#no it didn't start on oct 7

[beardedmrbean]

PITTSBURGH — On the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community mourned the victims. Their politicians were busy mourning the Palestinians — and blaming Israel for the terrorist attack.

Rep. Summer Lee, Mayor Ed Gainey and Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato issued a joint Twitter statement saying they have “hearts big enough to grieve those killed one year ago and those massacred in the year since.”

“Our grief is compounded by the fact that it didn’t have to be this way,” they went on. “This violence did not start on October 7.”

Pittsburgh’s Jewish leaders read the statement loud and clear.

“This warped and deliberate weaponization of language can only be interpreted as a way to undermine the Israeli and Jewish victims of October 7,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh responded, adding the pols “place the blame on the victims of October 7: Israel and its people.”

“It displays a stunning lack of sensitivity that veers into antisemitic territory,” Rabbi Seth Adelson of Beth Shalom Synagogue told The Post. “I’m just baffled that they thought on this day that could have been received well.”

Adelson admitted his mind was elsewhere: His son Oryah Meidan had just deployed to northern Israel to fight Hezbollah in a war that began with another terrorist group on Israel’s southern border.

One year ago, Hamas terrorists murdered, raped, beheaded and kidnapped more than 1,400 people, including more than 40 Americans. Hamas is still holding 97 people hostage.

But Pittsburgh’s political leaders did not mention Hamas, nor “that Israel is fighting a just war for her survival,” Adelson said while gripping his guitar, which he had just played for an audience of more than 1,200 people.

He was one of a group of performers in a series of songs, prayers and stories to commemorate Oct 7. victims at a Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh event, which ended with a prayer for Israel, its national anthem, “Hatikvah,” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

“They seemed to be signaling to political allies, and those are not the majority of their Jewish constituents,” Adelson said of Pittsburgh’s pols.

In a letter shared with The Post, Rabbi Aaron Meyer of Temple Emanuel begged his elected officials “to reconsider and remove this hurtful, hateful statement.”

But others suggest Pittsburgh remove these leaders entirely.

“On one thing we can agree: we are looking for elected officials who find the courage to lead with empathy. We need leaders who can find empathy for Jewish and Israeli victims of terror,” the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh finished.

One of those elected officials, Lee, is up for reelection in November. Surviving a pro-Israel primary challenger, the Democrat is up against Republican James Hayes.

The Squad member pushed for a cease-fire just weeks after Oct. 7, when Hamas committed the deadliest attack against Jews since the Holocaust. She’s called for an arms embargo against Israel and accused the Jewish state of committing genocide. 

More than 40 of Pittsburgh’s Jewish leaders this spring denounced Lee for her anti-Israel rhetoric and taking money from people who celebrated the Oct. 7 attacks.

Though Jeff Finkelstein, Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh CEO, commended Democratic Sen. Bob Casey for his support of Israel on Oct. 7, Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick has tied Casey to Lee for not retracting his endorsement of the freshman congresswoman.

“I am definitely aware of people in the community who are considering voting Republican for the first time in their lives,” Adelson noted.

[irhabiya]

it is what it issssss

[potofsoup]

i love your fourth of july comics every year but this years feels extremely optimistic about biden’s abilities in the face of him letting roe get overturned and funding a gen*cide at worst or letting it happen at best by taking the bare minimum of regulatory action… i mean can he really be trusted at all anymore to do the right thing or act in line with the people’s demands? and how do we know the people behind project 2025 won’t just rig the election again to get in under false pretenses?

Hihi! Thank you for reading and enjoying my July 4th comics every year! I am in a non-US airport en route to a month-long trip in a place with sketchy internet, so sorry in advance for sloppiness in my response (and potentially going radio silent).

But:

I don't think he "let" Roe get overturned, since that was the Supreme Court's overwhelming conservative majority, which really started with Mitch McConnell refusing to approve Obama's appointee and forcing it into a 2016 election issue. The fact that Trump got to appoint 3 Supreme Court Justices is what got us here.

Re: Biden and the Israel/Hamas war ... on the one hand, there's definitely more that he could have done, but on the other hand, they are a whole other country over there. It's Hamas that initiated the Oct 7 attacks and took the hostages. It's Netanyahu and his right-wing government who decided to retaliate to such extreme extent. Biden can talk about how he would really like Netanyahu to stop fighting and step down, but at the end of the day that's not his call, any more than he can stop the Sudan fighting that is near-genocidal either.

So, to come to your question #1: "Can he really be trusted at all anymore to do the right thing or act in line with the people’s demands"?

For me, it's a resounding YES. Guyz, he has passed so much good domestic policies. My spouse works in green energy and the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act halved his anxiety and gave him legitimate hope. The tumblr post I linked to in my comic has links to many of the other great things that Biden has done. Tbh I voted for him in 2020 because "a moldy onion is still better than Trump", and I've been pleasantly surprised. Like how he tried to cancel student loans, the Supreme Court overturned it, and then he came back 6 months later with a different way to do it that didn't lead to a court challenge.

Is he perfect? Hell no. There's tons of stuff that I wish he did more about, or he went further on, but also he's just one guy heading one branch of government who is heading into an election year. (Just like FDR promising not joining WWII, while behind the scenes doing all the Lend-Lease Act stuff). And "the people" have lots of demands, many of them conflicting.

I'd also like to push at the unspoken part of your question... "Can he really be trusted to do the right thing..." compared to whom? Because right now the answer is "compared to Trump." And compared to Trump... I don't even trust Trump to respect the results of a legitimate election. Heck, he might just take his favorite state secrets, sell them to the highest bidder (or just show them off to someone for funzies), and then claim Presidential immunity. A decent Democrat who got stuff done vs someone who probably wants to pardon himself and all his friends and do Project 2025 stuff is not even on the same level. (Do I wish that there was a viable Democratic alternative to Biden? Sure! But who?) Heck, at this point -- imagine if it's Kamala Harris vs. Trump. Who would you vote for?

As for your question #2: "How do we know the people behind project 2025 won’t just rig the election again to get in under false pretenses?"

We don't. But also what can we do besides showing up to vote?

