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@/bogleech when will my husband return from the war I WANT TO DIVORCE HIM SOME mORE
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Dolls of Fern and Jay from @bogleech's webcomic Awful Hospital!
Jay is currently being dunked in milk and thrown against walls responsibly owned by @staticlake
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The Jay fan’s dilemma of being excited for him to possibly return and being terrified that something will be revealed about him so horrifically inexcusable and vile that you’ll start to question if you can even justifiably like him anymore.
#awful hospital#text post#shitpost (?)#I’m not talking about like “oh he was a serial killer in the Grey Zone too and he tortured people!”#I mean like#he was an abusive husband to Karen and THAT’S WHY they got divorced#I know their marriage definitely wasn’t the best but I hope that’s not why#I really hope it was just a difference of opinions and world views#or that she was justifiably scared and upset that he was killing people#or that he just like complained too much#I would be like actually upset if we find that out about him#I know he’s just a fictional murderer but he really IS one of my biggest comfort characters#even the hidden pages with Harold put me on edge because it was staring to imply a pattern of abusive behavior that 100% could’ve#carried over to his marriage#I know I shouldn’t expect outstanding morals from Jacob fucking BATESON but still like#you know what I’m getting at right?#I know it’s possible to like morally corrupt characters without condoning their actions or have headcanon versions of characters you like#but still I DO have limits to what will turn me off from a character completely#and I hope he doesn’t do down that route#maybe I’m just being stupid and overly sensitive and morally righteous#over a fictional unhinged killer#idk#in the end me being upset about where the character might go in the future should not be held as genuine criticism#of the story or character writing of the comic#bog has had planned who jay will become and will be all along#and just because I became attached to an incomplete view of that#character it doesn’t mean that the character or the story are bad because something that made me uncomfortable was introduced later
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June 5 marks one of the most consequential and crowded primary days of the year.
Much of the action is in California, where a “jungle primary” system could lock Democrats out of important House races in November and 84-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein is facing a compelling primary challenger. There’s also a surprisingly heated governor’s primary contest in South Dakota.
Eight states go to the polls on Tuesday: Alabama, California, New Jersey, Iowa, Montana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Of course, not all those states have high-profile primary elections. We’ll guide you through what you actually need to pay attention to, with live results below, powered by Decision Desk.
California
The House races in California could make or break the blue wave. Zac Freeland/Vox
Incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein, at age 84, is the oldest US senator; she’s been in office since 1992. This year, she has a challenger: state Sen. Kevin De León, the former president pro tempore of the California Senate, who thinks California might be ready to elect a younger, more progressive candidate. But Feinstein is still fairly popular in the state and has a war chest with millions. She’ll be tough to beat.
On the Republican side, there’s pro-Trump candidate James Bradley, who has little money and almost no name recognition. He’s unlikely to make it through the primary.
Rep. Tom McClintock, the incumbent Republican and the most conservative Congress member in California, is almost guaranteed the top spot in the “top two” primary system. But there’s a heated race between two Democratic women to claim the No. 2 slot to run in November.
Jessica Morse, 35, a national security strategist whose résumé includes the State Department, Defense Department, and USAID, has gained the Democratic Party endorsement and the support of many progressive groups. She’s outraised her Democratic competitors and even McClintock and is the Democratic favorite. But Regina Bateson, an MIT professor and native of the local town Roseville, has mounted a formidable challenge.
This R+10 district is rated as Likely Republican by the Cook Political Report, but Democrats still think it’s in play. McClintock represents a district encompassing Roseville, Lake Tahoe, and down to Yosemite National Park — but he doesn’t live there.
Incumbent Republican Rep. Jeff Denham, who came into Congress in the 2010 Tea Party wave, will likely be up against one of three Democrats in November: Michael Eggman, a 53-year-old third-generation beekeeper who is making his third run against Denham; Josh Harder, the 31-year-old venture capitalist who backed the meal kit service Blue Apron; and Virginia Madueño, the 52-year-old former mayor of Riverbank who has been tapped by Emily’s List.
