#bill harford

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happy eyes wide shut (1999) christmas 🎄

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Kubrick Queened Hardest

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

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eyes wide shut enjoyers hello

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sorry but they were in love!!!!!!

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I watched Eyes Wide Shut last night and then I wrote a fic about Bill and Alice, because of course I did 🤦‍♀️

These two were just too compelling not to write about

Summary:

When Alice said they needed to fuck, this wasn’t what Bill expected.

Hope someone enjoys it if they read it 🩷

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tag yourself I’m that lady in Eyes Wide Shut who can’t stop telling Tom Cruise she loves him

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So called free thinkers asking for Christmas gifts…

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Alain Laubrac from Mixte 1963/ Voltaire High

Bill Harford from Eyes Wide Shut

Billy Hargrove from Stranger Things

Edmond Dantés / The Count of Monte Cristo from The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

Edward Cullen from Twilight

Enoch O’Connor from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Heloïse from Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Jacob Black from Twilight

Jean-Pierre Magnan from Mixte 1963

John Constantine from Constantine (2005)

Joseph Descamps from Mixte 1963/ Voltaire High

Karen Wheeler from Stranger Things

Keith Toshko from Barbarian

Kevin Lomax from The Devil's Advocate

Marquis De Gramont from John Wick: chapter 4

Ray Singleton from The Magic of Ordinary Days

Tommy Slater from Fear Street

Trip Fontaine from The Virgin Sui

❤︎ 𝒻ictions

one shot

Best Mistake: John Constantine x fem!reader

Sky Fall: John Constantine x fem!reader

Lust: John Constantine x fem!reader

Seduced in Blue: Tom Ludlow x fem!reader

Birthday Boudoir: Tom Ludlow x fem!reader

Unspoken Truth: Don John x fem! Reader

Vacation Boy: Johnny Utah x fem!reader

Deadly Nightshade: Kevin Lomax x fem!reader

The Deep End: John Constantine x fem!reader

Forsaken: Priest John Constantine x fem!reader

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johnny Utah as your older brother

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Eyes Wide Shut, 1999

Un jeune couple de la haute bourgeoisie vivant à New York, Bill Harford (Tom Cruise), un médecin brillant, et sa femme, Alice (Nicole Kidman), commissaire d'exposition, se rend à une réception mondaine pour la fête de Noël organisée par un riche patient de Bill, Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack). Bill y retrouve un vieil ami de l’université, Nick Nightingale (Todd Field), devenu pianiste professionnel. Ensuite, pendant qu'Alice se fait draguer par un Hongrois, Sandor Szavost (Sky du Mont), Bill se voit proposer un plan à trois par deux mannequins pour « aller jusqu'au bout de l'arc-en-ciel ». Il est interrompu par un appel de son hôte, car une de ses petites amies, Mandy (Julienne Davis), a fait une overdose de speedball. Mandy reprend ses esprits grâce à Bill et lui dit qu'elle lui doit la vie.

Le lendemain, après avoir fumé de la marijuana, Alice demande à Bill s'il a couché avec les deux filles. Il la rassure, mais elle lui révèle qu'elle a déjà été tentée de le tromper une fois et lui demande s'il n'a jamais été jaloux du désir qu'elle pouvait susciter chez les autres hommes. La discussion s'envenime, et Bill affirme qu'il pense que les femmes sont plus fidèles que les hommes. Alice lui confie alors un de ses fantasmes : avoir une aventure avec un officier de la marine. Ébranlé, Bill est contacté par la fille d'un patient qui vient de mourir. Il se rend sur place et, dans sa douleur, Marion Nathanson (Marie Richardson) l'embrasse de manière impulsive et lui avoue qu'elle l'aime. Bill la repousse avant que son fiancé, Carl (Thomas Gibson), n'arrive. Déstabilisé, Bill s'en va et erre dans les rues où il rencontre une prostituée, Domino (Vinessa Shaw). Bill se laisse charmer, mais juste au moment où Domino commence à l'embrasser, Alice appelle Bill, qui quitte Domino, gêné et de manière maladroite. Il va alors dans un club de jazz rejoindre Nick, qui lui apprend qu'il se rend parfois à des soirées « spéciales » où il doit jouer du piano les yeux bandés. Bill, intrigué, réussit à obtenir plus de détails : pour être admis, il faut un costume, un masque et un mot de passe (Fidelio). Bill cherche un magasin de costumes et offre au propriétaire, M. Milich (Rade Serbedzija), une somme généreuse pour louer un costume. Dans le magasin, Milich surprend sa fille adolescente (Leelee Sobieski) en compagnie de deux hommes japonais et lui exprime sa colère à propos de leur manque de décence.

