#13th district

[von-aspern]

Vienna, 13th district.

[just-silly-liv-things]

If you haven't checked it out yet and love Darkiplier, watch my new animated Collab with @meribel-nova for the anniversary of the final episode of who killed Markiplier and the first Friday the 13th since... Enjoy~

The song is: My name (You're wearing me out) by Shinedown 🖤

[postcard-from-the-past]

Bièvre river in the 13th district of Paris

French vintage postcard

[aboveourminds]

PARIS THE 13TH DISTRICT dir. Jacques Audiard

[filmap]

Les Olympiades, Paris 13e / Paris, 13th District Jacques Audiard. 2021

Stairs 105 Rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris, France See in map

See in imdb

[architectureforsuicides]

Les Olympiades, Paris 13e (Jacques Audiard, 2021) Viaduc du Boulevard Vincent Auriol / Boulevard Vincent Auriol Viaduct Paris (France) Bridge along Boulevard Vincent Auriol Type: truss bridge.

[gwydionmisha]

It does matter that we flipped this district blue.

The special election to replace Gaetz, who is already gone isn't until April Fool's Day. This means the House starts one critter down. Republicans are likely to lose the two nominees to 47's administration in January. That leaves Republicans in the time between them leaving and replacements coming in which Republicans only have a two vote majority. Remember how Republicans have been doing with four?

It's far worse than if we had taken the House and/or kept the senate, but it does leave room for both pressure and sand in the gears. Theoretically. If we still have Democracy and some rule of law left come February.

One of the goals for the next two years is to make everything Republicans want to do as hard as possible.

That means pressure on your Congress Critters (both house and Senate as the majority is thin there too). That means calls and protests and being as load as we can be. That means stiffening democratic spines and leaning on purple state/district Republicans in House and senate.

That means looking for effective tactics in this like the Indivisible Guide. (A new one is coming out as of this writing).

That means running for something if you can.

That means networking and safety in numbers. That means standing with other marginalized groups besides our own and not endlessly sniping and purity testing each other.

Do it as safely as you can. Cover your face. Don't bring devices to protests. Don't use face or fingerprint to unlock your phone or laptop. Disable tracking and delete any apps that could endanger you. Communicate in person if you can. Don't consent to police entering your house or searching your house or car without a warrant. don't answer police questions. They will lie and try to trick you.

I have begged people over and over for decades now: Leave no one behind. Their best tactic is splinter us and turn us against each other so we can't use our numbers to advantage. Do Not Let Them.

They want you to give up. Don't.

[northameicanblog]

Little island, Manhattan, New York: Little Island at Pier 55 is an artificial island and a public park within Hudson River Park, just off the western coast of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is near the intersection of West Street and West 13th Street in the Meatpacking District and Chelsea neighborhoods of Manhattan. Wikipedia

[von-aspern]

Vienna, 13th district.

[myceliacrochet]

U.S. Senate is voting Wed Nov. 13th on whether to continue sending aid to Israel!!!!

🇵🇸🇵🇸3-Day Art Raffle🇵🇸🇵🇸

🌸🩷🍄Contact Your Reps for Gaza to Enter!!!🍄🩷🌸

Those who are not in the U.S. are welcome to participate too and contact your own representatives.

Here are some examples of my art

🩷🌸🍄How to Enter🍄🩷🌸

1. Contact Your Representative(s) by Nov. 13th.

Here are some links that will lead you through it:

US (USPCR); call

US (USPCR): email

US (Jewish Voice for Peace): call

UK: letter

Australia: email

Canada: email

2. Let Me Know.

Lmk how many representatives you contacted and how many times each. You can just dm or comment me the tally, or you can send me screenshots as you make the calls/letters/emails. Honor system

3. Win an Art!

Lmk what you want me to make and you will get a digital copy.

🩷🌸🍄FAQs🍄🌸🩷

How Many Tickets Can I Get?

As many times as you contacted your own representative (doesn't have to be a senator, but preferably so) starting on Nov. 10.

So if you called the White House twice, your governor 1 time, once senator twice, another senator twice, and your district rep once, you would get 8 tickets.

Yes, you can contact them more than once in a day, and you will get as many tickets as the number of times you contacted. Flood 'em.

Do I Call, Send a Letter/Postcard, or Email? Do I Use My Own Words or a Script?

That's up to you! Some of the links in Step #1 have tips, scripts, and form letters. Just do it.

Who are Basma and Shorouq from the Pictures?

They're Palestinians and I love them! Check out their stories here and here, they need emergency funds.

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[postcard-from-the-past]

Street scene in the 13th district of Paris during the 1910 Great Floods

French vintage postcard

[toothfa-1-ry]

GOODNIGHT SUNSHINE -finnick odair

It's the coldest it has ever been in the 13th district but Finnick's got you right?

