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Open Thread (and reminder about the Saturday zoom)

by WaterGirl|  February 28, 20256:37 pm| 32 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms, Open Threads

Open thread.  (You can skip right to the comments if you’re not interested in the zoom.)

Just a reminded that tomorrow (Saturday at 3:30 pm Eastern) is the second zoom with Elle Reeve.

The zoom link is the same as the first zoom with Elle.  Please send me an email if you no longer have the link.

Please RSVP by mail if you weren’t at the last one but you want to join us tomorrow.  You don’t need to have read the book to join us!

Hope to see a bunch of people at the zoom – the other zoom with Elle was great!

Open thread!

 

 

 

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Reminder: Balloon Juice Zoom Tonight at 8 pm Eastern

by WaterGirl|  November 28, 20242:09 pm| 23 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms

If you haven’t already, please send me an email message if you want to be part of the Balloon Juice zoom tonight – and I’ll reply with the zoom link.

I’m sure this will be like the calendar threads, almost no comments but lots of email messages will arrive, so I’ll know that someone read it. :-)

 

 

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Thanksgiving Zoom at 8 pm Eastern on Thursday

by WaterGirl|  November 27, 202412:35 pm| 55 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms, Open Threads

Hey everybody,

Let us know in the comments if you are interested in joining a Thanksgiving zoom.

If you are interested, what times might be best?

At most, we’ll have two, to accommodate various mealtimes and time zones.

And if you’re a YES or a maybe (depending on what time the zooms end up being) send me an email so I can send you the link.

Thanksgiving Zoom at 8 pm Eastern on ThursdayPost + Comments (55)

Save the Date! Balloon Juice Zoom with Steve Benen on Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pm

by WaterGirl|  October 12, 20241:55 pm| 28 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms, Books, Open Threads

Save the date!  ONE WEEK FROM TODAY. RSVP to WaterGirl

 

Steve Benen discusses his new book (and anything else Balloon Juice readers want to talk about)

Zooming with Steve Benen about His New Book

Saturday, October 19

3:30 – 5 pm Eastern

Be there or be square. :-)

RSVP with email to WaterGirl

Totally Open Thread

 

Save the Date! Balloon Juice Zoom with Steve Benen on Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pmPost + Comments (28)

Save the Date! Balloon Juice Zoom with Steve Benen on Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pm

by WaterGirl|  October 5, 202412:42 pm| 29 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms, Books, Open Threads

booSave the date!  Two weeks from Today.  RSVP to WaterGirl

Steve Benen discusses his new book (and anything else Balloon Juice readers want to talk about)

Zooming with Steve Benen about His New Book

Saturday, October 19

3:30 – 5 pm Eastern

Be there or be square. :-)

RSVP with email to WaterGirl

Totally Open Thread

 

Save the Date! Balloon Juice Zoom with Steve Benen on Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pmPost + Comments (29)

Save the Date! Balloon Juice Zoom with Steve Benen on Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pm

by WaterGirl|  September 9, 20245:41 pm| 29 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice Zooms, Open Threads

Save the date!

Steve Benen discusses his new book (and anything else Balloon Juice readers want to talk about)

Zooming with Steve Benen about His New Book

Saturday, October 19

3:30 – 5 pm Eastern

Be there or be square. :-)

RSVP with email to WaterGirl

Totally Open Thread

 

Save the Date! Balloon Juice Zoom with Steve Benen on Saturday, October 19 at 3:30 pmPost + Comments (29)

Voting Access for All (VAAC) Zoom Follow-Up

by WaterGirl|  May 17, 202411:48 am| 106 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice Zooms, Open Threads, Political Fundraising, Targeted Political Fundraising 2023-24

** Can I just say that bleach blonde, bad built, butch body is a hard act to follow? **

I want to share a little bit about our zoom with VAAC.  (Voting Access for All)  If you want to learn more about VAAC, click on the targeted fundraising category under the post title, and it will bring up several posts that will tell you more about VAAC.

One of the BJ peeps at the zoom said I should include this video in every VAAC post, so here you go!

VAAC is all about voting access, but their work isn’t only about voting.

A few things that I learned at the zoom.

It’s a while different world out there if you’re poor and you’re black.  I mean, I knew that was true, but holy shit, it’s different hearing about it up close.

One person at the zoom had been sentenced to 25 years – as a teen – for stealing a purse from a white woman, after having gotten in some mild trouble before that.  To go through that and not come out bitter?  These are special people.   I have no words.

One person said that Danny was her brother – not literally, but figuratively, and she continues this work in his name, carrying his work forward.  She talked about “Danny’s Law” – legislation that folks at VAAC are pushing forward.

They are also working on a law that requires that young offenders have to be provided with an education while they are incarcerated.

Toward the end of the zoom, E.B. chimed in with one final comment.  (We first met E.B. at our zoom in 2022.)  She said she is grateful for our support – well, okay, many of the VAAC folks who were there said that – and then she talked about how other groups support them and it’s “one and done”.  Some groups donate once so they can get a tax write-off, and then they move on.

Though she didn’t say it in so many words, I was left with the impression that some other white liberal groups donate once so they can “check the box”, pat themselves on the back, and then move on.  E.B. seemed moved by the fact that we came back, that we are still here, that we are their partners in every sense of the word.  I was touched by that, and I know at least one of the other BJ peeps felt the same.

Putting in a plug for our fundraising.

We have $130 left on our current angel match, and then we have one more angel waiting in the wings.  These are 4x matches up to $100 per person, and the match will reset as soon as we finish the current match.

We are out of angels for the time being.  So now it’s just the single match from the external donor.

We are just  $3,955  $1,550 away from meeting our $25,000 goal, and I’m hoping we’ll get there this weekend.


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Anyway, back to the zoom, those were my takeaways, what were yours?

 

 

 

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