#kevin power

[swartzmark]

"Writers of autofiction did what Hunter S Thompson, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe did, except that instead of embedding themselves journalistically inside large social or political occasions, the Autofictioneers embedded themselves in themselves." --Kevin Power in the Dublin Review of Books

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[sunflowerius]

one of my favorite things about aftg is that in any given conversation not related to about, like, three things (exy, Andrew, and the mafia) Neil is just. entirely checked out. he was there for the first sentence of that conversation and immediately clocked out once he realized there would be no Stick Ball Talk.

[castleclericz]

kevin “queen of homoerotic friendships” day

[luckyshinyhunter]

🟡⚪🟣⚫🏳️‍🌈⭐Loving the shapeshifter representation we be getting lately!🟡⚪🟣⚫⭐🏳️‍🌈

[alwaysbewoke]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Andrew Prokop at Vox:

Former President Donald Trump has lately been trying to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming it was cooked up by the “severe right” and that he doesn’t know anything about it. But it turns out the severe right is coming from inside the house. Kevin Roberts, the self-proclaimed “head” of Project 2025, has a book coming out in September — and the book’s foreword is written by Trump’s vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance, who lavishly praises its ideas. “Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” Vance writes, according to the book’s Amazon page. “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”

What ideas? Like Vance, Roberts is obsessed with the idea that the left controls major American institutions — he lists Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education and even the Boy Scouts of America. The book argues that “conservatives need to burn down” these institutions if “we’re to preserve the American way of life.” (Vox has requested a copy of the book, but has not yet received one at the time of this writing.) Obviously, this poses a problem for Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the virally unpopular Project 2025 and its lengthy agenda for what he should do if he wins, which includes proposals to restrict abortion access and centralize executive power in the presidency.

And it’s one more indication that Trump’s pick of Vance might be politically problematic for him. Vance has a fascination with provocative and extreme far-right thinkers, and a history of praising their ideas. He is not a running mate tailored to win over swing voters who are concerned Trump might be too extreme — quite the opposite. The book was written and announced before Vance was chosen as Trump’s running mate. But there’s some indication that people involved had some late second thoughts about it. It was originally announced as “Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save America,” with a cover image showing a match over the word “Washington.”

More recently, though, the subtitle has been changed to “Taking Back Washington to Save America,” and the match has vanished from the cover.

[...]

Vance agrees quite a bit with Project 2025’s most extreme ideas

Project 2025 contains a multitude of proposals in its 922-page plan, not all of which J.D. Vance necessarily supports. But he’s on record backing ideas similar to those put forth in two of Project 2025’s most controversial issue areas. The first is abortion. Project 2025 lays out a sweeping agenda by which the next president could use federal power to prevent abortions, including using an old law called the Comstock Act to prosecute people who mail abortion pills, and working to prevent women from abortion-banning states from traveling out of state to get abortions.

Vance is on record supporting these ideas. Last year, he signed a letter demanding that the Justice Department prosecute physicians and pharmacists “who break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.” In 2022, he said he was “sympathetic” to the idea that the federal government should stop efforts to help women traveling out of their states to get abortions. That year, he also said: “I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.” At other points, Vance has struck a different tone. ““We have to accept that people do not want blanket abortion bans,” he said last December. And this month he said he supported a Supreme Court decision that allowed the abortion bill mifepristone to remain available. Here, Vance is trying to align with Trump, who — fearing political blowback — argues he merely wants abortion to be a state issue, despite his long alliance with the religious right. But Vance’s record implies his true agenda might be otherwise.

The second controversial area where Vance is sympatico with Project 2025 is centralizing presidential power over the executive branch. The project lays out various proposals to rein in what conservatives view as an out-of-control “deep state” bureaucracy — mainly, by firing far more career civil servants and installing far more political appointees throughout the government. Vance, as I wrote last week, has backed a maximalist version of this agenda. In 2021, Vance said that in Trump’s second term, Trump should “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” The courts would try to stop this, Vance continued, and Trump should then “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

While Donald Trump is doing his darndest to supposedly run away from the highly unpopular Project 2025, his ticketmate J.D. Vance is making that proposition difficult to impossible.

