Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

The revolution will be supervised.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

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

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

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

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Cherish Joy!

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Not sure some of you fellow ‘vintage’ TH fans are gonna love this, but they undoubtably meant well…

… Harris was participating in a conversation moderated by actor and comedian Jimmy O. Yang when he asked her what it means to be the first vice president of Asian descent and how that heritage has informed her views and roles as a leader. Harris’ mother was from India and her father was from Jamaica, and she’s the first woman elected vice president.

Harris gave a lengthy response in which she told the young people to keep their chins up when they go into spaces where no one else looks like them.

She added: “We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they won’t. And then you need to kick that f——— door down.”

The audience clapped and hollered. Laughing herself, Harris said, “Excuse my language.”…

The vice president made her comments in a conversation at the annual Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit. The conversation was live-streamed on the White House website…


 

… Monday marked the start of the traditional judging that leads to the best in show prize, to be awarded Tuesday night at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Selection of seven finalists began Monday night; each represents a group of breeds, such as hounds or herding dogs.

One is Louis, an Afghan hound that bested Zaida, Frankie, her littermate Belle and others to win the breed…

Other finalists include Sage, a miniature poodle who gave “100%” in the ring, as handler Kaz Hosaka put it; Mercedes, a big-winning German shepherd whose handler, Kent Boyles, led another German shepherd to a best in show trophy in 2017; and Comet, a shih tzu who took the top prize at last year’s huge, televised American Kennel Club National Championship.

Three more finalists will be chosen Tuesday night before all seven vie for best in show…

The 148th Westminster show kicked off Saturday with an agility competition — won by a mixed-breed dog for the first time since Westminster added the event in 2014. Nimble, the winner, was handled by Cynthia Hornor, who took the trophy with a border collie last year.

I’ll admit Nimble left me a little verklempt. Our late ‘papillon mix’ rescue Gloria was also, I’m pretty sure, a pap-border collie mix (she didn’t have Nimble’s coat, though: she looked like a 15lb border collie with unusually large ears). She had speed, she had smarts, and I sometimes regretted that she never got a chance to show off her talents, or at least to live with a more active family. But she’d been abused before coming to us ‘just temporarily’ (the rescue group offered to pay for her euthanasia, which was the last time I tried to follow up), and she was never completely trustworthy around people or other dogs.

She did enjoy bossing her rescue ‘brothers’ Zevon & Sydney, though. She considered the Spousal Unit the love of her life (persistently humping his leg to prove it), and fully enjoyed a low-key long-running Who Is The Alpha Bitch Here? competition with me. If we didn’t give her what might have been her ‘best’ life, at least she got an additional dozen years in a low-stress, loving home…

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  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’m all for joy, but first Imma bring this up from downstairs:

    Just announced on MJ: Mike Johnson will be playing the role of TIFG’s emotional support chew toy at the courthouse today. Ugh.

    Way to further debase the once-respected office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    Harris utters a profanity in advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

    Wait till you hear what Trump did.

  6. 6.

    Mousebumples

    Good morning! I saw the Paramore clip of Burning Down the House with video of their recording. I’ll see if I can track it down. Great vocals, perfect for that song.

    Eta – link

  7. 7.

    BellyCat

    Mixed breed dog wins agility competition? Who let that damn (and very cute!) thing in to compete?!?!

    QAnon has a new grievance to pursue.

  8. 8.

    Soprano2

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s mind-boggling that his family can’t just show up. They could take turns! I wonder if people on the jury even know who half these people are – the ones from Congress.

    ETA – my mother didn’t like dogs, but she loved dog shows. I always think of her when I see one on TV. They were watching this on one of the TV’s at the bar on Sunday, so I got to see some of them (but not the dog that won). I would hate to have to chase that dog!

  9. 9.

    Another Scott

    I’m old enough to remember the oh so serious people in the press bringing out the smelling salts when Jimmy Carter was reported to have said (about Ted Kennedy running against him) – “I’ll whip his ass!”

    A former Navy sailor saying “ass”.  Heavens to Betsy!!

    [ groucho-roll-eyes.gif ]

    Good for Kamala.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  20. 20.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud: ​
     

    It’s says open thread right in the post title.

    See, it’s not technically an open thread because it doesn’t say ‘open threads’ in that blue list of topics underneath the thread title. So there! ;-)

  21. 21.