In 2016, Denham narrowly won by 3.4 percent in one of the closest House races in the country, and Hillary Clinton won the Central Valley district in 2016 by 3 points too; it’s rated as a toss-up, and is a prime pickup opportunity for Democrats.
Incumbent Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, friend to President Donald Trump and the author of the House Intelligence Committee’s dubious Russia investigation memo, is in a pretty safe Republican seat. But Democrats are still targeting the district, hoping Nunes’s role defending Trump in the Russia investigations will give them a boost. Andrew Janz, the Fresno County deputy district attorney, is considered best positioned to take on Nunes. He has the endorsement of the California Democratic Party and has raked in more than $1 million to challenge Nunes (mostly because Nunes is so nationally well-known/disliked). Entrepreneur Bobby Bliatout and business consultant Ricardo Franco are also running.
In this toss-up Los Angeles County district, the seat of incumbent Rep. Stephen Knight, who has been in office since 2015, is being targeted as a prime pickup opportunity for Democrats. All eyes are on attorney Bryan Caforio, who challenged Knight in 2016 and has locked up a lot of endorsements from labor and progressive groups. Democrat Katie Hill, a nonprofit policy advocate, has also mounted a formidable challenge, with the backing of Emily’s List, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and a number of California’s Democratic Congress members. Both Caforio and Hill have out-fundraised Knight so far.
This is a heated race to fill an open seat, vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Ed Royce. On the Democratic side, two wealthy candidates are in an ugly battle for a spot on the November ballot. Gil Cisneros, a former Navy officer and 2010 lottery winner (he won $266 million), is on the DCCC’s Red to Blue list, which is as close as the national campaign arm gets to endorsing a candidate. He’s up against Andy Thorburn, a health insurance executive and former teacher. It’s been a doozy of a race, including allegations of tax fraud and legal action over a voicemail. There’s also another Democrat in the running, pediatrician Mai Khanh Tran, who’s endorsed by Emily’s List.
The field of Republicans running in this race is just as deep as the Democratic side. Three stand out: Shawn Nelson, the Orange County supervisor; Bob Huff, who is the former state Senate minority leader; and Young Kim, who has served in the state Assembly. This Orange County district is prime territory for Democrats to make gains in November, but they’ve failed to get behind a single candidate, and it could result in Democrats getting shut out of the general election altogether.
Four Democrats are looking to earn a top-two slot and challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Mimi Walters. There’s Katie Porter, a UC Irvine law professor, who has endorsed Medicare-for-all and has the support of Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris. Dave Min, another UC Irvine law professor, is more moderate and received the endorsement of the California Democratic Party. Brian Forde is an ex-Republican who worked under President Obama, and Kia Hamadanchy is a young Iranian American who has worked for populist Democrats like former Sen. Tom Harkin and current Sen. Sherrod Brown. This is a diversifying Orange County district, where Clinton beat Donald Trump by 5 points in 2016.
There’s a highly contested race playing out in Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s coastal district. Rohrabacher, who is expected to make it past the primary, has a surprisingly formidable Republican challenger in Scott Baugh, a former Orange County Republican Party chair who is a longtime friend of Rohrabacher’s.
In a field of eight Democrats, two stand out: Harley Rouda, a DCCC and Indivisible-endorsed real estate investor who donated to Republican campaigns as recently as 2016; and Hans Keirstead, a stem cell scientist with a California Democratic Party endorsement who has spent a lot of time trying to fend off 2009 allegations that he slept with his grad students and got into a drunken fistfight. The race is a circus. Clinton eked out a 1-point win in this district in 2016, so Democrats are energized for a potential takeover, but if Baugh does well, there’s a possibility Democrats are going to get shut out of this race altogether.
This is a wide-open race to fill retiring Rep. Darrell Issa’s seat. Four Democrats are in a dead heat: real estate investor Paul Kerr; Sara Jacobs, the CEO of a nonprofit who comes from a wealthy family; environmental lawyer Mike Levin; and retired Marine Col. Doug Applegate.
