#washington brotherhood

[antebellumite]

wiliam seward's friendships make me delirious. what do you mean he was bffs with henry foote and john c calhoun was mad about it. what do you mean he was besties with jefferson davis in 1850 and that seward visited him every day when he was sick. what do you mean that seward asked davis for help when a duel almost occurred between two other senators and that the two of them (with crittenden) resolved the duel by making the disputers have dinner at seward's house. what do you mean that seward's house was on F Street, the one the F Street Mess was on. that jefferson davis felt that a cross-sectional settlement was possible "because of his relationship with seward". What do you mean people hoped to be placed next to seward whenever senate seats were reassigned.

[ifelllikeastar]

A. Philip Randolph was a labor leader and social activist. During World War I, Randolph tried to unionize African American shipyard workers and elevator operators, and co-launched a magazine designed to encourage demand for higher wages. He later founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which by 1937 would become the first official African American labor union.

In the 1940s, Randolph's abilities as an organizer had grown to such lengths that he became the driving force in ending racial discrimination in government defense factories and desegregating the armed forces, both done via presidential decree. Becoming involved in additional civil rights work, he was a principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

Born Asa Philip Randolph on April 15, 1889 in Crescent City, Florida and died on May 16, 1979 in Manhattan, New York, New York at the age of 90.

[nerds-yearbook]

In The Uncanny X-Men 199# (cover date November, 1985), Mystique reformed the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants as the government backed Freedom Force. Rachel Summers almost told Cyclops that in her reality, he and Jean Grey were her parents. She has now taken on the Phoenix identity. Magneto and Kitty Pryde, both Jewish, got confronted by Freedom Force while attending a holocaust memorial gathering. When the X-Men finally got the upper hand on Freedom Force, Magneto chose to turn himself in to stand trial for his past. ("The Spiral Path", The Uncanny X-Men 199#, Comic, Event)

[rpjournal]

Washington Monument, 8/31/77

Wow, what a view. I fixed up the radio relay atop the Washington Monument, and it looks like GNR is going to be heard loud and clear across the Wasteland!

I spotted the Lincoln Memorial on the other side of the tower, and walked up to the guys occupying the place -- turns out they were slavers. There's nothing worse than people like that, so I cleared them up nice and easy with the Fat Man I had. I'll keep an eye out for the runaway slaves to let them know things are going to get better for them.

I headed back to GNR through the tunnels; I didn't realize just how much of a maze this city had become from the bombs -- so much rubble left and right I could barely tell where to go.

Made it back to the studios pretty late, so I crashed at Three Dog's over night. Gotta head back over the river eventually, so I guess now is as good as ever.

[danthepest]

Fuck it, I’ll answer all of them.

1. My Boss prefers to keep his real name and pre-Saints life behind. As far as he’s concerned, his life truly started once he was caught in the crossfire of the Carnales, Rollerz and Vice Kings in the SR1 opening cutscene.

2. Saints Row 1 and 2 are canon to my Boss’ story. SRTT is some Hollywood hack’s script for a movie about the Saints. Saints Row IV and Gooh is fanfiction by weirdos who thirst after criminals and killers and ship real people.

3. Probably dabbled in small time drug dealing. Easier to sell drugs without talking than being silent in “real” jobs.

4. He saw Julius as a father figure, Troy as the cool older brother, Johnny as the badass brother and Dex as the smart brother. Had a crush on Lin. Loathes Donny not only for not lifting a finger to save Lin, but because how much he hates cowards. By SR2, he and Johnny are like brothers, Shaundi is like a sister and Pierce is the friend he secretly respects, but likes to fuck with and get under his skin.

5. Born and bred in Stilwater.

6. I see Playa being in his early to mid twenties or at the least aged 18-19 in SR1.

7. No pairings. Has trouble connecting with people on a romantic level after the events of SR2. Probably has fuck buddies that he’s on good terms with, but no romantic relationship

8. Was somewhat attracted to Samantha but never acted on it or showed it. Had a massive crush on Lin. Her death hit him hard and was the beginning of his dark turn.

9. No family outside. Cut ties with them when he came of age.

10. He went from a loyal grunt who saw Julius as a father figure to a cynical, ruthless, teetering on paranoia, strong and charismatic gang leader whose main drive is his rage at the world for betraying him.

