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tdvzine · 1 year ago

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Welcome to our zine page! We are the mod team who are organizing the @iwtvbigbang event, and now have our sights set on a zine. As our bio says, it’s an event made by fans, for fans - and all proceeds will be donated to charity. We believe in encouraging a welcoming sense of community and inclusivity, which is why our zine is an open call event for all levels of the creative spirit. All ratings, all pairings, will be accepted!

If you’d like to read a bit more, you can click below the cut to see the goals, and tentative timeline, or head over to the rules & faq post. You can also find our carrd here with all social media platforms links, and our email, embedded.

Goals

The goal is a collaborative effort to gather content creators - writers and artists, including merchandise creators - through an application process. With feedback and encouragement between fellow creators and the mod team via emails and a private discord server, we hope to create a digital fandom zine of exclusive original content by early next year. With formatting done, and production costs quoted, we will launch a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the project in the spring of 2024. Our goal is to have physical copies, and added merch bundles, in people’s hands by late spring 🙂

All proceeds remaining after processing fees, taxes, production and shipping costs will then be donated to two charities (one in Louisiana, and one international) as voted on by our contributors.

Timeline

September:

September 5th - social media pages launch

September 8th - interest check launches

September 22nd - interest check closes

September 15th - 30th - secure additional mods

October:

Oct 1 - Launch open call application

Oct 22 - Close open call applications

Oct 30 (or earlier) - Discord server invites are sent out

November:

Nov 6-10 - Anon charity voting (one for Louisiana, one international)

Nov 13-19 - Anon cover voting

Nov 20 - Contributor check-in form opens (no minimum progress required)

December:

Dec 4 - Contributor check-in form closes

January:

Jan 1 - Submission form opens (submissions will be checked on a rolling basis, early submissions get early feedback!)

Jan 15 - Submissions and merch designs due

Jan 17(at the latest) - Mods give submissions a green check or ask for edits/corrections as needed

Jan 31 - Corrections/edits for submissions are due

February:

Zine formatting and preparation for the launch of the crowdfunding campaign (duration dependent on final amount of submissions)

Potential start of the crowdfunding campaign

March:

Start/end of crowdfunding campaign

April:

Zine and merch production underway

Backer survey/pledge manager is sent out

May:

All physical items are received, counted, and quality-checked

Pre-orders for digital zines and digital goods go live

June:

Shipments are sent out

July:

Digital copies for all backers are made available two weeks after shipping begins, but before leftover store opens

Leftovers store opens

Charity donation is made & donation receipts shared on our platforms

Exclusivity is lifted and participants are encouraged to share their submissions with the public

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cyarsk52-20 · 17 days ago

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these moments are giving heavy deep negro sigh

Here Are the Worst Black Moments of 2024

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Though 2024 came with a handful of highs, it also came with a handful of lows in everything from the political sphere to entertainment and pop culture.

As the year comes to a close, we thought it would be fitting to take a look back on some of the worst moments of 2024 and reflect on the “Ls” Black people took as a collective. Hopefully, by the time 2025 rolls around we can all put these things in the rearview mirror and gain some more “Ws” in the next 12 months.

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Vice President Kamala Harris Losing the 2024 Presidential Election

Now you already know we had to start off strong with one of the biggest, worst moments of the year. Despite making history with record donations and strong debate performances, it still wasn’t enough for Vice President Kamala Harris to win the presidential election. Her loss sparked sadness, frustration and resolve from Black women in particular who decided they’d no longer play their part in helping save the nation from itself anymore. and when black ppl said that they are done it means they are DONE! So if you wonder why they are not gonna be outraged by the upcoming deportations remember this: those who voted for it could have prevented this.

Mike Tyson Losing the Fight Against Jake Paul

Now sure, maybe we all shouldn’t have really expected a nearly 59-year-old boxing champion to win a fight against somebody nearly 30 years his junior, but seeing Mike Tyson—of all fighters��get tired and worn out and ultimately lose against Jake Paul was a moment of time I, personally, wish we all didn’t have to witness.

James Earl Jones’ Death

After years of false alarms of James Earl Jones’ death on social media, folks all over were shocked when it was announced the “Star Wars” and “Lion King” star had actually transitioned to the other side on Sep. 9.

Frankie Beverly’s Death

As if losing James Earl Jones wasn’t bad enough, less than 24 hours later, Black folks were dealt another blow when we learned that beloved singer Frankie Beverly died. As one of the voices that were paramount to the soundtrack of Black America, Beverly’s death was and still is hard to deal with.

Tito Jackson’s Death

Not even five days after Frankie Beverly’s death, the grief of Black America was deepened even more when the news that Jackson 5 member Tito Jackson had passed away on Sep. 15. Having lost three legends back to back to back, the month of September definitely got off to a rough start. Seriously to hades with this freaking month of September, you horrid little bastard (I’m kidding, but seriously come back when you’re not as bad in 2025, you hear me)

Quincy Jones’ Death

It was already a hard year when it came to losing music legends but the cake was arguably taken when the news of Quincy Jones’ death on Nov. 3 was made public. With his talents and contributions spanning across TV and film in addition to music—Jones’ legacy will undoubtedly live beyond him for years to come.

“The American Society of Magical Negros” Release

The swiftness with which Black Twitter dragged the trailer for “The American Society of Magical Negroes” back in Dec. 2023, should’ve been a good indicator of how badly the movie would be received when it hit theaters the following March. But it’s clear that it wasn’t as the film received double lashings shortly after its release thanks to the lack of actual magical negroes using their powers for other Black folks and the non-Black love interest to name a few things. If you’re going to make a powerful movie regarding black ppl with magic you better make it at least slightly enjoyable or just watch the first(and unfortunately only) season of HBO lovecraft country

Raygun Winning Breakdancing at the Olympics

The news that breakdancing was an official category in the 2024 Olympics put a lot of smiles on a lot of Black folks’ faces. But, those smiles were quickly wiped away when Australian dancer with the rhythm of a wet macaroni noodle and puzzling choreography got all the attention.

I’m mad this moment will forever be etched in history because it was truly horrific. Like it’s over fifty years since breakdancing and this is what it led to? The breakdancers who went to the big dance show in the sky are turning into their graves

“DEI Mayor” & the Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

As if seeing the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore shockingly collapse back in March wasn’t one thing, seeing the racist response to Mayor Brandon Scott and him being called the “DEI Mayor” in the aftermath made an already bad situation that much worse. Thankfully he handled it with tact and wit but that still didn’t take away from the overt racism lobbed against him.

John Amos’ Messy Death & Funerals

Prior to John Amos’ death on Aug. 21, we’d all gotten privy to the drama that was brewing between his two children: daughter Shannon and son KC. But things took an even weirder turn for the worse when the world found out about the elder Amos’ death and that he was cremated nearly two months after he’d already passed away. What followed was even more online mess between his kids and even two separate funerals.

Ray J’s Fight With Diddy’s Kids and the Unlikely Mediator

Though Sean “Diddy” Combs has enough problems to deal with on his own thanks to his federal indictment, his kids Justin, Quincy and Christian apparently took up the mantle to defend him when they engaged in a “heated face off” with Ray J of all people after a Halloween party back in Oct. Fortunately Chris Brown (yes, that Chris Brown) was there to diffuse the situation.

