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#STL #mo #uspol

AIPAC Used Distorted Photo of Cori Bush in $7 Million Negative Ad Blitz

AIPAC’s super PAC, which is backing Wesley Bell, used distorted photos of Bush as part of a $7 million ad blitz against the progressive incumbent.

^{Akela Lacy (The Intercept)}

So, I tend to be... Well, lazy seems wrong, I'm sure it's something mental health related, but a lot of things I plan on doing or start doing just don't get done. Well, that's changing, albeit at a slow pace, since I'm off work right now.

Yep, I'm on #vacation .
Why?
Well, I'm a gig work with a $500/wk goal, and July has been very good to me, I've made around $2800. I say around, because I'm waiting for a couple payments for not working to come in, one has and was more than triple expected, while I've been threatened with receiving the other one, but it hasn't happened yet.

So yeah, I'm way over goal, so I'm mostly goofing off with the occasional thing I meant to do getting done. Cleaned up the dresser today, finally got to looking at the ceiling fan yesterday, a year after it stopped working (sadly it looks like the fan died). Caught up on the lawn, that took a couple hours.

Tomorrow... Might finally get my taxes taken care of, maybe, getting them done after tax season is surprisingly difficult in #STL Also have a van I want to look at in... Warrenburg I think it was, which IIRC is out towards KC aka the other side of the state. Got a desk I want to buy because I'm not happy with the one I bought a month or so ago. Need to get the truck washed. And we're working on adding Linux to my husband's old M1 iMac.

There's also a solar panel, just a little tiny thing, that I've been meaning to install on the shed to do. A TV antenna for the house, some plumbing work, repair on an old Mac, and repairing a picture. Should also think about the rear yard, that could use a trim but isn't hugely important. Oh, pool deck needs to be torn down. Torn, can't take it apart as when I tried that, i pushed down on a screw with my drill, and it sank into the wood.

Yep, lots to do, and only the rest of the week to do it in... Well, then again I could take most of next week off too...

EDIT
Money's showing up in my earnings, which means it should be in the bank next Monday, so everyone's paid me.

Who else from #STL has seen their ads?

Who is running Bush's campaign, but they're really doing their best to make her look bad. Bell's ads focus on what he perceives as her failures, failure to pass any bills, voting against the Infrastructure Act and generally not supporting Biden.

Her response?
To call him out for campaigning for a Republican, something he addressed at least a month ago, an old friend of his, and it was IIRC before he was even running for any office. Based on her ads, in a time where everyone is complaining about division, being friendly with Republicans is proof that he isn't a real Democrat.

Is it me, or is this old school mud slinging?

EDIT
Ok, to help me choose, this just came out: commondreams.org/news/wesley-b…

Honestly not sure how I feel about either one of them at this point.

#uspol #mo #missouri

'Scathing' Report Exposes Broken Promises of Cori Bush's Primary Challenger

"Wesley Bell promised long overdue reforms in St. Louis County, but—like his predecessor, Bob McCulloch—he's continued to punish primarily poor and working people," said the Working Families Party national director.

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

Notice what's odd about it?

No? Well, that'd be that north is on the right. Yep, it's oriented so that the east is down, and it really how the #STL area developed, fanning out from a single crossing on the #mississippi river where the city was founded, something I've always found interesting about the grid here.