Yeah, I unsubscribed from the WaPo after Bezo shit all over it. That secret pulling the condom off shit is something that a guy did to a friend of mine. Some guys like the idea of impregnating women against their will.
So sorry to see that we couldn't pull Mallory through to the general. She was the first candidate we donated to this election cycle, starting with the fundraiser at your house (I think). Hope she hangs around. I think her time will come.
Can someone explain to me how the Stop WOKE Act doesn't outlaw white supremacy, Christian nationalism, male supremacy and other similar ideological assertions that the right-wing presumably did not mean to outlaw? I've puzzed and I've puzzed till my puzzler was sore, and I'm still baffled.
HuffPost/AP: "Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. A federal judge fined her $5,000 and cited her otherwise law-abiding life in issuing the sentence. “I think this is a situation where an otherwise good person, upset by immigration policies in this country, made a bad decision in the moment,” U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman said."
Maybe I'm misreading, but it sounds like Rebecca Solnit is equating Platner with what I might call Platnerism—and she defines both as somehow misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ and possibly anti-Black. I don't buy that.
Platner turned out to be unsupportable, the more we learned about his treatment of women. But that wasn't obvious at first. If his candidacy was mostly the creation of party operatives looking for someone with an appealing message—and, if so, that wasn't initially obvious either—then shame on them for not vetting his past behavior so that we could have avoided being in this position.
But what I saw from a lot of Democrats (full disclosure: I'm not a Democrat but a got-damn independent) from both the Schumer wing and the AOC wing was an attack on Platner's message itself because it focused on the working class and not on the litmus test issues for Dem candidates. To me, there is nothing incompatible between "Platnerism"—which is about how (mostly Republican) oligarchs have achieved regulatory and judicial capture and rigged the system in their favor—and equity for all. There is nothing intrinsically patriarchal about Platnerism even though Platner himself is not supportable. He emphasized the message that I'm labeling Platnerism because that's where the hottest anger is among the largest swath of the electorate. It's also not that different from the point emphasized by Talarico, that the biggest difference isn't between left and right but between top and bottom. Platner delivered that populist message in a way that made people want to stand up and fight, and part of what is fueling anger at the Democrats is that voters don't see enough anger from people like Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries (even though I think Jeffries is WAY more credible than Schumer).
I still remember Bill Clinton's line from the 1992 campaign: "I will fight for you till the last dog dies." That message resonated even though some of us suspected he really wouldn't fight that hard. But the message was right. Dems need candidates who will fight and who understand that the entire system has been corrupted. AOC gets it. Whatever else may be said about Platner, he got it. Mamdani gets it. Bernie gets it. The others campaigning as democratic socialists get it. When are the Dem leadership and punditocracy going to get it?
Lawrence O’Donnell (MSNOW) on Platner: “I didn’t think any of his answers were credible.” He continued, “And I’m in no position to say who is telling the truth in stories now told about Graham Platner by people who knew him, women who were alone in a room with him. I don’t know what happened, but I know, and I’ve always known, that I cannot believe him.” O’Donnell explained that it wasn’t just the scandals that raised his suspicion, but the image Platner created with help from “the eager news media” as a humble oyster farmer who “knew the struggles of the working people of Maine” and entered politics to change things.
O’Donnell said, “But he didn’t. He’s never known those struggles. His most obvious credibility problem to me from the start was saying, ‘I’m a working-class guy that lives a working-class life.’ He also said, ‘I’ve never been close to money and power.’ And that was a lie.”
He noted Platner went to private school and was raised by a rich lawyer. He added that Platner’s mother’s restaurant is “the biggest customer for his oysters” and that tax and property records show Platner’s father gave him a $200,000 mortgage loan for a $205,000 home."
Kayleigh McEnany, during Tuesday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends" about the USMNT:
"We’re competitors in the United States, we want to win, we want to win the whole thing, we want to win the World Cup. That being said, this team, you compare it to Megan Rapinoe and women’s soccer. I am so proud of them, their patriotism, standing for the anthem, praying after every game. They have set such a positive example around the world. And to me, look, people can crucify me on Twitter, that means more to me than winning. I’m very proud of this team despite the loss.”
