https://news.gallup.com/poll/242906/republican-party-favorability-highest-seven-years.aspx

«Only one other time in the last decade has the Republican Party had a significantly higher score than the Democratic Party. That one exception came in November 2014, immediately after elections that saw Republicans capture control of the Senate and expand their majority in the House, when 42% rated the GOP favorably and 36% the Democrats.»

The blue wave is not a weather event, as Jason Kander says. It doesn’t just happen.

https://twitter.com/sullivanst/status/1044241319529512960

Seems about right.

«It should be a career-ending mistake by this point to take this WH’s word on just about anything. “Good morning everyone” *CHECK YOUR WATCH*»

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/why-russia-is-wooing-south-africas-white-farmers/2018/09/23/3308a7c4-b6a3-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_story.html

This is perfect. Conservatives who don’t like the direction this country is taking can ACTUALLY MOVE TO RUSSIA.

«Poluboyarenko, however, is a prominent voice for the outreach. He gained attention earlier this year after helping an 11-member German family, outraged by sex education in Western schools, to settle in Russia.

Addressing the du Toits at his “Motherland” dairy farm in Kosyakovo, about 60 miles southeast of Moscow, general director Mikhail Baranov told the father and son: “You can be sure of one thing. You won’t find liberalism here, but family values instead.”»

Source: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/emptywheels-marcy-wheeler-knows-more-than-she-tells-but-she-tells-a-lot.php

Interesting article from the Columbia Journalism Review (a fairly prestigious site, if I understand correctly).

«In the sometimes murky world of national security reporters, few people are wrong less often than Marcy Wheeler. Wheeler’s insights, gleaned from tireless, detailed reading of declassified documents, are unique because they rely on public information, rather than access, and because Wheeler takes great pains to show her work. The longtime blogger’s site Emptywheel focuses […]»

Got a ride from a Lyft/Uber driver yesterday who didn’t really know about the Kavanaugh thing. All he knew was some government official was accused of bad behavior by some woman, again. Couldn’t remember his name, except that it started with a “K” sound and had some syllables.

So, there’s that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/sunday/resistance-kavanaugh-trump-protest.html

(Author of /The New Jim Crow/, not some freshman essayist.)

«But the time may have come to take the downsides more seriously. Resistance is a reactive state of mind. While it can be necessary for survival and to prevent catastrophic harm, it can also tempt us to set our sights too low and to restrict our field of vision to the next election cycle, leading us to forget our ultimate purpose and place in history.

The disorienting nature of Trump’s presidency has already managed to obscure what should be an obvious fact: Viewed from the broad sweep of history, Donald Trump is the resistance. We are not.»

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043175133307756545.html

Angry woman thread you really should read.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/21/republicans-pre-existing-conditions-obamacare-repeal-voters-remember-column/1366662002/

«So 10 Republican senators and 28 GOP House members recently signed on to bills that claim to offer pre-existing condition protections. Spoiler alert: they don’t. The bills would, in fact, require insurance to be offered to people with pre-existing conditions. However, they wouldn’t require that insurance companies cover their actual pre-existing conditions. Consider it a classic even-year proposal — enough to campaign on, but nothing to govern with.»

https://twitter.com/RheaButcher/status/1042540621276229632

https://twitter.com/CoachLisle/status/1040422426490953728

Hopefully, her dad cleared posting to Twitter with her, but, yeah, this is awesome. 🙂

«Matt Lisle @CoachLisle

Thought this was worth sharing. She’s 9 years old.

rhea butcher @RheaButcher

Rhea butcher Retweeted Matt Lisle