#So Congress

[cochino-devin]

A 51 Merc and a 39 Lincoln pull up at a bar…

[beemovieerotica]

What is up with Congress going "What Trump and Elon are doing is illegal!!!" And then still obeying them and letting them continue to do said illegal shit like ??? Do they just not give a fuck? Is it ragebait publicity and what's going on is actually normal ???

The above is a really helpful site to keep bookmarked during this time. At present, there are seven groups who have filed legal complaints regarding the executive order on birthright citizenship, four groups that have filed complaints on DOGE's right to operate, multiple individuals fighting the orders on various trans rights, and the Society of Friends is fighting back against the order that would allow ICE to invade houses of worship. Some of the entries have updates regarding pauses / restraining orders to Trump's demands.

These are all non-Congressional entities - unions, churches, activist groups, Jane and John Does - that are taking a stand, and they're worth supporting.

On the other hand...

Democrats in Congress are laser-focused on 2026...and they're not going to help with much else. They have explicitly stated that they are dropping "culture war" issues - they won't be engaging on trans rights or mass deportations, because according to exit polls, it was a big reason they lost the election. The average American does not care about trans people or immigrants. People want two things: 1) Cheaper gas. 2) Cheaper eggs. They do not read the news. They have no idea that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. They genuinely believe life was better under Trump because they got a check for $1000 in the mail. Our civics education and political literacy is in the fucking toilet.

So Congressional Democrats are bending to the right to accommodate the oblivious centrist voter, and my faith in them has expired. I don't trust the people on Capitol Hill - I'm an ex-Californian who had to watch as a 90-year old Dianne Feinstein shambled her way around Congress and refused to make way for younger politicians who don't have dementia. So I'm very strongly of the opinion that Washington will continue to be run by old money, lobbyists, and geriatrics, and the actual fights are going to be won at a local level, where we'll be working to make individual cities and states into havens. We are already essentially a patchwork of safe states versus not - I anticipate we'll see the lines bolden even more in the next few years, and I'm focusing my political energy on my immediate neighborhood and city for the time being.

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE FOR TO STOP MILITARY FUNDING FOR ISRAEL!

Sanders has introduced resolutions in Congress that would prevent a $20 billion weapons transfer to Israel. Please call your senators and tell them to vote yes on these resolutions! This is something that you can do to prevent the country sending more money to fund this genocide

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[bruciemilf]

Italian Jay and his Italian dad (harvey). Just a thought

Honestly, I headcanon both of them as Hispanic, but, Harvey has GOT to have some Italian for sure. I personally love the take of him being biracial and connecting that to his split theme.

I’m just saying; Let them have a Rio and Miles dynamic. That “YOU GOT A B IN SPANISH?!” scene except it’s this:

Jason as mob boss red hood, trying to negotiate with some Big Bag Leaders and failing hard: And… Okay, hold on.

Harvey: What are you doing? Why are you checking your phone?

Jason: Just— I need this word in Spanish, okay—

Harvey: IS—IS THAT GOOGLE TRANSLATE?!

Jason: CALMATE PAPI, ESTO MU ES MY FAULT!

Bruce gets an extremely angry call from Harvey, saying that “their failure of a child” just embarrassed him in front of the entire drug cartel and he’s not letting him go until he’s fluent in Spanish, god damn it.

“Are you trying to kill your father?”

“DID YOU GUYS KNOW THE WHOLE TIME?!”

“The Hamlet references were a giveaway, sweetheart.”

[hwsforeignrelations]

It’s not every year I can Mr Murica struts his stuff better than the last.

NICE GAMS DARLIN!!!

[destielmemenews]

"The House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York after a critical ethics report on his conduct that accused him of converting campaign donations for his own use. He was just the sixth member in the chamber’s history to be ousted by colleagues."

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[loving-n0t-heyting]

The worker must one day capture political power in order to found the new organisation of labour. He must reverse the old policy, which the old institutions maintain, if he will not, like the Christians of old who despised and neglected such things, renounce the things of this world.

But we do not assert that the way to reach this goal is the same everywhere.

We know that the institutions, the manners and the customs of the various countries must be considered, and we do not deny that there are countries like England and America, and, if I understood your arrangements better, I might even add Holland, where the worker may attain his object by peaceful means. But not in all countries is this the case.

Karl marx said imperialist england and usamerikkka specifically can just do reformism with no need for revolution. Revisionists cope and seethe

[doomdoomofdoom]

If nothing else, I want you to take this away from yesterday's presidential debate:

This is a literal, actual, verbatim quote.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

shout-out to my public library for getting me an inter-library loan copy from the fucking LIBRARY OF CONGRESS?!?

