Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

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

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

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Let there be snark.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

This fight is for everything.

When we show up, we win.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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I wouldn’t rate this column as one of Petri’s best, but oh the codicil…:

CNN and ProPublica found that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz is the owner of an active account on the website HotOrNotDish.net, where he posts under the anonymous username DarthTater, according to an investigative analysis of comments on the forum. The user DarthTater has for more than a decade offered compliments (sometimes accompanied by a flame emoji) under every single photo uploaded to the site for hot dish appreciators.

The account also mentioned the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in one post, in which it wished other HotOrNotDish.net users a “happy MLK weekend!” and hoped they would get to “spend it with family, eating hot dish.”

Walz appears to have been active under the same username for years on a variety of HotOrNotDish.net’s subforums for other hot dish-related issues, including once posting 24 times in a thread dedicated to the question of “Is hot dish casserole?” DarthTater ultimately concluded, “Sorry, friends. I’ve got to hit the hay. A lot of good points. Food for thought (almost as delicious as hot dish).”…

Update: The website HotOrNotDish.net did not actually exist at the time of publication but has since been set up by an anonymous hot-dish fan to redirect users to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign website after first showering them with Tater Tots. The Post is not responsible for the website — not even, alas, the tots.

It is, of course, a mere jape — a pinprick — and yet, if it can be one more half-brick thrown in the war between Musk and his shareholders, well…

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  10. 10.

    narya

    I have been stressing about all of the cheating that is the core of the R plan to destroy democracy . . . so I will do a beer run this morning, and then maybe write some postcards. On a lighter (though more caloric) note: I usually make cast-iron-pan pizza using sourdough discard, but my discard amount is more than the original formula calls for. No problem: I scale it up and make a smaller pizza as well as the larger one. BUT! This time, I hacked the leftover discard–I added some hazelnut flour and hazelnut paste. I’m going to bake it, and then make a chocolate hazelnut ganache (i.e., Nutella) to spread on the baked crust. Ice cream on top, maybe? Dunno. The regular pizza will use up the fresh mozzarella, basil, prosciutto, arugula, and tomatoes sitting around the kitchen.

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    This is in reference to Thiel owning both Nate Silver and JDVance😒😒😒

     

    Donate to Downballot Democrats (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 6:31 AM on Fri, Sep 06, 2024:

    Hello! Can we have a conversation about how (certain) white men born from 1946-89 have destroyed the West Coast and undermined America itself with their Libertarian-NIMBY nonsense? Can you and Josh and I discuss this over metaphorical tea and scones? Because we should…

    (x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1832018814914953225?t=bJ-8qHM5LrebsRY3TnGomw&s=03)

  18. 18.

    rikyrah

     

    Ben Wexler (@mrbenwexler) posted at 7:48 PM on Fri, Sep 20, 2024:

    So, really just NO apologies from any news organizations for publishing all of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails now that they’ve all decided to publish none of Donald Trump’s hacked emails

     

    Donate to Downballot Democrats (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 2:18 AM on Sat, Sep 21, 2024:
    they want Trump to win, for the potential book deals & personal pay raises

    individual journalists also ultimately work for rich, conservative white men who stand to get a permanent corporate & personal tax cut under Project 2025
    (x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1837390997174530152?t=EsvKV1JBz2VbJWstUF9oNQ&s=03)

  19. 19.

    Kay

    @rikyrah:

    That’s amazing. A revolt in the rank and file! Good for them.

    Our Teamsters local (in my county) are the most Democratic of our unions (other than the IBEW, who are basically socialists) but they don’t drive (“Teamsters”)  they make candy, and half of them are women so that may be a factor.

  22. 22.

    Nelle

    Today, I begin my second round of visiting the 68 households of registered D’s in my neighborhood.  I’m going to need some grit as I’m very low energy, with little sleep.  But.  Talking with people creates energy for me.  I find them interesting.  So I might have a good time.  It’s going to be unreasonably hot, so I’ll stop when I’ve had enough.

