#tim turner

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Grip of the Strangler (The Haunted Strangler) (1958) Robert Day

March 9th 2024

[fantastic-nonsense]

okay I take all of my initial dislike of the Batgirl spoilers I'd heard back

like the basic premise of the Jade Tiger twist? Terrible. He should have been a Ben/Carolyn child and Cass's cousin instead. But the execution of the Jade Tiger twist? 10/10, funniest possible character concept. Cass having an extremely normal, well-adjusted, and excitable civilian half-sibling who was co-raised and trained by the deadliest fighters in the world and stans her specifically is the funniest addition to the lore ever. Instantly sold. A premise this terrible had no right being this excellent straight out of the gate

[mangaken]

Danny the babysitter.

[bajablastlover1]

me praying to be a controversially young girlfriend of one of my celebrity crushes

[confusedmothboy]

I think of your dunmeshi Yellowjackets au a lot 

this literally reminded me i have old dunmeshi/yellowjackets au stuff that i never posted hold on

plus my catch-all aot/mob psycho/yellowjackets/dunmeshi stuff

im normal.

[girlbragging]

[aingeal98]

Tenji will be cass’s #1 brother the boys better watch out

I have faith that by the end of this arc he'll have eclipsed Damian and Jason and with a bit of extra effort and sibling bonding time he can probably jump over Dick too. The real challenge will be getting past Tim and Duke, he might need to create a full on Cass's favourite sibling tournament and challenge them both to a duel. Can he beat Duke? Not if the writers remember Duke is a ridiculously overpowered metahuman who can take down the whole family except maybe Cass and Babs with ease. So given the currently quality of bat writers Tenji has a solid 50 50 chance.

[casscainmainly]

That's what happens when your version of Cassandra Cain dies I guess :(.

Wait what lmaooooooo I havent read this???

Helppp if this is referring to my Tim Drake Gun Batman post yes his Cassandra Cain is indeed dead :(. Duela Dent killed her, along with Bette and Alfie:

From Teen Titans (2003) #18. Obviously Tim seems more upset about Alfred's death (and Bruce's) but I think it makes total sense that Cass had to die for this Tim to exist. Actually interesting to think about because for Cass, this would be the ULTIMATE betrayal of the Bat symbol - to murder people and justify it through the weight of the cowl. Like if evil Tim's Cass was alive she would've pounded him into the dirt after the first time he killed someone. Also if Cass had survived, she would've taken up the mantle, so evil gun Batman Tim really wouldn't have happened in the first place.

Basically Cass' existence prevents so much horrible stuff from happening we should thank her for her existence everyday 🙏

[curtvilescomic]

the many, many faces of Batman

[orchestrel]

can’t let them know I’m feral for a man trying to figure out his place in the world

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jay Kuo at Think Big Picture:

For years, critics of Vladimir Putin have been warning that the Russians have taken over parts of the Republican Party. They raised the alarm as Republicans defended the Russian leader, parroted clear Kremlin talking points, and became mules for disinformation campaigns. In recent weeks, that criticism has shifted to include not just Republicans who have left the party, including former representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, but current GOP members. Recently, two powerful Republican chairs of the House Intelligence Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee warned openly about how Russian propaganda has seeped into their party and even made its way into speeches on the House floor. Other members are now even openly questioning whether some of their fellow officials have been compromised and are being extorted. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested in a recent interview that the Russian spies may possess compromising tapes of some of his colleagues. It’s unclear where he’s getting his information or how accurate it is.

And then there’s this: According to a report by Politico, a number of European politicians were recently paid by Moscow to interfere in the upcoming EU elections by Russians pretending to be a “media” outlet called “Voice of Europe.” The Kremlin-backed operation used money to influence officials to take pro-Russian stances. Authorities have conducted some money seizures and launched an investigation into which members of the European Parliament may have accepted cash bribes. This in turn raises an important question for our own politics: Are the Russians doing the same with U.S. politicians, directly or indirectly? This piece walks through the three types of compromise—disinformation, extortion, and bribery—to give a sense of what we know and what we don’t really know, and, importantly, where we should be on our guard. As this summary will show, from the 2016 election till now, there’s enough Russian smoke now to assume there is a fire, one that compromises not only the integrity of our own system of elections, but the safety and security of the free world. Duped.

Over the past year, we have witnessed two distinct kinds of Russian propaganda in action. Both use our own elected officials and intelligence processes to amplify and even weaponize disinformation. The first kind originates online through Russian-backed internet channels. Information operatives begin spreading false rumors, for example about Ukraine, that then get repeated within right-wing silos before reaching willing purveyors of it within the halls of Congress. A chief culprit in Congress is Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Among the Russian-originated false narratives she has uplifted is the patently false claim that Ukraine is waging a war against Christianity while Russia is protecting it. On Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, Greene even claimed, without evidence, that Ukraine is “executing priests.”

Where would Greene have gotten this wild, concocted notion? We don’t have to look far. Russian talking points have included this gaslighting narrative for some time. The twist, of course, is that, according to the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance, it is the Russian army that has been torturing and executing priests and other religious figures, including 30 Ukrainian clergy killed and 26 held captive by Russian forces. The Russians have also targeted Baptists, whom they see as U.S. propagandists, according to an in-depth Time magazine piece on the violence and death directed toward evangelicals. The Congressional propaganda mouthpieces for Russia aren’t limited to the U.S. House. Over in the Senate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance was also recently accused of spreading Kremlin-backed disinformation about Ukraine, this time over spurious allegations that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy siphoned U.S. aid to purchase himself two luxury yachts.

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The accusation that Russians are presently extorting and blackmailing U.S. politicians into supporting Russia’s agenda has some broad appeal. It would help explain some mysteries, including why people like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suddenly is no longer as supportive of Ukraine as before and constantly kisses the ring of Donald Trump these days—after presciently saying in 2016 that the GOP would destroy itself if it nominated him. 

The problem has been that these accusations aren’t supported by much evidence. That means that political extortion by the Russians is either not a very prevalent practice, or it’s so effective that no one dares expose it. Either way, we’re left without much to go on. The Russian word kompromat came into common parlance around the time that Buzzfeed published a salacious story about another intelligence report back in early 2017. In that instance, the author, a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele, was concerned Russia had compromising data on the soon-to-be president, Donald Trump.

That report never wound up being substantiated, and its sources and funding came into question as well. But intelligence agencies are in general agreement that obtaining kompromat is standard practice by Russia, and someone like Trump could have been an easy mark considering the company that he kept (e.g. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell) and the projects he was involved with (e.g. the Miss Universe contest). Lately, the notion of kompromat emerged once again, this time not from Democratic-paid outfits but from within the GOP itself. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is one of the more “colorful” characters within the GOP, primarily known lately for being one of the eight members who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and even for getting into public jostling and shouting matches with McCarthy.

The Republican Party (or at least its pro-MAGA faction) is compromised by Russian kompromat.

[sephines]

cannot believe how hot aidan looks in this interview. i'm so attracted to him i don't know what to do with myself

[teaandslushies]

My fandom happy place.

[0-sunstranger-0]

Where's that one funny batfam post about a made up kid that never finds out about the vigilante business? Asking cuz I'm watching Gotham knights rn and the mc was literally that