Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No one could have predicted…

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

Please don’t feed the bears.

Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

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

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    Kristine shared this information from Postcards to Voters

    ► Active Campaigns

    We are still assigning addresses for:
    Beto O’Rourke, Susan Hays, and Luke Warford running for Governor, Agriculture Commissioner, and Railroad Commissioner (respectively) in Texas.
    Senator Raphael Warnock for re-election and Stacey Abrams for Governor in Georgia.
    Justice Jennifer Brunner, Judge Marilyn Zayas, and Judge Terri Jamison for Supreme Court in Ohio.
    Defeat of the Anti-Choice Constitutional Amendment in Kentucky.
    State Senator James Skoufis in New York.
    Tony Vargas for Congress in Nebraska.

    ► Last Days to Write and Mail

    We will make addresses available up until the last safe day to mail postcards to voters. When you request addresses, Abby the Address Bot will tell you the mailing due date for the campaign you selected. Abby has your zip code and knows where each campaign’s election is located. The norm is to allow 3 days to write and mail.

    As we get closer to the election, Abby will begin adjusting those mailing due dates to two days. Then, to one day. And finally, depending on where you live and the location of the election, to same day mailing.

    The easiest way to plan is to consider this Tuesday as the last safe day to mail postcards from anywhere in the country for them to arrive before Election Day the following Tuesday. If you mail on Tuesday, make sure you’re handing the completed postcards to a Postal Service worker. Leaving it in a mailbox at 8 PM Tuesday night is not the same thing. It won’t be picked up until Wednesday and may not make it in time.

    Another useful tip is if you live in the same state or in an adjacent state where a campaign list is being assigned, you have until Wednesday to write and mail those postcards. Again, make sure you’re handing them to a Postal Service worker to ensure they being their journey before the Post Office closes that day.

  3. 3.

    Mousebumples

    With those deadlines (and those remaining campaigns), I’m unfortunately done with postcards for the Midterms. If any of you can still write today (and take to a post office tomorrow!), please keep postcarding!

    I’m planning to change gears and work on texting for Midterms. I’ve gotten a recommendation from a friend-of-friend to help text for Catherine Cortez Masto. Just filled out the “volunteer!” form on their website, so we’ll see when I hear back from them.

    What else are you guys doing to help #GOTV? What are you listening to?

  5. 5.

    suzanne

    I have a nasty sore throat and am losing my voice, coughing, waking up in the middle of the night, all the fun stuff. So I am having hot and sour soup tonight.

    The Afghan Whigs — Algiers

    The Afghan Whigs are more appropriate for, uh, a romantic night in than a sore throat, but they’re just so great.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @Kristine: Have you guys check the link I put up today in the Just One Week post?  It has a whole bunch of “action” opportunities including calling, texting, and door knocking.

    Maybe check there?

    The Pod Save America guys also have a lot of “action” opportunities on their website.

  12. 12.

    Kristine

    One of my organizational side projects has been excavating my vinyl LPs from the basement, where they’ve been stashed for 35 years. Bowie, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Moby Grape. Allman Brothers. Stones. I bought special cleaning tools and archival sleeves from Sound Matters and cleaned up the jackets. My turntable isn’t anything special, an Ion that comes with the software to let you record your LPs as MP3s. I intended to do that, then decided why not just play the LPs.

  13. 13.

    Steve in the ATL

    Any denizens of the Badger state here tonight?  Have a couple of questions.

    1. How is it that I-41 North and I-43 South are the same road?  Four directions Wisconsin, indeed.

    2.  Saw a billboard alleging that Ron “stupidest senator, at least until tommy tuberville” Johnson is “fighting for freedom…and the truth!”  Are Wisconsinites not free?  Is it a tyranny by the cheese curd mafia?  And what truth—it’s not like he broke the story on Aaron Rodgers lying about being vaccinated.

  16. 16.

    Grumpy Old Railroader

    Quite frankly if I get more election material in my mail I may explode. And this season has seen an explosion of text messages to my phone as well as emails from all over the country. Quite frankly, I am seriously considering changing my phone number and email address and NEVER again donating to Act Blue as I believe Act Blue is responsible for releasing my information into the wild. I have not directly donated through any other organization (that I recall).
    Also, I mailed my ballot a couple of weeks ago. I work the polls every election. My precinct is 75% vote by mail. So I’m surprised at all the big last minute effort to GOTV​
     
    But I am, after all, normally grumpy

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @Grumpy Old Railroader: Poking my head up to say that all of our ActBlue thermometers are set to YES – ask the person if their info can be shared with the entity they are donating to.

