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[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the President & U.S. Congress

End the Massacre, Protect the Innocent

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As a concerned American and one of your constituents, I am writing to express my PROFOUND HORROR and OUTRAGE regarding our complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. The toll is devastating: over 43,000 Palestinians, including 16,765 children, and 1,200 Israelis have lost their lives, with countless others wounded, held hostage, or missing. In Gaza, Israel's blockade has left over 2 million people, half of whom are children, without essentials—food, fuel, water, electricity, and medical supplies. This collective punishment violates international law and humanity itself. On

February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old U.S. Air Force airman, took his life in an act of protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. Dressed in uniform, he set himself on fire while shouting "Free Palestine," expressing his deep disillusionment and refusal to remain complicit in what he saw as genocide. Bushnell's final act was a plea for justice and a testament to the moral crisis that weighs on us all. His sacrifice underscores the urgent need to address the humanitarian crisis in Palestine and end U.S. complicity. We cannot continue to support actions that blatantly disregard human life and dignity.

As you prepare to vote on aid to Israel, I urge you to stand against violence and advocate for an immediate ceasefire, the lifting of Gaza’s blockade, and diplomacy that upholds the rights and lives of all people in the region. Americans stand with peace and human rights, not oppression and endless cycles of violence.

The time to act is now.

Source: Al Jazeera - Israel-Palestine War in Maps

▶ Created on November 12 by Ret. SGT Guild, A Concerned Indigenous American

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[teganorsara]

Ali Ahn as Eidra Park and Ato Essandoh as Stuart Heyford in

THE DIPLOMAT 1.06

[jewreallythinkthat]

Did you free Palestine by sending me abuse? Or did you just make the world a little bit more hateful huh?

[theworkshopmann]

The Diplomat Solution

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[damian-lil-babybat]

HC: Top 5 cases the Batboys take from Batman's Case Files

Being a member of the Bat Family, problems finds you, often times with catastrophic consequences. And more often than not, it is delegated by Batman. But still, any member is free to take on any cases from the Batcomputer's case files, sometimes for fun, often times coz it's their calling.

So here are the top five cases, the Batboys usually takes out from Batman's case files.

DAMIAN AL GHUL WAYNE • Anything al Ghul related cases • Cases involving underground assassin and mercenary groups • Cases involving the demonic, the occult and mystic arts • Animal abuse cases • Cases involving minor children, clones, and multiverse version of villains, anti-heroes, and superheroes (mainly of Batman and Superman)

TIMOTHY DRAKE • White collar crimes (as Wayne CEO) • Cold cases of Batman • Anything time-warping and dimensional or multiversal related cases • Anything Batman related cases  (notably those when Batman goes off-grid, etc.) • Cases involving teen children, clones, and multiverse version of villains, anti-heroes, and superheroes (mainly of Batman and Superman)

JASON TODD • Gotham related cases (notably those involving women and children) • Cases involving syndicated crimes (committed by crimelords, mafia bosses, etc.) • Cases involving unauthorized vigilantes and superhero activities in Gotham • Cases involving rehabilitation of ex-criminals and goons of Gotham • Anything Batman related cases (notably those when Batman is the problem, and when other Wayne kids are involved)

RICHARD GRAYSON • Bludhaven related cases • Cases involving systemic crimes (committed by the powerful and the influential of Gotham) • Anything inter-States, international, intergalactical related cases (notably those involving aliens, i.e. alien invasions, diplomatic relations, etc.) • Anything Batfam-member related cases (notably when any member is the problem...mostly Batman) • Cases involving adult children, clones, and multiverse version of villains, anti-heroes, and superheroes (mainly of Batman and Superman)

DUKE THOMAS • Gotham related day-time crimes • Meta-humans related cases • Cases involving 'Wayne Family Members' (notably saving them from would-be kidnappers and terrorists) • Cases involving safety and evacuation of civillians (notably when JLA-related threat comes to Gotham) • Cases when Gotham faces another apocalyptic threat (notably those when the 'Wayne Family Members' are involved)

[cowboyinternist]

tamika has rlly been pissing me off lately. like i GET IT ? i feel like whatever they’re doing with her will be more satisfying once it’s done unfolding? but it’s irritating in the moment nonetheless

[lostsneeze]

"All you have to do, little one, is wish with all your might that the spirit would find your home as repellant as you find it." That's what the Witcher had told the frightened young girl, promising that if she could do that when the ghost next appeared, it would stop haunting her and her family at last. He had spoken the words with such confidence that she didn't doubt him, but still she shook with terror in her bed as she saw the phantom creep out from behind her closet door, even with the Witcher standing between them with his amulet held up triumphantly in the moonlight, tracing some mysterious shape in the air.

