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wearyrains · 2 years ago

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The Campbell. Located on Vanderbilt Avenue in the Grand Central Terminal, these four walls have seen many a lost traveler through many a late night. It calls to people with its expensive cocktails and candlelight ambiance. The bartenders know better than to speak with their patrons. They make the drinks strong and serve them with a small knowing smile. It’s the kind of place where you can feel the souls of the dreams that died in the cesspool that is New York City. Where someone would come to drink one more drink, before tucking their tail between their legs and returning to whatever po’dunk town they call home.

Olivia likes it here. A place to pretend that she doesn’t call this sleazy city home either. A place where she can pretend she is escaping all of the violence and pain she knows exists around every corner. Tonight, escaping the rape tree they found hanging in an abandoned apartment in the Fulton Houses. This is what has become of the city now, returning to its former ugliness of pre-Giuliani. Back before he was a raving lunatic. Back when he took credit for cleaning up the city, but that wasn’t him. That was her and her fellow officers, back when being a cop meant something more. Now she looks at the kids around her, good people aren’t taking over the watch. She feels as if she’ll never be able to retire. How is supposed to turn her job over to a bunch of misogynist, who want to abuse their power and go around shooting people. Olivia is not an idiot, she knows that cops have always had an abuse of power issue. But she also knows that, most people used to get into this line of work to actually help people. She doesn’t think that’s true anymore. Not after the summer of 2020. Not after watching too many of her brother officers kneel on necks. Maybe she should retire, she doesn’t want to be associated with them. She doesn’t want the world to think that she thinks George Floyd wasn’t murdered, because he was. And so were countless others, the names too numerous to remember clearly. She saw the videos of her brother officers deploying tear gas, and knocking over peaceful protesters. She saw reporters being arrested trying to cover their actions. She almost set her gun and shield on her desk and walked away right then. But something makes her stay. Maybe it’s her thirst for justice. Maybe it’s her fear of what happens to Manhattans rape survivors if she were to leave. Maybe it’s just that she doesn’t know how to do anything else. So she stands watch, and tries to change the culture of policing from the inside, as if it’s not alienating her from the rest of the good ole boys. She’s usually alone, when she’s in here this late, but not tonight. Tonight at three am, there’s her and a blonde. A blonde sitting at the end of the bar, nursing a whiskey. A blonde that she recognizes as America’s last great hope of 2020. Olivia walks to the opposite end of the bar and orders a bourbon, her drink of choice on nights like tonight.

Elizabeth has always liked this bar. She first came here when she was eighteen, taking her final train home from New York State. It made her feel grown up. Even though she wasn’t, even though she was only graduating person form Houghton to have to get home by themselves. She didn’t feel alone in here. Like Piano Man, every shares a drink called loneliness in this place. Elizabeth didn’t let Henry come with her today. For a reason she cannot place she’s ashamed of the award that sitting on the bar. The 2022 Human Rights Prize given to her by the UN. She doesn’t deserve it. It’s not the only award she’s gotten in this vein. Her early public career, starting when she left the CIA was rife with articles in newspapers across the country obliterating the Human Rights abuses being committed in the name of anti-terror. She’s slammed the far right for as long as she can remember. But somehow it was never enough. She watching her country fall to the modern Nazis. It sickens her, and she can’t fix it. She won popular vote, and she thinks about that a lot. She used to understand the Electoral College, but not anymore. After all it supposedly was invented to keep people like Owen Callister out of office. And now every morning when she reads the news, she wishes she had just won Arizona. That’s all she needed. She thought she had it clenched, with it being Morejon’s home state. Mike did too, it’s why they didn’t spend enough time there. But maybe she was never going to win, because the south was never going to give a woman that job. No one’s ever said as much to her, but she knows it to be true. She grew up there. People forget that about her, but she’s a daughter of the American South. She’s winning an award today for her work in human rights advancements in Manufacturing in Europe and Asia, as her own country removes books from classrooms. As her own country is passing laws to make child labor easier. As her own country is starting a witch hunt to murder trans people. No she didn’t deserve this award. She didn’t want to go accept it, she tried to send Mike to do it on her behalf. But Henry convinced her to. He thought she needed to be reminded that she has done good work. That not winning her election doesn’t mean she wasn’t good enough. But she wasn’t good enough. And this country that she was once willing to lay her life down for is no longer the same place. Or maybe, it was always bad, and she was too naive, or brainwashed to realize it.

