#primary progressive

[full-metal-femme]

I'd seen an article about this earlier in the year and while I dont think this is an update, it's always worth sharing, especially since it looks like they're looking for trial participants 🤘🏻

My dad has MS, i'm about the age he was diagnosed now (early 30's), and the thought of a cure in our lifetimes? Fucking mind blowing. He has been slowly robbed of his physical ability over 30 years and now it is affecting his mental ability too so I don't know if 2035 is something he'll live to see but considering when he got it (early 90's), the treatment was "hope for the best and treat symptoms", this is just... I don't even have words for how incredible that is.

I often think about how I would take the news of a diagnosis like that. He was early 30's, had a 2 year old kid and a brand new baby (me), a mortgage, etc. Life just beginning you could say. Then to be given basically a death sentence, prolonged over however long the rest of your life might be - mercifully short and less suffering, or longer and painful but you get to be with your family. I don't know how he managed.

Anyway, rambling. This is good news and an exciting thing to look forward to!

[politijohn]

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally

This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.

[o-the-mts]

(via Tumblr: Image)

[doctorsiren]

possible theraprism bill song perhaps :>

Lyrics:

All I see in front of me

Is the blue and red waxy shapes

Sides of 3, oh, just like me

But I can’t remember their face

Add me in

It’s primary

In a world

Only 2D

But beyond

What they could see:

The stars

The stars

Suddenly I was alone

I didn’t mean for this to happen

And I was left without a home

Besides in heads of people nappin’

New title:

Dream demon

Triangle who would bring about the end

I didn’t mean to go this far

I just wanted them to see

The stars

The stars

The stars

Mom and Dad

I’m sorry

Look what’s become

Of your Billy

I just want to go home

Not see these stars

Now I’m here in a prison

Paying for my crimes

I just wanna go home

One last time

One last time

All I see in front of me is

Pristine padded walls

They washed away my waxy shapes

But I continue to draw

Come back to me

My family

Save my fading

Memories

It hurts to be in therapy

Where I can’t see the stars

The stars

The stars

(la la la x??)

[legionofpotatoes]

star wars outlaws

[denofimagination-blog]

How it's made? Ice diorama!

Write to service@denofimagination.com to get a quote!

[joesleftskeleton]

Self portrait :D

[wormzandgutz]

peacock work in progress again, im still stuck on what to do

[britneyshakespeare]

The first woman president will be a racist white Republican, I'll put 100 dollars on it. And the GOP will be so proud of themselves about electing a woman who ran on a platform of their usual fear-mongering dirty tricks, waxing poetic about how it proves they're superior to Democrats for not being able to beat Trump with two female candidates who were more than qualified for the job.

[laniusbignaturals]

“Fandom is a space to escape and relax” says the white twenty something who tacitly expects black and brown fans to scroll through mindless repetitions of racist storytelling before they can get to their, uh, “relaxation”

[politijohn]

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Democracy, baby

[haliaiii]

Not much to post for now but here’s a wip of a painting !!

[moggettt]

Art vs artist, 2023!

[szappan]

university.. university leave me alone

[sniperct]

If Joe Manchin's been such a brazenly reactionary opportunist for so long, why didn't the Democrats censure him and work out a way to force him to follow the party line long ago? It's not like putting pressure on a colleague to get them to toe the line is unheard of in politics (LBJ did this all the time). Zionist Democrats channeled millions of dollars into destroying Rep. Cori Bush's re-election (despite her popularity with liberal voters) yet the rest of the party leadership didn't make it a priority to do something similar to Joe Manchin years ago?

Sounds like they prioritize hating Black women and Palestinians (or, at least, they care more about not alienating the racists within the party who feel this way) more than they care about preserving reproductive rights for all.

This is bait, but I'll take it to explain a few things. This is a bit cynical and practical, but that's the only way to approach politics for me .

The party with the most seats in the senate controls the senate.

2014- GOP had the senate 2016- GOP had the senate 2018- GOP had the senate 2020- 50/50 senate. Dems had the senate because we had the VP. Without manchin, GOP would have had the senate 2022- 50/50 senate same deal

At some point there it became 51/49 but *gestures vaguely at Sinema*

Generally, without joe manchin, the last of the blue dogs, Mcconnell would have still had the senate, and thus controlled approving judges and the agenda, which as we learned between 2014 and 2020, was pretty bad for us.

It is better to have someone who votes with us 45% of the time (manchin) over a republican who will vote with us 0% of the time. Simple as that. With him retiring, West Virginia is unlikely to vote in a democrat to the senate for a generation. Its that conservative a state and all politics is local - you have to realize that most demcrats in a red state are going to not be progressives. They're going to suck, but they'll still suck significantly less than a republican in that same seat.

This isn't like AZ where we can kick Sinema to the curb and have a reasonable chance to retain the seat. This is WV, and Manchin was always on the verge of switching parties, and thus control of the senate.

The house traditionally has a much wider margin for error in terms of control. Its rarely a 50% split. There's usually enough wiggle room to allow some members to vote their conscience as long as major legislation still passes.