Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

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

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

Bark louder, little dog.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

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

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

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

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

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  3. 3.

    Tracy Ratcliff

    A show of hands: how many here are expecting the next post from our blogpost to be an incoherent rant about a disaster involving Thurston, Rosie, Steve, mustard, cat poop and car-in-the-yard as our next episode of “Cole’s Life.”?

  6. 6.

    eclare

    @SiubhanDuinne: Let me know how it is if you do! Movie for this coming week is Florence Foster Jenkins (tried before, only seats left were in the very front), next week is Southside With You.

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    Happy nap.

    Lucky enough to have seen loggerhead turtle hatchlings racing for the Atlantic last night, beach in Ponte Vedra (between St. Augustine and Jville), at sunset. Pink skies and active little turtles. Just happened upon it.

    The instinct and determination of those little ones. And the quick learning curve: they’d get slammed backwards by the first small wave washing upon the beach, but learned to keep their little heads down and swim under the next wave. Then you’d see them between waves, tiny heads periscoping, but ducking once the next wave arrived.

    Saw about ten make it successfully to the sea. Mickler Beach. Great turtle rescue team monitoring the nests. Hunting for the link for you now.

    Turtle hatching season is May to October.

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    Elizabelle

    @Redshift: Great to hear! Have a good one. Please let us know what you hear from voters at the doors.

    I am seeing way too many Trump bumperstickers in the Jacksonville, FL area. (Which would be about ten, I guess, plus Trump! spraypainted on plywood structures and in yards along the coast …) Haven’t seen any Hillary stuff, but we fly below radar.

    Don’t want the car to get keyed, or the ragtop slashed.

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    Monala

    I saw Southside with You yesterday. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I had hoped. Part of it was that Tika Sumpter’s performance wasn’t as warm as I am used to Michelle Obama being. I know that’s partly because she was playing “This is not really a date” offense through most of the movie.

    Still, I would have liked to have seen more of Michelle’s warmth and joy. It comes through in two moments – when she is talking about her dad, and when a little girl takes her hand and [no spoilers]. From the look Barack has on his face during the latter scene, you can tell that’s when he went from being attracted to much, much more.

    The film also ended too abruptly. Most of the people in the theater just sat there for a while, probably wondering like I did, “Is that it?” Finally someone in the audience shouted, “And then they got married!” and everyone laughed and got up to leave.

    Things I did really like: the Southside of Chicago portrayed as a beautiful, vibrant place. Barack as a combination of smooth charmer, hopeful visionary, and a man struggling to find his place in the world and wrestling with his father’s demons. Michelle helping him with that struggle. All the black art and culture highlighted.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @Elizabelle:

    Lucky enough to have seen loggerhead turtle hatchlings racing for the Atlantic last night….

    So inspiring! How lucky you were to see them in, literally, their first moments of independent life.

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    gogol's wife

    @eclare:

    I loved FFJ. The New Yorker had a very positive blurb (in “Now Playing”) about the Obama movie, but the Times had a snotty review that called it a “hagiography.” But it was by the dreaded Manohla Dargis, who said that Tika Sumpter’s delivery of her lines was “near-metonymic” like Michelle’s. I don’t think “metonymic” means what she thinks it means.

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    Elizabelle

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yes. And I hope they are all still swimming and thriving.

    Babies might have gotten helped out of the nest by the Turtle patrol volunteers. I did not see that part. No video by the organization up yet, but I will put it up when it’s online.

    These little guys were vigorous. Makes a big difference on when they make it out of the nest; one volunteer was telling me that hatchlings that ended up remaining in the nest (aka being stuck) too much time after emerging and consuming their yolk sacs are far more challenged. The volunteers are keeping a close watch, but not disturbing nature too much. They’re under supervision of a turtle expert.

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    Matt McIrvin

    Sam and I just broke up a fight in our yard between an escaped dog and a freaked-out neighborhood cat. Neither seems to have gotten away with worse than general filth and a scratch on the dog’s nose. I managed to get hold of the dog’s collar and read his tag, and he calmed down a little once we started addressing him by name, but there was this tense standoff in which neither animal was willing to back off or look away. Dog’s owner was very grateful when he showed up–he’d been driving all around looking.

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    leeleeFL

    @Elizabelle: Precisely! I have to say though, I have been far more vocal this cycle! This one is too important and there are too many people thinking incorrectly. I stick with women. Want to controll your body? How about your Daughters? GrandDaughters? That’s usually enough,but will go full bore anti-racist if I must! I can’t worry about offending ppl or losing anything( like my job)

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    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    @Tracy Ratcliff:

    A show of hands: how many here are expecting the next post from our blogpost to be an incoherent rant about a disaster involving Thurston, Rosie, Steve, mustard, cat poop and car-in-the-yard as our next episode of “Cole’s Life.”?

    Plus broken furniture and an overturned vat of molasses.

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    SWMBO

    @Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: I expect an update on the house. Where he is in the renovations and how many floors/decks he’s fallen through. Also, pics of the new house would be nice. He’s taken some nice ones of Walter, it should be easy peasy now to take pics of rooms. And I hope Cole treats himself to a big bowl of ice cream and all the pets get a bite of cheese. It has been a long, strange month for him.

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