#Justice For Lisa Edwards

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We want justice for Lisa Edwards! Lisa was physically disabled and was in the care and custody of Knoxville Police Department when she became unresponsive. KPD refused to get her the medical attention she desperately and clearly needed, after pleading and begging for it repeatedly. It is very clear by the body cams of the officers, Lisa was in respiratory distress and had strong signs of a stroke. She had slurred speech, paralysis on the left side of her body, and release of bodily fluids. She told KPD repeatedly that she had a stroke, couldn’t walk, and couldn’t breathe. After being mocked, laughed at, ridiculed, degraded, berated, taunted, cursed at, tortured, etc., KPD failed their duty to protect and serve. Ultimately, because of negligence from KPD and Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Lisa died. We want Justice! We want the four KPD officers (Sgt. Brandon Wardlaw, Officer Adam Barnett, Officer Timothy Distasio, and Transportation Officer Danny Dugan) held accountable for their actions. We want the medical staff, including security, at Fort Sanders Medical Center held accountable for their actions. We also want policies and procedures changed, put into action, and enforced by all parties responsible for these hideous and horrific acts of negligence.

Why is this important?

The family, friends, community, and country of Lisa Edwards deserve justice!

[mariacallous]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is fond of responding to his detractors with a bit of advice: “Let your haters be your waiters when you sit down at the table of success.”

The Department of Justice now seems to have a few things to say about Adams’ success. In a 57-page, five-count indictment unsealed Thursday, federal prosecutors accused him of taking bribes from foreign nationals and doling out favors over a span of nearly a decade.

Others in his orbit have also been investigated by federal authorities, leading to several high-profile resignations this month — among them police commissioner Edward Caban and mayoral legal adviser Lisa Zornberg.

Adams said the charges were “entirely false” and “based on lies,” adding that he looks forward to defending himself.

“I will fight these injustices with every ounce of my strength and my spirit,” he said.

Adams, a former captain with the New York Police Department, was elected mayor of the country’s largest city in 2021 on a pro-NYPD platform, and is seeking reelection in 2025.

The indictment paints a picture of a man who is comfortable accepting luxuries either for free or little cost, allegedly using fake paper trails and cash to conceal them, and performing various favors in return. It also accuses him of using a donation-matching program aimed at giving New Yorkers a stronger voice in local elections to steal some $10 million in public funds.

Here’s what we learned about the accusations:

Adams allegedly took a lot of money from Turkish nationals who believed he could be president someday.

Prosecutors say foreign nationals seeking favors from Adams funneled cash to his campaign through American citizens in a “straw man” setup.

A text exchange between a Turkish businessman and an aide to Adams provided insight into the deals:

“Fund Raising in Turkey is not legal, but I think I can raise money for your campaign off the record,” the businessman wrote. Asked how Adams would formally declare the funds as a campaign donation to comply with the law, the businessman responded: “He won’t declare it ... Or ... We’ll make the donation through an American citizen in the U.S .... A Turk ... I’ll give cash to him in Turkey ... Or I’ll send it to an American ... He will make a donation to you.”

The aide said Adams “wouldn’t get involved in such games” because it “might cause a big stink later on,” but promised to talk to Adams about it.

Adams’ texted his feelings about a different but similar proposal from another Turkish national.

“I don’t want his willing to help be waisted [sic],” Adams allegedly wrote.

At least one of the Turkish nationals believed Adams might be president of the United States one day, according to the indictment.

He was a frequent flier on a Turkish airline.

Adams either flew for free or for a heavily discounted rate on a Turkish airline owned in large part by the Turkish government, according to the indictment, which noted destinations included “France, China, Sri Lanka, India, Hungary and Turkey itself.” He allegedly did so even when it was less convenient than other options, like transferring through Istanbul to get to France.

Prosecutors say the business class flights to India, taken with his partner in 2016, would have cost $15,000, but the couple paid less than $3,000 and accepted free upgrades. Another trip taken in 2017 with several companions would have cost $35,000 regularly.

An Adams staffer arranging flights for him in June 2021 told an employee of the airline to charge a price that was “somewhat real” because “we don’t want [the media] to say he is flying for free.”

Turkish nationals “further arranged for Adams and his companions to receive, among other things, free rooms at opulent hotels, free meals at high-end restaurants, and free luxurious entertainment while in Turkey,” the indictment stated.

Adams tried hiding his antics, but incriminating texts remained.

One exchange between Adams and a staffer stood out in the indictment. The pair were texting about another possible trip to Turkey in 2019.

“To be o[n the] safe side Please Delete all messages you send me,” the staffer texted Adams.

He texted back, “Always do.”

A staffer deleted texts during her FBI interview.

In November 2023, an Adams staffer submitted to a voluntary interview with the FBI. At one point, the indictment said, she “excused herself to a bathroom and, while there, deleted the encrypted messaging applications she had used to communicate” with Adams and his Turkish contacts.

Adams helped open a costly new skyscraper despite flaws.

Adams allegedly ensured that a 36-floor building that would serve as the new home of the Turkish consulate could open quickly, in time for a visit by the Turkish president in September 2021.

The New York Fire Department was concerned about dozens of defects with the building. But a top NYFD official wrote a “conditional letter of no objection” to the building, which he had never done before, and it opened in time.

He allegedly made other construction problems go away.

One of the straw donors, who was not a member of the city’s Turkish community, later texted Adams about a problem with the city’s Department of Buildings.

He is famous in Turkey, apparently.

One of the straw donors was a Turkish entrepreneur referred to in the indictment as “the Promoter,” who arranges events for wealthy and powerful people to meet one another. The indictment states that he was “hoping to leverage Adams’ considerable fame in Turkey to benefit the Promoter’s clients.”

Right after Adams won the 2021 mayoral election, the man suggested in a text message to another Turkish national that he intended “to go and talk to our elders in Ankara about how we can turn this into an advantage for our country’s lobby.”

According to prosecutors, Adams was living it up on his visits to the country. One trip included a stay at the Four Seasons, a yacht tour, a stay at a luxury beach resort, and a car and driver. He paid $720.

He ignored the Armenian genocide on its remembrance day.

As mayor, Adams did not make a statement on the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in 2022, allegedly on request from his Turkish contacts. Turkish nationalists continue to deny the systematic massacre that began in 1915.

A secretive 2025 Adams campaign event was allegedly filled with foreign nationals.

Prosecutors say Adams welcomed wealthy foreigners to a fundraising event in a Manhattan hotel which was billed as a climate-related event. A PowerPoint presentation was allegedly created to help hide the true purpose of the event, saying it was hosted by “International Sustainability Leaders” and had a ticket price of $5,000.

He told the FBI he forgot his phone password.

When the FBI executed a search warrant for Adams’ devices in November, they found his mobile phone to be locked. Adams claimed he’d recently changed the password from a four-digit number to a six-digit number — and forgotten it.

[beardedmrbean]

Federal agents have raided the homes of top aides and confidants to New York Mayor Eric Adams, including the city’s police commissioner, in what appeared to be a major corruption probe at the heart of America’s biggest city.