Unfortunately, this incident would be the kickoff to several more bizarre Ray J moments which included a wide-ranging and weird interview with Nicki Minaj, allegations about attempts on his life and more. Ray j, Just stop. Seriously

Tyrese Not Retiring From Social Media

Though Tyrese Gibson has given us out fair share of memes and memorable interviews, he sparked joy all over when he announced he’d be retiring from social media—leading us all to believe we’d finally be spared from his antics.

Sadly, that admission proved to be a lie as the “Lately” singer continued to post and ended up adding even more fodder for conversation thanks to his emotional “Breakfast Club” interview and a bizarre Instagram post in which he refuted rumors he was gay and a devil worshipper.

R. Kelly’s Daughter Heartbreaking Abuse Revelation

Though it’s well documented just how much harm R. Kelly inflicted on numerous young girls and boys, the internet was set ablaze back in October when a new documentary about the disgraced R&B singer revealed that he’d allegedly sexually abused his own daughter Buku Abi. it’s already bad enough that he abused many young boys and girls but his own daughter?!? 31 years in prison is not enough for him, he got a sweetheart sentence.

Nikki Giovanni’s Death

In the last month of 2024, just when we thought we’d be spared another heartbreaking death: esteemed author, poet, and activist Nikki Giovanni passed away on Dec. 10. Just like with the previous deaths of Frankie Beverly, James Earl Jones, Tito Jackson, and Quincy Jones—Black folks around the country had to grieve once again over the loss of yet another legend

#best of 2024

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flaame · 4 months ago

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Intro Post ?!

(since my last one is outdated as hell) (includes extra things about me and my DNI / BYF)

🥀 Quill

🦇 Minor (14-15), Dec.24

🥀 Transmasc Genderflorer (He/Vey/it)

🦇 Quite a few labels but the main ones are aromantic, pan(platonic), and aceflux

🥀 Digital artist specializing in feral, anthro, and more recently human(oid) art

🦇 Neurodivergent (ADHD), very likely disabled (N24, currently looking into diagnosis), anxiety disorder (via nyctophobia + pyrophobia)

DNI :

Basic DNI Criteria

If you’re against neopronouns, xenogenders, etc

Transmed / TERF / Truscum / Transphobe / etc (I’m like,, I’m literally a transmasc genderflorer person. Lol)

If you are ok with / costume / support feral NSFW

Are heavily right-wing, a Trump Supporter, a conspiracy theorist, or anything of the sort. If you are any of these then I will block you for personal comfort.

If you are an NSFW-centered account

If you support or are an ‘AI Artist’

If you are pro-life / anti-abortion. Your beliefs genuinely scare the shit out of me.

BYF / BYI :

I have some major trauma due to politics, to the point where I am unsure if I’ll even vote when I’m old enough to. For that reason, please do not bring them up around me unless I bring them up first.

As previously said, I have nyctophobia and pyrophobia, which for me the two are particularly bad. Do /not/ show me pictures of wildfires or bring them up please. Same goes for that ‘momo’ creepypasta thing.

I swear pretty freely if that wasn’t apparent already! If you don’t want me to swear around you then please let me know ^^

I have a very hard time telling when someone is teasing me, even if I am close to them / know them. Please don’t tease me and if needed then please use tonetags!

I think I’d consider myself as someone who kins, specifically I’d consider myself to kin Shiver from Splatoon 3 (+ Hollyleaf from Warrior Cats). I don’t really mind people who also kin them, but if you’d be comfortable not interacting with me because you also kin them then that’s fine! (/gen)

EXTRA NOTES / THINGS TO KNOW :

Due to my own personal irl (mental) safety, as of September 1st I’ve had to stay off Tumblr for a while. I am slowly beginning to come back as of September 18th, but for that safety reason I will not be uploading my art as much as I did for a while.

I block somewhat freely. If I see that you are queerphobic, bigoted, very right-wing, a Trump supporter, ableist, pro-life, or ANYTHING of the sort then I will block you.

I’m always open for conversation! However if you do want to talk to me then it’d be appreciated if you could do so on ToyHouse (Flaame) or Discord (Flaaminq), and if you do so through disc then please let me know where you came from ^^

INTERESTS :

SHARKS!!!!! Literally BIGGEST hyperfixation for me rn omg pleasepleaseplease talk to me about them

Dog breeds! Been fixated on them for like 7 years now lol

Splatoon (especially,,, especially Shiver……)

Panic! At The Disco

Set It Off

My ocs (feel free to ask me about ANY of them!! Always happy to share :3)

ok uh well that should be all!! Again feel free to talk to me about anything really, just preferred that you do it offsite like on Toyhouse or Discord :DD

#intro post #blog intro #about #about me #txt #introductory post

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p-and-p-admin · 1 year ago

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Hello Folks! Round 1 of elimination for our contribution to QUESTIVAL has closed and it is time for the FINAL ROUND of eliminations.

The other participating groups (Hearts & Cauldrons, Insufferable Know It Alls, Sevmione Society, Page 394 and HP Fanworks Central) are also hard at work on their contributions to the event.

Each participating group has been asked to provide a short list of 5 options for one of the elements of a quest story.

Potion & Parchment will be providing the list of "MacGuffins". (A definition of a MacGuffin is in the picture below)

We started with 15 potential MacGuffins, we eliminated 5 in the first round and have one more round of eliminations to go!

The voting for each round of eliminations will be open for 14 days.

Round 2. 15th - 28th Dec

So vote now for the objects you LEAST want to read about: https://forms.gle/ynnVyTtLMrp3Cy3G8

#snamione #sevmione #sshg fanfiction #sshg #snamione fanfiction

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naturecoaster · 1 year ago

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District Declares Modified Phase I Water Shortage

Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties will be limited to once-per-week lawn watering beginning Dec. 1 District Declares Modified Phase I Water Shortage The Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) Governing Board voted today to declare a Modified Phase I Water Shortage due to ongoing dry conditions throughout the region and increasing water supply concerns. The restrictions apply to all of Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota and Sumter counties; portions of Charlotte, Highlands and Lake counties; the City of Dunnellon and The Villages in Marion County; and the portion of Gasparilla Island in Lee County from Nov. 21, 2023 through July 1, 2024. The District received lower than normal rainfall during its summer rainy season and currently has a 9.2-inch districtwide rainfall deficit compared to the average 12-month total. In addition, water levels in the District’s water resources, such as aquifers, rivers and lakes, are beginning to decline. The Modified Phase I Water Shortage Order does not change allowable watering schedules for most counties, however it does prohibit “wasteful and unnecessary” water use and twice-per-week lawn watering schedules remain in effect except where stricter measures have been imposed by local governments. Residents are asked to check their irrigation systems to ensure they are working properly. This means testing and repairing broken pipes and leaks, and fixing damaged or tilted sprinkler heads. Residents should also check their irrigation timer to ensure the settings are correct and the rain sensor is working properly. However, as of Dec. 1, Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties will be limited to once-per-week lawn watering. These additional restrictions are needed because Tampa Bay Water, which supplies water to most of the three-county area, was unable to completely refill the 15-billion-gallon C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir this summer due to the lower-than-normal rainfall. Once-per-week lawn watering days and times are as follows unless your city or county has a different schedule or stricter hours in effect (Citrus, Hernando and Sarasota counties, and the cities of Dunedin and Venice, have local ordinances that remain on one-day-per-week schedules): - If your address (house number) ends in... - ...0 or 1, water only on Monday - ...2 or 3, water only on Tuesday - ...4 or 5, water only on Wednesday - ...6 or 7, water only on Thursday - ...8 or 9*, water only on Friday * and locations without a discernible address - Unless your city or county already has stricter hours in effect, properties under two acres in size may only water before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m. - Unless your city or county already has stricter hours in effect, properties two acres or larger may only water before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m. - Low-volume watering of plants and shrubs (micro-irrigation, soaker hoses, hand watering) is allowed any day and any time. The order also requires local utilities to review and implement procedures for enforcing year-round water conservation measures and water shortage restrictions, including reporting enforcement activity to the District. The District also continues to work closely with Tampa Bay Water to ensure a sustainable water supply for the Tampa Bay region. For additional information about the Modified Phase I Water Shortage Order, visit the District’s website WaterMatters.org/Restrictions. For water conserving tips, visit WaterMatters.org/Water101. Read the full article

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mercy-mercie-mercymorn · 1 year ago

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agro's oc master list (1/?)

☆ star people ☆

i'll be adding links when/if i remember, as well as finishing this list.....eventually. just ask if u want some reference images for characters i don't have on artfight or need additional info! anyways, the whole character vomit is under the cut :)

angel

human?: nope, asteriai (star nymph)

bday: sep 15

deal: after being born without magic, she became the asteriai vessel of her long-dead titan ancestor, Astraea (Virgo). works as a TA for her friend, an anthropology professor. has more plushies than space on her bed. a pacifist at heart.

powers: can summon a spear and a pair of golden light wings. can also heal, which she does considerably more.

likes: animals, sweets, and sleeping. dislikes: bugs, the heat, and christmas music.

songs: Sleep (Conrad Hillis Remix) - Soul Push, Colder Parts - HUNNY, All Will Be Well - Gabe Dixon

rose

name: rose (that’s it) (formerly, demon—not like 😈 but Δήμων, meaning “the people”. it’s important to me that you know that.)

human?: nope, kimmerian (void spirit) (she’s just here because i couldn’t think of a better place to put her. it makes sense with the lore)

bday: dec 23

deal: angel’s girlfriend. the last descendant of a long-dead race who spurned fate. an emo shit and a mean lesbian (affectionate). takes no shit. unless it’s from angel. has a dry sense of humor. doesn’t like authority.

powers: hydromancy! can do a bunch of fuck you magic with water. has weird dream-controlling magic. it’s a long story.

likes: video games, music, and bodies of water. dislikes: her past, angel’s sister, and rules.

songs: Ocean’s Deep - Born Ruffians, Talk To Myself - Avicii, Heaven Is Under The Sun - Beta Play

spica

human?: nope, asteriai

bday: sep 23

deal: angel’s older sister/her guardian for the most of her life. impulsive and hot-tempered. loves the people she cares about by being a lil angry about their life choices. a part of the amica ignis—a guild of female pyromancers. would fight you. eltanin’s fiancee!

powers: pyromancy!!! yeah!!! can also summon a special spear.

likes: shoes, autumn, and hitting the snooze button. dislikes: paperwork, her alarms, and rose.

songs: I Don’t Need A Hero - Concrete Blonde, Fake Out - Fall Out Boy, Color Green - New Politics

caph

human?: asteriai.

bday: feb 12

deal: one of apollo’s priestesses. the only surviving cassiopeia clan member. she was a terrible person and now she’s trying to be better. a manic pixie dream girl except she’s just Like That. voted most likely to eat a plant by me. vega and apollo are her best friends. cole’s mom, married to tore.

powers: has magic henna on her hand (the hand changes because i keep forgetting) that can do some doc ock-esque shit and some other assorted magic. was granted the power of foresight by apollo.

likes: houseplants, singing, and chai lattes. dislikes: black coffee, snow, and talking about her deep-seated issues.

songs: She’s A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones, Monsters of the North - The National Parks, Riptide - Vance Joy

cole

human?: half-human, half-asteriai. descended from a kimmerian on his father’s side.

bday: march 3

deal: cole and tore’s son. genuinely the nicest guy ever. his biggest fault is he thinks swords are cool and owns multiple. a surfer guy majoring in engineering at UCLA. he goes to the beach as much as he can. was taught to swordfight by tore and rose. also rents a room in cynthia’s house.

powers: inherited his mom’s henna powers and his dad’s dream powers.

likes: surfing, tea, and being bullied by annoying queers (affectionate). dislikes: having to draw, people who forget sunscreen, and close-toed shoes.

songs: West Coast - Yam Haus, Safe In L.A. - Gold Motel, Verge - Owl City

vega

human?: you guessed it, asteriai.

bday: nov 29

deal: one of apollo’s priestesses. her favorite composer is shostakovich. she’s very mean but i think it’s funny. dating apollo, which is definitely a choice. generally has an “overworked and underpaid public servant who has run out of fucks to give” vibe.

powers: musical magic! the songs she plays/sings can basically do whatever as long as she has the energy and/or an okay instrument. can also pick up instruments in little to no time.

likes: playing violin, card games, and spicy foods. dislikes: sweets, hot weather, and dogs (nothing personal).

songs: Nascence - Austin Wintory, Waiting For Love - Avicii, Tender Strength - Yu-Peng Chen

eltanin

human?: asteriai

bday: june 30

deal: i’ll be real…spica’s everything. he’s just ken. he’s very nice, loves his family, and just wants to grill. he has a soft spot for angel because they’re both relatively chill people with intense s/os…who just so happen to hate each other.

powers: can turn into a (relatively small) dragon.

likes: DIY projects, weighted blankets, and trying new foods. dislikes: drama, action movies, and wearing shoes in the house.

songs: 3’s - Nodaway, Dance With Me - Ra Ra Riot, Crystal Clear - Opus Orange

sirius

human?: asteriai

bday: april 1 (yes he makes jokes about this)

deal: a former member of the asteriai island guard who left for earth to find bigger and better things. formed a group of vigilante magic-adjacent people

powers: can turn into a dog. he has some heightened senses (dog-compliant).

likes: fast food (the trashier the better), lame puns, and haircare. dislikes: chocolate, reading maps, and rain.

songs: Wolfdance - The Ceremonies, Don’t Send The Searchlights - Gold Motel, Everyone’s A Guru Now - Saint Motel

virgo

human?: a Titan/goddess

bday: she just piggybacks off angel’s

deal: the currently semi-dead deity sharing angel’s body. she’s sleeping rn (always). was kind of seeing apollo. is like 9 ft tall. the former leader of the Zodiac, but everyone else is dead. sees warfare as a necessary evil.

powers: healing! spears! light constructs! fuck you.

likes: sleeping, sweets, and sightseeing. dislikes: fighting, humanity, and doorways.

songs: i don’t feel like thinking of any for her rn

#long post #tw i'm posting cringe #oc content lol #agro's oc master list!