11. We both like 80′s music.

12. He is about as different from me in personality as he can get.

13. He’s a straight male but isn’t embarrassed compliment another man’s attractiveness.

14. Male Voice 1 from SR2 aka thick English accent voice. Best voice in the franchise.

15. The idea that Boss was “too scared to talk back then”. I like to think he was really embarrassed about his English accent, especially since its not really “gangsta”. So he fakes an American accent in the first game.

16. I try to include as much of in-game tomfoolery, lore and shenanigans as possible.

17. If SRIV was canon to my boss, the most likely romance, with how its portrayed, would probably be Shaundi. Yes, I’m a vanilla straight guy. Sue me.

18. Johnny Gat is his best friend, and he considered Dex a close second before his betrayal. He was also fond of Chicken Ned and Samantha.

19. He favors the katana as far as melee weapons go, because he views it as an exotic weapons and the fact that he gets an ego boost because he beat Jyunichi at his own game

20. In-game tats only, all Saints related.

21. He sees the lieutenants as equals. He’d also expect them to either leads the Saints together or figure out who the new leader is, should anything happen to Boss.

22. What are your Boss’ favourite movie genres?

⚜ Saints Row Bosses Ask Meme ⚜

It's a lot of questions but maybe that will incline people to pick multiple?

1. Is your Boss's name a secret? Do some people know but not others? Do they use a pseudonym? A nickname?

2. What games do you play this Boss in or what games are canon to the story you imagine for them?

The Third. What job/jobs was your Boss doing (if any) before joining the Saints?

IV. What is or was your Boss's relationship with <asker chooses character> like?

5. Were they born in Stilwater? If not, where are they from and how did they end up there?

6. What is their birthday or date of birth OR how old do you see them as in the games you play them in?

7. Do you have an OTP/OT3+/endgame pairing etc. with them?

8. Do they have other sexual or romantic connections?

9. What family does your Boss have or if they have a lot, what family are particularly important to them?

10. How has your Boss changed throughout the games/years?

11. One or more ways your Boss is similar to you

12. One or more ways your Boss is different to you

13. What is their gender/sexuality/romantic orientation/pronouns etc. (either all, or asker specifies)?

14. Which voice does your Boss have? Or if you imagine them speaking differently to one of the in-game voices, describe it.

15. Are there any small things about them in the canon that you've really run with in your headcanon?

16. Is there anything from the games you've drastically avoided or downplayed in your headcanon?

17. If you play them in SRIV... which of the romance options, if any, are headcanon to you? xD

18. Do they have a best/closest friend?

19. Does your Boss have a favourite gun or other weapon?

20. Do they have any tattoos? Are they from the game or something you created?

21. Do they have a second-in-command or are all their lieutenants equal?

22. Another question not listed here!

[batboyblog]

So on the Teamsters, it seems that Harris has been endorsed by

International Brotherhood of Teamsters Black Caucus

Teamsters Joint Council 7 (north and central California and Northern Nevada)

Teamsters Joint Council 42 (Southern California, Southern Nevada, Hawaii, Gaum, and Saipan)

Joint Council 28 (Washington, Alaska, and the Idaho Panhandle)

Joint Council 40 (Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia)

Joint Council 43 (Michigan)

Teamsters Local 186 (Santa Babara and Ventura Counties California)

Local 237 (public employees in NYC and Long Island)

Local 572 (Los Angeles area)

Local 623 (Philadelphia)

Local 769 (Southern Florida)

so Teamster Union organizations representing hundreds of thousands of members have endorsed Harris-Walz

[teecupangel]

I feel like Connor would be the type of person who would casually lore drop on you without blinking. Like he could be helping miriam and norris at the homestead and casually be like "I killed my dad last week"

I agree that Ratonhnhaké:ton would casually drop lore without any gravitas, like he was just talking about the fox he saw on his morning walk.

But he wouldn’t talk about how he killed people because (1) he knew that some people wouldn’t want to hear that and also (2) it’s a step into the whole “do not compromise the brotherhood” tenet.

He will say something like “Washington ordered the burning of my village”.

But anything that can be connected to the Brotherhood? He wouldn’t talk about them. He will casually lore dump stuff like that to fellow Assassins though once he’s close enough to them that he considered them as friends.