Bill prend un taxi pour se rendre au manoir indiqué par Nick. Il donne le mot de passe et découvre à l'intérieur un rituel sexuel quasi religieux. Bien qu'elle soit masquée, une femme s'approche de Bill et le met en garde en lui affirmant qu'il n'aurait jamais dû se rendre ici et qu'il est en danger. Elle est ensuite emmenée par quelqu'un d'autre. Bill commence à errer dans le manoir, passant d'une pièce à l'autre, où il découvre des groupes d'hommes masqués pratiquant différents types d'actes sexuels, tandis que d'autres observent. Il est interrompu par un portier qui lui explique que le chauffeur de taxi souhaite lui parler de toute urgence au portail du manoir. Il le suit, et Bill se retrouve dans la salle de rituel, où le maître de cérémonie, déguisé en rouge, le questionne sur un second mot de passe pour quitter le manoir. Bill avoue qu'il l'a oublié. Le maître de cérémonie insiste pour que Bill « retire gentiment son masque » ainsi que ses vêtements. Soudain, la femme masquée qui avait essayé d'avertir Bill intervient. Elle demande à être punie à sa place. Bill est reconduit à la sortie du manoir et on l'avertit de ne parler à quiconque de ce qui s'est passé.

Juste avant l'aube, Bill arrive chez lui, se sentant coupable et confus. Il trouve Alice riant fortement dans son sommeil et la réveille. Alors qu'elle est en train de pleurer, elle lui explique qu'elle a fait un rêve troublant dans lequel elle faisait l'amour avec l'officier de marine et beaucoup d'autres hommes, riant à l'idée que Bill les regardait. Le matin suivant, Bill se rend à l'hôtel de Nick, où le réceptionniste (Alan Cumming) lui explique que Nick, effrayé et présentant des traces de coups, avait été emmené à cinq heures du matin par deux hommes très costauds, bien habillés et à l'air patibulaire. Nick a essayé, en partant, de passer une enveloppe au réceptionniste, mais celle-ci a été interceptée par les deux hommes qui l'ont emmené en voiture.

Bill ramène son costume au magasin de location, mais le masque est manquant. Milich explique, avec sa fille à ses côtés, qu'il peut fournir d'autres faveurs à Bill et « qu'il n'est pas nécessaire que ce soit un costume ». Les deux mêmes Japonais que la veille s'en vont du magasin, Milich laisse entendre à Bill qu'il a vendu sa fille pour qu'elle se prostitue. Bill retourne au manoir avec sa propre voiture. Un homme vient à sa rencontre près du portail de la propriété et lui remet une lettre l'avertissant de cesser immédiatement toutes ses investigations. De retour chez lui, Bill repense aux rêves d'Alice alors qu'il la regarde aider leur fille à faire ses devoirs.

Bill commence à reconsidérer les différentes propositions sexuelles de la nuit précédente. D'abord, il appelle Marion, mais raccroche lorsque Carl répond au téléphone. Ensuite, Bill se rend à l'appartement de Domino avec un cadeau. Sa colocataire, Sally (Fay Masterson), est chez elle, mais Domino n'est pas là. Après que Bill a tenté de séduire Sally, elle lui révèle que Domino a été testée positive au VIH. Bill quitte l'appartement, suivi par un homme. Après avoir lu un fait divers dans le journal concernant une reine de beauté décédée d'une overdose, Bill examine le corps à la morgue et l'identifie comme étant Mandy. Bill est convoqué à la maison de Ziegler, où ce dernier le confronte aux événements des derniers jours. Ziegler était l'un des participants à l'orgie rituelle et celui qui a identifié Bill ainsi que son contact avec Nick. Sa propre position au sein de l'organisation secrète est compromise par l'intrusion de Bill, depuis que Ziegler a recommandé Nick comme pianiste.

