What are we reading this morning? It’s tabs!
AZ Republicans running scared, crazy-ass abortion ban edition! (Abortion, Every Day)
Why aren’t the MAGA showing up for their god king Donald Trump? Amanda Marcotte has some theories about what they’re willing to do violence for, and a guy who can’t even do frauds and bang sex ladies with impunity isn’t worth actual consequences. (Salon)
This is truly sad: The guy who died after he lit himself on fire at the Trump trial last week sure sounds schizophrenic, and his conspiracy theory manifesto was about “The Simpsons.” (Yahoo)
Shield your eyes from this accursed headline. I SAID SHIELD YOUR EYES!
“How ‘The Nelson Mandela of America’ Is Making Bank Off His Criminal Trial”
Well I told you.
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The Gateway Pundit has declared bankruptcy. That stupid idiot used to have more readers than God. I don’t know if he still has any since Facebook stopped (?) pointing the money train at rightwing Goebbelses like him and Ben Shapiro, or if he still has some but the pennies on the dollar that online ads now pay are no match for the grasping talons of our beloved heroes Miss Ruby and her daughter Shaye, who are suing all fuck out of him for being a poisonous piece of shit who sics his readers on innocent Black women for fun. But I think Rudy already tried to file bankruptcy against their terrible mean liberal attacks, when he lost a $148 MILLION “liberal lawfare” defamation verdict, and it was explained at that time that the answer was no. (Mediaite)
The New York Times called Mad Marge a “poo-flinging chaos monkey,” so that’s new I think? (Gift link NYT)
Digby is really impressed that Joe Biden, Mike Johnson, and the rest have been able to get so much done over Marge’s dead body. (Salon)
Wait a minute and I mean waaaaait a minuttttteeee, Dems in Idaho are contesting every legislative seat? IDAHO? HUNDRED SEAT STRATEGY! (I don’t actually know how many seats there are.) Bless. (Politico)
“Right Flight.” Ellis and Steve consider all the Volk folks moving to South Carolina, in prequel to The Split. (The Split but like a blog not the serialized novel I bought you.)
I will drink your strawberry cocktails, The Wine Guy! (The Wine Guy)
Hey science, why does pot make you snacky? Kthx. (Food and Wine)
Somebody yesterday took umbrage at having to read an *entire paragraph* every day about how we are partnered with Martie. Well, that’s a shame. ALSO, for the rest of the month, Martie is doing a li’l raffle of $100 each day for anyone who completed an order the day before. This is an ad. Also: Such good SNACKS!
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"Somebody yesterday took umbrage at having to read an *entire paragraph* every day about how we are partnered with Martie."
Did they return the umbrage after they took it?
But seriously: such high dudgeon over a single internet "ad" that doesn't have cheesecake models or other such click worthy enticements just scrolling all over the place on the screen? The umbrage provoking "ad" can hardly be more innocuous.
I remember the old days when a certain mommy blog decided to ditch that crap and depend upon the goodness in it's readers souls for revenue. I applauded the decision then and still do. Those ads sucked.
The mommy blog implores people with limited means to pay the rent first and buy their food before putting a dollar in the tip jar. That is so much nicer than certain christian teevee preachers who demand their flock "give till it hurts".