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jaydick-week · 2 months ago

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❤️💙 It's Back! JAYDICK WEEK 2025

Jaydick Week is back and better than ever (okay, it's the same as it always was). Join us in 2025 for another week-long fandom event to celebrate the relationship between Dick Grayson and Jason Todd. No sign ups necessary!

Jaydick Week 2025 will run from April 20–26. All types of fanworks are welcome.

💙❤️ JAYDICK WEEK 2025 SCHEDULE ❤️💙

Prompt Submissions Period: Nov 17 – Nov 25 Prompt Voting Period: Nov 26 – Dec 10 Prompts Revealed: Dec 15 Work Period: Dec 16 – April 20 ☆JAYDICK WEEK☆: April 20 – April 26

As in previous years’ events, we will also be running events to celebrate the Jaydick Community! Here is the schedule for this years’ community events:

💙❤️ COMMUNITY EVENTS SCHEDULE ❤️💙

Shameless Self-Promos Open*: Nov 20 Shameless Self-Promos Close: Dec 04 Superlative Submissions Open: Jan 15 Superlative Submissions Close: Jan 28 Ideas Graveyard: Always Open (send us an ask!)

*NEW EVENT!

Questions? Check out our RULES and FAQ, or send us an ask. Message us off-anon for access to the discord server.

#jaydick #dickjay #jason todd #dick grayson #nightwing #red hood #updates #fan week #dc comics #jaydickweek2025 #jaydick week #jaydick week 2025 #2025

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yobaba30 · 5 years ago

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JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR ON THE TIMELINE:

Dec 18th - House Impeaches Trump.

Jan 8th - First CDC warning.

Jan 9th - Trump campaign rally.

Jan 14th - Trump campaign rally.

Jan 16h - House sends impeachment articles to Senate.

Jan 18th - Trump golfs.

Jan 19th - Trump golfs.

Jan 20th - First case of coronavirus in the US, Washington State.

Jan 22nd - "No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine."

Jan 24th - "It will all work out well."

Jan 28th - Trump campaign rally.

Jan 30th - Trump campaign rally.

Jan 30th - "We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully."

Feb 1st - Trump golfs.

Feb 2nd - "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."

Feb 5th - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.

Feb 10th - Trump campaign rally.

Feb 10th - "Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away."

Feb 12th - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42.

Feb 15th - Trump golfs.

Feb 19th - Trump campaign rally.

Feb 19th - "I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along."

Feb 20th - Trump campaign rally.

Feb 21st - Trump campaign rally.

Feb 24th - "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"

Feb 25th - "CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus."

Feb 25th - "I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine."

Feb 26th - "Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. … When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done."

Feb 26th - "We're going very substantially down, not up." Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."

Feb 27th: "One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear."

Feb 28th - "We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical."

Feb 28th - Trump campaign rally.

Mar 2nd - "You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?"

Mar 2nd - "A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly."

Mar 4th: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better."

Mar 5th - "I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work."

Mar 5th - "The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!"

Mar 6th - "I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down."

Mar 6th - "There is no testing kit shortage, nor has there ever been."

Mar 6th - "Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good."

Mar 6th - "I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."

Mar 6th - "I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."

Mar 7th - Trump golfs.

Mar 8th - Trump golfs.

Mar 8th - "We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus."

Mar 9th - "This blindsided the world."

Mar 9th - "The Fake News Media & their partner, the Democratic Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power to inflame the Coronavirus situation."

Mar 10th - "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

Mar 13th - [Declared state of emergency].

Mar 13th - "No, I don't take responsibility at all."

Mar 15th - "This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over."

Mar 17th - "This is a pandemic," Mr. Trump told reporters. "I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."

Mar 18th - "I always treated the Chinese Virus very seriously, and have done a very good job from the beginning"

Mar 18th - "It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."

Mar 18th - "No, I’ve always viewed it as serious, there was no difference yesterday from days before. I feel the tone is similar but some people said it wasn’t."

Mar 23th - Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93 erasing whatever growth he took credit for during his tenure sup to this point.

Mar 25th - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.

Mar 30th - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16.

Apr 1st - "Did you know I was number one on Facebook? I just found out I’m number one on Facebook. I thought that was very nice, for whatever it means." (Trump has 25 million likes, Obama has 55 million for comparison)

Apr 1st - "I don’t think I would have done any better had I not been impeached."

Apr 2nd - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.

Apr 2nd - More than 1000 Americans die from coronavirus in a single day. Over 5000 dead total.

Apr 3rd - “The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what I want to do? I want to come way under the model,” Trump said. “The professionals did the models and I was never involved in a model. At least this kind of a model.”

this is just a sample, of course.

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saorikuhara39 · 4 years ago

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Obey Me x VoiKone Guest Characters VA Audition

Yo yo yo, it's Saori in da house!

You may have seen this news spreading around: The Obey Me Team is working with some random Japanese-only app (twt:@/boikone_info) to audition for new characters in Obey Me!

"NANI THE F*CK!? NEW CHARACTERS, YOU SAY!?!?" goes the rest of the fandom.

Now hush hush, no rush. I want to clear some things up first.

I'm one of the culprits on Twitter spreading this information, but as the news spread there seems to be more misunderstanding, so I have the responsibility to clear things up.

First of all, this is an audition role for guest characters. GUEST CHARACTERS THAT ONLY HAVE AN ONE-OFF APPEARANCE, IN AN EVENT. No, they are not going to voice Michael, no Raphael, no Mephisto-whatever his name is. (lol)

And secondly, the JP-only app BoiKone (short for Voice Connect) is an interactive voice livestreaming app run by the same company, NTT Solmare, that produced the game, Obey Me!. So basically, it's different departments in the same company working together.

Rules of the audition, and the characters that they will be casting, will be explained below.

RULES

3 people regardless of gender will be chosen through 2 rounds of auditions. 1st round will be decided by votes from the app VoiKone (by NTT Solmare).

If selected, they will be given around 30 lines for each character cast. (subject to changes)

20 people will be selected from the highest votes, and will proceed to the 2nd round of audition.

Results will be made known in June, and the selected 3 will make their way to Osaka for voice recording in end August-early September, all-expenses-paid. (T&C apply)

However, depending on the world situation, there may be cases where home recording will be used instead.

You must be 15 yrs and above, currently living in Japan and knows Japanese in the native level, is able to travel to Osaka for recording, and is using the VoiKone app for contacting.

The event is scheduled to be released between Dec 2021 - Feb 2022. You will NOT be credited for your involvement in voice acting in the game.

Like other events, it will be ongoing for 2 weeks. After the event, it will return in Lonely Devil after 6 months.

P.S. applications are closed less than an hour of posting.

Days later, the 1st round of audition is over and the results were out.

The 20 participants who passed the 1st round will be asked to submit their voices to the prompts.

The "Obey Me!" team and the VoiKone team will review the submissions and select 3 people to appear in "Obey Me!" as guest VAs.

