#chuck gavin

[yellowtrinity]

dinner date turnabout

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Morgan Stephens at Daily Kos:

Behind the scenes, President Joe Biden’s team has been preparing for his big final weeks in office, regardless of who won the 2024 election. “The schedule will be robust and he plans to leave it all on the field,” White House communications director Ben LaBolt told NBC News in September.  During his speech to the nation last Wednesday, Biden addressed some of his administration’s final priorities, including a focus on infrastructure spending, which was a major legislative accomplishment of his presidency. "We're going to see over a trillion dollars' worth of infrastructure work done, changing people's lives in rural communities and communities that are in real difficulty," the president said.  In addition to getting infrastructure projects off the ground before Trump takes office, White House advisers said Biden will also work to safeguard freedoms the president believes are under threat, strengthen global alliances, and take steps to reduce costs for Americans.

[glass-noodle]

drift compatible

(pacific rim AU)

thanks @extraordinaryandroid for dragging me into this movie and this AU I’m dying. I’m living

[courtneygavin]

[klavussy]

This is a Saul Goodman reference x guys jimmy and chuck are so klavier and Kristoph love a good perfectionist older brother and younger brother who lives in his shadow

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

"The liberal is so preoccupied with stopping confrontation that he usually finds himself defending and calling for law and order of the oppressor… The reason the liberal seeks to stop confrontation… is that his role, regardless of what he says, is really to maintain the status quo, rather than to change it… [H]e hopes to bring about justice and economic stability for everyone through reform, that somehow the society will be able to keep expanding without the redistributing the wealth."

- Kwame Ture

(Pt.2)

[lefunnymoncey]

heres a chart of character x s/i relationships

oh this is CRINGE cringe

Characters listed: Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974), Ryoma Hoshi (Danganronpa V3), Teruteru Hanamura (Super Danganronpa 2), Vinnigan Bigtop (oc), Cedric the Sorcerer (Sofia the First), Ultimate Imposter (Super Danganronpa 2), Sans the Skeleton (Undertale), Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy (Wordgirl), Miss Nettle (Sofia the First), Kristoph Gavin (Ace Attorney), Toko Fukawa (Danganronpa Trigger Happy Havoc), Dexter Spatz (oc)

i left out a few because i either forgor or dont have any pics of them (miles edgeworth)

[americamostbeautiful]

Democrats Finally Have the Leader They Desparately Need

Alan Zendell, April 29, 2025 Ever since Donald Trump began his second term, Democrats have been treading water, (some people would say drowning,) hoping a leader would come along to throw them a lifeline. If it were only the Democratic Party’s future that was at stake, I’d say it was time for a complete makeover. The only positive thing about Democrats is that they’re not MAGA Republicans. For…

[joyxande]

My man, my man, my man.

POV YOU SEE CHUCK: “What ‘eva you say shugga”

bro got shrink-wrapped

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jared Yates Sexton at Dispatches From A Collapsing State:

Crises reveal character. So much of our politics is grounded in spectacle. Speeches designed for television in front of crowds given pre-made signs, arenas and gyms primed with carefully chosen songs designed to elicit a mood and deliver messages. Politicians give speeches written by a room full of strategists and communication experts, the text pored over and tweaked until all that’s left is pleasing rhetoric that ultimately means nothing while reinforcing our most cherished and comforting mythologies. But, when the shit hits the fan, the tailor-made personas tend to fall by the wayside. Things happen too quickly. Momentum builds and soon there’s nothing left but the politician and how they meet the moment.

