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Friday Morning Open Thread: Chag Hanukkah Sameach

by Anne Laurie| December 8, 20236:20 am| 193 Comments

Tonight, families around the world will light the first candles of Hanukkah. And for eight nights, those flames will light others, spreading their light.

May the glow of our White House Menorah join yours to celebrate the miracle of faith and the strength in each of us. pic.twitter.com/tDsHf6SAYx

— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) December 8, 2023

Happy Hanukkah from my family to our Jewish friends and neighbors in San Francisco and around the world!

In this challenging time, may the Festival of Lights bring peace, perseverance and hope to all who observe. -NP pic.twitter.com/n95NFmqhDx

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) December 7, 2023

Tonight, we proudly light our menorahs and let them shine out our front windows as a reminder that even in darkness, we can bring forth the light. From our family to yours, happy Hanukkah! pic.twitter.com/oGxtnYtxOn

— Douglas Emhoff (@SecondGentleman) December 8, 2023

This year, Hanukkah starts at sundown tonight. In the past 40 years, presidents have participated in Hanukkah celebrations, a tradition that began when President Jimmy Carter lit one candle in the 30-foot electric menorah in 1979. Learn more: https://t.co/dFJgwg9HIo pic.twitter.com/CICJ0vY0CP

— White House History (@WhiteHouseHstry) December 7, 2023

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: What Part of ‘Papal Infallibility’ Did You Fail to Understand?…

by Anne Laurie| November 28, 20238:08 pm| 88 Comments

This post is in: Grifters Gonna Grift, LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights, Open Threads, Religion

Bad day for American rightwing evangelical converts to Catholicism, good day for the Church. https://t.co/bSXPjcPjA0

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 28, 2023

I left The Chuch fifty years ago (the day after my parochial school graduation, held as part of a mandatory Mass). But it still tickles me when ‘radical traditionalists’ discover that Papa Francis actually takes the whole ‘teachings of Jesus’ part seriously. What good is a theology where they’re required to treat weirdos and perverts as members of *their* community?!?…

Per the NYTimes, of course, Burke is a modern martyr — a faithful apparatchik who spent many years steadfastly climbing the bureaucratic ladder, running a quasi-feudal barony, and finally accepting a comfy retirement where he could snipe at the kids these days ex cathedra. Heartbreaking: “Reports Say Pope Francis Is Evicting U.S. Cardinal From His Vatican Home” [unpaywalled gift link]:

Almost as soon as Pope Francis became the head of the Roman Catholic church in 2013, Raymond Burke, an American cardinal, emerged as his leading critic from within the church, becoming a de facto antipope for frustrated traditionalists who believed Francis was diluting doctrine.

Francis frequently demoted and stripped the American cleric of influence, but this month, the pope apparently finally had enough, according to one high-ranking Vatican official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Francis told a meeting of high-ranking Vatican officials that he intended to throw the cardinal out of his Vatican-subsidized apartment and deprive him of his salary as a retired cardinal.

The news of the possible eviction was first reported by the conservative Italian newspaper La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, which is close to Cardinal Burke and recently sponsored a conference featuring the prelate criticizing a major meeting of bishops convened by Francis. The newspaper’s report comes only weeks after Francis removed another vocal conservative critic, Joseph Strickland, the bishop of Tyler, Texas, after a Vatican investigation into the governance of his diocese…

Some conservatives have attributed Francis’ disciplinary activity to the new head of the church’s office on church doctrine, the Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández. But supporters of Francis assert that he had exercised prodigious patience with criticism over the last decade, in the interest of opening up healthy debates, but that it wore thin as the critiques became ideologically tinged and, they say, seemed intent on dividing a church headed in a direction traditionalists did not support.

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Cardinal Burke has seen himself as a loyal defender of the church’s doctrinal law and papal traditions against what he has called the “confusion, error and division” caused by Francis.

