Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This fight is for everything.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

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

He really is that stupid.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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And some great news from Jamie Raskin!

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has said Friday will be his final treatment of chemotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which he was diagnosed with late last year.

“On Friday is my very last session. The doctors tell me the chemotherapy has extinguished the cancer cells, at least as far as they can tell,” Raskin said Thursday in a virtual event with the Progressive Change Institute.

“It’s almost extinguished me in the process, but I’m hanging in there. I’m gonna make it through,” the congressman said. He quipped that doctors have promised him that “my eyelashes and my eyebrows and my hair will come back one day soon, so fingers crossed there.”

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  2. 2.

    Shana

    Congratulations to Jamie Raskin from someone who has successfully come through lumpectomies and radiation in the last 6 months.

  3. 3.

    RaflW

    Huzzah for Rep Raskin. One of the really great Dems in the House. Hope his remission is long and healthy!!

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    That’s just awesome about Raskin!  CONGRATS sir!  We need you around for a good long time!

  5. 5.

    Ruckus

    I like it when you get to say that your cancer is gone. I was able to do this. Not everyone in my family has been able to say this. Of the 4 of us that have had or have cancer only 50% have been able to.

    Now as to that apology, I enjoyed all of them saying it that way, it would have been better from one major person out of all of those, and saying it officially, but some is better than none in this case.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I adore Jamie Raskin, and have been so sad for him and so worried about him. This is terrific news!! Also, FUCK CANCER.

  10. 10.

    Geminid

    @RaflW: Jaime Raskin is another talented member of the House Class of 2018. Capable Democrats reach Congress in every cycle, but that class was loaded with them.

  13. 13.

    Ohio Mom

    Great news on Jamie Raskin. Every kind of cancer gets different treatments of course, and wow, his course of treatment was fast. When western medicine knows what to do, it is incredibly powerful stuff.

    @Shana: Congrats to you, too. I had my right breast loped off ten years ago, been on an estrogen blocker ever since. At first, it was only for five years, then I was told ten, now it appears open-ended. Treatment protocols are ever-evolving.

  15. 15.

    RaflW

    @WaterGirl: A different, and to me credible, rumor is Fox is going to try to up their cable fee. We need to organize fierce resistance to it!

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    That’s excellent news about Jamie Raskin.  He’s been through way too much.  It’s about time the Universe smiled on him.

  17. 17.

    Ohio Mom

    In other happy news, both AARP and The Arc (disability rights and advocacy) sent me emails announcing Biden just signed an executive order “that includes more than 50 directives to federal agencies, which will:

    Make child care and long-term care for people with disabilities more accessible and affordable.

    Improve job quality for care workers, including leveraging Medicaid funding to ensure there are enough home care workers to provide care to seniors and people with disabilities enrolled in Medicaid.”

    TL/dr: One of the parts of Build Back Better that got left on the cutting room floor was increased funding for the home health aides who enable the elderly and people with disabilities  to live in their homes, in their communities, rather than be institutionalized.

    It’s a terribly paid job and there are huge staffing shortages because you make more money in fast food. I am not sure how pay gets raised without Congress passing legislation but whatever this executive order accomplishes is a step in the right direction.

    As Speaker Hakeem Jeffries has pointed out, Democrats deliver.

  21. 21.

    Geminid

    There was a development in the Turkish Presidential election a couple nights ago. Kemel Kilicdorglu, President Erdogan’s principle opponent, gave a televised talk from his book-lined study about his affiliation with the Alevi religious minority. It’s a Muslim sect, but Alevis have been persecuted by the majority in the past. I don’t know what the political consequences will be, but Kilicdorglu sure has a lot of books!

    The election will be held May 14. An April MetroPoll survey showed a neck-and-neck race, with Kilicdorglu polling a little over 42% and Erdogan a little under. Votes for a third and forth candidate will likely hold the leader under 50%, in which case there will be a runoff May 28.

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    FastEdD

    Good on ya, Rep. Raskin, you’re one of the good guys. We need you! Take it from me – even though you’ve gone through Hell and recovered, there’s no guarantee cancer won’t come back. It took my partner Ginger last year and we fought it for 12 years. Get tested. Constantly. Amen to the Fuck Cancer. With a rusty farm implement. Twice on Sundays.

  23. 23.

    geg6

    Excellent news!  My sister just finished a pretty brutal treatment for breast cancer (two kinds of chemo, immunotherapy and radiation) and her hair, lashes and brows are finally growing back.  She, too, has been tentatively declared cancer free.

