James Wagner

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cranky radical, fussy aesthete, generalist, partner of
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this thing could still be stopped even if the Democratic politicos aren't up to it (or perhaps not interested in doing so)

Trump before the Republican National Convention in Chicago (evoking Bernhard Gillam's 1884 election cartoon revisiting Jean-Leon Gerome's 'Phryne Before the Areopagus') [ from elections.harpweek.com/1884/cartoon... ]

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

not a joke had to look like a joke to say this straight, in this Kool-Aid climate, could be deadly me? let me say, I'm not buying it and hoping our foreign visas come through in time x.com/realXanderXj...

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Kind of funny to talk about “turning down the temperature” when we’ve got triple-digit heat indices baking much of the country thanks to decades of government-defended corporate greed

..and the stones loudly weep

We’re going to see US politicians put out more statements about Trump getting chipped by a piece of glass than 200,000 Palestinians being massacred.

Setaro spaghetti Chitarra aglio olio e peperoncino; Stefano di Blasi Trevenezie; Caccini: Euridice

filled omelette (Gruyère/6 garden herbs); mixed greens/reds salad w/ Palestinian oil/Agrodolce; 3-day-old Balthazar Stone Ground Heritage bread toasted on a baffled box on the the stovetop, rich 12% Belgian Beurre de Chimay; la Grande Messe des morts, d'Hector Berlioz Berlioz, Colin Davis

before it got really complicated la Fête de la Fédération le 14 juillet 1790 sur le Champ-de-Mars the king and his family was invited, and attended ("..many people considered the country's period of political struggle to be over.") [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AA... ]

un peu en retard pour Paris, mais, bonne fete nationale Le 14 juillet à Paris 1886 Vincent van Gogh

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

"But when you have Israel’s minister of foreign affairs, ..of the fascistic ruling Likud Party, tweeting, “Violence can never ever be part of politics,” the very concept of “political violence” is evacuated of meaning." theintercept.com/2024/07/14/t... Lennard is a treasure we can hope to deserve

The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Opposetheintercept.com The Trump rally shooting in Pennsylvania reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.

1/ 1932 Germany: still reeling from a 4-year war, near famine, a surprise military defeat, the total collapse of its historic governing system, international humiliation, vindictive punishing reparation payments, then a catastrophic hyperinflation from which it had recovered only 8 years earlier,

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for a moment or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down from the sky

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This is a great explainer. There's SO MUCH in Project 2025 that these topical breakdowns are really helpful. I'm glad it includes the plan to commercialize the National Weather Service because that is some bullshit.

Rachel and I dug into what Project 2025 means for the environment and it’s actually not as bad as you’d think. Nah I’m kidding, it’s worse. thehill.com/policy/energ...

What Project 2025 would mean for the fight against climate changethehill.com Project 2025, a controversial conservative roadmap that aims to guide the next Republican administration, calls for the elimination of multiple energy- and environment-related offices and…

at last darkened skies real rain an hour after sunrise

alas

butter-roasted steelhead fillets w/‘Baden seasoning salt’/Rockland County spruce tips; sautéed radicchio/chopped shallot w/rosemary branches, adding frisée, balsamic vinegar; Balthazar stone ground heritage; A to Z Pinot Noir; Vivaldi: Catone in Utica, Il Complesso

prime NY strip air-dried (refrigerator 3 hours/counter 1), seared med. rare, w/lemon/flowering thyme/Cretan oil; frisée w/oil/agrodolce; pan-roasted quartered Purple Viking potatoes w/parsley; spring garlic-wilted lacinato, lemon; Sin Fronteras Lodi Tempranillo; Handel: Rinaldo, Accademia Bizantina

"No one should have to think about who the president is and/or who the president is going to be every single day of their lives like this." - Luke O'Neil were regularly reminded that just casting a vote every 2 years isn't enough to sustain a democracy, but this is ridiculous - and antidemocratic

finally

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Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf r/brutalism

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Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with Mobile, 1992 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134980