Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Books are my comfort food!

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

In my day, never was longer.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Tick tock motherfuckers!

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

“Alexa, change the president.”

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Remember, Sharing Is Caring, Folx!

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Positive Messages, Positive Negatives

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Remember — Sharing is caring!

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Doing As Much As We Can With the Tools We Have

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Workers are entitled to time off and other job accommodations for abortions — along with pregnancy-related medical conditions like miscarriage, stillbirth and lactation — under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, according to finalized federal regulations published Monday.

The regulations provide guidance for employers and workers on how to implement the law, which passed with robust bipartisan Congressional support in December 2022 but sparked controversy last year when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission included abortions in its draft rules. The language means that workers can ask for time off to obtain an abortion and recover from the procedure.

The EEOC says its decision to keep the abortion provisions in its final rules, despite criticism from some conservatives, is consistent with its own longstanding interpretation of Title VII, as well as court rulings. The federal agency added that the new law does not obligate employers or employer-sponsored health plans to cover abortion-related costs, and that the type of accommodation that most likely will be sought under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regarding an abortion is time off to attend a medical appointment or for recovery, which does not have to be paid.

The act requires most employers with 15 or more employees to provide “reasonable accommodations” for a worker’s known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions — including fertility and infertility treatments in some cases — unless the accommodation will cause the employer an undue hardship. The EEOC’s regulations will go into effect on June 18.

Labor advocates hailed the new law as especially important for women of color who are most likely to work in low-wage, physically demanding jobs but are often denied accommodations for everything from time off for medical appointments to the ability to sit or stand on the job. Major business groups also supported the law, citing the need for clarity about the accommodations that employers are required to give pregnant workers…

I can remember — because it was just changing, and not easily, when I entered the workforce in the 1970s — when it was standard business procedure to fire any woman who became pregnant, on the grounds they were ‘too much trouble’ or ‘made other employees / customers / uncomfortable’, and besides they were only going to leave and not come back once they gave birth. That didn’t change because bosses suddenly became enlightened; it required a lot of women (and their legislators, many of them women) to fight for every scrap of dignity.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

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Wow.  My eyes literally got big as I watched this ad.

Didn’t we have a conversation here recently about how more people would connect with  “dictator” than “authoritarian”?

Their most powerful ad yet, I think.

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Trump needs to write some basic information on his hand like… was it Palin … did?  Oh wait, hands too small.

Perhaps he needs a notecard:  Nikki Haley ≠ Nancy Pelosi.  George Conway ≠ Concord NH.  Barack Obama ≠ current President

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Did everyone see this?

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Justice Department Releases Report on its Critical Incident Review for Uvalde

A few excerpts from the announcement.

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TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Some *Good* News, Too!

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: We Must Do What We Can

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The New York Times political desk sucks ghastly green gator balls and actively harms democracy. But the NYT organization beyond that crap unit still occasionally produces important, high-quality journalism. A story published today about the Sandy Hook crime scene processors is an example of that. I wish everyone in this death cult-damaged country would read it. Here’s a gift link.

I learned this from reading it: When the deeply traumatized crime scene processors learned that then-AG Eric Holder would be visiting the Sandy Hook mass shooting site, they were grimly pleased that someone important and in a position to maybe make a fucking difference would have an opportunity to see what they had to see. They made sure Holder saw it all. It probably haunts him still.

And of course, nothing changed because Republicans refuse to take any action whatsoever at the federal level. The crime scene processors didn’t know that at the time. Now they do. Now we all do.

Mass shootings understandably get most of the attention paid to gun violence in this country because mass shootings are generally senseless, random acts that traumatize entire communities. We also know how to reduce them — by outlawing the battlefield weapons and equipment mass shooters use — because we’ve done it before, and other countries have done it before, and it works.

There’s a single reason we can’t take that obvious step toward sanity: the Republican Party refuses to allow us to take that step. So we know who to blame. As the circle of people who are personally traumatized by mass shootings expands, it’s conceivable that they’ll become single-issue voters, at a great cost in blood and wasted potential. I wouldn’t bet the farm on that happening, but it’s conceivable.

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