Actually, I need bullet points for this:

The 2022 midterm elections brought in fewer-than-expected election-deniers into crucial electoral offices at the state level, which means that hopefully most state electoral boards will continue to have integrity

Yes, voting is harder but at least we can still vote. So it's about getting out there and getting your vote counted. For some states, it involves waiting in 8 hour lines. For some states, it involves bringing 2 forms of ID. Document. Track. Make sure it's dropped off in a real ballot box and not a fake one. Don't believe messaging that the voting is happening on a different day or location, etc.

A 50.1% majority is easily challenged. A 55% majority, less so. Which means getting people out to vote.

The more people know about and think about the reality of a second Trump term (versus being disappointed by a Biden term), the more they will be motivated to vote against Trump.

Finally, let's be real here: I'm braced for a 2nd Trump term. That said:

I'm still going to go and vote for Biden, because the only way to prevent a 2nd Trump term is to vote.

A Trump term where either the House or Senate is controlled by the Democrats will be *very* different from a clean Republican sweep.

Even with a clean Republican sweep on the federal level, States have so much more power now, and voting the state level stuff will help shore up Democratic goals for the future. States get to draw voting districts however they want. States get to decide on abortion policies. If you live in a deep Red state, there still might be things to vote for that make it easier to live in now, and turn it purple a few elections down the line.

So at the end of the day, it's "Vote AND". Vote and keep living your best life. Vote and tell others about Project 2025. Vote and have hope. Even if Trump wins, at least you'll have voted against him. Vote and stay to build up a progressive wave for the next election.

[evilwickedme]

It's so clear to me that so many so called "anti Zionists" - especially the non Palestinian goyim - have no idea how the Israeli election system works, and how bibi remains in power, and why we had five elections in like, three years, despite elections supposedly being every four years - because he couldn't keep a government stable enough to stay in power. Bibi netanyahu is MASSIVELY unpopular, and his approval rate has tanked even more since the war started, even among likud voters, the people who vote for HIS party (although their approval rates ranked less than the rest of the population). He has an extreme right wing government because if he didn't cooperate with right wing extremists and haredim he straight up wouldn't have the majority he needs to be our prime minister in the first place. He's been on trial for corruption for years at this point, and tried to completely restructure the judicial system just to avoid prison - leading to nearly a full year of protests until Oct 7. Luckily it didn't end up passing.

If elections were held at any point in the last five months since this war started, not only would he not be PM, we'd straight up have a center-left government. My recent transformation into a Yair Golan stan account is a joke but also 100% real - according to polls from the last three months or so, if he does what he's campaigning to do, leading a combined avoda and meretz party, he'd get enough votes to have an actual influential left wing party in the government for the first time in decades. An unbelievable amount of Israelis are calling for bibi to resign, many of them not calling for it to happen after the war ends, but right now.

I am sourcing this information from polls conducted by channels 11 (kan), 12, and 13, as well as by the Israeli democracy foundation, all but one of our important news channels - channel 14, the last channel, is our equivalent of fox news, and despite their numbers often being extremely different due to what is in my opinion biased reporting and flawed methodology, even they at times have had to admit that gantz is currently leading in the polls.

(Disclaimer that I work for a company that provides subtitles for channel 13, but i do not directly work for channel 13. Channel 13 leans mostly center left, and employs several (self identified) Arab Israelis in front of the camera, including Lucy Aharish, who makes considerable effort to bring Palestinian and Bedouin perspectives to her show. It also employs at least one massive racist though.)

I write this post because I keep seeing an unsourced claim by goyim that there's a poll showing a high rate of approval - 88%! - of the destruction and/or deaths Israel and the IDF are causing in Gaza. I went down a rabbit hole and simply couldn't find a poll asking about approval of deaths or destruction, although maybe I was looking up the wrong keywords? As a result I have just... So many questions. Because with the information I have from trustworthy local news sources, from the news channels I mentioned above and papers such as yediot aharonot/ynet and Haaretz, it doesn't fit with current public opinion, including many recent protests for more efforts towards a ceasefire. So my questions are thus -

Who conducted this poll? Was it a think tank, a government agency, a paper, a news channel? If so, which one? Are they left leaning, right leaning? Was it conducted by an Israeli or foreign institution?

Who did they ask? Was it a sample of likud voters; all Israeli adults; did they include only Jewish Israelis or also Arab citizens (approx. 1.5 million out of our 8 million population), Bedouins, and other minorities?

When was the poll conducted? Was it in October, immediately after the Oct 7 massacre, before the death toll in Gaza grew? Was it conducted more recently?

What, exactly, did they ask? Did they ask about destruction in general, or about the death toll in particular? Did they ask about the attempts to rescue hostages with military means, or all military actions? Did they ask about the number of Hamas operatives dead, about their estimated ratio of Hamas to civilians, about the total deaths?

What was the size of the pool surveyed? Was it conducted on a few dozen, a few hundred, or a few thousand people?

Because without this information, that one, sole statistic is essentially useless. As Mark Twain said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Always look at the source and ask: who asked the questions, who got asked, and what the questions were.

More specific statistics and sources under the cut.

I did find one survey by the Israel democracy foundation that asked if the IDF should take the Gazan suffering into account - an entirely different question, although it did still have a horrific 89% Jewish Israelis and 14% Arab Israelis and Palestinian citizens who said they shouldn't. That said, the pool they were drawing from was not very large - 500 of the interviews were conducted in Hebrew, 100 were conducted in Arabic. Also, of the people who supposedly said that they shouldn't, a little more than half of both populations said they should "somewhat" take it into account - that is, they didn't say they shouldn't take it into account at all, just not make it their first priority. This survey was conducted mid December.

In another survey by the same source with a slight larger sample size (a little over 600 Jewish Israelis and a little over 150 Arab Israelis), an insanely low 15% still wanted Bibi to be the PM, with the only candidate who received more than 6.5% being the center candidate Benny Gantz, who historically has tried to cooperate with center and left parties, with a whopping 23% of the votes. The survey included 10 candidates, as well as five other non candidate options. 4% voted "just not Bibi", and an actually insane 30.5% voted they were undecided. Only a quarter of those surveyed believed Bibi would manage to maintain a coalition after the war, a number that includes more extreme right wing voters, and only the ultra Orthodox haredi population had a majority of people (60%) who believed he can. This survey was conducted in January.

