#Tim Alberta

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair:

In the past week, Donald Trump has signaled a desire to rule like a strongman rather than a president constrained by constitutional norms. Last Friday, Trump’s vice president, JD Vance, scolded democratic NATO allies and met with the leader of Germany’s extreme-right AfD party. On Saturday, Trump declared on social media: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” This Tuesday, Trump blamed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the brutal war that was launched by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. “You should have never started it,” Trump falsely said of Zelenskyy, when in fact Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The US president then doubled down on the feud Wednesday, calling Zelenskyy a “dictator.” Democrats are in the minority in both the House and Senate, which means the federal courts and congressional Republicans are the only guardrails on Trump’s second term. So far the judicial system seems to be holding—though a Trump-packed Supreme Court is now destined to rule on all manner of alleged overreach in the coming months. (And it’s an open question as to whether Trump will actually abide by rulings that go against him.)

Republicans in Congress, however, have consistently folded—approving all of Trump’s Cabinet picks, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, with only a faint whiff of pushback on some of their boundary-scorching backgrounds. The confirmations predictably short-circuited many Democratic observers, but the rolling headlines of late have even some Republicans decrying the seeming erosion of checks and balances in recent weeks. “These are the heirs of the Greatest Generation, and they turned out to be the worst generation,” says Stuart Stevens, who served as a chief strategist on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and has since left the GOP, joining the anti-Trump Lincoln Project as a senior adviser. “It’s tempting to compare Republicans to Prussian aristocrats in 1930s Germany. But Prussian aristocrats were more responsible. They were dealing with civil unrest and the threat of a communist takeover. Republicans today have historically low unemployment, a record stock market. What’s their excuse?”

Political survival is one. Senate and House Republicans know Trump will orchestrate the running of a primary challenger backed by Elon Musk’s unlimited resources if a member defies him. But this is not the whole story of Republican subservience to the president. In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions. “They’re scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,” a former member of Trump’s first administration tells me. According to one source with direct knowledge of the events, North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about “credible death threats” when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary. Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm the former Fox & Friends host to lead the Pentagon. [...]

From the moment Trump descended his golden escalator in June 2015 to announce his first run for president, he injected menace into his political rhetoric. On the campaign trail he talked about wanting to punch protesters in the face. During his first term, he praised Montana’s then representative Greg Gianforte for physically attacking Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in 2017. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!” Trump said. (Gianforte later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and received a six-month deferred jail sentence.) When protests erupted after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, Trump called protesters “thugs” and said: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” The phrase echoed a remark made in the 1960s by a Miami police chief associated with stoking racial tensions in the city (Trump claimed he wasn’t aware of its origins). In a September 2020 debate against Joe Biden, Trump refused to condemn white supremacist violence and told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”

January 6 further catalyzed GOP fear of Trump-inspired violence. Romney told his biographer, McKay Coppins, that an undercurrent of anxiety thwarted Republican efforts to formally punish Trump for his role in inciting the riot. “One Republican congressman confided to Romney that he wanted to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, but chose not to out of fear for his family’s safety,” Coppins wrote in his book. “When one senator, a member of leadership, said he was leaning toward voting to convict, the others urged him to reconsider. You can’t do that, Romney recalled someone saying. Think of your personal safety, said another. Think of your children. The senator eventually decided they were right.” Former Wyoming representative and prominent anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney told CNN that House GOP members confided to her that they were “afraid for their own security—afraid, in some instances, for their lives.” Representative Jason Crow of Colorado told NBC News after January 6: “I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues last night, and a couple of them broke down in tears—saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment.”

Republican Peter Meijer, then a Michigan representative, told Atlantic writer Tim Alberta in 2021 that one colleague seemed to nearly have a nervous breakdown over fears of being harmed by MAGA supporters if he were to vote to certify the 2020 election results: “He asked his new colleague if he was okay,” Alberta reported. “The member responded that he was not; that no matter his belief in the legitimacy of the election, he could no longer vote to certify the results, because he feared for his family’s safety. ‘Remember, this wasn’t a hypothetical. You were casting that vote after seeing with your own two eyes what some of these people are capable of,’ Meijer says. ‘If they’re willing to come after you inside the US Capitol, what will they do when you’re at home with your kids?’” Trump’s mass pardoning of January 6 participants has recentered those events in Republican minds of late.

