#state 26

[sukibenders]

CLOCK IT!

[northgazaupdates]

26 March 2024

Journalist Wadea Abu Alsaoud and multiple other sources report that despite the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire, the IOF continues attacking and killing Gazans in the north and throughout the Strip

[swaglet]

thinking about how some studies say that up to 92% of autistic women struggle with pmdd and there are only like 12 people on the planet earth who give a proper fuck

[thedevilsfamiliar]

For people who do selkie au’s

Pls, listen to this baby angy bork and angy stim

[jtl-fics]

Since you're on a roll...more new kings??

6/26/24 WIP Wednesday (OPEN) | New Kings AU

“Why?” Kevin asks.

“Because I let him go. I couldn’t-” Andrew’s voice wavers and Kevin hates hearing him like this. Hates that they’re pushing him to this point.

“Fine.” Aaron says and sits back facing forward.

Kevin blinks, “Fine?”

"It's fine. I’ll be Andrew.” Aaron shrugs.

[duchessofostergotlands]

I'm very much an out of sight, out of mind kind of person so I haven't been that bothered about Kate being gone. It's not personal, I'm just fine not seeing people if I know they're ok. But I am genuinely sad that she isn't there next to Masako. I have wanted them to interact for such a long time.

[skunkes]

i dpnt want to go hoooome

[asticassia]

also it's literally SO cute that they show fanart from kids at the end of mahoutsukai episodes. you just know that if you were a kid whose art got featured itd make your entire year

[niteshade925]

China: government pays to redo roads and parking lots in older neighborhoods and re-paints the buildings, the concrete busters don't start working until 7-8am so as to not disturb residents. If you disturb residents and get enough complaints then congrats you are going to be included in national news as a textbook example of what not to do

Murica: YEA LETS BUST THAT MFKING CONCRETE AT 5:20AM LETS GOOOOOO

Look, I'm not a shill or anything, I simply say what I see, and all of the above are what I have seen with my own two eyes.

[bmpmp3]

vocal synths and winter designs

[newyorkthegoldenage]

How else would you fix the antenna? A bridgeman with U.S. Steel climbs atop the Empire State Building, October 26, 1950. He was one of 22 structural iron workers who erected a permanent five-station television tower on top of the skyscraper.

Photo: Associated Press via the NY Daily News

[northgazaupdates]

26 April 2024

Civil Defense photographer Mahmoud Salem documents the harrowing rescue of two little boys, dazed but alive, from under the rubble of a destroyed building in north Gaza. First responders in Gaza are forced to dig people out from under rubble with their bare hands, due to the IOF blockade and sabotage destroying their equipment and supplies.

WARNING: graphic and disturbing!

[todaysjewishholiday]

26 Menachem Av 5784 (29-30 August 2024)

The 26th of Av is the yahrzeit of the Polish-French Jewish communist Szmul Cecel Tyszelman (Shmuel Cecil Tischelman) known to his friends as “Titi”, whose execution set off a cycle of militant Resistance actions and violent Nazi reprisals that raised the brutal repression of the Nazi occupation of France to new levels.

Szmul was a Jewish refugee in France who had, at the outset of the German occupation, joined several Resistance groups, including the Youth Battalion of the French Communist Party. While communists generally eschewed national emblems in favor of internationalism, France’s communists viewed the legacy of the French Revolution as fruitful material for organizing, and even immigrants like Tyszelman saw themselves as fierce patriots. Since the Nazi invasion and armistice between the Vichy government and the Nazi occupiers in 5700, display of French national emblems in the occupied zone was especially charged.

On the 23rd of Av 5701, Szmul Tyszelman helped to lead a peaceful demonstration with approximately a hundred other members of the Communist Youth Battalion. They marched under the tricolore of the revolution and French republics, and sang La Marseillaise, Frances’s revolutionary national anthem. Members of the crowd also shouted “Down with Hitler” and “Long Live France”. German soldiers treated the marching youth, mostly in their teens or early twenties, unarmed and nonviolent, as a direct threat, and opened fire on the crowd. Tyszelman was shot in the leg. The demonstration ended in chaos with most of the youth outrunning the German soldiers and French police who attempted to round them up. Szmul Tyszelman and another demonstrator, Henri Gautherot, were among those arrested.

The next day the commander of the German Occupation banned the French Communist Party entirely and declared that anybody caught participating in communist demonstrations would be charged with aiding the enemy— a capital offense under the Nazi occupation. Despite the proclamation having occurred after their arrests, Tyszelman and Gautherot were tried by a Nazi military tribunal, and then executed by firing squad on the 26th of Av. Tyszelman was only twenty years old. Posters announcing their execution were plastered across the city of Paris.

The executions were a shock to the young communists, who had up until that point emphasized peaceful demonstrations and the distribution of leaflets against the occupation. Friends of the murdered men called for a militant stand, and many in the movement concluded that if even marching was to be punished with death, fighting was needed. Several days later one of Szmul’s friends shot a German soldier in the Metro, declaring that this was revenge for Titi. When Hitler was informed of the incident, he demanded that a hundred French prisoners be executed in retaliation. The Nazi commander in France, hesitant to lose the support of the Vichy government with too much brutality, asked for ten hostages who would be shot in response to any further Resistance militancy, and then executed eight communists included five more of those arrested at the demonstration led by Tyszelman. De Gaulle, leader of France’s government in exile, heard of Tyszelman’s execution and its aftermath and declared in a radio broadcast to the French people “French killings of the German occupiers are absolutely justified. If the Germans don’t want to be killed, they should have stayed home and not gone to war with us.”

The next four months saw an additional 243 executions by the Nazi occupation, with sometimes as many as fifty at a time, in response to any militant act by Resistance forces. Communists and Jewish prisoners in particular were targeted because the Nazi regime claimed that they were fundamentally guilty regardless of what they’d been arrested for. 154 gentile communists and 56 Jews were among those murdered. The executions were intended to cow the French populace into compliance with the occupation— instead, the killings had the opposite effect, uniting a majority of those under the occupation, many of whom had been skeptical of the value of militant action, with the Resistance as horror of the Nazi’s brutality increased. The Vichy government’s cooperation and complicity with the reprisal massacres also soured much of the public on the Vichy government’s stance that they were simply protecting France by cooperating with the Nazi occupiers. Szmul Tyszelman had burned with righteous indignation, determined to stand against the slaughterers of his people and occupiers of his chosen home. He was unjustly arrested and unjustly killed. His death ignited a conflagration of resistance which his murderers were unable to quench with any amount of bloodshed.

Today is also Erev Shabbat. Prepare to welcome the Shabbos Queen tonight with candles and song. May the peace of the holiest day in all Jewish tradition settle upon your heart and bring you rest.

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

An Outing in the Adirondacks, circa 1900

[jtl-fics]

new kings is making me sob 🙏

6/19/24 WIP Wednesday (OPEN) | New Kings AU

"I'm not taking it." Andrew snarls the first sign of life, "I need to get off of it so I can find Neil."

"Andrew, you pro-" Kevin tries but Andrew whirls on him and Kevin's throat closes up in panic as he sees Andrew's furious eyes.

"If you go back to the Ravens I'll drag you back after I drag Neil back. You think I stayed because of our promise?" He lets out a bark of a laugh, "I stayed because I need to get off these drugs and then I can go and find Neil and drag him back."

Kevin's heart is in his throat.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Faith without Works

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead. — James 2:26 | Revised Standard Version (RSV) Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Cross References: Galatians 5:6; James 2:17; James 2:20

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Why is faith without works dead?