    Can I encourage those who can, to vote early?  Vote chasers like me can leave you alone once the system shows that you have voted.  I have a number of neighbors who say that they prefer to vote in person on the day.  I brightly say, “Be sure to say hi to my husband then!  He’s one of the poll workers!”  So they know I’ll know.  (Only one shift.  He’s there from 6am to about 9pm.)

  23. 23.

    Kay

    @rikyrah:

    I read the statement from her editors and honestly, they need training in basic thinking. They reviewed whether she covered RFK jr fairly. They didn’t review whether she covered Biden fairly.

    Christ. Something is really, really wrong with the media industry. They have a quality problem. It’s junk.

  25. 25.

    narya

    @rikyrah: I recorded it, and watched about half, but I was falling asleep so I decided to save it for today. What I’ve seen so far is just mind-blowing–the details were spread out over such a long period of time that even someone who is a news junkie (like me) didn’t necessarily track all of it. Well, except for Marcy Wheeler.

  27. 27.

    tobie

    I really hope Cards Against Humanity goes judge-shopping in Texas. Republicans need a taste of their own medicine.

    I’m still snickering at the irony that Olivia Nuzzi rose to fame by writing a piece on Anthony Weiner after [CORRECTION: before] the Congressman’s fall from grace for sexting. Self-righteousness and ambition always have a way of biting us back:

    “In 2013, When I was 20, I briefly interned for Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign. I wrote about the experience for the New York Daily News. I didn’t think it would be a big deal, for some reason. My brain wasn’t fully developed.”

  30. 30.

    TBone

    Widener U is part of the Beyhive:

    This fall, Widener University’s freshman students are exploring their love for Beyoncé in a course dedicated to the Grammy award-winning singer.
    Richard M. Cooper, faculty of the bachelor of social work (BSW) program and co-coordinator of African American Studies, decided a class focused on Beyoncé would be a fun way to engage students in his freshman fall seminar, which is designed to welcome new students while they navigate their early college days.

    inquirer.com/life/widener-university-beyonce-class-20240920.html

  31. 31.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @NotMax: Impractical as all hell and certifiably insane, but I think there have been stupider cars on the road. The first-generation civilian Hummer comes to mind.

  34. 34.

    Scout211

    Yesterday, one win in court for Arizona voters with uncertain documentation but one loss in the 9th circuit.

    Arizona’s 2022 controversial voter registration and mail-in voting law will be reinstated due to a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Signed into law in June 2022, Senate Bill 1260 includes three harmful provisions: the cancellation provision, the felony provision and the removal provision.

    • The cancellation provision requires county recorders to cancel a voter’s registration if they receive confirmation that the voter is registered to vote in another Arizona county;
    • The felony provision makes it a felony to forward a mail-in ballot to a voter who may be registered in another state and
    • The removal provision creates a process to remove voters from the state’s permanent vote-by-mail list if the voter is registered in another county.

    . . .

    In its ruling today, the court determined that the plaintiffs did not have standing for the cancellation provision because they failed to show how the law would directly harm the organizations’ core activities. One member of the three-judge panel dissented, writing that she would affirm the district court’s preliminary injunction because the “cancellation provision likely violates the National Voter Registration Act.”

    . . .

    The case was remanded back to district court where litigation will continue.

  35. 35.

    narya

    @eclare: Also too: some roasted eggplant and roasted garlic that need to be consumed. I don’t know how I’m gonna fit it all on one damn pizza.

  37. 37.

    eclare

    @narya:

    More yum!  I did stop at Penzey’s yesterday and bought some roasted garlic powder which smells wonderful, so my kitchen has that going for it.

    I’ve recently gotten into making my own salad dressings, and I want to start making my own hummus.

  39. 39.

    Scout211

    And more news about Elon:

    (Reuters)The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony for the regulator’s probe into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.