The channel 13 news survey from early March - barely over a week ago! - covered more specifically which parties would manage to get into the government and how many seats they would get, as under a certain amount of votes you simply do not get seats. Not all seats get into a coalition. According to their poll, the amount of seats the likud would get is halved, from 32 to 17, while gantz's the state camp would grow from 12 to 39. While currently meretz gets 4 seats and haavodah do not get enough votes to get a seat at the table so to speak, a combined haavodah and meretz under Yair Golan gets 9 mandates. In total, the right wing only get 47 mandates, well short of the amount of mandates necessary to create a government.

Channel 12's corresponding poll from January shows 35 mandates for gantz, and bibi had 18 mandates. Channel 11, in the same month, gave gantz 33 mandates and bibi 20.

I also sources an English Jerusalem post article which reports on channel 14's polls; jpost is a right wing biased paper, and yet even they report 36 mandates for gantz and 18 for bibi as of February.

Sources

The Israel democracy institute: 1 (English), 2 (Hebrew), 3 (Hebrew)

Haaretz: 1 (English) (paywalled)

Channel 13: 1 (Hebrew)

Ma'ariv: 1 (Hebrew) (reporting on channel 12)

Podcast which summarizes the above article: 1 (English) (includes transcript)

Kan 11: 1 (Hebrew)

Jpost: 1 (Hebrew)

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

I've said this before but it does bear repeating - I've always known antisemitism existed, of course - in a standard goy, frankly naive, "this doesn't really affect me" way. I learned about the Holocaust in school, always been pretty aware of the double standards surrounding Israel, but I was also certain I knew I wasn't antisemitic, so didn't give it much thought. Until the last few months.

I started doing a lot of reading and learning and listening to Jewish voices in the wake of my disgust at the overall leftist reaction to Oct. 7 and I have been bowled over and utterly appalled at the sheer scale and insidiousness of the way antisemitism is baked into the very foundations of Western society. As a goy I would have sworn upside down I'd never had an antisemitic thought or belief in my life. And while consciously that may certainly be true, the process of unlearning centuries of unconscious extremely prevalent prejudice is not a straightforward one and the only way to do it in good faith is listen and learn.

That's why I do not trust fellow goyim who are so adamant that they know exactly what antisemitism is and isn't and know for a fact that they aren't - because the deeply insidious nature and long, long history of antisemitism means it is almost impossible to live and grow up in Western society (obviously antisemitism exists elsewhere but as a Westerner that's the experience I'm talking to) without being influenced in some way by it.

If a Jewish person tells you you are being antisemitic, sit down, shut up, swallow your pride and your indignation, and LISTEN AND LEARN.

[ragnarssons]

Ok. Well, I'll educate you on this whole thing, because this is abhorrent. You say "People keep saying Free Palestine but I can’t tell if they’re against Israel or Hamas, which currently controls Palestine." The article says

Hamas has two branches, one armed branch, and one political branch. The political branch got elected in Gaza/by Palestinians. They didn't "take over" Palestine or Gaza. It is also important to note that 2006 dates back to the times after the Second Antifada (a rebelious movement from Palestinians), sparked from the death of Mohammed al-Durah, an 12yo Palestinian child, you know him, from this very famous picture.

The second Antifada was a series of uprisings in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and even among the Arab community in Israel: the IDF violently repressed the uprisings, leading to a whole lot of deaths, and Hamas were responsible of several terrorist attacks in Israel. It lead to the dislogement of a whole lot of Israeli settlers from the West Bank and Gaza, and led ultimately to Israel building a whole ass wall around the West Bank to literally imprison the Palestinians inside the West Bank [x] [x] (to note, the wall around the Gaza Strip, also named The Iron Wall, had been built WAY BEFORE the 2000s) [x]. This wall, looks like this:

The Iron Wall looks like this:

The Iron Wall around the Gaza strips expands to the sea itself [x] and the coastlines are heavily guarded by the IDF, and the beaches are oftentimes targeted by missiles, such as the ones who killed 4 children, playing on the beach [x] (notice the title here, jeesh a good thing the Israeli gov is here to "exonerate itself" from killing children hey?!) It is important to note that despite the fact that Hamas got elected, it was elected at a time were tensions were high between Palestine and Israel, just coming out of really rough and violent times, where Palestinians literally were only defended by the fact that Hamas and the Islamic Jihad had even weapons to attack the IDF that was storming around Gaza and the West Bank to repress all the protests. And on top of that, it's important to note that, as stated in the article, the elections were held in 2006. That's 17 years ago, with half the population in Gaza being under the medium age of 18, which means more than half the Palestinian population today, did not elect Hamas. Second of all, it's also important that there are legislative elections. Hamas has majority of the seats at Parliament, BUT they're not the only ones, and the Fatah is relatively close behind (so much so that the US put their grubby hands in this election, and even tried to evict Hamas from the Parliament to replace it with Fatah buuuut that's another story- another story called corruption). So now, let's adress the "Hamas are terrorists" argument. So these lists of terrorists or not are actually decided and written by governments. There are several gov around the world that don't consider Hamas as a terrorist group: such as Egypt, Qatar, all the Arabic neighbors of the region, Russia, etc etc. On the other hand, yes, most of the Western countries, such as the US, the EU, all have written Hamas as a terrorist group. Now, the complexity of this whole notion is the fact that, through history, in colonialist regimes, such as THE WESTERN COUNTRIES, several resistance groups have been labeled as terrorists. The IRA in Ireland, Nelson Mandela and his NPA in South Africa, the Black Panthers in the US, etc. It's also important to note that there are several evidences, that Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's current prime Minister, had pushed for Israel and their allies to finance Hamas in order to undermine the Fatah's influence in Palestine. [x] Now, for the rest, I think you totally misinterpreted the article. So October 7th. You say: "the fighting this year started because Hamas attacked and bombed Gaza" So. No. Hamas attacked Israel. Hamas breached the Iron Wall and entered the "Israeli" territories. They led several attacks across Kibbutz (small villages) near the Gaza strip, killing what is said by the Israeli gov, 1400+ people and taking Israeli citizens (and other tourists that were there) hostages, allegedly taking them back to Gaza (but since the hostages have not all been released... who knows!) [x] Last reports say that Hamas has approx. 200 hostages. Hamas says 50 hostages have been killed by the Israeli bombings on the Gaza strip. But again, it's all a battle of propaganda from both sides with an impossibility for international and independant groups, journalists and authorities to check anything. The article you cited as source explicitely says so:

