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Zoom Wednesday (tomorrow night) at 7:30 pm ET with National Ground Game founder and director

by WaterGirl|  March 17, 20268:23 pm| 6 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice Zooms, Open Threads, Political Action, Politics

In case you missed the post on Sunday, we have started our fundraising for the youth vote.

Details are in the post, linked below.  This is a reminder that we are having a zoom with Zee – the founder and director of the group on Wednesday.  aka Tomorrow!  I hope you will all consider joining the zoom.  She has amazing energy –  I guarantee that you will come away inspired and hopeful.

RSVP by sending me email – WaterGirl at balloon-juice.com

 

The Youth Vote – Fundraising Starts Today!

Zoom Wednesday (tomorrow night) at 7:30 pm ET with National Ground Game founder and directorPost + Comments (6)

Interested in a Zoom Book Club to Discuss Tom Levenson’s Book ‘So Very Small’?

by WaterGirl|  March 1, 20262:30 pm| 27 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms, Book Clubs, Open Threads, Tom Levenson's So Very Small Book Clu

Re-upping this announcement from Wednesday.

Interested in a Zoom Book Club to Discuss Tom Levenson’s Book 'So Very Small'?

Hey everybody,

Anybody interested in having a Zoom book club to talk about Tom’s book, So Very Small?

Tom is super flexible, so we can talk about arguments in book and the relevance of the book today and /or we can use the book as a jumping off point for discussion.

It’s looking like we will start in 3-4 weeks, zooming the first two weeks of April, to give you guys time to read the book if you’re interested.

If you’re interested in reading / discussing this book, let us know in the comments!

⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️

SAVE THE DATES

Wednesdays
April 8 and April 15
8 pm Eastern time

Zooms will start on time and will last 90 minutes.

⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️

MORE DETAILS

We will raffle off a signed copy of one of Tom’s books – only participants in the zooms will be eligible for that.

If you want to participate but aren’t in a position right now to buy the book, let us know in the comments or send me email.  I’m sure we’ll be able to pair you up with someone to supply a book.

TO RSVP and get the Zoom link

Send email to WaterGirl and reference Tom or the book in the subject of your message!  And don’t forget to include your nym. :-)

I will send out the Zoom links the week of the first zoom, and the same link will work for both.  So not to worry if you have RSVP’d but you didn’t hear back from me.

Interested in a Zoom Book Club to Discuss Tom Levenson’s Book ‘So Very Small’?Post + Comments (27)

Interested in a Zoom Book Club to Discuss Tom Levenson’s Book ‘So Very Small’?

by WaterGirl|  February 25, 20268:00 pm| 46 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms, Book Clubs, Tom Levenson's So Very Small Book Clu

Interested in a Zoom Book Club to Discuss Tom Levenson’s Book 'So Very Small'?

Hey everybody,

Anybody interested in having a Zoom book club to talk about Tom’s book, So Very Small?

Tom is super flexible, so we can talk about arguments in book and the relevance of the book today and /or we can use the book as a jumping off point for discussion.

It’s looking like we will start in 3-4 weeks, zooming the first two weeks of April, to give you guys time to read the book if you’re interested.

If you’re interested in reading / discussing this book, let us know in the comments!

⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️

SAVE THE DATES

Wednesdays
April 1 and April 8
April 8 and April 15
8 pm Eastern time

Zooms will start on time and will last 90 minutes.

⭐️  ⭐️  ⭐️

MORE DETAILS

We will raffle off a signed copy of one of Tom’s books – only participants in the zooms will be eligible for that.

If you want to participate but aren’t in a position right now to buy the book, let us know in the comments or send me email.  I’m sure we’ll be able to pair you up with someone to supply a book.

TO RSVP and get the Zoom link

Send email to WaterGirl with your nym & reference Tom or the book in the subject of your message

Interested in a Zoom Book Club to Discuss Tom Levenson’s Book ‘So Very Small’?Post + Comments (46)

Christmas Zoom – Noon to 2 pm Eastern Time (Totally Open Thread)

by WaterGirl|  December 24, 20256:32 pm| 28 Comments

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

Looks like there is interest in a Balloon Juice zoom tomorrow.

Thursday
Dec 25
noon – 2pm blog time (aka Eastern time)

Be there or be square!

Send email to WaterGirl if you want the zoom link.

If you’re one of the 3 people who sent me email earlier, you do not have to re-send.  I will send out the zoom links tomorrow.

Christmas Zoom – Noon to 2 pm Eastern Time (Totally Open Thread)Post + Comments (28)

First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage – Cole and Joelle – Here We Go!

by WaterGirl|  September 25, 20254:35 pm| 244 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Balloon Juice Zooms, Cole's Wedding

I’m not sure the “baby carriage” stanza is relevant here, but here we go!

Cole is getting hitched!

Tune in on Thursday to Find Out 🤵🏻👰🏻 1 Monday Night Open Thread 36

It’s their big day – let’s keep this one politics free.

And remember, if you want to say the bride looks lovely, you can say that here or in the zoom chat.

If you want to be our usual awesome selves, this post is the place to do it!

 

First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage – Cole and Joelle – Here We Go!Post + Comments (244)

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!

 

 

 

Open Thread (and reminder about the Saturday zoom)Post + Comments (32)

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. :-)

 

 

Reminder: Balloon Juice Zoom Tonight at 8 pm EasternPost + Comments (23)

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