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I get it now. (and im sorry)
#wc#blood cw#injury cw#hollyleaf's story#hollyleaf#hollypaw#fox cub wc#hollykit#how do i tag the fox#fox wc#red & silver au#<--- btw.#clip studio paint#digital art#artists on tumblr#au#back when i was actually writing all of po3 and oots for the au i was SO excited to get to hollyleaf's book because the tunnels are so wack#and in the au i tried to make the wackiness make sense. so the fox sticks around a bit longer due to another...factor in the tunnels helpin#holly out. you'd be able to guess from what ive posted of the au here#shumm's art
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like to charge, reblog to cast <3
#original<3#rb bait#reblog bait#us politics#elon musk#usa politics#usa#fbi this is a joke btw i just like to joke around i do not wish any harm on him
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op turned off reblogs but I want this forever
#ari talks#tumblr#btw i asked op when this post had the same amt of notes as the original and they were totally cool with it staying up with rbs on
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There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.
I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.
As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.
The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.
The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.
As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.
I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.
I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.
All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.
I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.
My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.
Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.
Sources:
• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text
• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)
#he also announced banning phones in schools & a bunch of other good policies for illinois btw!#wish some very blue states in the northeast would take note & do more…!#this is the message btw#(read the rest of the speech - it’s very positive)#jb pritzker#us politics#long post#mine
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pokèmonize yourself!!!!
spin this wheel to see your pokemon type
spin this one to see how you'll look like
#polls#gio talks#pokemon#btw i got dragon type and i look like a pig on my first roll.#im LITERALLY g.anondorf lmao#pokemon poll#hall of fame
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In tears
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"Useless ray of goddamn sunshine. You could have taught an old fool like me a lot."
Referenced Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885)
#mouthwashing#artists on tumblr#swansea mouthwashing#daisuke mouthwashing#THEY MAKE ME SO SAD#if swansea has no fans im DEAD#ivan the terrible is such a good painting btw
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ITS DOECHII BITCH MISS D-O-E DON DADA BITCH YOU NOTICE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#STREAM DOECHII NPR TINY DESK#i feel like i could run a marathon.#doechii world domination btw.#doechii#music#npr tiny desk
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The deadline has passed, the scumbags voted to continue sending money to Israel. Keep protesting, keep fighting. And keep supporting verified campaigns. The Alanqar family still needs help (verified #6 here) so if you want to do something please support their campaign in any way you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rising-from-the-ashes-ghadas-journey-of-hope-and-resilien?utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&lang=en_US
While you are at it, please share @zinaanqar ‘s campaign (link here)
#free palestine#the post links to another post giving more info btw#free gaza#gaza genocide#gaza strip#gazaunderattack#gaza#save palestine#save gaza#palestinian genocide#support palestine#i stand with palestine#palestine#anti zionisim#anti israel#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#jewish voice for peace#american friends service committee
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EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN










#looks better than the live action#practical effects are better than cgi most of the time yall#puppets>#animatronics>#httyd#how to train your dragon#how to train your dragon Beijing#how to train your dragon untrainable#how to train your dragon stage play#how to train your dragon play#these practical effects are GOOD AF wayyy better than the live action yall#it’s free on YouTube!!#the title is: [4K] Untrainable - How to Train a Dragon STAGE SHOW - Universal Studios Beijing - FULL SHOW#but if you search how to train your dragon untrainable or how to train your dragon stage play Beijing it’ll probs come up#highly advise watching it just cus it’s so pretty even if you don’t know mandarin I myself don’t but it’s jsut so pretty#Btw it’s still playing in Beijing and will be coming to the httyd park in Florida in 2025!!
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oh someone at the guardian has lost the will to live
#donald trump#US election#people who are blaming leftists for not voting for kamala harris are dumb btw
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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this
#and by 'everyone' i mean me. im just hoping other people relate lmao#someone asks me about a thing i like and im just like h..................#been thinking about The Character for a solid 6 months+ and let me tell you. expldoeing soon#this is about ffxv btw . how am i supposed to say how much it lives in my brain . i cant think#text#1k#5k#10k#15k#20k#great googly moogly#30k#40k#50k#60k#boooy what da heeel#70k#80k#90k#will this be my first ever post to hit 100k... it remains to be seen#good lord. we did it#100k
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Both Selfish; you each lose 2 points
You Selfish, prev Cooperative; You gain 2 points
You Cooperative, prev Selfish; You lose 1 point, prev gains 1 point
Both Cooperative; You Each gain 1 points
(ps make sure to say what you voted)
Making this post long so you have to scroll to see prev's tags.
#by my math if there is an equal chance of all 4 possibilities it should result in net 0 points in the economy#but math people in the notes can let me know if I got it right#not blorbo poll#btw I'm falling on the sword and doing cooperative choice#also it's supposed to say DO NOT not SO NOT! I blame autocorrect
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i hope whoever actually shot that CEO is having a good day.
#look the jokes are great#the commentary is often valuable#but#luigi mangione#is very obviously being framed by the most corrupt police force in the states#like#literally#so blantantly#he is innocent#both by the legal definition of he has not been charged with any crime#and by the common sense definition#he was 'caught with the coat the gun and the backpack'#that was also left at the scene of the crime#and a note saying basically 'lol yeah i did it and i did it all by myself i am guilty guilty guilty'#on his person#a manifesto addressed to the public#not left at the scene with the monopoly money or the bullet casings#which are the real manifesto btw#don't be dumber than a cop#he's innocent#and getting tricked by the police is embarassing
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