Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

ha ha ha! Nice try weird people.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Everybody saw this coming.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

Let’s finish the job.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Remembering Bloody Sunday

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I’d save this for tomorrow morning — Good trouble! — but I suspect there will be much social-media discussion tonight. Not least because of Vice-President Harris’ speech!


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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    MSNBC was among the cablecasters who covered much of the March (and all of MVP’s speech) live this afternoon. I found it all extremely moving and inspiring. Thanks for front-paging the event, AL.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Naturally, the MSM is mostly ignoring this anniversary, because Kamala Harris is supposed to not be uppity like this.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Kamala Harris is supposed to not be uppity like this.

    No kidding. But I’ve gotta say, I think her speech today was among the best I’ve heard from her. Every word shimmered with her passion and commitment. This was no mere speechifying — it rang with truth and conviction. If she can keep delivering like this, I have no worries about November. (And yes, I do know that compelling oratory does not necessarily equate to solid policy.)

  4. 4.

    Mike in Pasadena

    Been reading the Atlantic issue on the perils of a second Trump term as president. I can only bear to read two or three pages at a time, the consequences are so dire. Post cards and local participation in the Democratic party efforts to get out the vote are my protection against despair.

  5. 5.

    VFX Lurker

    I read Book 1 of John Lewis’ deeply moving graphic novel trilogy, March. I still need to read Books 2 and 3. Powerful story.

  7. 7.

    Geoduck

    Since it’s an Open Thread, I see Haley managed to actually win a primary, in DC. Hopefully that will drive the Shiatgibbon further around the bend.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @BlueGuitarist:

    Time to rename the bridge.

    Yuppers.

    Until just now, I don’t believe I’d ever read anything about Edmund Pettus himself. He was an officer with the Confederate Army, Grand Dragon of the local state KKK, and a U.S. Senator from Alabama. He also, in keeping with the custom of the time, raped and impregnated one of the female slaves he owned; his great-great-granddaughter from this episode, Caroline Randall Williams, is a respected poet and professor at Vanderbilt.

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    Mousebumples

    @VFX Lurker: it’s excellent. I donated a copy to a local library when it first came out, and I think I might do that again.

    Make good trouble. (though I don’t know that a library donation is trouble, haha)

    Related – I love the video of Rep Lewis accepting a National Book Award for that trilogy. So moving. Though definitely a tear jerker.

    Edit (or subsequent comment) to come if/when I find that

    Eta – read, my child, read.

  11. 11.

    Jackie

    @Geoduck: I posted this last thread, but I’m happy to gloat/celebrate twice!

    “He reacted just as we’d expect: ALL CAPS denying he expected to win in the Swamp. Currently RawStory has great responses.

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-purposely-lost-to-haley/

    Let me add, he threatened DC GQP voters of being excluded from his second admission IF they refused to vote. His mistake was stating if they didn’t vote for HIM! 🤣😂”

  12. 12.

    BlueGuitarist

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Caroline Randall Williams favors renaming the bridge:

    “We name things after honorable Americans to commemorate their legacies. That bridge is named after a treasonous American who cultivated and prospered from systems of degradation and oppression before and after the Civil War. We need to rename the bridge because we need to honor an American hero, a man who made that bridge a place worth remembering. John Lewis secured that bridge’s place on the right side of history. We are not a people that were made to cling to relics of the past at the cost of our hope for the future. Renaming the bridge in John Lewis’s honor would be a testament to the capacity for progress, the right-mindedness and striving toward freedom that are at the heart of what’s best about the American spirit.”

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    cmorenc

    @Mike in NC:

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’ve always wondered why they didn’t rename that damn bridge after a decent person. Because Alabama?

    The infamy associated with the name of the bridge as the location of the Selma march against everything Pettis stood for is a huge part of the symbolic power of the defiant march across it 59 years ago.  In that crucial respect, keeping the name is different than with whether monumnts in public squares named after Confederate generals deserve to be removed.  Keeping the name “Pettis” on the bridge is no longer an honor to the man since the march, but a symbol of how the marchers repudiated him and what he stood for.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jackie:

    You know how whenever cats do something even slightly awkward or embarrassing, they suddenly go all “I totally meant to do that” and then get busy washing their paws and faces for a while? That’s kind of what TFG reminds me of when he says shit like “I lost that primary (or forgot words or mixed up names) on purpose,” but without any of the cuteness or cleanliness of cats.

  26. 26.

    eclare

    @Jackie:

    Yep.  I laugh when my cat has that look after tripping and falling, etc.  I don’t laugh when TIFG has that attitude.

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @BR: ​
     George Washington, despite being a slave owner, is “woke” according to modern reactionaries for requiring smallpox vaccinations in the Continental Army.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Yutsano:

    Heh. You joke, but it’s really quite terrifying. If I were a parent of young children, even making sure I and my own kids were vaccinated, I’d probably be in full-blown panic mode right about now.

    Saw a photo earlier today — I don’t think it was here on BJ, but could be mistaken — a picture of a children’s polio ward pre-Salk. Rows and rows of fucking iron lungs. And these unprintable adjectival murderous lunatics want to bring back those days.

    As rikyrah would say, smdh.

  32. 32.

    prostratedragon

    I remember how relieved my parents were when the Salk shots for children came out as I was hitting K. Of course, TFG is easily old enough to remember those days. Probably had at least a classmate or two who was affected.

  34. 34.

    Ksmiami

    @SiubhanDuinne: So our kids have no future in America under Trump, but did you know that Biden’s old?!!… I just cannot believe that America is about to commit suicide AGAIN WTFH?

  36. 36.

    David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch

    Congratulations to Caitlin Clark on making history as the NCAA all-time leading scorer. With 3,685 points and counting, you’ve made your school proud. https://t.co/ZBzuVwgvNk

    — President Biden (@POTUS) March 4, 2024

    Congrats to @CaitlinClark22, the greatest scorer in the history of women’s college basketball! It’s been fun watching you and the @IowaWBB team this season.

    — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 16, 2024​

    🐐​

  37. 37.

    VFX Lurker

    @Mousebumples:

    Related – I love the video of Rep Lewis accepting a National Book Award for that trilogy. So moving. Though definitely a tear jerker.

    Edit (or subsequent comment) to come if/when I find that

    Eta – read, my child, read.

    Oh, what a beautiful two-minute clip. Rep. John Lewis speaking straight from the heart, and March artist Nate Powell tearing up screen right. Thank you for sharing that.

  41. 41.

    LiminalOwl

    @Chetan Murthy: Thank you. I had not seen that essay before.

    And, since others beat me to the link and the YouTube one, here’s an MSNBC transcript and link to an interview with Caroline Randall Williams discussing the essay as well as reading.

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