02/21/2025
I have no idea what a Tomato Picker is.
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16527
#BadDreams,#kids,#liz,#nightmares,#parenthood
Recent searches
Search options
#liz
0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Every Sunday I look back at the preceding week in kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen Yoon, J, Rei, and Liz-- Rock U (Orig. KARA).
Normally I am not so keen on chants, but what precedes and follows here is some wonderfully melodic writing from Sweetune, providing a context that makes that chanting quite winning. I love the production, and think all the girls’ voices work well together here; Yoon and J are always favourites of mine. For this stage, the school uniform look echoes without replicating the the KARA stages of long ago.
Where would Kpop be without school uniforms, especially the “Clueless” variant? There’s probably an article, or even a book, to be written on this topic.
https://youtu.be/puQ9jG6ek_g?si=SxH6sV__uCqg9CAF
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Yoon #J #Rei #Liz #RockU #KARA #Sweetune #GirlGroups #SchoolUniforms
@kpop@fedigroups.social @kpop@a.gup.pe
youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
JUST CURIOUS
If #Harris wins, what does everyone think about firing Merrick Garland and replacing him with #LizCheney? 
I was thinking about a job Cheney could be appointed to in a #Harris Administration where #Kamala & #Liz are on the same page.
#NowPlaying Bot 
#NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
SOPHIE, BC Kingdom & LIZ:
Live In My Truth
#SOPHIE #BCKingdom #LIZ
#newRelease 
album
Former Rep. #Liz #Cheney (R-Wyo.) indicated in an interview at The Capital Times Idea Fest in Madison, Wisc., that conservatives could end up forming "a new kind of Conservative Party",
arguing that “far too much has happened that’s too damaging” in the Republican Party.
“There is certainly going to be a big shift, I think, in how our politics work
— I don’t know exactly what that will look like.
I don’t think it will just simply be… the Republican party is going to put up a new slate of candidates and off to the races,”
Cheney, an outspoken Trump critic, told The New York Times’ Peter Baker.
“I think far too much has happened that’s too damaging,” she added.
When asked by Baker whether she was suggesting that conservatives unhappy with the current state of the GOP will have to create a new party, she said, “It may well be.”
Cheney, who said earlier this month that she would be voting for Vice President Harris in November, added that she thinks most Americans don’t want “someone like Donald Trump to be the president.”
https://www.aol.com/news/liz-cheney-conservatives-may-party-210737672.html
AOL · Liz Cheney: Conservatives may need a new party
Continued thread
Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s second child, #Dick, born in 1945, grew up in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Bluff and got the same sort of blue-blood education
(Phillips Andover, Stanford)
as his father (Hotchkiss, Princeton).
Amid the social upheavals of the ’60s, #Dick #Uihlein didn’t waver:
He married Liz before graduating from college in 1967,
joined the family business and immersed himself in conservative politics.
He worked on the 1969 Illinois congressional campaign of Phil Crane, who won a crowded Republican primary in an upset on a hardline anti-tax and anti-communist platform.
In one of the only interviews he’s ever given, Dick Uihlein told National Review in 2018 that he got his politics from his father,
who often went by Ed.
At the family breakfast table growing up, Uihlein recalled,
“My father would talk about the importance of capitalism and the evils of socialism.”
Dick said that same year that
“my father shared many of the same values that I have, conservative values.”
Dick and Liz Uihlein continue to revere Edgar Jr., who died in 2005.
Dick Uihlein named the family foundation after his father, and it now sends tens of millions of dollars to right-wing institutions.
Among the recipients of the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation’s grants are the #Federalist #Society and think tanks that have pushed misleading claims about the 2020 election, such as the #Conservative #Partnership #Institute
and the
#Foundation #for #Government #Accountability,
as the Daily Beast reported.
Tucked in toward the back of the Uline catalog released this summer,
sent out to millions of homes and businesses,
was a long tribute to the “wise” Edgar Uihlein Jr.
“Father Uihlein, the head of the family, had a towering presence, and we respected his values,” wrote Liz Uihlein under a picture of her husband and father-in-law,
recalling “frequent dinners at his house, where business, issues of the day, fishing muskies and, always, politics were discussed.”
She ended on a note of nostalgia tinged with bitterness:
“Living your life and raising your kids were easier in an easier time.