In addition to NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, the raids on Wednesday and Thursday targeted the city’s deputy mayor for criminal justice, Philip Banks III, his brother, schools Chancellor David Banks, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, and a third Banks brother, Terrence Banks, who is not a city official, local media reported.

"Investigators have not indicated to us the mayor or his staff are targets of any investigation," Lisa Zornberg, the mayor’s chief counsel, said in a statement. "As a former member of law enforcement, the mayor has repeatedly made clear that all members of the team need to follow the law."

As he left City Hall in lower Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, Adams, a former police captain, told reporters, “The goal is to follow the law and that is what this administration always stood for and what we’re going to continue to stand for.”

The search warrants at the homes of the deputy mayors and the schools chancellor were first reported by the nonprofit news outlet The City. The seizure by federal agents of the police commissioner’s phones was first reported by Spectrum News NY1.

While New York, like most big cities, has had its share of scandals, the search warrant on Police Commissioner Caban, by investigators from the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, was striking.

“It’s unprecedented for a commissioner to even be mentioned in the context of a federal criminal investigation,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran Democratic political consultant. While other police commissioners oversaw the NYPD during federal probes of the department’s practices, and of individual officers, “not one of them had a federal search warrant served on them,” Sheinkopf said.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan declined to comment, as did the FBI.

More: NYC Mayor Eric Adams wants changes to sanctuary city laws, increased cooperation with ICE

Adams is known for keeping a tight circle of friends and confidants, many of whom date back to his days in the police department.

Deputy Mayor Philip Banks is a former top NYPD official who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an earlier federal bribery probe. His brother, schools Chancellor David Banks, is the romantic partner of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright.

Adams adviser Timothy Pearson, who was also reportedly served with a search warrant, is a former police inspector. Pearson and Terrence Banks could not be reached for comment.

This week’s raids were unrelated to an ongoing federal investigation into possible illegal Turkish financing of Mayor Adams’ 2021 campaign, a source familiar with that probe said. The FBI seized Adams’ mobile phones and computer in November 2023, and searched the home of his campaign treasurer.

“The FBI is more engaged in municipal corruption cases around this country than it has ever been,” Sheinkopf said. “You know, those 5:30AM wakeup calls don’t come out of thin air.”

[bookclub4m]

Episode 193 - Spring Media Update

It’s time for our Spring Media Update episode! We talk about art installations, manga, board games, comics, and birds. So many birds.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

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Media We’ve Been Consuming

Jam

Quality Assurance in Another World by Masamichi Satō

Wingspan (board game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave)

Redactle

New York Times responds to Only Connect resemblance

Anna

Meow Wolf

Convergence Station

Terraria

Terraria Ep1 || Mine O'Clock

Amanda the Jedi

Explaining the Chaotic Disaster of Madame Web

Meghan

Lisa LeBlanc 

Long books : 

The Abominable by Dan Simmons (663 pages)

Dead Water by C.A. Fletcher (513 pages)

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (760 pages)

Bungalow Details Interior by Jane Powell

Matthew

Spy x Family, vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo

Giant Days Library Edition, vol. 1 by by  John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin

Birds We Mentioned

Chickadee

Emu

Cassowary

Kākāpō

Shoebill

Tawny Frogmouth

Pesquet's parrot (Dracula Parrot)

Kiwi

Hawk

Pigeon

Crow

Chicken

Links, Articles, and Things

OLA RA in a Day

Yotsuba&!, vol. 1 by Kiyohiko Azuma

Chiac

Acadia

Birds Aren’t Real

Only Connect

Bungalow

12 Political Thrillers by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Rogue Justice by Stacey Abrams

The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad

The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq

Exceptional Circumstances by James Bartleman

The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter

The Sniper by Chang Kuo-Li, translated by Roddy Flag

The Executioner’s Game by Gary Hardwick

What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris

One in the Chamber by Robin Peguero

Grant Park by Leonard Pitts Jr.

Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 7th we’ll be discussing books from Indie Publishers!

Then on Tuesday, June 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction Pop Culture!

[infjtarot]

Strength. Golden Art Nouveau Tarot

Facing What Scares Us Note: In historical decks, the cards of Strength and Justice are numbered XI and VIII, respectively. In order to conform with Kabbalistic associations, their numbering was exchanged in the nineteenth century by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the magical order to which Arthur Edward Waite originally belonged). What makes us strong? The preceding card, the Chariot, traditionally represents the archetype of conquest—conquest in all spheres. The Charioteer who is able to rein in his unruly dark horse shows us “triumph in the mind,” as Waite puts it. Traditionally this conquest is the triumph of reason over passion, of mind over matter. In contrast, the power of Strength (or fortezza, force, fortitude, as the card was known in the earliest historical decks) is not about conquest but instead about relationship. Like the Chariot, this card also denotes the power of the human will, but the power here doesn’t look exactly like mastery. Force forces nothing. The Lady’s face is smooth and calm. Her hands are placed gently around the Lion’s mouth. Waite notes the ambiguity of this card in its traditional iconography: is the female figure opening the lion’s mouth or closing it? Waite chooses to portray the latter, and emphasizes that “her beneficent fortitude has already subdued the lion, which is being led by a chain of flowers.” De Angelis’s illustration for the Universal Tarot omits the flower garland detail but reinforces the gentleness of the Lady by adding a demure bonnet and wide collar. Over her head hovers the same figure-eight symbol for infinity (the lemniscate) that we find with the Magician. Indeed, these are the only two cards in the deck graced by that symbol. This parallel to the Magician is further emphasized in Colman Smith’s illustration for the 1909 deck. There, the Lady is garbed entirely in white, while the Lion’s skin is vibrant red. Red and white are the Magician’s colors. Moreover, the red blooms of the flower garland wrap around her waist as well as the Lion’s neck, forming a double loop of flowers that echoes the lemniscate over her head. Magician and Strength: what ties the two cards together? Strength denotes the movement of the human will as a force of alignment. Like the Magician, with his wand stretched up to the sky and the four elements laid out at his side, the Lady harmonizes with her world, joining into dynamic relationship with what otherwise might be separate and threatening. With her face bent toward the beast, their eyes engage. What might have been a dualistic opposition now takes a unitary form, like energy swirling around the two curves of a lemniscate or the two joined halves of the Tao. For many modern readers, the Lion represents our bestial nature, our unreason, our instinctual vigor. It’s another image like the black sphinx in the Chariot card—like the dark horse of desire from Plato’s allegory of the soul. Yet the roots and truth of this card spread deeper than any simple dualism can capture. The Lion is more basic and more powerful than that. Indeed, the Lion is everything that scares us. It’s everything that we would, if we could, simply reject. The card invites us to weave ourselves together with the things that scare us. We are invited to bind ourselves in the endless loop of the lemniscate, the sign of infinity and of beginnings that wrap back unto themselves. Strength reminds us of the kind of power that doesn’t aim for mastery or conquest but instead finds relationship, weaving together the good, the bad, and the indifferent. And then finally, there are those pale and delicate hands of the Lady. Tender and small, they are no match for the Lion’s teeth. Strength doesn’t arise from conquest but instead from a vulnerable patience. In this very moment, how might we turn toward the things that scare us? Lisa Freinkel Tishman

