#AFT

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, was in Texas for the second time this month on Thursday, where she delivered a speech at the American Federation of Teachers national convention in Houston. The AFT is the second-largest labor union for teachers in the country. In the speech, she reiterated her unwavering support for LGBTQ+ rights, condemned Republican book bans, and called for an assault weapons ban. Harris spoke passionately about the recent surge in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in red states, particularly the “don’t say gay” laws that have proliferated across the country. She recounted her early advocacy for marriage equality, sharing, “In 2004, on Valentine’s Day weekend, I was one of the first elected officials in the country to perform same-sex marriages.” Harris has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to LGBTQ+ rights.

“It pains me so to think that, 20 years later, there are young teachers in their twenties who are afraid to put up a photograph of themselves and their partner for fear they could lose their job,” Harris said. She promised to fight to protect teachers and students from discrimination, affirming, “Every American should be free from bigotry and hate.” Harris also condemned the wave of Republican-led book bans that have targeted educational materials dealing with LGBTQ+ issues and racial history. She called out the hypocrisy of those who seek to restrict academic freedom while claiming to champion free speech. [...] “While you teach students about our nation’s past, these extremists attack the freedom to learn and acknowledge our nation’s true and full history,” she said. “We want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books. Can you imagine?”

Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris spoke at the American Federation of Teachers conference Thursday in which she spoke against censorious book bans, unwaveringly defended LGBTQ+ rights, and called for a renewal of an assault weapons ban.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Kamala Harris centers LGBTQ+ rights in speech to teachers’ union

[deepdeanvsweston]

AFT memes because I've just read and it's sooooo much worse than I remember

[korrasamiweek2024]

My day 1 submission for #korrasamiweek2024 ! I chose sparring and referenced a frame from Book 3 chapter 4. @korrasamiweek2024 🥰

Thank you @urfavestemme for your submission!

[arussmeow]

waiting for the sunshine court in the original edition in your language, but at the same time reading posts on aftg is like walking through a minefield every time you start reading a post and then yell, bumping your eyes into spoilers and nervously scrolling down lol (that’s why I always look at hashtags)

[parasocialqueen]

wtf this fic (the later parade - hoursafterhours) is going to ruin me

Wdym “Jean won’t ask them what they believed about the news coming out of Edgar Allen, but his body is enough to sway an opinion if it’s bendable.

His body is the only proof.”

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[eternal--returned]

Paul Cupido ֍ Treasure (2024)

[chronivore]

[polldermodel]

heb jij op het moment een aft? (zo'n wittig plekje in je mond dat zeer doet)

[deepdeanvsweston]

I really truly believe that Bertie would have turned out exactly like Daisy had the murderer in Arsenic For Tea not been Stephen and my evidence is one (1) piece of dialogue on pg 125:

"Which means we're trapped!" said Bertie. He sounded quite excited about it. "Trapped with a dead body."

He is just as excited as Daisy is!!! Bertie would have become a detective like her had the murderer not been Stephen because then it was too close to him, too real and unexpected. Hazel had Su Li, and Bertie had Stephen, but Daisy hasn't had a murderer turn out to be someone she was emotionally close to.

[lonestarflight]

Northrop/McDonnell-Douglas NATF-23, the Navalized Advanced Tactical Fighter version of the YF-23

"A proposed naval variant of the YF-23 known as the NATF-23 was considered as an F-14 Tomcat replacement. The original YF-23 design was first considered but would have had issues with flight deck space handling, storage, landing, and catapult launching reasons requiring a different design."

"The naval NATF-23 variant was different in many ways to the USAF version; the diamond wings were located as far back as possible, and the aircraft has conventional canted vertical tails instead of the ruddervator with serrations for low RCS and increased maneuverability at low speeds for aircraft carrier operations, folding wing capability for flight deck storage, reinforced landing gear, tailhook and canards for landing on aircraft carriers and thrust vectoring nozzles. The intakes were also different as they were a quarter circle with serrations, with a bumped compression surface. The NATF-23 had an increased 48 ft wingspan while the length was reduced to 62 ft."

"The NATF program called for the procurement of 546 aircraft along with the USAF's planned procurement of 750 aircraft."

"The NATF's internal payload was 4AAAM/AMRAAM, 2 AIM-9, AND 500 RDS 20MM. No external load was mandated, but provision for external carriage of weapons was desired."

May 7, 1991 Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"The Major Aircraft Review, launched in early 1990 under Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, reduced the peak production rates of both the ATF and NATF, from 72 to 48 and from 48 to 36, respectively. This had the effect of substantially increasing the program cost. In August 1990, Admiral Richard Dunleavy, who was in charge of Navy aircraft requirements, stated that 'he did not see how the NATF could fit into any affordable plan for Navy aviation.' The ATF Dem/Val flight-testing was accomplished from August 1990 through January 1991, but this had little impact on the prospects for an NATF. In early 1991, consideration of the NATF was finally dropped after it was determined that the F-14 could meet the Navy's air superiority needs through 2015. There was, at least initially, an option to restart the NATF program in fiscal year 1997, although that has since been abandoned."

source, source, source, source

[4449fandom]

The old Brooklyn Roundhouse crew

[leechloach]

Got my second AFT today... She's so cute, I love her little white bracelets. She's like a year and a half older than my male which means she's much bigger than him which is really funny.

Think I'm naming her Portia :)

[schinkennudeln]

Some andreil from my sketchbook

[cryptidymia]

Rogue - Sorcerer - Warlock -Paladin

I've been working on some dnd x reptile works and this is the first line up of them!