they have been openly bragging about their ownership of the Dem party for quite a while so it's nice to *finally* see it backfiring. x.com/AIPAC/status...

mod podge w UV is pretty good for outdoor decoupage projects. if the surface is smooth enough & enough coats applied, the label lasts about as long as these boxes (made with cheap cedar & exterior latex). i have 3 i remake every 4-5 years.

heartwarming to know these two have been reunited in hell

hehe algorithm does the thing

sister is cleaning out our mom's house and offered me our grandmother's harmonica, which i remember her trying to teach me to play when i was little. she didn't play it all the time but she wasn't bad. i'm not particularly musical but having fun with it this afternoon.

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it's only ok to do that if they're on the left, apparently. here is a photo from the 2016 Democratic Convention gift shop--an attendee was looking for a Bernie Sanders t-shirt and this was the only one in the shop. even worse, the DNC chair that year was herself Jewish (and hated Sanders). vile ppl

rereading the Hitchhiker's 'trilogy' and keep running across things like this (from book 4, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish)

"editorial board" of longstanding newspaper of record purchased by a hedge fund that apparently enjoys wearing the skins of similarly gutted publications like a serial killer assembling a credibility disguise publishes op-ed suggesting billionaires should be protected from the hatred they've earned

people seem to be off Matt but frankly idc. antitrust matters a lot to me and i find his work valuable. when I read the first bit i thought about Hillary proudly saying "I was a Goldwater Girl!". she never moved left of that. she and Bill took over the party and dragged it to where they were.

back door way to take redistricting away from the legislature and give power to the conservative VA supreme court. so i consider the D 'power grab' fair play. bipartisanship w the GOP is like voluntarily sharing custody w your child's abuser.

@carterforva.bsky.social is your account live? there's an "invalid handle" tag over your account name here. had a question about the last time we had a redistricting referendum in VA, which you explained well at the time but which i can't remember the details of. hope you & yours are well👋

the only thing that has lifted me from The Doom this morning was an email from The Onion's @brycetetraeder.bsky.social "The Adequate Biscuit Company" ⭐

was absolutely against the 50-state strategy to increase the majority (he hated Dean) bc you can manipulate outcomes more easily w a slim majority + an an increasingly "conservative" membership. chase GOP voters, bully your base. & *above all*, advance Israel's interests. i call him Nurse Ratchet

yes indeed, too many of us have forgotten our Skinner

we live near a river so we get very chonky bois who take over the storm drain system and use it as a neighborhood-wide amplifier and it's just incredible

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i see the clown car (flooded) primary has clocked another win for the dem establishment that's one reason they fight ranked choice voting tooth and nail fairvote.org/survey-illin...

Booker ✌️went down in flames✌️ in 2020 bc early mail-in voters generally vote the leadership pick. the $ machine, DSCC & esp Schumer backed the center-right ex-military charisma vacuum McGrath who was 'willing to work with Trump' if he won again. Booker lost by 2.8% w less than 1% of her war chest.

but i also think that falls under the heading of plausible deniability. they hire people to construct push polls, not real pulse polls. when they see a strong public response to a candidate, platform or policy, they mobilize quickly and surgically to shut them down. it's intentional incompetence.

was this what you reposted?

just getting around to The Fall (2012) and saw "free Palestine" in Dublin graffiti during i think s01e04

the creeping Floridification of the US has many faces

i get it... i still go over there mostly for searching where higher volume matters (ex: trying to figure out the alignments of candidates i'm not familiar with) & also bc the search options here aren't great (or mb just not easy/familiar). i do smtms end up reposting or commenting while over there.

we often think of this because we lucked out and actually saw it happen on live coverage

i keep staring at this and laugh-crying for some reason. exhaustion maybe.

as i said elsewhere, i haven't posted about him for a while and when i used to on the other site i was better about always including this

since Abu Ghraib has been on my mind a lot the last couple of days i looked her up and jfc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynndie...

ok i'm not up on the terminology so this was the first search result and i was ??? but now i see that "La Migra" is shorthand for roving gangs of pigs harassing immigrants, & yes i'm sure that was happening before W. i'm less familiar w it, but ICE institutionalized and legitimized the violence.