[theepsteinlist]

"epstein" client lists

florida/LA:

ring leaders:

epstein and gf

r. kelly

jay-z

michael jackson

michael vick

donald trump

perps/victims: (i.e. their victims who joined the criminal conspiracy)

kelsey mayfield

megan thee stallion

beyonce knowles

targets:  pretty runaway rich girls who wanna be ~bad girls~ for a weekend and ~seduce an older man~

epstein was known locally to strippers as mr. brown

nazi blood diamond money laundering:

doc martens

chanel

wal-mart

chick-fil-a

james avery

dr pepper/snapple/green mountain/keurig

walgreens

hp

siemens

whatsapp

mcafee

doordash

uber

ubereats

hobby lobby

mcdonald's

coca-cola

american eagle

nazi pedophile blood money (m)/(b)illionaires:

robert a. eckert

sheila a. penrose

john w. rogers jr

miles d. white

richard childress

jen foyle

truett cathy

david green

meg whitman

john mcafee

alice walton

brian kelley

travis kalanick

mark zuckerberg

tony xu

texas:

new braunfels: ring leaders:

amy allen

sam allen

lori hines

donna simpson

targets: high school kids who just wanna ~have fun~ and ~have a safe environment to drink in~ because "there were adults present so it's safe"

perps:

sergio zamora

bryce parrock

chris allen

travis allen

clayton mott

curtis kostan

travis kostan

calvin hoffman

ashton henderson

hannah jeroswhatever jerosezswki

lisa pickens

rachael lee muschalek

courtney cashion

taylor davis

raelynn haggerty

adam sheldon

devin kelley

zach rhoades

ryan walker

taylor akins

samantha rich

stephanie gawlik

charlie miffleton

chris tysdal

ross johnson

reed edwards

paige beyer

landre nattinger

aubrie iverson

andrew shafer

matt durbin

spencer jergins

clint whitley

tim word

chad laborde

chez council

"victims"? (participants with a wide spectrum of consent that were nonetheless assaulted/exploited)

maggie osborne

esmerelda ??? (zapatos?)

liz perez

autumn reno

angel ??? (bustos?)

destiney sheldon

katie turpin

kiki grossman

lauren laborde

lindsay smith

stephen lupton

landre nattinger

ashton henderson

hannah jerosewzski

kkk:

ring leaders:

david duke

greg abbott

ken paxton

vance lesseig

walton family

taylor swift

david green

perps:

james reno

edwin braun

marisol padilla

chuck kirchhof

tom muschalek

dunno mr. zeitler's name

aforementioned men's wives

oakwood baptist church of new braunfels

community bible church of new braunfels

vance langley

coach schmidt

coach mclean

mrs. lindsay

ms. pradervand

mr. baker

mr. trollinger

mr. ??? (other NBHS short term criminal justice teacher in 2009)

officer broussard

shelby lesseig

rachael lee muschalek

kelsey mayfield

henry desroches

thomas neupert

michael brennan

mark hardiman

dr. hardiman

sam allen

judge and mrs. gray

targets: young teenagers that were ~special~, i.e. identified by the duke talent program

victims:

sam coronado

samantha allen

mitchell ridsdale

aaron criddle

ben turrubiates

akash motani

faizal khan

sterling demasters

zach mares

ethan poulter

jordan thiem

edward stockwell

anthony castilleja

charles tandy

jonathan dockall

emily brandon

lauren knipe

heather brown

josh burlison

the trix family

the piranha family

gavon payne

emma roddy

alison kim

sarah perrilloux

amanda and mary pike

sarah stiponavich

stephen phipps

allie alcala

jeremy priest

jackson faires

alex mott

marco martinez

brandon anderson

scott antoine

amber antoine

star hernandez

jessica atwell

rylee young

jamie hand

suzanne stricker

emily langendorff

olivia langley

taylor francis

ana castro

maria chavez

tanner brewer

katie ha

zach parrish

anthony tran

kylie blair

cullen nisson

ranger wallace

taylor mares

kathryne mares

jayme zigler

evan zigler

gracie payne

ellie payne

manuel deleon

the dione triplets

justin and taylor schwarz

araceli ayala

jamie bell

cassie barrett

jordan d'eri

rachel jones

andrew bryant

michael trombold

stephanie bryant

ashley bryant

daniel schroeder

kirsten schroeder

alexandria ingram

julianna pappalas

kindell hardin

edward yu

alexis lewis

katherine davis

ana ??? (katherine's girlfriend, texas a&m track team 2013)

ajay patel

james lamon

emily lamon

dionne diaz

mirea ayala

katelyn warner

kirby fisher

kyle fisher

tyler rougeux

kyle rougeux

josh chappell

kyle chappell

jaimee chapell

emily chappell

tyler mcdonald

marissa maddon

john maddon

tessa loge

eden bonneville

jack rhodes

andrew romero

lauren laborde

sarah laborde

stephenea sotcheff

sophia sotcheff

david mis

britton ware

will stapleton

canaan hoffman

caitie hoffman

sarah kreuger

ben jacks

ben triesch

gabe ramos

gene jacobson

aj jerosewszki

daniel phipps

daniel schumacher

eric stiebing

stephen rapp

maisha rumman

shradha thakur

vamsi vishnubhotla

michael carl

lindsay smith

lindsey kubena

samantha partida

steven partida

victoria rich

jennifer koepp

jenniffer flores

anne manzano

elizabeth villarreal

denise ortiz

kevin korpi

brad arnold

ed gonazles

david eckert

felicia curtis

trent wenzel

coach woodall

coach kilford

mrs. bock

mrs. lopez

ms. wetz

ms. caldwell

ms. biggs

mrs. thompson

oldest batey girl

oldest gorski girl

any other teenagers in central texas that have died in car crashes since 1980 or so

bharadwadj tanikella

hayley gray

colby callahan

austin milam

heath burley

california:

los angeles:

ring leader: grayson bauer

targets: young runaway artist girls

perps:

harvey weinstein

bill cosby

jack antonoff

dr. luke

jay-z

beyonce knowles

travis scott

drake

janelle monae

megan thee stallion

erykah badu

mark oliver everett

metallica

marina diamandis

breandan urie

lorde

victims: (ranging from financial abuse to outright sex trafficking)

grimes

ellie goulding

rina sawayama

billie eilish

shakira

avril lavigne

amy lee

ky voss

poppy

christine and the queens

cupcakke

K.I.D

la roux

kreayshawn

chloe chaidez

tove styrke

tove lo

bebe rexha 

ximena sarinana

angel haze

azaelia banks

ashnikko

colbie caillat

charli xcx

kim petras

kacey musgraves

mia rodriguez

melanie martinez

jazmin bean

ivy levan

iggy azaelia

alice glass

cardi b

nicki minaj

hana

tatu

boa

charlotte sometimes

meiko

lana del rey

borns

mo

sky ferreira

florence and the machine

sarah jaffe

alex winston

jessica hernandez

tegan and sara

caitlin rose

LP

ralph

alice merton

miguel

hailey williams

emily king

rett madison

king mala

leikeli47

princess nokia

post malone

k.flay

sirah

sir babygirl

caroline polachek

yaeji

moses sumney

glasser

king princess

dorian electra

lil nas x

slayyyter

phoebe bridgers

harry styles

alicia keys

lil mariko

carrie underwood

kelly clarkson

mount moriah

zz ward

miranda lambert

the chicks

beyonce

frank ocean

chance the rapper

kesha

MNDR

ariana grande

britney spears

christina aguilera

alessia cara

mac demarco

ghost

juanes

weezer

sam fender

jason isbell

mexican institute of sound

la perla

gera mx

royal blood

st. vincent

white reaper

YB

biffy clyro

the chats

off!

