Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

The willow is too close to the house.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

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

Fight them, without becoming them!

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

No one could have predicted…

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Putin’s ‘Interview’ with Tucker Carlson

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Per CNN, “Putin walks away with propaganda victory after Tucker Carlson’s softball interview”:

It’s evident now why Vladimir Putin granted an interview to Tucker Carlson.

Over the course of the more than two-hour sit-down, the former Fox News host turned online commentator largely refrained from challenging the Russian authoritarian, whose brutal war on Ukraine has led to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Those expecting a hard-hitting face-off will have surely walked away sorely disappointed by the long-winded and rambling interview, in which Tucker himself at times appeared lost.

Instead of pressing Putin on the many topics at hand, including credible accusations Russia has committed war crimes and the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Carlson allowed the autocrat a free lane to manipulate the public and tell his version of history, no matter how deceptive it may have been. At times, between the airing of grievances, Putin appeared to school Carlson on historical events as the host looked on in bewilderment. Or to put it more plainly, Carlson provided Putin a platform to spread his propaganda to a global audience with little to no scrutiny of his claims…

It was a massive propaganda victory for Putin, who can — and will – now twist the encounter for his own ends. If there was any doubt that Putin did not view the sit-down with Carlson as a big win, a glance at how his own state-run media covered the affair should erase it. Immediately after Carlson published the chat online, Putin’s mouthpieces rushed to amplify it…

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Zooey Zephyr: Silenced for Speaking the Truth.

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Zooey Zephyr, the first openly transgender person to be elected to the state legislature in Montana, is being silenced in by the Montana Republican Party for speaking the truth, which is that gender-affirming medical care is a matter of life or death for trans youth. She’s a total badass.

From the AP:

On Tuesday as the House was debating Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte’s proposed amendments to a measure banning gender-affirming care for minors, Zephyr spoke up in reference to the body’s opening prayer.

“I hope the next time there’s an invocation, when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands,” she said.

House Majority Leader Sue Vinton, a Republican, immediately called Zephyr’s comments inappropriate and disrespectful. That evening, a group of conservative lawmakers known as the Montana Freedom Caucus demanded her censure and deliberately referred to Zephyr using male pronouns in their letter and a Tweet. That’s known as misgendering — using pronouns that don’t match a person’s gender identity.

Zephyr had upset legislative leaders with emotional testimony previously this session.

She made a similar “blood on your hands” comment the first time the House heard the bill and has also given emotional testimony indicating bills that attack LGBTQ+ rights will lead to suicide.

“When there are bills targeting the LGBTQ community, I stand up to defend my community,” Zephyr told The Associated Press after she was silenced Thursday. “And I choose my words with clarity and precision, and I spoke to the real harms that these bills bring.”

Medical experts agree that gender affirming care saves lives. This has been backed up by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Medical Association.

Notice how her colleagues call for civility while misgendering Zooey:

On the one hand, the GOP doesn’t give a damn if trans kids kill themselves. On the other hand, someone hurt their feelings by saying that out loud. Both sides, right?

It is exhausting how the GOP continues to simply lie about the extensive research that has been done in regards to trans healthcare, and act like their actions are moral or rational. This takedown by Jon Stewart of Leslie Rutledge, the Arkansas Attorney General, remains one of the best I’ve seen if you haven’t had a chance to watch it.

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Good, Double His Dose

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This fucking idiot:

President Trump said Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug whose effectiveness against the coronavirus is unproven, for about a week and a half as a preventive measure, saying he had no symptoms of Covid-19.

“All I can tell you is, so far I seem to be OK,” he said, explaining that he takes a daily pill.

He’ll literally lie about anything.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread

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The Emperor's New Garments - Tom Toles

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Repub Venality Open Thread: It’s Not Even “Quality” BS, These Days

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When the highest-ranked elected official they can find to feed the right-wing puke funnel is someone “whose history of inflammatory social media posts has made him Internet infamous”… well, I guess the GOP Galaxy Brains are busy looking for reasons not to replace the Oval Office Occupant…

ETA:
Four out of ten Repubs are lying (at least to themselves)…

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It’s Disinformation, Stupid!

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To continue Betty’s theme.

This article this morning  by Jay Rosen was a scathing rebuke of Chuck Todd and the inside-the-beltway media crap:

‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a short interview with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press. 

Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird. 

Three years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.

I honestly didn’t even know what to highlight for you. It’s all damning. Click here to read the entire piece at PressThink.org

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BREAKING: Impeachment Vote Postponed Till Morning

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BROKEN: The entire Republican Party…

For once, I have to whole-heartedly agree with a Never Trumper.

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