GENRE: fluff

PAIRING: Finnick Odair x gn reader

WARNING: mentions of wound and scars

A/N: this fic is especially dedicated for those who were victims of my previous Finnick fic

TAGLIST: @honethatty12

"Finnick?" You ask at the dead of night, the both of you lying down next to eachother all cramped up in the tiny bed which was given to the both of you

"yes sweetheart?" Finnick's breath tickles your ears as he whispers, slightly bending his neck to where you were lying down in his chest

You could hear his heartbeat clearly a d he could feel you breathing, a sign that the both of you were alive.

Your fingers could feel the bandage wrapped around his arms and Finnick could see the scars on your face, a sign that the both of you were a little scarred, but still a sign that the both of you were alive.

The 13th district is cold. A different kind of cold the both of you hd ever experienced. Finnick had mainly experienced the cold during the night on the beach, the cold air blowing towards him from the sea.

Finnick also had experienced many different kind of warmths, the bad and the good

The kind of warmth you can only get back at the 4th district, the warm sand beneath is feet and the sunlight hitting the water.

The warmth from the capitol in all its luxury and velvety blankets and linen bedsheets which left him cold and empty instead

And the kind of warmth with you. A different kind of warmth, like now,

How the both of you were in a cold small quiet room with a thin blanket too small to cover 2 people and yet Finnick felt the most comfortable and warm he ever was,all because he had you in his arms

Even though there was a entire uprising going on, even though there was wounds and scars all over his back, even the nightmares he endures everynight seemed to cease to exist when he was with you

"Finnick" you repeat again

"yes sweetheart?" He responds nonchalantly, his arms pulling you in closer towards him

"aren't you feeling cold?" You ask, the thin blanket was hardly even able to cover you, let alone Finnick "we can't share it, it's far too small. We can take turns using it"

"it's alright sweetheart" Finnick mumbles and his face nuzzles into you neck "m'not cold"

You scoff "it's freezing, here" you try spreading the blanket across Finnick's body but Finnick just doesn't accept it

"you use it love, don't worry about me, I've got my sun right next to me. I'm warm enough" he lazily smiles "c'mon these scars aren't going to heal themselves, let's give into the night"

"scars don't heal Finnick, wounds do, not scars" you roll your eyes as you reply but your arms stretch over Finnick's neck

"I suppose so, but you can always kiss them better hm?" He hums

"I suppose I can always kiss them better" you smile as you press a kiss into his face

"night Finnick"

"goodnight sunshine"

[filmap]

Les Olympiades, Paris 13e / Paris, 13th District  Jacques Audiard. 2021

Street 216 Rue du Château des Rentiers, 75013 Paris, France See in map

See in imdb

[promptseverlark]

TWHHA challenge Summer’24

“This Would Have Happened Anyway” Challenge for Summer ‘24

Katniss says it at the end of Mockingjay:

“But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips. On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that. So after, when he whispers, "You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.”

So let’s explore “What ifs” and send your fics. The theme this time is DISTRICTS APART 🔥 and it can be Pre-Games or Post-Mockingjay… but it could also be pre or port catching fire

Pairing: Everlark

Type: Fan Fiction or Fan Art.

Words: Over 1000 words (drabbles, one shots or short multi chapter are welcome, we would like to have submission completed although it isn’t mandatory)

theme this time is DISTRICTS APART

Deadline:

1. You can confirm your to participation until June 23rd (in Tumblr, answering this post) and you will be granted access to the collection to submit your work.

2. You can submit your fics up to July 11th midnight (CET time!)

3. Collection will be live July 13th 2024 as anonymous

4. Writers will be revealed July 20th

@thgcommentfeast

[violsva]

BC Election Advance Voting

The BC provincial election is Saturday, October 19th. But if you’re busy then, you can vote in advance!

The last day to apply online to vote by mail is Sunday, October 13th. The deadline is 8pm.

The in-person advance polls are open 8am-8pm, October 10th-13th and 15th-16th (closed on the 14th for Thanksgiving). You can also vote in person or request a vote-by-mail package at any district electoral office until 4pm on October 19th. You can find your local voting locations HERE.

Elections BC must receive your ballot by 8pm on election day. That’s October 19th. If you haven’t mailed it by Tuesday, go drop it off at a polling place, district electoral office, or Service BC location.

Your voting package will come with paperwork. If you make a mistake in voting by mail, they may not be able to tell you about it and help you fix it in time. READ AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN YOUR VOTING PACKAGE.

And if you’re voting in person and you’re not 100% sure how to do it, ask the election officials.

More information here. Translations available here.

[mariacallous]

What the 2024 election results made clear is that the Obama coalition is dead. If Democrats are to have any shot at reclaiming power, so too must be the niceties and mores of the Obama era.

Yes, Democrats must get mean – ruthlessly, bitterly mean. This is not to say, however, that they need merely to cast aside the former first lady’s once-famous, now-infamous messaging mantra. No, what I prescribe is not just a new approach to political discourse but a new theory of opposition party politics.

Trumpsim has corrupted America in many ways, but one of the most obvious is how voters now expect lawmakers and surrogates to be truly vicious cultural warriors for them. One can see manifestations of this in the congresswoman Nancy Mace’s deranged bullying of the congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride, the endless and deliberate mispronunciation of Kamala Harris’s first name, and the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the top fundraisers in the House of Representatives.