Addison has never been in here before. But getting off the train, not quite ready to make her way to her hotel she saw it. It’s like it called to her. Come be angry here, it’s a good place for it. So she walks in, sharing the bar with two others who look as defeated as she feels. She’s exhausted. She’s spent the last six months constantly traveling. Testifying before state congresses and local town halls. Explaining why abortion care is a human right. Explaining why it’s important. Explaining to men, who aren’t actually going to listen to her, how it saves lives. It’s been for naught, their god has spoken, or they have spoken and chosen to blame their god. In every place she’s stopped, she trained other doctors on the lifesaving procedure that is the dilation and curettage. She’s listened to other OBGYNs cry to her about losing their patients to preventable and treatable conditions. But the men making these laws don’t actually care about the women who are dying. No matter how many times she says the phase that if mom dies, so the fetus. The baby, she makes sure to appeal to them in the way they want. Because ninety-nine percent of all surgical abortions she’s preformed have been on grieving mothers. Mothers who sobbed their way through the procedure as she removed their non-viable fetus. Mothers who had painted nurseys and picked out names. And the other one percent, the woman who didn’t know they were pregnant until late in the game. Who agonized over the decision. She wonders if the men know that, that once the test has two lines, every decision you make decision you make changes the course of your life. Addison knows this, she and Mark would have a teenager now, but she wasn’t ready to give up her marriage. But she doesn’t regret it, it lead her to where she is. She has her beautiful little boy Henry, and Jake. Jake the man of her dreams. But the men making the laws would call her a slut and a murderer. Would tell her that she didn’t deserve the happiness she has since found in motherhood. They want to rot in their hell.

They share the bar in silence for thirty minutes. At three-thirty the bar tender looks up.

“Last call ladies.” They each order one more drink, raising it in a silent toast to one another. Solidarity among them. The promise to go on and fight for at least one more day.

#law and order svu #madam secretary #greys antony #olivia benson #elizabeth mccord #american politics #leftism #abortion is healthcare #abortion is not a crime #black lives are human lives #black lives matter #acab #all cops are pigs #ron desantis can go fuck himself #i hate it here #america sucks #trans lives are human lives #go punch a nazi

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ryan-sometimes · 2 months ago

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Twitter is about to be banned in Brazil, why?

Have you seen the news about Twitter (now X, but I refuse to call it that) being banned in Brazil? Have you been wondering why that is? I’m Brazilian, and here I am to explain things to you.

You’ve likely noticed that since Elon Musk took over the social media network, hate speech on the platform has skyrocketed. White supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups have been using Twitter to disseminate racist propaganda and hate speech. And although the United States might not be doing anything about this, other countries are not so indulgent. Brazil being one of them.

Racism and incitement of hate (including speech) are crimes in Brazil. So is political disinformation, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. Hate speech of any kind is a CRIME in Brazil.

The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered Elon Musk to do something about the political fake news and hate speech on his platform, and Elon responded by shutting down all offices in Brazil.

The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) then ordered Elon Musk to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, as NO BUSINESS can operate in the country without a legal representative that can be held responsible to crimes and answer to them in a court of law. The STF gave Elon 24 hours to appoint this legal representative, and now that the deadline has passed and Elon has not complied, it seems that Twitter will be shut down in Brazil.

TL;DR: Elon is salty that he’s not above Brazilian law.