"I also saw that Israel had 1 million Palestinians evacuated because they were anticipating a ground assault from Hamas." So. That pissed me off. Ngl. Israel DID NOT evacuate anyone from the Gaza strip. Ever since the attacks on October 7, Israel has done nothing for the Palestinian civillians, and even before that, they have not. Israel started by declaring a complete siege of the Gaza strip, cutting off food supplies, water supplies and electricity from the 2.2 million people living inside the Gaza strip. [x] Israel then started carpet-bombing the entirety of the Gaza strip (which is a zone 40km long and 12km large...). I don't need to link any source, I'm sure it's easy to find, it's been like this for 23 days, non-stop now. And then, on October 14th, some 7 days after the Hamas attacks, Israel ordered the 1 million people still living in the North of the Gaza strip to up and leave. [x] They did NOT evacuate the people from the Gaza strip, they just sent out fliers, urging them to leave the zone, with a 24 HOURS NOTICE. 1 million people, having to been displaced, South of the Gaza strip, without food, water and electricity, in less than 24 hours! [x] Of course, the UN, among other organizations, pointed the finger at Israel and explained how impossible the task was, and how mass deportation of 1 million people is a breach to international laws. [x] [x] [x] And to remember, this order of evacuation has been given WHILE Israel was still heavily bombing the entirety of the Gaza strip. South, North, East, West. Planes constantly flying over the strip and dropping bombs everywhere. And that's without mentioning that after this order of evacuation, forcing people from Gaza to flee North of the strip to South of the strip, Israel bombed South of the strip and the convoys of people fleeing south. [x] [x] And I'll let you look into it because I'd like to have some time back for me, but that's without mentioning the fact that Israel bombed and is still bombing, hospitals, residential buildings, UNWRA schools, UN schools that are used as refugee camps, churches and mosques where people were seeking shelters from the bombing. It's also without mentioning that Israeli settlers (citizens) are currently attacking the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) and driving Palestinians out of their homes. Over 110 people have died in the West Bank, resulting from these violences. [x] And the most recent reports state that the IDF and the Israel Gov have targeted Jenin, a city in the West Bank. [x] Now. "I know there’s this whole thing with Israel having taken territory from Palestine, but Israel had that land first before Palestine took it." SIGH NO. JUST NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO

NO

Okay can someone explain what’s happening with Palestine?

People keep saying Free Palestine but I can’t tell if they’re against Israel or Hamas, which currently controls Palestine.

I looked it up and it doesn’t make sense for people to be against Israel bc the fighting this year started because Hamas attacked and bombed Gaza. I also saw that Israel had 1 million Palestinians evacuated because they were anticipating a ground assault from Hamas.

From what I read, Hamas is considered a terrorist group.

I know there’s this whole thing with Israel having taken territory from Palestine, but Israel had that land first before Palestine took it.

Idk someone explain it to me please.

Source: https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/israeli-palestinian-conflict

[littlemssam]

Since not everyone saw my latest Statement on Discord yesterday, I wanted to post it here as well, and I also want to clear a few things up.

For those who do not know what this is about, I made a post that I should not have, or at least I should have phrased it in a way where the meaning is clearer. The Post I made was "Since I was one of those that got tagged in there, I can just say that I will not partake in any Anti Israel Pro Hamas Propaganda, and I will most certainly not forget what Hamas did Oct 7th like a lot of these ppl seem to do." I now see that the way I phrased it made it seem like I feel that the attacks on Palestinian Civilians were/are justified, and that is not what I meant, and I am deeply sorry about that. Edit: To make it clear I am against the Israel Government and Netanyahu, just like I am against Hamas. I am pro ceasefire now.

On June 25th I had to face the consequences in my Discord. A lot of ppl came in and confronted me about it. When the first ppl joined and started the confrontation, I did knee jerked again and banned the first three of them, because one of them insulted me and wrote that the attack on Oct 7 was made up. There were a few follow up bans of ppl, who also insulted me, but I did not ban anyone on purpose because they are Pro Palestine. There were also some Posts deleted that should not have been. It was not done by me personally, but I was also not fast enough and clear minded enough to stop it and I could not undo it, so I apologise for that as well.

I locked the Server down in the End, because it was 3 am for me and I was, and still am, very overwhelmed and exhausted, and the Server will stay down for a while. This is the latest Statement I made, and I know it will not be enough for everyone and I respect that.

"I did not mean to seem to take a stance that seems like I am pro-Israel as if I believe this is all their land (a Zionist). I do not want to condone the violence happening in the country right now or pretend that Palestinian lives don't matter. It was never intended in what I said. I did not mean to phrase things in a way that make me seem to be against the problems palestinians are facing in Gaza. I inserted myself into something I don't know enough about or how to talk about in an educated way, so I should have better not said anything at all. I am sorry that I did. I do feel it is wrong that some people feel like what happened on October 7 is fake and I have already had people say it is. I have banned people who have said so while attacking me. That is wrong. Those people died and it's sad, so too it is sad the people who are dying over the military actions of Israel in attacking the groups who did this causing a loss of Palestinian life without considering who will be hurt. I am not a Zionist. I am just someone who felt sickened by what happened in the attacks last year and didn't like how I see some people pretending that is all a hoax."