[gerec]

have you read any fics where charles is experimented on? specifically for his powers and as his younger version

Anon, here are some excellent stories about Charles being experimented on:

sins of the father by faerie_ground

Brian Xavier experiments on his only son, believing it will make him powerful. Years later, Charles Xavier still suffers from the aftereffects.

Smile (The worst is yet to come) by hllfire

Charles' telepathy developed when he was a baby. His father, driven by his desire to know more about his son's abilities, experiments on him, causing Charles to learn to ignore visual and social cues in order to rely heavily on his telepathy to interact with others.

When Erik doesn't allow him to see his mind like Charles would normally do, Charles is lost.

Thou Shalt Not Eat Stones by valancysnaith 

Two months after Washington, Raven found Erik in a skeevy motel off the Florida interstate.

“They have Charles, Erik,” she said.

The bedframe shrieked. In the bathroom, the showerhead snapped in half and clattered into the tub.

the mystery which binds me still by pocky_slash

It's been seventeen years since Charles lived at the house in North Salem. It's big and imposing and filled with memories he thinks he's repressed for a reason. But after a strange man breaks in during a storm, demanding to see people Charles is sure died years ago, Charles finds himself investigating his past for the first time, venturing into the burnt out catacombs that hold the secret to the childhood he doesn't remember.

Powers and Control by flightinflame

Hank and the others turn up at the Brotherhood, asking for Erik's help. They might hate him, but he is the only one who has a chance of rescuing Charles and bringing him home.

Hand in Hand by flightinflame

Charles is used to being experimented on. Meeting one of his father's friends should have been simple, but he finds himself kidnapped. It is there, in his kidnapper's base, that he meets Erik - and that changes everything.

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

This is an interesting fact, because Rev. King had been due to visit Israel in 1967, I believe, but eventually did not because Israel had just launched the Six-Day War.

I should also note that Rev. King spoke out against the appalling treatment of Soviet Jews around 1967 or 1968.

This year marked the 60th anniversary of the legendary March on Washington, where thousands of mostly black workers came to demand proper working conditions and civil rights. The Rev. King spoke words that have resonated throughout the last sixty years, his famous I Have A Dream speech in which he challenged America to live up to its belief in the equality of man and give the black population their due rights since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law and in 1965, the Voting Rights Act.

Although many, many great civil rights leaders were involved in the effort for black American rights, Rev. King stands out for his powerful oratory, his effective use of nonviolence, and his effective ability to appeal to white American audiences, Christians, and Jews by compelling them to consistently apply the moral teachings inherited through religion and Western law. Rev. King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail is perhaps the best example of this.

[jstor]

Alexander Miles, a prominent African-American inventor of the late 19th century, is best known for his groundbreaking invention - elevator doors that could open and close automatically. This invention transformed the safety of elevator rides, with automatic doors now considered a standard feature in modern elevators.

Born on May 18, 1838, in Circleville, Ohio, Alexander Miles was the son of Michael and Mary Miles. As a young adult, he relocated to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he worked as a barber throughout the 1860s. It was while living in Winona, Minnesota, in 1870, that he met Candace J. Dunlap from New York City, who later became his wife. After the birth of their daughter, Grace, the family moved to Duluth, Minnesota.

In Duluth, Miles enjoyed significant success as a barber, setting up a barbershop in the four-story St. Louis Hotel. He smartly invested his savings into purchasing a real estate office. His business acumen led to him becoming the first Black member of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce. In 1884, Miles constructed a three-story brownstone building in an area that later came to be known as the “Miles Block.”

While taking elevator rides in his buildings, Miles noticed the dangerous risks associated with manually operated elevator shaft doors being left open. Determined to solve this problem, he invented a mechanism that allowed elevator shaft doors to operate at the correct times. The mechanism, which involved a flexible belt attached to the elevator cage touching drums positioned along the elevator shaft, automated the elevator doors through a series of levers and rollers. On October 11, 1887, Alexander Miles was granted a patent for his life-saving invention (U.S. Patent 371,207).

In 1899, Miles and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he started The United Brotherhood, a life insurance company for Black customers who were denied coverage by White-owned firms. Eventually, Miles relocated to Seattle, Washington. Prior to his death on May 7, 1918, he was considered the wealthiest Black person in the Pacific Northwest area, largely due to the income from his invention. In recognition of his contributions, Alexander Miles was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.

