Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Usually wrong but never in doubt

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

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

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: March 27, 2024

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On The Road – frosty – 3rd Annual National Park/COVID Challenge – Oregon – US 101 Pacific Coast Highway

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This post is a combination of some of the sights in Northern California as well as the southern Oregon Coast. The first thing that stood out to me was the tsunami warning signs. They were probably posted after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake in Japan (although I didn’t look it up). I thought Oregon’s were a little more dramatic with the stick figure running for the hills. Every time the road descends there’s an “Entering” sign and when it climbs there’s a “Leaving” sign. There are so many dips in Oregon I thought they should just call the whole coast a hazard. If you’re not caught in the tsunami you’ll be hit by the traffic escaping it!

We stopped at a couple of overlooks when we got to Oregon, where we were camping at Humbug Mountain State Park and Beverly Beach State Park. Very scenic!

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Late Night Unholy Schadenfreude Open Thread: RFK Jr Has Chosen His VP Candidate

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For two very significant reasons, ‘everyone says’…

1) She’s got the money, and more important the Silicon Valley contacts, to splash out on a vanity candidacy; and

2) To phrase it as delicately as possible, he wants it known that he doesn’t wanna have sex with Aaron Rodgers.

All the top google entries on my original search led to People articles, which is informational in its way, but this is solid reporting:


Anna Merlan, for Wired, “RFK Jr. Announces VP Pick Is a Tech Entrepreneur Who Has Given His Campaign a Lot of Money”:

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War for Ukraine Day 762: Give Them “the Damn Patriots!”

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Painting by NEIVANMADE. It has a black border. There are grey buildings with black windows along the left side. The center is a yellowy-grey, perhaps Ukrainian wheat fields. There is a black shadow figure striding through it. The figure's legs and feet are all that is visible of it. On the right side are red Zs, which symbolize Putin's/Russia's "Z" war/special military operation in Ukraine. The sky above the buildings is light grey. "GENOCIDE IS GOING BUT WHO EVEN CARES?" is painted in black in the upper left hand corner.

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As I draft this at 7:55 PM EDT, the only air alert over unoccupied Ukraine is in the north/northeast of the country: Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, and Kharkiv Oblasts. My guess is that it is Sumy and Kharkiv that are in the Russian’s sights. As we covered last week, Sumy is seeing daily attacks, but they aren’t getting as much coverage. Kharkiv’s power grid – generation and transmission – has been taken out by Russia and it seems to be a Russian priority to inflict as much damage on Kharkiv as possible.

Ukraine has hit two more Russian naval vessels. One of which the Russians stole from Ukraine in 2014, renamed, and reflagged.

The 🇺🇦 defense forces successfully struck the reconnaissance ship “Ivan Khurs” and the large landing ship “Kostyantyn Olshansky” – the updated information about the attack on March 24 by @UA_NAVY.

As we reported before, during the attack, the large landing ships “Yamal” and “Azov” were also damaged.

In 2014, russia stole the large landing ship “Kostyantyn Olshansky” from Ukraine when they occupied Crimea.
In 2024, Ukraine struck “Konstantin Olshansky” with a Ukrainian-made “Neptun” missile. russia planned to use the ship against Ukraine.

10 years have passed, but justice has been restored. The russian Black Sea Fleet is suffering in temporarily occupied Crimea. Ukraine will win!

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

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Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread

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All the news  this week has worn me out, and it’s only – checks computer, yep, it’s only Tuesday.

Trump sets the dogs on Judge Merchan and his daughter, Merchan puts a gag order in place for Trump, seems like the case before the Supreme Court is mostly going the way it should, and Ronna is out at NBC.  They need to fire the two people who approved the hire.

I’m too tired to write much or add links, so talk among yourselves.

Oh, and I vacuumed all the dog beds yesterday and then forgot to put them all back in place.

Henry didn’t seem to mind at all!

Totally open thread.

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Accidentally Like a Martyr

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After the big shitshow that was sparked by hiring noted cipher Ronna McDaniel, it looks like she’s going to get the boot at NBC.   I agree with Steve M that this is the best thing that could have happened to her.   Apparently, she’s a decent fundraiser, but she’d have to be at least decent to run the RNC.  But what are her other qualifications to be a commentator (not that most of them have many)?  And, Jesus, the baggage she’s carrying.

Aside from the Jan 6 stuff, which is disqualifying in itself, the whole name thing is beyond creepy.   She’s the granddaughter and niece of two major Republican players, and she threw that away to kiss more of Trumps big old orange ass.  That shows a lack of character that is still pretty notable, even in a coarse political time like ours.

So, now she’s going to be a martyr, and she’ll get a job with Fox or whatever other right-wing bubble outlet hires her, after she takes home a nice settlement from NBC.  NBC will look stupid for trying to make her their insurance-against-Trump hire (Josh Marshall goes through the rather byzantine logic on that — the short story is that Trump doesn’t stay mad at people for long if he can make use of them, and if she’s at NBC, she probably would have access to a Trump administration.)

I’ve got nothing more to say about this that isn’t pure disgust.

Speaking of the media, Talking Points Memo is having their Spring fundraiser.  If you haven’t subscribed yet, here’s the link for a discounted subscription. You can also apply for a community-supported membership (free) there.  I have no connection to TPM other than liking their content and wanting them to continue.

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