In the days before a major assembly of the world’s bishops and laypeople who had gathered to discuss some of the most sensitive topics in the church, Cardinal Burke and other traditionalist prelates made public an exchange of letters with Francis. In the letters, they aired grave doubts about the legitimacy of the meeting and urged Francis to slam the door shut on proposals that they believe would erode the doctrine of the church, including the blessing of same-sex unions.

Then Cardinal Burke recently sat onstage in a Rome theater and, at a forum sponsored by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, inveighed against an assembly that has the “harmful goal” of reshaping the hierarchy of the church with radical, secular and modern ideas that included inclusivity of L.G.B.T.Q. people…

A favorite of Benedict XVI, Cardinal Burke, who was previously best known for denying communion to John Kerry during the politician’s 2004 presidential campaign, has clashed with Francis repeatedly, even in choice of vestments. Unlike Francis, who preferred more modest priests, Cardinal Burke occasionally wore a long train of watered silk, velvet gloves and extravagant brocades that once prompted Vatican officials to ask him to “tone it down a bit.”

On issues the two are far apart. Cardinal Burke opposed immigration as a threat to the West’s Christian values, vigorously opposed Francis’ softening on gay issues and church laws, and played in populist politics in Italy and abroad. He became a hero to the “Rad Trads,” or radical traditionalists…

Over the last decade, Cardinal Burke, 75, has expressed doubts about the pope’s grasp on church teaching and accused him of alienating church law-abiding conservatives with his inclusive stance.

A populist fan of European nationalists and former President Donald J. Trump, he rarely missed an opportunity to excoriate the pope’s politics, especially his welcoming of L.G.B.T.Q. people and immigration…

For this group of trans women in Italy, Pope Francis and his message of inclusivity are a welcome change.

And thanks to the local parish priest, these women now make monthly visits to Francis’ Wednesday general audiences, where they are given VIP seats. pic.twitter.com/jHmiXJovnh

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 21, 2023

There’s not actually a whole lot of wiggle room in the official definition…

… When the Pope (1) intends to teach (2) by virtue of his supreme authority (3) on a matter of faith and morals (4) to the whole Church, he is preserved by the Holy Spirit from error. His teaching act is therefore called “infallible” and the teaching which he articulates is termed “irreformable”…

… but Cardinal Burke has two thousand years of sophistry and rules-lawyering behind him:

Common Cardinal Burke W pic.twitter.com/wqO5csGyJW

— Pinesap🌲✝️☦️🇻🇦 (@Pinesap3wasc) November 20, 2023

To my cynical mind, Cardinal Burke isn’t gonna do much more than keep bitching about how the world is passing him by. But the last American prelate disciplined, Bishop Joseph Strickland (formerly) of Tyler, Texas, might well attempt to use Burke as a figurehead in his future attempts to start his own private American papacy. It’ll be interesting to watch, from a safe distance, but I suspect there’s too much competition from homegrown American evangelical churches to give the ‘Catholic’ RadTrads much running room — and the global Mother Church has many generations of practice at stomping out would-be insurrections who want a piece of the very profitable action.

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Happy Diwali!

by Anne Laurie| November 12, 20238:01 am| 121 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment, Proud to Be A Democrat, Religion

Diwali or Deepavali, a holiday that is becoming more widely known in the U.S., starts Sunday.

The religious holiday, also known as the festival of lights, is celebrated by over 4 million people in the U.S. and more than 1 billion people worldwide. https://t.co/ozwgpSuqii

— Axios (@axios) November 9, 2023

Why it matters: The religious holiday, also known as the festival of lights, is celebrated by over 4 million people in the U.S. and more than 1 billion people worldwide…

Between the lines: Diwali is a time to celebrate life and good conquering evil…

Diwali is celebrated over five days, each day holding a different significance, per the Hindu American Foundation.

Day one: People clean their homes and make colored patterns on the floor with powders, flowers, rice or sand called rangolis or kolam. This day is also used to shop and make sweet and savory treats.

