Balloon Juice

Balloon Juice is a digital community founded by John Cole in January 2002. So, why the name Balloon Juice? According to dictionary.com, "balloon juice" is a colloquial term that mainly refers to "hot air." This term served as the inspiration for this well-known political blog.

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: High & Low

1 week ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson.
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Fresh Food for the Future

1 week ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

Small vertical farms pick up where Big Tech falteredwww.washingtonpost.com/business/202…[image or embed]— Jeffrey Dean (@jeffdean-uga.bsky.social) May 14, 2025 at 7:43 AMGood news: I’ve got access to my email account again, so you can send garden pics to Anne-Laurie (at) balloon-juice.com.
Open Thread: Concerning Senator Fetterman

1 week ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

Shame works: "Fetterman, Often Absent From Senate, Says He Has Been Shamed Into Returning"[image or embed]— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein.bsky.social) May 24, 2025 at 8:18 AMI was a Fetterman supporter in 2022, which I can’t honestly say I regret, because he’s not wrong about his illness being weaponized.
Saturday Morning Open Thread

1 week ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

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Open Thread: TFG's Memecoin Dinner Grift Grab

2 weeks ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

Here's the gala dining room that Trump meme coin holders spent millions to attend[image or embed]— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) May 22, 2025 at 6:25 PMHand to Goddess, I tried to post about this in advance, but the sheer scope of the fiscal flimflamery and the brazen depth of the corruption were beyond my descriptive capabilities.
Thursday Evening Open Thread

2 weeks ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

(Drew Sheneman via GoComics,com)I think the chances of the senate taking the house bill as written are 0. How different is the question, yeah. [image or embed]— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) May 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM====A bill is gonna happen because they have to do that – the GOP presiding over the largest combined tax increase in history would be an electoral nightmare (or so they believe) and they're going to get something over the line. What it ends up being? No idea.
Update: Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘Keep Him Where He Is’

2 weeks ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

The Trump administration used three federal agencies attempting to save face over an accidental deportation. ‘Keep Him Where He Is’: How Trump Officials Debated Handling of the Abrego Garcia Case. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u…[image or embed]— Greg Todd (@1gregtodd.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 6:43 PMThe Washington Post explained how Trump’s inner circle conspired to kidnap an individual and hustle him (among others) beyond reach, they hoped, of the law.
Wednesday Evening Open Thread: An Exemplar for Our Global Embarrassment

2 weeks ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

i see the charm offensive is underway[image or embed]— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM====Grotesque. [image or embed]— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM===“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you”The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.
Novavax Update: If You Hate the Current Age Restriction...

2 weeks ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

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Parsing the Pandemic Pause

2 weeks ago | balloon-juice.com | Anne Laurie

FDA approves Novavax COVID vaccine with new conditions reut.rs/4mmmkCc[image or embed]— Reuters (@reuters.com) May 17, 2025 at 10:40 PMThere has been a dearth of aggregateable news on all my usual sources since March, and I don’t think it can all be blamed on a deliberate cover-up.