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@loafsta.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, recovering NYC lawyer, Gen-X, born in Midwest, raised in Mid-South, humanist ✡ #Dystonia #CripTheVote #ProgressiveDem #BidenHarris2024 #lgm #GoBlue #HTTC

A scruffy, recently-shorn small white dog sits looking up at the camera with his mouth open, tongue slightly out and his tail wagging happily (he’s about to get a treat). He is next to a big pile of white hair.
Turntable playing Dreams from the album Rumours by Steely Dan.
Image of a small black gray and brown dog lying upright on brightly sunlit green grass, raising his face to the warm sun with his eyes closed, ears back and tail curled.
Former congressman Jim Traficant
Photo of a brightly and tastefully decorated room with an upholstered chair in the foreground and a fluffy (and a little dirty) dog partly visible curled up underneath. In the rear of the frame a miniature-sized dark gray dog with upward-pointed sharp black ears rests on a light colored pillow on a large contemporary armchair upholstered in bright green fabric.
LBJ visiting astronauts training for moonshots at the Manned Space Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston, 1968.
Screenshot of a reply to a post on BlueSky about SCOTUS gutting the VRA that reads: “Ginsburg not retiring and letting Obama pick her replacement is partly why we're here.”
Screenshot from NYT website: Republicans Want Tennessee's Last Democratic House District Republicans sliced Nashville into three G.O.P.-leaning congressional districts in 2022. After the Supreme Court decision on voting rights, Memphis could be next.
NYT Graphic showing surging Black House membership after the VRA below a tweet from David Heath reading “This New York Times graphic explains why the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.”
A Cheetah gripping the neck of a wildebeest in the Serengeti.
NYT Headline: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said the law does not violate the Constitution. The plaintiffs said they planned to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision.
Nazi officials smiling at a model of a huge triumphal arch they plan to build in Berlin.
Picture of two small dogs in a bright sunroom. Rocky is dark and scruffy with big ears and lounges in the sun on a pillow on a large green armchair. Ernie is white and fluffy and lays in shadow on a blue rug in front of the chair.
Nazi officials smiling at a model of a huge triumphal arch they plan to build in Berlin.
Image of a sticker of Trump pointing and looking up that reads “I did that” that I impulse-bought and placed on a gas pump yesterday.
Screenshot of NYT: “U.K. Bars Ye Over Antisemitism, Months Before Major Festival Performances Entry to the country is being denied to the rapper”
NYTimes headline: “For Trump, a Promised Economic Boom Collides With the Costs of War” Sub: “President Trump had envisioned a growing economy and improving fortunes for American families in 2026. That appears at risk with the war with Iran.”
Screenshot of NYTimes app with headline “All the President's Portraits; President Trump's image — in paint and pixels, on posters and sculptures — is ubiquitous inside the White House, and beyond.”
NYT Headline: Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover The move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant.
When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty— when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity-to join in the cry of danger to liberty-to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion —to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may "ride the storm and direct the whirlwind." — Alexander Hamilton August 18, 1792
A very disheveled small brown dog with wiry hair, big ears and his tongue just peeking out.
Peaceful shot of ducks quacking in the foggy morning on Pelham Bay interrupted by two cute small dogs chasing each other in a park.
Picture of a fluffy cat with a revolver next to a picture of the same cat pointing the revolver into his mouth.
NYT Breaking News “American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites in Syria, fulfilling President Trump's vow to avenge two U.S. soldiers killed by the group.”
Ernie, a fluffy white dog, cocks his head to the side as if asking a question while sitting on a bed in front of an American flag with a picture of VP Harris smiling and waving printed on it.
Rocky, a small black, brown and grey dog peeking out of a brown furry blanket.
A small brown, grey and black scraggly dog getting his belly rubbed.
Photo of Boring Company tunneling machine with headline: NEWS: @boringcompany President Steve Davis says they could cut tunneling costs to about $10M per mile within 2-5 years, and eventually to $3M-$4M per mile. For comparison, traditional tunneling projects cost $500M to $3B per mile, depending on its size, complexity and location.
Congressional map of TN from Wikipedia.
Congressional map of Middle Tennessee (inset of map from Wikipedia) showing the tortured GOP gerrymander.
Picture of two dogs, one white and fluffy, one black and scruffy, doing their best imitations of throw rugs.
Henry Mance • ( @henrymance.ft.com • 12m → Replied to you Lighten up, pal. loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social • 9m Yeah, that's what Americans need to do. Lighten up about the authoritarian in power. Thanks for the advice, pal. Now go have tea with your King.
loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social • 3m Brits who want to diminish the significance of last night's landslide anti-authoritarian Democratic victories in America can stuff it. Americans need inspiration and support from our democratic allies, not derision. Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com: US politics seems to involve quite a lot of: 'In a closely-watched test of Donald Trump's popularity, Democrats have won all four vacant parking lot supervisor seats in Wisconsin
Homemade Dubai chocolate bar with a piece broken off.
Raisin Bran’s cartoon sun mascot looking silly.
Fluffy white dog resting on a blue armchair and eyeing the camera warily.
View of the face of Ernie, a fluffy white dog cradled between two couch cushions where he’s resting. His black eyes peek through his white fur and a sparse fan of white hair covers the top of his black nose.
Sleepy fluffy white dog lying on a gray couch in front of a window.
Picture of English translation of plaque on Neue Wache Memorial in Berlin: THE NEUE WACHE IS THE PLACE WHERE WE COMMEMORATE THE VICTIMS OF WAR AND TYRANNY. WE HONOUR THE MEMORY OF THE PEOPLES WHO SUFFERED THROUGH WAR. WE REMEMBER THEIR CITIZENS WHO WERE PERSECUTED AND WHO LOST THEIR LIVES. WE REMEMBER THOSE KILLED IN ACTION IN THE WORLD WARS. WE REMEMBER THE INNOCENT WHO LOST THEIR LIVES AS A RESULT OF WAR IN THEIR HOMELAND, IN CAPTIVITY AND THROUGH EXPULSION. WE REMEMBER THE MILLIONS OF JEWS WHO WERE MURDERED. WE REMEMBER THE SINTI AND ROMA WHO WERE MURDERED. WE REMEMBER ALL THOSE WHO WERE KILLED BECAUSE OF THEIR ORIGIN, HOMOSEXUALITY, SICKNESS OR INFIRMITY. WE REMEMBER ALL WHO WERE MURDERED WHOSE RIGHT TO LIFE WAS DENIED. WE REMEMBER THE PEOPLE WHO HAD TO DIE BECAUSE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL CONVICTIONS. WE REMEMBER ALL THOSE WHO WERE VICTIMS OF TYRANNY AND MET THEIR DEATH, THOUGH INNOCENT. WE REMEMBER THE WOMEN AND MEN WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN RESISTANCE TO DESPOTIC RULE. WE HONOUR ALL WHO PREFERRED TO DIE RATHER THAN ACT AGAINST THEIR CONSCIENCE. WE HONOUR THE MEMORY OF THE WOMEN AND MEN WHO WERE PERSECUTED AND MURDERED BECAUSE THEY RESISTED TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP AFTER 1945.
Woman at No Kings protest holds a sign that says “Secret Police are in German Museums and American Streets.”