Day two: Called small Diwali, the day is spent decorating homes with rangoli. Clay lamps are put on display.

Day three: People put on new clothes and perform a worship service called puja at the temple. Lamps called diyas are lit, and family and friends come together to share food and light fireworks.

Day four: The first day of the new year, celebrated by exchanging gifts.

Day five: Honors the bonds between siblings…

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Christian Nationalism

by John Cole| November 1, 20239:05 pm| 109 Comments

This post is in: Religious Nuts

One of the more infuriating things about people in the mainstream starting to wake up to the fact that the Republicans are overtly all about Christian nationalists is remembering all the times I argued with people and they ignored me- “Trust me they don’t just want to stop at 16 weeks they want to end it for everyone and ending abortion is just the beginning” and get met with “no they don’t just a few crazy ones.” As Americans become less religious the ones who are religious have become louder and more crazy. And I am just tired of their stranglehold on public policy.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Día de los Muertos

by Anne Laurie| November 1, 20238:59 am| 169 Comments

This post is in: Religion, Something Good Open Thread

DAY OF THE DEAD:
Hundreds of people dressed as skeletons took to the streets for an early celebration of the Day of the Dead in Mexico City. Yesterday's parade is one of many events for "Día de Los Muertos" celebrations. pic.twitter.com/zymNm6wXOW

— KTVN 2 News (@KTVN) October 23, 2023

When I was a wee child in parochial school, the nuns’ Baltimore Catechism said that All Saints’ Day (November 1) was for ‘calendar’ saints — those who were named in the 365 days of the official liturgical calendar — and All Souls’ Day (November 2) was for the rest of our beloved deceased, most especially those who might need a little additional prayer-boosting to move them from Purgatory to the higher plane of Heaven. (Then the Second Vatican Council dropped a whole bunch of the ‘official’ saints for insufficient historical documentation, precursing Wikipedia and pissing off a great many believers in those no-longer-publicly-celebrated icons…)

Regardless of the precise theological dating, it had long been a(nother) three-day observance, in a season when many cultures in the Northern Hemisphere mark the shift from harvest abundance to winter rigor. A time when the veil between present, past, and future seems thinnest… and one where it behooved every community member to settle old grievances and prepare to be cooped up together for the hard dark days.

We’ve all been talking, in recent days, about how the encroaching darkness is making us sad and reminding us of how much we’ve lost, individually and collectively, in the past months…

Good Washington Post story (with a terrible headline) on ofrendas and their purpose — [unpaywalled gift link]:

Enrique Quiroz didn’t know his grandparents, but you would never suspect that if you heard him talk about his grandmother.

He can tell you what she looked like and what sweater she loved wearing. He can tell you what she cooked and what phrases she was known for saying.

“I feel like I know her,” he told me on a recent afternoon. “I feel like I met her because of this tradition.”

“This tradition” is part of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. For the holiday, people across Mexico and the United States put together ofrendas — altars that are adorned with photos of their loved ones and items that tell of the lives those loved ones led. A grandfather’s favorite drink might sit in that space. So, too, might a beloved aunt’s gardening gloves or a child’s toy.

“It’s about remembering and respecting your ancestry,” Quiroz said. “The Aztecs and the Mayans used to say there are three deaths. The first one is when your heart stops. The second one is when you’re buried. And the third one, and the most fatal one, is when you’re forgotten. The minute I stop talking about my grandma, she is dead. Because then no one remembers her, no one is talking about her.”

