Wow. Leave aside the idiocy of the idea that "oh we're such a not racist nation that any districting that even thinks about race is ipso facto racist and can't be allowed" and just think about "oh courts can't say boo about partisan gerrymandering"... that once a party has any kind of edge, they are free to redistrict, ignoring any logical geographical or community idea in order to ensure a quasi permanent minoritarian rule. How is that any kind of justice? This is disenfranchisement in the most blatant scale imaginable.

"Stop the steal" my ass. Hey heard about this Hantavirus Cruise Ship Thing?

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak.

Almost as much fun as bringing back deadly Measles with Encephalitis. Y'all are so smart.

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Headline of the moment:
Trump Is in His Ozymandias Era

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New to music playlist. Very anemic month, but some of that's my fault - I ran into a pile of cool music in Sicily but decided to stockpile it...

4 star:
* Out West (Meels)
Rollicking country song.
Meels opened when we saw the Nitty Gritty Dirty Band farewell tour, and she was great. Excellent Dolly Parton vibe...
* Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (Chet Atkins & Dolly Parton)
I'm delighted by Dolly Parton's giggles. Interesting how it sounds like "May the Circle be Unbroken" at parts.
Meels covered this song, actually.

3 star:
* Both Sides, Now (Joni Mitchell)
Strong Songs had a episode unpacking this one.
* invisible string (Taylor Swift)
I'm not a big Swiftie but she's a good songcrafter. I appreciate the "isn't it pretty to think so" Henimgway reference.
mentioned in the Olivia De Recat
* I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler (YACHT)
More of an interesting video than a great song.
Woke up thinking about SCOTUS and their chicken shit way of pretending A. racism is dead and B. ensuring a partisan gerrymandered fractured landscape forever.

For both sides, depending on locality, parlaying potentially temporary political advantage into quasi-permanent impregnable districting is a path to that party never having to listen to the voters en masse, which is an obvious boon for authoritarianism and a system that only has to pretend that votes count.

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from the 3000 odd photos we took in Sicily, a collage of cats and dogs, and some street art and then doors

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