PUP

corey taylor

cage the elephant

vishal dadlani

divine

shor police

diet cig

flatbush zombies

dj scratch

ha*ash

jose madero

moses sumney

j balvin

chase & status

backroad gee

the neptunes

jon pardi

sebastian

portugal. the man

aaron beam

volbeat

the hu

tomi owo

phoebe bridgers

miley cyrus

watt

elton john

yo-yo ma

robert trujillo

chad smith

dave dahan

mickey guyton

dermot kennedy

mon laferte

igor levit

my morning jacket

pg roxette

darius rucker

chris stapleton

tresor

goodnight, texas

idles

imelda may

chery glazerr

izia

kamasi washington

rodrigo y gabriela

kimbra

d'angelo

worked with grayson, benefitted from him, but were not aware anything was going on or did their best to help:

st. lucia

tame impala

the hush sound

straylight run

anamanaguchi

the naked and famous

bastille

blue october

guster

old 97's

frank turner

awolnation

sea wolf

my chemical romance

atreyu

avenged sevenfold

greenday

blink-182

slipknot

blaqk audio

AFI

fall out boy

young the giant

san francisco:

ring leaders:

marc benioff

elon musk

travis kalanick

evan spiegel

steve jobs

jeff bezos

mark zuckerberg

steve chen

bill gates

michael dell

ren zhengfei

eoghan mccabe

secondary: grayson bauer using this circle for remote revenge crypto shills from 20mission and burning man preying on runaways as well

targets: queer tech-inclined teenagers

perps:

zach snow

dan granquist

jeremy whittington

taran patel

jim spagnola

seth tager

walter harley

jose garcia

connor cook

andrew zigler

chris sullivan

"anna lytical" (billy)

kelsey mayfield

caroline rhoades

henry desroches

mark hardiman

ben angel

ian coldwater

"belgium solanas" (michael troy judd)

meagan clawges

nalini prakash

lovi yu

peeyush aggarwal

victims:

matthew allen

samantha allen

janus rose

c boucher

chelsea manning

keffals

ben turrubiates

emily johnston

gavon payne

jamie delton

chris koch

amanda le

naomi wu

tux pacific

sev welker

alison kim

cara mazzi

ruby ??? (caroline's old roommate)

nick ??? (caroline's ex-boyfriend)

rachel forbes

daphne gunawan

trisha day

sidney powell

srijita mori

rebecca ??? (srijita's partner)

scott conger

erin nielsen

qinlin chen (catherine chen)

hank yang

kevin ren

aaron wong

matt hwang

chloe cauley

zane witherspoon

ana garcia

jeremy cruz

john lewis

lida wang

waylon clanton

wyatt clanton

tyler mcdonald

jasmine christiansen

new york/london/vegas && norcal/socal rivalries

ring leaders:

bernie madoff

jack antonoff

joanne rowling

evan spiegel

fox news, et al

new york times, et al

washington post, et al

the guardian, et al

noah pentecost

mark zuckerberg

jp morgan/chase bank/etrade

viacom

verizon

disney

scientologists

perps/profiteers:

lin manuel-miranda

bari weiss

sarah jeong

juliette sieve

ravi gill

will yang

jesse yang

sahil bhumi

???? (their armenian friend from stanford 2012 class)

antonis kartanapis

marko salkovic

erykah badu

oakstop coworking space

wag dogsitting app

kent from youtube & his sri lankan sugar mama

gabriella from wag

stephenie meyer

"e.l. james"

john green

hank green

susan collins

meg cabot

angela santomero

john kricfalusi

tom cruise

george r. r. martin

david benioff

targets: expressive, artistic teenagers envied by big money bankers and "feminist" writers

victims:

tori holland

janus rose

andrew bryant

daniel schroeder

max parks

amanda le

kelsey mayfield

samantha allen

josh burlison

ben turrubiates

henry desroches

nico ??? (from shippo)

sev welker

rachael kauffman

janelle monae

kim petras

scarlett ??? (my friend in the london club scene)

james sampson

james twigg

james sanchez

maria nunez

young asian women, age 18 - 22, going to raves and to vegas (i.e. "asian baby girls")

john lewis

lida wang

katie holmes

stacy london

carrie brownstein

boston

ring leaders:

richard stallman

steven pinker

mark zuckerberg

targets:

queer software engineers

perps:

priscilla chan

victims:

amanda le

samantha allen

josh burlison

jamie delton

jamie hand

katie ha

emily johnston

chris koch

cara mazzi

jasmine christiansen

mark hardiman

chicago && washington dc

ring leaders:

barack obama

rahm emanuel

beyonce knowles

joe biden

targets: pretty, light skinned, liberal teenagers interested in politics

victims:

samantha allen

emily brandon

lauren knipe

andrew zigler

andrew bryant

michael trombold

carissa nietzche

cassie barrett

jordan d'eri

haley gray

ben turrubiates

jose garcia

ana garcia

victoria benson

cj dehart

austin scarborough

stephen lupton

michael morton

michelle moon

jeff stevens

becky pickert

ashton nicole casey

carter freeman

[beatrice-otter]

Vid Recs!

An incredible animatic was made for the 2023 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange: They Don't Care About Us [ANIMATIC] (0 words) by avg Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: "Human One" Refugee (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Various other refugees Additional Tags: Fanvids, Multimedia, Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry, Spoilers for Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry Summary:

The story of a refugee.