#elon musk #twitter #x twitter #brazil #brasil #brazil news

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tvfangirladdict · 7 months ago

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Anytime someone complains about their ship being slow burn. 5 years, 10 years, 15 years. Don't fucking want to hear it. 25 years goddammit. 25 years and 10 of them were spent with only half the ship still present before the other half re-emerged, gave us hope, got so close....only to slowly let our hopes be crushed. They haven't seen each other in like a year now, wtf? We got an "I love you," but not really, and an "I can't right now" almost kiss. Like, stfu with your "It's been X years!" already🙄😒. Amateurs. 😂😂😂

When someone says that they understand your pain cus’ their ship broke up, but your ship hasn’t even made it to first base yet and it’s been 24.. years.. like, NO SHARON YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

#bensler #law and order svu #law and order organized crime #elliot stabler #olivia benson #slow burn #i will go down with this ship #svu #otp #don't talk to me about slow burns #you don't know what a slow burn is smh #i love then and i hate them and can they just kiss already please???????#25 years goddammit

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newreputations · 1 year ago

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Crime getting crazy in my city. Like it used to be just gangsters shooting each other over drugs or turf, but now pretty much everyday the local fb page is security camera screenshots of ppl breaking into ppls vehicles and either ransacking the vehicle or stealing the whole thing. Local stores are getting hit every week. Shits happening in broad daylight too, no fear because our police are a joke and just spend their day wasting our tax dollars speeding around in their giant suvs, and when they do decide to do anything they end up using excessive force and getting sued and the criminal gets off with a slap on the wrist because the cops abused them. The way it’s going here I almost wish we had laxer gun laws like Texas because if the police aren’t going to stop hard working citizens from losing what they worked hard to get then we may as well be able to protect our properties and lives ourselves.

#I hate vigilante justice but what do you do when there’s no regulated justice?#crime and punishment.#law and order

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robertreich · 2 months ago

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10 Worst Things About The Trump Presidency

Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia.

Let me jog your memory. Here are 10 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency — in no particular order.

#1. Trump fueled division and sparked a record uptick in hate crimes.

#2. Murder went way up under Trump. He presided over the largest ever single-year increase in homicides in 2020. A number of factors might have contributed to that, but a big one is…

#3. Gun sales broke records under Trump, who has bragged about how he “did nothing” to restrict guns as president in spite of…

#4. Under Trump, America suffered more than 1,700 mass shootings.

#5. Trump said there were "very fine people" among the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville.

I’m halfway to ten. If you think I’m missing something big, leave it in the comments.

#6. Trump allied himself with the Proud Boys, a violent hate group who helped orchestrate the Jan 6 Capitol attack.

#7. Trump’s not wrong when he says…

TRUMP: I got rid of Roe v. Wade.

It is entirely because of Trump’s judicial appointments that 1 in 3 American women of childbearing age now lives in states with abortion bans.

#8. One of Trump’s Supreme Court justices was Brett Kavanaugh, a man accused of sexual assault by multiple women.

#9. Trump’s White House interfered in the FBI’s investigation of Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assaults.

And now: #10. Trump has been convicted of committing 34 felonies while in office. The criminally false business filings he got convicted for in New York? All of them were committed while he was president.

I’m sorry, did I say the 10 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency? I meant 15.

#11. Trump’s failed pandemic response is estimated to have led to hundreds of thousands of needless deaths. By the time Trump left office, roughly 3,000 Americans were dying of covid every day. That’s a 9/11-scale mass casualty event every single day. How did Trump screw up so badly?

#12. Trump’s White House discarded the pandemic response playbook that had been assembled by the Obama administration.

#13. Trump disbanded the National Security Council’s pandemic response team.

#14. Trump repeatedly lied about the danger of covid, saying it was no worse than the flu or that it would go away on its own.

But behind closed doors, Trump admitted he knew covid was deadly.

#15. Trump promoted fake covid cures like hydroxychloroquine and even injecting people with disinfectants.

