Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

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

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Joe Biden’s Just Like Us!

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… I do believe there’s more than a few of us — voters as well as jackals — who’ll look at this list and say ‘Looks pretty good, considering what’s in my medicine cabinet.’

The ‘sensory neuropathy in his feet’ would explain why Biden looks great on a bike, but a bit hesitant/shuffling when he walks. His balance is fine, but he doesn’t have full feeling in his feet (especially when he’s wearing stiff shoes, I suspect). This is actually reassuring, because ‘poor feeling in feet’ is hella less threatening than ‘possible brain issues’!

And I’ll use this report as an excuse to share a thread from Jaime Harrison…
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Supreme Court Grants Cert On Immunity Case

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DC Indictment News

Yikes. This was not what I expected would happen!

I am not a lawyer, but it seems guaranteed that this will delay the D.C. case until end of summer, unless they did not grant a stay at the same time.

More details to come.

Update:

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Here’s the order.

Supreme Court Grants Cert On Immunity Case

They seem to not call it a stay, but it sure sounds like the equivalent of a stay, since the D.C. trial cannot resume until SCOTUS rules on this.

Update 2: there will definitely be cake, but of the drown your sorrows variety.

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And the Women Shall Lead Them: Janet Yellen Edition

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(AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday offered her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction.

“It is necessary and urgent for our coalition to find a way to unlock the value of these immobilized assets to support Ukraine’s continued resistance and long-term reconstruction,” Yellen said in remarks in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting this week.

“I believe there is a strong international law, economic, and moral case for moving forward. This would be a decisive response to Russia’s unprecedented threat to global stability,” she said.

The United States and its allies froze hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Those billions have been sitting untapped as the war grinds on, now in its third year, while officials from multiple countries have debated the legality of sending the money to Ukraine. More than two-thirds of Russia’s immobilized central bank funds are located in the EU.

I hope this can happen.  And I love that it’s being discussed and suggested as an actual option.

It’s not nothing when the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury is saying it.

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat” was repeated quite often at our house when I was growing up.  Right along with “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”. Clearly Biden and folks in his administration were taught the same thing.

Is there some other phrase that conveys something similar, but doesn’t involve something so horrendous as skinning a cat?  That phrase was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this article, and I would like to be able to replace it with something that is not disgusting.

Open thread.

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I used to be seventeen – now you’re just like me

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Tyler Boebert, Lauren’s oldest, who fathered at child at 17, is now 18 and in a shitpot of trouble:

  • Four felony counts of criminal possession of ID documents – multiple victims
  • One felony count of conspiracy to commit a felony
  • Over 15 misdemeanor and petty offenses

A year and a half ago, Tyler got a reckless driving citation for a crash that seriously injured a friend.  Last month, Lauren’s husband Jayson was arrested for third-degree assault, harassment and prohibited use of a firearm.  At that time, Tyler reported that his father came home drunk and they had a fight where Jayson tried to pull teeth out of Tyler’s mouth, and then Jayson carried a rifle around the house.  This is on the heels of Jayson and Lauren getting into a fight in a restaurant in Silt (their hometown in CO-3), which resulted in Jayson claiming that Lauren punched him, and Lauren getting a restraining order.

Lauren claims she’s moved to Colorado’s 4th district from the 3rd, but all of this is happening in CO-3, so that’s probably a lie.  My question at this point is whether the voters in CO-4 want to spend the extra money on law enforcement and court staffing that will be necessary when the Boeberts move into your district.

Also, for a moment I wondered if it was worth writing something about an 18 year-old, then I saw this piece of projection:

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This and That on Wednesday Morning

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You may have already heard the Judge Cannon came out with two rulings last night – rulings that came down on the side of the DOJ and not the indicted former guy.

I would so like to be a fly on the wall to know what caused the sudden turnabout, but I’m guessing it’s more that her back was against the wall than that she was suddenly driven by some new-found urge to get this right.   Now, not only did she give Jack Smith another opportunity to spell things out in his public filings – ever so clearly in very plain language – but her actions resulted in Jack Smith having to spell out exactly how dangerous those documents are.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Pastor Speaker Johnson Is A (More-or-Less) Human Speed Bump

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… Mostly because Johnson is a small, scared little man. (I swear, VP Harris should’ve pulled a spin on the famous Dick Gregory routine, and threatened to kiss him right on the lips… )

The NYTimes is piously saddened for poor little Mr. Johnson — “As Spending Talks Intensify, Johnson’s Bind Grows Tighter” [gift link]:

At an intense meeting inside the Oval Office on Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson was the odd man out.

President Biden made clear that the speaker’s positions were out of step with other leaders in government, as did Vice President Kamala Harris. The top Democrats in the House and Senate did, too. Even Senator Mitch McConnell, his fellow G.O.P. leader on the other side of the Capitol, emphasized the need for the speaker to avoid a government shutdown and provide badly needed aid to Ukraine.

With time running out to respond to two crises — a partial government shutdown that is looming this weekend and the potential end to American aid to help Ukraine prevail in its war against Russia — Mr. Johnson, only months into his job, has found himself the last holdout at an increasingly agitated table of negotiators.

On the one side, he is feeling pressure from the president of the United States, both Senate leaders and the House minority leader — all demanding he cut a deal to fund the government and keep aid to Kyiv flowing. But on his right flank, he is facing a band of hard-line Republicans demanding that he hold out for conservative priorities and spurn Ukraine’s calls for help, or risk being booted from the speakership.

To put it succinctly, Mr. Johnson is in a bind.

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