They’re getting scarier and more unhinged though. The one in Topeka yesterday was deeply weird and ugly: the Fascism 101 stuff is getting more, not less incendiary, and of course the whole Republican apparatus seems to be all in with the spitting venom and the threats and the George Soros dog whistles.

This reactionary Catholic majority will do damage to a lot more than Roe. Even before Kavanaugh, this Catholic court was imposing a medieval vision of gender and a profound, autocratic hostility to democracy on all the people of this country.

Act locally, think globally.

I think that knowing about the pee tapes and all, Melania may actually have requested a “piss helmet.” But what with that Slovenian accent of hers, the wardrobe department misunderstood.

For those despairing about the Court, I think Yglesias actually has the right take:

I think we’re supposed to swoon and declare, Oh, look, isn’t she wonderful, she’s just America’s Princess Di, is what! Look, she touched a black person!

“Grow up”? That’s it, Orrin, you corrupt, demented, reeking old man?

It’s been fascinating watching Megyn Kelly smearing Dr. Ford and promoting the notion of the martyrdom of poor Brett Kavanaugh on NBC’s morning show, day in and day out.

Just about absolute. McConnell won’t let his caucus vote “no.” He has both carrots and sticks to guarantee their votes. For the Republicans, this is about the “win:” it’s a big “win” in terms of demoralizing Democrats and pumping up right wing voters (the whole Kavanaugh martyrdom thing has distracted Republican…

It’s not just Kavanaugh, it’s the entire Republican Party. The Republicans don’t care what this will do to the Court or to America. They are doubling down with every new revelation: they are letting us know that they don’t care if any of their boys shoot someone on Fifth Avenue or rape someone on the altar of the…

Most of them are men in journalism, and don’t have a problem with it. They’re preoccupied with their concern that some great guys—-Les Moonves, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, you know, guys—-have seen their careers damaged by the womenfolks, who have all the power because of the whining about the rape, which…

Kellyanne is part of a theocratic political movement (like the soon-to-be-five Republican majority on the poor old Supreme Court, assuming that the FBI whitewashes Kavanaugh and ol’ Mitch shoves through a gleeful confirmation vote ASAP, Kellyanne is rooted in the most reactionary, retrograde wing of the Catholic…

I hope they don’t just bury all the dirt they find.

That’s very kind of you.

Save your hate for Mitch McConnell. The fossil fuel billionaires who run this show (along with a few stray bankers and tech billionaires) will eliminate Donald from their calculations the minute he becomes inconvenient to them —- he’s no more important to the Republicans’ long game than Sarah Sanders: he’s merely a…

It’s a good day to share this passage from a statement Mitch McConnell read into the Congressional Record 20 years ago, after voting righteously and wrathfully to impeach Bill Clinton for making misleading statements about sexual misconduct.

If there isn’t a calendar entry that reads “remember 2 rape CB 2nite,” you must acquit.

I’m almost 70 now. At 13, I was fueled up with about a half a pitcher of orange juice heavily laced with vodka, then, in a stupor, sexually assaulted, by a 21 year old man who was a friend of my best friend’s older brother. I never reported this to any official. Never will. Never told my parents or my siblings. My…

When the world is running down, you make the best of what’s still around: so maybe this would be a fun time for a contest.

No hastily scrawled note saying “Remember 2 rape Christine 2nite,” so clearly Kavanaugh is in the clear.