billbindc at the blue place

it is worth asking what is it that AOC and Bernie see in JLG that have them saying, “yeah, no.”

If Aparna Raj's housing agenda gets enacted, we will get zero new homes in DC. As a recent @ggwash article makes clear, developers don't want to build in DC due to rent non-repayment and an economic recession. Why did they endorse her again?

“L’Etat c’est moi” but in Queens English:

There are people on this website who will argue in all sincerity that a, perhaps the, major problem with university humanities departments is that this perspective is underrepresented.

Milwaukee? Yes, I will…

Disappointing to see this unethical attitude toward cage fighting

Okay, I'm gonna be honest. This gay club looks fabulous. They've got everything. Sweaty men wrestling, guys on motorcycles in leather jackets, gold everywhere, and the Village People performing.

At least they are not supposed to….

Grown men with tears in their eyes…but real this time:

Fascism nothing more or less than performative sacrilege in the service of power:

Virtually impossible to imagine a greater contrast between this and the gladiatorial shit show coming to the grounds of the White House today:

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named. The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river. The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn. Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound. "Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever. It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin. "Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather. I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet. In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair. And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge. You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain. The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste. I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind. Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again. "Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up. Discipline is a journey.

what a great city

I’ve read the OCF report on JLG’s campaign finance violations in more detail, and the report states that “there was coordination” and the campaign/union “cannot sustain its burden to rebut the presumption of coordination.” It’s not just lack of documentation on the firewall.

Populism is a hell of a drug:

Populism is a hell of a drug:

I’d much prefer if JLG supporters owned this and said they were fine with it over gaslighting people that’s there’s nothing to see here. Just like with calling Trayon a mentor, it’s healthy to admit your candidate made a mistake or has a view you don’t agree with.

Report may have come out earlier, except apparently Janeese’s outside backers stopped cooperating with the investigation in late April. 🤔

Populism is a hell of a drug:

So JLG’s communications director continues to work for the union running her Super PAC? This is clear cut!