SETTING

The Little Ds, who work at the Demon King's Castle, are acting strangely...? And voila, they turned out to be completely different demons!

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

Character Name: Virago

Personality: Cheerful, Eccentric

Always looking for big happenings that are beyond their imagination, Virgo is very excited about the bizarre turn of events that is happening among the Little Ds. Virago often startles Mur, who shivers with fear.

"Hmmm, this is getting interesting."

"Well, well, well. I have a feeling that something fun is about to happen."

"Ahh! How delightful! How joyous! This is what I've been looking forward to!"

Character Name: Asta (Astaroth)

Personality: Cute, Soothing

Asta has a caring nature and is always taking care of someone. Asta is kind and always spoiling everyone, to the point that some demons become addicted to Asta, saying "I can't live without Asta anymore!"

Asta often comforts Mur, who is crying after being surprised by Virago.

"The tea is ready to be served ♪ Would you like to take a break?"

"Ehehe, I'm glad you like it."

"I was watering my flower bed and the flowers just started to bloom! Looks like many good things are going to happen and it makes me all cheery."

Character Name: Mur (Murmur)

Personality: Timid, Crybaby

Mur's goal is to become a strong and cool demon like the Seven Rulers Of Hell. Often gets surprised and cries out because of Virago's outlandish behaviour.

"Uwahh... Where am I...? I'm alone and scared... *sob*"

"EEEEEK! Don't eat me! Please spare my life!

"I know I shouldn't cry all the time, but... *sob* The tears just won't stop flowing..."

CONCLUSION

If anyone wants to listen to the sample voices (for a limited time only!), you can download the app using third-party app stores like QooApp as the app is region locked.

Then find the banner with the Little D, scroll down to look for more Little D's, and scroll down to look for voice clips and play.

Whatever role the participants were selected for, I wish them all the best.

#obey me #obey me jp #おべいみー #obey me cv #obey me va #obey me swd #obey me shall we date #obey me news #obey me little d

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insanityclause · 3 years ago

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The 74th annual Tony Awards ceremony has a new home.

The show, which will honor the 2019-20 Broadway season, is set to take place at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York on Sept. 26, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. In addition, organizers are planning a viewing party at the Broadway Theatre, where attendees will be able to watch the Paramount+ stream and the CBS telecast of the show.

Attendees will have to show proof of vaccination, which is in line with the Aug. 3 announcement by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that proof of vaccination will be required to participate in indoor activities, including live performances and entertainment. The requirement will be fully in effect in mid-September.

The Tony Awards ceremony was originally set to take place June 7, 2020, at its traditional venue of Radio City Music Hall, but the pandemic forced organizers to postpone. It’s now scheduled for Sept. 26, airing as a four-hour “event” across CBS, Paramount+ and the CBS app.

The Winter Garden Theatre is also home to the upcoming revival of The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, which begins performances on Feb. 10 (previews start Dec. 20).

Even though the last night of Broadway theater was March 11, the Tony Awards committee determined that the abbreviated 2019-20 season ran from April 26, 2019 to Feb. 19, 2020, ending the season roughly a month before what ended up being the final Broadway performances of the year. Only 18 shows were eligible this year, roughly half the usual field.

Nominations were announced in October. The show will now take place nearly a year after those noms were unveiled and months after the close of voting on March 15.

Not much about the Tony Awards production has been revealed yet, but what has been announced is that it will kick off with the presentation of the 74th annual Tony Awards at 7 p.m, ET/4 p.m. PT live exclusively on Paramount+. The streaming presentation will “honor the outstanding shows, performances and artistry of the 2019-20 Broadway season, which was brought to a halt by the COVID-19 pandemic.” (The Tony Awards are presented by the Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing.)

Then CBS and Tony Award Productions will present a two-hour special starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS that also will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+ and on the CBS app.

That special will consist of a live concert event featuring Broadway entertainers and Tony winners, along with special performances by the three Tony-nominated best musical contenders: Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Tina – The Tina Turner Musical. It also will include the live presentation of three Tony Awards: best play, best revival of a play and best musical. Other winners will be “celebrated” throughout the broadcast, producers previously said, without offering further details

#Tony Awards #Tom Hiddleston #Betrayal

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countrydionysia · 4 years ago

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Welcome to the 2020 Rural Dionysia

We are excited to announce the launch of the first edition of the Rural Dionysia. Over the past years, the City Dionysia, first held by @forthegloryofthetheoi and later passed over to @sisterofiris has known some success. It is for this reason that we decided to introduce the Rural Dionysia as a smaller event to warm us up for the Dionysian season.

As of now, the two admins are myself @thegrapeandthefig and @adri-le-chat. Our ask boxes are opened, so feel free to address questions to either one of us or directly on this blog if the need arises.

How to participate

The Rural Dionysia is meant to be a smaller competition than its urban counterpart, as such, we have selected only 3 categories:

Freestyle poetry

Modern hymns

“Complete the fragment”

As you can see, we are keeping the poetry category from the City Dionysia and adding 2 new ones. For clarity: poetry and modern hymn differ in that a poetry entry can be about anything (myth, personal religious experience, etc.), while a “modern hymn” entry has to sing the praises of a deity.

As for the “Complete the fragment” category, here is the chosen fragment for this edition:

Sappho, Fragment 43 ... throws peace mind ... sits down ... for day is near into confusion ... but come, ... toil ... my friends

The challenge is that the initial fragment must be included somewhere in your piece somehow in their original order. This means you can fill the gaps however you want, but you can’t switch the order of the words in your piece. For added clarity, please put in bold or underline those words in your composition, so we can spot them right away :)

Please submit your piece through submissions on this blog. Check the rules below for further information.

Calendar of the event

Nov. 15: Official announcement and opening of submissions Dec. 13: Final submission day. Dec. 15: Vote opening Dec. 26: Vote closing Dec. 28: Announcement of the winners!

No worries though! We will be posting reminders about each step when the time comes.

General rules

They are the nearly the same as for the City Dionysia, that is:

Roleplay and fanfic are not acceptable submissions. This is a religious festival, please respect our faith and do not submit an entry if you are roleplaying or writing fanfiction.

Unlike with the City Dionysia, entries do not necessarily have to be about specific deities or hellenic polytheism except for the “Modern Hymn” category, which has to be dedicated to one or many gods.

All stories, myths, and poems must be entered using the submissions button.

All entries must be tagged for the category they are being submitted to. Entries must also be tagged for potentially triggering content and squicks.

An entry may only be submitted to a single category.

Each person may only submit one entry per category each year.

Winners for each category will be decided by popular vote.

#rural dionysia #dionysusdeity #hellenic polythiest #hellenismos #hellenic devotion #hellenic pagan #hellenic pantheon #hellenic paganism #dionysus*#dionysus

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infinitywizard1207 · 4 years ago

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Our President And The Issue Of EJKs In The Philippines by Santino Fernandez

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely-Lord Acton”

These words to me are important as they reflect a huge societal issue happening right now in The Philippines. This issue has to deal with the police and how they abuse their power towards the people of my country. It is no secret that Police Brutality is running rampant in some countries right now. Just last May, America experienced a great tragedy with the murder of George Floyd. The cop killings in the US are rampant but in the Philippines they are as bad if not worse.