Ziegler affirme qu'il a fait suivre Bill pour sa propre protection et que les avertissements émis contre lui étaient de nature à l'effrayer pour l’empêcher de parler de l'orgie. Mais il lui explique que la société peut mettre ses menaces à exécution, disant à Bill : « Si je te disais leurs noms, je ne pense pas que tu dormirais aussi bien. » Bill demande des explications au sujet de la mort de Mandy, qu'on identifie par Ziegler comme la femme masquée qui s'est sacrifiée pour éviter à Bill d'être puni, ainsi que sur la disparition de Nick, le pianiste. Ziegler explique qu'il est sûrement bien en sécurité dans sa maison à Seattle. Il ajoute que la « punition » était une sorte de mise en scène orchestrée par la société dans le but d'effrayer Bill et qu'ils n'ont rien à voir avec la mort de Mandy. Il explique que c'était une prostituée et une toxicomane, et qu'elle est morte d'une overdose accidentelle. Bill ne sait pas si Ziegler dit la vérité au sujet de la disparition de Nick et de la mort de Mandy, mais il ne veut pas en savoir plus et préfère laisser tomber.

Quand il rentre chez lui, Bill trouve le masque loué sur son oreiller, à côté de sa femme. Il s’effondre en pleurs et décide de révéler toute la vérité à Alice sur les deux derniers jours. Le lendemain, ils se rendent dans un magasin de Noël avec leur fille. Alice le rassure en lui disant qu'ils devraient être pleins de gratitude d'avoir survécu, qu'elle l'aime et qu'il y a une chose qu'ils doivent absolument faire dès que possible. Bill lui demande de quoi il s'agit, elle répond simplement : « Baiser »

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I think the thing I respond to about Last of Us so far is the hope.

Don't get me wrong, the show has told us that there are slavers and cannibals and marauders and I expect to see them soon. But the Bill and Frank story is just steeped in this hope that you don't often see in apocalypse stories.

Like, compared to the Walking Dead. It's cliche, I know. But just the titles; The Walking Dead is not just the zombies, it's the living people. They flat-out say they are the walking dead because whatever the thing is that started the zombies, they all have it in them. They are all pre-zombies, and they live that way. The people are violent and mistrustful. Every paradise has a dark underbelly. There is no permanent safety, only an illusion until the walker in the basement gets out.

The Last of Us, though. Just the name of it emphasizes community. Us. There aren't many, but there are some. The last of us are here.

And with Bill and Frank... so often in apocalypse stories, you wonder why these people are still struggling. Why are they still trudging through this landscape of monsters? What drives them forward? And sometimes you find out; sometimes it's children or a family or a desire for something, a way to bring back what was.

Frank walked out of a QZ that "isn't there anymore" with ten people. They had to walk 400 miles from Baltimore to get to Boston, and pass by Philly, New York, Trenton, Harford, and Providence to get there. And he loses his people. But when he gets to Frank's, he can still smile. He can still be sassy about Arby's. He still has joy, and hope. He still has humanity.

And then the show says that it's enough. It's enough to have little things. To show love in details. In a Linda Ronstadt song, in a painting, in a strawberry. To be gentle and soft and kind. This is why we keep going. We keep going for each other, for love. It's beautiful, and it's warm. And there are zombies, and marauders and cannibals and slavers. But we build our oasis and we love each other and we paint the walls and we go to the boutique, and when we lay down to die we open the window so the house doesn't stink.

It's hopeful, and it's kind. And it won't last, but what a statement, to say that at the end of the world, when we are the last ones, we will be there because we have each other.

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How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown

’m coming to the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in HAY-ON-WYE with my novel Red Team Blues:

Sun (May 28), 1130AM: The AI Enigma

Mon (May 29), 12PM: Danger and Desire at the Frontier

I’m at OXFORD’s Blackwell’s on May 29 at 7:30PM with Tim Harford.

Then it’s Nottingham, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Berlin!

Is it legal for Congress to default on the US national debt? It depends on who you ask. There are a ton of good legal arguments for and against, so perhaps it comes down to what the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, partisan) Supreme Court says?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/biden-administration-debt-republican.html

Put in those terms, it seems like the game was over before it began. Biden should just surrender, hand the most extreme wing of the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, authoritarian) Republican Party whatever it wants, even if doing so will push Biden’s approval rating even lower, dangerously close to the next federal election.

In this telling, the Republicans have already won. The decision to let the GOP steal three Supreme Court seats, combined with the decision not to end the debt ceiling charade when Dems had the majorities to do so, means that from now on, we live in the GOP’s shithole country, where the only “freedoms” that matter are the freedom to control others’ bodily autonomy and gender expression; the freedom to exploit labor; the freedom to censor ideas that challenge white nationalist, imperialist messages; and the freedom to menace with open-carry assault weapons:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/republican-legislatures-abortion-trangender-education.html

In other words, we’re screwed. Might as well dig a hole, climb inside, and pull the dirt in on top of us.