After Trump’s “disinfectant” remarks, poison control centers received a spike in emergency calls.

That’s fifteen things. Should I keep going? Ok, I’ll keep going. The 20 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency.

#16. Trump presided over a net loss of 2.9 million American jobs — the worst recorded jobs numbers of any U.S. president in history.

#17. Trump profited off the presidency, making an estimated $160 million from foreign countries while he was president.

#18. Trump also billed the Secret Service over $1 million for the privilege of staying at his golf clubs and other properties while they protected him. That’s your money!

#19. Trump caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history when he didn’t get funding for his border wall, which he said Mexico was going to pay for.

#20. Under Trump, the national debt increased by about 40% — more than in any other four-year presidential term — largely because of his tax cuts for the rich and big corporations.

You didn’t really think I was stopping at 20, did you? We’re going to 25 —

#21. Trump separated more than 5,000 children from their parents at the border, with no plan to ever reunite them, putting babies in cages.

#22. The Muslim Ban. Yes, Trump really did try to ban Muslims from entering the country.

#23. Trump sparked international outrage by moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem while closing the U.S. mission to Palestine.

#24. Trump tasked his son-in-law Jared Kushner with drafting a potential Middle East “peace plan” with zero Palestinian input.

#25. And finally, Trump recognized Israel’s occupation of the Goh-lahn Heights, which is considered illegal under international law.

So there you have it, folks: The 25 Worst — Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Did I mention the impeachments? We’ve got to do the impeachments. Let’s go to 30.

#26. Trump broke the law by trying to withhold nearly $400 million of U.S. aid for Ukraine in an effort to extort a personal political favor from Ukraine’s Pres. Zelensky. Trump wanted Zelensky to interfere in the 2020 election by announcing an investigation into the Bidens. Delaying this aid to Ukraine weakened Ukraine and strengthened Russia.

#27. Trump personally attacked and ruined the careers of everyone who stood in the way of his illegal Ukraine scheme, including Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman.

#28. To cover up the scheme, Trump ordered the White House and State Department to defy congressional subpoenas.

#29. For these reasons, on December 18, 2019, Trump became the third U.S. president to be impeached. He was charged with Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress.

#30. Even while he was being investigated for trying to get Ukraine to interfere in the U.S. election, Trump publicly called for China to interfere in the election.

So those are the 30 Worst Things —

I’ll go to 35.

#31. Long before Election Day, Trump started making false claims that the election would be rigged.

#32. After losing, Trump falsely claimed the election was stolen, even though his own inner circle, including his campaign manager, White House lawyers, and his own Justice Department and attorney general told him it was not.

#33. Trump kept telling his Big Lie even after more than 60 legal challenges to the election were struck down in court, many by Trump-appointed judges.

#34. Trump ordered the Department of Justice to falsely claim that the election “was corrupt.”

#35. Trump and his allies used threats to pressure state leaders in Arizona and Georgia to falsify the election results.

We may go to 40.

#36. When none of the previous schemes worked, Trump and his allies produced fake electoral votes cast by fake electors in multiple swing states. His former White House chief of staff and Rudy Giuliani are among the many members of his inner circle who have been criminally indicted for this scheme.

#37. Trump tried to bully Vice President Pence into obstructing the certification of the election.

#38. Trump invited a mob to the Capitol on Jan 6 with his “be there, will be wild” tweet.

#39. Sworn testimony alleges that when Trump was warned that members of the crowd were carrying deadly weapons, he ordered security metal detectors to be taken down.

#40. Knowing the crowd had deadly weapons, he ordered them to go to the Capitol and…

TRUMP: …fight like hell.

#41 — Yes, yes, I know, bear with me.

Trump betrayed his oath to defend the nation by doing nothing to stop the Jan 6 violence. Instead, according to witness testimony, he sat and watched TV for hours.

#42. On January 13, 2021, Trump became the only president ever to be impeached twice. This time he was charged with incitement of insurrection. It was a bipartisan vote.