    Kay

    Beyond parody. They’re mandated to write an essay renouncing their own political speech. They must comply with the management/donor views on US foreign policy, or be banished.

    They’re charging them 58,000 dollars a year for this:

    NYU’s Office of Student Conduct is allegedly requiring that some students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza write “reflection papers” and complete “dozens of writing assignments,” a recent Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine press release stated. The release said that in emails se​nt last week, the university informed students they would receive a censure — or a “formal reprimand for violation of university policy” — on their transcripts if they did not submit the assignments by May 29.

    One of the assignments instructed students to write a reflection paper describing the “incident” for which they were called in the OSC and assessing whether the decision they made aligned with their “personal values.” The paper “cannot serve to justify” the student’s actions, “evaluate the actions of others, or challenge a conduct regulation,” according to the assignment’s instructions. The other assignment is a 49-page “series of readings and reflective activities” that aims to help students “learn about and understand” their own values and how their actions “affected others and the community.”

  22. 22.

    O. Felix Culpa

    My son and DiL go every year to the first and super fun day of the Westminster show. They particularly enjoy the dock diving and “meet the breed” events.

    ETA: You can watch the full dock diving competition here, if so inclined.

  25. 25.

    JAFD

    Good morning, jackals !

    Some of you may be interested in the Campionato Mondiale di Umari – the 2024 World Umarelling Championship.

    more info at  https://www.scopeofwork.net/il-campionato-mondiale-di-umari/?ref=scope-of-work-newsletter

    In tabletop boardgames, it’s release day for Hollandspiele’s Striking Flint, a co-operative game about the UAW vs General Motors in 1937;  designer’s diary at https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/161000?commentid=12176789#comment12176789

    purchase at https://hollandspiele.com/products/striking-flint

    Is everyone ready for the Ides of May ?

  27. 27.

    Another Scott

    @JAFD: Ha!

    I thought you were trying to trick us, but I see May fits the usual rule.  (April doesn’t.)

    Crazy planet Earth.  Months should be 30 days!!1

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  28. 28.

    Baud

    @Kay:

    If they’re not careful, House Republicans will make university presidents do the same thing.

  32. 32.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @SiubhanDuinne: Beyond debasing the office, how dickless do you have to be to humiliate yourself thusly? The sleeping, farting, gagged fool needs a panoply of emotional support dogs to be his mouthpiece, what other human function is up next?

  33. 33.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud: I thought this comment was referring to showing up for Trump’s trial. I’d love to see some university presidents having to do that.

  37. 37.

    Matt McIrvin

    The thing that strikes me about the “Burning Down the House” track is that the instrumentation is such a sound-alike of the original (particularly the “Stop Making Sense” version). I might have gone a different direction just to explore different possibilities.

  40. 40.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Kay:

    the university informed students they would receive a censure — or a “formal reprimand for violation of university policy” — on their transcripts if they did not submit the assignments by May 29.

    If I were one of those students, I’d regard that censure as something to be proud of.

    NYU should lose its accreditation for this, once the students currently there have graduated. (Wouldn’t want to punish the students for the University’s abhorrent conduct.)  Unfortunately that won’t happen, but dammit, it should.

  44. 44.

    Geminid

    I see that outgoing VA10 Representative Jennifer Wexton has endorsed Suhas Subramanyam in the Democratic primary to succeed her. Subramanyam is now the state Senator for the 32nd District.

    The 37 year-old Subramanyam was born in Houston and attended Tulane University; he earned a law degree from Northwestern University. Subramanyam served in the Obama administration on a science advisory panel. In 2019, he ran for state Delegate and became the first Indian-American member of the Virginia General Assembly.

    The Virginia 10th CD* lies in the northern Piedmont and includes Loudon County. Primary Day is June 25, I believe.

    * Fun 10th CD facts. The district was established in 1788. In the reapportionment that followed the 1930 Census, the district was abolished. It was re-established in 1952. Republicans Joel Broyhill, Frank Wolf and Barbara Comstock represented the 10th; then, Jennifer Wexton unseated Comstock in 2018.

  45. 45.