There are a whopping eight Republicans on the ballot too, and no clear winner among the pack. Among the notable candidates are Rocky Chávez, a state Assembly member and retired Marine Corps colonel; Diane Harkey, who used to serve in the state Assembly and has current Rep. Darrell Issa’s endorsement; and Kristin Gaspar, an Orange County supervisor and small-business owner who has Rep. Ed Royce’s endorsement.
Issa was considered to be the most vulnerable Republican in the midterms, having won reelection by the slimmest margin in the country; then he dropped out, leaving his Orange County/San Diego County district up for grabs. Clinton won the district by 7.5 points, and with a stacked ballot on both sides of the aisle, the possibility of a Republican shutout is just as likely as a Democratic one.
Incumbent Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter’s San Diego district is hardly competitive. Registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats 42 percent to 27 percent, and Trump won by 15 points. But Hunter has been dogged by serious legal and ethics scandals, accused of having inappropriate relationships with women, drinking on the job, and other unprofessional conduct, which his office has denied. He’s under investigation by the FBI. And there are two formidable Democratic challengers: retired Navy SEAL Josh Butner, and Ammar Campa-Najjar, who worked in Obama’s Department of Labor. Real estate agent Patrick Malloy, who has run against Hunter in the past, is also in the race.
Iowa
Iowa’s primaries are a test of the national health care debate. Zac Freeland/Vox
Three Democrats are vying for the opportunity to challenge incumbent Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in November. Business owner Fred Hubbell and local labor leader Cathy Glasson are competing in the Democratic primary. Hubbell is the top fundraiser and first in the only poll on the race so far, but Glasson could be a competitive challenger.
Reynolds’s signature achievement is probably moving Iowa’s 600,000 Medicaid enrollees into managed care, a privatized version of the program where private health plans administer Medicaid’s benefits. Hubbell wants to reverse that privatization, while Glasson supports a more liberal single-payer option. State Sen. Nate Boulton recently dropped out of the race following sexual misconduct allegations.
Small-business owner Cindy Axne and former Bernie Sanders campaign aide Pete D’Alessandro are running for chance to challenge Incumbent Republican Rep. David Young. Axne has been endorsed by Emily’s List, while D’Alesandro (no surprise) has Sanders’s support. Cook rates this district R+1 this year, so it definitely has the potential to swing. And there’s a strong health care angle in this race. The Democratic side is a contest between a progressive vision for health care and a more moderate one: Axne is running on fixing Obamacare, while D’Alessandro has fully embraced a platform that includes Medicare-for-all.
Montana
Republicans Russ Fagg and Matt Rosendale duke it out for the chance to run against incumbent Democratic Sen. John Tester. Zac Freeland/Vox
There are four Republicans running for the chance to kick out incumbent Democrat Sen. Jon Tester. But the primary has heated up between Montana state auditor Matt Rosendale and retired state Judge Russ Fagg. Trump won Montana by 20 points in 2016, and Tester hasn’t exactly made friends with the president lately, so Republicans are working hard to kick him out. Conservative outside groups are spending millions to boost Rosendale, but it has the potential to backfire in a state where local ties are paramount. Rosendale moved to Montana from Maryland nearly 20 years ago, but Fagg is a fourth-generation Montanan and is painting Rosendale as a carpetbagger. The fact that outside groups are going all in for Rosendale could irk the locals.
New Jersey
New Jersey is among the key battleground states in Democrats’ fight to reclaim the House. Zac Freeland/Vox
Incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez is running for reelection, and the only other Democrat on the ballot is community news website publisher Lisa McCormick.
As for the Republicans, pharmaceutical executive Bob Hugin, construction company executive Brian Goldberg, and attorney Dana Wefer are all running. Hugin, a self-funder, has poured $7.5 million into his campaign already — he’s expected to win the GOP primary fairly easily. The only reason the general election contest might get interesting in this blue state is that Menendez faced trial last year on corruption charges. The jury failed to agree on a verdict, the prosecution ended with a mistrial, and the Justice Department decided to drop the charges rather than try a second time. Even though he wasn’t convicted, none of this looked great politically for Menendez.