Ever since 2016 our president Rodrigo Duterte has been on the so called “War on Drugs.” In this campaign he promised to rid the country of dangerous substances by the end of his six year term. However all it has done is create more damage as this so called “Drug War” targets the poor and less fortunate. In the years since Duterte has taken office he has implemented Extra Judicial Killings also known as EJKs in the country. An EJK is when the government sanctions the killing of people or drug addicts in the country as long as there is evidence. There is no due process any more and these addicts are not taken to a court of law. These addicts are shot in the streets in cold blood without any hesitation or remorse.

Since the implementation of EJK in our country there have been up to 5000 deaths caused by the EJKs. However human rights groups say it is way beyond 12,000 already. Human rights groups have been siding with the people because it is a violation of democracy. According to our democratic law everyone deserves their day in court but Duterte prefers to not do that and instead kill the offenders. In a direct quote from the man himself he says that he will protect the cops who commit the EJKs. Duterte says- “That’s our deal. When I said that you go and destroy the drug industry, destroying means destroying, including human life.” He said police officers who have faced difficulties in carrying out their duties should never stress over it as he says "I'll take care of you.”

This has caused many corrupt cops to abuse the power and protection given by the president. Because of this protection the deaths caused by the EJKs have risen rapidly claiming the lives of men, women, and children alike. One of the many victims was Kian De Los Santos a 17 year old boy in high school who was gunned down by cops. The official statement by the police was that allegedly Kian drew a firearm on the cops and it prompted them to fire back. Witness reports and a closed-circuit TV, though, showed two men pulling Kian around a basketball court in civilian wear. At the site of the confrontation, two small sachets of alleged shabu, a .45 calibre firearm and four shot cartridge cases were found. Witnesses have reported that they ordered Kian to run and handed him a gun. The Caloocan policemen believed Kian was a drug runner, but the accusation was vehemently refuted by the teenager's parents.

However it is not just physical damage and the loss of life that these EJKs cause but mental damage as well. Human Rights watcher Carlos H. Conde has investigated the trauma caused by the EJKs. One of Carlos’s subjects was a girl whose father was gunned down by the police which has created massive trauma. In a direct quote from Carlos-“What struck me deeply was the level of trauma that these kids have, When I talked to her about that, she was very articulate and forthright, but you could sense the deep psychological trauma that she suffered in witnessing the violence and also being reminded every day of what happened to her father”

These children paint a harrowing picture of the long-lasting consequences of the murders. Another harrowing example of how EJK effects children are three anonymous brothers. These three brothers, who were 15, 13 and 10 when their father was killed over two years ago, now live on the streets, after being essentially deserted by their mother, do not attend school and work menial jobs for rent. A 5-year-old boy's mother said he threatened to kill one of his friends and cover him in packing tape. "It's the same way the boy's father was discovered 19 times after being stabbed, his head wrapped in tape and a sign placed near him reading, "I'm a drug pusher. Don’t emulate me.”

From July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2019, the Philippine National Police announced that 5,526 criminals were killed during police operations. However, according to reports by domestic human rights organizations, this figure does not include the thousands of suspected gunmen killed in incidents that are not seriously investigated by the authorities, raising the death toll to as high as 27,000. Human Rights Watch reports and reputable media sources such as Rappler and Reuters say that these vigilante-style shootings were committed either by police officers themselves or by police-related killers. This has resulted in many cases with regards to the violation of human rights but only one case was brought to justice and it was the case of Kian.

Even today there are victims of this abuse in power. On Dec 20 2020 a mother and her son were killed by a policeman in Pampanga. This policeman by the name of Jonel Nuezca shot a middle aged woman by the name of Sonya Gregorio and her son by the name of Frank Gregorio. This whole incident was recorded on video and shows Nuezca take out a gun and shoot Sonya in the head, then shoots her son while they clutch each other, then shoots each of them a second time. The video soon went viral, prompting an internal investigation of the police officer and murder charges. He has handed himself in to the police but this is again a harsh reminder of how rampant this abuse of power is.

The presidents reach of power also extends over to the media and government. The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution in July 2019 urging the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to send a briefing on the human rights situation in the Philippines in June 2020, putting international pressure for transparency to bear. The Duterte administration reacted by demanding the termination of all financial aid talks from the 18 countries adopting the resolution.

Journalists are also being silenced as well. This is the case with the company of ABS-CBN news network and the famous journalist Maria Ressa. In the case of ABS-CBN the company was accused of political bias. Duterte accused ABS-CBN of not being impartial or fair during the 2016 elections. These accusations go even further when the President accused ABS-CBN of aiding Duterte’s political competition. During the hearing for the franchise’s renewal the house of representatives voted on closing ABS-CBN after 25 years of news. Critics of the president say he's gone after media outlets who have closely reported his drug war, which since he took office in 2016 has left thousands of people dead. By government order, ABS-CBN ceased operations of its free TV and radio channels after its 25-year franchise expired in May.

This has caused massive repercussions amongst the Philippine society as 11,000 workers were left without a job and let go.

However there are massive long term effects as well. ABS-CBN was the number one news network in the country and their network reached across the various provinces. With no news network most of the country is not informed on the various events in the country. This was the case in November 2020 when Typhoon Ulysses hit the Cagayan Valley. Since there was no news of the upcoming Typhoon the residents of that province were unprepared and not ready. The result was a staggering amount of deaths in the Cagayan valley as well as a massive amount of damage. All this is the result of Duterte wanting to silence his critics because of his actions in the drug war.

Another example of Journalism being silenced is the case of Maria Ressa. Maria Ressa was the CEO of the news website Rappler. This news website vehemently criticized and watched Duterte’s movements and approached towards the drug war. Ever since the 2016 election Rappler has been a harsh critic for Duterte but in 2020 Maria Ressa was jailed. The allegations according to the court were “cyberlibel” which is equivalent to 200,000 pesos in damages plus a few years in jail. Ressa’s arrest sparked anger in millions including famous journalist Amal Clooney. Many have stated that this is an act that takes away the freedom of speech. A right that we Filipinos have because of our democratic government. Amal has said her self that “the court had become complicit in a sinister action to silence a journalist for exposing corruption and abuse”.

Rappler scrutinized Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's government, revealed bot armies and corruption, and reported his ruthless anti-drug campaign, which, by some reports, has resulted in tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings. In exchange, Rappler was criticized as trading "fake news" by the president, and his administration launched multiple lawsuits against him. In addition to the cyber-libel allegations, Ressa is also facing further prosecution for libel, two court proceedings alleging unlawful foreign ownership of her enterprises, and inquiries into her old tax returns. The numerous allegations made against Ressa could lead to prison sentences of about 100 years.

Various journalists have also been victims to Duterte’s silencing. In November, one journalist had been killed: news anchor Eduardo Dizon of Mindanao's Kidapawan City, who was shot dead on July 10. At least one of them, Brandon Lee, was seriously wounded in an assault by a gunman in the northern Philippines in August. But it doesn't stop there as Duterte has passed an Anti Terror Bill which at close examination controls our freedom of speech. Under the statute, a criminal suspect can be arrested without trial for 14 days, a duration which may be extended to 24 days. Human rights lawyers argue that it breaks a constitutional requirement that after three days of arrest, an individual must be convicted. The anti terror law also will monitor any social media discourse related to offending the president or his administration.