    I just discovered that setting a couple of weeks ago, and now all of our stuff is set to give the person donating the choice.

    Maybe that will help going forward?

    edit: I really thought that would have everyone jumping for joy, but I don’t think one person has even responded any of the times I have mentioned it.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @Alison Rose: Well, I hope to.  For some reason, late in the day on Wednesday of last week something changed and I am no longer able to add the stickers into people’s posts.

    I asked the site developers what might have changed (that was last week) and I wrote asking again today.

    So I REALLY hope to be able to pick that back up again, but I have no idea why it stopped working!

  24. 24.

    Mousebumples

    @Steve in the ATL: Around Milwaukee, yes. But they are not always the same road. I think other Interstates also overlap. I’m north of Milwaukee, and I-43 goes along (or close to) Lake Michigan – I-41 is maybe 25-50 miles West, running North/South. I think both do meet up again, in Green Bay, if memory serves, though.

    And our political ads are terrible. And the GOP ones (especially for the Senate) tend have had really bad racial undertones (overtones?).

    @Grumpy Old Railroader: If you’re getting Snail Mail – it could just be people finding your address since I believe the names/addresses of registered voters are a matter of public record.

    I’m still getting mail from “Americans for Prosperity” (*gag*) for Lizzy MaidenName. Lizzy MarriedName has already voted, but apparently I am two people, or something. I’ve voted under both names at this address (and the MaidenName one … it’s been 5-ish years since … yannow, married and all), but if the GOP wants to keep wasting money sending me election mail, I can keep tossing it in the garbage.

    I’m more annoyed at whomever sold my phone number, since I get all sorts of random texts from campaigns asking for money. I don’t donate over the phone, and a text solicitation will not result in any money from me. Works for some people, I’m sure, but it’s not like they know I have a history of donating this way … *roll eyes

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    @Alison Rose: I think it’s likely that it’s one campaign sharing with another.  Or one campaign sharing with the Democratic party and then THEY share it.

    That’s why I’m so pleased with the new setting on ActBlue, where they ask you when you donate whether your info can be shared.

  28. 28.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: I like the idea, but if campaigns already have my info – and are already sharing/selling my info – the “going forward” probably doesn’t help me as much as it might help others. That’s why I haven’t been “omg excited”.

    Is there any way to retroactively take back my info? Unfortunately, I doubt it.

  32. 32.

    Splitting Image

    Currently listening to a set of symphonies by J. C. Bach, one of several composers who had a difficult time distinguishing themselves from a more famous ancestor. Next up is a collection of works by C. P. E. Bach, who found himself in a similar position.

  34. 34.

    Mousebumples

    @Alison Rose: LOL, same here. I just found an email from the GOP-election denying candidate for Wisconsin Attorney General. Unsubscribe SO FAST. It was a random email that I don’t really use anymore, but it was my “throwaway” email from when I did online dating since I didn’t want to use my firstname-lastname email on someone I may want nothing further to do with at some point. So maybe one of those men decided to add their entire email address book to someone’s campaign? (Ugh. But … that’s why I used a throwaway email, lol.)

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @Alison Rose: I think the Rs must be desperate because I starred getting email from a ton of different T****-related people just a week or two ago.

    They must be scouring really old lists for people to scam out of money.

  37. 37.

    SpaceUnit

    @Alison Rose:

    Loved your music picks!  Honestly I had never heard of Misterwives before, but that was an awesome and fun little number.  Will definitely be checking out more of their stuff.  Thanks.

  40. 40.

    frosty

    @WaterGirl: I’m pretty sure the emails I’m getting are from the Minivan app for canvassing data collection. Or maybe not because I don’t get many texts and they’ve got my number (queue spooky music).

  42. 42.

    Jackie

    I finally stopped getting text messages requesting me to vote for Democratic candidate ________.

    Then today got a text asking me to vote for the MAGA County SC judge. (My only choices were both republican) I replied that in our Voter Guide, MAGA candidate told me if I didn’t support his positions to vote for his opponent. So I did. 😂 I doubt I’ll hear back.

  44. 44.

    SpaceUnit

    @danielx:

    I’m listening right now and loving it. These guys played at Red Rocks this last summer.  Starting to think I should have gone.  Nice.

  46. 46.

    middlelee

    @Grumpy Old Railroader:  It’s only indirectly ActBlue I’m told.

    I donate to a candidate, that candidate shares my email with another candidate and then gets a cut of the donations from the second candidates use of my address.

