#thats not also being into men in one way or another and hh ):

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imagine having like a wife and loving each other so much and living together and just respecting each other and genuinely caring abt each other and having cute dates and just having all that skfnlsxjkwbf i'm fuckimg yearning

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god out here seein butchleopardstar talkin bout their old wc oc and i just have this urge to show my old ones ESPEcially ones i still have

also a fun lil look into my shitty old art 

angel was like my big first MAIN wc oc and she was called angelwing/angelstar and was the leader of demonclan a group of demon monster cats. she was married to a dude named devilheart (who is now a retired oc sorry devilheart) and they had kids and they all fought the forcesss off eeeeviiil. 

i still  own her and love her, my special first oc,,

Devilheart who is a now retired oc he was angelstars mate and was just a demon who was a big softy who loved his wife but had a temper for annoying people

dragonflight another member of demonclan and one of angelstars friends, he had the stupid storyline of being in love with angelstar despite her having a family and then also being in an unhappy marriage with a lady named blizzardlove

hes a retired oc

blizzardlove who was dragonflight mate and had the exact same storyline but with her being in love with devilheart.

she is oc retired now, but if i was smarter then i woulda relized she was in love with angel

brightflower (now just bright) was one of angelstar and devilhearts kids and was just a very sweet big hearted girl shes still that and loves her mom very much shes just not a cat anymore and is like her current moms story and is in lesbians with one of their evil mortal enemies pride

puretime (now just pure) was another one of angelstars kids who was just for the most part a regular cat but like a werewolf became a giant unstoppable monster on a blue moon that attacks everyone. hes very shy and nervous and scared of himself current him i still own and hes just about the same but he’s people, not related to angel and whatever but he still got scary werewolf live monsters livin in him

ghost flower was the third kid of angelstar and devilheart. she was a ghost cat demon thing and was super rowdy and i loved her a lot of the three. she was angelstars deputy.

now she retired having not been used in years

god THIs oc i didnt even remember existed until i saw her on my DA. her name is Applebabble she was apparently Puretimes daughter and has a speech impediment but the ability to copy voices.

she defiantly got retired oops lol

Envy who was the daughter of Angelstars mortal enemy Reborn but envhdsgsdk envy hated being apart of a family of evil and just wanted to be a normal good person. shes TECHNICALLY not retired i still draw her mom and sibling but i also havent drawn her in years

sinborn the first born on Reborn and favirote daughter.

she means and cruel and knows she favorite and plays to it. she steps on her sisters all the time and its a lil bastard

she was retired a long time ago,,,

Pride who was reborns (at the time son) third daughter who was just a typical scummy bastard who fell in love with angelstars daughter brightflower and is just trying to balance being super evil with being smithened by one of the sweetest lil light in the universe and pride still the same except lesbians now

reborn, the big miss bady of my childhood she was just totally evil through and through and loved to be bad and be a pain on angelstars life. now shes still angelstars mortal enemy but with homoerotic subtext

solarspark, this ugly ugly design im so sorry i did that to you apparently he was suppous to be Brightflowers son who had an obsession with know who his mystery father was i guess defiantly a retired oc

Mirrorpool, Solarsparks brother. who was a lot chiller and big ‘no care’ attitude. he loved his mother and was very sure of himself and his skills.

a retired oc that i still do love the design on. simple but cute

god plush was a stupid ass character whos whole thing was that he could stand and was in love with a gang member but in a no homo way and was defiantly homophobic

now hes just plush the guy defiantly and openly gay for the hot gang leader. and he still stands and is just a furry oc now

Nightkit, designed for a wc rp group on DA, drew her once and then forgot she existed lol

Waxwhisker, also made for that group of wc Rp stuff that i immediately forgot about. he meant to be in waterlcan

timetravler who was as his named said, is a timetravler. he would just show up around leafclan who take people on timetraveling adventures. and was V gay he would often turn these adventures into romantic gestures for handsome men.

i still own this one! idk why i felt like i couldnt let him go,,,

east who was apart of my ‘compass ocs’ he was just a fancy cat who raised his adoptive son west and hate siblings of north and west. they really jdshgds didnt have much story beyond that? idk why i made them

hes just a bunny named east now lol

then west to go along with east. he was just baby cowboy supreme.

south who was just big big meany, she was just very grumpy and violent. 

souths brother north who hh is a polar bear now and doesnt have a full up to dte ref, im workin on it lol

but got his old art and design, bad

spookyfire who was apart of my old rp friends clan Hauntedclan and they lived in an abandond mansion. she ws married to the leader lizardstar and they had maNY baby

she is retired U.U

Wickedspell, one of spookyfires many baby

she makes potions and is a lil witch

i tried to revamp her a few times over the years but yknow

things happen

Battlestar, another of spookyfires kids, leader after Lizardstar of Hauntedclan

retired character

Zerogravity anOTher one of spookyfires kiddos she was a sweet lil lady who was with a guy named Arksoul who stood by her after she learned herself incapable of kids.

