Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

We will not go back.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

“They all knew.”

Second rate reporter says what?

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Something’s Happening Here…

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Monday Morning Open Thread 18

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On The Road – Albatrossity – Summer 2024 in Flyover Country – 9

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It’s Albatrossity Monday!  The weeks are flying by, aren’t they?  This week we have the final 3 posts of the PaulB series.  Paul, thanks so much for these!

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Hot summer days usually mean slow summer birding, but there are other critters to see and photograph if you look around.

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Quivira NWRJuly 11, 2024

Black-necked Stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) can be quite vocal, and usually when they fly, they are complaining about something. Or maybe they just don’t like me! Click here for larger image.

Excellent Read: ‘Men On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown’

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GOP men, that is… Dave Roth, for Defector:

… Both greasy strivers like Rufo and also your more warped and willful elected officials on the right all understand their jobs this way and behave accordingly. If they seem somehow unlike actual people, if they are too big and too mad and too much, it is because they are now full-time content creators, and so actually not quite like actual people at all. They are all pinned into a deteriorating orbit around the dense collapsing star at the center of the conservative universe, but they have committed to at least make their turns around Donald Trump’s imperial bulk as loudly as possible. Again, this is the job.

The result of that work is a chunky slurry of gossip and fantasy and rank bigotry blasting from a thousand gilded hydrants at every hour of the day; it amounts to a grim sort of fan service catering to an even grimmer fanbase. This has limited public appeal, just in the sense of not being the sort of thing that most people are interested in hearing about, let alone to the exclusion of any other topic and in the most vexed n’ fervid keening imaginable, and that poses an obvious problem for a political party that has entirely given itself over to the making of this kind of noise. The bigger issue, though, is that these imperatives only run in one direction—louder, uglier, more confrontational, further out, more. If the obvious tactical challenge here is that this shit absolutely sucks and most people hate it, the more fundamental one is that the internal incentives are such that it can only ever get worse.

The fantasy of a chastened or refined Trump is, and has long been, the dumbest dream of political media dorks; the followers that put this prissy old dunce at the center of their world, and the mediocrities and opportunists who identified his rancid charisma as their own tickets to ride, know that they can only ever and always do more. This is the nature of this type of content-creation gig, which can never turn off or calm down, but also this is the dead end that conservative politics was steering towards long before Trump took the wheel. A politics whose most fundamental idea is Make Progress Stop Happening would inevitably find itself fetishizing the torment of having to live in a world in which other people, who are not even you, are somehow supposed to matter just as much…

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Sunday Night Open Thread

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A lovely day here- 70’s 80’s with low humidity. Spent a couple hours at the gym, had white people taco night, and now trying to figure out what to watch.

Bunch of important things happening this weekend, including audio of Trump calling Kamala a “fucking bitch” being released and our media yawning, Vance made an ass out of himself on tv this morning, and then the hack of the Trump campaign which could be a lot bigger than we think it is.

I also had a thought last night that it feels like Harris/Walz have always been the candidates.

I am going to bed early tonight because I have to shuttle a trapped colony of cats to somewhere in Ohio to a vet to get them spade and neutered. Gotta be a half hour from here at 7:30 am. See ya all tomorrow.

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Medium Cool – from Worst to First to Best (of Everything)

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Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in.  We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.

Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered.  We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.

Tonight we’ll conclude our 3-part series:   The Worst of Everything, the First of Everything, and now the Best of Everything.

Tonight let’s talk about the best of everything.

Best movies your have sent?

The actual top best movie you have ever seen, if you had to pick THE BEST?

What’s the best kids’ TV show you remember?

The best grown-up TV show you remember seeing as a kid?

Best book you remember reading not for school?  We might have to do this one by decades.

Best mystery series you read?

Best fireworks?

Best ballet?

Best play?

Best musical?

Best play or musical you were in?

Best book you remember reading in school?

Best teacher?

Best concert you attended?

Best concert you attended with friends?

Best holiday dinner ever?

Best food craze you remember?

Best food craze you got caught up in?

Best record you bought?

Best album you bought?

Best librarian or teacher?

The best of everything!   Have at it!

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War for Ukraine Day 900: Russia Sets a Fire at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

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A quick housekeeping note. Rosie is still doing very well between treatments. Her next one is a week from tomorrow. Thank you all for the good thoughts, well wishes, prayers, and donations.

The Russians have lit a fire at the Zaprozhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. There’s a lot of speculation this is a demonstration intended to deter Ukraine from trying to seize or attack the nuclear power plant in Kursk Oblast. Which is silly because the Ukrainians already stated they had no intention of messing with it.

Enerhodar. We have recorded from Nikopol that the Russian occupiers have started a fire on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Currently, radiation levels are within norm. However, as long as the Russian terrorists maintain control over the nuclear plant, the situation is not and cannot be normal.

Since the first day of its seizure, Russia has been using the Zaporizhzhia NPP only to blackmail Ukraine, all of Europe, and the world.

We are waiting for the world to react, waiting for the IAEA to react. Russia must be held accountable for this. Only Ukrainian control over the Zaporizhzhia NPP can guarantee a return to normalcy and complete safety.

Unfortunately, Ukrainian air defense could not stop all of the inbound threats.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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Balloon Juice Hive Mind Needed

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Hey everybody.

One of our long-time BP peeps has been diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).  Diagnosis was in February and it’s progressing quite rapidly.   No, we are not going to say who it is; if they want to let everyone know at some point, that will be totally up to them.

They are curious to know if anyone on Bj has any experience with ALS.  If you do, and you would be willing to share your experience in the comments please chime in below.  If you would prefer to communicate by email, please send email to WaterGirl.

 

 

 

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