Gabriel Sherman wrote a solid column in Vanity Fair on how the threat of political violence from far-right MAGA cultists serve to keep Republicans onside in enacting the dangerous Trump agenda.

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NCRM: Cowardice’: GOP Faces Backlash After Report Suggests Death Threat May Have Swayed Vote

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“There were some of these folks who didn’t see a grieving son,” Alberta said. “They saw a vulnerable adversary in that moment, someone who was on ‘the other side,’ and that’s heartbreaking. It’s not just heartbreaking because it was me and my dad’s funeral. It’s heartbreaking because this happened inside a sanctuary… It is a place set apart for the purpose of believers to come together and to worship and be one body in Christ. And this was not that.” [color emphasis added]

The sad thing is that many church sanctuaries in the evangelical community ARE places where pastors now push right-wing and pro-Trump political beliefs. To the "Christians" who attacked Alberta about his political beliefs, a church sanctuary was a perfectly normal place in which to do that.

Tim Alberta spoke in depth of how Donald Trump supporters accosted him during his father’s funeral over his various criticisms of the former president.

The Atlantic reporter joined NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday’s Meet The Press to talk about his new book: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. In the book, Alberta speaks about the Christian values he held as the son of a pastor, Trump’s relationship with evangelicals, and how the Christian right has changed amid the former president’s political ascendance.

Alberta, in the book, wrote about his father’s death in 2019, and the memorial services his family held at the church where he grew up. In Alberta’s recollection, the remembrance took a turn for the worse when attendees repeatedly brought up Rush Limbaugh, who recently went after Alberta on his radio show over his “unflattering” Trump reporting.

From the book, via The Atlantic:

They kept on coming. More than I could count. People from the church—people I’d known my entire life—were greeting me, not primarily with condolences or encouragement or mourning, but with commentary about Limbaugh and Trump. Some of it was playful, guys remarking about how I was the same mischief-maker they’d known since kindergarten. But some of it wasn’t playful. Some of it was angry; some of it was cold and confrontational. One man questioned whether I was truly a Christian. Another asked if I was still on “the right side.” All while Dad was in a box a hundred feet away.

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Here's a round up from reduxx that I missed recently. Let's see a TIM who stabbed his own children and was released from custody, a man assaulting women in an American prison, a man assaulting women in a Canadian prison, men threatening women in a German prison, and an intact man entering a women's spa

By Amy Hamm February 26, 2025

A 35-year-old trans-identified male in Alberta, Canada, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault last week after attacking his children, during which he severed the esophagus of his 8-year-old daughter. The girl is in hospital and will require a feeding tube in what is expected to be a lengthy recovery.

Alice Michael Joseph Attwood, who uses “she/they/he” pronouns and describes himself as a “genderfluid queerdo” on social media, was arrested after the February 19 attack and appeared before a justice of the peace in Grand Prairie. The court then chose to release Attwood pending his next court date on March 13. However, Attwood’s family members were concerned about the release plan and quickly petitioned the court for an involuntary psychiatric hold so that Attwood would be committed to a hospital.

The family told media that they feared for the safety of Attwood’s children, themselves, and the public, and did not understand why the judge had released him on a promise to appear. Their application for a psychiatric hold was ultimately granted, leaving Attwood confined to a mental health unit. However, it appears that Attwood was released on February 25, earlier than the family anticipated.

Attwood has been active on social media since the violent attacks – even commenting about and admitting to stabbing his children.

By Genevieve Gluck February 27, 2025

The Minnesota House of Representatives held a public safety panel yesterday to debate legislation which would require the Department of Corrections to remove trans-identified males from the state’s only women’s prison, MCF-Shakopee. Speaking in support of House File 435, former Shakopee employee-turned-whistleblower Alicia Beckmann revealed that female inmates have been made to endure sexual harassment and intimidation from the male transfers, several of whom are sex offenders, over the past two years.

Beckmann, who has a degree in criminal justice and a Master’s in education, worked as a GED instructor at MCF-Shakopee for ten years before resigning in protest last fall over the DOC’s decision to implement gender identity policies by allowing convicted male criminals to be transferred into the women-only facility.

“In June of 2023, unbeknownst to myself, frontline staff and roughly 600 female offenders, ‘Christina’ Craig Lusk, a biological male, was transferred to Shakopee Correctional Facility after he successfully won a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections,” she said. “This decision opened the floodgates for the nightmare that was to follow.”