    In a filing in San Francisco federal court, the SEC said the sanctions motion would seek an order to show cause for why Musk should not be held in civil contempt for waiting until three hours before the scheduled Sept. 10 testimony to advise he would not show up.

    Musk, whose businesses include electric car maker Tesla (TSLA.O),  and rocket company SpaceX and who is the world’s richest person, went to Florida’s Cape Canaveral that day to oversee the launch of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission.

    But the SEC said that as SpaceX’s chief technical officer, Musk “surely was already aware” of the planned launch because the company had discussed it two days earlier. It said Musk’s actions violated a May 31 court order compelling his testimony.

    “Musk’s excuse itself smacks of gamesmanship,” SEC lawyer Robin Andrews wrote. “The court must make clear that Musk’s gamesmanship and delay tactics must cease.”


    Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Musk, called sanctions “drastic” and unnecessary, saying Musk’s absence from the launch could have endangered astronauts’ lives, and that his testimony has been rescheduled for Oct. 3.

    Musk’s failure to testify on Sept. 10 resulted from an “emergency” he did not cause, and “there is no reason to believe such an emergency will reoccur,” Spiro wrote.

  40. 40.

    Nukular Biskits

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR:

    Although my heart yearns for one, I submit that sports cars are impractical as hell too.

    They’re expensive, generally can seat only 2 people, have no room for luggage, etc, and you really can’t enjoy them on public roadways … well, at least legally.

  42. 42.

    Falling Diphthong

    @rikyrah: Thank you for this.

    I want to say that Republicans noticed how good liberals are at immobilizing themselves with worry and are deliberately weaponizing it, but I honestly think we do it to ourselves with no outside help needed.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    @Nukular Biskits

    Friend inherited a ’55 T-bird from his mother, with original leopard skin pattern upholstery.

    Broke down on the long trip to college and he even steven traded it with the mechanic in East Nowhere for a used Plymouth Duster sitting around back of the shop.

    Desperate times and all that.

  45. 45.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Nukular Biskits: I had a sports car once when I was younger – well, maybe not what some would define as a sports car, but it felt like it to me. 1989 Dodge Daytona, Shelby trim in silver, with five on the floor and T-tops and the digital dash, decent trunk space, capable of getting around in a late-nineties New Jersey winter, and it didn’t guzzle gas (which was good, because it was a turbo that demanded premium unleaded).

    Two years after I bought it, some yuppie in a roided-out Ford SUV T-boned me and destroyed it.

  46. 46.

    TBone

    @eclare: 👍 I took some courses there (Chester, PA) and I would’ve liked to attend BeyStudy too!  It’s a great way to meet the students where they are and remind them that learning is fun.

  52. 52.

    narya

    @eclare: Check out this recipe for hummus if you want to go nuts. Penzey’s spice mixes are great–I throw them in my nightly beans/grain/veggies dinners just to change up the flavors, but I bet they’d also make a good base for salad dressing.

    @NotMax: Pretty much! I’ll probably make the crust thinner than usual (bake on the pizza stone rather than the cast iron) and probably par-bake the crust a bit so the ingredients don’t sog it up too much.

  53. 53.

    TBone

    I was so groggy this morning that, upon waking, I asked one of my cats (he always sleeps next to my head and doesn’t get up till I do) what time it was.  Then I remembered that cats can’t tell time.  😳

  54. 54.

    narya

    @laura: @Baud: Agree on both counts . . . sometimes it seems weird to miss someone so much when I could have run into him and not known it was him. But I’ve come to think that our online personae are in some ways more real than we realize, and his decency and talent and humor were quite real even if “hidden” under a coating of Blech.

  56. 56.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Thank you Senator Clinton for the remarks about President Biden’s patriotism.

    History will be good to President Biden.  Assuming we win in November in order to write the history.

  57. 57.

    Nukular Biskits

    @NotMax: @Bruce K in ATH-GR:

    After getting out of college and getting my first professional (?) job, I bought a 1987 Buick Regal T-Type, something I wanted for years.  Fastest production car period (well, other than the Porsche Carrera, if memory serves).

