Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

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

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack:

    Okay, last time I prepared a semi-sophisticated meal, and basically everybody said, “Let’s order Chinese!”

    I laughed out loud.  Thanks for all the links.  Motown is an excellent choice.

  11. 11.

    H.E.Wolf

    Good to see la caterina’s postcard headlining the festivities!

    I’m on my 3rd batch of 5 for Sen. Warnock’s runoff, using some postage stamps featuring Bessie Coleman, a Black/Native American aviator who coincidentally was born in Atlanta… Texas.

  12. 12.

    Kristine

    Here on time for a change.

    A few postcards will be writ for Senator Warnock tonight.

    Keeping it quiet because music can distract when I need to concentrate. I’ll be listening to the patter of cold rain on the roof, grateful that it isn’t snow. The rain/snow line is hugging the Lake Michigan shoreline and I’m only a mile or so away. Hope the luck continues, though I did move the snow shovel to the deck just in case.

  13. 13.

    MazeDancer

    Got your fresh addresses right here. Genuine GA Voters fresh from the GA SoS office.

    Where they have stopped listing Party Affiliation, which they did the last time I bought a list from them. But do give Gender. And delineate Race. Twice. Very GA.

    Anyway, made a nice list of Black Women Active Voters. The people who matter.

    GA also updates their list after an election. So, these are very fresh.

    Also, new PostCard designs specifically for GA and Senator Warnock free for downloading here.

    So, just click on my nym. Go to PostCardPatriots.com. Or special party offer – just email PostCardPatriots at the Google mail place. Which is where the form goes when you click send at the site.

  14. 14.

    Mousebumples

    I’m here writing as well! Thanks for the great tunes – Motown is great. 🎶

    Let’s go, Team Warnock!

  19. 19.

    Scout211

    The CA-47 5:00 vote dump looks better for Katie Porter today. She increased her lead today to 3,772 with 82% counted. Good news. I am watching this one closely. We need her in congress.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @MazeDancer: So you don’t keep sending while early voting is going?  The last postcards are sent before voting starts?

    Interesting, I would have thought you would keep sending until the Dec 1, at least.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    @MazeDancer:

    There are folks on Twitter who call him and Ossoff “Senator Bae and Senator Boo”. Though I don’t know who’s which.

    I love that!  They are such a wonderful team, working together for GA.  Having Walker would be like peeing in the cheerios.  Only worse, x1000

  30. 30.

    MazeDancer

    @WaterGirl: Mail is completely undependable. Especially around the holidays.

    You gotta leave a long lead time. Unless you want to risk it.

    I’ve only ever gotten one Postcard coming to me as a voter. It arrived a week after the election.

    It was also a terrible message. Didn’t understand the point of PostCards. But I appreciated someone making the effort.

  32. 32.

    UncleEbeneezer

    At work so I won’t be writing postcards until Sunday.  But have fun and to paraphrase Airplane: we’re all counting on you!

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    I will stop myself here because I think I have to use these in the fundraising post tomorrow.  That’s when we start fundraising for the boots-on-the-ground (Worker Power) that we supported for AZ – they are now in GA!

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @MazeDancer: I’m not saying Jon Ossoff can’t work without Rev. Warnock.  I’m just not sure there’s any other state where the two senators are both outstanding and work together like this.

    Synergy!

  48. 48.

    MazeDancer

    Have MSNBC on in the background. They just did a quick cut to a packed ballroom at Mar-a-Lago. With about six dozen American Flags.

    And nothing but white people.

  53. 53.

    MazeDancer

    @WaterGirl: I was joking about the Boo and Bae thing. Not that they don’t make a great team. They do.

    Saw Ossoff on with Joy Reid tonight. He was eloquent and moving about Senator Warnock.

    Can you imagine trying to work with Herschel Walker to try to get anything done for your state?

    There is some incentive to write more PostCards.

  54. 54.