Beckmann was referring to a June 2022 discrimination lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate. As Reduxx previously reported, Lusk was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men – but had also been accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, who has called him “scammer” and a “big fat liar.”

By Genevieve Gluck February 25, 2025

A trans-identified male serving an indefinite prison sentence for sexual offenses, including the rape of a 13 year-old girl, is said to have sexually assaulted multiple female inmates after having been transferred into a women’s prison. 

According to reports from women detained at Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI) in Ontario, Carissa Marie Radcliffe, previously known as Frederick Radcliffe, has forcefully sexually attacked multiple women, spurring an ongoing investigation which began with his relocation to a maximum security unit on October 4. To date, two women have filed official reports with the Correctional Service of Canada.

Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI), located in Kitchener, is organized into a campus-style setting with several buildings, or “houses,” where inmates live together. Radcliffe, a convicted pedophile who claims to identify as a transgender woman, was transferred into a housing unit at GVI at the beginning of 2023.

Radcliffe has a lengthy criminal history and has been convicted of the rape of teenage girls on several occasions. He was declared a Dangerous Offender in 2010, a designation which requires him to remain incarcerated until the parole board says he is no longer a risk to the public.

By Genevieve Gluck February 21, 2025

There have been at least five cases of trans-identified males assaulting female inmates after being transferred to women’s correctional facilities in Germany, with four of these attacks being described as “sexually motivated.” Two of these male prisoners have had to be relocated back to a men’s prison as a result of their aggression. The new information has come to light following information requests submitted to the Ministry of Justice by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Last April, the German Parliament, or Bundestag, passed one of the world’s most far-reaching laws allowing sex self-declaration on demand. The Self-Determination Act (SBGG) establishes ‘gender identity’ as a protected characteristic, allows parents to change the sex marker on their children’s documents from birth, and imposes hefty fines of up to €10,000 (approx. $10,800 USD) for revealing a person’s given name and birth sex without their permission – referred to by trans activists as ‘deadnaming.’

The SBGG came into effect on November 1, 2024, but violent male criminals were already being transferred into women’s prisons ahead of the policy. It is not clear when trans-identified males began to be housed in women’s facilities, but as previously reported by Reduxx, official information from the Senate Department of Justice in Berlin shows that since 2023 “15 people whose sex was registered as male at birth have been imprisoned in the Berlin correctional facility for women.” 

In January, the Federal States’ Ministry of Justice confirmed that at least five trans-identified male inmates had physically assaulted female inmates on several occasions, and that four of these men had been sexually aggressive. The admission was made in response to an information request from the AfD filed in December. Previously, all federal states had denied sexual attacks by imprisoned trans-identified men when asked by media.

By Anna Slatz February 19, 2025

A trans-identified male in New Jersey is suing a Korean health spa after being denied access to the women’s nude area. Alexandra “Allie” Goebert first launched the discrimination suit against King Spa in Palisades Park in 2022, and is now moving to obtain compensation from the spa on the grounds of violating the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.

According to newly-filed court records, the incident occurred in August of 2022 when Goebert visited the location with a female companion. Upon registration, Goebert was provided wristband granting him access to the men’s locker room instead of the women’s. Goebert immediately complained, telling staff he was a “transgender woman” and was legally recognized as “female” by the state of New Jersey.

After making a phone call, the staff member gave Goebert access to the restricted women’s area. But after entering, Goebert came to the attention of a locker room attendant who quickly called the manager. The manager then began to question whether Goebert had undergone genital surgeries, at one point asking if Goebert still had “boy parts.”

Goebert responded that he did not have “boy parts” because he is a “woman,” implying that he had attempted to argue his penis was not an inherently male anatomy. But the manager continued to press on whether he had changed his anatomy, to which Goebert eventually admitted he was fully intact. The manager then told Goebert he needed to leave the female area of the spa.

King Spa is a venue modeling itself after a jimjilbang, a traditional Korean health facility which requires nudity in some areas. For that reason, the nude areas of the spa were strictly sex-segregated.