#43. The majority of senators — 57 out of 100 — voted to convict Trump, including 7 Republican senators.

So that’s the two impeachments and the Big Lie, but wait, we haven’t dealt with Russia, right? So we’re going to 50.

#44. In a likely obstruction of justice, Trump pressured then FBI Director James Comey to stop the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn. This was documented in the Mueller report.

#45. When Comey didn’t bend to Trump’s will, Trump fired him.

#46. Trump tried to shut down the Mueller investigation by ordering White House Counsel Don McGann to fire Mueller. McGann refused because that would be criminal obstruction of justice.

#47. When news got out that Trump tried to fire Mueller, Trump repeatedly told McGann to lie — to Mueller, to press, to public — and even create a false document to conceal Trump’s attempt to fire Mueller.

#48. Trump ordered his staff not to turn over emails showing Don Jr. had set up a meeting at Trump Tower before the 2016 election with representatives of the Russian government.

#49. Trump convinced Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump’s plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, and Cohen served prison time for lying to Congress.

#50. Trump was not charged for criminal obstruction of justice because it’s the Justice Department’s policy not to indict a sitting president, but more than a thousand former federal prosecutors who served under both Republicans and Democrats, signed a letter declaring there was more than enough evidence to prosecute Trump.

So those are the 50 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency. Now I could go on…

And I will! The 75 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency.

#51. Trump said he’d hire only the best people, but…

His campaign chair was convicted of multiple crimes.

So was one of his closest associates.

His deputy campaign chair pleaded guilty to crimes.

So did his personal lawyer

His National Security Adviser

The Chief Financial Officer of his business

A campaign foreign policy adviser

And one of his campaign fundraisers.

They all committed crimes, and Trump pardoned most of them.

#52. Trump said he’d drain the Washington swamp. But he appointed more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls to his administration than any administration in history

#53. Trump intervened to get his son-in-law, Jared Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.

#54. Trump hosted a Russian Foreign Minister to the Oval Office, where Trump revealed top-secret intelligence.

Oh, and Trump’s economic policies!

#55 Trump promised that the average American family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of his tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. How’d that work out? Did you get a $4,000 raise? Of course not! Nobody did!

#56. Trump vowed to protect American jobs, but offshoring increased and manufacturing fell.

#57. Trump said he would fix America’s infrastructure, but it never happened. He announced so many failed “infrastructure weeks” they became a running joke.

#58. Trump said he would be “the voice” of American workers, but he filled the National Labor Relations Board with anti-union flacks who made it harder for workers to unionize.

#59. Trump’s Labor Department made it easier for bosses to get out of paying workers overtime, which cheated 8 million workers of extra pay.

#60. Trump repeatedly suggested he might serve more than two terms in violation of the Constitution — and continues to do so.

#61. Trump called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries.

#62. Trump tried to terminate DACA, which protects immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. Luckily this was struck down by the courts.

#63. Trump called climate change a “hoax.”

#64. Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement.

#65. Trump rolled back more than 100 environmental protections.

#66. Every budget Trump proposed included cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

#67. Trump tried (and failed) to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would have resulted in 20 million Americans losing insurance. And striking down the ACA’s protections for the roughly 130 million people with pre-existing conditions could have driven up their insurance premiums or led to a loss of coverage.

#68. Trump made it easier for employers to remove birth control coverage from insurance plans.

#69. By the end of Trump’s term, the number of people lacking health insurance had risen by 3 million.

#70. Trump lied. Constantly. He made 30,573 false or misleading claims while president — an average of 21 a day, according to Washington Post fact-checkers.

#71. Trump allegedly took hundreds of classified documents on his way out of the White House, reportedly including nuclear secrets, which he then left unsecured in various parts of Mar-a-Lago, including a bathroom. He was even caught on tape showing them off to people.

#72. Trump seriously discussed the idea of nuking a hurricane.

