Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

In my day, never was longer.

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

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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

Bark louder, little dog.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

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

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

American history and black history cannot be separated.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

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Monday Night Open Thread

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This fucking guy voted for Harris and Walz this morning:

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Blasted that picture out of twitter this morning after voting and now see that I still had toothpaste in the corners of my mouth and my hair was everywhere and my beard unkempt but fuck it, who cares anyway. Joelle loves me regardless, the fool.

Still a nervous wreck about the election, but I have done my part.

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I have watched this no less than twenty times. I’m not proud about this, but I do feel I need to be honest with you:

I will never quit you black twitter/tiktok. Ever. You give me life.

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In a surprising development, if you are to believe Axios, 200,000 people have said “Fuck Jeff Bezos:”

The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The Washington Post Co.’s status as a privately held company.

Will this hurt Jeff Bezos financially? No. Will it be a huge embarrassment for him? Yes. And that’s fucking good enough for me. Give your money to ProPublica, TPM, and other news sources. Fuck Bezos and his Murdoch acolytes.

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That’s it for me. Gonna go watch some detective shows until I slip into bed.

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Monday Evening Open Thread: ‘The Other C-Word’ Is… Childish

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Kamala’s a… Communist! *snigger* Lookit us bad boyz, fearlessly testin’ the guardrails!… like a gang of preschoolers who’ve just discovered the power of potty words. No wonder Elon greenlit the media buy.

Josh Marshall has an excellent explication:

2/ political awakenings on sites like 4chan, 8chan, various far-right, incel and incel adjacent online communities. It crops up in various ways if you know where to look. It’s why DeSantis had those weird frankly homoerotic campaign vids during the primaries.

3/ They’re all awash in this world of casual racism, ironic provocation, not just misogyny but a weird emotionally-stunted kind of misogyny that to normal people isn’t just often either offensive or weird but even kind of inexplicable because it’s a very weird …

4/ inside idiom and self-referential world that is fairly alien to mainstream audiences. Again, I know I’m not saying anything new to say Trumpers are weird and racist and sexist and all the rest. But young staffers make up the world of political life. They’re …

5/ not the ‘talent’ or the big names yet. But they’re the workforce that makes thing happen. And that weirdo 4chany world is just deeply, deeply in the DNA. It’s not just that they’re into Trumpism. It’s that that largely only world is the space and the idea world …

6/ that made them decide they were conservatives, or Republicans or whatever association and home-ness in the right and far-right they have. So like I said, it’s deep deep in the political DNA.

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Apparently the Trump Campaign Is Unable to Count

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I really wanted to title this “They thought the only thing in their speeches that would be a bridge too far would be calling the Democratic Candidate for President a c*nt.”

The Trump Campaign Apparently Thinks Last Night Wasn’t That Big a Deal (The Bulwark)

h/t BR

My favorite paragraph:

Campaign advisers are united in their opinion that the Hinchcliffe controversy will blow over. Some were heartened by the fact that for once it wasn’t Trump who was at the center of the maelstrom. Others noted that they have overcome far worse.

Another excerpt:

Carlos Odio, a Democrat and founder of the Latino research firm Equis Research, said he’s not sure about the severity of the downstream political consequences of the controversy, save that it would be bad for Trump.

“We’ve gotten so used to the idea that nothing Trump or his allies say ever seems to move the needle,” he told The Bulwark. “Maybe it is the same now. Or maybe the exception turns out to be insulting a critical community in your tipping-point state while voting is already underway, using a joke so incendiary it breaks through almost instantly.”

Can these people even count?  Do they know that black people, Puerto Ricans, and women can vote?

Open thread.

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Florida jackals — the sea and the sky may hate election day voting

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Hey, Florida folks:

I don’t necessarily want to raise huge alarm bells or anything, but looking at the GFS and other hurricane models, and the National Hurricane Center’s current Tropical Weather Outlook….

….maybe DEFINITELY try to vote early this week, if you haven’t already. Very definitely.

— Mari Ness, writer of things (@mariness.bsky.social) October 27, 2024 at 4:31 PM

Building on Rose’s post from earlier today, go vote early if you’re a Jackal living in a state that touches the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Only Poll That Matters…

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…is already in the field. About two weeks ago I started checking in with the University of Florida’s Early Voting tracker website. Back in 2020, the daily updates there offered me a dose of reassurance, and this year is no different. The scholar who’s in charge of the project is Michael McDonald, who notes that as of this morning approximately 43 million of us have voted in the election. Click the embedded post to follow him on Bluesky (you can also find him at the Other Place, but I’m going to try not to embed tweets here when there’s a Bluesky account available):

#earlyvote morning update 10/28: at least 42.9 million people have voted in the 2024 general election 🥳
election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2…

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— Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social) October 28, 2024 at 12:45 PM

The site has a nifty dashboard for parsing data by reported characteristics such as gender, party registration, etc. (Note that not all characteristics are available for all states.) Professor McDonald also has a Substack where he breaks down what he’s seeing in the data, but most of those posts are for paid subscribers only, unfortunately. This post, “Republican Antipathy Toward Early Voting May Haunt Them”, however, isn’t. It’s from October 20th, over a week ago now. It focuses on data out of North Carolina and notes that:

“North Carolina law allows counties to set times and hours for in-person early voting within state guidelines. The 2024 general election schedule of in-person early voting is here. Importantly, counties have the option of holding in-person early voting on the weekends, which the larger Democratic counties opted to do.

“Why didn’t Republican counties do the same? Probably because their election boards when making their plans heeded Donald Trump’s warnings that early voting is fraudulent. But as the unusual surge in Republicans voting the first days of in-person early voting suggest, these decisions were perhaps shortsighted because it cut off eager Republicans from voting over the weekend.”

He also notes that when Republicans are voting in North Carolina, they seem to be more women voters than men (I wonder how many of those Republican ladies are Nikki Haley crossover voters). In fact, early voting data generally shows a much larger gender gap so far this year:

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Full-Blown Hate Rallies, Mini-Stop the Steal Rallies, Mini Jan 6 Rallies

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AOC makes the point that these Trump rallies are full-blown hate rallies.  Mini versions of Stop the Steal.  Mini versions of Jan 6.  I think she’s right.  But if even 1% of Trump voters turn away in disgust, and decide not to vote,  that can be the difference between winning and losing.

Is this the October surprise?  Remember, almost none of the conventional wisdom applies anymore.  October has turned out to be more of an Advent calendar, with a surprise a day.

In the midst of all the ugliness, in the midst of seeing the terrible reality of the current Supreme Court, in the midst of seeing so may office holders caring nothing about democracy, caring nothing about the actual human beings they “serve”…

In the midst of all that, we have seen who the real leaders are and what our leaders are made of.  A few of them came away tarnished, but damn, do we have a great bench, or what?

As a party, we have learned to fight back in a different way.

We have learned to speak the truth in a different way.

We are learning to ignore the media organizations that have little or nothing to do with journalism.

In some cases, what where there once was coal, or what appeared to be coal, there are now diamonds.

OAC and Walz on Twitch yesterday.

Assuming we get through this with a win, we couldn’t possibly have a better team to help us move forward.

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Gird Your Loins & Stay Joyful

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Gird Your Loins & Stay Joyful

(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)

A comment on Twitter said "This is like The Rolling Stones and The Beatles playing for Latinos.” Latino voting expert Mike Madrid says "Some of the biggest news yet actually."
"Maná and Los Tigres Del Norte Will Perform at Kamala Harris Rallies in Nevada and Arizona"

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— Bob Morris (@bobmorris.bsky.social) October 25, 2024 at 11:06 PM

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