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I spoke with Quiroz while looking into the types of ofrendas that will start appearing across the Washington region in the coming days. (Day of the Dead, also known as Days of the Dead, is traditionally celebrated on Nov. 1 and 2.) A public ofrenda will be on display at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of a celebration the National Museum of the American Latino is hosting on Saturday and Sunday. Visitors will be able to leave photos and mementos of their loved ones on it…

It’s no surprise that as Day of the Dead imagery has become more popular across the country, ofrendas have become easier to find. People might also be embracing them more for another reason. The past several years have brought a lot of loss, and building an ofrenda can be healing. It can make a lost loved one feel less gone. Whether small or large, elaborate or simple, ofrendas all accomplish the same thing: They create a connection between the past and the present.

Quiroz understands the power of those altars — and the symbolism behind the items used to create them — better than most people. He is an altarist. He prepares ofrendas throughout the region in his spare time and as part of his job. In past years, he has made them for churches and other organizations, and since 2017 he has created the public ofrenda that goes on display at the Mexican Cultural Institute of D.C., where he works as the director of artistic affairs…

In the flicker of candlelight, and the aroma of marigolds, a profound connection comes to life💀🕯️

It's the Day of the Dead, where the past & present converge, weaving a story of love and remembrance.

Together, let's celebrate Mexico’s #LivingHeritage: https://t.co/ulvqVzuTr2 pic.twitter.com/2zecwwRSay

— UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 (@UNESCO) October 31, 2023

Another memory from when I was growing up: It used to be said that no ethnic community was ‘truly’ part of New York City until it had some form of recognized public celebration (the St. Patrick’s Day or Columbus Day parades, for instance, or the various Chinese New Year events)…

Dia de los Muertos in Times Square (Day of the Dead) 💀 New York City pic.twitter.com/odpUxGi0Z3

— NewYorkCityKopp (@KellyrKopp) October 27, 2023

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I’m So Old

by John Cole| October 27, 202310:59 pm| 113 Comments

This post is in: 2024 Elections, Religious Nuts

After having seen several interviews with this Johnson fellow out of Louisiana, I have a couple of thoughts.

First, he has that slimy hyper religious sheen that a lot of the hucksters who are religious in the sense that they cherrypick the bible to justify who they are currently hating on. The whole Tony Perkins patina if you will. And when you see these guys, there’s a scandal in there somewhere whether it is a dead girl or a live boy.

Second, I think the more interviews he does, the better he is for Democrats.

Third, I’m so old I remember when Markos was getting yelled at for calling these guys the American taliban or when everyone got chided for calling them Christianists and that not all Republicans, and here we are in the year of our lord 2023 and they’ve up and had every single elected Republican in the House voted for a live one right there in front of us all.

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Late Night Creepy Tales Open Thread: Tim Ballard, Grifting & Groping for ‘Freedom’

by Anne Laurie| October 14, 20232:26 am| 57 Comments

This post is in: Grifters Gonna Grift, Local Races, Religion, Republican Venality, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up

Tim Ballard is being sued by five women accusing him of sexual misconduct and detailing what precisely they say happened. The suit was first reported by the Utah outlet KSL. https://t.co/UpwKyVSXno

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) October 10, 2023

Mike Lee (… roy Jenkins!) just dodged a bullet:

The suit was — and I suspect this is not a coincidence — filed the day before Mr. Ballard was reportedly about to announce his Senate run. Multiple people told us that he was going to announce his candidacy today, October 10.

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) October 10, 2023

Best guide to ‘conservative’ politics — Every accusation a confession:

Tim Ballard, the founder and former head of the anti-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad whose heavily fictionalized exploits were the subject of this summer’s surprise box-office hit Sound of Freedom, has been sued in Utah’s Third District Court by five women accusing him of sexual misconduct. The Utah news outlet KSL was the first to report the filing. An accompanying press release issued by their attorney, Suzette Rasmussen, reports that additional suits are likely to be filed by more women in the coming month.

“The tragic irony is not lost on these five women,” Rasmussen wrote in the press release. “Tim Ballard literally trafficked them for his own sexual and egotistical gratification.”