[genderkoolaid]

re: the debate i feel like if you are saying "let's see how we got here" wrt the war you can't start at oct 7. like it's the start of The War but that attack didn't come out of nothing. you don't have to go into extreme detail but just like acknowledging that this war is only the most recent display of a decades long conflict involving extreme violence – and historical context is important for both groups! the war exists in the context of all of palestinian oppression. israel exists in the context of the whole history of antisemitism (in which the holocaust was just the most recent/extreme display). you can't disconnect palestinian resistance including hamas from the history of oppression, or israel from the history of violent antisemitism. i just feel like starting at oct 7 even in a brief response is like. a poor understanding of the issue. but maybe im just. a commie

[sapchat]

IDK if this has been done but I went through the 3 reboots and did a timeline of events so you wouldn't have to!

Side notes: sometimes I use the first initial for who it is! also some of MW3 has timestamps. I also apologize for spelling. Also, lots of this shit happens over like 7-12 days April 6, 2019 Makarov bombs Verdansk Price, Ghost and Soap know each other at this point, have NOT met Gaz

Start of MW1 Oct 24 2019 'Al Qatal' moves gas Oct. 25 2019 Piccadilly Square Oct. 25 2019 Price meets Gaz Oct 26 19 Alex & Farah blow Barkov's bombs Same day destroy one of B's bases Oct. 27 19 Price and Gaz go to Picc Safe house Oct 28 19A&F go to Urzstan hospital for "The Wolf" Oct 28 19 P&G meet up w/ A&F for the Wolf Oct 29 19 Plan ambush for Butcher & Wolf - Hadir uses the gas, learn Hadir stole the gas Oct 29 19 PGAF Go to kill W, & get H Oct 29 19 PGAF kill the wolf, H is 2 Russia Oct 31 19 PGN go 2 Russia, Capture Kill Butcher (and traumatize a family) Nov 1 19 Hadir is handed over to Russia Nov 3 19 Take down Barkov's gas production plant & K Price meets Kate @ Tea shop makes TF 141 w/ Ghost, Soap, & Gaz END of MW1 - May 22, 2022 Soap goes side questing, turns green (idk I didn't watch the trailer (I did but I just know there's like green gas)) Start of MW2 July 15 22 Ghost Blows AlMazrah base (Honestly didn't get the point of us seeing this) Oct 28 22 GS Kill/Cap Mission for Hassan -> Find American Missiles not Hassan Oct 28 22 PG in Amsterdam for Missile info (Think they used it as an excuse to swim) Oct 29 22 Capture a cartel mem 4 info Oct 29 22 Alej. Go for cartel jumping border Oct 30 22 GSAlej go 4 Hassan safehouse They capture Hassan (picnic in the desert omg!) Oct 31 22 PG in Spain for Hassan info Kate gets caught Shepherd tries to abandon her Nov 1 22 PG meet with F to get Kate (they get her and get juicy gos on Shep) Nov 1 22 Soap goes into Casa de Sin Nombre Nov 2 22 Gulf oil rig, blows up by G&S (philip was here too) Nov 3 22 Soap & Ghost are fighting Shadow co Nov 3 22 SG go for Alej w/ Rodolfo. PG meet up Nov 3 22 141 goes for Graves Nov 4 22 Go 2 Chicago 4 Hassan & missile kill both END of MW2 - Kate (& tech. Gaz) learn about Makarov

Start of MW3 Nov 10 23 Makarov is broken out of jail 2am Nov 10 23 Farah is ambushed Konni got missiles around 6am Nov 10 23 141 go for Nuc Power Plant, P get gased 9am Makarov has been out for 6 hours Nov 11 23 They go for Missiles in Urzikistan Nov 11 23 Kate is going 4 intel on Makarov meets Yuri @ 3pm Nov 11 23 Makarov crashes plane, blames Farah and Alex go there 7:30-9:30pm meet with Kate and Nikolai in hanger Nov 12 8am Nov 12 23 they go for Milena 7pm Nov 13 23 they get Makarovs right hand man Nolan 11am Nov 14 23 They find Shepherd swimming at some point 9:30 Nov 16 23 SG stop Verdansk dam bombing Same time PG are at airsti Nov 21 23 141 go after Makarov Hacker Nov 21 23 They stop Makarov bomb, Soap gets killed. Price kills Shepherd after spreading Soap's ashes.

[xeenve]

Hellaverse Release Schedule! [THEORY]

May2025: Official Hazbin Hotel S2 poster? Alastors VA said May2025 begins the possible release window!

June2025: "It's Orphan Time" Helluva Short first out of the 8 new shorts. Also if not in May the Hazbin S2 official poster?

July2025: Comic Con, so Hazbin will be there. Last year that's when they announced S3 and S4. Maybe this year they'll announce when S2 and the trailer is coming? For Season 1 of Hazbin they announced this kind of thing in Oct. 2022 (when it was intended to release in June 2023, before the delay.) Thats an 8 month gap but it'll be shorter now because no delays and their animation has more money or whatever. Say the trailer in 3 months. So in July they'll likely announce when Hazbin S2 is coming + the trailer.

Also in July: Another Helluva Short (2/8)

August2025: Helluva Short (3/8)

September2025: Helluva Short (4/8)

October2025: Hazbin Hotel S2 Trailer (Hazbin S1 trailer came a month before release.)

Also October 2025: HelluvaBoss x Moeflavor merch collab thing

Novemebr2025: Hazbin Hotel Season 2 (This fits perfectly with what Viv and Alastor's VA said).

December 2025: Finish off Hazbin Season 2'

January 2026- March 2026: Nothing, probably a mini hiatus because we got fed with Hazbin Hotel

April2026: LVL UP EXPO 2026, So Helluva Boss Stuff? They might show HelluvaBoss season 3 trailer. Helluva S3 starts in July 2026? Because of the prime deal more EPs come closer together so it'll be further out.

They might also show Helluva Short (6/8) like last year, along with the trailer.

(Remember, Viv mentioned in her New Years 2025 post that she wants Helluva to now have closer releases. I don't think like Hazbin probably like how Ghostfuckers Mastermind and Sinsmas came close, like that.)