    Kay

    @Soprano2:

    They outsourced it to a private for-profit, too. They’re not even conducting the mandatory political compliance training themselves:

    In the May 13 press release, FSJP also criticized NYU’s use of Advocate — a higher education software created by the “behavioral intervention management” company Symplicity — which the group claims houses the OSC’s writing prompts. The group noted that Symplicity, which supplies student conduct programs to NYU and over 250 universities, pleaded guilty in federal court on criminal hacking charges in 2014.

    They hired these criminals to do the ethics evaluation.

  46. 46.

    TBone

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: they are combatting the widespread myth that Dems and liberals are responsible for the bad things the Supremacists are up to because “it happened on Biden’s watch.” A lot of low information voters need the dots connected for them!  They are calling out the MAGA court.

    The Rolling Stones article linked in the post has good detail.

  48. 48.

    Kay

    @lowtechcyclist:

    It’s handy for their 1st amendment case though. They’ll be able to show they were punished for the content of the (constitutionally protected) speech, because of the disparity in university management’s response to this speech compared to other speech. Has to be neutral – time, place and manner restrictions that apply to everyone, not targeted only to certain speakers.

  51. 51.

    BellyCat

    @Kay: They hired these criminals to do the ethics evaluation.

    To the surprise of no one. Likely recommended by Fortune 500 board members.

  52. 52.

    Layer8Problem

    @lowtechcyclist:  I mean can it truly be an Open Thread if it’s only titled Open Thread but lacks the ‘Open Threads’ tag allowing us to find it amongst all the other Open Threads when we’re reminiscing over our favorite open threads in our golden years?  Hah?  Perhaps if the front pagers post it from the special server maintained in the Fils Ouvertes region of France for these situations.

  53. 53.

    Barbara

    @Kay: NYU is a totally private institution.  CUNY or SUNY could never get away with this.  I had a friend who went to NYU for performing arts, and it does have a good reputation for that, as well as journalism.  Not really sure about anything else.  Everyone I have met who has gone there ends up with a massive amount of debt that they justify based on having made contacts in the city.

  54. 54.

    prostratedragon

    @Kay:  They were requiring something like that at Barnard as well. Positively 17th century.

  55. 55.

    TBone

    Jasmine Crockett brings me joy.

    If you don’t love Jasmine Crockett, well, I just don’t know about you. She is a happy warrior, slicing & dicing Republicans–particularly those right in front of her like sad-sack-propagandist, Jim Jordan. In fact, she calls Jim Jordan a Russian propagandist in this video, RIGHT TO HIS FACE. She impugns the integrity and patriotism of Jim’s GOP colleagues too–God, has this group of MAGA creeps earned it–and even calls Donald Trump the “C” word!

    https://crooksandliars.com/2024/05/jasmine-crockett-roasts-jim-jordancalls

  56. 56.

    evodevo

    @Soprano2: Our mini-border collie mixed breed looks just like that one, and is too fast for us LOL.  Even though we live in the Boonies, we can’t let her off the leash outside a confined area – she just takes off and won’t come back….her approach to training is confined to training US…it would take years to get her to do what Nimble does on command…

  58. 58.

    jonas

    @Sure Lurkalot: On top of that, he apparently spends the day at the defendant’s table fiddling with his pile of emotional support printouts telling him how awesome he is. What a PAB.

  59. 59.

    Geminid

    @lowtechcyclist: Thank you for the correction. I thought I was doing well not spelling it Louden.

    Wikipedia tells me that by the time of the Revolutionary War, Loudoun County was Virginia’s most populous ccounty. It was very productive farmland, and some called it “the Breadbasket of the Revolution” because of all the grain it shipped to George Washington’s army.

  61. 61.

    Matt McIrvin

    @TBone: I’d forgotten about that one!

    (I recall Bonnie Raitt covering “Burning Down the House” in concert–*she* was putting her own spin on it, but the keyboardist was doing a note-for-note copy of Bernie Worrell’s live part, I assume out of sheer respect.)

  65. 65.

    mvr

    Since this is an open thread, I’ll note that we were first in line to vote today in my neighborhood in Lincoln Nebraska.  And this was the first time with voter ID required. Workers told us that our precinct was on the other side of the gym.  Having voted early for a few seasons now, we figured they must have changed the orientation sometime in the past few years.  So now we were second in line on the other side of the church gym.

