Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

People are complicated. Love is not.

I really should read my own blog.

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

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

Let me file that under fuck it.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

“woke” is the new caravan.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

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No totality here, but it was lunchtime so I grabbed a colander to have some fun.

Open Thread: Biden-Harris Get It

In unrelated to anything news, I just started listening to Leslie Fucking Jones which she reads (?) – honestly, it sounds like she’s having tea with you and telling you her story. Her energy and story have been balm for my soul, and I’m only 2 hours in. But I’d still recommend if you like her.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    My colander has slits not circles dammit!

    It was blazing sunlight here earlier, and right now it’s the peak of the eclipse where I am.  It feels so calm like this.  I wish we could have this all the time.

    I had forgotten, but now that I am experiencing it again, I remember feeling this way at the last eclipse, too.  Just so calming.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Just past peak in metro Atlanta. The tiniest little fingernail crescent of sun before the moon changed its mind. So incredibly cool. I want to cry  am crying from the beauty and awesomeness of it all.

  4. 4.

    Martin

    So, any lens will also work. A magnifying lens, hold it out above a smooth, light colored surface and it’ll project an inverse of the sun. Move it closer and farther to change the size of the image.

    Collander is just a form of a pinhole lens.

    Anyway, Harris always got it. We saw that first hand here in CA when she was AG. It’s why representation matters.

  8. 8.

    Peke Daddy

    Keep working the eye, Mr. President. Real consequences to real people must be seen.

  10. 10.

    eclare

    That is a powerful ad.

    It was overcast here in Memphis, but I saw a bit of a fuzzy eclipse, with the sun just a tiny orange sliver.  I hope people who traveled got better views.

  11. 11.

    MattF

    Saw that video and thought I’d post a link, but then figured someone would frontpage it. Biden’s people know what they’re doing.

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    @WaterGirl: Ninety-four percent coverage in Chicago.  WGN is broadcasting from Carbondale.  And they had a reporter out in Cleveland too.

  16. 16.

    MazeDancer

    Couldn’t even make those groovy shadows like last eclipse.

    Basically, it’s about as exciting as a cloudy day right before it rains. 94% and clouds gets you boring, alas.

    Which is fine by me, because, of course, Alethia cat got out, won’t come back in, and I was worried she would look up.

  19. 19.

    FastEdD

    I ran next door with a colander to show the kids and they were thrilled. I told them the next one will be in 21 years. They said, “We’ll be so old!”

  20. 20.

    hueyplong

    @rikyrah: Thanks for linking that order.  It’s worth taking the time to read, and it is hoped that, when the happy day arrives, Trump’s sentencing judge similarly declines to shirk the court’s duty of imposing a proper sentence.

  24. 24.

    JWR

    TaMara, speaking of Leslie Jones, have you seen any of these?

    Late Night with Seth Meyers
    Seth and Leslie Jones Watch Game of Thrones

    I can’t find the clip I most remember, where that little person, Peter dinklege(?), is running away from a huge army, and Leslie Jones keeps telling him how he’s doing it wrong, that in her neighborhood you learn to zig, then zag, instead of running away in a straight line. I’ve never seen GoT, so these clips mark the totality of my knowledge about the series.

  25. 25.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @hueyplong: Yes, rikrah, thanks for linking to the sentencing order. It’s surprisingly easy to read and hits on all the aspects of why that guy got convicted. 87 months (7.25 years). Good.

    Sadly, everything about the guy suggests to me that he’ll just join a christofascist gang while serving his time and come out a worse human being. Oh well.

  27. 27.

    TeezySkeezy

    @Baud: No refunds, just store credit. Maybe you can exchange it for the stellar nova in the next few months.

  28. 28.

    RevRick

    That is a powerful ad. It makes an often abstract debate grippingly real. But I would add, it wasn’t just Trump who did it. Every GOP Senator did too. Their fingerprints are all over this abomination they have visited on our nation.

  29. 29.

    peter

    @rikyrah: Thanks for sharing that link. What a lesson. Probably lost on Mr. Johnatakis, but maybe there’s hope for members of his family and others who attested to his good character.

  30. 30.

    Jeffro

    That is indeed the ad I mentioned a couple of threads ago (hard to keep up around here!) – thanks TaMara!

    The GOP is, for once, going to have to reckon with what they have wrought.  GOOD.

  31. 31.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: that’s just…wow.

    The GOP is definitely not sending their best.  Unless ‘best at being worst’ is a thing, in which case, they’re sending all-time champions.

  32. 32.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: from the document

    The First Amendment protects freedom of speech. It also enshrines “the right of the people peaceably”—let me repeat, peaceably—“to assemble.”

    1,250% spot-on

    Sacking the Capitol just because you’re a sucker for a con man and have been mainlining the right-wing’s stroking of your threatened status for years is NOT an excuse, nor is it protected speech.

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    more from that J6 defendant’s sentencing document:

    …since his conviction he has denied his conduct and downplayed the January 6 riot itself. But the Court knows the facts of this case because it has heard from the witnesses and examined the evidence, including police body camera footage and videos filmed by Mr. Johnatakis himself. The Court would therefore like to set the record straight about what Mr. Johnatakis did that day.

    In any angry mob, there are leaders and there are followers. Mr. Johnatakis was a leader. He knew what he was doing that day. On January 5, he posted on social media: “[B]urn the city down. What the British did to DC will be nothing . . .” Trial Exhibit 904G. The next day, while marching to the Capitol, he recorded and posted a video in which he proclaimed “we’re walking over to the Capitol right now, and I don’t know, maybe we’ll break down the doors.”

    Once enough rioters had heeded his calls and swarmed against the police line, Mr. Johnatakis deployed his megaphone to give encouragement and step-by-step instructions for overpowering the police. PSR ¶ 33. As he announced “one, two, three, GO!” he and his fellow rioters—including his co-defendants Craig Bingert and Isaac Sturgeon—picked up the metal barricades and slammed them into the police officers.

  34. 34.

    jackmac

    My daughter was sitting near a window at home moving her iPhone around, using the sun’s reflected light off the phone’s surface as a way to taunt our cat. We discovered that reflection was also a perfect showing of the partial eclipse featuring the sliver of the sun around the circle of darkness caused by the moon.  So we got a chance experience the effect and didn’t have to take the Trump approach and stare up at it!

  35. 35.

    Dan B

    @rikyrah: Seeing this ad I’m reminded of a cousin of mine who got a back alley abortion in Mexico.  When she got back to college she was bleeding but afraid to see a doctor and was shunned by her boyfriend.  I, the Gay activist, was the only one she told.  It’s not possible to advance your cause when the public hears only silence.  Rights come to those who make a good noise.

  36. 36.

    Dan B

    @rikyrah: The National Library Association says that this year the majority of banned books are on LGBTQ topics.  Idaho being very white and right wing would hate POC topics even more.  And LGBTQ issues are trendy targets for ‘conservatives’.

  38. 38.

    randy khan

    @rikyrah:

    I love these ads.

    I hate them.  Well, I hate that there’s a reason to run them.  The ads themselves are really well done.

  39. 39.

    Prescott Cactus

    As the bride told me and I’ll pass along to you.

    Thank you for sharing that.

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