retired character

wire who was the leader of my own baby version of bloodclan, known as savageclan. wire was an absolute monster who abused those around him and threaten even those he loved to get what he wanted.

his clan was located in a nearby abandoned power plant

his mate scrawnyskull left him with their kids after she realized how horrible he was.

scrawnyskull, Wires ex mate. she and her sister was a pet taken from her home by savageclan cats and raised in their terrible ways. she was later made wires mate. When scrawnyskull realized how far wire was willing to go to get what he wanted, she left behind her life in savage clan to raise her kids in a nearby clan iceclan.

now shes just a big monster lady oc who loves her babies

flora, shes scrawnyskulls daughter

thats about it, and i still have her around

phantum, scrawnyskulls son whos just a lil guy

storm, another one os scrawnyskulls kids, a stubborn lil guy

retired oc

Flare, scrawnyskulls sister who like swanyskull was taken from her home as a pet and made a member of savageclan. she too late realized how bad savageclan is after her sister left 

now she just a kitty cat furry oc lol shes the fun aunt

Force, one of my savageclan memebers she hated savageclanbut leaving wasnt  really an option

retired oc

another savageclan clan oc named scratch, he knew savageclan was bad but figured noone else would have him at this point

retired oc

twitch, another savageclan character. lazy bastard

retired oc

killier, another saveclan kitty who was stolen from his home as a kid and is now one of wires trusted bodygaurds

Fang, lil lady of savageclan

retired oc

badger and wolf, savageclan bastard brothers

oh they irritating

retired oc

Hollow, savageclan cat. saved by savageclan warriors as a child would have died if not for them. feels in dept to them

retired oc

snipe, savageclan warrior taken from his pet home at a young age. learning of his orgins in adulthood came to have a fascination for humans

retired oc

Fox savageclan lady

retired oc

Diamond, pretty savageclan lady

retired oc

leafclan warrior SafariPuma

now hes just a big muscle tiddy kitty

bright?? who was just a cat made of blood?

retired oc

cabbitleap, just a cat rabbit grumpy man

retired oc

icestar, leader of my iceclan i made forever ago

retired oc

rosedew, daughter of icestar and her mate snaketail

ragingstar, first leader of iceclan. spunky loud lady

now shes is named flamingo and is mmm creature!

goddessstar, leader of stellarclan

retired oc

Dim horrible daughter of goddesstar 

retired ocs

silentnight, i think i made her just to have that name

retired oc

his name is fucking coxdream, he was half cat half fox and at age 10 or whatever just DID not relize the motherfucker name sounded like that

now his name is still cox dream and now hes just a horny joke/serious character lol 

Gracie, a loner who easily fell in love and constantly had her heart broken

now shes a zombie and falls in love and then eats the people she likes which sucks

B their a ninja cat

Dagger, cyborg cat who was experimented on

now shes a cool fortune teller with robot parts for fun

wasp was probably one of my first cat ocs when i started being into warriors  i still have him and love him and im currently designing him a boyfriend,,

brown who was friends with wasp 

i think she could technically be said to be one of my first fursonas lol

retired oc

badsmog, never did much wqith her beyond design

still have her as smog and she is creature

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Democrats sharpen attacks on Trump administration on drug prices and pre-existing conditions

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Democrats sharpen attacks on Trump administration on drug prices and pre-existing conditions

WASHINGTON – According to President Donald Trump, drug companies should today, Wednesday, be voluntarily announcing massive reductions in the price of their medicines.

When the president announced his blueprint for addressing rising drug costs on May 30, he declared that within two weeks companies would willingly drop prices. That would be today, Wednesday.

Cutting the nations rising drug costs is a bipartisan goal, and for a time Democrats shared President Trumps campaign vision for cracking down on pharmaceutical companies and giving the government more power to negotiate deals. But Trump has walked back some of those positions, and at a Senate hearing Tuesday morning, the Democrats on the panel let Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar know they were not impressed with the White House plan.

The only health care price [Trump] has dropped is his former secretary, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., during her opening statement, referring to former HHS secretary Tom Price who resigned after it was revealed he traveled on pricey private jets instead of commercial airplanes.

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The high cost of prescription drugs is a thorny issue because of the unusually decentralized nature of U.S. health-care system, with many causes and culprits. Its also an issue that Democrats – and some Republicans – believe has political resonance leading up to the 2018 midterms, and Democratic lawmakers previewed what they think could be potent lines of attack in their questioning of Azar on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Thats also true for the issue of whether those with pre-existing health conditions can be denied insurance or charged more for it after the Trump administration has now said it wont defend the Affordable Care Act court.

