#KARNEY

[prehistorichyes]

Karney is a shy, fleeting dinosaur girl, yet has determination to spare. unfortunately this makes her very impulsive & prone to jumping to conclusions. nevertheless she is kind and affectionate, if a bit too affectionate.

[elysiumparadox]

im gonna tag it suggestive just bc im too lazy to figure out their clothes in this. plus theyre looking at eachother very homosexually idk

[sesiondemadrugada]

An American Hippie in Israel (Amos Sefer, 1972).

[lets-dance-to-joy-division]

Rose

rose— do you believe in soulmates? why or why not?

No I don't, and I think the idea of soulmates can be a dangerous one. I'll allow Benjamin Karney, professor of social psychology at the University of California specializing in the study of marriage, to explain. I've felt this way for a long time, but he has a better way of saying it.

This is from an interview he had with Alie Ward on her podcast Ologies. (Wonderful podcast BTW)

Thanks for the ask!

BL

[k12academics]

This scholarship application requires that students write an essay on a topic of their choice, related to an area of law that interests them. Essays should be between one and three pages in length.

[eurovision-revisited]

1994 Dublin - Number 8 - MeKaDo - "Wir Geben 'ne Party"

Oh yeah, it's party time. Germany hit the 8th spot in my rankings for the second year in a row and again with an internal selection. Wir Geben 'ne Party is a Eurovision favourite that hit exactly the right note in 1994. With all the Irish ballads winning for the previous two years (and this one), other countries were becoming keen to show off their ballading chops. Germany thought aha! There's an opportunity, let's dance.

This is from the winning song-writing combination of Ralph Siegel and Gunter Johansen (not their real names) who also wrote Nicole's Ein Bißchen Frieden, Dschinghis Khan's Dschinghis Khan as well as Papa Pingouin for Luxembourg in 1980. Wir Geben 'ne Party is so fast-paced that it has perhaps the most lyrics of any song in 1994. It's non-stop and absolutely what any contest dominated by big voiced ballads needs. Three minutes of fun.

MeKaDo, named for the members Melanie Bender, Kati Karney and Dorkas Kiefer, were a band concocted for Eurovision and for this song. The only member with previous Eurovision experience was Dorkas who'd come third in Ein Lied für Lausanne in 1989. After their experience at Eurovision, they went their separate ways and mostly continued singing and acting careers.

Siegel and Johansen had many, many more Eurovision hits up their and in the years to come, they may feature.

[girlactionfigure]

An IDF soldier seriously wounded on Monday in southern Gaza's Rafah has succumbed to his wounds, the military announces.

He is named as Sgt. Yair Roitman, 19, of the Givati Brigade's reconnaissance unit, from Karnei Shomron.

Roitman was wounded in a blast in a booby-trapped building on June 10, in an incident which killed four other soldiers and wounded six others, including four seriously.

His death brings the toll of slain soldiers in the IDF's ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border to 308.

May his memory be a blessing.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The love story of Marueen Brodoff and Ellen Wade runs nearly half a century, never mind that the state of Massachusetts only recognized their union for the last 20 years.

"We were married in our hearts a long time before that," said Brodoff, who was among the very first same-sex couples in the United States to legally wed.

"Were we trailblazers? No, we didn't feel that way," she told ABC News in an interview at the family's Newton, Massachusetts, home. "But we did feel like we had a story to tell."

Two decades after the first LGBTQ+ Americans entered into legal marriages in Massachusetts -- the first state to extend the right to same-sex couples -- their stories have become a familiar part of the tableau of American families, helping to transform public opinion and dispel fears about the consequences of the social shift.

Of the 1.2 million same-sex couple households in the U.S. as of 2021, roughly 710,000 were married, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

A strong majority of Americans (71%) think same-sex marriage should be legal, according to the latest Gallup polling. Nearly 30 years ago, barely a quarter of the public held a supportive view.

"It's a recognition by the state, by the community, by your friends, by your workplace, that you're in this relationship, and that it's a very important relationship," Wade said, "and that you're entitled to be treated the same as the person that sits next to you at work and is in a heterosexual relationship."

A groundbreaking analysis of 96 studies over the last 20 years conducted by the RAND Corporation last month – the first and most extensive report of its kind – finds that the impact of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples in the U.S. has been "consistently positive."

"The benefits to same sex couples were unambiguous and very strong," said Benjamin Karney, a UCLA psychology professor and co-author of the report.

Data show clear gains in mental health, economic well-being, physical health and relationship stability among married LGBTQ families, Karney said. Studies have also noted a drop in hate crime rates for LGBTQ+ individuals since the extension of marriage rights.

Researchers also scrutinized claims raised by same-sex marriage opponents years ago that allowing gays and lesbians to legally marry would affect the development of children, undermine a key social institution and diminish the benefits of marriage for different-sex couples.

"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society," then-President George W. Bush said shortly after Massachusetts granted the first marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004.

"The children of America have a right to have a mother and a father," warned then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, in testimony before Congress on the expansion of marriage rights in Massachusetts. "It may affect the development of children and thereby future society as a whole."