The ghost was not at all frightening at first glance, in face she was a quite beautiful woman despite her unnatural paleness and somewhat sunken eyes, just as she'd heard her great-grandmother had been in life. But upon sight of her extended, double-jointed right arm ending in a claw of overly long fingers, her malevolence became unmistakable. Still, the young girl believed in the Witcher, and she held on to the wish as he'd instructed, even as that vicious claw began to reach forward to close around his heart...

"AAAH'TSCHIIIII!"

It was not a sound the girl would ever have expected hearing from such an imposing, otherworldly figure, and before she recognized it for what it was she panicked at the sudden, malevolent cry. But as it continued, she realized the bizarre truth: the spirit was sneezing.

"Haaah'atschiii! Haxschiii! WhaHaatschii! Hhhat'tshiii! Wh-what-AAXTSCHII!"

"It's a curse, my lady. Good work, little one." The Witcher nodded back at her as she sat perplexed in her bed. "I thought it up with the help of a witch I know around here who owed me a favor. Didn't think it would work exactly like this, though."

He walked around the ghost with the air of a sculptor admiring a recently finished work, taking stock of each detail. The ghost made a limp effort to swipe at him as he did so, but she was so wracked by the relentless sneezing fit that had overtaken her that she could barely even get her claw in the air.

"Obviously, you've become extremely allergic to this girl's 'home.' Here in her room the reaction is at it's strongest; I'd guess it gets less severe the further away from the house you get. Though since I have to imagine she still considers this town a part of her 'home,' I imagine even the outskirts would be near enough to tickle your nose plenty fiercely."

"Atschii Atschiishhii AAATSHIII! Ha'XSCHII ATSHHXX-ATCHXXX-TSHXXII! HAAH'TSHXII HHHAXTSHIII!" The ghost writhed in the center of the room. She'd now been sneezing non-stop for long enough that if she were an ordinary person, she'd be in genuine danger of suffocating. But as a ravening specter of the restless damned, she neither required oxygen nor even possessed lungs in any meaningful sense. The magic allergy attack could reach literally inhuman proportions in her phantasmal body.

"Of course, if you want to continue your haunting in this state, or from very very far away, there's nothing to stop you," the Witcher continued dryly in a tone that almost suggested he was becoming bored, "Or alternatively, you could just give up your grudge against your prettier, younger, living descendants and move on to the afterlife. I know which one I'd pick, given how uncomfortable that looks," he actually reached out and poked a finger right through the translucent, flaring nostrils of the specter's rather elegant pointed nose as he drove his point, "But it's your call. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be trying to get some rest."

The Witcher knelt down on the pillow he'd requested in the girl's room, and despite the cacophony of sneezes from the furious and spasming ghost hovering over him, entered a still meditative trance almost instantly. "TSHXX-HATCHTSHII!ATSHXII!TSHII!HAAXTCHII!TTXTCHII!HAAAAH'XXTSHIII!"

After a desperate series of additional sneezes, the ghost finally melted away into the darkness with one particularly pained final blast. The young girl looked at her room in near-disbelief, shocked at the absurdly weird exchange that had just taken place. There wasn't really anything for her to do about it, though, except lie back in her bed and try to get some sleep herself.

[pinkieroy]

Brazilian mainstream media is driving me insane today

[dreamedfyre-a]

thinking about aemond killing luke on purpose and alicent and otto being livid and aegon throwing him a feast and siding with his brother publicly even though it is effectively ending the tense cold war sort of stage to outright open military conflict

and thinking about how helaena fits in this. she's not ignorant of what this means, and she definitely doesn't see it as something to be celebrated. maybe death couldn't be avoided, but celebrating it with a feast is distasteful in her opinion, and it'd certainly be seen as offensive, as well as deliberate provocation. if aemond's actions started it, aegon's ensure there's no way back.

at the same time i think she understands both why aemond would do it and why aegon would make a grand gesture to support him, and she wouldn't fault either. her loyalty to her family is unbreakable (one of her greatest flaws; she's more than willing to overlook any wrongdoing by their hands), and when her family is split on their stance, she leans towards her brothers more so than her mother. and if otto is on one side more often than not she'd rather be on the opposite side ngl

all of this to say that whether aemond regrets it or not doesn't make a difference, because she'll stand with him even if there's blood on his hands. and that even if aegon's celebration is distasteful, it is a display of loyalty too, and uncomfortable as she personally may be, none of it would be voiced or manifested, and she would stand with him too.