There was no legalized marijuana, defund the police or social media.
We, like so many families, were raised with a sharp moral compass.
The rules were the rules, but it was OK.”
The Uihleins’ political giving reflects these longings for a bygone era.
Dick Uihlein is a major funder of the #American #Principles #Project,
which runs ads attacking what it calls “#transgender #ideology,” #abortion and the teaching of “#critical #race #theory.”
Last year, Uihlein weighed in on recalling four school board members in a small town north of Milwaukee because of their support for COVID-19 #safety #protocols and “#equity” training for teachers.
More recently, in his home state of Illinois, Uihlein has spent more than $50 million to back the Republican gubernatorial candidate #Darren #Bailey, who has drawn criticism for saying the #Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to the toll of abortions and for accusing Democrats of “putting #perversion into our schools” for adopting a sex ed bill that includes information about gender identity and same-sex couples.
The Uihleins were huge beneficiaries of a tax provision promoted by Sen. #Ron #Johnson, R-Wisc., that was included in the Trump tax overhaul and are continuing to support the Wisconsin senator and fund attack ads against his opponent.
For all the Uihleins’ dismay at the disorder they see consuming the country, there is one domain where they can exert near total control.
Former employees of Uline told ProPublica the couple’s traditionalist politics govern the smallest details of how the company is run.
For new staffers, it begins with the #dress #code in the employee handbook:
Women are not permitted to wear pants except as part of a pantsuit or on Fridays;
hose or stockings must be worn except during the warmer months;
dresses “that are too short” and corduroy of any kind are strictly prohibited.
The handbook defines “tardy” as one minute past an employee’s scheduled start time.
Just four personal items are allowed on employees’ desks,
with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches.
One former staffer at Uline’s headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child.
“Liz would walk up and down the aisles, and if your desk looked off, you’d be written up,” he recalled.
#Uline #Dick #Liz #Uihlein #Doug #Mastriano #Jim #Marchant #election #falsehoods #antisemitic #speech #Edgar #John #Birch #Society #fluoridation #segregation #Edwin #Walker #George #Wallace
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes
— the mail-order boxes and grocery store bags
— are sold by a single private company, with its name, #Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products is now 
fueling election deniers and other far-right candidates across the country.
#Dick and #Liz #Uihlein of Illinois are the largest contributors to Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate #Doug #Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6 rally and was linked to a prominent antisemite, and have given to #Jim #Marchant, the Nevada Secretary of State nominee who says he opposed the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020.
They are major funders to groups spreading #election #falsehoods, including "Restoration of America", which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and
“punish leftists.”
Flush with profits from their shipping supply company, the Uihleins have emerged as
️the No. 1 federal campaign donors for Republicans ahead of the November elections, and ️the No. 2 donors overall behind liberal financier George Soros.
The couple has spent at least $121 million on state and federal politics in the last two years alone, 
fighting taxes, unions, abortion rights and marijuana legalization.
The German-American clan made their original fortune in the 19th century as owners of the Milwaukee brewery Schlitz.
Family members were staples of the Chicago Tribune society pages.
In 1917, Dick’s grandfather was identified as a millionaire in a Chicago Tribune humor item about how the wealthy man had fired an unqualified chauffeur.
When Dick and Liz Uihlein donated millions in recent years to the pro-Trump super PAC "America First Action", they were following in a family tradition.
Edgar J. Uihlein of Chicago was among the handful of largest donors to the original "America First Committee", the aviator Charles Lindbergh’s group that opposed the United States’ entry into World War II.
(It’s unclear whether that was Edgar Sr., Dick’s grandfather, or Edgar Jr., his father, who had just graduated from college.)
While "America First" drew supporters from across the political spectrum, it was most associated with rightists.
Uihlein’s donation was disclosed in 1941.
Later that year, Lindbergh gave an openly #antisemitic #speech assailing Jewish influence.
When Edgar Uihlein Sr. died in 1956, his estate was valued at $4.8 million
— more than $50 million in today’s dollars
— and the money was left in a trust for his heirs, newspapers reported at the time.
Dick’s father, #Edgar Uihlein Jr., who had started a plastics company after serving in the Navy during World War II, established himself as an important funder of far-right political groups in the 1960s.
