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Iago Grimaldo

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Kino-savvy malcontent, low resolution louche; madman for film, screenwriting, music, fine art, graphic design & minor key ephemera.


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Goodnight. Yasaka pagoda, by Takeuchi Seiho

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Iago Grimaldo's avatar Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.social
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Apparently, many prefer this approach instead:

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White America imposes existential threats on "others" without ever having to deal with that type of pervasive, 24-7, state-sanctioned oppression. But with MAGA types in charge, many white folks will also feel the sting. Note: chronic blood pressure and compromised life spans are part of the deal.

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Racism is at the core of the vituperative, pathological sense of grievance from the right wing, but it's diffused throughout the US as well. Genocide against Native Americans, slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, voter suppression, wealth theft ... one long, unbroken chain of cruelty against "the others."

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The framing of the central issue was skewed from the outset. The SC answered a much broader question than was actually at bar. They've granted absolute immunity. The limitations placed on evidence that could actually prove nefarious conduct was the "fuck you" period at the end of the sentence.

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If Trump who has run businesses into the ground numerous times over his life, who was such a bad student that he keeps university transcripts under lock and key, and who is so dumb and arrogant that he continues to admit publicly to felony conduct --if he can be president, then literally anyone can.

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Harris a radical leftist? Seen that way by whom? Not Californians or anyone with half a brain. She became Biden's Veep because she's a centrist insider. She would not have been my first choice, but Biden chose her. The hysteria against her resides in the nodal intersection of racism and misogyny.

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It's dystopian. Gorsuch has always emitted a somewhat reptilian vibe. You'd think that one of the baseline traits of a SC Justice should be compassion toward others, especially the downtrodden. But he seems to relish being an asshole. I can't believe mainstream commentators once vouched for him.

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Has Biden been trying to win over the right? More than any other president in recent memory many of his policy initiatives, with a few glaring exceptions -- Israel-- are closer to progressive causes than not. It's no accident that the hysteria to dump him comes from outlets owned by economic elites.

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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beyond the absurd decision to publish the piece at all, and the inequity in asking one guy to drop out when the other is a freshly convicted felon who is just as old, it’s that they just presume it’s not even worth the ink to ask the other guy to be selfless

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been trying to place the the cognitive dissonance I feel with “to serve his country, Biden should step aside” and I think it’s that no one would ever suggest that Trump should do something that puts the country first

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Okay, this actually made me laugh. Better than my standard "non-dairy creamer"...

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Also, they seem to delusionally think it’s a good idea to give up a Democratic Senate seat in a red state when control of the Senate is very much at stake.

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He will bowl over the bad guys. He will flush evil away. He'll ensure ur-in-all his thoughts. He's the world's shittiest superhero. And, while he may not be the hero we need, he's the hero we deserve. He is...TOILETMAN.

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His mild-mannered alter ego is ... "John Crapper" (which is the actual name of the inventor of the modern toilet -- I shit you not).

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The coup insurgency from the Far Right is on-going. The current locus of kinetic action is the judiciary. Hopefully, people will now realize that their entreaties to Roberts to "fix" the corruption of his fellow conservative Justices were laughingly naive. They will have to de dragged out of power.

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"...and in the end/the love you take/is equal to/the love you--" To read the rest of this entry please subscribe below.

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"Hey, Hon, listen: were you serious the other day about that whole 'motion-in-the-ocean' thing? Uh-huh. Okay. No, I was just wondering."

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A BITTERSWEET LIFE: Its theme sneaks up on you. Unlike most revenge pics centered around death, what you feel most strongly at film's end is the spiritual re-birth of the protagonist, masterfully played by Lee Byung-hun, who seems to be channeling Alain Delon in LE SAMOURAI.

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One likes a soft dictatorship; the other two will only accept a hard dictatorship. Uh, somethings got to give?

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Death on the Lion
1513

'This figure once was the crowning feature of a monumental clock which originally stood in the church choir of Heilsbronn Abbey. On the hour, with a bone, Death struck the bell in the lion's neck.'
www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/en/collectio...

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X-Men 107 (Oct 1977) cover by Dave Cockrum. This was Cockrum’s last issue doing interior art (for now, he’d be back in a few years), plus features the first appearance of the Imperial Guard, and the first full appearance of the Starjammers. Cockrum would stay on as cover artist.

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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OH MY GOD. “In fact, hair relaxers marketed to children in the United States have been found to contain the highest levels of five of the chemicals prohibited in the European Union.”

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Trying to decide if it’s too wet to mow after last night’s storm.

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Iago Grimaldo's avatar Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.social
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Why is his nomme de guerre pronounced Mag-knee-toe? I always pronounced it Mag-net-oh. I hate when people pull this crap.

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Iago Grimaldo's avatar Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.social
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They were taller than average. The person who first saw them was more writerly than average.

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"A modern re-make updating Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST with Man-Thing in the title role in an effort to raise awareness about climate-change and renewable energy has been postponed indefinitely. A studio spokesman blamed unfavorable social media buzz about "woke" casting choices."

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These birds look like something Max Ernst cooked up on a particularly shitty day.

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Swedes are known for their dry sense of humor. Apparently, this taxidermist was extra Swedish.

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I had druthers once. Folks, if have druthers, use them. Nothing worse than unused druthers. Worse than shits or damns you never give.

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Neil Lewis, Jr.'s avatar Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social
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What?!? "American has previously issued new flight attendants a 'courtesy' letter..In it, the company says that flight attendants only earn $27,315, and asks the reader to provide courtesy where they can. Having dealt with landlords, I’m sure they’ll all accept this piece of paper in lieu of rent."

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I hope neither couple is into swinging. For everyone's sake.

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It wasn't me. I never use public bathrooms. I removed all the seats from the toilets at home to help my daughters prepare for the real world.

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The MSM media is acting like the midwife to fascism. This is what is most worrisome: too many Americans still have residual faith in institutions like the SC and the press (which has simply given up) that out of sheer habit they will be led over the edge of the constitutional cliff.

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In alluding the dubiousness of "Radical Constitutionalism" the Post uses hedge language (the old "some say") instead of ripping this lawless tripe in the harshest imaginable terms. This is not about policy disagreements but rather one side seeking to destroy a constitutional order by fiat.

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The public has a right to know that although we pay his salary and pension, he answers only to a handful of partisan billionaire benefactors who care not one bit about civil liberties, the Constitution or anything else that doesn't conform to their biases and financial interests. Investigate now.

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It’s long past time
for there to be a comprehensive criminal investigation, and congressional investigation, of Justice Thomas and his finances and his taxes. What he has taken, and what he has failed to disclose, is beyond belief, and has been so for quite some time. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...

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Begin impeachment proceedings anyway. The public has a right to know the facts so they can act accordingly.

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