Some of the toughest criticism came from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who wanted to know which companies were lowering prices this week as the president said they would.

The secretary, testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said that several drug manufacturers wanted to lower prices, but were facing challenges. Azar said those companies feared pharmacy benefit managers would discriminate against them by dropping them from the lists of medicines covered by an insurer.

As our Post colleague Amy Goldstein reported, Azars remarks were consistent with the administrations portrayal of middle men, not the pharmaceutical industry itself, as the root of the nations high drug prices. He reiterated that direct government negotiation of drug prices in the vast Medicare program – a longtime Democratic goal that Trump embraced during his campaign – would be ineffective.

Warren cut off Azar several times to clarify that no companies were near cutting prices as the president had said.

Mr. Secretary, you said you wanted to get tough on drug companies, she said. But under your approach, it seems that the drug companies can just keep charging people more and more. The only thing youve done is set it up so maybe if a drug company reduces a price, you can give them a cheap P.R. moment and then let them jack up prices later.

Warren also challenged Azar on the administrations plan to move drugs administered through Medicare Part B to the supplemental Medicare Part D, where pharmacy benefit managers negotiate prices with drugmakers. She wanted assurance that no one on Medicare would end up paying higher prices as a result of the change. Azar responded that protecting Medicare beneficiaries was the primary concern, but did not give Warren the definitive answer she sought. (Continued below.)

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You cannot guarantee that there will not be Medicare beneficiaries who will be paying more, Warren insisted.

Other Democrats piled on:

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., called it ridiculous that President Trump and Azar blame other countries that do have the power to negotiate lower drug prices for the high prices here. He said the U.S. government should be able to approach drugmakers and say it wants the same rates they give to other countries. Kaine said the U.S. government should at least set up a pilot program and try negotiating best prices on a few high-priced drugs.

Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., wanted to know why drug companies stocks went up after Trump announced his proposal. She suggested it was difficult to believe that Azar, who headed the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly before being tapped to run HHS, was in good faith pushing for a bill to lower prices.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., asked Azar why Trump went back on his word about allowing FDA-approved drugs to be imported from other countries, specifically Canada. Azar said the president hasnt changed his mind but there needed to be a way to ensure such a practice was done safely. Sanders replied, I always have a hard time understanding that we can safely – quote, unquote – import fish, poultry from all over the world, and, somehow, from a highly developed country on our border, we cannot figure out a way to bring those products back into this country.

Azar also parried lots of questions on an issue near-and-dear to Democrats hearts, and another promise Trump made on the campaign trail: Not to roll back the requirement that insurance companies cover those customers who have pre-existing conditions. Azar said that he personally supports affordable health care for those with pre-existing conditions – one of the most popular planks of the ACA — but didnt weigh in on a Trump administration decision not to defend the ACA in court against a lawsuit from states who argue the whole law is invalid because the individual mandate was eliminated as part of last years GOP tax overhaul.

Calling it a constitutional position . . . not a policy position, Azar sidestepped grilling on whether he agreed with a legal brief filed last week by Justice Department attorneys stating they would not defend the Affordable Care Act in a federal lawsuit by Texas and 19 other Republican-led states, Amy reports.

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., called the administrations position a sick joke, and pointedly queried: Will you encourage the Trump administration to change its position? Azar, a lawyer and former HHS general counsel, replied that we do believe in finding solutions on the matter of preexisting conditions and the matter of affordability, regardless of the litigation.

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Too Crooked to Fail: Why Scott Pruitt Still Has His Job (for Now)

Why hasnt Scott Pruitt been fired?

His scandals are worse than those of already-ousted Trump administration officials. Hes even committed the cardinal sin of directly contravening a White House demand. So how come Pruitt still has his job, when David Shulkin, Tom Price, Gary Cohn, Rex Tillerson, and Rob Porter dont?

Because Pruitt is in bedalmost literallywith the very class of donors President Trump needs to keep on his good side. To be sure, there are others with Pruitts connections in the fossil fuel industrybut firing him will still be hard. Pruitt isnt less corrupt than those who have departed; hes more corrupt. Hes too crooked to fail.

First, a brief review of the EPA administrators misdeeds.

He baldly lied to Congress during his confirmation process, saying he didnt use his private email for public business, when conclusive evidence showed he did. Indeed, he used it to coordinate strategy with Big Oil, which is why he lied about it in his sworn statements. Thats a felony.

After the White House denied Pruitts request to give two close aides a raise, he did it anyway, exploiting a legal provision meant to hire hydrology experts to instead pay the aides. Thats a misuse of the Safe Drinking Water Act, and perhaps more important, a direct refusal to follow the White Houses instructions.