In the suit, the women, who all live in Utah, and who filed the suit using initials to protect their privacy, accuse Ballard in detail of “coerced sexual contact.” The suit alleges that Ballard and/or the co-defendants have committed sexual assault and battery, conspiracy, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and “outrage,” and accuses OUR of failing in its fiduciary duties, asking for a trial by jury and damages in an amount to be proven at trial.

The central allegations have to do with the so-called “couples ruse,” which is described in the suit as “a tool for sexual grooming.” …

The suit names a slew of co-defendants alongside Ballard, including Operation Underground Railroad, Children Need Families (an adoption grant organization founded by Katherine Ballard, Tim’s wife), the SPEAR Fund (a new anti-trafficking group for which Ballard has said he is a senior adviser), Liberty and Light (a Utah organization that appears to be the entity behind the SPEAR Fund), and three Utah shell companies that have been associated with Ballard: Rockwell Group Inc., Deacon Inc., and Slave Stealers LLC. The suit also names members of OUR’s board and Janet Russon, the purported psychic medium whose “intelligence” was used to carry out ineffectual missions for OUR and who was, the suit says, complicit in Ballard’s abuse…

The suit is the latest in a swift and stunning reversal of fortune for Ballard, long a prominent figure in anti-trafficking circles, and in Utah more broadly. It was filed on October 9, the day before Ballard was said to be planning to announce a bid for U.S. Senate, in the seat recently vacated by Mitt Romney. One of Ballard’s biggest supporters in the state, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes—who has himself gone on missions with OUR—said recently that in light of the allegations, he wouldn’t support Ballard in a Senate run…

If you don’t remember / were lucky enough to miss the whole Sound of Freedom circus, here’s a pretty comprehensive update from the Washington Post, dated last July 13th — “The man at the center of ‘Sound of Freedom’ abruptly leaves group he founded” [unpaywalled gift link]:

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… Tim Ballard has “recently stepped away” from Operation Underground Railroad, the group said in a statement.

Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent who has helped stage sting operations to catch child sex traffickers, left OUR before “Sound of Freedom” hit theaters, the organization said. Vice News first reported his exit earlier Thursday.

The news of Ballard’s exit comes barely more than a week after “Sound of Freedom” — a dramatized retelling of Ballard’s anti-trafficking efforts — nearly outearned Disney blockbuster “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” on July 4, and just a week before a planned screening by former president Donald Trump.

The film has since become a hot-button discussion point for critics, conspiracy theories and major movie studios for twisting facts about child exploitation and tipping its hat to QAnon conspiracy theorists.

Ballard has not mentioned his exit during press interviews for “Sound of Freedom,” a gritty yet inspirational film that shares Ballard’s story of rescuing a brother and sister lured into a trafficking ring. In the film, Ballard, played by “Passion of the Christ” star Jim Caviezel, risks his life on a journey through Colombia to rescue the children from the lethal crime syndicate.

The film has earned about $50 million, much of it through a “pay it forward” system created by the film’s distributor, Angel Studios, that allows moviegoers to buy tickets for other people to see the movie…

… which ‘system’ led to a plethora of accusations that Hollyweird was suppressing the truth!!!! about child sexual exploitation rings, when all those tickets bought sight unseen meant whole theaters full of empty ‘sold out’ seats. Every truly successful conspiracy theory grift requires an intricate system of interlocking, invented ‘facts’…

Operation Underground Railroad, which Ballard founded in 2013, has been criticized for some of its claims and tactics, with some critics saying the organization exaggerates its successes. In Utah, the Davis County Attorney’s Office spent more than two years investigating OUR for alleged communications fraud, witness tampering and retaliation, according to the Deseret News. The investigations ended with no charges in May…

“Sound of Freedom” has also generated controversy because of Caviezel’s support for elements of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that a sinister cabal of world elites preys on sex-trafficked children. While the movie doesn’t mention QAnon, Caviezel has falsely claimed that Ballard rescues children from “adrenochroming,” a fictitious technique in which QAnon believers think children are tortured in satanic rituals.

