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[thatgingerloser]

what a joke.

[sashamosu46]

LOOK AT TF ONE JAZZ AND PROWL❗️❗️❗️❗️

So far I can only find 2 ver of Jazz (without and with T-cog) and Prowl without T-cog

[inter-volve]

[your-bigender-big-brother]

I decided to make a bunch of pride slogans for identities I wanted to show a little love for. Feel free to use these for whatever you'd like! - 💙💚

[mugiwara-lucy]

Happy Sunday everyone! I'd like to talk to my fellow women for a change and would like to remind you that if we let Trump get back in office, this could legitimately be the LAST ELECTION we get to vote in for potentially our LIFETIMES since his Project 2025 buddies are talking about getting rid of the 19th Amendment:

And to add, the asshole in the white shirt is someone who gives FAKE MONEY to the homeless so they can get arrested to "clean up the community":

I dunno about you ladies but I LOVE having the right to vote and do NOT want Trump's ilk revoking that right. To ensure we still have the right to vote, here's the link to register to vote along with the voter registration deadlines which are COMING UP:

And like I've been hammering in, I HIGHLY recommend Early Voting! Here's the Early Voting dates!

And here's the link for Mail in Ballots but like I've said, mail them at the ACTUAL USPS Centers so avoid any nonsense!! Here's the link to register!

Almost TEN YEARS we've been dealing with this old clown. Let's be DONE WITH HIM ONCE AND FOR ALL IN NOVEMBER.

[hydor-graphics]

Can i get a name banner with the queer chevron flag? Oh and the name's Mike

[32bitterra]

Absolutely, @greenethorn !

Here is Chevron! She also likes to go by "Chev." She might have a bit of a mean or aloof look to her (Sometimes. She seems pretty happy in that drawing though), but she really isn't mean at all. She is one of Hertz and Caprio's classmates (if you remember them.)

She's used to her peers telling her to "shut up" and to "go away" and that she's "weird." It used to bother her, but not anymore. She knows their frail minds cannot understand her, so there is no use in trying. She knows who she is and she owns it.

She has a very strong interest in the paranormal and "spooky" things. No one wants to hear about this, so she's all alone. That's fine, she has her "ghost friends."

Some of her other interests include collecting rocks, gemstones, sticks, leaves, feathers (molted from her avian classmates), or other meaningless "trash" items, staring menacingly from around the corner, and trying to explore places she isn't supposed to be in.

So when Hertz (a real life demon, just like the ones in her books!) joins the class, she is ecstatic. She's fascinated with her (please don't be weird about it though, they're kids and there is no romance.) She can be overwhelming when she is passionate about something. She can also be a bit oblivious at times.

[maggotwithanf]

BACK FROM WASTELAND.

Holy shit this was a brutal one for my tribe but we made it through the hottest WW on record. We had multiple tribe members get hospitalized or sent to medical for Jugger, Thunderdome, heat exhaustion, and worse. But we're all here for each other, and that's what counts!!!

Ok NAMES TIME: Mush!!! It was SO GOOD TO MEET YOU IN PERSON!! I can't wait to hang more next year aaaaaaaaAAAAA

Pupcake/Missfortune, & Mr. Privilege, you are TRULY the dream blunt rotation and I love you both SO MUCH and I can't wait to blast off to Thotumn at Neo!!! Pupcake, I love you and I can't wait for more WWs with you!! Mr P I also especially cannot wait to shtick some shtick at you and touch your deck some more at the LCC and beyond (at the CTRL ALT WIN. obviously.)

Disaster, you are LEGITIMATELY one of my favorite people in the Wastes and beyond!! The Rat Trap is the most magical place on earth and I will never forget watching the sun rise on the last day of Neo with you!! BALORT FOREVER. You have no idea what the Rat Trap being real and there every Great Gathering means to me :'))

Warbird, I loved getting to know you and wander the wastes with you!!! You're so fun I can't believe we haven't hung more!!

FROG. MY LOVE. You are SO BRAVE for surviving this WW and the gnarliest Thunderdome injury in ODS history. You are amazing and loved and I can't wait to see you on Kepler!!!

To my LCC VIP Blackjack Squad: Barter Jinx, Sweet Dee, The Plague, Numbers, (Triple) Ace, Pedromeo, and of course our newest inductee Squints: *slams table* WINNING ALL THE TIME WINNING ALL THE TIME WINNING ALL THE TIIIIME I can't wait to blackjack every fucking night again for the 5th year in a row!!!!

Donut, GoGurt, THANKS FOR SAVING ME FROM HEATSTROKE HOLY SHIT. Donut especially for carrying me half the way like a fireman & GoGurt for staying with me the whole time /sob

And of course, to our Operation Dessert Storm inductees this year: Dr Pepper, Waffles, the Muffin Man, Champain, Snatch Goblin, Chef, Cap'n Crunch, Tart, Airhead, Big League Chew, Jammy Dodger, WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!!!! Some of you have obvs been here longer than I have but inductions come in batches like muffins and I love you all so much!!!!!!!

