#v;Warring States

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Michael Luciano at Mediaite:

The leader of the Heritage Foundation issued an unhinged declaration on Tuesday, telling liberals that they are currently on the business end of “the second American Revolution,” which could turn bloody if they resist. Kevin Roberts, the election conspiracy theorist who leads Heritage, appeared on the far-right Real America’s Voice network. He hailed a spate of conservative rulings handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, which on Monday decreed that Donald Trump and all presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts.” “We’re in the process of taking this country back,” Roberts told viewers. “No one in the audience should be despairing.”

Appearing on Tuesday's edition of Real America's Voice's War Room with guest host Dave Brat, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts made an unhinged declaration that America is currently in "the second American Revolution" stage.

From the 07.02.2024 edition of Real America's Voice's War Room:

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[tealmoth]

very important update: after wrapping up season 3, she decided that she was going to binge-watch season 4 in one go. so, uh, she finished it!! in one day!!! yesterday!!!!

and after the usual routine of squealing any time zeb and kallus were on screen together, saying “oh i love this” about kallus being a badass towards pryce, and ofc mourning kanan and screaming about ezra, we got the reach the epilogue (!!!!!) which she watched in total silence, before pausing the tv, making the MOST dying-animal-esque noise of all time, and yelling “THAT WAS SO CUUUUTE.” like, she didn’t care about anything else. jacen? whatever. ahsoka being back? could care less. the only thing that matters is that, in her words, “ZEB AND KALLUS GOT TO RUN AWAY TOGETHERRR.”

she’s since made up her mind that they adopted several lasat babies and lived happily ever after, and i could not be more thrilled by this development.

[b0bthebuilder35]

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

28/12/2024

[odinsblog]

He is such an inconsistent lying sack of shit. The only things Lindsey Graham is consistent at are lying and being inconsistent.

[woodblxssomcrowned]

Mixed stuff

I quite like the outfit on the right but unsure of the color

[autobotmedic]

There are times he does wonder what it would be like to engage in more social activities with others. To not feel overwhelmed in a larger group setting, listening to countless conversations and being apart of none of them, to keep opinions to himself because stating them when unwanted could cause multiple to fall silent and the cursed awkwardness would inevitably follow. And it's his fault, his alone, for being too blunt.

It was different when he was working in a hospital. It was different on a battlefield. He was focused. He worked at his greatest under pressure, accomplished feats and dragged lives back from the brink when many would have given up.

Isn't it strange how, now, the non-life threatening situations are the ones that become too much?

[chaiaurchaandni]

[somewherefornow]

ROWAN KENT as BLUE LANTERN in FUTURE STATE: HOUSE OF EL

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Continued » @woodblxssomcrowned

In some ways— this was surely a sin.

If not, total hypocrisy on the prince's end.

For years he's scoffed at his elder brother's affability towards the Senju clan. At times, he thought him weak, yet Izuna found himself entangled in the eldest daughter, sacrificing all that pride to steal a kiss, or two, or many.

It was none to gentle. Nothing the only princess deserved, which by fairytale standards should be gentlemanly, soft, yet firm. Izuna went against the standard when he pushed bodily into the princess, gathered all her hair into a tight tangle within his fist and pushed his lips onto hers. He seized her and her breaths as if it were his last taste of lust and hunted for more with such a unfounded greed.

Was it the lingering prejudice he held for the Senju? A sleight of spite he carried for her uncle, he doesn't know. His body reacted disjointedly; his mouth eating away at hers, his hand stroking along the pulse of her jugular, testing if it should fall into reflex and hug up into the column of her throat.

Kaname broke away. She read him from beneath the curtain of her lashes as he did her.

" I think, " he did not falter his grip instead allowing his rough hand to enclose the beautiful width of her neck, " I could drink from those lips of yours for an eternity and I'd still thirst for them. "

He leveraged the hold he had on her, using it to angle her head just enough to press a wanting kiss on her throat.

Flattery aside, he flicked those onyx eyes upwards to watch her expression," the better question is if you trust me. " His thumb presses into the skin, threatening to squeeze in the delicate cartilage, but not enough to bruise. Not yet. He had to know.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jill Filipovic at Slate:

Should the very state of being pregnant place women in a subclass of citizen, vulnerable to criminal prosecution or civil penalties for behavior that would be perfectly legal from a nonpregnant person? Judging by their proposed legislation and various legal antics, the anti-abortion movement says: Yes. Pregnant women simply should not have the same rights as any other U.S. citizen. Take, for example, efforts to criminalize the crossing of state lines for abortion. There is a very, very long tradition in the U.S. of allowing people to travel out of state to access medical care, and it’s so deeply ingrained we barely think about it. Consider, for example, the businesswoman who lives in New Jersey but works in New York City and so goes to the dentist in midtown Manhattan, or the dad who lives on the Kansas side of Kansas City but takes his sick kid to a specialist at a hospital on the Missouri side. A great many Americans don’t think twice about crossing state lines for health care. Abortion opponents are trying to change that for one group of people: pregnant women.

