Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Giving up is unforgivable.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Bark louder, little dog.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

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

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

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Grey Dawn Open Thread: Move Fast, BREAK Stuff!

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a really difficult thing that explains a very large part of the reason we're in the situation we're in is that the average person has a monumentally difficult time accepting and internalizing that these people are doing awful and destructive things *because they like being awful and destructive*

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— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) March 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM

It takes some practice before a toddler’s fine motor skills are devoloped enough to stack three blocks into a tower. It takes no practice at all to kick over someone else’s tower and laugh gleefully at the resulting chaos…

like, if you can't imagine why some 25 year old computer science student would get a thrill out of firing 5,000 people and stripping them of their health insurance *because he thinks it's funny*, that's good, it means you're a normal person, but that's what's happening and it's no deeper than that

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) March 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM

the world of the past was worse than the modern world in almost every conceivable way but i do sometimes wish we had a battlefield we could send all these young men off to in order to get them vaporized by cannonball

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) March 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM

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Wisconsin Elections on April 1 – We Have 30 Days to Make a Difference!

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Wisconsin elections are on April 1, so we have 30 days to make a difference.

What’s at stake?

  • Balance of power on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and more.
  • Musk is pouring millions of dollars into this race.
  • Let’s send a message – his money can’t buy everything, not if we’re united.
  • Momentum!

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” – Hosea 8:7

Trump, Musk, and the entire GOP keep sowing the wind.

The whirlwind is here. 🧵

— Ben Wikler (@benwikler.bsky.social) February 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM

The fight starts here.

Howls of protest are rising from every corner of Wisconsin, and of the country. And we’ve got the first statewide test coming up in 32 days: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race. Help us beat Brad Schimel and Elon Musk—by chipping in to elect Susan Crawford:
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— Ben Wikler (@benwikler.bsky.social) February 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM

Make Calls from anywhere, Knock Doors if you live within driving distance.

Help us reach out to voters across Wisconsin by knocking on doors and making calls. Volunteer here: wisdems.org/volunteer

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— Ben Wikler (@benwikler.bsky.social) February 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM

Donate

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We even have a Balloon Juice Angel to match donations up to $50 per person, up to a total of $1,000.

If you want to be matched, tell us about your donation in the comments, or send email to WaterGirl!

Write Postcards!

There is a postcard campaign for this race! Postcards To Voters has a short, sweet 3-sentence GOTV message. Sign up here: [email protected].

Fund Stamps for BJ peeps who write postcards and money is tight!

We have 2 people who are writing postcards, but money is really tight.  Let me know if you are game to help fund those.

How do you want to feel on April 1?

A victory will be huge for Wisconsin in every way, not to mention a huge boost to momentum on our side.

Let’s do this!!

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GOP F*ckery Open Thread: President Deadbeat Suggests Stiffing the Treasury

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What…does any of this mean
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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM

The guy notorious for stiffing his creditors suggests he could just, y’know, decide not to pay interest on debts owed by the government, because who’s gonna make him? Only question seems to be whether Acting President Musk fed him this theory, or whether he’s just reverting to his happy place. Per Reuters:

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States may carry less debt than thought and said it could be because of fraud related to debt payments.

Trump made his comments to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

The United States currently has $36.2 trillion public debt outstanding, according to the U.S. Treasury, which plays a central role in the global financial system…

“We’re even looking at Treasuries,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. “There could be a problem – you’ve been reading about that, with Treasuries and that could be an interesting problem.”

Trump added on Treasuries: “It could be that a lot of those things don’t count. In other words, that some of that stuff that we’re finding is very fraudulent, therefore maybe we have less debt than we thought.”

Trump’s comments on Sunday about potential fraud related to U.S. Treasuries raises the question of what sort of action Musk’s team may take on Treasuries.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Musk’s team on Saturday from accessing government systems used to process trillions of dollars in payments, citing a risk that sensitive information could be improperly disclosed…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a Trump appointee, said last week that Musk’s team had “read only” access to the payment system and said any decisions to stop payments would be made by other agencies.

Professional global financial analyst:

They are going to play Russian roulette with US debt markets www.bloomberg.com/news/article…

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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Open Thread: Bannon Perp Walk

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I thought we could use a little good news after this morning’s nightmarish rulings.

 

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Just something to brighten your day…

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Seal Team Six Rolls Again

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Per Austin news station KXAN, “‘Take Our Border Back Convoy’ heading through Central Texas to Eagle Pass”:

The “Take Our Border Back Convoy” will head from Dripping Springs to Eagle Pass, Texas later this week in a show of force organizers say will “call on our government to take action” to “secure the southern border.”…

The trip is part of a nationwide call to action bringing people to various hotspots along the border including Eagle Pass, Yuma, Arizona, and San Ysidro, California. The group invites “active and retired law enforcement and military, veterans, Mama Bears, elected officials, business owners, ranchers, truckers, bikers, media, and law-abiding, freedom-loving Americans.”