The claims in the suit are exceptionally bizarre though completely in line with prior reporting in the Blaze and what @annamerlan have heard while reporting this story, though until now not on good enough authority to publish: pic.twitter.com/4x2dtZHZ66

— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) October 10, 2023

One other lacuna here: The suit asserts as fact that Ballard has been excommunicated over sexual misconduct claims. This is a widespread, extremely credible rumor, but local leaders and the LDS Church itself won’t officially confirm it, because it’s not the sort of thing they do.

— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) October 10, 2023

Utah attorney general Sean Reyes, a close friend of Tim Ballard’s who’d basically already endorsed him for a Senate run, has … un-basically endorsed him in light of sexual misconduct claims, which would seemingly end his political ambitions for now. https://t.co/h90ZDlgQOK

— Tim Marchman (@timmarchman) September 29, 2023

Just like OUR didn’t mention Mr. Ballard had left until we asked them. The passive voice does a lot of heavy lifting, doesn’t it

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) October 6, 2023

The association between Tim Ballard and Sean Reyes runs deep. Sean Reyes needs to account for his involvement in Operation Underground Railroad. #utpol pic.twitter.com/VoOk2LsYqs

— Paul J Dayton (@pdayton) October 10, 2023

Full story: Utah Attorney General was subject of criminal investigation along with Tim Ballard, OURhttps://t.co/KFOAyY3ufY

— Adam Herbets, FOX 13 🏔️ (@AdamHerbets) October 7, 2023

… FOX 13 has been reporting on the criminal investigation of Tim Ballard and the nonprofit he founded, Operation Underground Railroad, since October 2020.

Several witnesses who interviewed with the FBI and Davis County Attorney’s Office say the public has a right to know the extent of Reyes’ connection to the case.

Although Reyes is almost never shy about his ties with OUR, he has not been forthcoming about his involvement in the criminal case.

The investigation, which is at least partially concluded, included questions about how the Utah AG’s Office handled both OUR money and federal grant money…

Documents released by the Utah AG’s Office illustrated how prosecutors repeatedly asked the Utah AG’s Office to open up their books, to show how the Utah AG’s Office spent both federal dollars and OUR dollars.

“Can you provide me with the accounting that you referred to, showing how the Davis County Attorney’s Office received just Operation Underground Railroad doner (sic) money in response to our ICAC Task Force Program grant application?” asked Bureau Chief Craig Webb of the Davis County Attorney’s Office in an email on December 22, 2022. “In addition, was it just the Davis County Attorney’s Office who received all Operation Underground Railroad money or did all Davis County ICAC affiliates receive them?”…

Both the FBI and Rawlings have declined to comment on the investigation. The Davis County Attorney’s Office first opened the case in 2020. Documents from the case show OUR employees reported Ballard for lying to donors.

OUR spent years telling people there was no criminal investigation.

Ballard is now “permanently separated” from OUR after an unrelated internal affairs investigation into his conduct. Several women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Reyes spent years declining to acknowledge the investigation, including at a press conference in 2021 in which he only expected to receive questions about an unrelated settlement…

The powerful forces aligned against us are very powerful and run the world but they can't actually stop the film from being shown, they can only like turn the a/c up or off to make you uncomfortable

— El Gato Astronomico (@MitchyDelta) July 14, 2023

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Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

You can’t love your country only when you win.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

No Justins, No Peace

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

House Speaker candidate unfamiliar with how to win non-gerrymandered election.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Friday Morning Open Thread: Chag Hanukkah Sameach

Tuesday Evening Open Thread: What Part of ‘Papal Infallibility’ Did You Fail to Understand?…

Sunday Morning Open Thread: Happy Diwali!

Christian Nationalism

Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Día de los Muertos

I’m So Old

Late Night Creepy Tales Open Thread: Tim Ballard, Grifting & Groping for ‘Freedom’