    I loved that car … but had to give it up when first-born came along and I could no longer afford payments.

    But, yeah, it was overpriced and I could only really enjoy it by flagrantly disregarding all traffic laws. 😂

  59. 59.

    Nukular Biskits

    @TBone:

    I was so groggy this morning that, upon waking, I asked one of my cats (he always sleeps next to my head and doesn’t get up till I do) what time it was.  Then I remembered that cats can’t tell time.  😳

    Yes they can.  They just choose not to pass that information along.

  61. 61.

    eclare

    @narya:

    Thanks!  The recipe that I have for hummus also calls for peeling the chickpeas, which I plan to do.  Texture is everything.

  62. 62.

    Nukular Biskits

    @narya:

    We have a wood-fired pizza oven.

    Gonna try that out for the first time today with a store-bought frozen pizza that someone (guilty) forgot and left sitting out overnight.  That’ll be our test subject for cooking (not eating)..

  63. 63.

    narya

    @Nukular Biskits: that sounds fabulous (the oven, I mean). I live in a condo, and don’t have the means to buy such an oven anyway, but I DO have a book on masonry bread ovens . . . If I win the lottery, I always fantasized about a bread/pizza oven, preferably situated such that it could heat a winter sunroom. Sounds like I’d need two–one for winter and one outside for summer . . .

  66. 66.

    Nukular Biskits

    @eclare:

    I own a bike.  I’ve been riding on/off for almost 50 years.  And, as basic transportation (getting from point A to point B), it’s hard to beat a motorcycle.

    However … when it’s raining, cold, hot as hell, nope.  And forget about stopping at the grocery store to pick up a gallon of milk on the way home. Mine has a luggage rack on the back but it’s not rated to hold but .. maybe 10 lbs max.

    And that’s not even addressing the issue of safety.  You’re far safer in a car or truck, hands down.

  67. 67.

    oldgold

    Last night Bill Maher had Stephanie Ruhle on as a guest.  The Short-Fingered Vulgarian had this to say this morning:

    “This week he had ‘dumb as a rock’ bimbo Stephanie Ruhle, from MSDNC, on the show.”

    The 11th Hour might be worth watching Monday night.

  68. 68.

    Mousebumples

    @narya: Muenster might work. I like using that more mild cheese with fresh fruit in a pudgie pie maker. Good luck! And happy postcarding!

  69. 69.

    narya

    @eclare: Beans freeze quite well! I make a pound (well, pounds . . .) at a time and freeze in portions of about 125 grams or so. Lots of the Rancho Gorda leguminati use Souper Cubes to freeze their beans, but I have an infinite number of fresh mozzarella containers.

    Ed: tense correction

  71. 71.

    TBone

    @NotMax:

    @Nukular Biskits:

    😆 Cats have do built in clocks, and when I removed all clocks from bedrooms and put them in the bathrooms in the interest of better sleep, I relegated the task of feeding them to hubby.  They don’t ever try to wake me anymore.

    I truly expected my cat to answer my inquiry this morning.  That’s a weird feeling.  I rely on them all to communicate through tail and ear position, and vocalization, but this morning I truly expected my cat to speak English.  “It’s 8:30 you slugabed! Get up!”

  79. 79.

    Mousebumples

    @Nelle: thanks to you and your husband, both!

    My (WI) ballot arrived in the mail yesterday. We got a separate WisDems mailer asking me/us to vote “today”. I’m hoping to drop off my ballot next week. Probably no drop box since this is a reddish area, but thankfully the Clerk’s office is near Tiniest Mouse’s daycare.

    I could mail back the ballot, but I don’t want to rely on DeJoy for anything in an election this essential.