Tart: I love you so much and can't wait to bug hunt on Kepler with you :'))) you mean SO MUCH to me!!!

I know I'm missing a bunch of people but SCREAMING. I LOVE ALL OF YOU SO FUCKING MUCH. Special shoutout to Baby Ruth the very first unborn ODS member to complete their first WW in the womb (congrats Sweet Justice & Twix!!!) as well as the beautiful newlyweds Bear & Bananaz!! BONERTOWN FOREVER!!!!

xoxoxoxoxo PVT MEAT

p.s. slugga 4 sheriff 4 lyfe

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[transcendragon]

New pride dragons! “Queer Chevron Flight” and “Nine Color Queer Dragon Turtle”. Because I was making two designs for the queer themed dragons based on the two common queer flags, I decided to go for one more streamlined, traditional dragon and one funky dragon!

My original art made in Procreate, image description in alt text. Look out for my intersex art tomorrow and remember if you enjoy my art I’ll be uploading these designs to Redbubble and you can always support me on Kofi.

[rabbitcruiser]

Prince's Island Park, Calgary (No. 2)

Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is the largest metro area within the three prairie provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada.

Calgary is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the southwest of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly 299 km (186 mi) south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately 240 km (150 mi) north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor.

Source: Wikipedia

[head-post]

Big Oil backtracks on renewables amid fading climate agenda

Europe’s biggest energy companies are doubling down on oil and gas in 2024 to focus on short-term profits instead of climate commitments, according to Reuters.

The cuts by oil companies came after governments around the world had slowed the implementation of clean energy policies and delayed targets. This followed the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022.

Major European energy companies that heavily invested in the transition to clean energy found their shares lagging behind US rivals Exxon and Chevron, which maintained their focus on oil and gas. Against that backdrop, companies, such as BP and Shell, sharply slowed their plans to spend billions on wind and solar power projects this year. They shifted spending to more lucrative oil and gas projects instead.

Shell, which once promised to become the world’s largest power company, stopped investing in new offshore wind projects. The company eventually withdrew from electricity markets in Europe and China, weakening its carbon reduction targets.

Norwegian state-owned Equinor also slowed spending on renewable energy. BP, Shell and Equinor cut low-carbon spending by 8 per cent in 2024, according to Rohan Bowater, analyst at Accela Research.

Reducing climate targets

The decline of oil companies provides bad news for efforts to mitigate climate change. Global emissions of heat-trapping carbon are predicted to reach a new high in 2024, which will be the warmest year on record.

2025 promises to be another tumultuous year for the $3 trillion energy sector as climate sceptic Donald Trump returns to the White House. China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, is also trying to revitalise its staggered economy, potentially boosting oil demand.

Demand growth in China, which has driven global prices for two decades, is slowing, with signs that the country’s petrol and diesel consumption is stabilising. Meanwhile, OPEC and leading oil-producing allies have repeatedly postponed plans to end supply cuts as other countries ramp up oil production.

A climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November led to global climate funding but disappointed climate advocates who hoped governments would unite around phasing out oil, gas and coal.

Read more HERE

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

We are faced with a radically partisan GOP controlled Supreme “Court” that has been working for the past few years to reshape America to match their right-wing vision of what the nation should look like. It’s literally jaw dropping when you review the numerous legal precedents overturned by these Republican justices in an effort to force their far-right agenda upon us. The most obvious example is the GOP court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, thus, stripping women of a fundamental constitutional right.  This decision was not about the law, it was solely about the anti-choice activists in black robes on the court finally having the requisite votes needed—thanks to Donald Trump—to end the right to reproductive freedom. Since Roe was overturned, 14 GOP controlled states have in fact fulfilled the goals of the GOP justices by implementing total abortion bans—many even in the case of rape.

In 2022, the religious zealots of the court overturned the 1971 decision of Lemon v. Kurtzman that was created to preserve the wall between church and state. But the GOP theocrats on the bench in the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton ended what was known as “the Lemon test” in an effort to make it easier for lower courts to usher in “Christian nationalism.” (Overturning the Lemon decision is why the Louisiana GOP enacted the recent law to mandate the Ten Commandments in public schools--as I wrote about.)

Just last week, the GOP court again overturned long standing legal precedent by ending what was known for 40 years as “Chevron deference” which had required lower courts to give wide leeway to decisions made by the federal agencies charged with implementing federal laws. But conservatives have long been gunning for Chevron since this legal principle empowered federal agencies to implement regulations that protected people but cost GOP donors money—such as regulations dealing with protecting the environment, addressing climate change, worker protections, food and drug safety, the financial sector and more. Then there are their decisions that have weakened rights on the way to ultimately ending. These include this GOP Supreme Court further undermining the Voting Rights Act, striking down a century old gun law designed to save lives from gun violence and in 2023, the GOP justices rolled back anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community in the name of “religious freedom.” 

