Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

So many bastards, so little time.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

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Open Thread: Closing Out Black History Month…

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… With a BANG!

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War for Ukraine Day 736: Ukraine Downs Three More Russian SU-34s While Putin Rattles His Brittle Saber

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The House has passed another short term stepped CR to get through to 8 and 22 MAR 2024, when the appropriators are supposed to have completed their bills in both chambers and have them ready for votes. Now we see which member, if any, of the GOP minority caucus in the Senate decides to hold things up there using procedural gimmicks or whether this passes the Senate quickly and keeps the government open past tomorrow.

The Ukrainians downed three more SU-34s today.

February is the shortest month of the year, but our sky defenders have achieved the greatest results in downing russian jets since October 2022.

The Ukrainian Air Force destroyed:
◾️ten Su-34 fighter-bombers
◾️two Su-35 fighters
◾️one A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft.

It seems like being a russian military plane pilot is the worst job in the world.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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Sorry, Another Boebert Kid Update

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Eighteen and horrible:

The felony charges that Representative Lauren Boebert’s eighteen-year-old son, Tyler, got hit with on Tuesday, February 27, stem from a series of car thefts in Rifle, where he and some underage friends robbed several people, including a woman with a brain tumor who said she had just $75 “left to her name,” according to police.

Tyler was allegedly part of a four person crime ring with two female minors and another male minor (Tyler’s 18, so not a minor).  One of the minor females “supposedly made a sex tape” with Tyler, according to an affadavit. In addition to allegedly stealing from a woman with a brain tumor, they took credit cards from parked cars and bought $717 worth of clothes on fast fashion site Shein, as well as spending a bunch of money at Kum & Go (a convenience store) and Love’s (a truck stop).

Updated to add:  John Fetterman is a better person than me.

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It’s Up To Us Now – Montana – Let’s Keep This Senate Seat

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It’s my hope that what we are seeing is the last gasp from the right wing, as they fight to hold on to the privilege they feel entitled to.

In the end, we, the American people – not any of our institutions – have to save our democracy by voting in defense of that democracy this fall. The responsibility is ours. ~ Eric Holder

Quilt Raffle for Four Directions in Montana – We Need To Keep This Senate Seat

Quiltingfool has made us another gorgeous quilt to auction off, this time for Four Directions in Montana!

Let’s keep Jon Tester in his seat, shall we, and go for 51 or 52 seats in the Senate.

This stunning quilt is square – 94″ x 94″.  (Quilt would sell for $575)

Here’s a close-up of the center of the quilt.  I love the colors, and the design, hope you guys like it, too.

Raffle tickets are $25 each, same process as last time.

There will be 2nd, 3rd, and 4th prizes – quilt blocks – more details to come.  So 4 chances to win!

Hoping we can get our Montan thermometer up to $45,000 – with the $30,000 match we got before the holidays and the $5,000 angle match check that’s not reflected in the thermometer, that will give Four Directions a total of $80,000 from us for Montana.

Quick update on Four Directions and Montana

Next week, the folks at Four Directions (OJ, Barb, their daughter Donna, and Bret) will be meeting with Tribal Leaders from the Blackfeet Nation and Fort Belknap Indian Community at the Coalition of Tribes meeting on March 8-9, 2024 in Las Vegas to discuss Four Directions’ Get-Out-The-Native-Vote campaign, including planning the initial road trip in mid-April to start recruitment of Native staff for training and engagement.

Bret and I have a call scheduled for March 10 so he can fill me in on some of the planning, so look for more detailed information soon!

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Thursday Afternoon Open Thread

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Looks like we can use one!

Gotta love his style!

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Fake, faux, frivolous.  I’m gonna have to use that as a post title.

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The Supreme Court Has Shown Us Who They Are

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The Supreme Court has shown us who they are.

Yeah, we knew before.   But I would have thought that they would want to preserve at least a fig leaf to cover up their blatant corruption.

It would have been possible for them to have granted cert in this case – based on a principled stand – to make it clear once and for all that the President of the United States is not a king, so there could be no doubt.  No one is king – not a serving U.S. President, not an outgoing U.S. President, not an incoming president.

They could have laid down a marker to say that the office of President of the United States is not a get out of jail free card for any or all crimes.

But to take up this case on the timeframe they set forth – where we don’t even know for sure if we will get a ruling before the end of this term in July – and where even a ruling by July could quite possibly delay the D.C. trial until after the election – this is in-your-face corruption, proudly on display, with a fuck you to the country (instead of a cherry) on top.

Well, I say fuck you back.

It’s up to us now, and I guess we have the currently serving SCOTUS to thank for the clarity.

So, besides making our opinions known to the Supreme Court, what else are we gonna do about it?

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