Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

American history and black history cannot be separated.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

I really should read my own blog.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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It’s postcard writing and music sharing time.

Mousebumples has been busy!

If anyone else has postcard photos they want to share, please send me your pics.

brendancalling has been doing a great job supplying playlists for our Saturday Music & Postcards threads, but on our Tuesday evening threads, we count on all of you BJ music peeps out there.  So post your links to whatever you like!

Postcard information here.  If you don’t see an answer to your question in that file, chime in and let me know so I can answer and then add the info the file, so everyone has it.

Postcards + Instructions for Wisconsin

Note: if you click on Balloon Juice in the box, it takes you to the front page.  If you click on “Postcards + Instructions for Wisconsin”, it will take you straight to the page with all the info.

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  1. 1.

    Mousebumples

    I’ve been saving up those postcards since the primary last month! I’ve mostly gotten the 50 postcards for Janet ready to go – mostly need to do addresses yet. And debating if I want to either handwrite the MYVOTE.WI.GOV info, or maybe print onto some small address labels.

    I’m also trying to think through where I can be “most effective” with the weeks we have left. Leaning towards maybe going back for more SD-8 addresses after these are all done, to try to maximize our efforts there – and hopefully those voters will also vote for Janet!

    I love the idea of Spanish language postcards… But I’m so much slower at those. 😭 Way less “automatic writer” nature, lol.

    Anyone doing Spanish language and have suggestions or words of encouragement there?

  3. 3.

    CaseyL

    I’m using pre-printed postcards from Postcard Patriots (for the WI Supreme Court), but will steal a couple lines to add to the back, about early voting and where to go to get more information.  Thanks!

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    @Mousebumples: We only have 183 SD-8 addresses that haven’t been handed out.

    Once we get through those, I thought we would start handing out the SD-8 addresses again – but this time for the Supreme Court race.

    That way those households would get two postcards reminding them to vote, first the SD-8 reminder and then a postcard a little it later out the SC race.  Plus just a one-liner “vote for Jodi…, too!”

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    @Mousebumples:

    Anyone doing Spanish language and have suggestions or words of encouragement there?

    We have only 2 writers so far for the Spanish postcards.  I would love to have more, but I understand that if you don’t speak the language, it would be a lot slower to copy the words.

  14. 14.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: Sounds good! Thanks for the update. 🤩

    Progress! Hopefully Voces will be pleased with the outreach, even if we can’t/don’t reach everyone. I’ve enjoyed this, at least!

  20. 20.

    delphinium

    @WaterGirl: I’m finishing up my SD-8 post cards tonight and will start on the SC ones tomorrow; all will be ready to mail starting Friday.

    Is there a specified date yet (last day) when the post cards can be mailed in order to get to WI on time? In the info provided, it stated likely 3/25 or 3/28. Thanks!

  23. 23.

    delphinium

    @Alison Rose: ​
    I’m a bit of an electronica whore so still love listening to a lot of that music, but try not to subject folks here to it. : )

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    @delphinium: Not exactly sure yet.  3/25 is 10 days before April 4 and 3/28 is 7 days.

    It may depend on where you are located relative to Wisconsin.  From IL, maybe we can get away with 3/28.  From CA, probably not.

    I would say try to get as many as you can out  by 3/25.  As we mail closer to the election, chances are better than the household has already voted. On the other hand, if they haven’t, then the reminder is still good!

    We may take our cue on mailing dates from Postcards to Voters.  As soon as we have a firm date, I’ll share it, for sure.

  25. 25.

    Mousebumples

    @delphinium: Nothing is set yet. I’m absolutely keeping an eye on #PostcardsToVoters since they are also mailing for Janet, I’m happy to use their USPS estimator. For the primary, the last day to mail was the Tuesday before. I’d say at least 2 weeks to write yet. Hopefully 3 more, but we’ll see..

    Haha, like WaterGirl said above, basically. 😂

  26. 26.

    delphinium

    @WaterGirl: ​
    Ha Ha! Your mind must have been thinking of the previous thread about Trump wanting to bomb Mexico over meth labs.

  31. 31.

    Baud

    Via Reddit, someone in Texas knows how to play the game.

    Fox News hosts melt down after book ban crusade causes Bible to be removed from schools

  36. 36.

    Alison Rose

    @delphinium: I used to much more into it, but I can still get there sometimes. Now I’m having memories of seeing Orbital and The Chemical Brothers in concert about a hundred years ago :)

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Good for them!

    “The fact that because one person or three people put the Bible on the list [is] absolutely horrifying,” she continued. “And this is when the school administrators need to step up and say absolutely not.”

    She added: “Because the default here as well is if someone subjected it to review, then it’s automatically taken off the shelf while they decide. But every day without the Bible is a day lost!”

    McEnany agreed and said that only “new” books should be banned.

    Time to bring back my (former) almost daily refrain.  What the fuck is wrong with these people?

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    @delphinium: Plenty of addresses – We still have 31,800 addresses left in Milwaukee County alone!

    It’s amazing.  With all the people who live in Wisconsin, elections are won and lost on such a small margin.

  43. 43.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: Thanks! They are pretty – but limited space to write a looooong candidate name. Just gotta write extra tiny, I guess.

    And now I’m going to get a cold beverage from the fridge and hopefully watch the Bucks close out this basketball game. #BucksIn6 #FearTheDeer🦌

  44. 44.

    Alison Rose

    @delphinium: I had to look it up, because I couldn’t recall – so the show I saw the two bands at was a sort of “listener appreciation concert” from Live 105, the main alternative rock radio station in the Bay Area. It was in 1996, good Lordy. In addition to Orbital and The Chemical Brothers, there was also Republica, Mazzy Star, Cake, and Beck. That is…an interesting line up. I liked all of those bands at the time except for Cake, who I could tolerate but never really got into

    Also, it was the Green Christmas concert and I wore a green velvet dress and white vinyl boots. This was the weird portion of my life between my grunge hippie years and my goth years.

  46. 46.

    brendancalling

    1916, Motörhead, and not what you’d expect from that band. You’ll be weeping by the end, if not the first verse.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    I woke up early and had a long day, so it’s time for me to close the laptop for the night.

    Thanks to all who are writing cards and posting music!

  49. 49.

    Kristine

    @Mousebumples: Thanks!

    It never ceases to bug me how I manage to mess up easy words. It’s like I’m trying too hard to get every letter right and oh Kris you forgot the ‘l’ at the end of ‘constitutional.’

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