Bamboozled

"Sorry I have plans"

The plans:

Mystic Forest by Nick Page Photography

i need to stand ankle deep in a creek about this

David: "Oh, that I had wings like a Dove! For then would I fly away and be at rest" (Psalm 55:6), Frederic Leighton, 1865

Temple of Hephaestus, 449 BCE Ancient agora of Athens, Greece

Girls will be like “oh I’m just running quick some errands” and then spend all day in the wetlands appreciating the unique flora and fauna

Get in loser, we're starting an oak cult.

The first rule of Oak Cult is that there is no hierarchy or centralized leadership. Or structure of any kind, really.

Just find you an oak.

Standing on the picket line is a cute gesture, but let's not forget how he prohibited the rail workers from striking for safe minimum staffing and the ability to take sick days.

Also, this “cute gesture” is something no US President has done.

Fuck off with yourself now.

Obligatory Biden not perfect disclaimer blah blah blah (do you people still expect to get perfect politicians??? apparently I guess)

But.

Going to a picket line is actually a huge deal. There is a reason no other president has done it.

Brief explainer:

A picket is not a protest. They have different goals and they are viewed differently under the law. A protest is meant to disrupt and to draw attention to an issue. A picket is meant to stop scabs from entering a workplace to replace the workers picketing outside.

This means that, historically, pickets were often very violent. When people in the 1920s wanted to stop you from entering a factory, they did not confine their tactics to angry yelling. This is why the courts treat pickets differently, and they do not enjoy the kind of broad free speech protections that protests have.

Biden standing on a picket line is huge in a number of ways. It's a statement by a sitting president that no one should go to work at that workplace, for one, which kind of wild in and of itself when you think of it. Who the fuck is gonna scab when you have to walk past a picket line that includes the fucking president.

It's also granting a kind of implicit sanction to picketing as an activity that it has never historically gotten. Picketing is one of those things that even the FDR administration was a little wary of. The law tends to approach it as something that is techhhhhnically allowed and we can't stop you...but it's something that needs to be reined in, controlled, corralled.

And like, is this the most radical thing a president has ever done? No. Is it going to magically fix everything related to organized labor? Absolutely not. Is Biden the most pro-union president ever? No again because FDR existed. But he is the most pro-union president of my lifetime.

And as someone who knows a lot of labor history, having a sitting president on a picket line is honestly kind of breaking my brain a little.

Other things that the Biden administration is doing or has facilitated (by getting non corporate hacks into critical positions for example) which are not getting talked about:

2024 is coming.

The Republicans have the 2025 Project that wants to literally imprison and genocide queer and disabled people.

The Democrats are giving us our money and lives back.

Show this to EVERYONE WHO YOU KNOW.

Tell them the difference.

Get them out to vote.

We have a chance to have a country that is worth living in if Democrat candidates keep winning.

#the biden appointed ftc also fought the microsoft activision acquisition tooth-and-nail#google is screaming about the lawsuit against them#this is the hardest i've ever seen an administration go against monopolies and corporate interests in my lifetime#oh and corps have been trying to discredit ftc chair lina khan since law school#when she essentially wrote a book about how amazon is the king of antitrust monopolies and needs to go#and then biden was like '...yes make her ftc chair'

Ermitage Saint-Antoine de Galamus, France - 2017

dark green is a nice color. underrated

ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green

This is literally my favorite color. 😩 Smaragd green is another dark shade of green that I’m absolutely obsessed with.

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