Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So very ready.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

People are weird.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

This really is a full service blog.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Come on, man.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

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

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

The revolution will be supervised.

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

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Bold strategy to cut this kind of advertisement for the Democrats.
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— Malaclypse the Middle (@malaclypse.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 7:39 AM

Warnock: "We heard tonight the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present case he can for the midterms. It was half lies, half grievances. He knows he is quickly losing power."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 24, 2026 at 11:45 PM

You know who kept Iran from getting nuclear weapons? Obama. Trump ripped up that deal and walked away, and here we are today. He’s desperately trying to come up with a way to solve a problem that he created out of thin air.
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— VoteVets (@votevets.org) February 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM

“Children should be enjoying life. Not thinking about deportation.”
Listen to Dr. Gabeau’s story.
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— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) February 25, 2026 at 9:54 AM

Speaker Emerita Pelosi: Trump took a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare and $1 trillion out of Medicaid. He talked about how many people he took off of SNAP, and the Republicans just stood up and cheered. All of that to give a tax cut to the richest people in America.

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— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM

The president doesn’t give a flip about Medicaid fraud.
In June, Trump commuted Lawrence Duran’s 50 year sentence for filing over 860,000 fraudulent Medicaid claims worth about $200 million.
He had commuted one of Duran’s co-conspirators’ sentences in his first term.
share.google/iShrzItOsCas…

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— Joe Ura (@joeura.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM

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Medium Cool – ‘Awards’ Show

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Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.

Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.

Medium Cool – 'Awards' Show

Tonight I thought maybe we could host our own awards show.  Minus the “show” part, and of course minus the actual award itself and the speeches.  Oh, what the hell, we can have speeches, right?

Let’s combine the Oscars and the Emmys and the Pulitzer Prizes and the Bookers and the Grammys and the Tonys and the Country Music Awards and the Golden Globes and the Baftas, and so on.  You can even make up your own awards and categories!

A few examples: Worst movie ever with otherwise talented actors.  Best ensemble show set in Cincinnati.   Worst movie with the best concept ever.

Nominate what you want and tell us which award it or who is being nominated for.  Or share your acceptance speech for some award.  Surely there are great people deserving of the lifetime achievement award, who aren’t famous enough to get one?

Tell us who you are and what you would wear for the red carpet pics!

Hell, you can even make up your own lame banter for the people handing out those awards.  I’ve never been sure whether they pay those folks to say all that lame stuff in front of a TV camera or whether the back of the envelopes have hostage photos of their loved ones.  Read this lame shit, or else.

Once again, this will likely either be super fun or really lame.  But you can’t win if you don’t play. :-)

 

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Medium Cool – Comfort!

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Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.

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Tonight let’s talk about all things comfort.

Comfort foods – are they the ones we grew up with, or something we picked up along the way?

Music, books, TV shows, movies, poetry, walks in the woods or playing with the dog, anything that provides comfort in these are other tough times.  What are they, when did you first discover them, what’s comforting about them?

I’ll start.   I discovered that amazing photo from Steve from Mendocino in the Media Library in March of this year.  So lovely.  I used it in a Friday night music thread, and someone (maybe eclare?) posted a link to the song below.  The beauty of the image is soothing, and paired with that song together they make my breathing slow and somehow give me hope.  The song reminds me of simpler times; it’s upbeat and the syncopation in the song matches the hooves that we hear about in the song, which I find oh so charming.

I feel certain that it’s a total coincidence that two things related to water would provide comfort to someone named WaterGirl!

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread

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An explanation: You’re protecting pedophiles, jacking up prices, and spending taxpayer dollars to bomb foreign countries.
Americans are sick of your shit.

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— Democrats (@democrats.org) January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM

Jeffries: "The Constitution isn't a matter of inconvenience. It is a requirement. George Washington in his farewell address to the nation made clear that the Constitution is sacredly obligatory upon all. That means everybody. There is no Trump exception."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM

We're forcing a vote to save the ACA tax credits and reverse skyrocketing health care costs for millions of families.
Republicans have a choice: keep making life more and more unaffordable or join us in lowering health care costs.

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— Congressman Juan Vargas (@vargas.house.gov) January 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM

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Monday Morning Open Thread

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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 8:29 PM

House Democrats met today to address the situation in Venezuela. There is no question that Maduro is a terrible person. There is also no question that Congress must be involved in any military operations.

— Rep. Mike Thompson (@mikethompson.house.gov) January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM

I, along with most Democrats, have already called on the Speaker to convene the House immediately, and our position is unanimous:

— Rep. Mike Thompson (@mikethompson.house.gov) January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM

We stand with the American people in opposing boots on the ground for oil and rejecting any military occupation, whether in Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, Cuba, or anywhere else.
Speaker Johnson, convene the House now!

— Rep. Mike Thompson (@mikethompson.house.gov) January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) January 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM

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