Karney said RAND found "no evidence" to support those claims and others.

"On the contrary, what we found is that whenever there's a significant effect on different sex marriage, it was a positive effect," Karney said. "In the years immediately following a state legalizing marriage for same sex couples, there was a slight rise in marriage rates for different sex couples."

"Critics might have different new arguments," Karney added, "but they can't rehash the old arguments because the data seems pretty clear."

Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank helping set the agenda for a potential second term for former President Donald Trump, said most Republicans have abandoned efforts to rollback LGBTQ+ marriage rights.

"I don't think any conservatives worth their salt – any conservative scholars are calling for that. Precedent is precedent for a reason," she said, referring to the 2015 landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that guaranteed marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide.

LGBTQ+ rights advocates aren't so confident.

"I don't think that we can take any of our rights for granted," said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "If the last couple of years have taught us anything, it's that it is within the ability of the Supreme Court in a single day to work to roll back our rights of the last 20 years, 40 years, 50 years."

When the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion to the Dobbs ruling openly calling for reconsideration of other longstanding precedents, including those involving marriage and contraception.

Robinson said there is cautious optimism among community leaders and allies in this high-stakes election year.

More than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced in state legislative sessions this year, according to the ACLU. But less than 7% have become law, in a notable decline from last year when more than 13% were enacted.

"Our community, when we show up, when we show up at the ballot box, when we show up in state legislatures, equality wins every single time," Robinson said.

Perry, the Heritage Foundation legal fellow, said "political will" to restrict LGBTQ+ rights has waned on the right in a campaign year with more pressing issues like inflation, crime and abortion rights.

"As we go into an election year, the stakes are significantly higher and will play, I believe, very much into the national dialogue as opposed to simply at the state level," she said.

As debates over LGBTQ+ equality continue – particularly in the areas of transgender health care and sports participation – Brodoff and Wade said living out and proud as a family is the best way they can continue momentum toward greater acceptance.

"If you know families like us, your opinions are more likely to change," said Kate Brodoff.

"Partly what the answer is to people who are skeptical is that marriage and the rights of marriage, and to build strong, stable, loving families – It's at the core of not just LGBTQ people want, it's sort of it's what marriage is about," said Wade.

Asked about the secret behind their nearly five decade bond, Wade added, "I think we kind of tried to take each other as we are and accept what we can't change."

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trudy Ring at The Advocate:

When marriage equality was but a dream, right-wingers alleged that somehow it would cheapen marriage. Twenty years after the first same-sex couples married in Massachusetts, a new study proclaims that’s not the case. “For LGBT individuals and same-sex couples, their children, and the general U.S. population, the benefits of access to legal marriage for same-sex couples are unambiguously positive,” says the study by the RAND Corp., a nonprofit research organization. The study’s authors reviewed the existing research on the effects of marriage equality — 96 studies — and conducted their own new analyses. They found that “when states legalized marriage for same-sex couples, the physical health of LGBT individuals in those states improved; state-level rates of syphilis, HIV, and AIDS fell significantly; same-sex households in those states experienced more-stable relationships, higher earnings, and higher rates of homeownership; and sexual orientation–motivated hate crimes and employment discrimination against LGBT individuals declined,” the study says. “Children of same-sex couples benefited when their parents were granted access to legal marriage, and state-level adoption rates rose after marriage became legal for same-sex couples,” it continues.

There was “no evidence for a retreat from marriage,” the study notes. “New marriages increased by 1 percent to 2 percent among different-sex couples and about 10 percent overall,” it says, and there was “no consistent evidence” that cohabitation increased among unmarried different-sex couples or that divorces increased as a result of marriage equality. “Some of those who opposed the granting of marriage rights to same-sex couples predicted that doing so would undermine the institution of marriage, resulting in fewer couples marrying, more couples divorcing, and an overall retreat from family formation,” study coauthor Benjamin R. Karney said in a RAND press release. “Overall, the fears of opponents of same-sex marriage simply have not come to pass.” Karney is a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and adjunct researcher at RAND.

A new study from the RAND Corporation reveals that the benefits of marriage equality for same-sex couples are “unambiguously positive” to the economic and moral well-being of the USA.

[bulletproofjohnny]

Hii! New OC of mine, his name is Karney :3

I'll probably update about him on here

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Scenes of fighters with the al-Qassam Brigades clashing with enemy soldiers and vehicles in the Gaza Strip in recent days. Sources say 21 Israeli soldiers were killed in a recent strike on soldiers occupying a building in the south of Gaza.]

🇵🇸⚔️🇮🇱 ☠️ 🚨

💥RESISTANCE KNOCKS OUT 21 ISRAELI OCCUPATION SOLDIERS IN SINGLE STRIKE ON BUILDING IN THE GAZA STRIP💥

The Israeli media is reporting the deaths of 21 occupation soldiers involved in the invasion of the Gaza Strip after Resistance forces fired a rocket into building being occupied by the soldiers as part of operations in the southern Gaza Strip.

