Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

This blog will pay for itself.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

So very ready.

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

No one could have predicted…

One way or another, he’s a liar.

This fight is for everything.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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

People are weird.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Giving up is unforgivable.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

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NYC Meetup? (and Open Thread)

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This was supposed to go up on Thursday night, so for maximum coverage I will post this now and then re-up it for the evening crowd.  (Sorry, NotMax)

NotMax will be in NYC for a couple of weeks and he is putting out feelers about a NYC meet-up.  Guessing that he is visiting his Mom, but he’ll still have time for Balloon Juice peps, if anyone is interested.

Will be visiting the area 8/22 – 9/8. Past experience is that people prefer the weekends. Looking at the calendar, Labor Day weekend seems a good choice.

Friday (evening) 8/30 or any time Saturday 8/31 or Sunday 9/1 or Monday 9/2.  Please do chime in with preferences.

So far as venue, open to any and all suggestions. Initially thinking of eitherPershing Square cafe (steps away from Grand Central Terminal at Park and 42nd) or a more funky spot, Washington Square Diner (easy access by subway, massive menu but no cocktails, beer or wine only).

Update: Failed to mention the possibility of Tir Na Nog (31st and 8th, across from Penn Station), where we’ve met up previously.

Open thread.

 

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  2. 2.

    arrieve

    I missed the last time you were in town, so hope to make it this time. Labor Day weekend is good for me, as are any of the venues you’ve suggested.

  3. 3.

    TinRoofRusted

    I flying back from visiting my mother on Saturday. Depending on how travel goes and what state I left my apartment in, I might be able to make Sunday or Monday. All suggestions work for me.

  6. 6.

    TBone

    @NotMax: “Marse” Henry  from Kentucky needs a new nickname. I nominate “Arse Henry.”

    I guess before asphalt NYC might have been a cooler spot in the summer, except something tells me I’m wrong…

    Wish I could be there for meetup!

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    Note to JAFD.

    If planning on attending, please chime in. Will be toting along Mom’s dead PC you requested holding on to unless hear otherwise.

  10. 10.

    strange visitor (from another planet)

    as reddirtgirl says, any day but sunday.

    good goddamn. sunday MTA is seriously the WORST. if you wanna add hours and agita to your travel-time, hold the event on sunday (but please don’t). also not too keen on monday, as then the MTA is ALSO on the sunday schedule on account of the holiday.

  12. 12.

    JAFD

    Out in country this wknd, typng on fone. More tomorrow. Lookng forward to seeing you jackals again​

  17. 17.

    HumboldtBlue

    Abortion is coming to the Democratic National Convention this week…and conservatives are not okay.

    Access to reproductive health care—which both Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), have strongly supported—is sure to be front and center in some of the convention’s biggest speeches. Especially given its importance for voters and the fact that former President Donald Trump is responsible for appointing three of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, unleashing an avalanche of restrictions in over a dozen states.

    But this week, the issue will not just be rhetorical, but literal as well. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which is based in neighboring Missouri, where abortion is banned, announced in a post on X earlier this week that it will be providing free medication abortions and vasectomies from a “mobile health clinic” in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago on Monday and Tuesday. That’s just under a mile northwest of the United Center, where many of the main DNC events will take place. By Saturday, Planned Parenthood announced that all the appointments had been filled—and, as you may expect, the right promptly began freaking out.

  21. 21.

    Lyrebird

    @mrmoshpotato: You are more sensible, clearly!

    Although I am sorry for the people caught in the mess, I am thankful the wingnuts have been going after contraception and after vasectomies out loud.  That is a direct hit on men’s control over their own bodies & reproductive health, too!  The more people freaked out by this, the better, at least if they get out and vote!

  26. 26.

    JAFD

    OK, looks like I need to get one of those folding luggage carts, with which to trundle old computer to new life.

    Looking forward to seeing you jackals again!

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