Fuck that.

There are clear majorities in support of the Build Back Better agenda, and even for the watered down Machin Synematic Universe version we got through the Infrastructure Bill. If the Dems could mobilize voters — by convincing them that they were committed to doing things rather than capitulating — they could win strong majorities in 2024. Even in the gerrymandered, antimajoritarian America, electoral wins are possible — they just require overwhelming turnout, rather than the 50.00001% “victories” favored by “data-driven” Democratic consultants (victories that leave the party incapable of governing, and let monsters like Joe Manchin hold the entire nation hostage).

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe doing things won’t mobilize voters. But if we’re already going to stipulate that without significant majorities, the real President of the United States is the three-headed monster (Gorsuch, Thomas, and Roberts), and the billionaires who yank their chains, then what do we have to lose?

There are a lot of things that Biden could try to get through the debt ceiling crisis without giving up on the promises he made to the American people and the programs the American Congress passed. Here’s a couple interesting ones, courtesy of Brad DeLong:

“The Federal Reserve might simply record a negative balance in the Treasury account,” then create an “overdraft” account and pay the US’s obligations out of it;

The Fed could tell retail banks trying to clear government checks that the checks didn’t clear, and the banks could tell their depositors, “ your Treasury check has bounced, but do not worry, we have credited your account, anyway, and will handle this, and please be very grateful to us.”

https://braddelong.substack.com/p/debt-ceiling-what-are-e-fallback

Of course, there are lots of other possibilities: Biden could issue an Executive Order to the effect that the Debt Ceiling violates the 14th Amendment. Or that it violates the Contracts Clause. Or he could order the Treasury to start issuing coupon-free bonds. Or he could just mint the coin:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23734654/government-debt-default-trillion-dollar-platinum-coin

Yes, each of these would end up in front of the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, partisan) Supreme Court, who would very likely strike them down.

But writing for The American Prospect, Ryan Cooper argues that this could still be sound tactics:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-05-25-democrats-fear-supreme-court/

If Biden does something about the debt default, and the Supremes block it, then the default is their fault. What’s more, it’s a mess they absolutely do not want to get into, like deciding which of the US’s creditors will and won’t get paid when they sue over the default. And if the court won’t do it, will they give the president the power to “just pick and choose what gets paid? That would give him a de facto line-item veto over the entire budget, and the Court has already ruled that a law explicitly giving him that power is unconstitutional”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._City_of_New_York

Basically, if the Supreme Court kills Biden’s attempt to resolve the budget crisis, then it becomes the Supreme Court’s problem, as everyone owed a federal payment “say, Social Security beneficiaries or military contractors,” brings a case — “There would be tens of millions of such potential litigants.”

So what should Biden do?

Call their bluff.

First, mint the coin. If the court strikes that down, issue coupon-free bonds. If the court strikes that down, declare debt ceilings to violate the 14th Amendment. If the court strikes that down, declare it to violate the Contracts Clause. Keep doing it. Throw in every solution including the kitchen sink — but never give into the GOP’s demand for Biden to violate his promise to the American people and unilaterally tear up laws establishing programs that make our lives better.

This is what Lincoln did when the Supreme Court blocked his attempts to end slavery. It’s what FDR did when they blocked the New Deal. The court doesn’t have an army, it can’t force its decisions on the American people. It doesn’t have a bureaucratic workforce and it can’t take over the administrative branch — hell, they don’t even have the keys to the office buildings.

The Supreme Court’s power comes from its legitimacy, not force of arms, and while they may not act like it, the Supremes know in their bones that without legitimacy, they are nothing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/consequentialism/#dotards-in-robes

The justices in stolen seats have made it clear that they consider themselves to be “a de facto super-legislature that rules in favor of its own partisan policy objectives based on tendentious up-is-down reasoning or no reasoning at all.” This is an illegitimate proposition.

The Supreme Court can’t get any less legitimate. If Biden were to ignore the Supremes and make good law in the teeth of their pronouncements, it couldn’t make the situation any worse than it is today. The Supremes have set themselves against labor law, against climate resiliency, against bodily autonomy, against political accountability, against the rule of law itself. We should not — we must not — cede the power to overrule democratically elected lawmakers and the will of the people.

