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qqueenofhades · 2 years

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took some time to rewatch some of the footage from Jan 6th and it gets me how we really were just one step away from the cliff edge

I mean.... yeah. We all knew it was bad at the time (I was texting with some friends on the morning of January 6, since we were braced for some kind of batfuckery to go down after Josh Hawlin' Ass announced his intention to object to the results in the Senate), and then it was just like... wait a second people have broken into the Capitol, what in the hell is going on, isn't there security, what is this, what the fuck. It was an anxious wait to see what the fuck was going to happen and/or if the police were going to get the rioters out of there, but I definitely didn't fully understand the gravity of what had gone on, even though we were all aware that an armed attack on the US Capitol in the name of overturning a lawful presidential election was a) very bad, and b) unprecedented in American history. I stayed up late that night to be sure that they would bring Congress back and certify the results, which they did, but also: Jesus Christ.

Everything that we've learned since has confirmed that this WAS a deadly serious attempted coup, and that while it failed, it was not due to lack of planning or effort on the bad guys' part. Trump was openly asking the DOJ and DHS and other high-level defense and security officials to do crazily illegal shit, declare martial law, seize voting machines, order a re-run of the election, etc etc. If they had just done what the president asked them, Jesus Christ knows where that would have taken us, and they get away with this shit because it has never happened before and nobody knows what to do, so they just decide to accept it since it's easier than fighting. Fortunately, some people, even otherwise openly terrible ones a la Bill Barr, told Trump to his face that this was insane treason and they weren't doing it. The Republican Party has been busy trying to remedy that fact by installing mindlessly loyal, Big Lie-believing toadies at every level of the state and federal apparatus, so that the next time a losing Republican candidate asks them to overturn an election, THEY WILL DO THAT. That is a deeply fucking terrifying fact: we had to rely on the personal choice of terrible people to decide that treason was a bridge too far, and say no. Next time, we do NOT have that certainty. As I have said before, our institutions are not designed to automatically counteract an endlessly malicious, evil, stupid wannabe fascist like Trump. They ultimately did hold, but they were stretched to the breaking point, and the GOP has been busily trying to break them the rest of the way ever since.

There are some signs that this message may be getting through, as a recent poll listed "threats to democracy" as the top issue motivating people to vote in the midterms. There has also been major movement toward Democrats on the generic Congressional ballot and overperformance for Democrats in otherwise strongly-Republican states and districts (the Kansas abortion referendum and special House elections in Nebraska and a red district of Minnesota). That is because, as I have said and keep saying, the Republicans are simply too dangerous to be allowed to hold any kind of power again, since they've gone around the crazy bend and then some. Trump's coup failed, but I've seen a lot of people acting like "lol he's so stupid of course it was gonna fail it was never a serious threat." JESUS CHRIST, NO! IT WAS A VERY SERIOUS THREAT AND THE ONLY REASON IT FAILED WAS DUE TO DUMB LUCK! Like, if Officer Eugene Goodman of the Capitol Police hadn't led the insurrectionists away from the open door into the Congress chamber, THEY LITERALLY WERE PLANNING ON MURDERING NANCY PELOSI AND MIKE PENCE. They have said this in their plea filings and their court appearances. They have straight-up admitted that their plan was to decapitate the government and install Trump as dictator. Jesus.

When the Jan. 6 committee publishes their full and formal report, I encourage every American to read it as a matter of basic patriotic and civic duty. Especially if you haven't been paying attention, you are still buying into the "both sides are bad" rhetoric, or anything else. Because this happened, it is still happening, and may yet happen for real if people get complacent and decide that it is over. So. Yes.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts

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unveilhq · 2 months

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congratulations on your acceptance, spoop, dan, & rider ! please make sure you check the next steps here

charlie carver, homosexual, male + he/him→ isn’t that callum bane? i’ve seen them hanging out with the siphoners. i hear they're 28, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 2 years. they seem to be calm & knowledgeable, but also calculating & critical. it’s cool that they’re capable of chlorokinesis, healing and psychometry!

max carver, bi sexual, male + he/him → isn’t that mason bane? i’ve seen them hanging out with the witches. i hear they're 28, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 2 years. they seem to be charismatic & strong, but also stupid & devious. it’s cool that they’re capable of electrokinesis, teleportation, photokinesis, and smoke manipulation!

brant daugherty, homosexual, male + he/him → isn’t that karter ashcroft? i’ve seen them hanging out with the half ghosts. i hear they’re 32, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 1 year. they seem to be athletic & playful, but also reckless & erratic.

david lee mcInnis, pansexual, cis male + he/him/his → isn’t that casey callahan? i’ve seen them hanging out with the dragonkin. i hear they’re 242, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 53 years. they seem to be caring & passionate, but also misanthropic & violent. it’s cool that they’re capable of pyrokinesis!

boyd holbrook, homosexual, cis male + he/him/his → isn’t that wolfram wagner? i’ve seen them hanging out with the incubi. i hear they’re 376, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 1 month. they seem to be carefree & flexible, but also greedy & ruthless.

patrick wilson, gay, male + he/him → isn’t that aksel forsberg akeselric ogemseren? i’ve seen them hanging out with the merfolk. i hear they're 246 (but look 50), but they’ve only been in alexandria for 13 years. they seem to be inquisitive & approachable, but also indulgent & unrestrained.