Even today the ruthless reign of Duterte continues as the police are given more power while the masses suffer. During the lockdown the president has stated that he will kill anyone who violates it. “My orders to the police and the military, if anyone creates trouble, and their lives are in danger: shoot them dead.” This has created fear amongst the masses as well as a new view on how the people see our government.

In my personal opinion this is not what a leader is supposed to be. Before I started on this essay I put a quote about power and I feel this is more relevant now than ever. Duterte’s absolute power has corrupted the government absolutely. It has made the police think they are untouchable and has caused the poor people to suffer. Our president is waging a war on drugs that is not effective at all and the Filipino people are paying the price. A good leader in my opinion is one who puts the people first and not his agendas. A good leader is someone who takes the Filipino people’s lives into consideration and does not murder them in cold blood. So with this current societal issue happening in our country I ask that you spread the awareness of how bad our president is. Hopefully this country will change for the better and it will see a brighter tomorrow. In the end it is really up to the Filipino people and if they want their country to change.

“People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.”

V from V for Vendetta

Sources-

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/philippines

https://humanrightsmeasurement.org/extrajudicial-killings-in-the-philippines/

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/961396/duterte-to-cops-kill-criminals-if-you-have-to-ill-protect-you

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-happens-to-the-families-left-behind-in-dutertes-deadly-campaign-against-drugs/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/philippines-police-brutality-mother-shot/2020/12/21/0a5f9762-4358-11eb-ac2a-3ac0f2b8ceeb_story.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

https://www.hrw.org/tag/philippines-war-drugs

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46381697

https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/11/29/Kian-delos-Santos-murder-Caloocan-police-guilty.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/4/2/shoot-them-dead-duterte-warns-against-violating-lockdown

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/asia/philippines-congress-media-duterte-abs-cbn.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/maria-ressa-rappler-editor-found-guilty-of-cyber-libel-charges-in-philippines

https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-typhoon-vamco-ulysses-cagayan-valley-region-impact-and-response-24

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893019057/why-rights-groups-worry-about-the-philippines-new-anti-terrorism-law

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 years ago

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The months leading up to Nov. 3, 2020 were, for Donald Trump, almost a carbon copy of what he did in advance of the presidential election four years previously: He thumbed tweets, whined at his rallies and complained to anyone who would listen that the election had been “rigged” by Democrats. Of course, after election eve 2016, we never heard another peep out of him about the dastardly Democrats and the wily ways they had rigged the election against him, because he won.

But from the moment that his network of pet poodles at Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden in November of 2020, causing a series of eruptions in the private quarters at the White House, culminated in a call to Fox executives to demand that the network reverse its Arizona projection, Trump understood that this time it would be different. He would lose.

Trump turned immediately to the courts, filing more than 60 federal lawsuits in the battleground states he lost claiming that the election had been “stolen” from him. But as one case after another went down to defeat or outright dismissal, he turned to loyalist loons like former general Michael Flynn, online conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, My Pillow guy Mike Lindell and — wait for it — the Proud Boys to push his obsession that he hadn’t lost, and that the election had been rigged by nefarious forces.

See if this doesn’t sound familiar. On Dec. 12, several thousand pro-Trump demonstrators showed up in Washington for at least two rallies, one on the Mall and the other on the steps of the Supreme Court, to protest its decision the previous day to throw out a lawsuit filed by the attorney general of Texas seeking to bar the states of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania from casting their electoral ballots for Biden. The court issued a brief unsigned order on Dec. 11 saying that Texas had no “interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections” and dismissed the lawsuit. A few days earlier, the court had dismissed another suit filed by Pennsylvania Republicans seeking to throw out that state’s Biden electors, thus disenfranchising millions of voters.

Trump was watching closely. With Proud Boys marching through downtown Washington in mock-military formations shouting “Move out!” and “1776!” Trump tweeted "Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA." A bit later, he tweeted, “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!"

He must have liked what he saw on the streets of the nation’s capital that Saturday, because seven days later, on Dec. 19, Trump was tweeting “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" The next week, on Dec. 26, he tweeted "The ‘Justice’ Department and the FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Fraud, the biggest SCAM in our nation’s history, despite overwhelming evidence. They should be ashamed. History will remember. Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th."

After seven hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Saturday by former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and five hours of testimony before the same committee on Friday by Rosen’s former acting deputy, Richard Donoghue, we now know that behind the scenes, Trump was very busy.

On Dec. 15, the day after Bill Barr announced that he would be leaving his post as attorney general, Trump summoned Rosen to the Oval Office and told him he wanted the DOJ to file legal briefs supporting the lawsuits he had not yet lost challenging election results in battleground states. He demanded that Rosen appoint special counsels to investigate Dominion Voting Systems, which had provided voting machines in multiple states. Rosen demurred, citing what Barr had already reported to Trump, which was that the DOJ had investigated his charges and had found no evidence of widespread or significant voter fraud.

Rosen told the Judiciary Committee that Trump called him almost daily trying to get him to have the Department of Justice declare that the presidential election was “corrupt” and announce that the department was initiating investigations of “election irregularities” in multiple states, including Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — all states Trump had lost narrowly to Biden.

Rosen continued to defer and delay on the phone, and Trump started talking with the acting head of the DOJ’s civil division, Jeffrey Clark, who was more amenable to Trump’s conspiracies. Rosen described to the Judiciary Committee five separate “encounters” with Clark over his plotting behind Rosen’s back with Trump, all of which took place between Dec. 23 and Jan. 3.

Trump became fixated on his narrow defeat in Georgia, placed a now-famous phone call to Gov. Brian Kemp on Dec. 5, trying to get him to pressure the state legislature to overturn Biden’s victory in the state. Kemp deflected, telling him that he had no power to call for investigations into signatures on absentee ballots or any of the other things Trump was urging him to do.

On Dec. 27, at Trump’s urging, Clark produced a letter dated the following day he wanted Rosen and Donoghue to sign. Aware that the governor of Georgia had rejected Trump’s entreaties, Clark’s letter amounted to a DOJ legal analysis that the state legislature could call itself into session without the governor’s authority, reject the electors pledged to Joe Biden and appoint its own slate of Trump electors. “Time is of the essence,” the Clark letter pleaded, because Congress would convene in joint session to certify the election on Jan. 6.

Rosen and Donoghue refused to sign the letter, telling Clark “this is not even within the realm of possibility.”

That didn’t end it. Clark apparently demanded a meeting with Rosen and Donohue, which took place at the DOJ on New Year’s Eve. Clark told them Trump was planning on firing Rosen and replacing him with Clark so he could carry out his plan to manipulate the Georgia legislature into appointing a new slate of Trump electors. Clark told his two bosses that he was meeting with Trump the next week to carry this out.

Instead, Clark met with Trump a day later and showed him the letter, discussing their plan for a Trumpian “Saturday Night Massacre.” Rosen and Donoghue demanded a meeting with Trump, at which they planned on telling him that the entire senior leadership of the Justice Department would resign en masse if Trump appointed Clark as acting attorney general.

