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For I have found a Ted Lasso AFC Richmond mug at Home Goods!!!

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we are very annoying on here about the “alto clef multiple personalities” thing but we want you all to know we are discussing something that legitimately exists on mainsite, even if its presence consists of quite literally three tales and a bag of corn chips. details under the cut, including a bunch of direct pull quotes

preliminary notes:

if you don’t know what a system means in this context, it’s a word for “multiple people in one body“, best known in the context of dissociative identity disorder/did or formerly multiple personality disorder; a short explanation including most relevant terms we’ll be using can be found here

did specifically, since it’s relevant to clef’s plurality per the wiki and isn’t explained in detail in the last link, is a form of systemhood associated with trauma that involves maladaptive dissociative symptoms including amnesia (aka time loss) and depersonalization/derealization (dp/dr)

none of these are exactly unilaterally “good rep“, tbh, but they’re on the wiki and are therefore some degree of “official” canon

scp-4231

most popular of the tales to do this by far

portrayed with did: • francis is shown or described as experiencing dp/dr with increasing intensity throughout the skip (notably in the “december 2nd, 1998” and “document scp-4231-2-a” segments). • -b is verbally described in “the curious case of scp-4231-b” segment as having an unspecified dissociative condition. • their non-dpdr symptoms (switching, time loss as seen in the “greyhound” segment) imply a did diagnosis

The breakdown is fast and complete. He sits on the floor of the phone booth at a dingy greyhound station and sobs through a mixture of panic and grief, and then just like that the announcement for the next bus comes over the intercom and he switches back from one person to another. 

[...]

Francis stops crying so abruptly it hurts. Agent Ukulele stands. It's a moment that his brain blacks out of his memory. He walks out of the phone booth more bored than anything...

questionable/unclear intent regarding the delineation between clef and francis specifically in some places:

Certain traits about B become more solidified as time goes on, when he goes about adapting an entirely different personality to combat the trauma; the new B is eccentric, flamboyant, even bordering on inflammatory towards others. The deep mental distress and accompanying physical illness that keeps him bedridden in the two weeks immediately following his extraction from SCP-4231 disappear. The new B knows nothing, or, at least, appears to know very little about what has transpired to put him in this situation. He no longer inquiries about the child, or about A, or the town of North Access where he has lived all his life. The signs of body dysphoria stemming from the Montauk Procedure are either gone or deeply hidden.

vs (both from “the curious case of scp-4231-b”)

His radical transformation into a new personality appears to be less of a worsening of his dissociative condition and more of a transition into a being so blatantly disrespectful and infuriating that staff interaction results in only frustration.

classical revival

the earliest tale(s) to make clef a system and apparent inception of francis as a character in general, published in 2012

portrayed with apparent/functional did explained in-universe through the application of “outdated soviet combat conditioning memetics” to create constructed personas

• Francis Wojciechoski - b. 1967 - A graduate student who always seems to get the short end of the stick. A lover of music in all its forms: can play alto saxophone and ukulele. A reality-bender.

• Agent Ukulele – A constructed personality designed to both use and limit Francis’ powers. Essentially a cartoon character with limited characterization, used to destroy or subdue incredibly powerful entities.

• Alto Clef – A secondary constructed personality, designed to allow Francis to operate as a normal human being. Currently a field agent of the GOC.

despite the fantasy framing, this (kind of bizarrely) does seem to be an attempt to specifically portray did; clef is depicted having a severe dp/dr episode during upswing of disorder:

Clef sliced a man’s throat open with a razor, and subsequently came to the realization that he had no idea why he had a straight razor in the first place, or how he was still moving. Some part of him was dimly aware that there was significantly more lead and significantly less blood in his body than there normally was, and that this was a bad thing. His body was retreating, but this seemed to be a lot less important than observing all the pretty patterns on the floor and walls. The brief moment of realization faded away into the background. He was somewhere else, somewhere far away, watching the scene acted out around him from some mental Laz-E-Boy. Just faces on a screen. Like a movie. Like a cartoon.

“Holy shit! Did you see that guy? Just went and offed himself! I mean, my breath isn’t that bad!”

The commentary seemed just as natural as the violence on the screen. It passed in a blur, the voice taunting and cheering and jeering and laughing, the bodies dropping to the floor, the splashes of red. The world blurred together with runny watercolors.

the great site-87 bake sale (s&c plastics canon)

microaggression tbh

described as having “[reality bender status induced, secondary] psychosis”; practically speaking based on how they’re handled, seems to be mislabeled plurality?

Francis- or something very much like him- [...] Francis- or rather, the thing that looked like him- [...] Francis— no, Clef...

rep is kind of muddled because the author is visibly not doing this on purpose

Weiss, for her part, produced a syringe from her pocket, grabbed Clef by the shoulder, and jammed the needle into the largest vein she could find. The plunger went down, and a reality-restoring drug entered his bloodstream.

Francis Wojciechoski dropped his ukulele and hat, rubbing his shoulder and neck. "…couldn't you have done that earlier?"

Subject File: Fox Greyhound (Possible update)

Drawn by: @howlerlight

Gender: male

Height: 5’7ft

Age:Unknown

Weight:217lbs

Personality description:Calm, chill, mature, dorky (with close friends and loved ones only), very self aware,

Body build: athletic with a bit of chonky

Profession:Mercenary, Thief, sometimes medic for hire, Gamer.