As Cooper says, Biden should tell the Supremes to go pound sand and then “raise holy hell in speeches and the press to make clear the grotesque irresponsibility of what is happening”:

Here’s an institution trying to cause a completely pointless national default, destroying untold jobs, businesses, and the credit rating of the country, whose elite members are all unelected, where five members of the majority were appointed by a president who took office after losing the popular vote, and one of whom occupies a blatantly stolen seat. Here’s an institution that has struck down anti-corruption laws by the bushel and is openly rolling in oligarch graft like Scrooge McDuck, while declaring itself to be immune from oversight. All that would add to the political pressure on the justices.

If Biden can’t do well for the American people they they will not turn out in the massive majorities that Democrats need to get minimal majorities. If Biden can’t do well for the American people, then Biden��— who would lose an election to either Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump if it were called today — will turn America’s predators loose on its people for at least four more years:

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/2024-presidential-election-2016-donald-trump-joe-biden/

And let’s face it, it’ll be Trump. DeSantis is dead in the water. The GOP is the party of out-of-control, swivel-eyed loons who’ve been whipped into a terrorized frenzy by an evil, crapulent senescent Australian billionaire and his freak henchmen, like the taint-tanning frozen food failson. They aren’t going to elect “smart Trump.” They like “stupid Trump” (AKA “Trump”) too much.

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in Hay-on-Wye, Oxford, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/26/mint-the-coin-etc-etc/#blitz-em

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read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/78znr4Q by wolfs_lover 電影「大開眼戒」、「烈火悍將」、「落日殺神」、「蝙蝠俠3」、「捍衛戰士」拉郎 分級：BL 限制級 時間軸：1999年聖誕節 配對：冰獨、克文克、方蝙比爾 （Ｈ：冰獨、克文、方蝙比爾、All比爾） 【登場人物】： 蝙蝠俠３＞布魯斯‧韋恩 40歲 烈火悍將＞克里斯‧希斯赫里 48歲 捍衛戰士＞冰人 55歲、獨行俠 53歲 大開眼戒＞比爾‧海爾弗德 38歲 落日殺神＞文森 46歲 【備註】： （１）從前從前，有一個平行宇宙，在那裡，湯姆克魯斯和方基墨在電影裡的角色，用一種開心快樂又情色��方式和平地相處在一起。 （２）有年齡操作的冰獨。這是身體健康的阿冰剛成為太平洋艦隊總司令的時候。 （３）有年齡與時間軸操作的「烈火悍將」和「落日殺神」主線故事。私設：這兩部電影發生在同一個世界觀，克里斯在烈火電影結尾多年後成為殺手文森的老闆，在落日電影結尾把地鐵上負傷的文森撿回家休息。 （４）故事從電影「大開眼戒」派對上比爾被抓包，脫掉面具那場戲開始。眾人各自帶著不同的動機，出席了這場地下盛宴。 ◆前情提要 【大開眼戒】 比爾‧海爾弗德醫生半夜遊走，偷偷溜進了達官貴人的性愛轟趴，還被當眾抓獲是未經許可自己參加的。故事從他被派對主人紅衣主教要求脫掉衣服的場景開始。 ◆私設世界觀 【烈火悍將】電影結尾克里斯成功脫身，經歷幾年經營與耕耘，成為黑幫老大，旗下有許多殺手。 【落日殺神】是克里斯組織裡最強的殺手，經歷電影事件後在地鐵上奄奄一息，被老闆撿回照顧。 【蝙蝠俠3】總之蝙蝠俠要來打擊犯罪。來上班的。只是剛好遇到小醫生，就吃點小可愛補補身體。 Words: 18620, Chapters: 2/?, Language: 中文-普通话 國語 Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies), Heat (1995), Batman (Movies 1989-1997), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Collateral (2004), Interview With the Vampire (Movie 1994), Tombstone (1993) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Chris Shiherlis, Vincent (Collateral), Bruce Wayne, William "Bill" Harford, Doc Holliday, Lestat de Lioncourt Relationships: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Chris Shiherlis/Vincent, Bruce Wayne/Dr. William "Bill" Harford, Doc Holiday/Lestat Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/78znr4Q

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As juvenile justice takes center stage this General Assembly session, a Republican-sponsored bill aims to bar students who have been convicted or adjudicated of rape and other sex offenses from attending school in person.

State Sen. Johnny Salling and state Del. Nino Mangione cross-filed the bills after they met with two mothers last month who say their toddlers were sexually abused in Harford and Baltimore counties by a teenager who attends a Baltimore City high school.

