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Superboy💥💪

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Nightcrawler

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Some cute doodle bcs i have nothing digital done 💀

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Miles

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I find at least for myself, and I'm 100% sure this is not the media's feeling, I almost don't want to say "he can't do that" or any version of that because....

quite frankly I worry people are dumb and so often "he doesn't really mean that" "yeah but he won't really..." has been used as an excuse to vote for Trump even as he says things that people say they don't support.

people not believing he'll really do the very bad thing has allowed him to skate time and time again. So stressing that this is literally unconstitutional, that impoundments are against the US Constitution, that agencies like USAID, or the Department of Ed were set up by an ACT of Congress, a LAW, and without Congress they can't be be shut down, again illegal and unconstitutional. I fear stressing those facts will give people an idea that it won't happen so its fine, that some court will step in and stop him.

I hope they do, but like with USAID this will take time and while destroying a whole agency or department "because Trump said so" is not legal he has wide totally legal powers on how they function and he can legally make them not function well at all, and indeed as long as he has a toady Congress he can push for DEEP nasty horrible budget cuts that effectively shut down the agency without actually shutting it down.

I just don't want people to get the impression that because a court might stop him (not even getting into "will he obey a court order?") that it'll all work out

Trump announcing that he's signing an Executive Order aimed at closing down the Department of Education

NPR did an explainer on what the Department of Ed does

This will undoubtably make education worse in America and is a major attack on low income students and students with disabilities across America as well as a step to make college much less affordable, student loan debt utterly inescapable, and put limits on the education of every girl and young woman in America, and open the door to even greater discrimination against LGBT students, black students and all non-white students.

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Trump announcing that he's signing an Executive Order aimed at closing down the Department of Education

NPR did an explainer on what the Department of Ed does

This will undoubtably make education worse in America and is a major attack on low income students and students with disabilities across America as well as a step to make college much less affordable, student loan debt utterly inescapable, and put limits on the education of every girl and young woman in America, and open the door to even greater discrimination against LGBT students, black students and all non-white students.

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Wilhelm & Simon YOUNG ROYALS

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The Agriculture Department has halted millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks without explanation, according to food bank leaders in six states.

USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, the food bank leaders say many of those orders have been canceled.

The halting of these deliveries, first reported by POLITICO, comes after the Agriculture Department separately axed two other food programs, ending more than $1 billion in planned federal spending for schools and food banks to purchase from local farmers.

So Trump and Musk are just stealing food out of the mouths of poor people, at home and around the world, hurting American farmers while they do it. And also just breaking the law and violating the Constitution as they go.

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First image!! Super boy (Jon Kent) Try to draw him in the movie style! I like how it turned out but not really a fan of the line work >C<

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A new analysis reveals that Trump’s tax plan will “actively transfer money from low-income people to the top 0.1% of income earners.”

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https://www.tumblr.com/batboyblog/778403873132019712/segregated-facilities-are-no-longer-explicitly

Really is just the Neo-Confederacy. They've been vicious losers for over 150 years, and they're doing everything in their power to un-lose the situation.

yes,

Just yesterday I was reading how the Defense Department took down the webpage about General Charles Calvin Rogers, Rogers is the highest ranked black person to win the Medal of Honor, the error message page that replaced his profile had "DEI Medal" in its web address.

today I read about how the Army delated a profile of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his time in the US Army during WWII.

so yeah there are clearly people in the Trump administration who see black people existing in public, appearing in history, as an attack on them, and believe that black people can't achieve anything without a leg up, a handout.

and yes there are clearly those who are gleefully redefining being pro-segregation as "anti-DEI" or whatever.

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I haven’t been able to find a really good breakdown anywhere, but do you know who the current swing votes on the Supreme Court are?

I want to be clear there is not really a "swing vote" any more on the Supreme Court.