Current affiliation:Henry stickman,

Known associates:Henry stickmin, Charles Calvin, Reginald copper bottom (did some merc work for)

Skill’s and capabilities:Physically gifted strength and agility wise, Maui tai/capoeira/ wrestling/judo expertise, proficient with short and medium blades and has a decent knowledge and understanding firearms and their history, observation skills on par with high class government spy’s, (usually), gaming, cooking,

Background:A old childhood friend of Charles Calvin all the way back from preschool that excelled in multiple subjects, was a chill and rather mature kid but didn’t shy away from getting into his fair share of trouble from time to time. At one point during their adolescence they found with their athletic skills they made a pretty good thief and slowly began a life of crime, and doing a dang good job at it getting a small rep quickly, at times merc work along with a bit of medical work to keep his other skills sharp and to branch out a bit. Now he’s gotten in touch with a newbie thief named Henry Stickmen, who could use a bit of help in a ambitious first thief job, Robing a bank.

okay so we have the separate Claude and Sylvain and Felix selfships which I have to now adjust because uhm. Eye opening Claudevain :3 I love them. :3

Also Byleth. I want M Byleth so bad. And Yuri. I keep remembering more pretty boys

then there’s the ones outside of fe3h like Berkut and Rinea poly

Alfonse, Innes, Lewyn, and Shigure are my beloved, I met them in fe heroes and got super gay. The canons are insane but I just turn off my brain

Then there’s Reyson, Líf, Hríd, Niles, Asugi, and Artur also because of FEH im so normal

I'm so sorry long answr

i am always so happy to spread my claudevain agenda... BUT THOSE ARE SUCH GOOD CHOICES not to be me but.. claude & sylvain are my go-to s supports <3 some of my favourite characters of all time even!!!!!! i play f!byleth for Them. and i totally understand enjoying felix he's so interesting i want to study him under a microscope

M!BYLETH SO TRUE i know he's the less popular byleth but i love him i would defend him to my last breath. someone said he looked like a greyhound once and i can't stop thinking about it. anyway,

YURI ALSO SO TRUE i haven't finished the dlc i've. actually barely started but i'm in love with him his post ts design is SO GOOD. HE IS SO BESUTIFUL. he is perfect to me and perfect FOR me

ASJFHDJEJFJRJKSF I HAVENT TALKED ABOUT SOV IN SO LOMG BUT YES I LOVE BERKUT. I LOVE HIM. i got stuck early on in the game years ago and haven't picked it up since so i don't know much abt rinea but uh what i do know is that they're so. in love. i mean yes there are the things that happen BUT HEYRE STILK SO IN LO

i was also a fan of lucas in that game i think. i don't.. remember much..... still.... man i need to finish it

WHWHWHAHAAAAA FEH!!!!! YEAH!!!!! i only play it to see my meow meows in different outfits but i do love some of the original characters!!!!! huge fan of líf alfonse and ASKR 💪💪💪💪 hríd and nott look Very Good but i don't know much about their personalities

Also i totally understand becoming interested in characters after seeing them in heroes that was so me before. i really liked leo kaden and keaton before i... actually played fates... and realized why it had such a controvwrsial rep 💀👍 BUT HAHA THAT ASIDE. I LIKED INNES TOO JUST BASED OFF DESIGN. also enjoy the homoerotic relationship he has goin with ephraim! if you like asugi i highly recommend checkin out the person he's based on - gaius from fire emblem awakening <3 (sorry awakening is my favourite game of all time ever every time i can shameless plug it i will)

🎶✨when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

!!!!!! I'll do five of my current obsessions, lol.

Jackrabbit - San Fermin - going to be my number one song of the year with a fucking bullet, because it's on EVERY PLAYLIST I MADE THIS YEAR I THINK

Wander. Wonder. - The Arcadian Wild - I've been hardcore obsessed with the arcadian wild since like... may, i think. their songs are absurdly applicable to a larp game im in and my character in particular, so. so.

The Crown - Wildwood Kin - also larp applicable. idk i just like it

Stray Italian Greyhound - Vienna Teng - it's literally just always on the rotation.

Love Cuts The Strings - The Mountain Goats - obligatory tmg rep

Musician Zayn Malik, Simone Ashley (Bridgerton), and comedian Mo Gilligan are among the stacked cast who will lend their voices to the new CG-animated family comedy 10 Lives from director Chris Jenkins (Duck Duck Goose).

Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls) round out the cast.

The flick is the story of a pampered and selfish cat who takes for granted the lives he has been dealt. After carelessly losing his ninth life, he begs to be given a second chance, an opportunity to show he can learn from his mistakes. Eventually, his wish is granted but with hilarious stipulations. GFM Animation will present first-look footage at AFM.

In the film, Gilligan voices Beckett, the pampered feline with a taste for fine food & lazy days who doesn’t know what’s about to hit him when he begs for a new set of lives. Ashley voices Rose, a dedicated and passionate research student intent on saving the world’s bee population. Malik voices two characters, Kirk and Cameron, twin brothers who like to think they are as tough as they come but who, deep down, want nothing more than to please their mum.

Okonedo voices Grace, an ethereal yet no-nonsense woman with the power to grant Beckett his new set of lives, and Llewellyn is Larry, Rose’s socially uncomfortable lab partner.

Producers on the pic are Guy Collins and Sean Feeney for 10 Lives Productions Ltd, with casting by Robyn Klein and Jeremy Ross. The animation studio is L’Atelier Animation in Montreal.

Mo Gilligan is repped by The UTC Group for worldwide management, Creative Artists Agency, Nelson Davis, and MBC. Simone Ashley is represented by Creative Artists Agency, Identity Agency Group and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light. Zayn Malik is represented by Nicola Carson (ZenKai Management/Taryn Zimmerman). Sophie Okonedo is represented by Creative Artists Agency and Hamilton Hodel. Dylan Llewellyn is represented by Hamilton Hodell.

Other titles on the GFM Animation slate include A Greyhound of a Girl, based on the Roddy Doyle book & directed by Enzo d’Alo, and Sneaks, an animated adventure featuring the voices of Laurence Fishburne, Roddy Ricch, Ella Mai, Macy Gray, Swae Lee, and Chris Paul.

Okay so just a few of the yan bois...?

We already know Bo's most likely a Golden Retriever.

Alan reminds me of Tramp from "Lady and the Tramp". (And although he's a mutt, Tramp's design is that of a Schnauzer.)