Watching Donald Trump and the oligarchs who control him destroy democracy is a dismal thing. Every day brings a new deluge of indignities. Blatant corruption. Gleeful brutality. Another guardrail exposed as nonexistent and our entire political structure indicted, our culture revealed as rotten and sick. But these are things we knew and currently know. Even if it is repugnant, we are aware of who Trump is. From the moment he opened his mouth in 2015, it was evident what we were dealing with. Hell, before he even said a word it was apparent. But what is revealed, on a daily basis, is less what these fascists want and are capable of, considering they told us repeatedly for nearly a decade, but rather it is the reaction by people who supposedly knows better than delivers the punch to the gut. Within the Democratic Party, there is a frenzied sorting. Trump and his cronies provide ample opportunity for sparks of resistance with every new crime. The choice is made clear. Denounce his actions, speak honestly with the people, and get in the fight, or sell what’s left of your soul for continued control over the party’s fundraising apparatus and maybe a shot at presiding over what’s left of the rubble. Few have revealed themselves more than California Gavin Newsom. As an explicitly white supremacist, authoritarian regime took power, Newsom launched a podcast interviewing guests like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon, smiling and bantering as he searched for “common ground.” In his day job, Newsom is pulling out all the stops. To please his rich donors and the state’s business leaders, he has urged the criminalization of houselessness, choosing to address the ravages of Neoliberalism by brutally sweeping the victims out of sight. On Wednesday, he made a show of promising to abandon immigrants in order to cut the budget and, get this, deliver “universal healthcare for all,” all while pushing the kind of “us” and “them” rhetoric that has fueled the rise and ascendance of authoritarianism. Sure. We’ll see. But Newsom isn’t alone. Democratic politicians are all on their own soul-quests, each decision taking them further down a path from which there should be no return. For every Jasmine Crockett, there is a Chuck Schumer performing his best “what’s everybody worried about?” routine while the edifice crumbles. For every Alexandria Occasio-Cortez, there’s a John Fetterman embracing genocidal language and behaving so erratically that his former staff is all but begging someone to remove him from power before he hurts himself or his family.

And the problem isn’t isolated to America. Despite posturing as a firewall against American fascism, Neoliberals like British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are busy making deals with Trump and normalizing the Right’s racist and hateful framing, promising to address immigration while standing behind a lectern reading “SECURING BRITAIN’S FUTURE,” a shocking echo of one of the most prominent and well-known white supremacist slogans. It’s a deeply upsetting thing to watch, but nonetheless unsurprising. One of the great tragedies of living in this modern age has been existing within a delusion that our politicians cared, wanted to do more, but were hamstrung by political conditions, growing debt, and frustrating institutional roadblocks. Every new proposal that failed to live up to expectations led to a frustration that was dismissed by rank and file liberals who castigated us, saying, “Be realistic. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” [...] The truth is that Moderates or Centrists, whatever we want to call these Neoliberals, whether it’s politicians, their staffers, members of the media, or high-profile influencers and strategists, have played their role as well any. They have eased us down the chute, providing more than enough magical thinking and pleasing rhetoric to distract us from where we were always heading. Their delivery is different, I’ll grant them that. Rather than relying on the most brutish and disgusting rhetoric, they have chosen to couch their brutality in saccharine, soaring language. As we bristled and felt the abyss staring at us, they reminded us how great of a nation we were, how special we were, which amounts to little more than gaslighting. If we just hung in there, if we just kept going and kept the faith, eventually the bad times would stop and we would emerge into the most magical world. And, somehow, that world kept getting further and further away. Claiming to be a moderate or a centrist is one of the most detestable tricks imaginable. Like crypto-Nazis who have learned to mask their detestable views behind parlor tricks and advantageous deniability, so-called Moderates have hidden their true selves for forever. They hold few actual principles or beliefs beyond the need for power at all costs. In this, they are siblings of authoritarians, willing to say whatever and claim whatever in order to continue getting closer and closer to control. Just as the Republican Party’s espoused “principles” - including fiscal and social conservatism, an adherence to law and order, a preference for small government - have been revealed as cudgels, Moderates’ willingness to sacrifice people in order to profit and gain power for themselves has been hidden behind expressions of concern and empathy and frustration with minoritarian institutions and, sigh, a reluctance to add to the growing debt.

What has always been there is a subtle statement that is now becoming so loud it threatens to burst our eardrums. Saying, “I would love to help, but we have to think about the debt,” says it all. Your concerns are unimportant. Your safety is negligible. Your existence is dependent. The top priority is the maintenance of the status quo at all costs, and now that Neoliberalism demands outright authoritarianism, that’s what Neoliberalism will get.

A moderate at this time in history is nothing more than a fascist enabler.

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U.S. News Time!