the idea they can only rely on each other might be a little too ingrained in all of them (especially after the night aemond lost his eye), and i think it certainly plays a part to some extent. there is no one else. they stand for each other no matter what or no one will. but i think there's a willing joining of hands too. she accepts and wants them as they are, even when that means flawed and violent and uncaring.

she may not raise her voice to condone what they do, but she won't shun them either - and any grievances that need be spoken (because i don't mean she isn't critical; only that ultimately she stands with them even when she disagrees) would be discussed in private. helaena might be snappy or passive-aggressive at times, but when it comes to serious matters like this, there would only be unity in the public eye. i'm sure aegon heard criticism for his feast, but she nevertheless attended and did her best to present herself as she ought to.

[snugglyporos]

// the fun thing about history is that it's so messy

so the US can be a horrible colonial power and also be one of the biggest forces of anti-colonialism in the world at the same time

like the mid-20th century is just the US having to deal with Britain and France and the Dutch trying to save their empires despite the fact that these are bad things

and then at the same time that it's trying to get them to stop that it's also setting up anti-commie states at any cost which leads to a mess

absolutely baffling foreign policy of 'anything but communism' which leads to somehow being both imperialist and anti-colonialist

only the US could be so baffling and against itself

[guerrilla-operator]

Regional Justice Center // Diplomatic Solution

[ikosburneraccount]

kai proposing to cinder after a year of dating but then them having a long engagement is basically kai admitting that he wanted to hold keep her close to him physically in order for their relationship to grow. he was NOT a fan of the long distance relationship, but also I would also die if I had to be separated from my girlfriend for a year after basically spending a month holding and kissing her senseless on her fugitive spaceship. but proposing is a crazy way of going about it like he couldn’t have asked her to be the permanent lunar ambassador to the eastern commonwealth or something 😭 so in that way she could have lengthy or permanent stays in the country that would allow their relationship to grow instead of like. just going straight to full on life long committed relationship? kai is incapable of acting of anything but extremes with this girl 

[ladystoneboobs]

got prequels on the brain lately, and i think i can explain padme in rots, even if it might not be exactly what lucas was thinking of. see, it's not just that she loves her husband and wants to believe there must be still be some good in him, it's also that she is now not just anakin's wife, but the mother of his child(ren) too. like, literally about to pop right as obi-wan/yoda have decided anakin needs to be killed. she doesn't feel she can stay on coruscant anymore as a senator under the emperor's reign, she was already doubting doing that job as a working mom. then she learns the jedi have all been deemed traitors and their order outlawed, while she's carrying offspring very likely to be highly force sensitive since the force itself is pretty much the paternal grandfather there. so, she herself is a potential political target as someone who opposed palpatine's war efforts from the beginning in a more public way than bail organa or mon mothma, and her child(ren) would also be targeted just for existing as potential jedi before ever really using the force against the empire. being a single mom to outlawed and untrained but very powerful l'il jedi while the both of you are being targeted and hunted down on the run/in exile without the skills really needed to protect any jedi child, that's just a no-go. her only anti-palps and anti-anakin alternatives would have to include never being a mother after giving birth, whether going into exile alone somewhere or wearing a mask and playing the long game like bail organa. (even if he still adopted leia as in otl, how much time could she really spend with her without drawing more suspicion from palps? how painful would it be to watch someone else raise your child while possibly never even knowing if your other child is ok?) in that sense, knowing how wanted that unplanned pregnancy was, is it any wonder that she chose to make a last attempt to save their family instead? to run away with her husband, who happened to be the only man strong and powerful enough to protect them all from the empire, the only man she could trust and wanted to trust, with the safety of their whole unsplit secret little family. so it is only after he refuses to run away with her, when he insists that he's only interested in using his new dark powers to protect her, and when he reveals that his only idea of defying palpatine is to replace him, making padme into a new dark empress, a dictator rather than the public servant she once thought she could be, only then that she starts feeling he may just be lost to her after all. but when you've gone so far together already, brushing off his first massacre, marrying him mere days later, and then truly tying yourself to him permanently through pregnancy, it's really too late to ever go back to your ol' "normal" life either.

[ilikedetectives]

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[bakrishna]