In addition, festivids is live! There are some really amazing vids, so go check them out! Here are my favorites: Choir Fandom: Sister Act (Movies) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Fanvids Summary: Singing together in harmony. [Vid] Dance Into The Sun Fandom: Pride (2014) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Subtitles Available Summary: Rise and share your power. Fun, Fun, Fun Fandom: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Carol Freeman & Beckett Mariner, Beckett Mariner & Starfleet Characters: Beckett Mariner Additional Tags: Fanvids, Physical Triggers, Subtitles Available Summary: Beckett Mariner VS Responsibility Tom Paine's Bones [vid] Fandom: The Talk of the Town (1942) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leopold Dilg/Michael Lightcap/Nora Shelley Characters: Leopold Dilg, Michael Lightcap, Nora Shelley Additional Tags: Fanvids, Subtitles Available Summary: Dilg, Nora, and the Professor talk about freedom and justice for everyone [vid] 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) Fandom: Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (TV), Unspecified Fandom, Pop Music RPF, Lizzo (Musician) RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Lizzo (Musician), Jayla Sullivan, Arianna Davis, Asia Banks, Ashley Williams (Dancer), Sydney Bell, Charity Holloway, Moesha Perez, Isabel Jones, Jasmine Morrison, Crystal Williams, Kiara Mooring Additional Tags: Fanvids, Video Format: Streaming, Video, Embedded Video, Physical Triggers, strobe lights, bright lights, Subtitles Available, Stuttery cuts Summary: Lizzo's big grrrls are ready. Vid: Tightrope Fandom: 1995 - 1996 Women's USA Basketball Team, Women's Basketball RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jennifer Azzi, Ruthie Bolton, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Katrina McClain, Nikki McCray, Carla McGhee, Dawn Staley, Katy Steding, Sheryl Swoopes, Venus Lacey, Tara VanDerveer Additional Tags: women's basketball, Teamwork, social pressure, Sucking Up Bullshit To Make Things Happen, Physical Triggers, (1990s TV or VHS Footage), (Camera Flashes), (White Text on Black Backgrounds), Misogyny, Racism, Homophobia, details in end notes, contains brief shots of David Letterman and Bill Clinton Summary: you gotta tip on the tightrope (tip, tip on it) Beverly Hills Fandom: Columbo Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Lieutenant Columbo (Columbo), Dog the Dog (Columbo), Columbo's Car Additional Tags: Los Angeles, Wealth, Murder, Fanvids, Gift Work, Festivids 2022, Song: Beverly Hills (Weezer), Quote: Just one more thing... (Columbo) Summary: Beverly Hills: that's where I want to be. [Vid] Carol Of The Bells Fandom: Die Hard (Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: John McClane, Hans Gruber (Die Hard), Holly Gennaro, Ensemble Additional Tags: vid, Fanvids, Action, Blood and Injury, Blood, Police, Physical Triggers, Christmas Summary:

Christmas is here bringing good cheer

~ [Die Hard (1988)] Weapon of Choice Fandom: Busby Berkeley Movies [UMBRELLA], Unspecified Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Fanvids, Embedded Video, Busby Berkeley, Weapon of Choice Summary: Just Busby Berkeley Vibes My Power (33 words) by Anonymous Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dora Milaje Appearances (Non-Live Action Media), Black Panther (BET 2010), Black Panther (Comics), War for Wakanda, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), Marvel's What If ...?, World of Wakanda Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aneka/Ayo (Marvel) Characters: Aneka of the Dora Milaje (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel), Okoye (Marvel), Queen Divine Justice Additional Tags: Dora Milaje - Freeform, Revolution, Wakanda forever, Depictions of Police (Minimal and Queen Divine Justice punches them), Mention of Rape (Happens Offscreen), Imprisonment, Subtitles Available Summary: they'll never take my power, my power, my power Evolution Fandom: Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jane/Zen (Dirty Computer), Ché/Jane (Dirty Computer), Ché/Jane/Zen (Dirty Computer) Characters: Jane (Dirty Computer), Zen (Dirty Computer), Ché (Dirty Computer) Additional Tags: Dystopia, memory manipulation, anti-queer totalitarian regime, Police Violence, nonconsensual medical treatment, nonconsensual institutionalization, Resistance, queer joy, Black Girl Magic Summary: I'm just the shadow behind the girl with the fire in her eyes. Higher Love Fandom: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evelyn Wang/Waymond Wang, Becky Sregor/Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki, Evelyn Wang & Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki & Waymond Wang, Evelyn Wang & Gong Gong, Deirdre Beaubeirdre/Evelyn Wang Characters: Evelyn Wang, Waymond Wang, Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki, Gong Gong (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Deirdre Beaubeirdre, Becky Sregor Additional Tags: physical triggers: fast cutting, Physical triggers: flickering lights, Captions Available, Subtitles Available, Fanvids, Possible NSFW imagery, Depictions of Police Summary: If there are infinite parallel universes, then every universe that can exist does exist. VID: Ramalama (Bang Bang) Fandom: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evelyn Wang/Waymond Wang, Evelyn Wang & Joy Wang | Jobu Tupaki Characters: Evelyn Wang Additional Tags: Fanvids, Physical Triggers, flashing lights, quick cuts Summary: "Please, Be Kind." Her Ex-Lover is Dead Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Andor (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Mon Mothma Additional Tags: Fanvids, Embedded Video, Rebellion, Explosions, Fire, Sacrifice, Galactic Senate (Star Wars), Galactic Empire (Star Wars), Planet Coruscant (Star Wars), Complicated Relationships Summary: When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. Life During Wartime Fandom: Andor (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cinta Kaz/Vel Sartha Characters: Cassian Andor, Mon Mothma, Luthen Rael, Vel Sartha, Cinta Kaz Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Fanvids, Embedded Video Summary: I might not ever get home Black Tie Fandom: A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Maxine "Max" Chapman, Carson Shaw Additional Tags: Fanvids, queer community Summary: You will find the clothes that fit. Grrrls (1 words) by Anonymous Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Maxine "Max" Chapman & Clance Morgan Characters: Clance Morgan, Maxine "Max" Chapman Additional Tags: Friendship, Fanvids, Captions Available, Subtitles Available, Swearing in Song Lyrics, Female Friendship Summary:

A lighthearted vid about Clance and Max's friendship. I believe this vid does not have any physical or emotional triggers. Captions available. A downloadable version will be available after reveals. Song: Grrrls by Lizzo (edited) length: 01:24

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[misfitwashere]

Matt Gaetz as AG is laughable if it weren't so horrific and dangerous

The nomination is really Trump's loyalty test of Senate Republicans: If they go along, there's nothing they won't go along with.

ROBERT REICH

NOV 13

Friends,

Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as America’s next Attorney General.

This would be laughable were it not so utterly dangerous. 

Gaetz as Attorney General would all but guarantee that Trump weaponizes the Justice Department against his enemies — past, present, and future. 

Ever since Trump was first indicted, Gaetz has been defending him non-stop, alleging that the prosecutions of Trump have been politically motivated, claiming that Joe Biden is behind them, charging the Biden administration with vindictiveness toward Trump, and saying that Trump would have every right to engage in similar vengeance toward Trump’s political enemies. 

In making these bogus claims, Gaetz has often used Trump’s wildly partisan and incendiary language. 

I worked in the Justice Department in the years following Richard Nixon’s attempt to use the Department to prosecute and intimidate Nixon’s enemies. 

To restore faith and trust in the Department, President Gerald Ford appointed Edward Levi as Attorney General. Before his appointment, Levi had been dean of the University of Chicago Law School and president of the University of Chicago. 

One of Levi’s most important accomplishments was to insulate the Department of Justice from political interference by establishing a set of rules that prevented the White House from privately contacting an Attorney General or any other Justice Department officials. 

How far we’ve fallen. 