Peter, Pedro, and Mal would be Mexican Hairless dogs, (or literal Greyhounds, whichever one you wanna pick.)

Although Mal would probably be a disabled one (But that doesn't mean he's not a tough doggo.)

Doe's a Puli dog, (for obvious reasons.)

So, I guess what breed would Damon, Jack, Tate, Charles, Charlie and Victor be?

[Hmmm...I'm not 100% (more like 90%), but I'm sure that Bo is a Shiba-Inu based on some stuff Sauce shared. But he's a good boy all the same.

Alan can still be a mut, mainly because he and his bros all have different dads, but I'm feeling like...Australian Shepherd, mostly because Heterochromia is common in that breed.

Peter I'm going with Greyhound, Mal as Ibizan Hound, and Pedro Doberman Pinscher.

Doe is Puli, it's been confirmed.

Damon, Wolfdog. Jack, Border Collie. Tate, Dire Wolf. Charles/Charlie, Pitbull (I picked it because they were once nanny dogs known for sweetness, so Charles, and now they have a bad rep because of dog fighting, so Charlie). Victor, English Cocker Spaniel.]

Kato is proudly repping Greyhound Nation!! Go Hounds!

RAID AREA 51 AS RECOUNTED BY “VINNY”

📛PLEASE NOTE THAT THE AUTHOR IS WRITING IN THE COMMON VERNACULAR AND HAS PRESENTED THIS WORK WRITTEN AS SPOKEN AS SUCH📛

In september of 2019 i impulsively went to the storm area 51 event out in nevada, i start driving, i fall asleep behind the wheel, & crash my car in new york, i took a greyhound to new york city, took the subway to jfk airport, bought a plane ticket to las vegas, kill some time in vegas because i am now ahead of schedule, ask my friends how do i could carpool to area 51, they tell me to check the facebook event page, i do, i carpool with a butter company rep, dude sells butter to big stores & such, at area 51 i paint a sign that said "free hugs" (i used an empty pizza box i picked up at a pizzaria in vegas, & a bottle of black paint i stole from walmart) i still have that sign to this day, i got completely swarmed by a few group hugs, & in general was just giving out plenty of hugs, the butter salesman asked me to help him put on green body paint so he could feel like an alien, visited the gate, had a good time, butter salesman dude drops me off at the jerky shop on the main road there, & i make another sign, this one says "i don't bite" because i have read two wikihow guides & that's what they said to do so i start hitch hiking, dude pulls over & when i get in the car the very first thing he says to me is "don't worry, i don't bite either" dude was awesome, his name is rich, we spend some time swapping stories & such and after a half hour, hour or so, he starts his home comedian routine, he pulls a pointer finger wand out of his glove box & starts poking me while saying "things are getting out of hand" he tosses a controler shaped figit toy into my lap & says "we are loosing control" this bit goes on for a solid fifteen or so minutes & the finally is him taking a confetti gun & saying "i know you need a ride home so we're gonna hijack the car infront of us" proceeding to fire the confetti gun at the windshield a few times, eventually the conversation rolls around to "how do you know i'm not a cerial killer" & his response is to lift up his shirt showing me his .44 magnum, we get to his place, i take a shower, we drink a few beers, order a pizza, & watch a few episodes of drunk history & a few episodes of the vampire series "what we do in the shadows" ever since we called often & always planned on visiting each other, it still hasn't happened, but i ordered a ton of custom matchbooks with a quote from his (& my) favorite movie, 2011 animated western starting johnny depp, rango, rich really related to the main protagonist because he struggled with a similar conflict of finding purpose, anyways, i got out of rehab sometime in may of 2022, & when i got home i received a call from rich's wife telling me that he had committed suicide infront of her & at the time their 11 month old daughter, i received those custom matchbooks a few months later, anyways i tell this story because he was an awesome person & the fact that he is no longer with us is a constant reminder that even though he is no longer with us, the memory of him never did, it reminds me that if i did what he did i'm going to be talked about forever in a context similar to this, & that isn't something i never want to do to my friends

ALT. VERSE – TED LASSO

this barbie is a football fan ! – in which daphne is adopted as a teenager by a family in the UK. she's the same ambitious girl with even more ambitious dreams & talent to spare. similar to her main verse, she works as a live musician at a popular coffee shop, where rebecca welton happens to stumble upon her in a time of need. rebecca hires her for a huge event – a moral booster for her football team, as well as a place for important people to mingle & socialize. it's where daphne puts her all into dazzling the audience & where she winds up meeting vincent davenport, the man willing to rep her. the party ends up being a huge success & after a heartfelt conversation with rebecca, she offers to buy her lunch as the least she can do to show her gratitude. she hadn't expected they'd start having lunch every week, but before she knew it, she'd made a new friend. not long after this, the greyhounds begin seeing a lot more of daphne. & it's fair to say, they get themselves a brand new cheerleader. TAG – ( v; a touch of red & blue )

ALT. VERSE – DJATS

this barbie lives in the 70s ! – in which daphne is part of the los angeles musical scene in the 70s. she's not the first nor the last person taken under teddy price's wing, but their bond certainly feels special to her. a kid straight out of the system, living in a van with a worn out guitar & a noteboook filled with lyrics took his compliments & promises & clung to them for dear life when nothing else around her felt stable. she makes him proud. she's not quite rock & roll, though that's teddy's bread & butter. she works with a more mellow, silky sound, but with a sweet, powerful voice nonetheless & captures the heart of many in the years to come. her fans' love is her drug of choice & she works constantly to prove that she's worthy of it – of being taken a chance on for the first time in her life. TAG – ( v; leave it all behind & there is happiness )

