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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Open Thread: Local Dem Officials Resisting ICE

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

Padilla said Trump is on a "tour of retribution" in his first floor speech since he was handcuffed at Noem's press briefing last week. [image or embed]— Politico (@politico.com) June 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM===Padilla gave this speech on the floor pretty much as the news of Brad Lander's arrest in New York was breaking. Two Democratic lawmakers tackled and handcuffed by federal law enforcement in the span of a week.
Open Thread: Golden Words

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

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for…huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east. — Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 11:48 AMThis is often a feature, not a bug of out of power coalitions.
Open Thread: Tim Walz Is A Good Leader & A Good Man

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

'It feels different in here': Walz returns to the Capitol after death of friend and colleague[image or embed]— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM===Honestly Tim is dealing with enough, he shouldn't have to endure a conversation with Trump. [image or embed]— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM===Spokesperson for Gov.
Monday Evening Open Sportsball Thread

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

FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post[image or embed]— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) June 16, 2025 at 6:31 PMAs ever, I know very little about the soccer world.
Monday Afternoon Open Thread: Not Popular

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

As Republican senators consider President Donald Trump’s big bill that could slash federal spending and extend tax cuts, a new survey shows most U.S. adults don’t think the government is overspending on the programs the GOP has focused on cutting, like Medicaid and food stamps.
Late Night Open Thread: Mocking Don TACO's B-Day Parade

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

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣[image or embed]— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) June 15, 2025 at 2:00 AMIt is completely possible Trump is checked out enough that yesterday is quickly forgotten and replaced with Trumpys special military birthday parade in his head, but if there's any sense in his brain left, he's got to be absolutely humiliated.
Non-Personal Sunday Afternoon Open Thread

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

In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and meaning in their lives through God and in service to others. [image or embed]— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) June 15, 2025 at 1:34 PMFor those who don’t want to intrude on the glorious No Kings protest posts. ===Trump really helped Francis & Leo push the US Catholic Church away from the right & more toward the Hebrew Bible & the Gospels.
#ETTD Open Thread: Sad Parade

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

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd. [image or embed]— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM===The contrasting images of a DC ghost town/military parade and 1800 American cities and towns with well-attended protests is going to drive Trump batty. [image or embed]— Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) June 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM===Proud of my country for sub-county fair-level turnout.
Saturday Morning Open Thread: No Kings

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

(John Deering via GoComics.com)Quite frankly, if they are as dangerous as people say, we need the normies even more because it’s important that we have a couple photogenic martyrs who aren’t weird nerds everyone hates.
Open Thread: Tracking the Protests

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

SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:[image or embed]— WIRED (@wired.com) June 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM===As protests swell across the US in response to aggressive ICE actions, civilians are turning to homebrew tools to track ICE arrests and raids in real time.