It turns out that one of those aides, Millan Hupp, coordinated Pruitts personal housing search in D.C. Thats a violation of government ethics rules.

While that search was underway, Pruitt took a below-market rent deal from a lobbyist whose firm was pushing for a controversial gas pipeline (which Pruitt approved). That constitutes an undisclosed gift from the lobbyist to Pruitt.

As first reported by The Daily Beast, that lobbyist, Steven Hart, has bankrolled Pruitts career for years and even held GOP fundraisers in the townhouse while Pruitt was staying there. Icing on the cake: Taxpayers had to pay Hart $50 a night for the rent deal.

And then theres the money.

Pruitt has racked up over $118,000 in first-class air travel in 2017, whining that our toxic political climate means that people arent nice to him in coach. (Ironically, some of the people being mean to Pruitt are affected by actual toxic chemicals that Pruitts EPA has chosen not to regulate.) Hes spent $58,000 of that taxpayer money flying back and forth from Oklahoma, where he is rumored to be mulling a Senate run.

Pruitt even managed to insult House Republicans by failing to turn over his travel documents to them on time.

Pruitt also blew $36,000 on a military jet to New York in order to catch a $7,003 flight to Rome for a conference. He spent $40,000 to fly to Morocco to promote natural gas exports.

And $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth in his office. And $800,000 (and counting) for a round-the-clock security detail that even went with Pruitts family to Disney World.

Pruitts corruption isnt about a single quid-pro-quo. Its about long-term relationships that Trump himself needs.

He tried to spend $120,000 of taxpayer money to hire a shady PR firm that has targeted journalists, until news of that idea broke and the contract was canceled.

Just one of these offenses is enough for Trump to yell Youre fired. Former HHS secretary Tom Price, for example, was forced out after spending $51,887 of taxpayer funds on charter planesa fraction of Pruitts first-class bills.

So why is Trump yelling Weve got your back instead? Why is Pruitt different?

Easy: Follow the money.

Pruitts not just faithfully executing Trumps promises to roll back regulations. Hes the conduit between Trump and the fossil fuel industry.

Remember, Pruitt, when he was attorney general of Oklahoma, cut and pasted a letter drafted for him by Devon Energy onto his own stationery. As described in an in-depth New York Times report, Devon has since partnered with Pruitt to roll back a host of environmental rules, particularly governing methane and fracking, and in exchange, has poured money into the campaign chests of numerous Republicans.

So have Chevron, Shell, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute.

Of course, Pruitt has already provided Big Oil with an outstanding return on investment. A 90 percent reduction in demands to power plants to conform to clean air rules. Seven hundred employees forced out of EPA, with no replacements named. Regulations nullified. The historic Clean Power Plan scrapped. Discussions of climate change banned. Scientists fired, replaced by industry yes-men.

But these plums are just the short-term rewards. Long term, Pruitt is the key link between the Trump administration and Big Oil. As shown in another New York Times expos, he meets with industry representatives all the time, more than with any other constituency, and often behind closed doors. Pruitts corruption isnt about a single quid-pro-quo. Its about long-term relationships that Trump himself needs.

Pruitt also has his own funding connections. As revealed by the nonprofit MapLight, Pruitt is the former chairman of the Rule of Law Defense Fund, which was bankrolled by more than $750,000 in conservative dark money, funneled through the Judicial Crisis Network (itself a creature of the dark money group Wellspring Corporation), the Rule of Law Project, and Koch brothers-affiliated Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce.

These players are not Robert Mercer. Theyre not Trump diehards, with the possible exception of JCN, originally the brainchild of Jay Sekulow, now Trumps attorney. Indeed, many of themlike the Koch brotherswere once opposed to Trump. They are fairweather fans, and right now Pruitt is their teams franchise player.

Now you can see why Pruitt has, thus far, has survived, even though men have been fired for far lighter offenses. Trump cant afford to fire him. Pruitt is just too corrupt to fail.

But there may be a way out.

Robert Murray, the CEO of Murray Energy, donated $300,000 to Trumps inauguration. Murray Energy just donated $1 million to Trumps super PAC. Last year, Murray wrote a now-infamous memo listing 16 specific regulations he wanted rolled back by various agencies. All 16 have been or are being rolled back.

Murrays leading lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, is now No. 2 at Pruitts EPA. If Pruitt goes, Wheeler appears next in line. Hes also a long-term climate denialist, and, to boot, a big fan of Milo Yiannopoulos. And hes got the same caliber of corporate connections as Pruitt.

So if Pruitt truly has to go, Wheeler can step into his shoes. In Trumps world, no one is truly irreplaceable.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/too-crooked-to-fail-why-scott-pruitt-still-has-his-job-for-now

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