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Aquaman 1 (2025) variant by Ivan Reis

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"We are The Weirdos, Mister." [The Craft (1996)]

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is this really all there is? 🌿⚔

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I’m not just a me. I’m also a we.

SENSE8 (2015 - 2018)

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ANDOR 1.04 Aldhani

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Southland Tales (2006)

“This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” ~ T.S. Eliot

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I love how this film is shot! (dir. of photography Dean Cundy)

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Some witches skating

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To The People I Pass On The Train At Night - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

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Data center in Dresden, East Germany, 1973.

(Deutsche Fotothek)

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Armando Gil Moon Knight #2 (1985) Source

Colorist uncredited

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it only just now dawned on me that I’ll very likely learn who won the election from those Supernatural homosexuals. this is how we live now.

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When it starts, they will not look like the bad guys from the history books or those movies.

They will be going after undocumented immigrants to protect American jobs. That is what their voters wanted, right? But there are so many, so they will empower local police to help them with this massive undertaking. There will not be any oversight over this, so if you think about the worse offenses committed by our police nationwide on a daily basis already, protected by qualified immunity, and now backed by a friendly executive branch and Supreme Court. But they will explain how they are just 'working with the states.' And anything that does come to light, well, those were just a couple bad apples. We know how this goes already.

With so many undocumented migrants rounded up, well, it will be hard to hold them all in our already overcrowded prisons and jails. They won't build concentration camps, they will build 'temporary detainment facilities' that are just until the crisis is over, of course. They will be run by private companies, who have already proven bad at it, but there will not be any pushback, because they are 'just trying to keep us safe' of course. The conditions in them will be bad, but that is what they deserve for being here illegally, their supporters will say. The deaths will be covered up.

They will try to end birthright citizenship, so they can decide who is and is not a 'real' American. They have already said this. And they won't say that it will be determined by your skintone, because how dare you imply they are racist.

To 'protect the children' from certain topics, any discussion of gender or sexuality will be made illegal in school. They will offer bounties like they have in Texas already to encourage your neighbors to turn you in. Gender-affirming care will be ruled as 'unsafe' and 'untested' by political appointees, despite decades of it being safe and effective. Federal rules will say that only the gender on your original birth certificate will matter, and federal rules will be put in place to only allow those pronouns on legal documents. As smarter people have said, the cruelty is the point.

They will find an excuse to say the Obergefell decision was unfairly decided, and it will be eliminated. Again, they already said they were going to do this.

They have already targeted bodily autonomy for women. This will only get worse as time goes on.

Massive tax cuts to the rich and corporations will show up early and face no real resistance. There will be no discussion of how to pay for them. In the face of the government bleeding money from those (plus the tariffs they have planned) they will slash any and all social services. They will privatize social security (long a dream of theirs.) It will go as well as you expect. But they will blame anything other than their financial mismanagement.

The EPA, if it is not cut closed completely, will have no enforcement powers or authority. What little we were doing about climate change will be gone. National parks will be open for business development.

The Department of Education will also be gutted, and have no enforcement power. They will again say they are just returning the power to the states. We all know what they mean by states rights. We had a whole war about it. Money will flow to private religious schools and charter schools. Public schools, already in a funding crisis, will be left out to dry.

Ukraine will fall. The Palestinian genocide will continue with full support of our government. There will be no help for Sudan.

Prices will go up from the planned tariffs and labor shortages. Corporations will use this excuse to gouge consumers, like they did earlier this year. Housing prices will not improve, because, again, it is not affecting the people with the money. Income inequality will only accelerate.

In the name of voter fraud (of which there was never any evidence) there will be no effort to stop voter disenfranchisement at the state level. This will target blue counties, like pretty much every large city, even in the reddest of states. This will preserve their hold on power. Gerrymandering will run rampant. Blue states will do what they can in their own borders, but we saw how those numbers played out last night. And expect their federal funding to get cut as well.

Any hope of effective third parties is gone; they have no reason to support ranked choice voting. Any dreams of eliminating the electoral college, also gone. Why would they change a system that works so well for them?

All the court cases against the president elect just went up in smoke. And even if one happened to magically continue, the vice president elect would just carry on with all the policies above. It is not just one person. It never was. It was who is backing him, and why they are doing it.

Speaking of court cases, investigations against domestic terrorism on the right will also go away. The Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, and other worse groups will grow and gain power in local communities.

It will be hard to read about these things happening. Major news organizations have already been bought out by billionaires who support this. That is one of the reasons we got to where we are. Independent journalists and nonprofits were already hurting for funding, and now will be subject to unfounded investigations.

So, welcome to America 2025. We are all in this together. Save as many lives as possible.

-Paul Jacobus, 11-6-2024

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Kingdom (Season 2)

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