Democrats were thrilled when Republican Rep. Frank LoBiondo decided to retire after 24 years in Congress because it gave them an opportunity to contest this district at the southern end of New Jersey.
There are four Democrats running: state Sen. Jeff Van Drew, retired teacher Tanzie Youngblood, former Cory Booker aide Will Cunningham, and farmer Nathan Kleinman. Since Trump won this district by about 4 points, the party thought that Van Drew, a moderate state senator, would be their strongest nominee, but his voting record (he’s voted against same-sex marriage and often backs business interests on environmental matters) is making him vulnerable in a Democratic primary. Youngblood has gotten the most attention, as a progressive black woman running against a moderate white man with the backing of the state’s establishment.
Meanwhile, the Republican field is generally viewed as weak.
Engineer Hirsh Singh, former Assembly member Samuel Fiocchi, lawyer Seth Grossman, and former FBI agent Robert Turkavage are all running. Singh leads in county party endorsements, which are particularly important in New Jersey because they’re printed on the ballot — he won four of eight county GOP endorsements in the district.
In the center of the state is the most Republican-leaning district in New Jersey, but Navy veteran Josh Welle and former Asbury Park Council member Jim Keady think they have a chance in November against incumbent Rep. Chris Smith. Josh Welle won all three Democratic County party endorsements and leads his rival Keady in fundraising, while Keady has the backing of the Bernie Sanders-aligned group Our Revolution.
This district was one of Democrats’ rare 2016 House pickups, as lawyer Rep. Josh Gottheimer defeated the deeply conservative longtime incumbent Scott Garrett by a little over 4 percentage points. Republicans hope they can take back the seat, and veteran conservative activist and former Mayor Steve Lonegan is facing off against former Council member John McCann in the GOP primary.
Former State Department official Tom Malinowski, attorney Goutam Jois, and activist Peter Jacob are vying for the chance to challenge incumbent Rep. Leonard Lance, the likely Republican candidate. Lance is the only New Jersey Republican in a district Hillary Clinton won (by about 1 percentage point), so he’s naturally one of Democrats’ top targets in the state. Malinowski, who served as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in the Obama administration, has the party’s backing, and blew away his rivals in fundraising. Peter Jacob, who has pledged not to accept PAC money, has the Our Revolution endorsement.
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, who’s been in Congress since 1995, chose to retire rather than run again, so Democrats have a big opportunity in this wealthy suburban district that Trump won by just 0.9 percent.
The Democrats in the race are former Navy pilot and prosecutor Mikie Sherrill, entrepreneur and advocate Tamara Harris, research scientist Alison Heslin, lawyer Mitchell Cobert, and history professor Mark Washburne. Sherrill has far surpassed her rivals in fundraising (she’s one of the top Democratic challenger fundraisers in the country) and won all the county-line endorsements.
There are five Republicans running as well: Assembly member Jay Webber, entrepreneur Peter De Neufville, investment banker and Army Reserve Maj. Antony Ghee, liberal Republican Martin Hewitt, and former concert promoter/Roger Stone employee Patrick Allocco. Webber is the expected GOP nominee.
New Mexico
New Mexico Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham is running in the Democratic primary for governor to challenge conservative Rep. Steve Pearce, who has the Republican nomination. Zac Freeland/Vox
Current Republican Gov. Susana Martinez is term-limited out of the position, giving Democrats an opportunity to turn New Mexico state leadership even more blue. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the current chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, is the favorite to win the Democratic primary. Grisham received an overwhelming proportion of the vote during a pre-primary convention the Democratic Party held earlier this spring.
Jeff Apodaca, a former media executive, and the son of former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, is also running. State Sen. Joseph Cervantes is trailing at a distant third. The winner will be up against pro-Trump conservative Rep. Steve Pearce, a member of the Freedom Caucus and the lone Republican vying for the seat.
