Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

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

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

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Let there be snark.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

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

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

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And On the Eighth Day, the Lord Said to Hell With Planned Parenthood

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It’s getting harder and harder to pretend that the Catholic church is worthy of tax-exempt status and a force for good:

Internal Komen documents reviewed by Reuters reveal the complicated relationship between the Komen Foundation and the Catholic church, which simultaneously contributes to the breast cancer charity and receives grants from it. In recent years, Komen has allocated at least $17.6 million of the donations it receives to U.S. Catholic universities, hospitals and charities.

Church opposition reached dramatic new proportions in 2011, when the 11 bishops who represent Ohio’s 2.6 million Catholics announced a statewide policy banning church and parochial school donations to Komen.

Such pressure helped sway Komen’s leadership to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, according to current and former Komen officials. The decision, made public in January, and Komen’s reversal only days later, sparked an angry outcry from both sides of an intensifying American debate over abortion.

The anti-abortion movement gathered momentum last year when hundreds of newly elected Republicans entered office across the country and ushered in a wave of local and federal legislation aimed at restricting abortion services and family planning.

“From a moral point of view, and that’s what this is about, it has to do with cooperation and doing things contrary to the church’s teaching,” Bishop Leonard Paul Blair of Toledo said of the agreement the Catholic Conference of Ohio reached on diocese donations.

These are some of the same bishops whose morals have convinced them to trash the victims of rapes committed by Catholic clergy. I’m an atheist, but I’ll take my moral beliefs over theirs any damned day of the week. My morals start with not actively attempting to hurt other people. I wish theirs did, as well.

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Lie Back and Think of England, You Sluts

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Here is the Republican Governor of PA sharing some advice with women who will be forced to have an unnecessary ultrasound before having an abortion:

Gov. Tom Corbett (R) reaffirmed this week that he supports the anti-abortion measure so long as it’s not obtrusive because women could simply close their eyes during the procedure:

    QUESTION: Making them watch…does that go too far in your mind?

    CORBETT: I’m not making anybody watch, OK. Because you just have to close your eyes. As long as it’s on the exterior and not the interior.

Critics say Corbett’s comments show he doesn’t understand how the bill would even work. While the Pennsylvania legislation has been amended to remove references to invasive transvaginal ultrasounds, the language suggests a transvaginal ultrasound could still be required if the embryo is too small. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat running for attorney general, called for Corbett to apologize for his statement. “It’s unthinkable that he would so casually dismiss this by advising women to just close their eyes,” Murphy said.

There is just something spectacularly wrong with these people.

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We Don’t Need No Thought Control

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Damned liberals indoctrinating children in public schools:

Kicking off with a hard rock performance, it was clear this was not to be your average assembly.

At first students at Dunkerton High School, Iowa, seemed grateful for this musical break from the norm – albeit with Christian-themed lyrics denouncing the evils of drugs, alcohol and violence.

But things took a turn for the worse when the event veered into an impassioned and unfocused rant against homosexuality, abortion and sex before marriage.

After his band Junkyard Prophet left the stage, drummer and preacher Bradlee Dean took the microphone, separating the crowd into boys, girls and teachers.

Mr Dean is the president of the ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, which is listed by civil rights organisation the Southern Poverty Law Center as an active anti-gay hate group.

Here’s the video. Rocking hate in the name of God. Good times.

(via LGF, who asks a really solid question: “Why the hell was a christian rock band the center of an assembly at a public school in the first place?” BECAUSE SHUT UP, THAT’S WHY!)

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Another Limited Government Proposal

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And the American Taliban strikes again, this time in Wisconsin:

The Republican led Wisconsin assembly voted to ban private insurance coverage for abortions and mandate abstinence-only sex education classes Wednesday morning, according to The Green Bay Post Gazette.

The Assembly voted 61-34 Tuesday evening to ban abortion coverage from a health insurance exchange set up by the Affordable Care Act in 2014. The federal law allows states the option to prohibit abortion coverage under the exchange, set up primarily by individuals and small businesses to buy health insurance coverage. Plans offered in the exchange would only cover abortions under the terms of the Hyde Amendment (rape, incest or when the health of the mother is at risk).

Rep. Donna Seidel (D) chastised Republicans for not focusing on the economy and creating jobs, feeling Wisconsin’s residents would be disappointment with the assembly’s focus.

“They feel let down,” Seidel said. “And what are we doing in these last hours to get that important work done? We are arguing about advancing an extreme social agenda that is nothing about that.”

RH Reality Check’s Andy Kopsa described the vote would “eliminate coverage for abortion services in Wisconsin even when individual citizens are using their own dollars to purchase private insurance.”

These people are fanatics, this is a war on women, and they’ll keep passing these laws enforcing their religious beliefs on the rest of us until you get up off your butt and throw the bums out of office.

The best part of the story from the Green Bay Post Gazette is the following:

The Wisconsin Assembly passed bills limiting insurance coverage for abortions and requiring schools to teach abstinence during a late-night session that lasted until Wednesday morning as they pushed to tie up pending legislation.

The Legislature was poised to adjourn Thursday without passing its two highest priorities coming into the year: a mining bill to help create hundreds of jobs in northern Wisconsin and a measure pumping money into venture capital to help spur new business creation.

Panty-sniffing religious scolding and slut-shaming apparently takes precedence over jobs.

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STATES RIGHTS! FEDERALISM! STATES RIGHTS! FEDERALISM!

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Except when the panty-sniffing fetish-fetishists get involved:

The Republican-controlled US House of Represenatatives is considering legislation that would enact stringent new limitations on minors who seek an abortion outside of their home state. The “Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act” effectively federalizes state laws aimed at preventing women under the age of 18 from obtaining an abortion, and would impose harsh penalties on doctors or anyone else who assists the minor without first informering her parent or guardian.

Look, I love Adam Serwer, but he and others can simply shut the fuck up until they apologize to Markos. We’re not dealing with normal human beings, we’re dealing with the American Taliban, and when Adam gets the vapors when someone provides an accurate diagnosis and description of the problem, Serwer might as well be a one man The New Republic.

There’s a war on. Shut the fuck up, get out of the way, or grab a weapon. But stop lecturing me about so-called intemperate speech. And your apology to Markos should be as loud as your denunciation.

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“In His Heart” is the New “Truthiness”

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Again, another video you have to see to believe:

“It’s a matter of what’s in his heart. He’s a strong pro-life person,” press secretary Alice Stewart replies.

After all, like the origin of the universe or the existence of a supreme being, Dutch medical statistics are ultimately unknowable — just another of the unresolvable mysteries that have confronted us since the dawn of mankind. Who are we? Why are we here? What are the laws in the Netherlands concerning doctor-assisted suicide? We all have our own beliefs.

Santorum knows in his heart that elderly Dutch people are routinely euthanized against their will by doctors. He believes this to be true, no matter what the elite media tries to tell him.

In my heart, I know that Rick Santorum dabbles in buggery.

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