May 2026: Helluva Short (7/8)

June 2026: Helluva Short (8/8)

July 2026: Helluva Boss Season 3 Episode 1

August 2026: Helluva Boss Season 3 Episode 2 on Prime

And Helluva S3 EP1 Releases on YouTube

September 2026: Helluva Boss Season 3 Episode 3 on Prime

And Helluva S3 EP2 Releases on YouTube

October 2026: Helluva S3 EP3 Releases on YouTube

November/December2026: Nothing because we just got fed

January-March2027: Maybe more Helluva shorts Also maybe Hazbin Hotel S3 could get some announcemsnts. They're already done recording it, for Hazbin S2 they didn't finish recording until after S1 came out.

April2027: LVL UP EXPO: More Helluva announcements

2027 or 2028: Hazbin Hotel Season 3 and more HelluvaBoss season 3?

[moderato-allego]

me when i'm bored and start deducing ace attorney characters' birthdays from the court record and dates of the cases

*assumes if someone (other than the victim) appears in a case their birthday doesn't happen during that case. birthday ranges are given with as few contradictions as possible

canon birthdays for reference: - dustin prince: september 6th 1987 (murdered on his birthday) - rayfa padma khura'in: december 24th 2013, aka almost christmas (birthdate used to open a safe)

deduced birthday ranges:

phoenix is the only character with a non-canon exact birthdate: october 10 1992. he tells maya he's 24 during 1-3 (oct 16-20 2016) and his profile says he's 33 during the 2026 part of 4-4 (oct 7-9 2026). since he ages 9 years but 4-4 is 10 years after 1-3 the only date possible where this can happen without his birthday happening during the case is october 10. this means he's 23 during 1-1 and 1-2 and 35 during 5-4 and 5-5, despite the court record saying he's 34.

miles has the next shortest range: september 1-4 1992. he's 24 during 1-2 (sep 5-9 2016) and 25 during 2-4 (mar 20-23 2018) so the range is march 24-september 4 1992. to have him in the same school year as phoenix i narrowed it down to the first days of september. this means his age during aa5 and 6-dlc is incorrect.

larry's is pretty easy to find out: he ages 1 year between i1-5 and i2-3 so the range is march 18-april 1 1993. this makes his age during 6-dlc incorrect, though.

iirc aa1 states that dl-6 happens when the above three are in fourth grade (2001), but due to their ages they would be in third grade in the us system.

maya is march 24-june 15 1999. she was 18 during aa2 (jun 16 2017-march 23 2018). this means she is 29 during 6-dlc, not 28, and she could have celebrated her birthday with phoenix in khura'in.

pearl is may 18-jun 15 2009. she was 8 during 2-2 (jun 16-22 2017) and 18 during 6-5 (may 16-17 2028). this means she was 18 during 5-dlc, not 17. also i'm not american but i think schools normally graduate in june over there and 5-dlc was in july, so she should have already graduated senior year by then.

i think ema is the only character from the original trilogy whose age didn't get fucked up after the seven year gap, but the downside is her birthday range spans two years: october 10 2000-february 21 2001. she was 16 during 1-5 (feb 22-25 2017) and 25 during 4-4 (oct 7-9 2026).

ok i know ema says she'll be "turning 16 this year" which implies she's 15 during 1-5 but the court record says she's 16. i went with the court record because it creates less problems and doesn't contradict the fact that she's in junior high.

lightning round for everyone else with deduced birthday ranges in one year! a lot of people's birthday ranges span across two years, so these people age a year less than the timeskip between the years suggest (e.g gumshoe ages 1 year between 2-2 and investigations, despite them being 2 years apart)

manfred von karma: september 11-december 23 1951 (49 during i2-3, 60 during i1-4)

marvin grossberg: april 12-september 4 1952 (61 during 3-1, 64 during aa1)

tyrell badd: september 11-december 23 1958 (42 during i2-3, 53 during i1-4, 60 during i1-5)

samson tangaroa: april 3-december 23 1961 (39 or 57 during i2-3)

winston payne: april 21-august 2 1964 (52 during 1-1, 61 during 4-1)

eddie fender: april 9-december 23 1982 (18 during i2-3, 36 during the rest of aai2)

judy bound: april 3-december 23 1984 (16 or 34 during i2-3)

dick gumshoe: may 4-jun 15 1986 (31 during aa2, 32 during aa3 and investigations)

will powers: april 9-october 15 1993 (23 during 1-3, 25 during i2-5)

lotta hart: march 24-april 4 1994 (23 during aa2, 25 during aai2)

adrian andrews: march 24-october 10 1994 (23 during 2-4, 24 during 3-2)

penny nichols: april 9-october 15 1998 (18 during 1-3, 20 during i2-5)

franziska von karma: april 9-june 15 1999 (18 during 2-2, 19 during aai2)

regina berry: april 9-december 27: april 9-december 27 2001 (16 during 2-3, 17 during aai2)

i2-3 was a bit annoying to work with as you can see lol

for myriam, robin and juniper i narrowed down their birthday range due to the fact that they're in senior year:

juniper woods & robin newman: september 1-october 23 2009

myriam scuttlebutt: january 1-august 31 2010

[dribs-and-drabbles]

This Week in The TCW

Apr 20th - Apr 26th

It's a real mixed bag this week with ten items of shared clothing being worn across twelve different shows. AND PIT BABE, KINNPORSCHE, AND JEFF SATUR HAVE ALL FINALLY MADE THE LIST! (It almost happened previously for KinnPorsche - a top worn by Macau was used in the opening credits of We Are but sadly not in the actual series, so it didn't count.)

Apr 23rd - My Golden Blood

The first item this week was a complete surprise for me in ep 7 of My Golden Blood. This yellow 'Weekend' shirt was worn also in City of Stars (Feb 2024).

Next is Tong's blue, grey, and white t-shirt. It was first worn in Wandee Goodday (Jul 2024) and has already been worn this year in The Boy Next World (Jan 2025). With this one I'm not sure if the colour differences are from the filming/post production, or if they just are different tones.

It was good timing this week for me to start my Pit Babe re-watch ahead of season 2 because I spotted Charlie's shirt (from ep 2, Nov 2023) on Mark (both are linin, the stripes are the same width, and the stripe directions on the shoulder seams are the same on both).

