Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

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

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Come on, man.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Everybody saw this coming.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Fight them, without becoming them!

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 14 (More Stormy Weather!)

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.It’s Day 10 of the actual trial!  Day 14 if you include jury selection.

Best sources of live blogging that I have found.

Josh Kovensky   (TPM)   live blogging

Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)   live blogging

Tyler McBrien (Lawfare) on twitter  (in the overflow room)

Anna Bower (Lawfare) on twitter (inside the courtroom)

Adam Klasfeld on twitter (not seeing him up on twitter yet)

NBC live blogging and BBC live blogging have also been recommended by BJ peeps.

Still loving this awesome image.  When you get tired of it, let me know.

Open thread.

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: With Truth on Our Side

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On The Road – lashonharangue – Mayan Ruins and the Sacred Monkey River [3 of 4]

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Leaving Yaxchilan we continued to paddle downstream for the next couple of days. Sometimes we would camp on the Mexican side of the river. Other days it would be in Guatemala.

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Usumacinta River

The geology of the river banks kept changing. While it was mostly all limestone, the shapes caused by erosion constantly changed.

Dank Grey Dawn Palate Cleanser Open Thread: Michigan’s Current GOP

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Thank you, WaterGirl, for tipping me to I owe one of you a hat tip this great article with a dumb headline. From Ben Mathis-Lilley, at Slate — “Even Donald Trump Doesn’t Know What He Created in the MAGA Swamps of Michigan”:

At 2 p.m. in the basement of the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, the mood was distrustful, the air was humid with human moistness, and the disagreements over minor procedural issues simply would not end.

The people assembled in this particular conference room were delegates from Michigan’s 9th Congressional District. They were among those who had come to Grand Rapids this past March for a statewide meeting to help nominate a Republican presidential candidate. And despite all of them believing that the nominee in question should be “Donald J. Trump”—as they insisted on saying his name, for some reason—they had already been there for four hours.

One of the major points of contention was which of these delegates would get to attend the Republican National Convention later this year in Milwaukee to take on the largely symbolic act of officially certifying Trump’s victory in the primary. And things took a particularly sour turn when the meeting chair, Deb Ross, said that a delegate named Billy Putman, who was seeking to represent the district, may have submitted paperwork identifying himself as “uncommitted”—rather than as a supporter of Trump’s.

Putman is a bearded man whose suit jacket and evident enjoyment of public speaking marked him as the room’s most likely aspirant to higher office. (He lives with his parents, his siblings, and their families in a single home, an arrangement which was featured in a 2017 TLC reality series called Meet the Putmans.) He and others considered the allegation that he might not be a Trump supporter to be slanderous. In turn, he accused Ross of being “bogus,” and “disenfranchising everyone in this room.”…

This scene was a small expression of the absurd dysfunction that has characterized the operations of the Michigan GOP for nearly a year. It is also a window into the problems of the current Republican Party writ large—one of many intraparty conflicts at the state and local level that are exploding across the country.

The problem, in short, is that the MAGA activists in charge are eating each other alive. States in which old-guard “establishment” Republicans were run off—seemingly paving the way for unified efforts on behalf of Trump—are instead beset by resignations, lawsuits, and financial crises. Conflicts are ongoing in Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Georgia as well as Michigan, and are tearing apart smaller chapters at even more local levels…

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Foreign Affairs Open Thread: Well, You’ve Got What You Asked for, Bibi…

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… “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview on “Erin Burnett OutFront,” referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.

“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem,” Biden said.

The president’s announcement that he was prepared to condition American weaponry on Israel’s actions amounts to a turning point in the seven-month conflict between Israel and Hamas. And his acknowledgement that American bombs had been used to kill civilians in Gaza was a stark recognition of the United States’ role in the war…

“We’re not walking away from Israel’s security. We’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas,” Biden said.

Biden said while the US would continue to provide defensive weapons to Israel, including for its Iron Dome air defense system, other shipments would end should a major ground invasion of Rafah begin…

Already, the US has paused a shipment of “high-payload munitions” due to Israel’s possible operations in Rafah without a plan for the civilians there, according to the Pentagon, though it said a final decision on that shipment hadn’t been made. The administration has said it is reviewing the potential sale or transfer of other munitions…

Josh Marshall, at TPM, on “Cutting the Spigot”:

What was first communicated by a slowdown in weapons transfers and then confirmed in leaks has now become public. Joe Biden is saying he will cut off the supply of heavy munitions (big bombs from the sky) if Israel goes ahead with a major ground in incursion into Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, which is both the last refuge of Hamas’s intact battalions and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians who have fled other parts of the strip over the last six months. This is in addition to the city’s normal population.

I have seen some commentators who have absolutely no love for Netanyahu saying this undercuts whatever leverage Israel has in the hostage negotiations by depriving them of the threat to go into Rafah in force. There’s likely something to that. But it is basically a certainty that this move was absolutely the final straw with the US insisting and insisting and insisting not to do this without a plan to evacuate the city and the Israeli government saying too bad. We’re doing it. Biden had the choice to make his words meaningless or put down his foot. When you’re supplying the weapons your foot comes down very hard.

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War for Ukraine Day 805: Russia Steps Up Its Attacks on Kharkiv, Sumy, & Other Parts of Ukraine While Threatening Invasions of Kharkiv & Sumy

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A couple of quick housekeeping notes. First, everyone is, as always, most welcome. The past several days have been very busy and long, so tonight’s update will also be briefer and, once I hit publish, I’m basically going offline to rack out. Second, Rosie is so far tolerating her third chemo treatment well. I appreciate all the good thoughts, well wishes, and prayers.

As I begin drafting tonight’s update – 7:55 PM EDT – the only air raid alerts up are for Kharkiv and the ones that are always up for Luhansk and Crimea. The air raid alert for Mykolaiv Oblast has just been taken down.

On the night of May 8, 2024, russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 55 missiles and 21 Shahed UAVs.

russian attack targeted infrastructure in Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

Ukrainian defenders shot down 59 aerial targets:
◾️33 Kh-101 cruise missiles
◾️4 Kalibr cruise missiles
◾️2 Kh-59/69 cruise missiles
◾️20 Shahed UAVs

On a day meant for remembrance, Ukraine was hit by a severe missile and drone attack. The world must unite to prevent the rise of new Nazism.

russia carried out massive #attacks on Ukraine’s #energy infrastructure early on Tuesday, using missiles to inflict severe damage on DTEK facilities. Three of DTEK’s six thermal power plants in #Ukraine were struck in a new wave of russian attacks, seriously damaging equipment on which millions of Ukrainians depend.

#StandWithUkraine #FightForLight

 

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

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Swatting Down the Sock Puppets

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In return for Democrats’ essential aid in pulling his nuts speakership out of the fire, Pastor Mike leads a posse to promote GOP ‘but ILLEGALS’ calumny:

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