Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

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

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

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

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Another Day of Ugliness

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I haven’t been able to watch all the way through this, but from what I have it’s a good, if crowded, recap:

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Don McGahn Looks Down the Barrel

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Impeachment Recap Open Thread: Sondland’s Testimony

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Whole Lotta “Nothing” Goin’ On

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Back in the (TV) Box

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread

Fortunately, the GOP is all in favor of enhanced interrogation techniques, so they can hardly claim *this* is torture…

… Pelosi also refused to elaborate on what — if any — charges House Democrats would bring against Trump, notably declining to say whether the president’s Twitter attack on former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony amounted to witness intimidation.

“I haven’t had a lot of time to pay attention to the president’s tweets and the legal implications of them. I just think that was totally wrong and inappropriate and typical of the president,” Pelosi said on CBS’ “Face the Nation“ in an interview that aired Sunday…

“The president of the United States was using the massive powers entrusted to him to try to use tax payer dollars as leverage to get a foreign country to interfere in an election,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”

“If you don’t use impeachment for this type of offense, then I am not sure what you use it for.”

Murphy’s remarks came after a week in which House investigators — and millions of Americans — heard detailed accounts about the pervasiveness of the campaign to pressure Ukraine into helping the president damage a top political rival, the smearing of reputations along the way and Trump’s direct involvement in the effort…

The slate of hearings this week will kick off Tuesday morning with testimony from Jennifer Williams, a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a senior official on the National Security Council.

Both Vindman and Williams were on the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky and later expressed alarm about the president asking for “a favor” that included investigating an energy company associated with Biden’s son…

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Watching History in Real Time

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… Whether Americans ultimately come to believe that the President’s alleged misconduct merits the terrible sanction of removal or come to believe the Democratic impeachment attempt is narrowly political and unjustified, this was a clarifying day.
At a time of swirling misinformation, propagandistic pro-Trump news coverage and conspiracy theories, it showed that while facts may be under assault, they can ultimately still emerge in a way that will allow history to render a judgment even if the fractured political climate makes that it impossible in the moment.
Friday piled more testimony on the mountain of evidence suggesting that the US is in the grip of not just the most unorthodox, but the most corrupt presidency of the modern era.

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