According to reports, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) were in the process of rigging several buildings in the south of Gaza, close to the border with the colonial Israeli settlement of Kissufim, using demolition explosives, when Resistance forces fired an RPG into the building, resulting the building's collapse onto the soldiers inside.

The Israeli occupation authorities released the names of the soldiers killed in the operation.

The names of the soldiers killed are as follows:

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Matan Lazar, 32, of the 261st Brigade’s 6261st Battalion, from Haifa.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Hadar Kapeluk, 23, a squad commander in the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Mevo Beitar.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Sergey Gontmaher, 37, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Ramat Gan.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Elkana Yehuda Sfez, 25, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Kiryat Arba.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Yuval Lopez, 27,of the 205th Brigade’s 9206th Battalion, from Alon Shvut.

☠️ Master Sgt. (res.) Yoav Levi, 29, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Yehud-Monosson.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Nicholas Berger, 22, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Jerusalem.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Cedrick Garin, 23, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Tel Aviv.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Rafael Elias Mosheyoff, 33, of the 261st Brigade’s 6261st Battalion, from Pardes Hanna-Karkur.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Barak Haim Ben Valid, 33, a squad commander in the 261st Brigade’s 6261st Battalion, from Rishon Lezion.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Ahmad Abu Latif, 26, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Rahat.

☠️ Cpt. (res.) Nir Binyamin, 29, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Givatayim.

☠️ Master Sgt. (res.) Elkana Vizel, 35, a squad commander in the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Bnei Dakalim.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Israel Socol, 24, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Karnei Shomron.

☠️ Cpt. (res.) Ariel Mordechay Wollfstal, 28, of the 205th Brigade’s 9206th Battalion, from Elazar.

☠️ Sgt. First Class (res.) Sagi Idan, 24, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Rosh Haayin.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Mark Kononovich, 35, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Herzliya.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Itamar Tal, 32, of the 261st Brigade’s 6261st Battalion, from Mesilot.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Adam Bismut, 35, a squad commander in the 261st Brigade’s 6261st Battalion, from Karnei Shomron.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Shay Biton Hayun, 40, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Zichron Yaakov.

☠️ Sgt. Maj. (res.) Daniel Kasau Zegeye, 38, of the 261st Brigade’s 8208th Battalion, from Yokne’am Illit.

#source

#videosource

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[karneyland]

Halfway through chapter 1 of karney now!!! <33

Read on comicfury or webtoons!

[whyshedisappeared]

(translation)

24 soldiers in 24 hours

an unfathomable number, like a small classroom in school

but when you look at the names of the fallen and they cities they're from, you understand they weren't one small classroom in one school, they're a collection of the entire Israeli society

a soldier from Beer Sheba and a soldier from Herzeliah and a soldier from Alon Shvut and a soldier from Kiryat Arbah and two soldiers from Tel Aviv and a soldier from Ramat Gan and a soldier from Givatayim and a soldier from Jerusalem and a soldier from Rahat amd a soldier from Heifa and a soldier from Elazar and a soldier from Karnei Shomron and a soldier from Pardes Hanna and a soldier from Rishon Lezion and a soldier from Bnei Dkalim and a soldier from Mavoh Beitar and the list goes on and on

they probably loved each other unconditionally until the last moment

they deserve nothing less than that from us

[hussain-stuff]

Ya Allah Maybe Ye Is Ramzan Ki Last Iftari Ho Ya Allah 70 Maaon Sey Zayda Pyar Karney Wale Pyare Allah Ramzan ke Jane Sey Phele Hum Sab Ki Tamam Jaiz Duaon Ko Per Kun Ki Nazar Farma Dein Ameen.

[david-goldrock]

[Avraham Tal]

A journey of this kind, of many years, It starts on the day in which my dad hugged me And there was light there, and I felt good Who is my god, I asked my sister then

So it's no wonder, that nothing is simple And nothing is perfect, like the creation of the world And when my mother called me to return Because (it) was important to her I didn't hear her

And autumn again, A station in time And you'll see me call you my god And one thing, I don't understand If you exist, why don't (you) come to me?

A journey of this kind, how to say - weird And for every thing I found myself an excuse Once I cheated on you, and your heart closed Forgive me, yes, I did a folly

So it's no wonder, that people that were Went on their ways, because nothing is perfect I became a bit lonely in the world Hung on a ladder, dreaming and horny

And autumn again, A station in time And you'll see me call you my god And one thing, I don't understand If you exist, why don't (you) come to me?

[Shlomo Artzi]

A journey of this kind, of many years In the the Lod Crossover there are still (people) praying Give strengths, to pass another day In front of all our great haters

So it's no wonder, that in the pick-up bar it's full And (people? we? they?) spill (our? their?) heart Laughing with a comedian We opened you a garage in Karnei A mall in Ayalon And you didn't come here

[Both]

And you'll see me call you my god And one thing, I don't understand If you exist, why don't (you) come to me?

And autumn again, A station in time And you'll see me call you my god And one thing, I don't understand If you exist, why don't (you) come to me?

[coffeenuts]

Orchid by Karney Hatch (2 million views) https://flic.kr/p/2ofrQdf