Lujan Grisham, the current representative for this heavily Democratic district, is also among the contenders for governor — setting up a fight among a slew of Democrats for her seat.
Among a stacked six-person Democratic roster, three have built sizable campaign war chests: former US Attorney Damon Martinez, retired University of New Mexico law professor Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, and former New Mexico Democratic Party Chair Deb Haaland. As the Huffington Post pointed out, their three-way battle for Democratic votes underscores a fight for control of the future of the party, with different organizations like Emily’s List and VoteVets running ads on opposing sides of the race.
Haaland, as part of her platform, has also emphasized a goal of becoming the first Native American woman elected to the House. Pat Davis, an Albuquerque City Council member; Damian Lara, a former congressional staffer who now works as a lawyer; and Paul Moya, CEO of the consulting firm Millennial Labs, are on the ballot as well. Former state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones is the sole Republican running. She ran against Lujan Grisham for the House position in 2012.
With Rep. Steve Pearce, the current Republican representative, running for governor, this district is open for fresh faces on both sides of the aisle.
As for Democrats, Water attorney Xochitl Torres Small has a strong lead, with the backing of DCCC, Emily’s List, and NARAL Pro-Choice America. US Coast Guard veteran and history professor Madeline Hildebrandt is on the docket as well.
On the Republican side is a long list of conservatives.
The House Freedom Caucus is backing state Rep. Yvette Herrell, and Sen. Ted Cruz is endorsing former state Republican Party Chair Monty Newman. Meanwhile, Gavin Clarkson, a former official in the Trump administration’s Interior Department, has leaned into his ties with the White House. Former Gary Johnson campaign staffer Clayburn Griffin is also on the ballot. The Second District leans Republican and voted for Trump by more than 10 points over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
South Dakota
There’s a heated governor’s race in South Dakota between Rep. Kristi Noem and state AG Marty Jackley. Zac Freeland/Vox
There’s a heated primary between Rep. Kristi Noem and South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley. Noem has served in Congress since 2011, and Jackley has been in office since 2009. Recent negative ads Jackley and Noem have run about each other reflect the closeness of the race. And Jackley has been tied up in a bizarre scandal over a $1.5 million sexual harassment and retaliation settlement. The recipient, a woman who won a harassment and retaliation suit after being dismissed from a state agency for filing complaints, claims Jackley delayed her settlement payments over politics.
A recent Mason-Dixon poll found Noem with a 1-point lead over Jackley and concluded she’s doing better with female voters. Candidates don’t have to distance themselves from Trump; the president has a 72 percent approval rating in South Dakota. Whoever wins this primary will likely be the next governor of South Dakota.
Original Source -> Live results for key June 5 primary races
via The Conservative Brief
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ON MEDIUM THINKING / Keller Easterling
Media → vessels and environments, containers of possibility that anchor our existence and make what we are doing possible
Media theorists → John Durham Peters, Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Regis Debray, Nikolas Luhmann, Vilem Flusser join an array of thinkers in the arts and sciences including Herman Melville, Jacob von Uexküll, George Sanders Peirce, Walter Benjamin, Gregory Bateson, Bruno Latour and Arjun Appadurai among many others
McLuhan → “what the medium is saying sometimes prevents us from seeing what the medium is doing”
Foucault → dispositif is “a thoroughly heterogeneous ensemble consisting of discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic propositions–in short, the said as much as the unsaid.
Agamben → dispositif as literally everything that has in some way the capacity of capturing, determining, orienting, intercepting, shaping, guiding, securing or controlling, the behaviors, the gestures, the opinions, the discourses of living beings or substances...
Ryle → disposition as the latent agency or potential immanent in arrangement, a property or propensity within a context that unfolds over time
Ryle also describes the difference between “knowing that vs. knowing how” → the difference between knowing the right answer and knowing how to do something like telling a joke. Knowing how is dispositional and essentially indeterminate because it requires the deployment of practical skills unfolding over time and the ability to react to a changing sequence of cues
Stephen Mumford → describes the ways that this immanent disposition may exist as, not event, but “promise” or “threat”
Bruno Latour foregrounds an indeterminate matrix of human and non-human activity in the sociotechnical networks of the medium → he argues that we often observe active phenomena until we think we can declare “what it is”—its stabilized, essential “competence.” But “what it is” can never be separated from “what it does.”