Gaetz, a 42-year-old congressman from Florida, has zero qualifications for being the highest law enforcement official in the land. He has never been a government attorney. He has never been a judge. 

Gaetz is now under investigation by the House Ethics Committee in connection with a sex-trafficking scandal. (The Justice Department investigated Gaetz for his alleged involvement with a girl who was 17 at that time, to determine if he paid for sex in violation of federal sex-trafficking laws, but closed the investigation last year after career prosecutors were reportly unsure about the credibility of two central witnesses.)

If confirmed, Gaetz would lead the Justice Department’s more than 100,000 employees at a time when Trump’s allies are demanding a purge of career DOJ staffers who may have opposed some of Trump’s efforts during his first term or worked on cases involving Trump or his supporters.

Gaetz has defended Trump at every turn, arguing that Trump has never violated any federal laws. After Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Gaetz was defiant. “We’re ashamed of nothing,” he publicly said.

In other words, nominating Gaetz to be Attorney General is only slightly less ridiculous than nominating Vladimir Putin to be Secretary of Defense. 

The key question is whether Gaetz can be confirmed by a Republican Senate. 

Two key Republican moderates have already indicated they would likely vote against him. Senator Susan Collins said she was “shocked” by the nomination; Senator Lisa Murkowsi said he was not a serious contender for the job.

But Senator Lindsey Graham — a reliable weather-vane for the unscrupulous, and currently the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee — said he was surprised Trump picked Gaetz, whom he called “clever,” and predicted Gaetz would face “tough questions” at his confirmation hearing. 

But Graham also said he was inclined to support presidential appointments.

Gaetz’s nomination is a really test by Trump of how far he can go in intimidating, bullying, and generating fear among Senate Republicans. 

No Senate Democrat will vote for Gaetz, so Trump and his allies are seeing the Gaetz nomination as a litmus test of loyalty to Trump. 

This will be the clearest signal yet of how far Republican senators are willing to do Trump’s bidding on all sorts of sensitive issues, including cutting back Social Security and giving Putin what he wants in Ukraine. 

If Trump can get 51 votes for Gaetz, he can get a Senate majority for anything Trump wants to do.

[haroldgross]

Lisa Frankenstein

[2 stars] Sometimes a movie is a complete misfire. Lisa Frankenstein is in that category. If you need a description, it is sort of Edward Scissorhands meets Serial Mom. But that doesn’t really do any of those justice. It comes down to having the wrong director at the helm. Zelda Williams just didn’t have control of the narrative, pace, or delivery. The timing and the style are all over the place,…

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 4.11

Beer Birthdays

Gambrinus

Five Favorite Birthdays

Robert Fripp; rock guitarist (1945)

Tricia Helfer; actor, model (1974)

Dale Messick; cartoonist (1906)

Peter Riegert; actor (1947)

Joss Stone; English blues singer (1987)

Famous Birthdays

Dean Acheson; politician (1893)

Stuart Adamson; rock guitarist, singer (1958)

Ralph Blaze; jazz guitarist (1922)

Lillie P. Bliss; co-founder NYC MoMA (1864)

Oleg Cassini; fashion designer (1913)

Paul Douglas; actor (1907)

Jennifer Esposito; actor (1973)

Edward Everett; educator (1794)

Vincent Gallo; actor (1962)

Ellen Goodman; journalist (1941)

Joel Grey; actor (1932)

Lou Holz; comedian, actor (1893)

Charles Evans Hughes; US Supreme Court justice (1862)

Bill Irwin; actor (1950)

Louise Lasser; actor (1939)

Percy Lavon Julian; chemist (1899)

Norman McLaren; Canadian animator (1914)

Adrian Olivetti; typewriter maker (1901)

Leo Rosten; comedian (1908)

Christopher Smart; English poet (1722)

Lisa Stansfield; pop singer (1966)

[garudabluffs]

‘A Hail Mary to end all Hail Mary’s’: See Trump's latest desperate attempt to delay hush money case

Mar 11, 2024 #Trump#DonaldTrump#NewYork

Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Correspondent, Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department, and Donna Edwards former Democratic Congresswoman from Maryland join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the latest attempt by Donald Trump and his legal team to delay his NY Hush Money trial until after the Supreme Court weighs in on his Presidential Immunity claim.

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[weemsbotts]

Their Secrets Shall Keep Close: The Indentured Orphans of Truro Parish

By: Lisa Timmerman, Executive Director

Created in 1732 by the Virginia General Assembly, Truro Parish served those living above the Occoquan river to the western frontier, “…by the River Occoquan, and Bull run (a branch thereof) and a course from thence to the Indian thoroughfare of the blew ridge of mountains. And that all that part that lies above said bounds should be called and known by the name of Truro.” Thanks to the dedicated Rector and Vestry of Pohick Church, historians can delve into the transcribed vestry minutes from 1732-1785. Men occupied these elected positions with substantial authority over the social, financial, religious, and political affairs of the counties they served until the end of the 18th century with the separation of church and state. At Truro, the men collected levies, arranged the construction of new chapels along with the maintenance of existing ones, took care of the sick and disadvantaged, checked property land boundaries, and acted as local representative for the people as they were often chosen as delegates to the House of Burgesses. These records contain amazing gems as they included information ranging from baptisms to burials along with very specific details when constructing new churches, down to the measurements and type of wood.

(1736-37 map of the Northern Neck Proprietary by John Warner, ca. 1747. Library of Congress: Geography & Map Division)

Orphans frequent vestry books across Virginia as churches strove to place children separated from their parents, whether through death or financial hardships, in settings where they could train and become productive members of their society – productive defined by Virginia’s male patriarchy. Both Dettingen and Truro Parish considered orphan’s needs to fall within the vestry’s capacity (you can read more here and here). In George Webb’s 1736 book, The Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, he stated the general practice for orphans in Virginia. “Churchwardens shall annually give an account to the Orphans’ Court, of all poor children in their Parish, whose parents are unable to bring them up; Such poor children may, by the county courts be bound apprentices the Males ‘til 21, and Female ‘til 18 years of age to Tradesmen, or any necessary Employment.”

Indenture Date: 08/25/1737

Recorded & Examined: 10/26/1737

Witnesseth That the said Jeremiah Bronaugh and Thomas Lewis in obedience to an order of the Court of the County of Prince William aforesaid dated the twenty third day of October MDCCXXXVii do bind & put William Gowen am Orphan child aged ten years a Servant and Apprentice unto the said John Straughan, to serve him the said John Straughan his Heirs Exrs. or Admrs. in all such Lawfull business as he or they shall have occasion to employ gim about, from the day of the date of these presents until he shall arrive to the age of twenty one years. He the said John Straughan his Heirs etc. finding and providing for the said William Gowen during the term aforesaid such convenient Meat Drink Apparell Washing and Lodging as is Suitable and necessary for a person of his condition. And using his or their best endeavour to learn him the Art and Mistery of a Tanner, and also to read English, and to pay and allow him at the expiration of the said Term such freedom Dues as by the Laws of this Colony is allowed to Servants imported here without wages.