This phenomenon also exists on the left. The coffers poured open for Jasmine Crockett following a tête-à-tête with the aforementioned Taylor Greene, during which Crockett mocked her colleague’s “bleach-blonde bad-built butch-body”. And one could argue the strongest period of the Harris-Walz campaign – at least in terms of Democratic enthusiasm – was during the “weird” and “couch” sagas of Brat summer.

As the commentator SE Cupp recently observed, “it doesn’t get said enough, but Trump’s enduring legacy will be convincing BOTH parties to lower the bar, and that possessing moral authority on anything is no longer a currency that matters”. Democrats can either bemoan the fact the fundamental rules of politics and discourse have changed or they can adapt to it. In the four years to come, emboldened voices on the right will work to expand the Overton window. Democrats’ reaction to this effort must not materialize as feigned – or earnest – injury and horror. Take the punch and return the favor.

This new, more muscular messaging strategy must be combined with a far more aggressive war footing in the halls of Congress.

The Democrat Adam Gray’s unseating of the Republican congressman John Duarte in California’s 13th congressional district cemented a nigh-historically tenuous situation for the House Republican party. Mike Johnson, the House speaker, will have only a 220-seat majority. However, Republicans are poised to lose three seats (if not more) as members resign to join the Trump administration. That will leave them with a majority of 217-seats, meaning Johnson can only afford to lose one member on major – and minor – votes.

The Republicans’ legislative to-do list is nothing to scoff at. In addition to renewing Trump’s first term tax cuts and possibly imposing hyper-controversial tariffs on various imports, Johnson will need to pass a bill to fund the government. Democrats must not help him.

Time and again congressional Democrats have swept in to save Republican leaders – and Republican voters – from their own lawmakers. This generosity must end. The Dems must bleed the Republican party of its political capital at every opportunity, even if it means the American people experience some pain. On a Bulwark podcast this week, the writer Jonathan V Last channeled Alan Moore’s iconic comic book anti-hero Rorschach to describe the mentality Democrats should adopt: “The politicians will look up and shout ‘save us,’ and I’ll look down, and whisper ‘no.’”

Yes, Democrats should make the next four years of Republican governance as grueling and painful as possible. Do not help them pass a budget (if Johnson, as Last playfully notes, offers up DC statehood as an incentive for cooperation, we can have another conversation). Do not vote for a single cabinet nominee – even those who qualify as “adults in the room” (sorry, Marco Rubio). Relatedly, do not hold back from highlighting all the darkest aspects of said nominees’ backgrounds – from former Fox host Pete Hegseth’s alleged sexual assault to Robert F Kennedy’s purported role in the deaths of dozens during a 2019 measles outbreak in American Samoa.

While on the Hill, casual comity is fine. Lawmakers should continue to break bread and imbibe brandy with one another. That is all to the good. But Democrats’ outdated impulse to prioritize good relationships with their conservative colleagues at all costs must end. Recall, many of these men and women have spent years valorizing a violent mob that sought to kill them. Comity for the sake of comity is, well, utter comedy.

On that note, there is no world in which Joe Biden and Harris attending the inauguration makes basic strategic sense. Such a move would only serve to undermine trust in a Democratic party brand that’s already on life support. Either Donald Trump is a fascist or he isn’t. There is no such thing as Schrödinger’s autocrat.

Liberals made the decision to compare the former and future commander-in-chief to Hitler. Rhetoric like that can’t be memory-holed. Thus, symbolically lauding the man’s re-ascension to power will not preserve the Democrats’ reputation as the “party of norms”. On the contrary, it will cement the growing sense – particularly after the pardon of Hunter Biden – that Dems traffic in lies and deceit with the same shamelessness as Republicans.

These strategic shifts – in messaging, in oppositional governance, and in observation of norms – will be difficult for some to swallow. After all, as Robert Frost often liked to observe, “a liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel”. Democrats must get over themselves; far too much is at stake.

What gives me hope now

To the limited extent I’m optimistic about the next four years, my resolve is rooted in the fact that Trump’s incoming administration – and his Republican coalition more broadly – will probably prove to be more fractious and wracked with infighting than it was during his first term. As we saw following the “Doge” chief Vivek Ramaswamy’s deranged, 90’s sitcom-addled tirade about H-1B visas and the “mediocrity” of American culture, deep policy disagreements plague the current marriage of OG Maga and the Silicon Valley tech bro billionaire class.

Steve Bannon, even more recently, vowed to “take down” the “truly evil” Elon Musk and excise him like a cancer from Trump’s orbit. Throughout the president-elect’s last stay in the White House, intra-party conflict was largely drawn along old guard versus new guard lines. Trump has since turned the Republican into a cult of personality. As such, slavish loyalty to the king is the only coin of the realm – and there are now major competing policy interests among his yes-men. Couple this with the reality that Trump is a lame duck and party elites will constantly be jockeying to be viewed as the heir apparent, and his den of vipers may just consume itself.