Walter Benjamin → conjured a “medium of perception” in which culture is both made and received, a medium inflected by atmospheres as well as the apparate (apparatus) for making a reproducing it.
Notion that Madame Bovary or Sentimental Education could inspire political actions that were never expressed in the texts... Characters act within their staged context even as they also act on meta-narrative forms. Bovary, is an agent within the novel as well as a reagent in culture. Her actions ricochet against conditions in culture to inspire liberatory behaviors she never enacted herself. Narrative forms and cultural forms in plural overlapping networks have capacities or affordances that are inherently political, that alter the ways in which power is organized.
“While the authority of the determinate somehow sidelines medium thinking as soft, magical, or ephemeral, it is not somehow unmoored, invisible, unknowable, or magic.” → ultimately practical, does this knowledge constitute most of what we know and more of what we might know?
Gregory Bateson analyzed potentials in human and non-human arrangements and exchanges as if they were information systems → he observed that a man, a tree and an ax is an information system...
Notion that “Information is the difference that makes a difference.”
Wwhile culture may be more comfortable focusing forms for which they have some familiar markers (objects and things in a steady state) → perhaps those markers deliver their information or measure difference when forms combine or bounce in the chemistries of medium...
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The rich, provocative study by Harold Olofson (2002, 2008) of the annual procession of St. Vincent Ferrer in Poo, a coastal settlement in the Visayan Islands, offers a fascinating lens through which to view the methods and aims of contemporary social-cultural anthropology. His earlier, longer essay, (2002) sets the scene, tells the local story, and offers carefully developed interpretation. The second essay (2008) reconsiders his ethnographic research and writing experiences in relation to ideas raised in the volume Fieldnotes: the Makings of Anthropology (Sanjek 1990). As Olofson explains, he read this book after writing his first, ethnographic essay, and was then stirred to expand what he had already written, or hinted at, about his fieldwork and "filework" methods. Clearly Olofson and the authors of Fieldnotes traveled parallel ethnographic tracks, and his essays illustrate anthropological approaches and goals we all share.
Roger Sanjek, "St. Vincent, the Thunder god, and the Ethnographer", Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, Vol. 37, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 253-258.
Like Olofson, anthropologists of the Philippines have long been intrigued by traces of local prehispanic cultures in contemporary practice and belief (Kroeber 1928; Yengoyan and Makil ed. 1984: 175-207; Cannell 1999). To identify ritual elements in the St. Vincent festival possibly attributable to past thunder god retribution for violations of taboo, Olofson casts his comparative net widely into the ethnographic and historical literatures on Southeast Asian "little traditions." And at a more abstract level, he cites comparative theorists whose work provided "significant theories" (Sanjek 1990) he brought with him to the field: Gregory Bateson (on play, inversion, metacommunication), Claude Levi Strauss (on binary opposition), Jacob Pandian (on ritual reversal), and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (on joking relationships).
Beyond these regional and general theoretical literatures, Olofson also utilizes comparative ethnographic insights on Roman Catholic indigenous belief system syncretism beyond the Philippines. He draws on studies by anthropologist-ethnohistorians William Christian on folk Catholicism in sixteenth-century Spain, Irene Silverblatt on Santiago among the Inca in Spanish colonial Peru, John Watanabe on the same saint in Mayan Guatemala, and Hugo Nutini on clerical "guided syncretism" in early colonial Mexico. Olofson's well-reasoned conjectures here add to a fuller understanding of the contemporary Poo fiesta.
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someone & i can’t for the life of me remember who, said i should draw jacob “ jay “ bateson smoking a fat one & i finally remembered to do that. out of everything i have ever been asked to draw
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