Read more about Alexander Miles here.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Robert Schmad

While serving as governor of Minnesota, presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz hosted an Islamic imam multiple times who has a history of pro-Hamas social media posts and gave $100,000 worth of grants to a Muslim organization he leads, the Washington Examiner first reported.

Walz hosted Imam Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society (MAS) of Minnesota on at least five occasions during his tenure as governor, according to the Examiner. Zaman, on his Facebook account, shared a Hamas press release in 2016, a link to a blog post attacking Jews in 2014, praised the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on multiple occasions in 2023 and even posted a link to a documentary praising Adolf Hitler in 2015.

“It is astounding that with all the available public reporting and information about the iniquities of Imam Asad Zaman and MAS Minnesota that Gov. Walz has repeatedly given public platforms and taxpayer money to this extremist,” Sam Westrop, a terrorism researcher and analyst at the Middle East Forum think tank, told the Examiner. “Across the country, Islamists hungry for government support will surely welcome Walz as vice president.” 

Zaman serves as the executive director of MAS Minnesota, an organization federal prosecutors at one point said was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States,” according to court records. The United Arab Emirates designated MAS as a terrorist organization in 2014, the Examiner reported.

Walz’s administration, however, showered the group with over $100,000 in grant funding, according to state records and press releases.

[antebellumite]

william seward is very good at doing grief stricken eulogies

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, and civil-rights leader, was born in Crescent City, FL, on this date April 15, 1889.

Randolph who was an influential figure in the struggle for justice and equality for African Americans. He was the organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and began organizing that group of Black workers. At a time when half the affiliates of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) barred Blacks from membership, Asa Phillip Randolph took his union into the AFL.

Despite opposition, he built the first successful Black trade union; the brotherhood won its first major contract with the Pullman Company in 1937.

He warned Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt that he would lead thousands of Blacks in a protest march on Washington, D.C.; Roosevelt, on June 25, 1941, issued Executive Order 8802, barring discrimination in defense industries and federal bureaus and creating the Fair Employment Practices Committee.

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[lets-steal-an-archive]

Actors and writers want fans to help their Hollywood strike. Here’s how.

How are strikers encouraging audiences to get involved?

SAG-AFTRA and WGA members have used social media to spread information about the strike, detailing how viewers can support entertainment workers’ demands for higher minimum pay, improved safety and more streaming residuals. Among their recommendations for aiding the strike efforts are sharing, liking and commenting on posts about the recently expired SAG-AFTRA contract because “actors are working people just like everyone else.”

“There’s a lot of misconception that our union is about stars and celebrities,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director and chief negotiator.

Most of the guild’s 160,000 members, he said, are “working actors who are trying to make a living, pay their bills, pay their rent.”

Actors and writers are encouraging fans to join the picket line in their local area to increase strike visibility. They say people can bring signs, water and snacks to picketers. Union-allied organizations such as the Directors Guild of America, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States have thrown their support behind the strike effort in person and online, joining a broader coalition of unions pushing against mistreatment in the workplace.

Crabtree-Ireland said strike supporters could aid the effort by amplifying the union’s demands with social media posts and donations to fundraisers for SAG-AFTRA members. Boycotting projects made by the AMPTP is not the priority, he added.

“We’re not at this time calling for a boycott of anybody. Our focus is on shutting down production. … But that’s not to say that that won’t be something we do in the future,” he said.

How can entertainment workers receive financial support during the strike?

Several organizations have committed to supporting members of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. Some of the most prominent funds are SAG-AFTRA’s Entertainment Community Fund and nonaffiliated crowdsourced fundraisers like the Union Solidarity Coalition Fund, Groceries for Writers and the Snacklist.

The fundraisers say they provide resources that include mental health support, health insurance, counseling, career resources, budgeting tips and grocery aid.

Fowlkes, T. 2023. "Actors and writers want fans to help their Hollywood strike. Here's how." The Washington Post, July 17. <washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/07/17/actors-strike-what-can-fans-do/>

[rpjournal]

Galaxy News Radio 8/26/77

Snuck through the cold, dark metro tunnels for what felt like days to reach GNR. I absolutely hated it. When I got to the complex I was saved from an onslaught of super mutants by the Brotherhood of Steel, who had been guarding GNR.