  80. 80.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, lowkell at BlueVirginia.US has receipts:

    Yes, [Virginia Governor fuzzy-vest] Youngkin really did help fundraise/campaign for Mark Robinson, the infamous “black Nazi,” “Transgender Porn & Slavery,” “‘I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote,” “Mein Kampf”-loving Republican gubernatorial nominee in North Carolina. Of course, Youngkin’s the same guy who campaigned in 2022 for nutjobs and extremists like Kari Lake in Arizona (who Youngkin enthusiastically exclaimed was “AWESOME!”) and many others – Paul LePage in Maine, Tudor Dixon in Michigan, Hung Cao in VA10, Yesli Vega in VA07, etc, etc. Fortunately, most of these MAGA nuts lost, but still, it’s VERY revealing about who and what Youngkin are – definitely NOT a “moderate”! – that he enthusiastically campaigned for them. This should never be forgotten by anyone…

    P.S. Also, reminder that the “mainstream” media’s supposed “journalists” (in air quotes) mostly spent 2021 whitewashing, “sanewashing,” amplifying, etc. Glenn Youngkin as some sort of sweater-vest-wearing, suburban “moderate.” And yes, this is just what the “mainstream” media does, sad to say – over and over and over again – with MAGA extremists. Because they’re terrified to call them out? Want to pretend to be faux-“balanced” in their coverage? Actually WANT fascism to triumph?

    […]

    There are no “moderates” in today’s GQP. They’re (almost) all monsters. And we have to vote the monsters out.

    Eyes on the prizes. Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  82. 82.

    Mousebumples

    @rikyrah: good morning! And thanks, as always, for the very informative links you post every morning. Even if I’m (very) late to the thread, they’re still really informative!

  83. 83.

    Matt McIrvin

    The most ridiculous thing about the SAVE Act is that they’re demanding to get it passed and implemented nationwide for this election, which they have to know would be practically impossible even if the thing made any sense (which it doesn’t)–voting has already started in this election! So I think it’s really yet another “throw up chaff and sow confusion and doubt” move.

    The other “weird trick” stories are a lot like the ones about the “sovereign state legislature”/fake electors nonsense in 2020: I think it’s important to realize that even a Supreme Court with the same right-wing members it has now rejected all that without even bothering to comment, and a lot of the people involved in the scheme have actually been convicted of crimes.

    But Republicans were talking about it openly in advance of the election, that they were going to sow doubt about the results in exactly the way they did, and try to get the result overturned if they lost–as I’ve said before, they were monologuing like Bond villains, spilling their whole plan apparently intentionally.

    I think all this activity has a number of purposes. Some of them are true believers, John Eastman types, and really think they can turn a loss into a win this way. Some may think they can manifest their wishes as reality by talking about them enough. But they’re also trying to discourage Democrats by convincing them the fix is in, and also rile up their own supporters to get smashy when things don’t go their way.

  85. 85.

    Mousebumples

    bsky.app/profile/david.noll.org/post/3l4o4t54sbc2g (must be logged in to view)

    more of this, please

    cnn.com/2024/09/16/politics/ken-paxton-bexar-county-texas-voter-registration/index.html

    {ALT TEXT OF 2 IMAGES – County commissioners approved a plan on September 3 to mail roughly 210,000 applications through a contract with an outside vendor. Paxton, a Republican, had warned of legal action if Bexar County moved forward with its plan to work with the vendor, Civic Government Solutions, and filed a lawsuit the next day.

    But county officials felt confident they were on solid legal ground and moved forward with their plan. The applications were mailed by the end of last week, according to county officials

    “Our position from the very beginning was that the commissioners had every right to do what they did, and we are very pleased with the judge’s ruling today,” Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales told reporters after the hearing, according to CNN affiliate KABB.}

     

    bsky.app/profile/randomlawyer.bsky.social/post/3l4o6amgbzj24

    Telling a vexatious litigant to fuck off, and then beating them if they refuse, is one of the greatest joys of being a lawyer.

  89. 89.

    Frankensteinbeck

    My father died at 6am this morning after a long failed recovery from a brain injury.  I guess it’s tradition to announce stuff like that here.  I doubt I will be checking this post often enough to see sympathetic reactions, but I know there will be some, and I thank you.