ALT. VERSE – GEN V

this barbie's voice kills ! – in which daphne gets injected with compound v as a baby & come puberty, her cursed power manifests at the worst time. all she'd wanted to do is surprise her parents with a song on their anniversary – she'd set up the table & the fairy lights in the backyard, she'd ordered them their favorite food & expertly chose the song they danced to at their wedding. as they danced to celebrate their 15 years of marriage, daphne sung & hit each note. even the highest, most difficult note to hit. her vocal chords did more than that, though. they'd created a sound so piercing, so unbearable, that it didn't take more than one moment for her parents to collapse, irreparable brain damage taking them away from her forever. broken up & adamant to keep the painful screams just inside her own head, she ends up in the system along with marie. she lets go of her singing dreams, afraid of what might happen if she lets music back into her life, but recognizes the power that she holds. the godolkin university accepts her. she chooses the crimefighting route, no matter how much her heart earns for the performing arts. she will never sing again. & that's non-negotiable. TAG – ( v; screaming bloody murder )

Hey! As another lesbian who watches Ted Lasso, I was wondering how you felt about the greyhound raiser who's obsessed with Keeley in the latest episode? It was a very short moment in what I thought was otherwise a very excellent episode, but it didn't quite sit right with me. On the one hand, I love this delightful dog-raising lesbian who thinks Keeley is hot because, same. But on the other hand, it's not ideal for, you know, the closest thing to queer representation we have in the show.

Hi! Thanks for this ask! I’ve only watched the finale once, and I’m with you—I loved the episode and I did not enjoy the scene with the queer woman greyhound raiser because it felt very borderline Predatory Lesbian Stereotype. Which is so tired and such a stupid thing that makes queer women feel bad and stressed out about their own attraction to people and I hate it!

I tried to put my finger on what bothered me about the scene and it’s a bit difficult, because (keeping in mind I’ve only watched it once) I don’t take issue with the writing of the scene nor do I especially take issue with the acting! I think the issue for me is an issue of the directing and editing; I somehow wanted the camera angles to feel different, and for the scene to be a few beats shorter, because I would have gotten more out of the scene if we’d been physically closer to Keeley’s reaction.

In a conversation about the scene, @freetobegrace made a really excellent point that this scene does kind of reflect a lot of the contradictory things about Keeley’s life right now. Keeley is trying to process what it means that she’s opening the real her up to the world a bit more in places like the Vanity Fair article, but she’s often still seen as an influencer, a model, a semi-famous hot person. That observation did help me consider the value of this scene about “being seen” (and how accurate or inaccurate that gaze is) taking place between two queer women, and when one of whom exists on such a cusp. Keeley seems a little uncomfortable but also flattered, and that’s very in line with her reactions to all kinds of attention. Again, well-written, well-acted, super fucking weird pacing/angles.

I definitely hope Ted Lasso explores more queer relationships in the future, and in more intentional ways. Men’s professional sport is such a famously closed-off place for queer athletes, and the show has laid such excellent groundwork for something like this with the whole mental health/authenticity conversation. In s1, Richmond undergoes a beautiful cultural shift, but it’s very insular, very team-building-y. Then s2 takes that kind culture and explodes it in really lovely ways. The mental health conversation becomes more intimate because of Ted’s crisis, but it also becomes more public. That’s a really rich atmosphere for exploring queerness, and I hope they take advantage.

I will say, though, that I do count Keeley as queer rep. She’s canonically bi; she’s talked about past experiences with women, she’s flirted with Rebecca and then made it clear that her attraction to her isn’t a joke. Do I want more? Of course! But she very much reads as an authentically queer woman who happens to be in a committed relationship with a man.

Going back to the Barkingham Palace scene, I’ll definitely be on the lookout when I rewatch the season, but to me this primarily feels like a directing mishap on the part of Declan Lowney, which makes me a little sad since I tend to really love the episodes he directs. A little more intention would have made this a pretty cute scene that reminds us of Keeley’s queerness and paints a portrait of who she is as a public figure coming into her own.

I need something to do and I’ve been thinking about what the Heartless characters would be if they were dogs so. Them as dog breeds lol <3

Heartless: Corgi! He’s just a litol guy

Alchemy: Poodle,,, they’re pretty, that’s all I’ve got. I imagine they’d be a white poodle but part of them is dyed pink with that dog-safe dye that they make

Flint: German shepherd!! He protect

Eira: Some sort of white husky, idk the different types of husky lol. The image of him just screaming his head off is. So funny djdbdjnd

Doppel/Glass: Miniature pinschers! My grandparents have one and idk that’s just their energy

River: Yorkshire terrier! Again,, litol

Alastor: Chihuahua. No I will not elaborate

Dock: Great Dane. He fockin beeg

Lorelei: Pomeranian. Tiny fancy dog secretly full of spite

Bandy: Maybe a beagle? They’re very smart,,, not confident about this one sjbdjd

Diana: Bloodhound. She’s Gonna Get U

Lance: Either a rottweiler or a pitbull. They get a bad rep but you see,, I Love <3<3

Brook: Probably a labrador or a golden retriever? Something very active and friendly

Arthyr: Samoyed!!!! They’re snow dogs and they’re super super cuddly :D

Krome: Greyhound. Idk that’s just his energy. They’re like endearing in a weird way yk?

Moira: Shih tzu!! Little tiny, very friendly

Murphy: Cat

5 Anti LO Asks

1. Does this person know what Cyber bullying is???? We’re not even targeting RS! We’re just stating facts and our opinions on this WEBTOON who are using actual gods and goddesses!!! And interpreting them in a bad way that isn’t even based on their mythology. This is actually someone’s religion and history as well!! And it’s being shown in a horrible way even if you see it slightly or not.

2. lmao lo worshippers will literally call people slurs and send them threats but when someone points out some writing inconsistencies they wanna act like they’re the victims

3. 'YOU'RE SO HATEFUL' they sob into their little white cishet hands, pointing to a greyhound bus's worth of people of color, trans people, gay men, lesbians, asexuals, rape victims, and polytheists. 'YOU'RE JUST SO MEAN TO HER WHEN YOU TELL HER THAT SHE'S HURTING YOUR COMMUNITIES!' anon when someone says you're being racist do you always react with 'thats so mean and judgemental' or do you say 'how can i be less racist'?