See Also:

HuffPost: There’s Another Link Between Trump’s Campaign And Project 2025

[formulanni]

KMag as the Ace of Swords:

This card symbolizes the potential for immense power and success. But remember that the sword is double-edged - depending on who wields it, its power can be used to shelter and protect or to mercilessly strike down for cold and ruthless self-gain.

The Ace of Swords is a card of mental clarity, breakthroughs, and success. It reminds us of the power of our intellect and the importance of clear thinking and effective communication.

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[charles-leclerc-official]

I wholeheartedly agree, the Haasbands earned some recognition of their work today

[silksufjan]

i fear the universe where nora sakavic just makes every popular non canon queer ship canon. jerejean? sure. renee and allison? go for it. kevin, aaron & kate? fuck it sure yeah i guess we’re doing this now

[crabjest]

Welcome to Night Vale has been living in my head for basically my entire life (elementary school. Explodes.) anyways I relapsed for the 50th time, heres what the major freaks look like in my brain

Also episode 51 doodle because what the fuck. And Cecil on my microbiology

[triplefrontierbabe]

Insane Motorsport text posts Pt 2

part one | part three

Check out my Masterlist

[sauce-scootart]

I have Bitterpopcorn madness. Bitterpopcorn madness is I. Fuck- idk…

[variansgoggles]

Outsiders Musical characters and their real names also including actors names :)

Greasers

Ponyboy Curtis - Brody Grant

Johnny Cade - Sky Lakota-Lynch

Sodapop Curtis - Jason Schmidt

Darrel Curtis - Brent Comer

Dally (Dallas) Winston - Joshua Boone

Two-Bit (Keith) Matthews - Daryl Tofa

Ace Evans(?)- Tilly Evans Krueger

Steve Randle - Renni Anthony Magee

Socs

Bob (Robert) Sheldon - Kevin William Paul

Cherry (Sherri) Valance - Emma Pittman

Paul Holden - Dan Berry

Marcia Meyrink - SarahGrace Mariani

Beverly Jitney-Bush - Melody Rose

Clark (Brill) Brillstein - Barton Cowperthwaite

Chet Baker - RJ Higton

Trip (Terrence Dip) - Sean Harrison Jones (formerly Kevin Csolak)

Swings/Alts/2nd track characters

Greasers

Ponyboy - Trevor Wayne, Josh Strobl

Johnny Cade - Josh Strobl, Daryl Tofa

Dallas Winston - Daryl Tofa, Wonza Johnson

Steve - Jordan Chin, Andre Malcolm, Ryo Kamibayashi

Sodapop - Victor Carillo Tracey, Dan Berry

Two-Bit - Jordan Chin, Renni Anthony Magee, Henry Julian Gendron

Darrel Curtis - Victor Tracey, Dan Berry

Ace - Milena J. Comeau, Anna Bermudez

Socs

Bob/Cop - RJ Higton, Sean Harrison Jones, Barton Cowperthwaite

Paul - Victor Carillo Tracey, Ryo Kamibayashi, Sean Harrison Jones (?)

Cherry - Maggie Kuntz, Melody Rose, SarahGrace Mariani

Marcia - Melody Rose, Maggie Kuntz, Anna Bermudez

Beverly - Maggie Kuntz, Milena J. Comeau, Anna Bermudez

Chet - Henry Julian Gendron

Trip - Victor Carillo Tracey, Henry Julian Gendron

Brill - Henry Julian Gendron, Ryo Kamibayashi

Only Socs for the Rumble

Melvin - Melody Rose

Sergei - SarahGrace Mariani

Rogelio - Anna Bermudez

Glen - Maggie Kuntz

Martin - Milena J. Comeau

If anyone has further information I will update this thank youuu!! And if y’all have any Soc boy headcanons I will love you forever (I love Trip/Sean sm yet there’s nothing on him anywhere 😭 fun fact he was Action in 2021 west side story 🤭)

[kentjohnson91]

[lemonlurkrr]

Hey long time no prev hero au