    EDIT – @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    May the preorders launch you so high on Amazon’s lists that thousands of other people go “Hey, that sounds cool.  One-click!”

  90. 90.

    hueyplong

    @Mousebumples: “Telling a vexatious litigant to fuck off, and then beating them if they refuse, is one of the greatest joys of being a lawyer.”

    Not sure why the author felt the need to include the “one of” qualifier.

  91. 91.

    p.a.

    @rikyrah: Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) posted at 7:47 PM on Fri, Sep 20, 2024:

    It’s honestly astounding to see journalists gloating that they have access to a trove of internal emails from the Trump campaign, have verified their authenticity, but are refusing to release them with no good explanation — after doing so in past elections without remorse.

     

     

    Where are the hacker utes when we need them!

  92. 92.

    Mousebumples

    bsky.app/profile/irisandmaeve.bsky.social/post/3l4o73hpoxq2x

    I see lots of cope on the bad site about whether the Madison Harris rally crowd was real. It was very real, people were hyped, and none of us were paid to be there or bussed in. Some of took shuttles from satellite parking (which was well organized and everyone was great.)

    {skeet includes about 1 min long video from the rally}

    I had a Madison area coworker who had planned to attend and then realized it wasn’t logistically feasible. But I’m glad there was such great turnout and excitement!

  94. 94.

    narya

    @eclare: Honestly, I often make two pounds (in two separate pots), then portion for freezing, then start ANOTHER two pounds in the same pots. I end up with the base for 40 meals or so, mostly by sitting around in the sunroom while the beans cook in the kitchen. (I am a Rancho Gorda Bean Club member . . . can you tell?)

    Okay, folks, it’s off to run for beer. I’ll let you know how the pizzas came out . . .

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    I was hoping you’d be here so I could let you know that Dragoncraft downloaded while I was sleeping! I have a crowded day ahead of me, but hope to start on it this evening or tomorrow. Congratulations to the new arrival!

  97. 97.

    Percysowner

     

    On a personal I want to scream and cry and beat someone (possibly JD Vance) to death note, My youngest grandson went to his first day at preschool yesterday. They have parents and/or caregivers accompany the kids for the first couple of classes. During the time we were warned not to worry, the class next door was getting their first lock down drill and our kids would get theirs in a couple of weeks once they had settled in. LOCK DOWN DRILL?! He turned TWO two weeks ago and he has to be taught what to do if “bad people” come into the school? He’s only up to 5-6 word sentences with zero grammar “Pick up brother, me” when he wants to go with me to pick up his brother after school. His idea of bad people is the Mayor on Paw Patrol. I just want to cry. These are BABIES and they have to be taught about the really ugly side of America.

    I understand the tornado and fire drills, those are random acts that can happen. but LOCK DOWN drills, something is so wrong with this country.

  101. 101.

    Delk

    I’m a little sad that I didn’t know about this but extremely happy that my neighbors stepped up. This happened right down the street I live on.Neighbors chase away protesters at drag queen story hour.
    My hubby and I plan to attend the next one.

    edit for punctuation

  104. 104.

    TBone

    @Frankensteinbeck: oh, I hope the shock is somehow bearable and that your grief turns to golden memories as mercifully as it can.  I hope for strength and perseverance for you and all of your loved ones.

  108. 108.

    Barbara

    @Kay: ​New York Magazine may seem more literary than newspapers but it casts the same vibe that Vox or LGM does — in love with being contrarian and loyal to first generation bloggers even when they stop making sense and have clearly sold out (think Matt Yglesias, Nate Silver, etc.).

  110. 110.

    Kristine

    @narya: do you save the bean stock?

    I use a Whole Foods recipe for cooking chickpeas—bay leaves, onion, celery, garlic, peppercorns—then save the stock for soups etc. It’s incredible.

  111. 111.

    Another Scott

    @Frankensteinbeck: :-(

    It’s hard.  Peace and comfort to you and yours.

    Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.

    But being, being is happiness. Being: becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

    – Kundera, Immortality.

    Remember the good times.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  114. 114.

    eclare

    @rikyrah:

    One of my favorite step teachers in ATL usually taught at 5:30 pm on Friday, and he started every class with that song.  It is the perfect 5:30 pm on a Friday song, no matter the date.

  116. 116.

    coin operated

    @eclare:

    My cousin says with a motorcycle risk is way up and fun is way down, unless you break all the laws.  With a dirt bike, risk is way down, but fun is way up.

    Motorcycle. Oregon. Summer. Hands down the most fun you can have on a motorcycle without breaking the laws.

  120. 120.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @TBone:

    Then I remembered that cats can’t tell time.

    Oh, cats can tell time. Like, it’s time to feed me; it’s time to play with me!

    They can also tell regular clock time. They just don’t want to.

  122. 122.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Frankensteinbeck: I am so sorry for your loss. My father passed under what sounds to be a similar general problem. I hope your time with your father was enriching and that his memory will be a blessing.

  123. 123.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, GovExec.com – from 9/19:

    […]

    The 202-220 vote in the House, with two members voting present and 14 Republicans in opposition, came shortly after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called on lawmakers to force a government shutdown as leverage to enact the voter ID law.

    “If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form,” Trump wrote on social media, doubling down on a shutdown statement he made last week.

    The unsuccessful House vote could provide space for Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, to negotiate with the Senate.

    But, with just one week left in the session before Congress departs for a six-week election break, there’s not much time for leaders to find consensus, draft a bill, hold votes in both chambers and secure President Joe Biden’s signature.

    […]

    In divided government, any legislation to fund the government must be bipartisan, or it all but guarantees a shutdown.

    The House’s failed six-month continuing resolution also wasn’t supported by most Senate Republicans.

    GOP senators argued it was too lengthy and could have hindered that chamber’s ability to confirm the next president’s Cabinet during the first few months of 2025.

    Senate Republicans and defense hawks in the House also said that leaving the Department of Defense on autopilot for half of the next fiscal year was an abdication of Congress’ responsibility and a threat to national security.

    December end date eyed

    The final stopgap spending bill that Congress approves in the days ahead will likely last through Dec. 20, the final day this year that Congress is scheduled to be in session. It is also unlikely to include the voter registration ID component.

    That final, bipartisan continuing resolution could also include a plus-up in spending for the Secret Service or a provision that allows the agency to spend its stopgap allocation at a faster rate to bolster Trump’s security following two apparent assassination attempts.

    […]

    There are some other things that need to be done (like renewing “locality pay” provisions that expire for some federal workers overseas – otherwise, they’ll get a 20+% pay cut on October 1, extending the deadline for spending the Ukraine PDA funding past September 30, etc.) that probably will be included. But these CRs are terribly disruptive and Congress really needs to rationalize the budget process – the current one is broken. No system can sensibly plan and work efficiently when their annual budget numbers aren’t known until 3+ months after the fiscal year starts, and the actual money isn’t received until weeks or months later…

    We need to vote the monsters out!

    Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  124. 124.

    Jackie

    @rikyrah:

    If your birth certificate doesn’t match your current ID, you can’t cast a ballot. You might be able to bypass it with a passport, but that equates to a poll tax.

    This article is all over this:

    Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel.

    Republicans don’t want women to vote. They now think they may have a strategy that could prevent them from doing so. House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump were pushing the Safeguard American Eligibility, or SAVE, Act, demanding it be part of must-pass legislation to fund the federal government for another year (the funding runs out at the end of this month, and then the shutdown begins).

    It died in the House Wednesday night, but, like a bad penny, you can bet it’ll return.

    *snip*

    The SAVE Act is a proposed federal law, so, first off, it would put a future president (say, Trump) in charge of enforcing it, taking that power away from the states. Millions of voter registrations in any states the president decides are problematic could be removed until those voters “cure” their registrations, and state authorities would have no say in it.