I met Sarah Lyons and a few other paladins with old power armor suits -- wish I had my hands on one of those, and they threw me this Fat Man to take care of a Super Mutant Behemoth who had broken through the ranks.

This is the first time I've ever felt fearful for my own life, in need of protection myself. I've been developing an addiction to Buffout, which if left untreated could get really ugly.

I agreed to help Three Dog get the radio station broadcasting across the Wasteland. For all this talk of a "good fight," it sure got me fighting to protect it. I think I trust these people and their mission.

[phoenixyfriend]

Possible verbiage for calls to senators and representatives, emails to the same, and public calls to action:

This past weekend, an American service member, active duty, self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. We are told that this man, Aaron Bushnell, age 25, truly believed in the ideals espoused by the US military, that he truly believed in liberty for all and a person's right to self-determination. What he did was not an act of mental illness, but rather an act of protest. It was premeditated. It was clearly stated. It was public, and recorded, and he has died making a statement, and it is truly inappropriate to try and dismiss it as simply a matter of mental illness.

It's a tragedy, but he is someone who has made choice to follow in the footsteps of many who have come before. Self-immolation is, after all, a protest tactic that has been in use for centuries, including in the US. If you have any true care for military personnel and veterans, as you and so many other politicians claim to, then you should be asking yourself, "What it is about this war that has caused such a choice in someone who really and truly believes in the ideals that the US claims to uphold? What it means that someone in this military, in this country, cannot stand to continue being part of that institution, in light of what the United States is enabling with aid packages to Israel, and refusal to enact any kind of censure?"

What caused the death of Aaron Bushnell was not a mental health crisis. It was a humanitarian one.

If you claim to care about protecting children, Israel must be censured. Israel must be sanctioned. Israel must be stopped.

We are seeing Israel seed the beginning of its own future devastation. It has created thousands, if not tens of thousands of orphans, and has reportedly disabled the majority of the children in Gaza, from what we are hearing. Israel has also demanded the dismantling of UNRWA, is even now blocking aid trucks and has been for weeks, despite the fact that the agency is currently the only thing that appears to be standing between the children of Palestine and death, between everyone in Palestine and a death by mass starvation. We know, have now gotten confirmation from the World Health Organization, that a famine is in progress. If you care about any power that the United Nations should have to prevent atrocities, then Israel must be stopped. Aid must get to the children, and to all the civilians of Gaza who are currently dying of bombing, and hunger, and disease.

Civilians are exiting to Egypt, a country that is already unstable, not yet having recovered from the Arab Spring. The economy of Egypt is already under strain, from the Civil War, the new administrative capital, the reduction of traffic in the Suez, and they have not yet cleared themselves of the Muslim Brotherhood. Will those orphans Israel created be found by extremists who share many of the same goals as the one that Israel claims to be trying to extinguish? Will Israel start a war with Egypt when those children they have orphaned in Gaza grow old enough to seek revenge? What of its other border, where Hezbollah has increased attacks, or the months of impact by Yemen on international trade? Israel is not extinguishing the threats to its people, but increasing them. If you care about Israeli civilians, as you claim, then Israel must be stopped.

Recently, in Russia, a political opposition member died in an arctic prison under mysterious circumstances. This was very high-profile, and the US enacted sanctions within a week. Those sanctions were deserved, yes, but it is a very poor look on behalf of the United States that we enacted sanctions on Russia for the death of one man, but nothing on Israel for the death of nearly thirty thousand, half of which are children. If you care about the reputation that the United States has on a world stage, Israel should be under censure.

And finally, if you care about your own party and your own hide, Israel must be stopped. You are losing Michigan. You are losing Georgia. You are losing Arizona. Some of these states won us the 2020 election. Some of them won on the power of the Arab-American vote. We cannot afford another four years of Trump.

Even if you don't have the heart to care for the hundreds of thousands of children that are dead or dying, you should have the brain to care about Michigan.

A member of the Air Force died to make you listen. A loyal soldier to the US decided that rather than die for his country fighting a war, he would die to stop one.

Listen to him, and to all who tell you that the US cannot be complicit in what, every day, is more likely to be remembered forever as a genocide.

(Call your reps)

(A more general post on how to talk to your reps)

This has not been proofread but I keep rolling phrases around in my mind and had to get at least something down in the page.