4. LO is totally feminist! as long as you're a cisgender heterosexual white woman under the age of thirty who's okay with slavery.

5. so smythe is ... cool with retconning apollo in as a rapist, but NOT willing to admit that zeus and poseidon both have male lovers? or, let's go even further in this: underage or DAMN NEAR TO IT male lovers? ganymede and nerites could SERIOUSLY connect with persephone on this whole 'my boyfriend is old enough to be my grandfather' thing, and she could even twist them into being adult and consensual, especially nerites. but queer rep might mean she has to think about the icky gays right?

letters from an american

Letters From an American

Heather Cox Richardson

August 28, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

Today, Americans across the country marched for voting rights.

They recognize that our right to have a say in our government is slipping out of our hands. At a rally in Washington, Martin Luther King III told the crowd, “Our country is backsliding to the unconscionable days of Jim Crow. And some of our senators are saying, ‘Well, we can’t overcome the filibuster,’.... I say to you today: Get rid of the filibuster. That is a monument to white supremacy we must tear down.”

Since 1986, Republicans have worked to limit access to the polls, recognizing that when more people vote, they lose. Those restrictions took off after 2013 when, in the Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court gutted the provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that required the Department of Justice to sign off on changes to voting in states with histories of racial discrimination.

That decision opened the way to voter restrictions, but voting laws have come especially fast and furious this year. Republicans have refused to accept that the election of Democrat Joe Biden was legitimate and, in Republican-dominated states, have worked to make sure Democrats do not have the power to elect another president in the future. Between January 1 and July 14 of this year, at least 18 states have enacted 30 laws restricting access to the vote.

Their plan is clearly to make sure those states stay Republican, no matter what the voters actually want.

This lack of competition destroys Democrats’ chances of winning elections, but it also pushes the Republican Party further and further to the right. With states sewn up for a Republican victory, potential Republican presidential candidates have to worry less about winning a general election than about winning the primaries.

Because primary voters are always the most energized and partisan voters, and because for the Republicans that currently means staunch Trump supporters, those vying to be Republican front runners are the Trump extremists: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for example, and even Florida’s Matt Gaetz and Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, who recently have been touring the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire attacking mask requirements and vaccine mandates, critical race theory and the infrastructure bills currently under discussion in Congress.

Vote-rigging in Republican-dominated states leads logically to a Republican extremist winning the White House in 2024.

Congress has before it two voting rights bills that would help to restore a level playing field between the two parties. One, the For the People Act, protects the right to vote, ends partisan gerrymandering, limits corporate money in elections, and requires new ethics rules for elected officials. The House passed the For the People Act in March.

On Tuesday, August 24, the House passed the second of the two voting rights bills, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, also known as H.R. 4, which expands the system of preclearance that had been in the 1965 Voting Rights Act before 2013. Under the John Lewis bill, the Department of Justice has to sign off on voting changes not simply in states with a longstanding history of discrimination, but also in states anywhere in the country that have shown a pattern of violations of voting rights.

Both of these measures are stalled in the Senate, where Republicans, who insist that states, not the federal government, must have the final say in who gets to vote, have vowed to filibuster them. Unless the Democrats can agree to carve out an exception to the filibuster for voting rights, the measures will die.

And today, Americans across the country marched for voting rights.

Today is the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was on this day in 1963 that the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Dr. King anchored the speeches for the day, though: before him spoke the chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a young John Lewis. Just 23 years old, he had been one of the thirteen original Freedom Riders, white and black students traveling together from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans to challenge segregation. “It was very violent. I thought I was going to die. I was left lying at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery unconscious,” Lewis later recalled.

Two years later, as Lewis and 600 marchers hoping to register African American voters in Alabama stopped to pray at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, mounted police troopers charged the marchers, beating them with clubs and bullwhips. They fractured Lewis’s skull.

The attack in Selma created momentum for voting rights. Just after the attack, President Lyndon Baines Johnson called for Congress to pass a national voting rights bill. It did. On August 6, 1965, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act authorizing federal supervision of voter registration in districts where African Americans were historically underrepresented.

Today is also the anniversary of the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single senator. ​​On this date in 1957, South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond began his filibuster to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1957, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was designed to protect the right of African Americans to vote, using the federal government to overrule the state laws that limited voter registration and kept Black voters from the polls.

On a day that harks back to both John Lewis’s fight for voting rights and Strom Thurmond’s fight against them, I wonder which man’s principles will shape our future.

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Notes:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/19/reps-marjorie-taylor-greene-mtg-matt-gaetz-hold-america-first-rally-des-moines-iowa-donald-trump/5539728001/

https://www.vox.com/2021/8/18/22629304/supreme-court-voting-rights-john-lewis-act-nancy-pelosi-terri-sewell-brnovich-shelby-county

https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-laws-vot

Tennessee playlist

I’m going to Memphis! This is the mighty Tennessee - Memphis & Nashville playlist. You can’t tell the story of rock n roll without mentioning Memphis. Mississippi and Nashville, such a great history of music in this region. Chuck D hits things off with the ultimate introduction. Hit play here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC1_X9nesbW37-9FNLiJWOQ1f

This playlist has it all. Soul, blues and rock n roll. We take a journey back to the beginning of country as well, with Nashville and finish up at Dollywood. Hope you dig it.