Beyond that, there is the conservative justices continued efforts to legalize political corruption apparently because it helps their wealthy GOP benefactors-like Clarence Thomas’s Harlan Crow--as we saw last week in the outrageous decision of Snyder v United States. In this case, the six GOP justices ruled that people can give government officials lavish gifts, send them on vacations, or simply pay them thousands but it won’t be considered an illegal bribe as long as the gifts/money is paid after—not before—the official action. Instead that will be viewed as a “gratuity.”  I’m not kidding. As Justice Kavanaugh wrote, “bribes are payments made or agreed to before an official act in order to influence the official with respect to that future official act.” Gratuities, by contrast, “are typically payments made to an official after an official act as a token of appreciation.”  Finally, this week we saw the six GOP justices in essence rewrite the US Constitution to provide absolute immunity to the president for a range of actions not contemplated by the Framers of the Constitution. That is why Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her powerful dissent about the decision, “The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”

[...]

It was great to see President Biden address the nation Monday night to slam the immunity ruling saying the court had done a "terrible disservice to the people of this nation." Biden rightfully added, "No one is above the law, not even the President of the United States."

But Biden did not call for Supreme Court reform. That is something the President and all Democrats running for federal office in 2024 must do. Bluntly, there’s simply no way that any Democrat running in 2024 for federal office can credibly tell us they will fight for reproductive freedom, equality for the LGBTQ community, preventing discrimination against people of color, saving lives from gun violence, protecting voting rights and our democracy, addressing climate, etc. if they do not make reforming the Supreme Court a top priority. After all, it is this GOP Supreme Court—not Congress—that is the one changing policies on these vitally important issues.

The issue of SCOTUS reform is not only grounded in valid policy concerns, but also politically a winner as well. Recent polls find approval levels for the US Supreme Court at all-time lows.  The reason is apparent. Seven in ten registered voters believe the Supreme Court is “mainly motivated by politics,” as a 2023 Quinnipiac poll found. Backing that up is an AP poll from last month where 70% say the justices are less about impartiality and more motivated by ideology. This explains why nearly 70% or more of Americans support a range of reforms to the Court. For starters, a recent AP poll found 67% of Americans support a proposal to set a specific number of years that justices serve instead of life terms, including 82% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans. A same number support an age limit for serving on the Court.

Interestingly, 60 percent of Americans in that same poll think there should be an equal number of Democrats, Republicans and independents on the high court. That is something I can see appealing to people like President Biden to champion given it’s focused not on “packing” the court but balancing the court. SCOTUS reform must also include ethics laws--which is supported by 75% of Americans.  

Dean Obeidallah is correct: Every Democrat, from President Joe Biden on down to your Congressperson, should make SCOTUS reform a critical priority.

Decades of right-wing control of the court has damaged its credibility, especially with the heinous rulings made in recent years by right-wing black-robed judicial activist tyrants on SCOTUS, in particular the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and Trump v. United States rulings.

[etakeh]

The US supreme court ruled Friday that cities can fine and jail unhoused people for sleeping outside, arguing that criminalizing camping when there is no shelter available does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment”.

Super cool decision by supreme court. The supreme supreme Court. You know the one that makes decisions that are going to be cited all around the fucking country.

Can't wait to see how ol' Ted "let 'em die with nothing" Wheeler runs with this one.

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

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[neverlandnightingale]

Hey do y'all remember several years ago when we were all freaking out about net neutrality being overturned? Well despite net neutrality's win in 2024, a federal court just overturned it.

For those who aren't aware, net neutrality is the simple principle that companies like Verizon and Comcast should treat all web traffic equally – not pick and choose based on who is willing to pay more or who they like best. Big Tech companies obviously don’t like that – which is why they spent millions lobbying against it over the years.

Now, these megacorporations will be able to seize control back over our Internet. The likely result? Throttled access to streaming services, monopolistic pricing that cuts out competition, and a slower, walled off, and less free Internet for all of us.

And unfortunately, rulings like this will only get more common now that the Supreme Court has overturned the “Chevron deference” – giving judges, rather than qualified public servants, a blank check to toss out protections like net neutrality, environmental safeguards, or food safety standards.

When Trump’s FCC repealed net neutrality back in 2017, they gave big corporations total control over our Internet – putting free and open access at risk.

Internet providers responded by exploiting their newfound power to speed up certain websites, and slow down – or even block – others. They failed to provide crucial Internet infrastructure in rural areas, low-income communities, and communities of color. They even slashed firefighters’ Internet access during severe wildfires.

But over 126,000 people spoke out and we were able to reinstate net neutrality – until now.

The time has come again to take action: please sign this petition from Common Cause so we can reinstate net neutrality.