    The tactic I used this year was to immediately unsubscribe to anyone to whom I did not donate.  It might work differently if we donate to an organization rather than a candidate.  The cleanest way would be to send a check directly to the candidate.  A pain, yes.  I’m not sure what it would take to get rid of the election snail mail. Only one more week.  Yay.

  50. 50.

    Mousebumples

    So, question for the crowd – if we’re done with postcarding (for Midterms) after tonight, do we want any more of these kinds of threads yet this week? Music threads, GOTV discussion, and general open thread-ness … ?

    I find them to be fun, but I don’t think WaterGirl should be making nightly threads for my personal amusement, however.

  51. 51.

    Grumpy Old Railroader

    @WaterGirl: ​ Well yes, changing the default on ActBlue will help going forward. But as far as spreading my information far and wide, you closed that barn door after the horse got out. I don’t blame you. I blame ActBlue. Now that my info is “out there” campaigns will just keep spreading my info around like Johnny Appleseed. Wiser now but too late.​

  52. 52.

    J R in WV

    @Mousebumples:

    Is there any way to retroactively take back my info? Unfortunately, I doubt it.

    Actually, all the  Democratic fund-raising email I get has an unsubscribe option link. If you click that link, you won’t get any more email from that outfit. Try it !! It works !!!

  62. 62.

    prostratedragon

    @Steve in the ATL: ​ He’s an old favorite but I hadn’t looked him up in a while. Recall studio albums from the mid-aughts or something which are as good as anything he’s done, but I see some live material from the late teens on youtube that I’ll be checking out.

  63. 63.

    H.E.Wolf

    Thank you for one last postcard and music and GOTV thread! I’ve been updating in-state voter addresses all day/week/month, and I love seeing the names of all the 20-something Field Organizers as I go. Haven’t met any of them (ugh, pandemic), but I have mental images of them all as being charming and energetic.

    My political and voting philosophy is “follow the lead of Black Americans, past and present”… so tonight’s song recommendation is “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, performed by students at Spelman College:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRF9FOPgLpw

    Or if you prefer, sung by Aretha Franklin:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=8QK4p22LHtw

  64. 64.

    Jackie

    From Political Wire:

    “Former President Donald Trump’s final run of midterm campaign rallies includes stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania, both key Senate battlegrounds. But a third event in Florida, where Republicans are heavily favored, will instead highlight the party’s political tensions as it looks to the 2024 presidential election,” the New York Timesreports.
    “A Trump rally in Miami on Sunday was scheduled to support Senator Marco Rubio, who is seeking a third term. But while polls show Mr. Rubio as a strong favorite, the rally has instead focused attention on Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is holding an event of his own elsewhere in the state on the same day.”
    This could be interesting…

    Where’s Crist rallying? Where’s Demings’ rallying?

  66. 66.

    Al Rennick

    @Jackie:

    Where’s Crist rallying? Where’s Demings’ rallying?

    What difference does it make? Neither of them has a chance in Hell of winning.  Forget Florida, it’s a lost cause.

  72. 72.

    Mousebumples

    I plan to use the pie filter liberally ahead of midterms. If you want to Eeyore through the next week, have at it. But I don’t have to read it.

  75. 75.

    Kropacetic

    So tonight I’ve been watching the 2nd debate for MA governor (now 11 days old) and Maura Healey had me jumping out of my seat over the simplest statement to the effect that we have to invest in public higher education as a public good.

    Reminds me of when I first read Joe Biden’s platforms about housing and education and I was over the moon about a few really simple ideas.

    The faithless opposition acts like the Democrats want to create all sorts of bureaucracy  and complications but little things like fully funding section 8 can make a huge difference.

    Also I’m looking at this dude, Diehl, like “when did Dave Coulier get so mean and whiny?

    Eta: Personally, I’ll never forget Florida. It’s quite memorable. I’m just not going to visit for a time.

  78. 78.

    RaflW

    Did some more text banking this evening. Not the most fulfilling, but way better than doin’ nothing!

  79. 79.

    BigJimSlade

    @Alison Rose: You can’t fool me. I know Gratitude is a solo Danny Elfman tune.

    I was a big oingi boingi, as I like to call them sometimes, fan in the 80s. One of my favorite concerts was seeing them on a Friday the 13th, hm, probably 1984, at the Palace in Hollywood. It was my birthday, and one of my best friend’s, too, though he’s a year older, and, yes, we both went. We were right up front moshing away, as needed.

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