    And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification—both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change.

    Way more to absorb and digest here:

    newrepublic.com/article/186160/republican-war-women-extends-voting-rights

    I started to read this article last night and had to pause until this morning; I could feel my blood pressure rapidly rising.😡

  131. 131.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Percysowner:

    That is an obscenity. All the time I was reading your comment, my brain was screaming “NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!”

  132. 132.

    Percysowner

     

    @SiubhanDuinne:

     It is Obscene and there is nothing to be done about it since the Supreme Court and the gun nuts have decided that guns are more important than the lives of CHILDREN. Like I said, I just want to cry whenever I think about it.

  134. 134.

    BR

    @rikyrah: ​

    Wait, if your birth certificate has your maiden name and your ID has your married name, making them not match, it disqualifies you from voting?

    Oh wow. I would love for everyone to start banging the drum that the GOP is shutting down the government over a bill that will stop many women from voting. That framing will only amplify the already high levels of engagement from women voters.

    I’ve been trying to gauge the level of enthusiasm vs. fear. Fear has always been Trump’s best tool to suppress Dems and drive the GOP. I don’t know if this is the impression you all are getting, but Trump is just too old and incoherent these days to properly drive a message that does this. Sure his cronies are creating confusion and fear through voting law/rule tricks, but he’s just giving rambling and boring rallies.

  138. 138.

    Eolirin

    @rikyrah: God, all these takes are forgetting what actually happened in 2016. The reason why reporters were talking about the leaks was because they had already been made public. Wikileaks was a necessary component of the process. They’re not around anymore, though even if they were, they would never engage in something that hurt Russian interests.

    That’s the part that, presumably, the Irainians haven’t gotten yet. If they made the dump public to everyone, I’m pretty sure the ethical hesitations that reporters have on reporting the leaks would go away. People would start talking about the details with or without them and they’d want to get in on that.

  142. 142.

    SatanicPanic

    @Eolirin: Marcy Wheeler has the emails and posted about why she hasn’t released them. She says the Harris campaign (unlike Trump in 2016) isn’t asking for them to be released. To Marcy this means she thinks the campaign would prefer the emails not become another news story that crowds out news about the Harris campaign. Which to me sounds reasonable.

  143. 143.

    Eolirin

    @SatanicPanic: Sure, but people are treating this as if the media is sitting on something they didn’t sit on in 2016, and that’s not actually right at all.

    Until someone releases all the emails to the public the situations just aren’t the same. And we know that wikileaks was working with Russia and their release of the leaks was coordinated with the Trump campaign.

    The Harris campaign is obviously not going to do anything like that. So it’s not really surprising that the media isn’t releasing the info themselves.

  146. 146.

    K-Mo

    @Frankensteinbeck: Sorry to hear.  I am myself lucky to have recovered from a brain injury. It’s a blessing to be alive.  I hope memories of your father’s life are a blessing to you and yours.

  156. 156.

    wjca

    @Eolirin: That’s the part that, presumably, the Irainians haven’t gotten yet. If they made the dump public to everyone,

    Except, clearly, they didn’t.  They should maybe take a look at some of the non-MSM news sites, and download the emails there.  Places that might actually publish them.

  159. 159.

    Bill Arnold

    @Eolirin:
    I have seen no serious evidence that the leaking was done by Iranians. Is there any?
    There’s moderately good evidence that the Trump campaign was hacked by Iranians, sure. In 2016, the DNC was hacked by at least two different parties (alleged by many to be SVR and GRU, but not clear) who may not have known about each other, and opportunistic insider leaks are also possible. (There are a few other theories as well.)

  160. 160.

    Gravenstone

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Mine was an ’88, black. Didn’t have the digital dash but otherwise sounds like yours. Mine unfortunately had a very bad habit of the door latch mechanism freezing in the open position, requiring one to thaw it before it would actually latch in wet sub-freezing weather. Fun ride in more amenable weather.

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