rimidar
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Colourful Australian racing identity. U-North Document Review Department. Ideological Sollist. Novice Hermeticist. Gnostic Catholic. Reillusioned liberal. He/him. Just trying to post through it all. This is not going to end well.
Glad to see she’s conceding with grace and immediately endorsing and supporting El-Sayed despite how nasty the primary was.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4h agoA gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5h ago🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
The Democratic Party is a big coalition with many different tendency
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 4h agoMy ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h agoIt's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
* I just * I thought if I said something different * If we did something different * If we were just kind enough * Perhaps by the time we got here... it would change. * But... but no matter what we do... * Our fate... * ... is already decided.
part of why this will be hard to internalize is because it sucks. yes, there was always a good amount of fiction and hypocrisy behind the idea that politics was something other than what ive described but hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. deciding how to govern > deciding who should rule
Young people don't think politics is about proper tax rates or balancing efficiency and justice. Young people — and in this sense they're just seeing the world more clearly — understand politics now is about status. Who deserves to have it stuck to them? Who should do the sticking? These are our Qs
Something I think those of us who grew up in 90s or earlier are going to have to internalize — and will always struggle to remember — is that US voters no longer accept the fiction that politics is a contest between liberal and conservative ideas, rather than faction-based culture war by other means
Just because bookstores sell DVDs doesn’t mean that all discs should be called DVDs
Why did the artist depict the transformed men as anthros? Egyptian influences? A way to tell the story more easily? They really liked anthros? Who is to say. But it is not the only case: bsky.app/profile/anfo...
Anfor@anforsorrow.bsky.social · 2w agoThis calyx-krater (a Greek bowl used for mixing wine and water) shows Odysseus pursuing the witch Circe. Behind him, two of his men have been transformed into an anthro boar and an anthro horse or mule.
This kylix (an ancient Greek wine drinking cup) depicts a nude Circe preparing her potion for Odysseus' men, who have been turned into anthropomorphic animals. Currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Look, it’s the ACT regional government that kinda has to deal with their territory effectively being under the jurisdiction of the Australian Federal Police and thereby the Commonwealth. Kinda fair to say the least, at least DC has the Capitol police
Kevin Bonham@kevinbonham.bsky.social · 6h agoWhat on earth is all this then? archive.md/BXGvA #actpol
say what you want about aes but its weird american left-liberalism (and yes, aes absolutely counts, sorry) continues the trend of american left-liberal politicians having three-letter initialisms
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
A narrow win means the nominee doesnt go into the general election cocky and recognizes that theyll need their primary opponents supporters to win, which is ultimately for the best
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 13h agoEl-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.
It’s only 8 AM and I’m already tired of takes blaming voters for going out and stating their preferences in a primary election. Getting mad at voters, hundreds of thousands of them, for voting for who they wanted and not who you think was “savvy” is foolish.
2/2 Detail of Jacob van Hulsdonck's strawberries, just because they are kind of mesmerizing.
Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Jacob van Hulsdonck, still-life painter of Antwerp. Here, from around 1620, wild strawberries in a wan-li bowl. And a carnation.
This level of spending actually makes me deeply angry. Let's never do this again in a primary ok
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 12h agoUnfathomable
I think folks have to ask themselves if harboring hurt feelings and injured egos is more important than climbing out of the competitive authoritarian snake pit we live in today.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h agoI meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
How beautiful are these handmade creatures by kinetic artist and paper sculptor Lucy Jean Green! #beautifulbizarre #papersculpture #art
Max Miller is "What if Graham Platner didn't drop out?" in an alternate timeline
Max Miller feels like we played an UNO reverse on all the cross-contamination the GOP was going to try with Platner
the Republican primary voters saw the name "Amir Hassan" and every single Hitler Particle in their body started vibrating at once
