Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Be a wild strawberry.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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Saturday Night Open Thread (and question)

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Looks like we can use an open thread.

This is totally worth watching.

Plus, two people have just reported that they got the “Slow down, you are posting too quickly” message.

Is anyone else getting that?  If you are, and you can’t post, please send me email.

Open thread!

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War for Ukraine Day 745: Taras Shevchenko’s 210th Birthday

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Painting by NEIVANMADE. A Ukrainian Soldier leads several Ukrainian civilians. He is holding the hand of one woman. They are painted in golden yello and are standing on the crest of a hill that has concertina wire and other anti-tank and anti-personnel obstacles on it. The hill and the obstacles are painted black. They are facing away and to the right where the sun is rising in the east and the sky is lightening from a light yellow to an orange. Below the Ukrainian Soldier and Ukrainian civilians, written in gold, is "TOGETHER YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD"

(Image by NEIVANMADE)

Today is the 210th birthday of Taras Shevchenko.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1766472508927324629

https://twitter.com/pravda_eng/status/1766561658690851237

https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/status/1766419378457727470

President Zelenskyy spoke earlier today at the 2024 Taras Shevchenko National Prize ceremony. Video below, English write up after the jump.

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Biden On a Hot Mic, Surely No Accident

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You have likely heard that President Biden was “caught” on a hot mic after the State of the Union address, saying that he would be holding a “come to Jesus” meeting with Bibi.  Barak raved follows up.

1 \ BREAKING: President Biden said in an interview with MSNBC that he would like to come to Israel again to address the Knesset and speak to the Israeli people. Biden refused to specify whether there are discussions on such a possibility and refused to discuss it further

2 \ Biden was asked what he meant when he was caught on a hot mic saying that he would hold a “come to Jesus meeting” with Netanyahu. He answered that It’s a phrase that is used in a serious way. “Bibi knows what I meant”, Biden added

3 \ Biden noted Israel has the right to defend itself & go after Hamas, but emphasized that Netanyahu “must, must, must” pay more attention to preventing civilian casualties in Gaza. “He hurts Israel more than he protects her (by killing civilians). This is a mistake,” Biden said

4 \ Biden said he wants a 6-week ceasefire during which hostages will be released & a wider strategy could be advanced. He said many Arab leaders, including in Saudi Arabia, are ready for peace with Israel. “What happens after the war is what we need to focus on,” Biden said

5 \ Biden was asked if he has a red line in the Gaza war & whether an operation in Rafah would be such a red line. He replied that he has a red line, but emphasized he will not abandon Israel & will not stop the supply of weapons like Iron Dome so that Israel can’t defend itself

6 \ Biden then stressed: “We can’t have another 30,000 Palestinians die in the war. After the carpet bombings of World War II, the rules of war were changed. The rules of war must be respected”

7 \ Biden said he still believes that a deal can be reached to release the hostages in Gaza. “My CIA director in that region right at this minute still talking about it. I think it’s always possible. I never give up on that”, he said

Interesting.  To say the least.

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GOP Venality Open Thread: A Mutually Satisfactory Bust-Out

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A “bust out” is a fraud tactic, commonly used in the organized crime world, wherein a business’ assets and lines of credit are exploited and exhausted to the point of insolvency. – Wikipedia

It seems, to my dyspeptic mind, as though Ronna Romney McDaniel’s ouster is being presented by Our Failed Major Media as a brutish assault upon an innocent, unwilling RNC. But from everything I’ve read, the RNC has been leaking money up & down, from the dustiest local offices in underpopulated red states to the plush lobbying hives in DC — sometimes because accurate bookkeeping is a thing *nerds* do, sometimes in homage to the proud tradition of the original Gilded Age banana republicans: Anything not nailed down is mine, and anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Lara Trump’s lavish beagle rescue ‘fundraising’ galas at Mar-A-Lago arguably fall closer to carelessness than peculation, but anyone working with her in the new, improved RNC fundraising efforts will… know where the sympathies of the people signing their paychecks actually lie. Money will (continue to) disappear; donors will, eventually, stop throwing good dollars after bad; Trump will continue to spiral into raging incoherence on the campaign trail…

So, at some point in the not-distant future — either just before or just after November 6, I’m guessing — it will be announced that there is no more money in the RNC coffers. Every penny, gone! Every asset, mortgaged and/or impounded!

The Republican National Committee as constituted will be officially dissolved, and a replacement either entirely Trump-free or blatantly Trump-centric will be announced. The collapse of a once-proud (or at least once solvent) institution will be blamed on Lara Trump, who will be summarily read out of the Trump business organization (with or without her husband, depending on whether Jarvanka can be lured or bribed back into the fold). Eventually, some low-level Allen Weisselberg analog will be sentenced. And the Permanent GOP Establishment will attempt to soldier blithely on…

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Saturday Afternoon Open Thread

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I don’t have much to say today, but this is a phenomenal ad.

This ad captures Biden so well, just a regular guy talking, nothing fake here in the slightest.  Maybe what’s-her-name from the rebuttal will want to try to rebut this?

If someone wants to locate it on YouTube, I will post the YouTube version, too.  (thanks Baud!)

Open thread!

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Open Thread: A Little Kindness All Around

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Just a quick hit of kindness before I run off for the day.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. —

From Raymond Hall on campus at Providence College, students were on a mission to surprise their favorite person in the building, James, who’s the security guard, with a gift.

“You told us a while ago that you wanted to see your family in Nigeria that you haven’t seen in a long time, so we came together and spread the word, and we started a GoFundMe because we take care of our own because that’s what we do at Providence College. They’ve done that for me, we’ve done that for each other, so now we’re doing it for you. You’re of the family, so our gift to you is a trip to Nigeria,” said sophomore student Daniel Singh.

Nearly $3,000 was raised within 24 hours for James to see his family, including his son, in Nigeria.

“He’s just the kindest soul anyone has ever met in this building. He means so much to us he’s so important. It was amazing how fast everyone connected and were able to put it together for him,” said freshman student Brandon Reichert, who helped organize the GoFundMe.

Singh and Reichert say it was a no brainer to start the GoFundMe after learning it had been 11 years since James had seen his family.

A moment that no one in the room to witness the act of kindness will forget.

“Tears to my eyes. Such an act of kindness. It was such a great reminder of the good our Friars are bringing into the world and a great reminder of how we can all do a small act of kindness every day that can make a difference,” said Dean of Students Sean Sears.

You can watch the entire story here

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Standing Strong & Fighting Back

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