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Battle of Alberta: Rapid Fire Trivia

[churchblogmatics-blog]

In total I've read 40 books this year: 4 re-reads and 36 new reads:

The Odyssey - Homer

Wellness - Nathan Hill

A Gift of Love - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Church Dogmatics II.2, §32 - 33 - Karl Barth

The Courage to Be - Paul Tillich

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

A Good Man is Hard to Find & Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor

Devotion - Patti Smith

White Evangelical Racism - Anthea Butler

Works of Love - Søren Kierkegaard

Encounters with Jesus - Timothy Keller

Genesis - Anonymous (reread)

Tom Lake - Ann Patchett

Modern Poetry - Dianne Seuss

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Jesus and John Wayne - Kristin Kobes Du Mez

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

St. Paul: A Screenplay - Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Death of Adam - Marilynne Robinson

One Way Back - Christine Blasey Ford

Till We Have Faces - CS Lewis (reread)

The Exvangelicals - Sarah McCammon

The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory - Tim Alberta

Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges

Jack - Marilynne Robinson

Moral Man & Immoral Society - Reinhold Niebuhr

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

Proslogion - St. Anselm

Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte

Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond (reread)

Nudge - Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler

A Boy and His Dog - Harlan Ellison

Exodus - Anonymous (reread)

Evangelical Anxiety - Charles Marsh

Silence - Shusaku Endo

Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen

That All Shall Be Saved - David Bentley Hart

Deliverance to the Captives - Karl Barth

top four reads of 2024

[kelticangel]

not an ask but i have a suggestion, i just learned there is a popular brand named 'no name' and if you can find one please make xar experience it and try these perfectly normal foods that look so different then what you would expect

Bwahaha!! I love this idea! 💜 No Name brand is such a thing

For the uninformed, my buddy Xarrior is coming to Canada to visit me in 10 days. I'm going to try and give them as many Canadian experiences as can be managed including:

- going to a rodeo

- trying Canadian foods and snacks

- going to the mountains

- axe throwing

We're gonna be livestreaming the Canadian foods one and they might make a tier list as we go (if I can figure out how to integrate it)

If you're at all curious, please come watch!! Streaming from YouTube on May 25 from 9am until noon MDT

[walrusmagazine]

Why Alberta Is Bullying Its Cities

Progressive mayors in Edmonton and Calgary are being undermined for political gain

Punching at another government, party, or political opponent in response to criticism is standard fare in politics, especially in current times, where leaders like to zero in on people’s divisions. But what Alberta’s United Conservative Party government has taken to doing, unlike most other provincial governments, is punch downward at its big-city mayors as if they were opposition parties. Soon after the party’s 2019 provincial win, then justice minister Doug Schweitzer labelled Naheed Nenshi, who was mayor of Calgary at the time, as “Trudeau’s mayor.” In 2022, then premier Jason Kenney dismissed urbanites and city leaders who were vocally uncomfortable with his relaxed COVID-19 health measures as the “government-funded laptop class.”

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Jason Lin (@jasonlinillustration)

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Why Alberta Is Bullying Its Cities Progressive mayors in Edmonton and Calgary are being undermined for political gain The post Why Alberta Is Bullying Its Cities first appeared on The Walrus. https://thewalrus.ca/why-alberta-is-bullying-its-cities/

[eyra]

snapshots from a campground near mystic peak, alberta - Chapter 2 - eyra - Harry Potter [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Harry Potter Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin Additional Tags: Marauders Era (Harry Potter), Modern Era, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Summer, Road Trips, Canada, Mountains, references to Tim Hortons, Friends to Lovers, There Was Only One Bed, There Was Only One Tent, Camping, Photography, Bears The campground was fantastic: a wide and sunny meadow dotted with a handful of tents and surrounded by knobbly pine trees, tall as houses, and with a sweeping view out over the valley and the jagged mountaintops beyond. That big blue sky, and everything painted in such golden sunlight that the whole place took on a warm and Kodaky sort of hue, like Sirius might’ve already photographed it on film with his grainy old second-hand lens. It's a Canadian roadtrip adventure! The perfect summer, apart from the way Remus is doing Sirius's head in, and the way Sirius can't figure out why.

more mountains, more bears, more teenage petulance. x

🐻 playlist here 🐻

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A former president of the Calgary Homeless Foundation says he is deeply concerned by the Alberta government’s recent decision to overhaul the funding scheme for organizations providing services to homeless people. Tim Richter, who served as the foundation’s president from 2008 to 2012 and who now leads the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, a national charity, says the change is dangerous and will lead to more people falling through the cracks. Under the current model, the foundation and six other non-profit and other organizations act as local hubs and receive a lump sum of government money, which they distribute to smaller organizations in their area.