So you know how there's massive protests going on against ICE deporting immigrants who are just doing their jobs, and Trump's response to these has been to use it as an excuse to send 4700 troops into California illegally and threaten to arrest Governor Gavin Newsom, and how this is all so remarkably unpopular of a decision with the entire country?

Well now the federal government isnt even allowing elected officials from California to ask questions.

Senator Alex Padilla, who is a duly elected federal Senator from the state of CA, and is a ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, was just shoved to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents for asking questions at a press conference for the Department of Homeland Security.

This is the latest insane move in a string of insane moves by Trump's federal government. The attack on Senator Padilla happened as Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, tried to justify the invasion of California by saying they were "liberating [Los Angeles] from socialists":

"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and mayor have placed on this country and what they’ve tried to insert in this city"

- Kristi Noem (via)

Reactions to this escalation are ongoing, but right now congress is abuzz. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who many have criticized for his weak approach to President Trump's actions, is even calling it what it is: Totalitarianism.

Will this serve as a much-needed wake-up call to Democrats and the anti-MAGA majority of America that they are, in fact, facing a dictatorship? Only time will tell, but one thing isn't up for question: This is only increasing the divide plaguing this country.

[wilwheaton]

We are in the midst of a crisis unprecedented in modern American political history: the President is deploying the military domestically, with the very openly stated purpose not just of quelling civil unrest but violently subjugating his political opponents. It’s a significant authoritarian escalation, and the President has made it clear that he’s going to run the same playbook across the country. But there’s a big lingering question: is it all just a distraction? Many elected Democrats seem to think so. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claims Trump is “attempting to distract from his many failures.” Senator Ed Markey said he’s trying to distract the public from the budget fight. Senator Alex Padilla said the same thing. So did Rep. Robert Garcia, a California congressman. Even California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is at the forefront of the political fight in Los Angeles, has adopted the ���distraction” language. It’s not limited to politicians, either. Jon Stewart said that the ICE raids that sparked protest in Los Angeles were a distraction from the Elon/Trump feud. Which is interesting, because just a few days prior several Democrats were arguing that the Elon/Trump feud was itself a distraction.

The Politics of Eternal Distraction

[badshah-cornelius]

New York 🤝 California

Being stuck with the absolute worst fucking scumbags in charge of the Democratic Party

Shut the fucking government down, you spineless bastards.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

"As far as I’m concerned, ‘liberal’ is the most meaningless word in the dictionary. History has shown me that as long as some white middle-class people can live high on the hog, take vacations to Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white skin privilege, then they are ‘liberal’. But when times get hard and money gets tight, they pull off that liberal mask and you think you’re talking to Adolf Hitler. They feel sorry for the so-called underprivileged just as long as they can maintain their own privileges." - Assata Shakur

[iriscasefiles]

Dwajjhah Ferin! Episode 3.01 is live!

You can listen here, or most places where you find podcasts. You can back us here for cool perks, including early episode listening.

Next episode comes out Thursday, June 26th.

Summary: Getting (some of) the band back together

Note: Please listen to mini episode 3.00.5 first, if you haven't yet.

Transcript: Available here.

Be advised this episode contains discussion of war, discussion of death, and a depiction of a residential area being bombed by a government.

This episode features:

Rae Tay as Juniper Liu

Sharafina Teh as Voice

William Mericle as Chuck Weathers

Julia Morizawa as Piper Tanaka

Lucille Valentine as Kestrel Colvin

Rukhmani K. Desai as Sana Tripathi

Ishani Kanetkar as Arkady Patel

Ella Whomersley as ELLA

Vrai Kaiser as Thasia

Cindy Chu as Violet Liu

Jackie Andrews as RJ McCabe

Jamie Price as Brian Jeeter

Bri LeFever as Krejjh

Nate Dufort as Max Gavins

Rain Corbyn as Swarnsh

Chris Choi as Jin Seon Park

Aaron Catano-Saez as Julio

Written by Jessica Best

Directed by Lauren Grace Thompson

Production Coordinator Eleanor Hyde

Sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner

Opening credits music is “Fear for the Storm,” written by Jessica Best and S.E. Winters and performed by Chiron Star, with Erin Bauman on vocals and harmonies arranged by Jamie Price. The closing credits music is “Rocket Science” by Amber Devereux of Tin Can Audio.