#elena roberts

[metamorphesque]

"to endure!"

vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth") robert lowell [How will the heart endure?] vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.] rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.] joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.] elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.] elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.] han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.] victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]

[odinsblog]

The Supreme Court fundamentally altered the way that our federal government functions on Friday, transferring an almost unimaginable amount of power from the executive branch to the federal judiciary. By a 6–3 vote, the conservative supermajority overruled Chevron v. NRDC, wiping out four decades of precedent that required unelected judges to defer to the expert judgment of federal agencies. The ruling is extraordinary in every way—a massive aggrandizement of judicial power based solely on the majority’s own irritation with existing limits on its authority. After Friday, virtually every decision an agency makes will be subject to a free-floating veto by federal judges with zero expertise or accountability to the people. All at once, SCOTUS has undermined Congress’ ability to enact effective legislation capable of addressing evolving problems and sabotaged the executive branch’s ability to apply those laws to the facts on the ground. It is one of the most far-reaching and disruptive rulings in the history of the court.

In Chevron, the court unanimously announced an important principle of law that governed the nation until Friday: When a federal statute is ambiguous, courts should defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of it. Why? Congress delegates countless important calls to agencies—directing the EPA, for instance, to limit harmful benzene emissions, rather than providing the precise formula to determine what level of benzene emissions is harmful to humans. Congress writes statutes broadly because it expects these agencies to respond to new facts and adjust their enforcement accordingly.

Crucially, these agencies are staffed with experts who have deep knowledge and experience in the area where Congress seeks to regulate. Such experts can understand and execute regulations more proficiently than federal judges, who are, at best, dilettantes in most fields of regulation. For example, an EPA scientist is unlikely to confuse nitrous oxide (laughing gas) with nitrogen oxide (a smog-causing emission), as Justice Neil Gorsuch did in a Thursday opinion blocking an EPA rule. Moreover, most agencies are staffed with political appointees whom the president can appoint and remove at will. That makes them far more accountable to the citizenry than federal judges, who are guaranteed life tenure no matter how badly they butcher the law.

Since 1984, federal courts have applied Chevron in about 18,000 decisions in every conceivable area of the law: energy policy, education, food and drug safety, labor, the environment, consumer protection, finance, health care, housing, law enforcement—the list is pretty much endless. It has become the background principle against which Congress enacts all legislation.

That all ends now.

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[ethanlaundrv]

girls get to a certain age realize that they are violet harmon 🍂☠️🖋️

[etsphynx]

i’m telling you, 00s ships is where real love is at!

[jasondohringnews]

Tortured Poets Mashups via @warnerbrostv

🖤🤍🩶

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[ethanlaundrv]

realistically could i pull tate langdon

included the side profile and everything

[contemplatingoutlander]

Jamelle Bouie does a good job of underscoring just how fed up Justice Elena Kagan is with the decisions coming from the right-wing justices on the court, and why she questions the constitutionality of Roberts' majority opinion in Biden v. Nebraska (the student loan forgiveness case). Here are some excerpts from Bouie's NY Times newsletter:

But I don’t want to discuss Roberts’s majority opinion [in Biden v. Nebraska] as much as I do Justice Elena Kagan’s dissent. Kagan wrote something unusual. She didn’t just challenge the chief justice’s reasoning, she questioned whether the court’s decision was even constitutional. “From the first page to the last, today’s opinion departs from the demands of judicial restraint,” Kagan wrote. “At the behest of a party that has suffered no injury, the majority decides a contested public policy issue properly belonging to the politically accountable branches and the people they represent.” She continued: “That is a major problem not just for governance, but for democracy too. Congress is of course a democratic institution; it responds, even if imperfectly, to the preferences of American voters. And agency officials, though not themselves elected, serve a President with the broadest of all political constituencies. But this Court? It is, by design, as detached as possible from the body politic. That is why the Court is supposed to stick to its business — to decide only cases and controversies, and to stay away from making this Nation’s policy about subjects like student-loan relief.” The court, Kagan concluded, “exercises authority it does not have. It violates the Constitution.” [...] Kagan’s dissent, in other words, is a call for accountability. For Congress, especially, to exercise its authority to discipline the court when it oversteps its bounds. Democrats may or may not get this particular message. But John Roberts heard it loud and clear. “It has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary,” he wrote in his opinion. “It is important that the public not be misled either. Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country.” For Roberts, the problem isn’t that the Supreme Court is overstepping its bounds, it’s that one of its justices has decided that she’s had enough. [emphasis added]

[chipkoy]

I decided to redesign my bbs, Elena and Robert❤️

[nika-neangel16]

•The best thing in our life is love

[citizenscreen]

"Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities,” the ABC Movie of the Week that debuted the Marcus Welby series, aired on March 26, 1969.

[gwydionmisha]

Justice Kagan calls for a way to enforce Supreme Court ethics code

[farizrz]

New year message from Arina (Theodora's Author via telegram)

The year 2023 is just around the corner.

I will not write long speeches: I will simply congratulate you from the Theodora team. We wish your loved ones to be near you, so that every day there would be a reason for a kind, sincere smile. We wish you health. We wish you love - real, open and pure.

We hug 🤍

[v-v-x-x]

It's so funny seeing you all get upset that your favorite actor is probably a trash person. Like I can't even with some of the posts I've read on here already trashing Maria Elena Rios. Like imagine getting that wet over some dick you'll never get to even see. He's not gonna fuck you I promise you that. But yeah continue writing your fanfictions about a character in a marvel movie that wasn't even good. Y'all scream feminism at the top of your lungs everyday on this app but get silent real quick when it's your favorite actor that's a creep.

[ethanlaundrv]

it’s finally their season 🍁😭☕️🍂

[my-plastic-life]

Continuing my tribute to the 15th anniversary of The Vampire Diaries. :D

When the series debuted in 2009, I wasn't really collecting dolls then, but with the release of Mattel's Twilight dolls around the same time, I looked TVD dolls up out of curiosity. The only ones I was able to find were the ones designed by Tonner. I loved them, even though they're larger than Barbie. They're about 15-17" tall, so kind of between 1/6 and 1/3 scale.

Of course, since the series was in its third season, finding the dolls was a challenge. The official Tonner site no longer had them, so I turned to eBay. Oh, they had them - but several were missing their clothes and the guys were missing their rings, etc. Somehow I was eventually able to find all three, at different times, and I had to buy the guys' outfits separately, but they were mine at last! I still have them, and they're still in their display case. I didn't want to remove them because A) they're delicate with the leather and rings, and B) they're more cumbersome than Barbie due to their larger size. But alas, I did have to remove the plastic case because the overhead light was reflecting off of it, so all you could see in the photos was a big glare. >.< But they survived the exposure for that long!

From left: Stefan Salvatore, Elena Gilbert, and Damon Salvatore:

I was lucky enough to find both brothers with their rings! Many have holes in their hands because the ring is missing:

There is also a second line of Tonner dolls from TVD. These feature the brothers from the 1800s, when they first became vampires. Katherine was also made, but I didn't get her because I'm not a fan of her lol. But I love the brothers! I didn't have to remove these from their case for photos, since they weren't in line with the light. Like I said, I don't want to move them around too much because they're delicate and they can also be top heavy. I did have to replace the stands they came with because they were just awful... those crotch cradle stands are the worst. They're now using large Kaiser stands. Love those!

I've come a long way with doll customization myself, so I may very well wind up making my own Barbie-size versions of these characters... not including Mini Me's other half LOL.

[chipkoy]

I was thinking of them!!💞