    Got to the registration book and I was not in it after a decade of voting there, ever since they moved the polling place from two blocks away to 6 blocks away from home. I was like, “I’ll be damned, I’ve been kicked off the voting rolls.  The looked under both parts of my last name to no avail. It turned out we were in the right line in the first place and that the election workers were confused about which precinct was which.  So back to the original side of the gym where we were again the first in line to vote.  Voted for Biden over Dean Phillips who was still on the ballot. Voted for my uncontested Senate and House candidates in the Democratic primary. Voted for the not a right-wing nutjob state board of education candidate, and I was done.  All of these people will be on the ballot again in November.

  67. 67.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    I am often stunned and amazed at the number of people I know – college graduates – who have no idea how justices get on the court and how their votes relate to that process.

  72. 72.

    TBone

    @Jackie: 💙 if not for our Dem rockstars constantly waging a fine battle, I might have packed it in long ago.  It’s tempting to turn away from the burning clown circus and simply enjoy the finer things in life.  But this stubborn, old mule won’t give up punching natzis, it’s too important.

  74. 74.

    Doug R

    Stop Making Sense has been making the rounds here on Crave tv. So I watched it a couple of times in the past weeks and there’s a brief shot of the audience with a young actress that I swear I’ve seen in some 80s or 90s rom-com, yet I can’t place her.

  75. 75.

    eclare

    I can’t see scenes from a dog show without thinking of the movie Best in Show, which brings me joy.  Thank you.

  76. 76.

    YY_Sima Qian

    The IDF is now rolling across Rafah, crossing the red line that Biden had drawn. We’ll see what further tragedies will unfold in Gaza, & what the Biden Administration does in response.

  77. 77.

    Kay

    @Barbara:

    They so clearly want to shut them up because it makes management/donors uncomfortable. If they forbid discussion the war will go away, I guess. The students are somehow conjuring up war with their protest. Just pure moral panic wackiness.

  78. 78.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Maybe the IDF has learned from the WCK murders.

    AMERICAN MEDICAL MISSIONS TRAPPED IN GAZA, FACING DEATH BY DEHYDRATION AS POPULATION CLINGS TO LIFE
    “We’re continuing to work around the clock with the government of Israel and with the government of Egypt to work on this issue,” the State Department said.
    Ryan Grim, Hind Khoudary

    Ryan Grim has further update on one of the members of the medical mission:

    Ryan Grim
    @ryangrim

    Update: One of the American doctors trapped in Gaza by Israel’s siege is Adam Hamaway, an Army veteran who famously saved the life of @SenDuckworth after her helicopter crash in Iraq

  87. 87.

    karen marie

    If Nimble isn’t a Corgi x Border Collie, I will eat my hat. Thanks for this! I haven’t got TV so I never get to see the dog show. I appreciate the post!

  88. 88.

    Matt McIrvin

    @TBone: I’ve never seen Raitt live, just videos (but I have seen Lyle Lovett live!) Lake Street Dive covered one of Raitt’s songs when I saw them.

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    @Another Scott:

    As a former Navy sailor, I will say that normal sailor talk when I was in (decades ago!) was at the very least one swear word for no more than 3 non swear words. On occasion it was 3 swear words for each non swear word. On rare occasions one might have a discussion with no swear words. Very rare occasions….

  91. 91.

    RaflW

    @Kay: The brittleness of people in charge these days seems legendary. And ridiculous.

    I hope the protesters can at least complete their semesters and get transfer transcripts. Because I can’t imagine that I’d want to stay there after this primadonna performance in poutrage from the admin.

  92. 92.

    sab

    I am not anti-Israeli, but they have been really stomping on non-citizen Palestinians and Israeli citizen Arabs for years. With minimal international response. Drunk angry Sirhan Sirhan did his people a world of pain and harm, and probably changed the whole tragectory of response from “they have a point” to “monsters all”. But Israel has had forty years to choose between working out an awkward peace with those who do want peace and banging on those who don’t want peace. First option had more long term potential. Second option had more short term political potential. So they chose two.

    This will be the end of Israel in the long run. US is sickened by Gaza already and will be more so later when all the details of it all leaks out.

    In the Arab world Israel is just a buffer with Iran, and Israel’ treatment of Arabs has been noted by cynical realpolitic Arab leaders. Turkey also is looking on.

    If they lose US political support…and they are well on their way to doing so.

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