Apr 25th - Sweet Tooth Good Dentist

The first of four items in ep 5 of Sweet Tooth Good Dentist was one I knew would be worn from seeing it in the trailer. This was first used in Peaceful Property (Oct 2024) and then very briefly in ThamePo (Dec 2024).

But it was a surprise to see the t-shirt underneath Gugg's jacket - also worn by Day in Last Twilight (Dec 2023).

This pink and white hoodie jacket was another item I knew would appear in STGD - also worn in The Trainee (Aug 2024).

And this last one I had been anticipating since the pilot trailer. Also worn by Top in Only Friends (Aug 2023).

Historical Discoveries

The first historical discovery is a recent one - @jackandjoker pointed out to me that Tong's 'human' t-shirt from ep 3 of My Golden Blood had also been worn in KinnPorsche (Jul 2022), thus putting KinnPorsche and Jeff Satur on the Communal Wardrobe list! 🎉 (The writing on the back of the shirt is also the same. Incidentally, this is the only time Kim has anything written on his shirt - he almost exclusively wears plain tees [usually white or black if I'm not mistaken] - when he is thinking of and missing Chay. Make of that what you will).

Due to the above, I decided to do a scan through of the whole of KinnPorsche and discovered right at the end why a shirt I had seen in Monster Next Door (Aug 2024) had felt very familiar - worn also in ep 14 of KinnPorsche (Jul 2022).

And lastly, I saw the blue cloud sweater in this post from @mysterygrl20 which @gaypplonmyscreen then helpfully informed me was from ep 7 of Pit Babe (Dec 2023). Worn first (that I'm aware of) in Our Skyy 2 A Boss and a Babe (May 2023), and then more recently in Flirt Milk (Feb 2025).

Tagged by request: @my-rose-tinted-glasses @benkaben @pigglepiephi @jackandjoker If anyone else would like to be tagged then let me know.

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

manip designed by the wonderful Shay @hl-obsessed 💕

If you Reblog, please know: post is continuously under construction ⚙️ 📌 here is my TAGLIST Since everything under a Read More cut gets deleted in case a blog deletes/gets deleted, for Archive Purposes Only, I add the most important bits of the/rest of the full post and also check/update/add the source links to the best of my abilities. Sorted Old to New (I only started doing this in Nov '24, so there's quite a lot more to come!)

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• Complete Larry Tattoo Timeline • bulletprooflarry (April 9, 2012) until 2017 - from then on by me w/ pictures & meta (last update: April '25)

• 1D Studies – Harry’s sexuality • hazzalovesboo, April 9, 2012

• Timeline: Louis' PING (iTunes) profile Jan '11 - Sep '12 • hotsauceharry, Sep 20, 2012 incl. Spotify playlist of all 630 songs he posted / bought on iTunes and here is the rebloggable post, bc the archived post itself is VERY long

• Masterpost: Harry’s “Type” • tracedust-blog, Jan 30, 2013

• Home is wherever I'm with you. (2011) • yorkshireteabagging, March 24, 2013

• Body Language and Double Talk, or: Louis is a Lying Liar Who Lied • (archived by @twopoppies!) • epicmischief, April 7, 2013

• Timeline: September 2010: Let’s talk about it. • bulletprooflarry, Oct 24, 2013 • Timeline: Larry at Leeds 2011 incl. loads of pictures & tweets • alarrytale, Nov 6, 2013

• Masterpost: “Even as young as you are?” Or: Harry & Louis are engaged to be married • the-love-laws, Jan 16, 2014

• Timeline: "Fucked in Frisco, 2012" • ohthefond, Jan 27, 2014

• August 2011: the early days of H&L's closet :( • quietasides, April 13, 2015

• Timeline: 1D's extreme grind • quietasides, Aug 28, 2015

• GIF Timeline: L&H in 2012 "The year their friendship ended" spoiler alert: it didn't! • quietasides, Nov 3, 2015

• Timeline: Harry & Louis July 17 - July 21, 2015 • skepticalarrie, Sep 6, 2020

• It’s a Sign Language of the times • bluewinnerangel, Feb 15, 2021

• What even is this band? (funny 1D gifs) • bluewinnerangel, Feb 28, 2021

• Masterpost: Harry wearing Louis-related things • bluewinnerangel, June 18, 2021

• A Post on being closeted • sadaveniren, Jan 8, 2023

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more continuously to come!

[mariacallous]

When President Biden called the emir of Qatar and the president of Egypt on Thursday, his message was direct: Get me a deal, two U.S. officials tell Axios.

Why it matters: Biden, under increasing pressure from progressive Democrats, desperately wants a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. He sees a deal for the hostages held by Hamas as the only way to get it while maintaining his unwavering support for Israel.

Biden wants the Qataris and the Egyptians — the key mediators in the hostage talks — to get the terror group to agree to a deal before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts March 10.

Driving the news: As part of the framework presented by the U.S., Egypt and Qatar in Paris on Feb. 23, Israel would release about 400 Palestinian prisoners — including 15 convicted of murdering Israelis.

In exchange, Hamas would free about 40 Israeli hostages, including women, female soldiers, men over 50 and men who are in serious medical conditions.

The framework also included a roughly six-week pause in the fighting in Gaza — one day for every living hostage released — as well as a readiness for an initial and gradual return of Palestinian citizens to the northern part of the Strip.

U.S. and Israeli officials say Hamas' response to the proposed deal didn't include a list of hostages who are alive, or how many Palestinian prisoners the group is demanding in return.

Hamas is believed to still be holding 134 people it took hostage during the attack on Israel that began Oct. 7; 32 of the hostages have been confirmed dead.

Behind the scenes: In his call with the Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Biden told them how the U.S. is pressing Israel to agree to the deal, and urged them to push Hamas to do the same, two sources with direct knowledge of the calls said.

"All three leaders agreed the onus is currently on Hamas to close remaining gaps in the package," another U.S. source with direct knowledge of the calls said.

"The Egyptian and Qatari leaders described their efforts with Hamas and shared the sense of urgency to get this done."

Mossad director David Barnea, who is leading Israel's negotiations team, speaks each day with CIA director Bill Burns about the hostage talks, a senior Israeli official said.