Tennessee - Mississippi - Arkansas

001 Henry Rollins & Chuck D - Rise Above 002 Clutch -  Devil & Me 003 Paul Simon - Graceland 004 Isaac Hayes - Memphis Trax 005 Scott Walker - Thats How I Got to Memphis 006 AC/DC - let there be rock 007 Johnny Cash -  Country Boy 008 Chuck Berry -  Back To Memphis 009 Jay Reatard - Gree, Money, Useless Children 010 Lukah - Black Dragon 011 King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew 012 Rosetta Howard & the Harlem Hamfats - Delta Bound 013 Nots - In Glass 014 Pere Ubu - Memphis 015 Loretta Lynn - The Pill 016 Howlin Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin 017 Rory Gallagher - The Mississippi Sheiks 018 Crime and the City Solution - Streets Of West Memphis 019 River City Tanlines - Met You Before 020 Johnny Cash - Going To Memphis 021 Al Green - Get Back Baby 022 Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - The Zipper 023 Booker T & the MG - Melting Pot 024 Pussycat - Mississippi 025 Boswell Sisters - Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On 026 Aretha Franklin   - Muddy Water 027 The Cramps - Garbageman 028 HASH REDACTOR - Good Sense 029 Optic Sink - Personified 030 Angry Angles - Blockhead 031 Big Star - Thirteen 032 Memphis Jug Band -  Going Back to Memphis 033 North Mississippi AllStars - K.C. Jones (On The Road Again) 034 Bass Drum Of Death -  Bad Reputation 035 Today Is the Day -  The Devil's Blood 036 Walk the Line Soundtrack- Get Rhythm 037 Jack White -  Temporary Ground 038 Jerry Lee Lewis - A Damn Good Country Song 039 The Homemade Jamz Blues Band - Rumors 040 Saving Abel - Pine Mountain (The Dance of the Poor Proud Man) 041 The Oxford Circle - Foolish Woman 042 Bobbie Gentry - Greyhound Goin' Somewhere 043 Reigning Sound - A Little More Time 044 NINA SIMONE - MISSISSIPPI GODDAM! 045 Laurie Anderson - Hiawatha 046 Glen Campbell - Burning Bridges 047 Dolly Parton - Hillbilly Willy 048 Elvis Presley - Guitar Man 049 Blue Oyster Cult - Divine Wind 050 Sammy Hagar - Halfway To Memphis 051 Izzy Stradlin   - Memphis                       052 Johnny Cash -  Run Softly, Blue River 053 Iron Horse - Unchained 054 The Cramps - Human Fly 055 Faces - Memphis 056 Jack Oblivian - Rat City 057 The Cooters - Bustin' Loose 058 Mott the Hoople - All The Way From Memphis 059 Dusty Springfield -  Breakfast in Bed 060 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo 061 Chicago - Blues In The Night             062 Crossin Dixon - Guitar Slinger 063 Strummin' With The Devil - And the Cradle Will Rock 064 Stray Cats -  Can't Go Back to Memphis 065 Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds 066 Suzi Quatro - Can't Trust Love 067 Lost Sounds - There's Nothing   068 Ike & Tina Turner ~ River Deep, Mountain High 069 Neil Diamond - Memphis Flyer 070 Julien Baker - hardline 071 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Memphis Soul Typecast 072 Isaac Hayes  - Groove-A-Thon 073 Otis Clay - Trying To Live My Life Without You 074 Tim McGraw - Don't Mention Memphis 075 Eric Burdon & War - Blues For Memphis Slim 076 Homemade Jamz Blues Band - Blues Train 077 Sweet Knives - I DON'T WANNA DIE 078 Cream - Four Until Late 079 Grateful Dead - Golden Road 080 Huey Lewis and the  NEWS - Function At The Junction 081 The Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf 082 Jesse Winchester_ The Brand New Tennessee Waltz 083 Dorsey Burnette - Tall Oak Tree 084 Field Music - Time In Joy 085 Jay Reatard -  Blood Visions 086 The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women 087 Quintron & Miss Pussycat  - Block the comet 088 Al Green - Let's Stay Together 089 The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives 090 Johnny Cash -  Tennessee Flat Top Box 091 Robert Pete Williams & Robert “Guitar" J. Welch - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues 092 MARY JAMES - MAKE THE DEVIL LEAVE ME ALONE 093 Ministry - Mississippi Queen 094 U.S. Bombs - Rocks in Memphis 095 Nazareth - Jet Lag 096 The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost 097 Ty Segall - Despoiler Of Cadaver 098 His Hero Is Gone - Like Weeds 099 Jerry Lee Lewis - Memphis Beat 100 Generation X =  King Rocker 101 The Doobie Brothers - Wild Ride 102 Bad Company - Whiskey Bottle 103 Black Stone Cherry - When The Weight Comes Down 104 Buddy Miles - Memphis Train 105 Memphis Slim - Rockin' The House (Beer Drinkin' Woman) 106 David Clayton Thomas  - Wish The World Would Come to Memphis 107 Lost Sounds - Better Than Somethings 108 Alice Cooper - Ubangi Stomp 109 Tom Waits -  Don't Go Into The Barn 110 Hank Snow - Music Makin' Mama From Memphis 111 Phil Ochs - Heres to the State of Misssippi 112 Reigning Sound  - Your Love Is A Fine Thing 113 Pixies -  Letter to Memphis 114 Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 115 The Colorblind James Experience - Considering A Move To Memphis 116 B.B.King - Rock Me Baby 117 Carla Thomas - B-A-B-Y 118 Aquarian Blood - A Love That Leads To War 119 Nights Like These - Scavenger's Daughter 120 Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog 121 Clutch -  The House That Peterbilt 122 Lyal Strickland - O Arkansas 123 Don Bryant - How Do I Get There 124 The Sensational Barnes Brothers - Trying To Go Home 125 Squirrel Nut Zippers - Memphis Exorcism 126 Faster Pussycat - Tattoo 127 The Rolling Stones - Memphis Tennessee 128 Alcatrazz -  Sons And Lovers 129 Evil Army - Violence And War 130 Deep Purple - Somebody Stole My Guitar (Purpendicular 11) 131 Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs 132 UFO - Natural Thing 133 Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys - Tennessee 134 Confederate Railroad - Queen of Memphis 135 The Box Tops - The Letter 136 Jerry Lee Lewis - Night Train To Memphis 137 Reverend John Wilkins - Trouble 138 Phil Lynott - Kings Call (feat. Mark Knopfler) 139 Old Crow Medicine Show - Motel in Memphis 140 Candy Lee- Here in Arkansas 141 Pharoah Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom 142 Molly Hatchet - Mississippi Moon Dog 143 Rwake - Crooked Rivers 144 CARL PERKINS & PAUL SIMON - A Mile Out Of Memphis 145 Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood 146 Al Green - Talk to me 147 Mush - Eat the Etiquette 148 PJ Harvey - Memphis 149 EX-CULT  - Clinical Study 150 Isaac Hayes  - Mans Temptation 151 Lil’ Jon & Eastside Boyz - Rep Yo City 152 Rufus Wainwright - Memphis Skyline 153 Stray Cats - 18 Miles to Memphis 154 Amasa Hines - Earth and Sky 155 Joe Henderson -  Back Road 156 Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash - Memphis Woman 157 Norma Jean - Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste 158 Fess Parker - Ballad of Davy Crockett 159 Assjack -  Redneck Ride 160 Brother Andy & His Big Damn Mouth - Social Lube 161 The Replacements - Alex Chilton 162 Ann Peebles - The handwriting is on the wall 163 The Highwaymen -  Big River 164 The Cult - Memphis Hip Shake 165 STEVE EARLE -  Hillbilly Highway 166 The BO-KEYS featuring OTIS CLAY -Got To Get Back 167 Rush - Tom Sawyer 168 Class Of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming - Birth Of Rock And Roll 169 Hank Williams Jr - Memphis Belle 170 Sam Moore & Dave Prater - Soul Man 171 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Bloc Bloc Bloc 172 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition  - Just Dropped In 173 Linda Heck - pictures of dead people 174 Carla Thomas - Sugar 175 Three Mafia 6 - Mystic Stylez 176 Osborne Brothers- Rocky Top 177 The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song 178 Wilson Pickett - Barefootin' 179 Dolly Parton - Jolene 180 Charlie Daniels - long haired country boy 181 The Civil Wars - From This Valley 182 Jill Jack - Gettin' On In Memphis (The Elvis Song) 183 Huckleberry Finn and His Friends - Opening title 184 Dead Cross -  Skin of a Redneck 185 Johnny Cash - I Never Picked Cotton 186 Old Crow Medicine Show -  Wagon Wheel 187 Isaac Hayes  - That love feeling 188 Aretha Franklin - I say a little prayer 189 Little Milton - What Do You Do When You Love Somebody 190 Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful 191 Weird Al" Yankovic - Money For Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies 192 The Oblivians - I'll Be Gone 193 OT Sykes - Stone crush on you 194 The Mad Lads  - Come closer to me 195 The Box Tops - Choo Choo train 196 Bobby Blue Bland - dreamer 197 Wanda Jackson - Rip It Up 198 Junior Parker - Love Ain't Nothin' but a Business Goin' On 199 The Nightingales ft. Tommy Tate - Just a Little Overcome 200  The Louvin Brothers - Satan is real 201 Overture "Big River" - (1985 Original Broadway Cast) 202 Ike & Tina Turner - Shake 203 Playa Fly - fly shit 204 Adia Victoria - Different Kind Of Love 205 Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed 206 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Backwoods 207 Otis Redding - Tennessee Waltz 208 Nashville Pussy - The Late Great USA 209 The Paperhead - The true poet 210 Tomahawk - South Paw 211 Night Beats - Her Cold Cold Heart 212 Forest of Tygers - human monster 213 LOSS - All Grows on Tears 214 Charlie McCoy - Wayfaring Stranger 215 Dick Stusso - Modern Music 216 Eddie Noack - Aint the Reaping Ever Done 217 Jason & the Scorchers - Greetings From Nashville   218 Jasmin Kaset and Quichenight - A Single Right Word 219  Gospel Keynotes - Give Me My Flowers 220   WEEN - Scrape the Mucus off My Brain 221 Shannon Shaw - Broke My Own 222 The Jesus Lizard - Blue Shot 223 Eddy Arnold    - Tennessee Stud 224 Clutch - Pure Rock Fury 225 Today Is The Day -  Who Is The Black Angel? 226 Hank Williams Jnr - Tennessee River 227 The Dead Weather -  Bone House 228  Every Mother's Nightmare - Long Haired Country Boy 229 Motley Crue - She goes down 230 Waylon Jennings - Tennessee 231 Dolly Parton - Down On Music Row 232 Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Lets Go Burn Ole Nashville Down 233 The Byrds - Nashville West 234 Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up 235 Bill Anderson ~ More Than A Bedroom Thing 236 Dottie West - Route 65 To Nashville 237 Intruder - The Martyr 238 Johnny Cash - Smiling Bill McCall 239 Lynard Skynyrd - Workin For MCA 240 The Everly Brothers  - Nashville Blues 241 Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Elusive Dreams 242 Nashville Bluegrass Band - Im Gonna Love You 243 Ringo Starr - No-No Song 244 Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin' 245 The Lovin Spoonful - Nashville Cats 246 They Might Be Giants - James K. Polk 247 Commander Cody  -  Back To Tennessee 248 Wanda Jackson - Shakin' All Over 249 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Grand Ole Opry Song 250 Tomahawk - Flashback 251 Megadeth -  Dystopia 252 Dolly Parton -  Train, Train 253 The Clovers - One Mint Julep 254 Trampled By Turtles - Whiskey 255 Tom T. Hall - Nashville is a Groovy Little Town 256 Muddy Waters - I am the blues 257 Foo Fighters - Congregation 258 Pavement - Strings Of Nashville 259 Joe Ely - Tennessees Not The State Im In 260 Waylon Jennings - Nashville Bum 261 The Charmels - As Long As I Got You 262 Eve Maret - Do my thing 263 SABATON - 82nd All the Way 264 Halfway To Hazard - Welcome To Nashville 265 Nashville Pussy - Go Motherfucker Go 266 Indigo Girls - Nashville 267 Snarls - Walk In The Woods 268 Steeler - Cold Day in Hell 269 Strummin' With The Devil  - Jamies Cryin' 270 spazz gummo love theme 271 The Cramps - Cornfed Dames 272 Saxon -  Solid Ball Of Rock 273 Al Green - Tired of Being Alone 274 Soul Friction - It's Out Of My Hands 275 Today Is the Day - Wheelin' 276 Jackie Lynn - Odessa 277 The Jesus Lizard - Nub 278 Bully - Where To Start 279 Sonny Boy Williamson II - Lonesome Cabin 280 Tomahawk - God hates a coward 281 The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl 282 Tom Waits - Jitterbug Boys 283 The Evil Dead Soundtrack  - Bridge Out 284 Wanda Jackson - Thunder On The Mountain 285 Elvis Presley - Where Do I Go From Here 286 Booker T & the MGs - Back Home 287 Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - American Highway 288 Joe Ely - dream camera 289 Assjack - Tennessee Driver 290 Nashville Pussy  - We Want A War 291 Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere 292 Hank Williams, Jr. - Knoxville Courthouse Blues 293 ZZ Top - My Head's in Mississippi 294 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -  Honky Tonkin' 295 Dead Weather - Die by the Drop 296 The Black Belles - What can I do 297 Dolly Parton  - Cowgirl And The Dandy 298 The Secret Sisters  - I've Got a Feeling 299 Justin Townes Earle - Aint Got No Money 300 Tomahawk - M.E.A.T 301 Jex Thoth - The Places You Walk 302 Bill Carter - Road To Nowhere 303 Bill Dees (Roy Orbison back vocals) - Tennesse Owns My Soul 304 Karen Elson  - The Ghost Who Walks 305 The Who - Whiskey Man 306 Hank Williams III - Crazed Country Rebel 307 The Lost Sounds - I Get Nervous 308 Big Star - September Gurls 309 ZZ Top - Whiskey n Mama 310 Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down 666 Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllablecsesquedalymistic

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Lewis always brings Roscoe, but what kind of dogs would the other drivers bring? 👀

Anon, I had to turn on my computer, sit at my desk and do a few stretches before answering this ask. It has my FULL attention:

Lewis Hamilton - he shows up with Roscoe as always. He's never going to replace the original Goodest Boy

Valtteri Bottas - he would show up with a Shiba Inu. Cute lil thing at first, but they are nasty lil bastards. Bonus, have you ever heard one scream? He picks a Shiba for the single reason that it would annoy the fuck out of Lewis and for once he would have the psychological advantage

Sebastian Vettel - A German Shepherd. Just like his owner, he's super smart and can probably come up with a better race strategy than Ferrari. Bonus, it barks when journos ask him asinine questions

Charles Leclerc - He shows up with a naked mole rat. The pet store sold it to him as a hairless chihuahua and nobody in the paddock has the courage to tell Sharl that his 'very unique dog, just like me because I'm Monegasque' is, in fact, not a dog

Max Verstappen - a rabid chihuahua with the propensity of peeing anytime he's near an object that belongs to Christian Horner

Alex Albon - Golden retriever, it's his emotional support animal. That dog deserves a raise. 

Romain Grosjean - He shows up with a cat with a shedding problem, just to fuck with Steiner. 

Kevin Magnussen - He shows up with a Dobermann because he thought it would make him look cool. Turns out that the dog is scared of Romain's cat and has an allergy to cat dander.

Daniel Ricciardo - his dog of choice would be a massive Bullmastiff who drools WAYY too much and thinks he's a lap dog. Dan thinks it's hilarious, Cyril starts aging in dog years out of extreme stress.

Esteban Ocon - he shows up with a pug named Mimi. He spends most of his income on dresses and accessories on the lil guy. He creates an insta account and updates it on the hour, neglecting his PR duties at Renault much to the despair of Cyril.

Lance Stroll - he shows up with a perfectly coiffed poodle. Lance understands that with great floof comes great responsibilities. 

Sergio Perez - his dog would be a Bichon Frise. Small, cute but mighty. 10/10 will destroy you if you cross his owner.

Carlos Sainz - no dogs. It's not part of his culture.

Lando Norris - he shows up with a Great Dane so big, you could probably put a saddle on him and ride it (the dog, not Lando ya nasties) 

Kimi Raikkonen - he shows up with a chow chow that does not make a peep. He's just there. Silent. Omnipresent. Staring at you. 

Antonio Giovinazzi - his dog would be a Shar Pei. He would spend most of his time laughing at the wrinkly dog. Nothing gets done in the garage because the mechanics made a bet that they could actually count how many rolls the dog has.

Daniil Kvyat - nobody really understand what kind of dog he shows up with, as it looks like a massive cloud. Upon closer inspection it is quickly determined tha the dog is in fact a massive Samoyed who has made it it's life purpose to socialize his owner. Dany cries a lot. 

Pierrre Gasly - he shows up with an Italian Greyhound so full of energy, the engineers at Alphatauri are trying to understand if it's possible to harness it's power and finally substitute that dubious Honda PU 

Nicholas Latifi - he shows up with the biggest, most lovably Newfie. He proudly shows him off saying his repping his home breed. Someone explains to him that Toronto is nowhere near Newfoundland. Geography was never Nick's strongest suit in school.

George Russell - his dog is a Tibetan Mastiff. He adopted it with the sole purpose to show off to Toto Wolff that he can, in fact, handle big and powerful things so could he PLEASE give him a shot at that Mercedes seat?

BONUS:  Nico Hülkenberg - he shows up with a Pomeranian that has better hair than Hulkie ever hopes to achieve.