dmkingto

    In for $100 yesterday (AB242232688). I didnā€™t realize there was a match. Thanks Almost Retired and Barry!

  43. 43.

    There go two miscreants

    @WaterGirl: New email address! I have moved, and my old ISP-based one is going away since I am out of their service area. I am now a resident of Wilmington, NC in order to be close to my son, most-excellent daughter-in-law, and my grandkids.

  45. 45.

    There go two miscreants

    Let’s see if a non-reply comment works (two previous replies to WG just disappeared completely).

    New email address was the reason for moderation.

  48. 48.

    There go two miscreants

    @WaterGirl: So I did post a non-reply comment that appeared promptly. Let’s see if a reply works now.ā€‹

    ETA: Yes, it appeared promptly, but editing required Text mode and the dreaded mice appeared (and were vanquished)!

  52. 52.

    WaterGirl

    @phdesmond:

    I knew that Grant was on the $50, just didn’t catch that as your way of saying you were donating $50.

    I was thinking grant applications and the awarding of grants. :-)

    On the plus side, we have matched $50 more than I thought we did!

  56. 56.

    Asparagus Aspersions

    I’ve thrown in $100.

    ETA: Did that push us over the $1000 threshold? I am unreasonably excited about that.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    Not sure if the $1,000 Barry donation will go into the thermometer or if it will be a paper check sent to Worker Power.

    Either way, we have already funded 5 people for a week on the ground in AZ.

    Go us!

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    I am closing this thread in my browser, so if you donate toward a match, please let me know in a current fundraising thread so your donation can be sure to be counted.

    thank you!

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