    Kattails

    @MazeDancer: Oops, I just downloaded designs from Postcards to Voters. However I used some generic designs, so let’s see how the Postcard Patriots “supergirl” design prints, and can I get the two sides in the right orientation? …nope try again.

    I just crawled in from stacking about 1 1/2 cords of hardwood in advance of our first “wintry mix” tonight.  Only got it delivered a couple of days ago, so had to push & be out there with flashlight and clamp lamp.  We’ll see how long I last.

  55. 55.

    Steeplejack

    Well, since I have done my Motown duty tonight, I will indulge my Hollies mania. Here’s an alternate take of one of their lesser songs, “Yes, I Will,” that has a great guitar solo at 1:40. Velvet-smooth vocals, as usual.

  57. 57.

    dkinPa

    @H.E.Wolf:  Love your postcard!  The person who gets that is going to hang onto it — that’s not going into the trash.  And will go out and vote!

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    So… anyone up for another postcard / music thread?

    We could do a couple more if people are interested.  If postcards need to be mailed by 11/25, we could do one this Saturday and another a week from tonight, next Tuesday.

    But only if you guys want them.

    Chime in and let me know.

  62. 62.

    Kattails

    @MazeDancer: OK, got the orientation sorted, and requested 20 addresses.  At least I believe I requested stuff.  What’s the time frame for these to come through?  I can always write out the message and then do the addresses later.

  63. 63.

    H.E.Wolf

    @MazeDancer: ​

    @dkinPa: ​
     Thank you to both of you!

    I enjoy finding quirky (and relevant) stamps, even though it sometimes means adding some extra postage to get to the right value for mailing.

    In that postcard image there are 6 women, not 5, in the photo. #6 is visible only as a single shoe (maybe a saddle oxford) behind the other women, but still part of the team. A metaphor for what we’re all doing as postcard writers. :)

  65. 65.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: I’m on board. I think I’m free both of those days/nights.

    Thanksgiving weekend is a wildcard for me, and I’m not sure on the #PostcardsToVoters last day to mail either. We might have an idea by next week. Usually you get 3 days from request – when it gets shorter than that, that’s a hint, lol.

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    @WaterGirl:

    I may have to rethink my strategy. Public reception feels a little lukewarm, but I remind myself of all the lurkers who read but never comment.

  69. 69.

    MazeDancer

    @Kattails: Sent your addresses.

    Use the “messed” up one anyway. There is no wrong orientation.  Just means they flip it over vertically instead of horizontally.

    November 25th is the mail by date. Black Friday.

  71. 71.

    BlueGuitarist

    Thanks all for doing this!

    Can’t get to writing til Friday, but getting some addresses, and then printing those awesome Senator Reverend Warnock cards like @21.

    scrolling thru quickly; started with Steely Dan still in my ear from Mistermix’s post earlier, and then MazeDancer mentioned Black Friday – title of another Dan tune –

    but saw some great song suggestions.

    love all y’all

  74. 74.

    Kattails

    @MazeDancer: I will use the “dud”, I’m cheap. Got the addresses, thanks.  will try to do more but this is a start.

    I’m  using the Avery “textured white” postcard blanks from the national office retailer, and am not overly impressed. Just a heads-up to anyone. The weight is too flimsy and the texture is a bit much, I’m not getting a really good image & this is a high-end printer. (Picky picky picky. )

    Gonna put Hillary Hahn doing the Mendelssohn violin concerto on Youtube and mellow out before bed.

  76. 76.

    H.E.Wolf

    @WaterGirl: Gorgeous calligraphy by Kattails!​

    ETA: quick before you put the stamp on: Warnock is misspelled.

    ETA2: I make so many errors on my own cards that I should probably buy stock in the WhiteOut company.

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    @BlueGuitarist:

    Thanks for the heartening feedback. I was more nonplussed by how my jazz set tanked the other night. Motown and adjacent are safe, but I tried to throw in some songs that don’t get played a lot

    I like Sharon Jones.

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