One mother joined Salling at a Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing Wednesday morning. Salling said he was first introduced to the family after Fox 45 reported that the victim’s abuser was going to a Baltimore high school.

“These are serious incidents of incest and rape, and these sexual offenses, there should be some type of accountability,” Salling said in an interview. “And you shouldn’t allow the students to go back in school because you don’t know the mindset of the individual.”

Under Senate Bill 1145, a child would be prohibited from attending a state-funded public or nonpublic school in person if they are convicted or adjudicated of rape or a sex offense that would be considered a felony in adult court. Each school system would have to provide an alternative education for those students, such as virtual programs. The bill doesn’t outline how long those students would be banned from in-person learning.

Maryland law already bars students who are registered on the adult sex offender registry, which is only for those who are 18 or older, from entering school property or attending public schools. School districts must educate those students in alternative locations until they are no longer on the sex offender registry.

Mangione and Salling’s bill seeks to close what they call a loophole for children who commit sex offenses but aren’t on the adult registry. Maryland does have a juvenile offender registry, but it’s accessible only by law enforcement personnel for law enforcement purposes.

“That’s what’s trying to be addressed here,” Mangione said. “How many others have been walking the halls of these schools?”

Registration is often requested by a prosecutor or negotiated in a deal, said Levi Bradford, an education attorney with Public Justice Center, a nonprofit law firm that is part of a coalition opposing the bill. Some kids can avoid registering if the prosecutor says they don’t have to, he said, but this bill would rope in those kids who are not required to register.

Local superintendents, principals and security officers are notified when students are arrested and adjudicated. But it’s up to a judge in that child’s case to determine if they should return to their community.

Students have a constitutional right to an education, and a 2022 law restricted removal to instances in which a student poses an “imminent threat of serious harm to other students or staff.” In-person school removal can be appealed.

Last year, the state Department of Education found Baltimore County Public Schools violated the law when the district banned a student who allegedly committed a sex offense from in-person instruction.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers have a month left to hash out differences in the two chamber’s massive juvenile justice bills. The main House bill would expand the charges that 10- to 12-year-olds can face to include animal mutilation, firearms charges and third-degree sex offenses.

Sherry Christian, a Baltimore City schools spokesperson, said the school system legally can’t discuss individual student matters, sealed judicial proceeding or comment on the legislators’ and Fox 45’s report that a convicted sex offender attends a Baltimore high school.

“We can share, more generally, that Maryland law requires City Schools to provide an education to all students legally enrolled in our school system, including students found responsible for juvenile criminal offenses,” Christian said in a statement.

The city’s school system can only remove a student “if they follow specific legal protocols and there is specific evidence of an imminent threat of serious harm,” Christian continued. “When making this determination, we review all available documents and work closely with the proper authorities to ensure we are meeting the appropriate standards.”

The state Office of the Public Defender, as part of a Coalition to Reform School Discipline, strongly opposes the legislation, which they say would violate federal law. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act says student who have disabilities, even student offenders, have to be educated in the “least restrictive environment,” or districts could risk losing federal funds.

“Prohibiting in-person education based solely on a conviction or adjudication is counter-productive, strips individuals of an important problem-solving tool and will more likely result in greater harm to children and communities,” Natasha Dartigue, the Maryland Public Defender, said in a statement.

The coronavirus pandemic revealed that virtual school is an inferior form of education, Dartigue said, especially for youth with learning disabilities or other educational deficits. Denying education based solely on past convictions also perpetuates cycles of poverty, unemployment and criminal behavior, she said.

As a mother of Baltimore City school students, Annette Anderson wants to know if juvenile sex offenders go to her kids’ schools. Anderson, the deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, a research center, said she doesn’t need to know those students’ identifies.

“I think having a blinded sex registry in a school or a district might be helpful so parents at a minimum are aware,” she said.

Anderson said she’s encouraged by the juvenile justice legislation being constructed in a thoughtful way this session and not in “knee-jerk reaction.” But more work is needed, she said, especially around balancing protecting children and the community’s right to know about juvenile offenders.

[nightmaremoons]

i have been chipping away at this for maybe 8 months,

Mane 6 + Tom Cruise

(presented in order that I drew them, click for quality)

Rainbow Dash + Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Top Gun)

Twilight Sparkle + Bill Harford (Eyes Wide Shut)

Fluttershy + Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire)

Pinkie Pie + Ethan Hunt (Mission Impossible)

Rarity + Lestat (Interview with the Vampire)

Applejack + Nathan Algren (The Last Samurai)