Hard Pass

Vimy ridge 1916:

Captain! The Germans are preparing a major assault.

Right, so it's Tuesday then.

French and British troops look tense. Maps everywhere. Panic energy

Canadian section is sitting on a log eating rations

Allied troops: 'you're not concerned?'

Canadians: they can't be worse than the geese back home. (Continues eating)

The Price of Not Caring: Apathy and Consent in the Music Industry.

DALLAS (AP) — After three terms in the U.S. House and two unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate, Colin Allred said he’s heard plenty about voters’ suspicions that politicians are just trying to make a buck in Washington.

“‘What about the stock trading in Congress? What about people getting rich in Congress?’” Allred said they ask him regularly. “And I have to say to them, you’re absolutely right about that, too. We need to be better.”

He’s challenging Rep. Julie Johnson in the Democratic runoff for a Dallas-area House seat on Tuesday, and he’s one of several candidates trying to harness populist anger over congressional stock trading. Allred has denounced Johnson for trades involving companies like Palantir, a data analytics firm with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration.

I primaried her but she’s too old now. Hope she keeps up the good work though.

Sign on a post by a river with the BBC building in the background, with a picture of a flying saucer above a person with their thumb out. Sign reads: No interstellar hitchhiking without a towel

(Happy Towel Day, May 25th)

I put this on my dog and they said "GRRRRRRIFT!"

US Sen. ++Bernie Sanders++ on Sunday rallied in Orono, ++Maine++with progressive Senate candidate Graham Platner, who called for transformative political change to reclaim the ++wealth++that has been “stolen by corrupt politicians and the corporations that bought them.”

Platner, who effectively locked up the Maine’s ++US Senate++Democratic primary after Gov. Janet Mills ++exited the race last month++, placed five-term incumbent Republican Sen. ++Susan Collins++ among the corrupt lawmakers who have sold out ++workers++ and advanced the interests of the billionaire class, which is ++shelling out millions++ to protect Collins’ seat.