  24. 24.

    Immanentize

    I’m not congratulating J. Raskin yet. But I am keeping all my fingers and toes crossed for him.

  25. 25.

    piratedan

    @RaflW: that’s how they’ve made their money, holding cable companies and streamers hostage for a higher fee.  The world we be a better place if they were universally told to fuck off.  You want me to pay you more in order for you to lie to people and watch the country go down the shitter?  Granted, we’re talking about cable and media companies, so who knows….

    My understanding is that Fox already costs three times as much, but that was before they starting killing off their audience and have now been shown to be “un-newsworthy”, unsure if that reduces their clout with the business powers that be.

  27. 27.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Jeffro: ​
      I hope not. Firing Pirro would be a devastating blow to the box wine industry.

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    Ohio Mom

    @FastEdD: Well, to be fair, some cancers have very low recurrence rates. But yeah, I think it is always a possibility.

    Then again, there is always a possibility of a getting a second, unrelated cancer.

    Condolences on the loss of Ginger.

  29. 29.

    dmsilev

    That’s great to hear about Rep. Raskin. I’ve read up a lot on treatments for that particular type of cancer, since a family member had it a few years ago, and the treatment regimen has improved enormously over the last ten or fifteen years. Definitely a major feat of medical science.

  31. 31.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Capitol rioter shot at local deputies after FBI informed him of Jan. 6 charges:

    A Texas man facing charges in the Jan. 6 riot opened fire last week on sheriff’s deputies who had gone to his home to check on him ahead of his scheduled surrender to the FBI, according to a new criminal complaint.
    Nathan Donald Pelham, of Greenville, who initially faced four misdemeanor charges tied to the insurrection, faces an additional felony charge of being a felon in possession of firearm after the incident April 12, a criminal complaint filed this week shows.
    An FBI special agent wrote in a filing that he had called Pelham on April 12 and asked him to surrender in a few days. That evening, according to the agent, local authorities went to Pelham’s home after his father requested a welfare check.

    …

    More than 1,000 defendants have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and hundreds more arrests are expected.

  35. 35.

    UncleEbeneezer

    When Mark Pomerantz leaked his resignation letter and then announced he was going to write a tell-all book, I remember people cheering him on as if he was some brave truth-teller, and saying we needed more people like him and less like Bragg/Garland…meanwhile numerous Former Prosecutors were all banging their heads on their desks over what a terrible idea it was and how it could potentially knee-cap an open/active investigation into Trump.  Now Pomerantz’ book will serve as fodder to fuel Jim Jordan’s ridiculous, bad-faith and partisan fishing expedition to try and delegitimize Bragg’s prosecution in the eyes of the public.  Hopefully it won’t come to that but damn, people really shouldn’t have been so quick to jump on Team Pomerantz and shit on Alvin Bragg.  Here’s a good video of Karen Friedman Agnifilo (Former Manhattan Asst DA under Cy Vance) and Michael Popok (NY attorney/professor) discussing.

  36. 36.

    Ruckus

    @geg6:

    Some of the treatments for breast cancer are freaking brutal. I believe that if the cancer is fully gotten with a mastectomy that the odds are pretty good. But if not breast cancer seems to metastasize easily and very fast. Getting to it very early is paramount. Every woman I’ve known that it metastasized have had a very hard road. I’ve also been told that the xray is not in any way comfortable, but the exact opposite.

  37. 37.

    lowtechcyclist

     damn, people really shouldn’t have been so quick to jump on Team Pomerantz

    Team who??

    Seriously, I had to Google him to figure out wtf he had to do with any of this Trump stuff.

    Yeah, releasing a book about a case that’s still in progress is not good.  Hope it sells about negative seventeen copies.

  38. 38.

    Jackie

    @RaflW: I’d be all for this if it knocks faux off the air – without involving local Fox and FX1and FX2 mlb baseball games!

  39. 39.

    Jackie

    @Ohio Mom: If I remember correctly, this is Raskin’s second bout of cancer. Different cancers. I wish him all the best! I “fell in love with him” during the Impeachment Hearings.

  41. 41.

    J R in WV

    Congratulations to Rep Raskin !!

    Being in the middle of my own cisplaten chemo treatments, and seeing them do me a lot of good already, without much in expected side effects so far, a hearty Fuck Cancer for everyone who has ever had a close person affected by the dread scourge.

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