Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

How stupid are these people?

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

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

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

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

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

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Everybody saw this coming.

No one could have predicted…

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

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

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

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TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Almost At the Weekend

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Concerning our failed SC(R)OTUS:

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Readership Capture Dawn Open Thread: Musical Notes

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Because I keep meaning to share these snippets with you, but there’s always too much serious news…

… The induction ceremony will be held Oct. 19 at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio. It will stream live on Disney+ with an airing on ABC at a later date and available on Hulu the next day.

Those music acts nominated this year but didn’t make the cut included Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, the late Sinéad O’Connor, soul-pop singer Sade, Britpoppers Oasis, hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim and alt-rockers Jane’s Addiction.

I hope Cher shows up for that event, because last December…

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On The Road – arrieve – Saudi Arabia, part 4

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The final set of Saudi pictures are from Yanbu.

There are actually three cities comprising Yanbu. Yanbu Al-Bahr is the main city on the Red Sea coast where the ship docked.  The other one we visited is Yanbu Al-Nakhal, a group of villages about an hour’s drive from the coast that used to be one of the hubs on the spice and incense route between Egypt and Yemen.

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Yanbu, Saudi ArabiaJanuary 4, 2024

Yes, this is Saudi Arabia. I took this picture through the bus window on the drive to Yanbu Al-Nakhal. We passed plenty of desert, and herds of camels grazing along the side of the road, but I was not expecting those mountains, or the greens from the recent rains.

Thursday Evening Open Thread: When You’re Not Mad

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I bow to DougJ’s mastery:

Save y’all a click:
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War for Ukraine Day 793: Russia Continues Its Bombardment of Ukraine

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Russia continues to bombard Ukrainian civilian targets ahead of the arrival of the newly announced US military aid.

https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka/status/1783477659487384063

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

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Afternoon Open Thread: Good Climate News and Good People Doing Good Things

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I’m all over the place right now…being pulled in a dozen different directions when all I want to be doing is gardening. Luckily it’s going to get stormy for the next few days so I can get some actual paying work done.

A couple of things caught my attention this morning while I was actively ignoring the 24/7 rotting orange corpse sucking up all the media O2.

Here’s some better news to close out the afternoon:

David Roberts had another podcast on the grid, discussing distributed energy, that I missed when I put together the last post.

Now is the time for distributed energy resources

Duncan Campbell of Scale Microgrid Solutions makes the case that distributed energy resources (DERs) — solar panels, EVs, home batteries, etc. — are, thanks to rising electricity demand and constraints on grid expansion, poised for a tsunami of deployment.

 

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