Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

This blog will pay for itself.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Fight them, without becoming them!

The National Guard is not Batman.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Everybody saw this coming.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Stand up, dammit!

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: We’re Right, The GOP Is… Not

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On The Road – Eyeroller – Bern 2014: Einstein’s Apartment

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My late husband was an astrophysicist. In the summer of 2014 he attended a conference in Chamonix, France. I did not usually accompany him to conferences but I went with him to this one.  We did some touring in the area during conference breaks, then afterward  spent a week in Switzerland.  One day we visited Bern and, among other sights, toured Einstein’s first apartment there. Since based on the Zoom meeting there seems to be some interest in Einstein, I thought I’d send some of the pictures.

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Entrance to the building. The plaque reads “”In this house Albert Einstein developed his foundational treatises on relativity theory during the years 1903-1905.” That would refer to special relativity; the general theory came much later, with the theory laid out in 1915 and a paper with applications to cosmology in 1917.

COVID-19 Coronavirus (& H5N1) Updates: May 22, 2024

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The good news: Both covid and ‘bird flu’ seem to be in a holding pattern at the moment. I’ll keep posting what I can find every Wednesday, but (Murphy the Trickster God willing!) that may be a lot of marginal cases and epidemiological speculation…

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Late Night GOP Freakshow Open Thread: Who Did Nazi This Coming?…

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War for Ukraine Day 818: Kharkiv Is Bombarded While the Biden Administration Equivocates

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Quick update: Rosie is doing well, though a bit wobbly from yesterday’s chemo. Which is to be expected. She’s eating and drinking, her temp is normal, she’s just a bit wobbly. Thank everyone again for their good thoughts, well wishes, prayers, and/or donations. They are all appreciated.

As I began writing tonight’s updates – about 6:45 PM EDT – air raid alerts were up for Mykolaiv and Odesa Oblasts. At 7:00 PM EDT they have gone up for Kharkiv, Donestk, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts. They are, as always, always up for Russian occupied Luhanks Oblast and Crimea.

Russia continues to bombard Kharkiv:

https://twitter.com/IrynaVoichuk/status/1792848683429466267

https://twitter.com/IrynaVoichuk/status/1792961475528769657

https://twitter.com/dpatrikarakos/status/1792642427909439967

https://twitter.com/IrynaVoichuk/status/1792936015318904915

From Ukrainska Pravda:

The US has expressed its expectation that Kyiv will use the weapons it has been given to hit targets inside of Ukraine.

Source: European Pravda with reference to a statement of US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin following a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine’s Defence (Ramstein format)

Details: The US Secretary of Defence was asked whether Ukraine could use US air defence systems to strike at planes bombing Kharkiv from Russian territory.

Quote: “Our expectation is that they [Ukraine] continue to use the weapons that we’ve provided on targets inside of Ukraine,” Austin said.

The Pentagon chief noted that in this case, “the aerial dynamics are a little bit different”. However, Austin added that he did not want to speculate on this topic.

Background:

  • Earlier, Victoria Nuland, former US Deputy Secretary of State, whose career was connected with Ukraine and Russia, expressed her belief that Kyiv has the right to strike military targets on Russian territory and that Washington and its allies should help it do so.
  • The Wall Street Journal reported that Ukraine had asked the Biden administration to help identify targets in Russia that Kyiv could strike with its own weapons, and separately asked to lift restrictions on the use of US-provided weapons against military targets in Russia.
  • Previously, the Pentagon said that the weapons provided by the United States to Ukraine should be used within Ukrainian territory.

Russia is using the US’s risk aversion and avoidance to their own advantage. They are massing their personnel and equipment just over the border where Ukraine and everyone else can observe them, but Ukraine cannot hit them with US supplied weapons or munitions. As a result, Russia is then able to attack over the border. Instead of being able to deter and stop, Ukraine has to wait and counterattack.

For want of a nail.

Sumy is also still being targeted:

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1792917024458362940

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

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Proud to Be An American

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Joe Biden knows better than most that terrible things happen, even to good people…
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… And sometimes, the most courageous statement is “I will try again, tomorrow”.

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A Friend in Need

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By now you have all somewhat processed the shitty, awful, horrible news that Betty shared with us yesterday, and I am sure most of you are as gutted and pissed off and angry as I am. I am so sick and tired of cancer attacking the good people, I am so sick and tired of it attacking my friends, and I am sick and tired of our health care system being so fucking expensive and callous.

Having said that, I don’t want to feel impotent, and I am sure many of you do not, either, so we asked Betty if we could put up a gofundme to help her through this process. She’s been out of work for months with this horrible god damned disease, has had frequent hospitalizations because of it, and has a long road ahead of her, and I am going to try to help out and make it as easy as possible and chip in when I can. So here is a link to a gofundme.

We set the amount high for several reasons, mainly because we have no idea what the costs of her treatment will be, but also because I didn’t want to give what I can now and then not be able to give again when I get paid. And if you know ANYTHING about Betty, it’s that she will be a pain in the ass to get permission to help her more than once, just as she would be pissed off if people give money they can not really afford.

Having said all that, if, like me, you want to try to help out a dear friend in a tough time, here is a chance.

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