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Glowing Dawn have never seen it but because Raito is, well, Raito, these three have been subject to tomoro basically beaming when Raito even looks over at him

Omg 😭 help Tomoro comes across them at a bounty and goes full "Raito! :D" and Raito's like neutral tone "oh. it's you" (he's trying to hide how cute he finds Tomoro when he beams like that) while Monodramon is beaming back "Tomoro and Gekkomon! :D"

Voters are set for an eighth federal byelection between Aug. 31 and mid-April due to the upcoming departure of Ontario Conservative MP Larry Brock. Brock, who was first elected in 2021 to represent the southwestern Ontario riding now called Brantford–Brant South, says he is leaving the House of Commons to take a position at the Crown attorney's office in Brantford, Ont.

God Damian, you're basically holding him at gun point

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I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

Jack Wheatley and Zachary Pleat at MMFA:

Right-wing media launched a tirade of Islamophobic attacks against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed both leading up to and following his win in the August 4 Democratic primary.  Right-wing media figures have latched onto El-Sayed’s faith and ethnicity. Trump ally and self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer has called El-Sayed a “jihadist” and an “open supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.” Right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson called El-Sayed a “parasite” and a “rat,” while conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has stated El-Sayed is a “radical advocate for Muslims, including terrorists.” Conservative media figures have also falsely labelled El-Sayed, who was born in the United States, a “foreigner.”  On August 5, The Associated Press called the primary race for El-Sayed. His opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, released a statement conceding the election and throwing her support behind El-Sayed.

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report (08.05.2026):

GOP leaders fear their base. In contrast, far too many Democratic leaders ignore their base or even view us with contempt. We just saw that play out in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, where one candidate was championing views on key issues supported by 75% to 90% of Democratic voters—while the other candidate represented a distinctly minority view of the base. We are talking everything from Medicare for all to abolishing ICE to ending military aid to Israel. But who did Democratic leaders in Washington D.C. and Michigan endorse? The candidate who stood for the views of about 25% of Democratic voters are today. This has to end—and we must be the ones to end it. The Michigan Democratic Senate primary was simply the latest example. This race pitted Abdul El-Sayed versus Rep. Haley Stevens. On the big issues that dominated this race, El-Sayed lined up with a huge chunk of the Democratic base while Stevens lined up frankly more with the views of GOP voters. And that is all backed up by polling. Here are the receipts:

1. Medicare for All. This is now supported by 90% of Democratic voters per recent polls. El-Sayed—who wrote a book years ago advocating Medicare for All—has made embracing this issue one of the most visible parts of the campaign. Stevens, on the other hand, opposes it and instead wants to reinstate ACA subsidies the GOP ended and seeks to expand the ACA.

2. Abolish ICE. After the abuses we’ve seen from ICE under Trump’s second term—including murdering people—we now see nearly 75% of Democrats supporting the abolishment of ICE. El-Sayed has made abolishing ICE a large part of his platform. But despite what Democratic voters want, Stevens—who has voted in the past to fund ICE--opposes abolishing the agency and instead wants reforms. 3. Raising taxes on the wealthy. Recent polls show that 80% of Democrats want to see taxes raised on the wealthy. El-Sayed strongly supports raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy and billionaires. Stevens in contrast has not taken a position on specifically raising taxes on the wealthy—instead simply saying we need tax fairness. But by not supporting higher taxes on the wealthy explicitly she again ends up holding a position supported by GOP voters—not Democrats.

4. Ending military aid to Israel and Gaza. This became a major issue in the race. Well, a recent NY Times poll finds 74 percent of Democratic voters opposed additional military support for Israel. El-Sayed has been very outspoken on ending military aid to Israel and instead spending those billions back in the United States. (He has said the same about ending aid to Egypt.) In stark contrast, Stevens supports additional military aid to Israel with no conditions. In fact, just a few weeks ago she voted to ensure the Netanyahu regime receive $3 billion more of our tax dollars for its military. And despite nearly 65% of Democrats supporting the arrest of Netanyahu for war crimes for his actions in Gaza, Haley was one of only 45 House Democrats out of more than 200 to vote to sanction the International Criminal Court for investigating Netanyahu for war crimes. Again, Stevens is fighting for a position supported by the GOP base—not Democrats.

5. Big money in politics: A whopping 88% of Democrats want to ban “dark money” in politics--funds from groups that do not disclose their donors. El-Sayed has made getting big money out of politics a central theme. Stevens on the other hand refused to commit to any such efforts and instead when asked recently about El-Sayed’s position she deflected saying, “My opponent has done a great job talking about campaign finance. It’s an educated issue…That’s totally fine, but you know what else? These families on paid leave? They need affordable daycare.”

Stevens also accepted donations from corporate PACs such as the big Michigan utility companies and from PhRHMA, a trade group representing pharmaceutical firms, and UnitedHealth Group— both key players in the for-profit healthcare industry. That does not even include the $30 million spent by AIPAC funded group to support her a nonprofit that does not disclose its donors. In fact as NY Times reported, all the other pro-Stevens groups are financed by nonprofit groups that do not disclose their donors. Without dark money she would’ve been trounced which is why she doesn’t oppose it.

The political opponents that have the centrist Democrats newly energized and willing to fight like hell are the democratic socialists who have become a powerful organizing force within their party and some of its most popular national figures.  That’s according to the New York Times, which reported yesterday that the centrist organization Third Way, in concert with unnamed “moderates,” plan to launch a “discrediting campaign” lasting from now until 2028 that takes aim at the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the group whose members include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and is a key part of the coalition behind the party’s Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. That campaign will see Third Way not just do opposition research into DSA and target its elected officials but also go after politicians like El-Sayed, who don’t identify as socialists but make common cause with the group. “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” Third Way’s president, Jonathan Cowan, told the Times about the campaign. This is a month after Cowan and Third Way’s executive vice president, Matt Bennett, warned in the Washington Post that DSA was “not a faction to be appeased,” urging the party to “fight” the group by pledging “money, organization, and spine.” It’s a well-worn joke at this point that Democratic centrists fight the Left harder than they fight the far right. But here, Third Way and whatever “moderates” are part of this effort are actually giving us an honest-to-God, real-life example of it: centrist Democrats’ big play to push back against Trump’s wrecking ball of a presidency was to literally do nothing. Third Way itself has been largely invisible, other than to make a list of words Democrats shouldn’t use, lead a public campaign against leftist streamer Hasan Piker, and tell Dems to be more hawkish. But now that the Left is winning elections, they are jumping into action, pledging to “fight” a “war” and calling on Democrats to show “spine.” You can’t make this stuff up.

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This is the crux of it: centrist Democrats are clearly willing to tear apart their own party and hand power to the forces behind Trump, as long as it means stopping the Left from having any power.