#RIGHT ON FANNIE

[frenchtwistresistance]

The question: Mugsy said, “I made a mistake when I went to court. I never should’ve had _____ as my character witness.”

[theboxfort]

Roulette dealer

I'm so proud of these silly logo pixels, of course I'm going to show it off here

[johnnyspells]

[afriblaq]

Senator Fannie Lou Hammer

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

We will never know the internal strength needed by Vice President Kamala Harris to preside over the official certification of her own electoral defeat. On the anniversary of a Capitol rampage perpetrated by fans of the 45th and now 47th president, Harris fulfilled her duties with grace and with dignity. 

Difficult as it is, the Democrats in Congress have all acknowledged the results of the 2024 election. Many of the Republicans, on the other hand, who stood in the congressional chamber and applauded Harris’ quick and seamless certification never publicly accepted the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s win. 

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But it is not lost on me that Harris presided over the certification ceremony just two days after voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer received the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously at the White House.

Hamer’s image is seared into national history as a Black female civil rights warrior who boldly challenged the status quo by demanding that she and other activists be recognized at the 1964 Democratic National Convention as members of the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

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In June 1963 Hamer was brutally beaten in jail by law enforcement officers in Winona, Mississippi. Law enforcement officers forced Black prisoners in the jail to participate in Hamer’s assault. She almost died. 

The violence was grotesquely harsh even by Jim Crow standards. Hamer was alternately battered by two Black prisoners, Roosevelt Knox and Sol Poe, who were reportedly ordered to strike Hamer or face a beating themselves. She was forced to lie face down as the two prisoners pummeled her with loaded blackjacks — police clubs filled at the ends with sand or metal pellets.

As Hamer drifted back into consciousness, she overheard the officers discussing the possibility of throwing her into the river.

Hamer never fully recovered. She partially lost sight in one eye, walked with a limp and suffered permanent and debilitating kidney damage that may have contributed to her death at age 59 in 1977.  [...]

[half-an-hour-hence]

Captain and Fanny’s friendship has always been so fascinating to me. They just work. This is not just because of how similar they are on a surface level - both rarely laugh, both are somewhat judgemental, and both (in my opinion) display symptoms of autism, to name a few examples - but also because of how unconventional they are. The Captain is a WW2 soldier who likes to act the hero and the tough guy, these traditional masculine values that were highly regarded as the ‘proper’ way to be. And yet he’s scared. He’s the first to run. He represses himself because his true self is not what society expects him to be. And Fanny is very similar. She maintains a facade of being a lady, acting how she would have been expected to even when she dies. But in actuality, she’s repressed her intellect because she was told all her life that business was no place for a woman. All she wanted to do was help her father, but because the mere idea of a woman outside of the home was so outlandish to her mother, she was forced to marry and spend her entire life in misery. Ultimately, I believe it’s these unconventional traits that allow them to connect on the level that they have. They see themselves in each other, and finally feel comfortable in indulging in their true natures whenever they’re alone.

[fleetways]

@hotdog7744 i saw the drawings of shadow and sonic at the amusement park and I couldn’t get their fits out of my mind they were absolutely everything

[almondcroissantsandink]

i just finished episode 5 of this funky little show and you know what?? It's very fun

[whenweallvote]

Happy heavenly birthday to civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. 🕊️🤍

Because of Fannie Lou Hamer’s activism, THOUSANDS of Black Americans in the South became registered voters in the 1960’s. We are proud to continue her legacy, one registered voter at a time.

Happy birthday, Ms. Fannie Lou. Thank you for your lifelong commitment to the fight for voting rights, civil rights, and women’s rights. 🙌🏾 🙏🏾

[djevelbl]

Quick question — how old is IM!Mugs supposed to be? Cuz in my mind he's IM!Cup's twin (even tho they're really not), yet I vividly remember this point in The Labyrinth Arc™ where IM!Cup is reminiscing about their parents and through his memory we're shown he was at the youngest a toddler when IM!Mugs was born, maybe even a little older (my headcannon is that he was 5 years old, but to each their own)

So yea. I'm very curious now (it WILL affect a story I'm making. probably at least)

[frenchtwistresistance]

Match Game ‘76 Episode 796 Question: Lester played a trick on his wife and switched her birth control pills with Bayer aspirin. Nine months later she gave birth to a six-pound _____.

Contestant and the rest of the panel answer headache

Fannie: Well. Let me tell you. I take this game literally. Now, when she found out what he’d done, see, she killed him, so she gave birth to an orphan.

Audience and panel dying laughing.

Gene: Now! Very good, my dear. Now I will tell you what I was laughing about over there. Because you see I proofread these things just to make sure there are no typographical errors, and a couple hours ago when I was proofreading it, they said everybody’s gonna say, “…switch your birth control pills with Bayer aspirin, and 9 months later she gave birth to a 6-pound bear.” But nobody said it!!! 😂

[m0ose-idiot]

The Deaths of Button House

Being herewith a complete and chronological collection of the upstairs deaths at Button House and its grounds.

Featuring obligatory live-action footage...

[rockhousejai]

I need to start drawing again

Anyway crackship time

[drsonnet]

A female protester was physically removed from a demonstration in Los Angeles in March 1965 against the shocking violence in Selma, Alabama

[pa-pa-patato]

Omgomgomg I WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT ABOUT FANNY WORKING AT THE HOUSE YAYAYAYA.

Also cuss you Oswald! She did nothing! And started stardust !

Oh Fanny is afraid of her father oh no Poor Felix she shouldn’t have said that but damn did Oswald provoke her

Also the hiatus in January hope they rest up

[itspileofgoodthings]

also while we’re here when Fanny is leaving some social event (can’t remember what) and Henry gets her shawl for her and he’s prompt and quick and dexterous and romantic and she’s just like “sigh. wish it was Edmund.”