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jonathan Cohn at HuffPost:

Election Day is Tuesday. And while plenty of politicos and pundits are out there predicting what will happen, the reality is that … nobody knows. The polls are super close, nationally and in the swing states. Forecasting models see the race as a coin flip. But you can spot some clear storylines that say a lot about how the two presidential campaigns have unfolded so far, and that might even help explain the outcome after the fact. One of those storylines is the determination and enthusiasm of women who back Democrat Kamala Harris, including women who might be afraid to say so publicly because their husbands support Republican Donald Trump.

I first heard about this last week, in Michigan, while covering a campaign event for Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin. Slotkin said canvassers were reporting stops at houses with large Trump signs, where women would answer and ― when asked which candidate they were supporting ― would quietly point to a photo of Harris on the canvassers’ campaign literature. [...]

And though the movement appears to have started on its own and spread over social media, lately the underlying sentiment has been getting high-profile support from figures like former first lady Michelle Obama, who in a recent Harris campaign appearance said, “If you are a woman who lives in a household of men that don’t listen to you or value your opinion, just remember that your vote is a private matter.” Are there enough hidden votes to change who wins a state? Probably not. But the emotional fuel for it, the determination of so many women to elect Harris over Trump, absolutely could prove decisive. If that happens, it would be one of the more ironic twists in modern political history ― and one of the more fitting ones, too ― because a campaign pitting men against women is exactly the campaign Trump and his advisers wanted.

The Boys vs. Girls Election

It’s no secret that this year’s gender gap is shaping up to be the largest in memory, with polls showing men favoring Trump by double digits, and women favoring Harris by a similar margin. In many ways, that gap was preordained not because of who’s on the ballot, but what’s at stake ― the future of reproductive freedom, and one side that’s actively pushing to regress back toward restrictive gender roles and limited rights. But instead of trying to counter that, Trump has leaned in. On the eve of this summer’s Republican National Convention, even before President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and Harris became their party’s nominee, Trump campaign officials boasted about how they were hoping to create what Axios called a “boys vs. girls election,” with ”Donald Trump’s chest-beating macho appeals vs. Joe Biden’s softer, reproductive-rights-dominated, all-gender inclusivity.”

So powerful was this appeal, Trump’s campaign managers told The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, that Trump would manage to peel off some of the Black and Hispanic men who would traditionally vote Democratic, enough to offset losses among women. “For every Karen we lose, we’re going to win a Jamal and an Enrique,” one Trump ally had previously told Alberta. The Trump campaign has unfolded just as his team promised ― which helps explain why, for example, Trump has spent the final weeks before the election appearing alongside former Fox News host Tucker Carlson (who recently suggested that the country needed Trump to be a “dad” who would deliver a “spanking”) while sidelining former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (who has been popular with independent female voters). And the strategy may very well work. Polls have shown Harris struggling to hit the margins among Black and (especially) Hispanic men that previous Democrats have.

But the Trump gambit depends on winning over more men faster than he alienates women. And that’s hardly a safe bet. In just the last few years, the gender gap has been increasing at a faster pace than before, as my colleague Lilli Petersen explained recently.

[...]

The Backlash And Its Potential

How is this all shaking out?

Overall, according to a recent Politico analysis, women are accounting for 55% of the early vote across battleground states. And in Pennsylvania, a state that many strategists consider the most important for each candidate, data suggests that early voting includes a relatively high proportion of Democratic women who did not vote there in 2020. Early voting is a notoriously unreliable predictor of outcomes, for the simple reason that the data about who is voting doesn’t say that much about how they are voting, especially in an environment without solid baselines for comparison. Early voting did not become particularly widespread until 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and with Trump advising his supporters not to vote by mail. (This year, he’s generally encouraged them to vote early if they can.) But women are a larger proportion of the population and, historically, they have voted at higher rates too. Last month, political scientist and Brookings senior fellow Elaine Kamarck ran the numbers on different scenarios to see what would happen if women came out to vote in the same proportion as in 2020, given the latest polling numbers available. She found Harris would win Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — enough to win the election.

Donald Trump got his wish of this election being fought on gender roles and reproductive freedom... but it won't turn out like how he wanted it to go.

Read the full story at HuffPost.

