Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

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

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

The lights are all blinking red.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Wait, what?

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

I really should read my own blog.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Innocent people do not delay justice.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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Another Sunday Night Open Thread

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As it turns out, I do have something I want to say. The USPS is raising the rates on stamps from 68 to 73 cents, a price so low that there isn’t even a key on your computer to denote cents like there is a dollar sign (you have to hold down alt and type 0162 like this ¢). Having said that, they will get a rash of shit by people who like to be pissed off about everything, so here is a little pushback.

The United States Postal Service, even under Trump shitlord Louise DeJoy, is such an amazing feat of logistics that it should STILL be considered a modern marvel and should probably even be featured in the next Sid Meiers Civilization. It’s fucking mindboggling if you really sit and think about it. For 73 cents you can take a letter from where ever the fuck you are in the country and have it delivered to anywhere else in the country in just a few days.

Yes we all hear horror stories about the post office, but those are few and far between when you consider the sheer volume and enormity of the operation. Do you know how many places there are? And not just remote places. But just weird back alleys in any city with apartments nowhere near where you would think anyone would live. And they get their mail on the daily.

So yeah. It’s fucking miraculous. It’s as big a deal and as much a modern marvel as the fact that the vast majority of us have water piped directly into our homes that we can drink straight from the tap. Fucking amazing.

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Mean-Spirited Partisans Open Thread

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If you choose to go below the fold, don’t say you weren’t warned.

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War for Ukraine Day 872: Glide Bombs Aimed at Kharkiv

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Painting by NEIVANMADE. It has a white background an in the center are Soldiers in green doing air defense by firing at incoming Russian missiles in the upper right. The missiles are red and yellow. In the upper left, written in green, is the text: "SAVE THE BRAVEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!" Below the Soldiers, also written in green, is "SUPPORT FOR KHARKIV"

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Two quick housekeeping notes. First, Rosie is still doing fine. She has another week off before her next treatment.

Second, because it’s been a longer weekend than I think any of us were planning on, I’m going to keep tonight’s update as brief as possible.

As I’ve typed this post over the past hour (6:00 to 7:00 PM EDT) air raid alerts have gone up for Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson Oblasts. The on for Kharkiv Oblast that was up has come down. The alert maps do not show any inbound cruise missiles, but it may be an ugly morning in southern Ukraine.

Apparently, Odesa’s air defense intercepted inbound cruise missiles shortly after I hit publish:

As of 7:36 PM EDT the air raid alerts for southern Ukraine have dropped, but a new one has been posted for Kharkiv Oblast.

Russia attacked Kharkiv with glide bombs again about two or three hours ago:

Andrei Kozyrev, who was Russia’s Foreign Minister from 1990-1996 and in the Duma through 2000, has some well informed thoughts regarding the potential aftermath of last night’s shooting in Pennsylvania.

This is what state TV in Russia is telling viewers tonight: “Today Trump quite literally spilled blood for America. He is now highly likely to get back not only the Oval Office, but also control of all key state institutions: Congress, the Prosecutor’s office, the Supreme Court.”|

As Rahm Emanuel once proclaimed, but was terrible at actually executing, never let a crisis go to waste.

Either in the US or in Russia:

President Zelenskyy, however, has a bit more class:

I am appalled to learn about the shooting of former U.S. President Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania.

Such violence has no justification and no place anywhere in the world. Never should violence prevail.

I am relieved to learn that Donald Trump is now safe and wish him a speedy recovery. My condolences go out to the close ones of this attack’s victim, a rally attendee.

I extend my wishes for strength to everyone who is horrified by this event. I wish America emerges stronger from this.

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

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Medium Cool – Star Spotting!

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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.

I can’t recall who it was, but *someone suggested this as a possible future topic—movies or TV shows where you spotted an actor in an early role before they were famous, like an early Perry Mason where Leonard Nimoy was the killer.

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I would have liked to have seen that one!  Maybe Steeplejack (Perry Mason watcher extraordinaries) can let us know when that one will be showing next?

What are some of the other shows where you could frequently see future stars when they were still young pups?  Seems to me that along with Perry Mason, Rockford Files and Law & Order were frequent starter roles for aspiring actors were .  Or maybe the shows that had a lot of the young pups were just really great at spotting talent early?

Speaking of the Rockford Files, was Angel the antecedent of “Mozzie” on White Collar?

Anyway, anything that’s even remotely within throwing distance of this topic is fair game.  Just looking for something simple to start off the conversation this evening.

*out yourself in the comments if you are the someone who recommended this topic!

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