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About Balloon Juice About Balloon Juice Balloon Juice is an online community created by John Cole in January, 2002 Why the name Balloon Juice? Straight from dictionary com: “Balloon juice is a slang phrase that primarily means ‘hot air’ It inspired the name of an influential political blog ” Hey, that’s us!
Balloon Juice - Politics Archives Well, good news for us, but not so great from the orange guy Love that they chose ORANGE for the “approve” color! Total accident, I’m sure Good news! Bad news OMG, The War (Simon Rosenberg) Trump is in a serious bind here now, a far more serious bind than the DHS ICE fiasco For if he cuts and runs now, today, he will leave Iran a stronger power in the Middle East than before the war
Balloon Juice - Open Threads Archives Quick housekeeping note: Patrick, if you’re still reading and commenting here, please check your email Thanks It’s been another long day and I’m getting another late start, so I’m just going to run through the basics again today Trump and Team Clown Shoes are considering doing more damage to US foreign military sales
Balloon Juice - Fundraising Efforts – Part 1: Overview of Key States Fired Up and Ready to Go? Quick Overview Political fundraising season is upon us! It feels like the zeitgeist is shifting I feel a sense of hope, but there’s an enormous amount of work to do We’re just getting started with our efforts this election to raise funds and identify and encourage volunteer opportunities, at …
Balloon Juice 2026 Fundraising Efforts: Part 1 Balloon Juice first met Zee when we helped her organization, National Ground Game, get last-minute boots on the ground for the April 1, 2025 Florida Special Congressional elections The Dems lost both races, but they overperformed their 2024 result by 14 and 17 4 percentage points, respectively The Republicans were rattled
The Vaccine Crisis…It’s here. - Balloon Juice NB: Another cross post with Inverse Square As ever, if you would like to get email notifications of these regrettably uncheery updates (and some happier ones, I hope) you can subscribe over there ——————————- Sometimes, working on a book means that you see references to your work everywhere you look, when what’s really going on is …
Balloon Juice - Every Single One Yesterday SFAW quoted something they had originally seen on LGM It struck me as the absolute truth, and since I have an electrician here today and no time to put together another post, I figure this is the perfect time to share this more widely Adding to my befuddlement is the fact that he’s every …