Conservative legal groups are already drafting model legislation to prevent pregnant women from traveling for abortions by legally penalizing anyone who helps them, a strategy used by the state of Texas in one of its abortion bans, which allows anyone in the U.S. to sue those who assist women with abortions—and be rewarded with a bounty paid by the state. The architect of that Texas abortion bounty law was Jonathan Mitchell, an anti-abortion activist (and Donald Trump lawyer) who is currently representing a Texas man in his quest to probe into his ex-girlfriend’s abortion, which she allegedly sought outside of their home state. Mitchell filed a petition to learn the details of this woman’s abortion for, he says, a potential future lawsuit. But to be clear, the woman in question did absolutely nothing illegal: Traveling out of state for health care, including abortion, is not against the law in Texas or anywhere else. It’s just that Mitchell and other abortion opponents would like to change that—and are apparently happy to represent controlling (and, in another case Mitchell took on, allegedly abusive) men to do it.

They’re also happy to reclassify pregnant women as a kind of sub-citizen who, by simple virtue of their pregnancy status, are not entitled to the same legal freedoms and protections as anyone else. A Texas woman who goes to a Colorado abortion clinic is being treated differently from any nonpregnant person who travels for a medical procedure—and you can bet that this categorization of pregnant people as suspect, should they travel out of state, will lead to all sorts of investigations and abuses.

Take this hypothetical: Say the anti-abortion movement succeeds and makes it a crime to travel out of state for an abortion. Say a woman in Idaho (where abortion laws are so extreme, they have no exceptions for saving a woman’s health) travels to Washington state, where abortion is legal, and gets her hands on abortion-inducing drugs. Say she’s not pregnant. Say she takes the drugs anyway. Has she committed a crime? Or, to use a more likely legal model, say Texas makes it a crime to help a woman travel for an abortion, and a Texas woman goes to Colorado, gets abortion-inducing drugs, and takes them, despite not being pregnant. Is the friend who helped buy her plane ticket still liable? Presumably not: No pregnancy means no abortion, which means no violation of an abortion ban. But if the two women in these scenarios had been pregnant, the legal calculus would be entirely different.

Or to use a perhaps more realistic scenario: Mifepristone, an abortion-inducing drug, is also commonly used to treat Cushing’s syndrome, and researchers say it has tremendous potential to treat other illnesses, too, from various cancers to PTSD. Under an anti-abortion legal scheme, if a Texas woman with Cushing’s syndrome travels out of state, gets mifepristone, and takes it, she (or those who help her) would face potential legal consequences only if she’s pregnant. It’s her status as a pregnant woman—not the act of traveling or even taking an abortion-inducing drug—that is the problem. And generally, the law frowns on making a person’s status—rather than their actions—the basis of a crime or a lawsuit. That’s part of treating all people equally under the law, and offering all people the equal protection of it.

Preventing pregnant women from crossing into a state for a legal medical procedure isn’t the only way in which the anti-abortion movement is attempting to curtail basic rights and protections for anyone carrying a pregnancy. Earlier this year, abortion opponents argued before the Supreme Court that pregnant patients should be treated differently than nonpregnant ones in cases of serious medical emergencies—that doctors and other health workers should be permitted to give pregnant women a substandard level of care, and to essentially refuse to appropriately stabilize them. If a woman comes in and is very ill, she’s entitled to one standard of care; if she comes in and is very ill and pregnant, that standard of care is lower in states that criminalize abortion.

At issue in the Supreme Court case, a ruling in which is expected early this summer, is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a law initially written to prevent hospitals from dumping seriously ill patients who couldn’t pay. Pregnant women in particular were often coming into hospitals in labor, only to be refused care; there were stories of women birthing in hallways and cars. EMTALA says that any hospital receiving federal Medicaid dollars (which is most hospitals, both public and private) must provide lifesaving care to anyone who walks through their doors, regardless of their ability to pay. That means that hospitals have an obligation to stabilize ill patients. (If they don’t have the ability to appropriately stabilize a patient, they must move the patient to a facility that does.)

Jill Filipovic wrote in Slate the insidious trend of anti-abortion hardliners making pregnant people 2nd class citizens by enacting laws criminalizing access to out-of-state abortion services (this is also applicable to gender-affirming care).

[nefarious-616-necromancer]

[rabbitcruiser]

Japan accepted the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender on August 14, 1945 (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).  

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[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

16/01/2025