Brian Kilmeade immediately rejected McEnany’s assessment of the men’s team and blamed the players: “Err, they didn’t show up. They were absolutely awful. They did not show up.” “OK, Brian. Thanks. OK,” McEnany replied, laughing at her colleague’s blunt response, “But they pray and they love the flag and therefore I love them.” Kilmeade wasn’t convinced, telling her: “There’s teams praying all over the country.”
It’s an adorable blossom bat in the hed gif: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/blossom-bat
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/3a00594b-4949-444f-bb23-6edc142e50a4?utm_source=share
I have been summoned! *Grabs paper and colored pencils*
Banana
It's downright pornographic is what it is. Fine work.
What a little cutie! Living on nectar.
Holy Vegan Vampires, Batman!!
I Do Not Like Bats, and therefore, it is completely unfair for you to have a gif that makes me go Awwwwwwww.
This gif makes me even moar batty.
“They also enter torpor when food supply is low.” My bruthuhs from another muthuh!
I usually enter torpor after dinner.
What an amazing, adorable, tiny creature.
Blossom bat! Blossom bat!
Cuter than a tiny cat!
Eating flowers is where it's at!
Blossom bat! Blossom bat!
And that my friends is how baby bananas are made.
Huh, no fucking?
Asexual reproduction, neither male nor female, as they taught us in Ag Science before Charlie Kirk got 4-H and FFA banned for being “woke”.
Parthenogenesis!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Everybody happy when the dead come home!”
Adorable was exactly the word I had in mind for the tiny nectar eating batty!
I'd never seen one with appeal
Until my eyes saw that
Banana blooms must taste real great
To a bantam blossom bat.
In the full length video Blossom Bat is later joined by Joey Bat, in a tiny leather jacket, and quirky best friend Six Bat.
Not Bubbles Bat and Buttercup Bat?
Woah.
It's sad that Kellogg's Fruit Bats Cereal did not have better success.
Well, they forgot to remove the claws in that one box, and... they were never a big seller after that!
RFK Jr said bat claws, like fingernails and hair, are pure protein.
Putin's girlfriend Tulsi concurs.
Holy blossoms, batman!
Of course, there is this... https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich
All the news about the E. Jean Carroll case says, "Trump appeals". I still think he stinks.
Platner's out. Hopefully whoever's in can get the job done.
Yeah, I unsubscribed from the WaPo after Bezo shit all over it. That secret pulling the condom off shit is something that a guy did to a friend of mine. Some guys like the idea of impregnating women against their will.
Abdul has some misogyny and antisemitism baked into him. He's not horrible, but I'm voting against him.
So sorry to see that we couldn't pull Mallory through to the general. She was the first candidate we donated to this election cycle, starting with the fundraiser at your house (I think). Hope she hangs around. I think her time will come.
Can someone explain to me how the Stop WOKE Act doesn't outlaw white supremacy, Christian nationalism, male supremacy and other similar ideological assertions that the right-wing presumably did not mean to outlaw? I've puzzed and I've puzzed till my puzzler was sore, and I'm still baffled.
Selective enforcement. The same way "Stand Your Ground," hasn't protected a single Black person acting in self-defense.
To my surprise, I heard otherwise about Black people who survive a stand your ground encounter.
E. Jean Carroll gets her $5.8mill! Hah.
"Do cats eat bats? ... Do bats eat cats?"
-- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
*VERY* Nice Times ... 😻
https://youtu.be/kZbWwq_KC78?si=2aPgQwj7wa8Jvd54
SO PAY THE FUCK UP DEADBEAT
HuffPost/AP: "Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. A federal judge fined her $5,000 and cited her otherwise law-abiding life in issuing the sentence. “I think this is a situation where an otherwise good person, upset by immigration policies in this country, made a bad decision in the moment,” U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman said."
Since ICE has recently been enjoined from nabbing immigrants at their mandated status hearings, she should not have to pay up at all.
