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SEC Sued By 18 States For Overreach
Eighteen U.S. states have filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and its commissioners, including Chair Gary Gensler, alleging “unconstitutional overreach” and “unfair persecution” of the cryptocurrency industry. The lawsuit contends that the SEC’s enforcement actions infringe upon states’ rights to regulate digital assets and exceed the agency’s statutory…
#18 states#Crypto Industry#crypto innovation#cryptocurrency regulation#digital assets#enforcement actions#federalism principles#gary gensler#major questions doctrine#SEC lawsuit#state authority#unconstitutional overreach
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America's War-Cult
We inhabit a time when life is cheap: abortions, genocides, perpetual wars, weapons of mass destruction. We could list countless ways in which human life has been devalued. While we might send out a medical plane to rescue one life that’s in peril, one plane can instantly incinerate a hundred thousand. Science has great power to heal, but this pails in comparison to its destructive power.…
#Afghanistan war#American wars#Christian ethics#Christian pacifism#Christian responsibility#Christian witness#church and state#devaluation of human life#discernment in warfare#global war on terror#image-bearers of God#Iraq war#Jean Lasserre#just-war theory#military sacrifice#military-industrial complex#moral judgment in war#moral responsibility#nationalistic zeal#nonresistance#pacifism#peace advocacy#perpetual wars#sacredness of life#social media war influence#soldier veneration#spiritual discernment#state authority#state deception#state worship
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Danny purposely wrote the worst fanfiction he could think of to mentally destroy Tucker and posted it online for everyone to read.
It was a fic so horrid that is would make Lex Luthor squirm, the Justice League writhe and any bats reading it cringe so hard thier spines would be turned to powder!
...so why were the Justice League at his door? And why are they saying that they need to protect him from the people his fic pissed off? We're supervillians really going to try to murder him over one fanfic?
A nearby explosion was his answer. Huh. At least it wasn't ghosts this time. Unfortunately, his parents are involved all the same, which meant their tech was involved, and he was powerless until he could get away from both them and the Justice League who wanted eyes on him 24/7.
#fanfiction prompts#prompts#dpxdc#it was probably the mpreg danny#danny phantom#danny fenton#batman#the justice league#tim drake#tim reads it and his spine nearly does turn to dust#steph cant stop laughing and is reading it aloud to torment people#damian is mildly pleased because the author states that he should have as many pets as he wants#cause he deserves it for not stabbing people as much as he should#the author had sus oppionions on how many people Robin should be stabbing#fanfic au
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During her speech before demonstrators in New York, author and journalist Naomi Klein condemned Israel's crimes against Palestinians, asserting that Zionism has strayed from Jewish values and stating, "Zionism is a false idol that has betrayed every Jewish value."
“We don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name,” she added.
The demonstration, held just one block from the residence of US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, resulted in the arrest of hundreds of protesters. This event coincided with the Senate's approval of a $95 billion foreign aid package, which includes approximately $17 billion in arms and security funding for Israel.
#palestine#free palestine#gaza#free gaza#israel#israel is a terrorist state#i stand with palestine#genocide#jerusalem#israel is evil#During her speech before demonstrators in New York#author and journalist Naomi Klein condemned Israel's crimes against Palestinians
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Behind the scenes: U.S. and Israeli officials said the Biden administration is trying to prevent the Palestinians from getting the nine votes so the U.S. won't have to veto the resolution. A U.S. veto of such a resolution, especially amid the war in Gaza, would bring sharp criticism for Biden internationally and inside his own party, including with some of his supporters.
Over the last two weeks, the Biden administration has been pressing Abbas and his advisers to back off from their request, U.S., Israeli and Palestinian officials say. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised the issue directly in a phone call with Abbas, and other U.S. officials raised it with their Palestinian counterparts almost every day in the last two weeks, Palestinian and U.S. officials say. The Biden administration made clear to the Palestinians that current U.S. law compels the administration to veto such a resolution or defund the UN, a U.S. official said. According to the officials, Abbas rejected the U.S. pressure and his aides told the Biden administration they are moving forward with the vote. A senior Palestinian official said the Biden administration asked whether Abbas would suspend the bid if he is invited to meet with Biden at the White House. The Palestinian official said Abbas rejected this trade-off and said he agreed to such a U.S. proposal a year ago but never got an invitation. U.S. officials admitted they failed in convincing the Palestinians to suspend their UN bid.
