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Kon El Airlines

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"...you two keep rehearsing."

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Is everyone who works for Trump a sex criminal?

It's certainly starting to feel like it's easier to list the people Trump wants in his second cabinet who aren't involved in sex crimes in someway, but here's a list to help you keep the perverts straight

President, Donald Trump: Trump was sued by journalist E. Jean Carroll for raping her in the early 1990s. A New York Jury found Trump libel for sexual abuse, battery, and defamation (for saying Carroll was lying). Later the Judge in the case wrote that a reasonable person could describe what Trump did as rape, meaning you can call Trump a rapist in print and it's not defamation. Past this at least 26 women have accused Trump of assaulting them over many years. And in the last months tapes detailing a close personal relationship between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein came to light

Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth: Hegseth is accused of raping a woman in 2017. The woman never pressed charges though she did get a rape kit test the next morning. Hegseth paid his accuser and signed and NDA in 2020. Hegseth is also known to have a bunch of weird white nationalist and pro-Crusade tattoos which got him listed as a security risk by his national guard unit

Attorney General Matt Gaetz: oh boy... Gaetz was witnessed having sex with a 17 year old girl at a party (in Florida, where the age of consent in 18) He paid two women for sex using Venmo (according to the women). He also is accused of illegal drug use. In 2020 Gaetz' friend and political ally Joel Greenberg was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking of a minor. Greenberg agreed to work with the Justice Department on a case against Gaetz with the FBI investigating Gaetz for sex trafficking minors, charges were never brought (I remain very confused as to why? since Greenberg went to jail for 11 years)

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Past the whole vaccines cause autism thing and the chug raw milk thing, you guessed it, RFK Jr is accused of sexual assault. A woman who worked for the Kennedys as a nanny in the 1990s accused Kennedy, then in his 40s of assaulting and sexually harassing her when she was a 23 year old employee. Also there's all the stuff with dead animals

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon: McMahon is currently being sued for covering up and failing to do anything about a pervasive cultural of sexual harassment and assault against the underaged boys who worked for the WWE in the 1980s and early 1990s.

This isn't a sex crime, but given that RFK JR also has weird animal stories I'll throw it in because its weird to have one, and very weird to have two.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Noem wrote in her own book about dragging a 1 year old dog into a gravel pit and shooting it, fucking up, having to go inside to reload before coming back and shooting it to death. Her stated reason was that Cricket the dog was not a very good hunting dog, giving it away never seems to have crossed her mind. Also Noem a devote Christian is allegedly to have had a sexual affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Lewandowski and Noem are both married to other people.

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tamquam alter idem. like a second self. magician & dreamer.

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Happy Pride !

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Solace

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about the bad wizard school houses, i always found it funny just how much effort people try to put into defending how the houses worked because they all clearly spent more mental energy than Jolana did writing all 7 of those books, anyways i would had probably ended up in lesser house and be miserable because i would refuse to get high with the rest of them

I try to keep what I think of the books apart from her as a person, as a person she sucks, but like clearly so did HP Lovecraft, but I shouldn't that color how I would review his works.

that out of the way, yes, idk if JKR is lazy or what exactly, but always the flaw in her books, the series as a whole is a lack of follow up. You see this the most intensely with supporting and side characters, she introduces them and uses them and then when the story they were made for is over, they're still around but don't grow and change any more.

I think Ginny Weasley is the clearest example of this, she's really introduced in book 2 to be a plot device. Now at this point Harry is 12 Ginny is 11 and at those ages a year is a HUGE gap and so Harry views her as Ron's kid sister, and finds her crush on him horribly embarrassing as a 12 year old boy would. But she'll never again get this much attention and characterization. So kid sister who's WAY too young is what got left in the brains of readers so by the end of the series, when if you'd invested time into characters not named Harry, Ron and Hermione, Ginny could have grown up the year difference between them shrunk down to be not really much of a difference at all, you get all the readers feeling weird and icky about Harry hooking up with Ron's kid sister.

point being same with the houses, a more thoughtful writer would have flushed them out more over the series but nah