Indenture Date: 03/28/1737

Recroded & Examined: 04/13/1739

Witnesseth That the said Thomas Lewis and Edward Barry in obedience to an Order of the Said County Court dated the twenty seventh day of June MDCCXXXV do bind and put Joseph Housley an Orphan child an apprentice unto the Said Michael Reagan his Heirs or Assignees to Serve the Said Michael Regan his Heirs or Assignees in all such Lawfull business as he or they shall have occasion to employ him in or about from the day of the date of these presents, until he shall arrive to the ahe of twenty one years, he the said Michael Reagan his heirs, etc., finding and providing for the said Joseph Housley for and during the term aforesaid such convenient meat drink apparel washing and Lodging as is Suitable and necessary for a person in English and to learn him the trade of a Carpenter, and paying and allowing to him at the expiration of the said term such freedom Dues as by law is allowed to Male Servants imported into this Colony without wages.

The following indentures are for two siblings, the orphan son and daughter of Margaret Piper. Margaret Piper appeared only one other time in the vestry records, recording her on the Truro parish levy “for keeping a poor child five months” in 10/1734.

Indenture Date: 04/25/1737

Recorded & Examined: 04/13/1739

Witnesseth that Edward Barry and Thos. Lewis Church Wardens for the time being for the Parish of Truro in the County of Prince William by the direction and order of the Court of the said County dated the XXV day of Aprill MDCCXXXVII do by these presents put John Piper an orphan Son of Margaret Piper Apprentice to Garrard Trammell & his heirs the Science or trade of a Shoemaker to be learnt, and with them after the manner of an Apprentice to dwell and Serve from the time aforesaid until the he shall attain the age of twenty one years, by all which term the said shall serve, their Secrets shall keep Close, their Commands Lawfull & honestly everywhere he shall gladly do, Hurt to them he shall not do, or Suffer to be done, but Shall immediately admonish them thereof; The Goods of them he Shall not inordinately waste, not them to any body lend, at Dice or any other unlawful game he shall not play, whereby they may incur any hurt; Fornication in the houses of them or elsewhere he shall not commit, Matrimony he shall not contract, Ordinary’s he shall not frequent with his own proper goods or any others During the Said Term without their Special License, he shall not Merhchandize, from the Services of them Day or Night he shall not absent or prolong himself, but in all things as a good and faithful Apprentice he shall bear & behave himself towards them during the term aforesaid. And they to the said Apprentice the Science or art of a Shoemaker shall teach & inform, or cause to be taught and informed. And also shall find the said Apprentice Apparell Meat Drink and Lodging and all other necessaries meet and convenient for and during the term aforesaid.

Indenture Date: 04/25/1737

Recorded & Examined: 04/13/1739

This Indenture witnesseth that Edward Barry and Thos. Lewis Church Wardens for the time being for the Parish of Truro in the County of Prince William by the direction and order of the Court of ye said County dated the XXV day of Aprill MDCCXXXVII do by these presents put Sarah Piper an orphan, daughter of Margaret Piper Apprentice to Garrard Trammell and his heirs, with them after the manner of an Apprentice & Servant to dwell and serve from the time aforesaid until she shall attain the age of twenty one years by all which term the Said Sarah Piper the Said Garrard Trammell and his heirs well and truly shall serve, their Secretts shall keep close, their Commands Lawfull and honest everywhere She shall gladly do. Hurt to them she shall not do, or suffer to be done, but shall immediately admonish them thereof, the goods of them shall not inordinately waste nor them to anybody lend, at Dice or any other unlawfull game she shall not play whereby they may incurr any hurt. Fornication in houses of them or elsewhere she shall not commit, Matrimony she shall not Contract, Ordinarys she shall not frequent, from the Service of them day or night She shall not absent or prolong herself, but in all things as a good & faithfull Apprentice & Servant shall bear and behave herself towards them during the aforesaid. And they shall find the Said Servant Apparell Meat Drink and Lodging & all other necessaries meet & convenient for and during the term aforesaid.

Garrard Trammell provided specifics in his indentured contract in terms of their behavior. Virginia’s General Assembly continually passed acts against fornication, swearing, religious profaning, “Sabbath abusing,” drunkenness, and adultery. Controlling the sexual lives of indentured servants was a concern for Virginia’s patriarchy if the woman became pregnant, potentially costing labor, time, and resources. The contracts also specified dice, referring to Virginia’s fond pastime of gambling. Located even at historic Jamestown, gambling in forms of dice and cards became common features at parties and ordinaries. Captain John Smith bemoaned gambling and even though the Virginia Colony passed strict ordinances for this behavior in 1610, we find Virginia’s General Assembly still preoccupied with this in 1691. Passed in 04/1691, “An act for the more effectuall suppressing the severall sins and offences of swaring, cursing, profaineing Gods holy name, Sabbath abuseing, drunkenness, ffornication, and adultery,” punished offenders with fines, time in the stock, public lashings, and imprisonment. The General Assembly acknowledged the role of the vestry in this as well.

“That every person and persons who shall so harbour, entertaine or provide for the maintenance of such women or women, or frequent her or their company, or the company of any other lewd, after publique admonition to avoid the same, given by the minister and Church wardens, by and with the consent of the vestrey and vestryes of the parish or parishes wherein such person or persons shall dwel, and in case there be no minister then the Church wardens of the same, by the consent aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every time it shall be proved, that he or they have been in company of such woman or women after such admonition as aforesaid, as if he or they had really been convicted of adultery, and every woman or women guilty of the same offence shall receive the like punishment. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That the grand juries of every respective county within this dominion do twice yearly make presentments against the offenders of this law, to the court of the county where the offence shall be committed, and that the justices of the same punish the offenders according to this act, all which said forfeiture shall be divided into three equall parts, one third thereof towards the building and repairing the Church or Chappel of ease in the parish where the said offence shall be committed one third towards the maintenance of the minister of the same, and the other third for him or them that will sue or informe for the same by bill, plaint, or information, or action of debt in any court of record within this dominion, in which no essoign, protection or wager of law shall be allowed.”

Of course, the term indentured servants was extremely complex depending upon the year (”freedom dues” changed), the parties involved, the region of Virginia, and the ages of those in the contract. At least for Dettingen and Truro Parish, the orphans did not become lost members of society, instead earning a place in history as we continue uncovering the stories of all people living in early Virginia.

Special thanks to the Pohick Church Docent Guild for donating their research to The Lee Lansing Research Library!

(Sources: Pohick Church. Minutes of the Vestry: Truro Parish, Virginia, 1732-1785. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1995; Thomas, Evelyn McNeill, "Orphans' Courts in Colonial Virginia" (1964). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539624555; General Assembly. "“An act for the more effectuall suppressing the severall sins and offences of swaring, cursing, profaineing Gods holy name, Sabbath abuseing, drunkenness, ffornication, and adultery” (1691)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 11 Jan. 2023)

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[sunny12th]

Organizing my reading list for 2023

Books, Short Stories, Plays, etc.