#yemen#jerusalem#tel aviv#current events#palestine#free palestine#gaza#free gaza#news on gaza#palestine news#news update#war news#war on gaza#palestinian state#palestinian authority#joe biden#anthony blinken#genocide joe
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Machine, I just got back from therapy.
I accept I am not papa's special boy, but I'm still going to kill you.
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#gabriel ultrakill#ultrakill#authors note: we are not *so* back. but posting should be happening again?#but the almost daily posting will never come back#sorry for disappearing. nothing bad happened i just did not have the chance to post anything#part of the absence was cause i was out of state#and i now have someone sitting behind me most of the time at work#so i can only edit when there is no one behind me and i happen to have no work to do#also the whole uh not really getting new clips thing. i mean there have been a few. but things will run out if i kept posting daily#so it will be slow
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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here's auston matthews leading stretches for the first time as captain and mitch (and the coaches) skating around whacking everyone with his stick
#toronto maple leafs#auston matthews#mitch marner#like baby...... their leadership goes hand in hand..#mitch making sure everyone gets a loving smack before doing stretches himself as an authority figure himself#im so......... scream anyway.#1634#2425#ALSO. the pic of mo and mitch from this morning has me... hmm abt the state of the a's#i know treliving said jt would get one but theres been 0 promo content w him yet where i can see it or not#im curious#hockeyvid
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Hot take but I think persecuting racist and homophobic right-wing cultists is Good, Actually
#from the shen yun post#y'all need to get comfortable with the idea of socialist states exercising their authority to repress reactionaries as a good thing
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anyway. the ending was like That because it was Izuku's hero academia. it was his story told from his point of view and it concluded all the plot points he was concerned with, like his relationship with Bakugou, Allmight, the public's opinion on the heroes, what the new generation of heroes is going to be like, how Shouto is perceived by the public, Izuku's general relationship with his former classmates and Aizawa.
he never really cared about Shigaraki outside of their brief confrontation. he didn't really know Shigaraki as a person, and nor was he interested in getting to know him, even when he got the chance to peek into his past, Nana and Allmight had more reason to be interested in who Shigaraki the person was. to Izuku, Shigaraki started as a terrifying villain and ended as a crying boy he was unable to save. this is why, as he joins the rest of his classmates and becomes a pro hero, he imagines the ghost of Shigaraki looking over him, haunting him, reminding him of his failure but also inspiring him to try harder and 'keep reaching out'.
The villains were the ones concerned with their stories. Spinner wrote that book by himself, as Izuku's notes are being written at the point the book has already been published. Izuku never mentions any contents of that book nor Spinner or Mister Compress. Because they do not belong in his story, not really.
They belong with each other, in the League of Villains, as they have proven time and time again how important they are to each other and how far they are willing to go to protect their own. Shigaraki's thoughts before Izuku had killed him were all about the League. Kurogiri's last act was trying to save Shigaraki from AFO and the heroes. What kept Spinner's spirit from crumbling after losing everyone he had cared about was his burning desire to tell their story to others, to let their stories be heard. Touya finds no solace despite getting everything he had ever wanted from his family and being reunited with them - because his place was in the League of villains, the place where he was accepted just as he was, unconditionally.
the conflict of heroes versus the villains led to nothing but devastation and destruction for the villains. even those who were heard out and validated by the other party ended up becoming victims, or martyrs.
after that experience, after having a whole crowd of pro heroes, the people who made it their lives career to save others witness his destruction by the man who stole his body from him and by the boy who swore to save him, why would Shigaraki be interested in keeping in contact with these people, had he survived? why would Kurogiri go out of his way to let Shirakumo's friends know he had survived their students attempt to take his life and the life of the boy he wanted to save, all because they couldn't accept his affection for that boy outweighing their long gone friendship? why would Toga, when the reporters and the heroes saw her body after starting to transfuse all of her blood to Ochako and not even bothered to pick it up, to save her life or even to bury her?
