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Open Thread (Hey Night Shift, Want to Get in on the Donation Action?)

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This morning we announced the official start of our Four Directions Montana fundraising!  As we all know, Montana is about keeping Jon Tester’s senate seat, as well as helping Native people have more of a voice in elections.  Besides being “boots on the ground for the Native vote”, Four Directions also litigates – and often wins – on their behalf.

I got word late yesterday that Four Directions has fund a match for the full $30,000 we are trying to raise!  

Two Angel matches – Marleedog and anonymous – plus donations from the day shift – have gotten us to $7,500 in the donation thermometer!  We have a new Angel match this evening – and friend of the blog, Andrew will match up to $2,000 overnight.

Matching up to $100 per person, to count toward the match, tell us about your donation in the comments or via email to me.   With the external match and the Angel match, these are 4x donations!

THIS LINK IS FOR MONTANA DONATIONS – NOT FOR THE RAFFLE

 

Also: raffle tickets for the quilt will be available until Sunday evening, 9/8.

The quilt was made by Linda Szabo, who is a member of Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

Raffle tickets are $25 each.

Here’s the link to buy raffle tickets and see the full quilt raffle announcement and details.

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    1. 1.

      WaterGirl

      This from Alexandra Petri is funny and profound and also disturbing as hell in its accuracy.

      Gift link

      The man was out at a business establishment with his peers and associates, imbibing liquid refreshment and debating which comestibles were best to ingest.

      Then he saw the female. Even from across the room, he could see that it looked fertile. It had hair protruding on top of its scalp, the appropriate location, and was binocular and ambulatory. It looked as though it contained many fertilizable eggs. Seeing it, he had one immediate thought: He had better tell it about the Great Replacement Theory so that it would understand how imperative it was to combine their genetic material.

      He also would be sure to state that it reminded him of a beauty pageant contestant (it would understand that this was not demeaning, but the only meaningful compliment it was possible to bestow on a woman).

      Its eyes were difficult to read, unlike Project 2025, which unwisely had been made available online, but he thought he saw sexual receptivity there.

      “Now that one looks as though it contains many high-quality eggs,” he observed to one of his associates, who said “Yes!” enthusiastically, as though someone had just proposed a national abortion ban to him. “Like a carton of Eggland’s Best,” the man added, to show that he was one of the people.

      “With that female’s assistance, in a just system, you could acquire many more votes,” another of his associates observed.

      “After you reproduce together,” a further associate chimed in, “it will be appropriate for it to enter the teaching profession.”

      They all nodded. “Not before,” they agreed.

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    2. 2.

      WaterGirl

      Left some out in the middle, and here’s how it ends:

      “It is best for society if I reproduce with you,” he informed the female. “But in your case, in addition to being a duty, it will be a pleasure.”

      “Thank you,” said the female of childbearing age. Its epidermis glistened faintly, like the exterior of a fresh can of Diet Mountain Dew. “That’s a very normal compliment, and receiving it has made me feel happy, not threatened.” It is possible that the female looked at him with its face but he was not looking there, because he was carefully evaluating its physical form to develop a keener sense of its level of fertility, a behavior that he knew it would understand if it were a rational being — often more than could be expected of such creatures.

      “I excel at compliments,” he said. “My online friends and associates say so to me often.”

      “You must have a very high IQ,” the female said, with its mouth. Its teeth looked healthy!

      “Almost as high as Peter Thiel’s net worth,” he said. “Before I proceed further with my courtship behaviors, I must inquire: Is a feline a member of your household?” He lowered his voice. “That is, do you now possess, or have you ever possessed, a cat?”

      “A witch’s familiar?” said the female, aghast. “No!”

      The man exhaled some extra air to demonstrate relief. “That is excellent,” he said, “and I am relieved to hear it. Are there postmenopausal females in your life who can assist in the supervision of offspring, should you produce any?”

      The female nodded.

      “Splendid!” the man said. “Splendid. Would you care to engage in holy matrimony and then, perhaps, retire to my abode to copulate and increase our household’s number of votes two- or three- or fivefold?”

      “Who could say no to such an appealing offer?” the female said.

      “Would you care to celebrate this informal commitment by ingesting some of my glazed carbohydrate torus?” the man said, bisecting it, breaking off a segment and holding it out so that the female could seize it.

      “Thank you,” said the female. “Chivalry is not dead.”

      The man nodded enthusiastically.

      “I look forward to copulating with you,” he said to the female. “Family is everything.”

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    5. 5.

      WaterGirl

      @Lumpy: @Wapiti:

      Go, night shift! :-)  I want to kick some Republican butt across the board in November.

      I am headed for bed, but I will check back in the morning to make sure that *everyone is matched.

      *even if you guys go wild and donate more than the $2,500 Angel match from Andrew.

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    6. 6.

      WaterGirl

      I copied more of Petri’s article than I normally would have, but if they are going to be jackasses about gift links, then we’ll just consider this my protest vote about that.

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    39. 39.

      WaterGirl

      Good morning.  Just got back from the farmer’s market and tallied the night shift donations.

      Great job, everybody.  We met that match and will be starting a new one shortly, as I found an Angel offer in my email just now when I returned home.

      Go Angels!

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    40. 40.

      John

      Why is this so consistently being referred to as a Native-made quilt instead of a Rosebud Sioux-made quilt? I shouldn’t have had to go back to the original post to find the creator’s tribal affiliation.

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    41. 41.

      WaterGirl

      @John: I didn’t think of it!

      Fixed now, thanks.

      I also added this to the ActBlue link for the quilt raffle tickets:

      The quilt was made by Linda Szabo, who is a member of Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

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    42. 42.

      WaterGirl

      PSA: It’s a holiday weekend, so all donatios into the Four Directions MT Phase II thermometer until it reads $22,500 will be 4x donations – no need to let us know about your donations.

      When we get to $22,500, a gaggle of Angels will pop i the matching $7,500.

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