Before that meeting took place, news emerged that Trump had placed a lengthy call to the Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, demanding that the latter “find” enough votes to overturn the election results in his state. “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said, according to a tape of the call obtained by the Washington Post.

The Oval Office meeting between Trump, Rosen, Donoghue and Clark went on the next evening, attended by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who advised the president not to fire Rosen because such a move would trigger congressional investigations and distract from Trump’s attempts to overturn the election. After three hours, the meeting broke up, with Rosen and Donoghue still in their jobs.

Rosen and Donoghue told the Senate Judiciary Committee that with only 17 days remaining until the presidential inauguration, they believed they had avoided a constitutional crisis. But we all know what happened three days later, on Jan. 6, when a violent mob of Trump supporters breached the Capitol building and delayed for several hours the certification of the electoral ballots which made Joe Biden president.

Between the early hours of Nov. 4, when Trump first realized he had lost the election, and Jan. 6, when the assault on the Capitol dominated every news cycle until the inauguration (and beyond), Trump was all over the place in his attempts to overturn the election. He was consumed with the lawsuits being filed around the country on his behalf — but was losing them, one after another. He was obsessed with following conspiracy theories about Biden ballots being carried by Special Forces soldiers from Germany and stuffed into ballot boxes in battleground states, about mysterious computers and satellites controlled by Italy switching Biden votes for Trump votes in battleground states, and multiple other outlandish conspiracies.

But beginning on Dec. 12, with the Proud Boys march through Washington and the demonstrations on the Mall and at the Supreme Court, Trump became fixated on holding a rally on Jan. 6 that he believed could prevent the certification of electoral ballots taking place that day. Two days later, he began his campaign to get the Department of Justice to join his plan to pressure state legislatures in a handful of states he had lost to throw out Biden electors and appoint their own slates of Trump electors.

He tweeted on Dec. 19, 26, 27 and 30, all dates coinciding with his pressure on Rosen and Donoghue to use the Department of Justice to help him overturn the election. On Jan. 1, the day he met with Jeffrey Clark to discuss firing Rosen, he tweeted “The BIG Protest Rally in Washington, D.C. will take place at 11:00 A.M. on January 6th. Locational details to follow. StopTheSteal!” On Jan. 4, Trump traveled to Georgia to hold a rally, nominally in support of the two Republican candidates in the U.S. Senate runoff election, but really to put pressure on Georgia legislators to overturn the election.

Practically every move Trump made in December and January in advance of Jan. 6 was a crime. Pressuring Jeffrey Rosen to misuse the Department of Justice to support his private lawsuits was a crime. Conspiring with Jeffrey Clark to fire Rosen so Clark could send the letter to the Georgia legislature was a crime. Calling Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp and pressuring them to “find” votes and use the legislature to overturn the election was a crime. Meeting with his own White House staff and outside advisers to plan the rally on the Ellipse at which he would incite the assault on the Capitol was a crime.

Trump’s problem, to put it frankly, was that he didn’t start committing crimes early enough. The crimes he committed in December and January were largely impulsive, not carefully planned or focused. He exploded with tweets and phone calls and meetings and rallies.

In short, Trump was Trump, as incompetent a criminal conspirator as he was a president. The only question left to be answered at this point is whether Merrick Garland and the Biden Department of Justice will have the courage to charge him and his co-conspirators with the felonies they committed: defrauding the United States by attempting to illegally influence the outcome of the 2020 election.

If that crime sounds familiar, that is because it is the same one special counsel Robert Mueller charged 24 Russian nationals with committing in 2016, when they illegally hacked into Democratic National Committee servers, stole campaign emails and set up fake accounts to influence voters on American social media platforms. With Donald Trump, nothing is ever new. Just watch him. He’s out there right now raising $100 million to do it all over again in 2024. And the entire Republican Party is right there with him.

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"I did not write this, but it is accurate as far as I have researched, even though it is missing a few key points, like the political rally where he said it was a hoax by the Democrats. Feel free to send this to all your Republican friends."

JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR ON THE TIMELINE:

Dec 18 - House Impeaches Trump

Dec 31 - China alerted WHO to several cases of unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people in the central Hubei province. The virus was unknown.

Jan 8 - First CDC warning on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Jan 9 - Trump campaign rally

Jan 14 - Trump campaign rally

Jan 16 - House sends impeachment articles to Senate

Jan 18 - Trump golfs

Jan 19 - Trump golfs

Jan 20 - first case of COVID-19 in the US, Washington State.

Jan 22 - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

Jan 28 - Trump campaign rally

Jan 29 - Navarro sends memo to the National Security Council that compared cost estimates for the choices and wrote that the Council of Economic Advisers' estimates for stopping travel from China to the U.S. would be $2.9 billion per month. If the virus turned out to be a pandemic, that travel ban could extend 12 months and cost the U.S. $34.6 billion.

Doing nothing (the "No Containment" option) could range from "zero economic costs" to $5.7 trillion depending on the lethality of the virus.

On the high end, he estimated a scenario in which the coronavirus could kill 543,000 Americans.

Jan 30 - Trump campaign rally

Feb 1 - Trump golfs

Feb 2 - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."

Feb 5 - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.

Feb 10 - Trump campaign rally

Feb 12 - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42

Feb 15 - Trump golfs

Feb 19 - Trump campaign rally

Feb 20 - Trump campaign rally

Feb 21 - Trump campaign rally

Feb 23 - Navarro sends memo directly to Trump There is an increasing probabilty of a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life as many as 1-2 million souls.

Feb 24 - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

Feb 25 - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”

Feb 25 - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”

Feb 26 - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

Feb 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."

Feb 27 - “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

Feb 28 - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”

Feb 28 - Trump campaign rally

Feb 29 - First COVID-19 death in US

Mar 2 - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”

Mar 2 - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”

Mar 4 - “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”

Mar 5 - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”

Mar 5 - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”

Mar 6 - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”

Mar 6 - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”

Mar 6 - “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

Mar 6 - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”

Mar 7 - Trump golfs

Mar 8 - Trump golfs

Mar 8 - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”

Mar 9 - “This blindsided the world.”

Mar 13 - [Declared state of emergency]

Mar 14 - Young Asian-American family of 4 stabbed in TX Sam's Club by man who thinks they're responsible for COVID.

Mar 15 - 3,613 COVID-19 cases, 69 deaths

Mar 17 - “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

Mar 18 - "It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."

Mar 23 - Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93. Before this day, several people in Congress sold hundreds of thousands to multiple millions of dollars of stock and some also purchased stock in companies in the PPE and pharmaceutical industry.

Mar 25 - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.

Mar 30 - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16

Apr 2 - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.

Apr 3 - 270,062 COVID-19 cases, 6,927 deaths.

Tests still not available for most people.

Apr 6 - 347,003 COVID-19 cases, 10,335 deaths

Apr 7 - 396,223 COVID-19 cases, 12,722 deaths

Apr 9 - 457,035 COVID-19 cases, 16,252 deaths

And that's all I got to say about this.

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