#73. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Trump delayed $20 billion of aid and allowed Puerto Rico to be without power for 181 days.

#74. Trump suggested withholding federal aid for California wildfire recovery and said the solution was to “clean” the “floors” of the forest.

#75. Trump pulled out of the Iran deal, placing Iran on a path to developing nuclear weapons.

Honestly, there’s so much more, from exchanging “love letters” with North Korea’s brutal dictator to publicly denigrating a Gold Star military widow and making her cry, to the way he attacked journalists, to late night tweet binges.

Look, I can understand why a lot of people want to block all of this out of their memories. But we cannot afford to forget just how terrible Trump’s time in the White House was for this nation.

And we sure as hell can’t afford to put him back there.

#youtube #Donald Trump #Video #Videos #Election

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beauty-funny-trippy · 12 days ago

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Reasons why we know there's something wrong with Grandpa:

• believes immigrants are eating their neighbors pets because he heard someone say it on TV (without any evidence) • thinks injecting disinfectant into our veins might be a good idea. (It's definitely not, don't try it.) • claims America's F35 fighter jet is completely invisible, even if you're right next to it (like Wonder Woman's plane)

• praises white supremacists and KKK members who were chanting antisemitic hate speech, calling them "very fine people" • focuses on imaginary issues like preventing children from changing gender while at school, but ignores real problems like school shootings • thought it was a good idea to give away our desperately needed Covid test machines to our adversary ("Grandpa, what have you done?" — he can't be left alone for a minute) • decided to believe Putin's lies, but dismiss findings from America's intelligence agencies • claims America had airplanes during the Revolutionary War

• believes in the Nazi ideology that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," and says some migrants are actually subhuman "animals" • insisted that the U.S. would have fewer coronavirus cases if it conducted less testing (yes, a U.S. president in charge of controlling the crisis, actually said something this inept, repeatedly) • due to his incompetence and lies during the Covid crisis, the U.S. had one of the highest rates of Covid deaths in the world • thinks windmills cause cancer and kill whales • speaks endlessly about his concerns re: dying by electrocution from a boat battery or being eaten by a shark

• thinks he's above the law and, as president, should be able to commit as many crimes as he wants • is a billionaire who whines about how badly he's been treated, then he's chauffeured to his private jet • likes to discuss Arnold Palmer's penis • after NINE years of repeatedly promising to unveil his Healthcare Plan "very soon," he admits he still has no real plan —only "concepts of a plan" • has a bizarre attraction to the fictional cannibal and serial killer, Hannibal Lector (why? no one knows —and everyone's afraid to ask)

• advocates dangerous plots, like using the military against Americans who disagree with him, or using the DOJ to arrest them, or just telling people to "beat the crap out of them" and he'll pay their legal fees • thinks having a national day of violence is a good idea (we should never have let Grandpa watch "The Purge") • wants to be the "law and order president," yet this 34 time convicted felon incites people to riot and to commit criminal acts of violence • unable to take the loss of an election like a man, he had a temper tantrum like a toddler, that culminated in a treasonous insurrection

⠀This guy is so delusional, he claims he's a genius because he often speaks incoherently in something he calls "the Weave." Here are two examples: • "How disgusted were all when we see all of us are when we see three days ago when we viewed their parade." Asheboro, NC, 8/21/24 • When asked, "What specific legislation will you commit to, to make child care affordable?" He responded, “Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, you know; I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka, who was so impactful on that issue. ...But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because the childcare is childcare, couldn’t, you know, there’s something you have to have it, in this country you have to have it.” New York, NY, 9/5/24 ⠀If this was anybody else's Grandpa, the family would be having discussions about who's going to go with Grandpa to the doctor to find out what's wrong with him, and who's going to be in charge of finding him a nice convalescent home to live in. ⠀My suggestion is that it might be a good idea to elect a president who has no cognitive impairment and can tell the difference between reality and delusions. Personally, I think that's a rather important quality in a president.

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