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What is your Hogwarts house?

you know even as a kid I always felt like the Houses were kinda tacked on, like she clearly came up with Hero House (Gryffindor) and Villain House (Slytherin) and then felt like having just good guy and bad guy house was a little unbalanced so was like "uh... Nerd House!" (Ravenclaw) and finally just loser house (Hufflepuff) so even as I was reading them (and the first one was published when I was 8) I never felt like any of the houses have very district personalities despite how much we're told they do, I mean other than "they are the hero main characters" Ron and Hermione really have nothing that unites them in terms of personality. In a better done narrative the 3 main characters would be split across the 3 not evil houses and have to each use the skills the Houses are listed as having, courage, loyalty, intelligence, to overcome evil (and at some point Malfoy should have flipped to prove Hogwarts didn't just have a built in evil house)

The sad fact of having not like Harry Potter before it was cool is no one believes you now?

I've always felt there were a lot of lot better children's fantasy books that never got their flowers that I got into before Harry Potter. The Young Wizard series by the amazing @dianeduane set the bar REALLY high for me as kid, as did The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs. And of course Redwall and its many sequels by Brian Jacques all those I know for sure I read before the first Harry Potter and after that diet I was not overly impressed as a kid, the first book is good, great even, but the second book is just the first one again, the 3rd manages to do something different and the 4th is okay if too long and then they slide into becoming basically unreadable from there

any ways at the same time as Harry Potter some much better books

Abhorsen by Garth Nix

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

so I guess thats the answer to that, I always liked other books a lot more, the Houses were never really a part I found interesting in magic school.

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percy annabeth and grover but they do the scooby doo door stack thing

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lil dickie got bored on a stakeout :/

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it's true and you should say it.

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In the closing weeks of the Biden Administration its hard not to think about how different this will be handled for the next 4 years.

While the Department of Ed is mandating Nex Benedict's school take corrective action about the harassment and bullying aimed at their Queer students, its hard to imagine that the Trump Department of Ed will follow through, or that they'll even feel like Title IX covers LGBT students

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the lesson I'm taking away from this election is not that the Democrats need to become more left wing or more right wing but moreso that they need to find a way to cater their rhetoric towards people who genuinly have no idea what is going on. the target audience for every speech and political appearance should be someone who doesn't know what the three branches of government are because they were drawing a Cool S during high school civics

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friend asked.

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I realized I didn’t make a single thing for Pride this year, and that just won’t do. Happy belated Pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜!!

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Hey, do you have any organizing tips for rural/suburban (rust belt) areas? I keep seeing posts about how we all need to build community for the coming 4 years, but, like, how? I join what existing groups I can (including non-political things like DnD), but there’s not many considering my citys population has declined every year for like 60 years. There’s no pride group in my county, nor is there a DSA presence. I do what I can running a political group, but I’m not the most charismatic and can’t seem to get people to show up regularly. (I’ve seen you talk about canvassing and dude- mad respect. I suck at it, even though I’ve knocked doors for years)

you'll have to forgive me, I'm a little sick today, low grade fever, so if I'm a little on the fuzzy side thats why.

first off being consistent and organized is far far FAR more important than charisma when it comes to organizing and leading any kind of group

any ways right now there's a lot of phone banking to "cure" ballots, chasing people who cased provisional ballots, there are a lot of very close House and Senate races that may well come down to these ballots, everyone can check Mobilize for info on that

from there I'd say look up your state's Democratic Party and there should be county parties for every county in the state, start going volunteer for whatever needs doing you'll be amazed by how a willingness to say yes will push you up the party, I'd also look to see if there's a local PFLAG chapter, that might be a jumping off spot for organizing a local pride

I always push people to look into Run For Something you might find a candidate running in your area you can help and support, or you can make calls and help local progressives all over the place, also check out the NDTC which is focused on training, while a lot of its stuff is for candidates it also has stuff for volunteers and people helping on campaigns, I'd sign up for Swing Left, Sister District, and MoveOn.Org

hope any of that was helpful.