[cochino-devin]

Last Monday’s stop at C Boys. With a bad ass 31.

[dancingastralwitch]

A Palestinian man is asked in an interview by a white woman if he condemns Hamas while his people are being slaughtered in the open, and HE is the one condemned when he yells that it's injustice to insulate that his people deserve to be murdered, because "Hamas chose this."

A black woman is attacked first in a fight and SHE is the bad guy when she strikes back, she is the one whose face is plastered all over social media to be condemned and shamed for "aggression."

Two sisters are appropriately reacting to their oppressors by ripping off posters promoting their propaganda, and THEY are shamed and attacked for their lack of politeness when their people are being killed for existing.

An American democrat watches her colleagues cheer on genocide and ethical cleansing, the murder of children and the rape of women and the slaughter of families, and SHE is the one censored for speaking out in defense of them, despite her grief of losing family members.

Zionists are not condemned for enjoying the thought of children being killed, for calling Palestinians "animals" or saying Gaza should be "turned into a parking lot", Israeli doctors can get away with demanding that Palestinians, HUMAN BEINGS, should be murdered, that their only remaining hospital should be crushed.

They are not condemned for saying they wanted nuclear weapons unleashed on Gaza, they are not condemned for the imprisonment and torture of children, for desecrating dead Palestinians' corpses and mauling their bodies, for mocking Muslim Palestinians by rubbing their bullets against pig's skin before shooting them, for bombing Palestinian churches, for bombing universities, for shutting electricity from Gaza, cutting Palestinians from food and water, not letting them access to aid, for bombing CANCER hospitals and CHILDRENS HOSPITALS, for turning the sky of Gaza RED from explosions, for killing enough students that the entire school year was canceled, for annihilating families, for attacking Jewish people in Jerusalem, for cutting dead fetuses off dead mothers, for STEALING THEIR SKIN AND ORGANS and using them for their benefit, for forcing CHILDREN to hold a press conference to say that hey, they want to live.

Insinuating that this is about religion is the basis of Zionism. 60 members of Hamas were killed, and 10,500 civilians killed, 4000 of which are children. Over 800 bloodlines erased. Israel says they aim for "damage, not accuracy." Implying this is about Hamas is lies.

When white people in power tell you from their air-conditioned studios this is Israel defending itself, refuse to let Palestinian journalists explain things happening from their point of view, watch those journalists lose their entire families for speaking about what's happening to them, demonize Arabs who rage about injustice, ask Palestinians grieving if they condemn Hamas, know this is propaganda.

You shouldn't need them to tell you they're parroting lies to you. Their lies kill people. Their lies destroy people. Their apologies are insincere and their "sympathy" is limited only to those who look like them. It is unjust. It is cruel.

If I was were to narrate to you every atrocity Israel commited that I am aware of, I would never stop typing.

[lastoneout]

I'm not gonna kid myself and believe anything is gonna come of this bcs we live in hell and the case could be made that it wasn't legally a death threat, BUT if you ever needed proof that midterm elections actually matter, well here ya go. Arizona's voters spoke and now Chris Mayes is going after Trump for his comments about how his voters should shoot Liz Cheney in the had in our state, something I doubt her 2022 opponent would have done. She's also being hella proactive about protecting poll workers and locations ahead of next Tuesday, we're a swing state and it's SO fucking important that we have someone in charge who is going to do her best to make sure the votes are counted safely and accurately, as they fucking should be. Voting for her was a choice I'm glad to have made.

[lady-raziel]

alright I’m gonna say it I can excuse a lot in fanfiction but people who write straight abo fics and make the man the alpha and the woman the omega are literally just wrong like you didn’t need abo to write that fic that way please appropriate a different kink genre for that shit

[tea-tuesday]

09/19/2023

a bit of a weird day but my seminar took a field trip to the u.s. capitol and we met a senator to discuss federal policy. tbh no one in my class, including our professor, really agrees with their political philosophy lolol (which they acknowledged), but still an interesting experience to go into the building nonetheless ! afterwards, got some studying done at a café🍵🌄

[theood]

I wish all people in power a very you have to live making barely above minimum wage and go through all the legal hoops of trying to apply for benefits and the being told you make too much and having to stretch groceries for your 3.5 family members and also somehow affording car payments, insurance, rent, and utilities ^_^ oh and of course you don't even get a nice apartment no silly you didn't want rent control so now you actually have to try and shop for a place and aww the rent application is too much :(? And you don't make 3 times the rent? Aww! Boohoo! Maybe you didn't REALLY need that coffee! You should just work more. Aww, is the 7 dollars wage exhausting for your 40 hour work week where they don't even give you a paid break? Oh but EVERYWHEREs hiring for more! Ugh! Ungrateful!