The official put the chances of a deal at 50-50. "Biden's personal involvement and his calls with the leaders of Qatar and Egypt are very important," the official said.

The big picture: The deaths of dozens of Palestinians on Thursday amid chaos surrounding an aid convoy in Gaza increased Biden's urgency in seeking a hostage deal that would lead to a ceasefire, a U.S. official said.

The U.S. began air drops of aid to Gaza on Saturday, which will continue, but aren't a game changer in addressing the humanitarian crisis there, U.S. officials acknowledge.

Two U.S. officials said only a hostage deal and a ceasefire could dramatically improve the situation in Gaza by allowing significantly more food and medical supplies to reach people in need — and lower criminal gangs' incentive to loot the aid.

State of play: A Hamas delegation is in Cairo to meet with Egyptian intelligence officials, according to press reports there. Representatives of the CIA are also there to follow the talks.

There have been two main sticking points in the negotiations: the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released for every hostage released, and how many Palestinian civilians would be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza.

"The Israelis accepted the terms of the deal and if Hamas agrees, a six-week ceasefire can start immediately," a senior U.S. official said.

"We still hope we can get a deal by Ramadan. The ball is in Hamas' court."

What's next: Israeli minister Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's war cabinet, will arrive in Washington on Sunday. Gantz is pushing hard for a deal and has said the release of hostages is more important and urgent than destroying Hamas, which is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's goal.

Netanyahu didn't want Gantz to visit the U.S. and told him in a call on Friday that "there is only one prime minister in Israel," Netayahu's aides said.

Gantz will visit the White House on Monday and have separate meetings with Vice President Kamala Harris and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, a Biden administration official said.

Qatar's prime minister, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani — a key player in the hostage-ceasefire negotiations — will visit Washington on Tuesday to discuss strategy with U.S. officials.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Five Fics Friday: Year Five Masterpost

WHAT A SPECIAL WEEK, Y'ALL! This week marks the end of the FIFTH FULL YEAR I've done UNINTERRUPTED FIC RECS every SINGLE FRIDAY! This is quite the achievement, I think. I genuinely didn't think I would make it this long being a reliable source for guaranteed recs every Friday 💜 It's something I'm super proud of and something I really genuinely hope that you guys love as much as I love posting them. I SERIOUSLY couldn't do it without you guys, since I literally get these weekly suggestions primarily from y'all!

For anyone who is new to my blog, every SINGLE Friday I post up 5 fics recently added to either my Marked for Later list or my Bookmarks, or as a way to promote new fics suggested to me by authors as a Signal Boosted fic! I haven't missed a single Friday since its inception in 2019, and it's still going strong!! It's the ONLY guaranteed weekly list on this blog, since YOU GUYS provide me the content!! :D I love doing it, and it makes authors feel loved :)

Next Friday, September 27, 2024 starts year six, so until there, here's your opportunity to check out any lists you may have missed this past year!

There are over 1,300 fics on the lists below, and that DOESN'T count the bonus extended lists I do once in awhile!!!

Again, hope you enjoy and I hope you guys continue to support my fic rec lists. For anyone curious, these are the best lists to get fresh new fics, as often these lists feature fics that authors have posted recently! Enjoy!

PREVIOUS YEARS (2019 to 2023):

YEAR ONE MASTERPOST (Sept 29/19 to Sept 25/20)

YEAR TWO MASTERPOST (Sept 25/20 to Sept 24/21)

YEAR THREE MASTERPOST (Oct 1/21 to Sept 23/22)

YEAR FOUR MASTERPOST (Sept 30/22 to Sept 22/23)

YEAR 5 OF FIVE FICS FRIDAY:

September 29/23

October 6/23

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October 20/23

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5FF “LOKI” Bonus: November 17/23

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[rat-ratkingery]

Robbie theory discussion time with Oct

So I have like basically a crack theory based off of Robbie's skin's alone but it's insane after you really look at everything as a whole I promise. Hand on shoulder, just trust me.

Robbie is either A) Missing an eye or B) is injured in a way where it is unusable.

So, back to the skin details. Netease has sort of made his skins mostly the same as far as his basic details and what not, but something that goes to every tier are the 'eye' details. Now, it's important to note there are going to be some inconsistencies because I don't really know how to explain some of these skins in a way that completely rides with my theory but more on that later.

Starting off, Robbies first S tier. Released alongside Robbie in 2019 so this skin is definitely pertinent.

Something you'll notice about him, his right eye is completely missing, while both are chipped. Both eyes being affected is also a theme but only in his S tiers, Golden Touch and Pawnbroker.

It should be noted that Pawnbroker is the start of the eye inconsistencies usually noted in the lower tiers. Here are some more instances of a missing and/or damaged eye;

It should be noticed that 'marshmallow' and 'lonely snowman' are both question marks in my theory because its just. . not quite eyes? I'm including them because I find it curious.

but as said above, the lower tiers tend to have an eye detail but not quite the same side, 'Pumpkin lantern' for example having the scar on his left, not his right.

As for 'Forgotten Boy' I think the button replacement is literally that, a replacement for a lost eye. In-game, it doesn't move or blink and I think its pertinent that there looks like there wasn't a hole there for Robbie to see out of prior, because he didn't need it.

I understand that this omits many, many, eyed costumes of Robbies such as 'Mighty Boy', 'Sleep Talking', 'Freak', 'Pam', 'Paddle', 'Pawn-e4', 'Prince on Ice', 'Wail', and 'Hysterical Fans', all of which don't have eye injuries, but like. . Come on. Come onnn. . .

It should be noted that none of his lore suggests that he was disabled but I think it's more than a key detail that Kreacher kept disabled orphans in his care. It should be noted that there are at least 6 children we know of who were in the Orphanage who make an appearance in Kreacher's deductions, maybe 7 if you count the little girl in the bottom right corner of 'Kreacher's Kingdom' as different than Delores, which I believe her to be Lisa but that's just me.

If it turns out that Netease just finds the eye motif to be a neat trick to pull on Robbie of all characters I won't be mad but yeesh. . the coincidence is insane.