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Another Wood-engraved Feathursday

Here are three birds engraved in wood by members of the Wood Engravers Network (WEN): Spokane, Washington artist Gale Mueller; Cape Cod, Massachusetts printmaker Evan Charney; and Alberta, Canada engraver Jim Westergaard. These images are included in A Calendar of Days, 2011, published in Erin, Ontario by The Porcupine's Quill in 2011 in collaboration with WEN. The calendar includes fifteen reproductions of prints of wood engravings contributed by a variety of artists. The images were proofed letterpress in the traditional manner, then digitized and printed offset on a Heidelberg KORD by Tim Inkster at The Porcupine's Quill, noted for its expertise in using 20th-century offset technology to replicate the appearance of a 19th-century letterpress product.

View more engravings by members of the Wood Engraver’s Network.

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How I think characters from ghosts would vote in the US 2024 presidential election

- Sam & Jay vote for Kamala. They, along with June and Ally, are the only ones in the neighborhood to do so

- Alberta is 100% for Kamala. She loves the Jamaican rep and uses her TV time on interviews with her

- Hetty is still appalled by the fact that Sam *can* vote, but she has long-standing beef with the Trump family and she’s in her feminist era so she approves of Kamala (though it takes her a second and a *very* long conversation with Alberta to get there)

- Pete loves Tim Walz. Enough said

- Thorfinn doesn’t believe in democracy, so he really doesn’t care. Whoever’s not Danish has his vote

- Flower is for Kamala for obvious reasons, but she also remembers meeting a very snobby young adult Trump in New York in the 60s. She would somehow accidentally vote for Patience, the worm, though

- Isaac is thrilled every time an election rolls around. Watches every debate and televised rally. Hosts his own stump speeches to weigh the options out. He thinks anyone who votes red is for the redcoats and tries to get everyone to vote blue for the patriots. Though, when it comes down to it, he would write his name on the ballot if he could

- Sasappis doesn’t really care (since he can’t vote, because, dead) and often points out how flawed each candidate is. He would quietly vote for Kamala and watch the election drama unfold in the house

- Trevor initially remembers Trump as being cool in the 90s, but the second Sam catches him up to speed, he switches. He ends up voting somehow on the ipad & sells political merch for stocks

- Nigel is just annoyed by the "yankee" antics. And that the British elections don’t reach America. So Sam makes him some tea & promises to tell him when the UK elections are and he feels better

- Jenkins & Baxter literally have no clue what’s going on until Carol tells them. Carol strikes me as a Trumper

- Stephanie wouldn’t be old enough to vote. She would turn everyone against each other by telling them that someone in the house is against their vote, when, in fact, they’re not and go back to sleep before the results are even out

- Crash is missing for the entirety of the election

- Elias would vote for Trump and sends campaign emails out of Hell

- Patience thinks the election process is sinful and just prays the entire time

- Nancy & Stuart get into a fight & divide the cholera ghosts. They don’t even know who’s running

- Mark & his wife vote for Kamala. They're the only ones that are pretty normal about all this

- The Farnsbys own MAGA merch and donate to Trump’s campaign. They don’t understand the voting technology and just don’t vote. They play pickleball instead

- Randy (yes, the pickle guy) is surprisingly voting for Kamala. His pickle business wasn’t doing well under Trump and he blames the government for it. He also hears Jay is voting for her and he *has* to support his best friend

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Nationality HCs

DISCLAIMER!!

If you have some sort of prejudice towards any country, race, nationality or anything, you can go ahead and get the fuck outta here.

The Americas

Canada 🇨🇦

Toby (Quebec)

Puppeteer (Alberta)

United States 🇺🇸

Kate (Minnesota)

Wilson (Maryland)

Tim + Brian (Alabama)

Bloody Painter (Louisiana)

Jeff, Jane, and Nina (Florida)

Nathan (Arkansas)

Jason the Toymaker (Kansas)

Nurse Ann (California)

Dr Smiley (Texas)

Latin America

Cat Hunter 🇲🇽

X-Virus 🇦🇷

Europe

Scandinavia

Judge Angels 🇸🇪

Rogue 🇩🇰

Scarecrow 🇳🇴

United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Chess Master 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

L. Jack and Jill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Zero 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

(Other)

Eyeless Jack 🇵🇱/🇷🇺

Candy Pop and Cane 🇮🇪

Clockwork 🇮🇹

Other Areas

Middle East

Bloody Angel 🇹🇷

Doll Maker 🇸🇦

East and Southeast Asia

Liu 🇨🇳

Neon Spike 🇰🇷

Kagekao 🇯🇵

Ani the Wight 🇵🇭/🇮🇩

Divider Creds: Sister-Lucifer

Header Creds: MEEE!!