A document from 1963 identifies Edgar Uihlein Jr. as on the 
National Finance Committee of the #John #Birch #Society.
Founded a few years earlier, the group quickly became a significant force to the right of the Republican Party, known for its obsessively anti-communist politics.
The Birchers combined hostility to New Deal social programs with lurid conspiracies, famously campaigning against “the horrors of #fluoridation,” a supposed Red plot.
The group fiercely opposed civil rights.
An entry in one 1963 Birch newsletter railed against the upcoming March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King would give his
“I Have a Dream” speech:
“the only good Americans who should have anything to do with this Communist-instigated mob in any way, or pay any attention to it in Washington, are the police required to maintain law and order.”
Edgar Uihlein Jr. supported politicians who embraced #segregation.
In early 1962, he sponsored a speech that brought to Chicago a former U.S. Army general named #Edwin #Walker.
Walker toured the country attacking supposed communist conspiracies and civil rights, while celebrating the Southern defeat of Reconstruction, which he labeled “the tyranny within our own white race.”
The Anti-Defamation League,
which tracked far-right figures in the period,
has archives showing Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s involvement with several other groups and campaigns,
including a $1,000 contribution to the presidential campaign of segregationist #George #Wallace in 1968.
It’s not clear when, if ever, Uihlein’s association with the John Birch Society ended.
As late as 1977, the founder of the group wrote a long letter to him asking for money.
ProPublicaThat Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
More from 
ProPublica
Trump calls for critic to be jailed for investigating him over Capitol attack
Trump has renewed calls for #Liz #Cheney
– his most prominent Republican critic
– to be jailed for her role in investigating his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack launched by his supporters in 2021,
a move that is bound to raise further fears that the former president could persecute his political opponents if given another White House term.
The Guardian · Trump calls for Liz Cheney to be jailed for investigating him over Capitol attack
An anti-Trump group backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, Seth Klarman and John Pritzker is launching a $50 million ad campaign featuring disaffected Trump voters—while some conservative billionaires coalesce behind the former president as it’s become clear he’ll secure the GOP nomination.
Republican Voters Against Trump, which is funded by the 
Republican Accountability PAC, aims to raise $30 million, in addition to the $20 million it’s already raised, for an advertising campaign featuring videos of former Trump voters explaining why they won’t cast their ballots for him again this year, its founder #Sarah #Longwell told the New York Times.
#Reid #Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and a prolific Democratic donor, is one of the Republican Accountability PAC’s biggest backers, donating $2 million in both January and June last year, according to Federal Election Commission filings that show his $4 million accounts for half of what the group raised last year.
#Seth #Klarman, who runs the Boston-based Baupost hedge fund and is a vocal Trump critic who has donated to both parties, gave $1 million to the group in May last year.
#John #Pritzker, of the billionaire family that founded Hyatt hotels, gave a total of $1 million to the group through two $500,000 donations in June and November last year.
Founded during the 2020 campaign, Republican Voters Against Trump is ramping up its anti-Trump efforts as the former president is now the de facto Republican nominee.
Meanwhile, conservative billionaires are lining up behind Trump , including shipping and packing company founders #Liz and #Dick #Uihlein, the Financial Times reported this weekend,
and aerospace billionaire #Robert #Bigelow, according to Politico—all previous donors to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ failed presidential campaign.
Forbes · Here Are The Billionaires Backing This Anti-Trump Republican Campaign
Cheney fuels speculation about her next move
Speculation is growing about the role former Rep. #Liz #Cheney (R-Wyo.) will play in the 2024 election as President Biden and former President Trump barrel toward a rematch.
Cheney has vowed that she’ll do whatever it takes to keep Trump from returning to the White House.
She has left the door open to running an independent bid and recently launched her political action committee, the #Great #Task, after Nikki Haley dropped her long-shot primary challenge against Trump.
Cheney has become one of the main faces of the anti-Trump movement, having sat on a bipartisan panel to investigate Jan. 6 and using her platform to target Trump-aligned candidates, including Arizona’s Mark Finchem and Kari Lake, during the November 2022 midterms, while endorsing some Democrats, such as Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4526744-cheney-fuels-speculation-about-her-next-move/
The Hill · Cheney fuels speculation about her next move