I can do without AirBnB. No skin off my whatever if they were to disappear from the marketplace because others felt the same way.
Maybe I'm misreading, but it sounds like Rebecca Solnit is equating Platner with what I might call Platnerism—and she defines both as somehow misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ and possibly anti-Black. I don't buy that.
Platner turned out to be unsupportable, the more we learned about his treatment of women. But that wasn't obvious at first. If his candidacy was mostly the creation of party operatives looking for someone with an appealing message—and, if so, that wasn't initially obvious either—then shame on them for not vetting his past behavior so that we could have avoided being in this position.
But what I saw from a lot of Democrats (full disclosure: I'm not a Democrat but a got-damn independent) from both the Schumer wing and the AOC wing was an attack on Platner's message itself because it focused on the working class and not on the litmus test issues for Dem candidates. To me, there is nothing incompatible between "Platnerism"—which is about how (mostly Republican) oligarchs have achieved regulatory and judicial capture and rigged the system in their favor—and equity for all. There is nothing intrinsically patriarchal about Platnerism even though Platner himself is not supportable. He emphasized the message that I'm labeling Platnerism because that's where the hottest anger is among the largest swath of the electorate. It's also not that different from the point emphasized by Talarico, that the biggest difference isn't between left and right but between top and bottom. Platner delivered that populist message in a way that made people want to stand up and fight, and part of what is fueling anger at the Democrats is that voters don't see enough anger from people like Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries (even though I think Jeffries is WAY more credible than Schumer).
I still remember Bill Clinton's line from the 1992 campaign: "I will fight for you till the last dog dies." That message resonated even though some of us suspected he really wouldn't fight that hard. But the message was right. Dems need candidates who will fight and who understand that the entire system has been corrupted. AOC gets it. Whatever else may be said about Platner, he got it. Mamdani gets it. Bernie gets it. The others campaigning as democratic socialists get it. When are the Dem leadership and punditocracy going to get it?
Lawrence O’Donnell (MSNOW) on Platner: “I didn’t think any of his answers were credible.” He continued, “And I’m in no position to say who is telling the truth in stories now told about Graham Platner by people who knew him, women who were alone in a room with him. I don’t know what happened, but I know, and I’ve always known, that I cannot believe him.” O’Donnell explained that it wasn’t just the scandals that raised his suspicion, but the image Platner created with help from “the eager news media” as a humble oyster farmer who “knew the struggles of the working people of Maine” and entered politics to change things.
O’Donnell said, “But he didn’t. He’s never known those struggles. His most obvious credibility problem to me from the start was saying, ‘I’m a working-class guy that lives a working-class life.’ He also said, ‘I’ve never been close to money and power.’ And that was a lie.”
He noted Platner went to private school and was raised by a rich lawyer. He added that Platner’s mother’s restaurant is “the biggest customer for his oysters” and that tax and property records show Platner’s father gave him a $200,000 mortgage loan for a $205,000 home."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawrence-odonnell-graham-platner-scandal_n_6a4e1fede4b094d71e712e96?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Kayleigh McEnany, during Tuesday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends" about the USMNT:
"We’re competitors in the United States, we want to win, we want to win the whole thing, we want to win the World Cup. That being said, this team, you compare it to Megan Rapinoe and women’s soccer. I am so proud of them, their patriotism, standing for the anthem, praying after every game. They have set such a positive example around the world. And to me, look, people can crucify me on Twitter, that means more to me than winning. I’m very proud of this team despite the loss.”
Brian Kilmeade immediately rejected McEnany’s assessment of the men’s team and blamed the players: “Err, they didn’t show up. They were absolutely awful. They did not show up.” “OK, Brian. Thanks. OK,” McEnany replied, laughing at her colleague’s blunt response, “But they pray and they love the flag and therefore I love them.” Kilmeade wasn’t convinced, telling her: “There’s teams praying all over the country.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayleigh-mcenany-world-cup-fox-news_n_6a4dfcbae4b0a7adb6d84318?origin=home-latest-news-unit