For many many years the court had Justices who tried to hold center ground on the Court, both Justice Potter Stewart (1958-1981) and his replacement on the court Sandra Day O'Connor (1981-2006) had a standard of "what does the average American feel" as for what was "reasonable" in a legal sense (O'Connor was more conservative than Stewart)

after O'Connor left the court the role of "swing" went to Justice Anthony Kennedy (1988-2018), but I think it would be more accurate and appropriate to say Kennedy was a liberal-Conservative, on some matters, like gun rights he was conservative, on some issues, like gay rights very liberal, on abortion you might say he was for as many restrictions as possible while still keeping it technically allowed.

Since his retirement in 2018 there are no real swings any more.

Chief Justice John Roberts is the most moderate of the Conservative majority, and has made clear he takes the responsibilities of being head of a co-equal branch of government, the Judiciary, seriously so at times has been more skeptical of Trump's claims of power, and at times as tried to rule, like Stewart and O'Connor where the majority of Americans are. But he is a conservative who voted against gay marriage, against the voting rights act (evil ass shit) and authored the Trump absolute immunity ruling

Other than Roberts there's Justice Neil Gorsuch, he's over all more conservative on a lot of issues than Roberts, but also has some weird idiosyncratic views on stuff which means he's for example super liberal on Native American tribal rights which saw him as the deciding vote on a lot of 5-4 rulings (before the death and replacement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in late 2020) in favor of tribes, for example the case that ruled that most of Oklahoma over to the five tribes (later in 2022 with a more conservative make up the court pulled back and Gorsuch was rip shit) he's been kinda all over the place on LGBT rights, he authored the court's ruling on Bostock which declared the Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers LGBT people protecting them from work place discrimination, but he's joined with the two most conservative justices a bunch of times in 3-6 rulings whenever anyone says something about their religious believes allowing them to discriminate.

Finally there's Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who's only been on the court since late 2020, so her record is the least expansive of the Conservative Justices (and she'd only been a Judge since 2017) court watchers have been saying she's drifting away from the conservative block and becoming more independent and swing. I think it's a little early to say for sure. She did vote to overturn Roe which likely will be her legacy on the Court. But she did offer a much more narrow idea of Presidential immunity in her option than the other conservatives (since there were 5 of them it didn't matter what she thought)

Even Justice Kavanaugh has at times broken liberal, such as a voting rights case in North Carolina where he sided with Roberts and the liberals.

So basically Justices Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, are literally ALWAYS bad news, you see a ruling has been written by them, it'll suck and be horrible. Chief Justice Roberts is a conservative but is most likely to side with the Court's 3 liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, but that's just 4 votes, on different issues there are possibilities that Justices Gorsuch or Barrett, or even Kavanaugh might side with them, but I wouldn't generally bet on that happening, idk if Gorsuch with his quirks or Barrett with her maybe growing independence is the more likely "swing" vote.

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The Trump administration got rid of an executive order signed by President LBJ in 1965 which bars companies who do business with the federal government from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 still bans such segregation, but its deeply chilling to have a government willing to rip up an anti-segregation regulation for no reason at all, and leads many people worry that the real goal of the anti-"DEI" push by Republicans is the total repeal of the 1960s civil rights legislation

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Watersnake

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Peter Donde was a 10-year-old infected with H.I.V. from his mother during childbirth. But American aid kept Peter strong even as his parents died from AIDS. A program started by President George W. Bush called PEPFAR saved 26 million lives from AIDS, and one was Peter’s.

Under PEPFAR, an outreach health worker ensured that Peter and other AIDS orphans got their medicines. Then in January, Trump and Musk effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, perhaps illegally, and that PEPFAR outreach program ended. Orphans were on their own.

Without the help of the community health worker, Peter was unable to get his medicines, so he became sick and died in late February, according to Moses Okeny Labani, a health outreach worker who helped manage care for Peter and 144 other vulnerable children.

fuck everyone who voted for Trump, and particularly fuck everyone who said it didn't matter who won, who said there was some higher point to prove by having Democrats lose, fuck everything, this ocean of blood and human suffering is all your fault and it a far and just universe you would all burn in hell for it.