Reposted by Malte Zander
if you fall and your friends are concerned instead of laughing then you’re old now
Malte Zander
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![A Victorian poster reading:
"Let the people rejoice!
Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain [held by that eagle from the flag of Iowa]
Mr. Elon Musk, of Austin, Texas
To be launched into
FUCKING SPACE
Trillionaire never to be seen again.
THE REPUBLIC REJOICES!
A feat of science.
A feat of nature!
To be televised live
Or Seen In Person
At Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
On the 21st of JANUARY, 2027
DO NOT MISS!
Tickets available from Mr. Sherbet's Cabinet of Delight
HAIL! HAIL!
Freedom Triumphant!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b4vj5alxcbwfckb5qruwcycp/bafkreic3aqiopstdn2c6ug6o6efetxk2j5znk5ulgedpazoyrfkfjbhnh4)
![screenshot of a three-paragraph excerpt from the quote-skeeted article, with the final sentences of the third paragraph highlighted in grey, from "and now" onwards. excerpt reads as follows:
When he appeared before the state Senate that day to testify against the new redistricting plans, he was joined by three other veteran Black politicians. Although Fields, a 63-year-old lawyer, has a reputation as an even-keeled consensus builder, he grew emotional as he spoke.
“To me, it is personal,” he told the Senate committee. “Since Reconstruction, Louisiana has elected four African Americans to Congress. And you’re looking at all of them. Four.” Even though nearly a third of Louisiana’s population is Black.
“You said something very profound,” state Sen. Gary Carter Jr., an African American Democrat from New Orleans, told Fields. “From the 1870s all the way through [the] present, just you four gentlemen—that’s it. And now this body wants to reduce that. ‘We want to cut it. That’s too many.’ How do we not be outraged?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjklbsuepdppuppsfluytydl/bafkreicc3jzq4std3st5bqszp7m2ng6ajhderlvk52o6zyru4rs2i6xgbe)