here is how it went: Kurogiri did end up successfully saving Shigaraki, the fact going unnoticed by the heroes because both of their bodies were crumbling. he had also taken Toga, which is why her body wasn't picked up together with Ochako (and why Ochako doesn't have any memories of Toga's dead body, only of her final words to her). and then Kurogiri teleported them far away, where they healed and started planning how to get the remaining three LOV members back, while they are still alive.
they broke Spinner and Compress out of the prisons. In memory of Twice, Hawks had covered it up, as long as they don't resurface as villains.
Shigaraki and Toga had considered letting Touya stay together with his family, up until the news of Endeavor's disgraced villain son being on his deathbed got out. On the very next day, Shigaraki broke the tank Touya was residing in to pieces. Enji and his sidekicks had covered his eldest going missing by holding a funeral ceremony for him (the second one, this time knowing full well it's a fake funeral). Shouto was enraged with his father's decision and Enji used Shouto's just starting pro hero career as an excuse, don't you want to have a clean start, without the weight of mine and Touya's crimes weighting you down? It's not like Shouto has a choice in the matter, just as when he was a kid. The family wonders about the missing one's fate. Sometimes, Shouto gets messages from unknown numbers. He doesn't share them with anyone, except for Natsuo, who is still devastated about not using his one last chance to reconcile with the brother he had been so sorely missing for 8 years.
The ghosts of Toga, Shigaraki and Dabi live on, haunting the heroes who failed to save them. Himiko, Tenko and Touya also live on. They are very different from these ghosts.
#look at me being self indulgent as fuck#all of the above is fully supported by the canonical omissions of stating anything clearly#so if you like the direction this took you are free to consider this as valid and deku's epilogue <3#compress isn't reading that book in goddamn tartarus where his hands were in those mega handcuffs ffs#he is so proud because spinner made it as a self published author#and inspired countless mutant quirk types and other marginalized civilians with their story which was finally told from the actual source#and not the apologetic heroes making amends to the dead victims they didn't save#byeeee#bnha#boku no hero academia#bnha spoilers#league of villains#shigaraki#shigaraki tomura#toga himiko#dabi#todoroki touya#anti endeavor#shuichi iguchi#spinner#sako atsuhiro#kurogiri
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if she’s a trans woman, why did you “get a go-ahead” from a transmasc person? feel like i’m not really following the logic here. not to rail on you but you’re the one looking for permission and accuracy. plenty of gnc transfems on tbis site would love to chat about their personal experiences…
They're one of my closest IRL friends and a queer artist who focuses on depictions of queer bodies. I didn't specifically reach out for permission, I brought it up during last year's Pride Month, we spoke about Noora, and they helped me design her jacket. This wasn't a formal thing, just a conversation with a genderqueer friend that helped me shape Noora's character.
#ask me#anon#i understand where you're coming from anon but me saying that isn't me stating my authority on the decision.#i asked a nb transmasc friend about writing noora and they#said making her a transfemme butch is cool#like i know asking people straight from the source who embody the specific identity is best and i would love to hear from people's#experiences. but you're zeroing in on a single sentence i wrote on an ask response about asking a transmasc person#about a fictional gnc transfemme character
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To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?
Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.