A Wizard of Earthsea Book 1, Ursula K. Le Guin (kindle)

Laws of Depravity, Eriq La Salle

Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamon

The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (kindle)

He Leo Hou: A New Voice, Hawaiian Playwrights

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (kindle)

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (reread)

The Dreyre, Edward G. Briscoe and Agatha D. Briscoe

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (reread)

The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury

The Golden Apples of the Sun, Ray Bradbury

The Lecturers Tale, James Hynes

The Essential Homer

The Road, Cormac McCarthy (kindle)

Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (reread)

Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese (kindle)

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline (kindle)

The Pale-Faced Lie, David Crow (kindle)

On The Beach, Nevile Shute (kindle)

The Leavers, Lisa Ko (kindle)

Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (kindle)

We Need New Names, NoViolent Bulawayo

A Mercy, Toni Morrison

Congo, Michael Crichton

Sphere, Michael Crichton

Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton (reread)

The Electra Plays

War and Peace, Tolstoy

The Shining, Stephen King

Othello, Shakespeare

King Lear, Shakespeare

Tales from 1000 Nights, translated by Burton

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams

Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments

The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature, Christopher Slatsky

No Longer at Ease, Chinua Achebe

Comics

V for Vendetta, Alan Moore

Superman Action Comics 855-865

Superman: What's so funny 'bout Truth, Justice, and the American Way?, 775

A World Without Superman

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, 1-8

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Kingdom Come, Mark Waid

Harleen, Stjepan Sejic

Batman: Gates of Gotham, Snyder

Batman: The Black Mirror, Snyder

[jupiters-witch]

Here is the link for a petition demanding justice for this woman, Lisa Edwards, who pleaded for her life and was met with vicious mockery. Please spread it around, they only need 400 more signatures.

WARNING ⚠️ 🔞

VIEW AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION

On February 4th 2023, 60 year old Lisa Edwards was on a flight from Rhode Island to Knoxville when she began experiencing stomach pains. She had had a debilitating stroke in 2019, but had now mostly recovered and looked forward to moving to Knoxville.

After the flight, she was admitted to Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, Tennessee just South of Knoxville. She was quickly treated and released.

But miss Edwards still felt unwell so she went instead to Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville proper where she was admitted overnight for observations.

The next day, despite continued medical discomfort and against her will, Miss Edwards was discharged from Fort Sanders Medical Center.

But Miss Edwards refused to leave the Hospital, believing she was continuing to experience a medical emergency.

Hospital staff then chose to call Knoxville Police and requested her removal from Hospital grounds.

Police showed up and offered Miss Sanders an unpleasant ultimatum; leave the hospital or go to jail.

Miss Edwards refused to leave, choosing instead to stay where she felt safe: close to the doctors and nurses she felt she needed.

That's when Knoxville Police began abusing the 60 year old woman verbally and declared she was under arrest. They began forcing her into a police van she was unable to step into. They tried physically forcing her inside multiple times before deciding to put her in a police cruiser instead.

Throughout the experience, Miss Edwards repeatedly stated she was experiencing a medical emergency and even begged them not to let her die.

The officers, while assaulting her with abusive language, eventually physically forced Miss Edwards into the cruiser, clearly hurting her multiple times, and ignoring her constant medical complaints by declaring her "cleared" by hospital staff and to be "faking it".

Even throughout the car ride to the jail, despite Miss Edwards obvious physical and mental distress and her non-stop complaints that she was going to die, the officer driving the car continued with the verbal abuse even as she descended into unconsciousness. Clearly not taking the hint something was seriously wrong when Miss Edwards urinated herself in the cruiser, the officer instead takes the opportunity to abuse her for that as well.

Once she falls unconscious, the officer pulls over the vehicle and another officer opens up the back and screams at the unconscious woman to get up, and even grabs her roughly and forces her up where her head can be seen rolling around.

No human being should ever be treated as callously as this police force and hospital staff treated Lisa Edwards, let alone an old sick woman.

This is the most disgusting thing I've seen since the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, who also begged officers not to kill him before they did.

The Capitalist For-Profit Healthcare system has reached all new lows here, as even a sickly old woman who recently had a stroke is ignored, discharged, and arrested when she refuses to leave a hospital while experiencing a medical emergency.

Do these people really think they can justify this behavior on the grounds of Medical fraud?

Maybe people wouldn't have to depend on Hospitals for board if there weren't armies of homeless people in every city.

But either case, the existence of medical fraud is no excuse for the way this woman was treated. Do her medical costs represent such a threat to the Hospital and Insurance company that suspicion of fraud is enough to deny her proper healthcare???

Apparently so in America.

As for the Police, they should be lynched in a public square or sent to the Gulags.

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Justice. Golden Art Nouveau Tarot

Making Right. Note: In historical decks, the trumps of Strength and Justice are numbered XI and VIII, respectively. In order to conform with Kabbalistic associations, their numbering was exchanged in the nineteenth century by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the magical order to which Arthur Edward Waite originally belonged). When we crave justice, it’s because something has gone awry—become uneven—in our world. Something is owed, lacking, broken, stolen, lost. Like the capuchins, we’re hoping that we, or others we love, will get their due. When we seek justice, we’re typically seeking restoration. We want to be made whole. The trump card Justice, however, points us to the deep and abiding difficulties in this mindset. What would it mean to truly be made whole? In the Tarot, traditional iconography depicts Justice as a deity or monarch. (Justice is actually one of the four cardinal virtues.)Justice wields both a balance and a sword. From the perch of the dais on high, Justice offers the true measurement of all things. All things find their place and are regulated in terms of a just and cosmic order—a divine sense of balance. At the same time, the sword allows Justice to discriminate, to carve out the distinctions that enable the divine balancing act. If we’re going to weigh one thing against another, we’re going to have to cleave this from that. The act of Justice requires a capacity for discernment and fine divisions. Justice must slice the world into its various shades of gray so that any given action, any given deed, can be seen according to its true colors. But, in truth, how can I measure one moment against another? The Hebrew Bible famously identifies justice as the exchange of an eye for an eye. But can we truly adequately compensate for any loss, for any moment of suffering?

Do I tell the four-year-old who’s brokenhearted because they’ve lost their doll to get over it, it’s just a doll? Do I tell someone who’s lost a child that they will recover? What would it mean to recover from that kind of loss? What does it mean to recover from any kind of loss? Suffering is suffering. Forms of suffering are all incommensurable. Now is the time to forgo our efforts to leverage our world—to quit trying to justify our errors, balance out our losses, find solace by placing the burden of blame on somebody else’s shoulders. Apparently even monkeys can feel wronged and seek justice. But justice isn’t a thing to be sought. It isn’t something we can know or enshrine. Justice isn’t a divine force. It’s just the distinctly human activity of doing right, as best we can, and facing whatever comes next. Justice isn’t something from on high that we uncover. Justice is ours to make or break. It’s up to us to make the world right. What, even now, is calling for wholeness and restoration? Without leveraging anything, without trying to trade in this gain for that loss, how might you meet this moment of decision? How might you help your world regain its sense of rightful balance? Lisa Freinkel Tishman