The Texas stint will include a “pep rally” at the Dripping Springs H-E-B on Thursday, Feb. 1. The group will then leave from Dripping Springs on Feb. 2 and travel to the Cornerstone Children’s Ranch in Quemado.

A spokesperson for H-E-B reached out to KXAN to let us know company policy prohibits rallies or protests on company property regardless of the reason for the event. They have attempted to let organizers of the event know they will need to gather somewhere else…

“We’re not going to blockade,” an organizer said in a Sunday video address. “We don’t want to cause any problems for law enforcement or the National Guard… we don’t want to put anyone in danger.”

Some border residents and advocacy groups are wary, however. The League of United Latin American Citizens issued its second-ever “National Alert” in response to the convoy, warning of possible violence and criticizing Gov. Abbott of spreading harmful rhetoric…

The convoy’s official conduct expectations requires that members agree to “peacefully participate.”

After all, if the Big Gubmint brings the hammer, no more sweet sweet ‘love offerings’…

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Late Night Open Thread: Elon Musk, Plate-Spinner

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I assume this is happening now because the IRS, or the banks which are his creditors — or both — are pressing Musk a littler harder than he can handle? Per the NYTimes:

X, the company formerly known as Twitter, handed out stock grants to employees on Monday that showed it was worth about $19 billion, down about 55 percent from the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid to buy the firm a year ago, according to internal documents seen by The New York Times.

Mr. Musk paid $54.20 a share to buy Twitter just over a year ago. The tech billionaire has since said he overpaid for the social network. In March, he wrote in an email to workers that he believed the company was worth $20 billion, calling it “an inverse start-up.”

In the paperwork for the new stock grants, X said the equity would be offered at $45 a share in the form of restricted stock units, which employees can earn over time. Employees will still be paid in cash in the amount of $54.20 for any outstanding shares that were granted to them under previous management, the company said.

It’s unclear why the share price has not dropped by the same percentage as the company’s valuation, though X could have altered the amount of shares outstanding. Fortune earlier reported on the valuation…

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Foreign Affairs Open Thread: Australian Nepo-Baby Discusses America’s Worst Nepo-Baby

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Mr. Pierce, at Esquire, sums it up:

The Cardboard King sings songs of graft.

The Australian version of 60 Minutes ran an interesting segment on Anthony Pratt, who used to talk cardboard and national security secrets down at Mar-a-Lago with Fulton County (Ga.) Inmate No. P01135809. It adds to the bargeload of evidence that the former president* is a) very corrupt, b) very reckless, and c) very disgusting…

Per Rolling Stone, here’s the Ginger Tintin his own self — “Billionaire Brags About Trump Sharing Secret Information With Him”

…[O]n Sunday, 60 Minutes Australia played recordings of secret tapes where Pratt disclosed other non-public information Trump shared with him, including information about U.S. military operations in Iraq and Trump’s conversations with the presidents of Iraq and Ukraine.

According to Pratt, Trump shared a lot with him, such as information about U.S. bombings in Iraq before they were publicly reported. “I hadn’t even heard it, it hadn’t even been on the news yet, and he said, ‘I just bombed Iraq today,’” Pratt said Trump told him…

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“He’s outrageous. He just says whatever the fuck he wants, and he loves to shock people,” Pratt, a businessman with a reported net worth of $9 billion, said of Trump. Pratt is listed as a potential witness to testify against Trump in a case brought by special counsel Jack Smith regarding his mishandling of classified information, and he reportedly shared information with prosecutors about Trump revealing to him sensitive intelligence regarding U.S. nuclear submarines, including how many warheads the subs usually carry and how close they could get to Russian submarines before they are detected.

Pratt also bragged on tape that Trump shared with him some of the contents of a private conversation with then-president of Iraq Barham Salih. According to Pratt: “[Trump] said, ‘I just bombed Iraq today, and the president of Iraq called me up and said, ‘You just leveled my city.’ And I said to him, ‘OK, what are you going to do about it?’”…

The billionaire said of Trump, “He knows exactly what to say and what not to say so that he avoids jail, but gets so close to it that it looks to everyone like he’s breaking the law. Like he won’t go up to someone and say, ‘I want you to kill someone.’ He’ll say, he’ll send someone, to tell someone, to kill someone.”…

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