#in the 16th century canon he starts out as an introverted but sincerely well meaning guy that never quite manages to find his social niche#he was a sensitive kid and when subjected to enough pressure#his insecurity fearfulness and powerlessness mutate into distrust resentment aggression suffocating repression and self-restraint#I don't think he's a bad person in fact he consistently tries very hard to do the right thing#do his job properly avoid letting people down and get through life with a sense of dignity#but he is supposed to come across kind of cold impersonable and difficult to be around if you don't know him personally (and very few do)#people can sense there's something wrong with him and are put off by it#Vatican is a nest of vipers and as the stakes rise he retreats deeper into his coldblooded untouchable work persona#he has no choice but to start lying scheming blackmailing and eliminating his enemies#in order to maintain his position keep Vasco safe their relationship under wraps and his own head above water#essentially playing by the same rules everyone else in the holy see has been playing with for centuries#eventually he loses his spot as the secretary of state and is manipulated/forced to take on a role in the roman inquisition#and if people were sort of iffy about him before being the authority overseeing trials torture excommunications and executions doesn't help#and since he has so few allies and such an infamous reputation he's an easy target for scapegoating whenever necessary#towards the end it dawns on him that he's become the kind of twisted cruel corrupt person he used to fear and despise#and the guilt moral injury and abject self-loathing had largely sapped him of his will to live by the time the final assassin gets him#answered#anonymous#Machete#Vaschete lore#he thought his dream of priesthood would make him a better person more worthy of admiration safety and love but he climbed too high#and got roped up in the dangerous games that take place under god's nose and slowly got strangled to death
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It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.
People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.
And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.
If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.
#and ive heard even dumber origins of the cherokee family myth#such as an ancestor having a silly sounding name so the descendents just go 'oh she mustve been an indian!!!'#i was one of the few people who had my ancestry done on the facebook and had genuine cherokee ancestry#[though i had found it before it was just really validating to get it double checked and i started finding cousins (:]#like. i was told once when i was a kid by my grandma that my dad had cherokee ancestry and i didnt believe her. its wild that so many peopl#will make it a Fixture of their identity [or even just smth they bring up ever] with Zero proof#at least for cherokees from what ive seen its usually considered really disrespectful to claim to have cherokee ancestry without#actually having the documentation [like ancestors on the rolls]#and no a dna test doesnt count. nor does 'my dad is Clearly not white!' or 'high cheekbones' or old family photos or anything#i had this discussion with someone recently whose dad had been calling himself 3/4 native but didnt know exactly what nation ???? hello?#and its like... sorry but ur dad is like. italian lol.#[and blood quantum is bullshit anyway im tired of the 'im 1/16 cherokee' comments its dumb#cherokee nation does not have a blood quantum requirement. its pointless bringing it up in the discussion of who is or isnt cherokee]#also mandatory disclaimer that im reconnecting. i didnt grow up connected to the culture of even knowing my ancestry#this is all from my looking into this stuff over the past year or so. i cant claim to be an authority over anything regarding this#this is p much all my repeating things ive heard said by people who know a lot more than i do haha#man. and this isnt even starting to get into the fake tribe stuff. the only legit cherokee groups are the 3 federally recognized bands#cherokee nation of oklahoma. united keetoowah band. and the eastern band of cherokee indians.#any others that are state recognized or not at all arent acknowledged as legitimate by any of the legit cherokee groups#anyway. my final message goodb.ye#cherokee#tsalagi
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I love how Kunikida and Dazai are similar in the way that, yeah they both have moral compasses, but good luck figuring out what the hell they actually are
#every day I think abt knkd breaking into the weather station cause the report was wrong#and he also straight up has authority listed as one of his dislikes#and how kunikida knows and has stated that Dazai is wack and a bit fucked up but will always do what needs to be done to help people#he says it in 55 minutes I think#I want to study them like a bug#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bungo stray dogs#bsd manga#bsd dazai#dazai osamu#bsd kunikida#kunikida doppo#kunikidazai#knkdz#kunikida x dazai
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"what kind of idiot puts a flag pole behind the monastary?"
Monastary Wukong is peak character design. see him face.
i love this detail so much bc this is what a real monastary looks like^. wu cheng'en would have passed by this kind of building 800 years ago and thought to himself "hey that's a face" and he decided to make it a key plot point in his novel. the secret novel he wrote instead of doing his government work. god he's just like me fr.
#wu cheng'en#my cringefail novelist uncle who has failed every emperial exam <3#jttw#havoc in heaven 1964#enjoying xyj in the manner intended by the author; procrastinating important work and growing disillusioned with state bureaucracy
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What stops you from drawing Fear State Scarecrow cute and silly?
#like a mosquito#fear state#more like silly state#scarecrow#jonathan crane#drawn on my health care envelope thanks government I am definitely not thinking of rebelling against authority#doodle#fanart#batman#vinegarclown#creaman
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