charlie hunnam, gay, male + he/him → isn’t that rictor attano? i’ve seen them hanging out with the witches. i hear they're 39, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 7 months. they seem to be righteous & chivalrous, but also jaded & world-weary. it’s cool that they’re capable of technopathy, resurrection, photokinesis, and divination!

josh dallas, bisexual, he/him → isn’t that audric uvanov? i’ve seen them hanging out with the vampires. i hear they're 1492, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 34 years. they seem to be charming & decisive, but also manipulative & possessive.

adam senn, pansexual, he/him → isn’t that wren bailey? i’ve seen them hanging out with the witches. i hear they're 35, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 5 years. they seem to be ambitious & empathetic, but also aggressive & cocky. it’s cool that they’re capable of astral projection, chlorokinesis, geokinesis, atmokinesis!

ricky whittle, "straight", male + he/him → isn’t that carston gillespie? i’ve seen them hanging out with the humans. i hear they're 43, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 3 years. they seem to be steadfast & flexible, but also hot-tempered & vindictive. they are not heightened!

matt barr, gay, male + he/him → isn’t that tyler bristol? i’ve seen them hanging out with the were-creatures. i hear they're 40, but they’ve only been in alexandria for 7 years. they seem to be loyal & attentive, but also territorial & dominating. it’s cool that their animal counterpart is a wolf!

#unveilaccepted

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wizardysseus · 1 year

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lent 2023: what i read, watched, and listened to

i gave up reading fiction for lent, which freed up... um... a lot of time.

read:

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes DuMez [audiobook]

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald [audiobook]

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr [audiobook]

The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler*

Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans with John Chu [audiobook; this was posthumously finished and narrated by her friends, so it can be a lot.]

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans [audiobook; this is almost the only book on the list that i rated under 4 stars, only because i found it less cohesive and compelling than the previous two books of hers i had just read. my extremely general opinion on rhe is that i dislike her writing voice in a lot of inconsequential ways, but appreciate her thoughts on a much deeper and more important level.]

watched:

Same God (2018, documentary) [i was a student at wheaton college when this happened. watching it happen again felt about 10 years long.]

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye (2018) [this film is in no way a wholesale rejection of purity culture, but it was interesting to me, especially followed by the podcast episodes I Kissed Christianity Goodbye and Reflections on Christian Celebrity. if you're interested in what happened in josh harris' church before all of this, this is a great article. tw for sexual and spiritual abuse, including but not limited to csa.]

other nonfiction read, though not for my lenten study:

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by ND Stevenson

Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver [this is the other book that i rated under 4 stars; it resulted in such mixed feelings that i wrote a goodreads review, which i hate doing.]

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn*

*still reading

#captain's reading log #church blogging #lostariel watches

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sophietv · 9 months

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Taylor’s jet flew to Connecticut on Friday (Holiday House) and Karlie was just spotted at Nobu in Malibu on Sunday night. Pretty sure Josh is there too, the Daily Mail just didn’t post his picture with the group for some reason. It’s looking like at most they saw each other maybe post show on Thursday but then that’s it. So really we’ve all been waiting for something to happen that isn’t going to happen 😭

Hi.

I'm not sure I understand how this is such a bad news.

But let me just remind you that before Midnights was out we barrely knew where Taylor was most of the time.

And also. Taylor knows very well that her Jets are being tracked online.

This is a security issue.

But also, I'm pretty sure that most of the time, we have absolutly no idea where Talor actually is. Same for Karlie.

We are talking about two woman who owns millions of dollars.

Also, Karlie is very good at lategraming things, as we have seen many times during Covid.

So yeah. I really don't think that this proves anything.

Thank you for your question!

#anon

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 6 months

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Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term | The Washington Post

ADVISERS HAVE ALSO DISCUSSED DEPLOYING THE MILITARY TO QUELL POTENTIAL UNREST ON INAUGURATION DAY. CRITICS HAVE CALLED THE IDEAS UNDER CONSIDERATION DANGEROUS AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett

Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.

In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John F. Kelly, and former Attorney General William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to people who have talked to him, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI and Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter said.

In public, Trump has vowed to appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” President Biden and his family. The former president has frequently made corruption accusations against them that are not supported by available evidence.

To facilitate Trump’s ability to direct Justice Department actions, his associates have been drafting plans to dispense with 50 years of policy and practice intended to shield criminal prosecutions from political considerations. Critics have called such ideas dangerous and unconstitutional.

“It would resemble a banana republic if people came into office and started going after their opponents willy-nilly,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia who studies executive power. “It’s hardly something we should aspire to.”

Much of the planning for a second term has been unofficially outsourced to a partnership of right-wing think tanks in Washington. Dubbed “Project 2025,” the group is developing a plan, to include draft executive orders, that would deploy the military domestically under the Insurrection Act, according to a person involved in those conversations and internal communications reviewed by The Washington Post. The law, last updated in 1871, authorizes the president to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement.

The proposal was identified in internal discussions as an immediate priority, the communications showed. In the final year of his presidency, some of Trump’s supporters urged him to invoke the Insurrection Act to put down unrest after the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, but he never did it. Trump has publicly expressed regret about not deploying more federal force and said he would not hesitate to do so in the future.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung did not answer questions about specific actions under discussion. “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” Cheung said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”

The discussions underway reflect Trump’s determination to harness the power of the presidency to exact revenge on those who have challenged or criticized him if he returns to the White House. The former president has frequently threatened to take punitive steps against his perceived enemies, arguing that doing so would be justified by the current prosecutions against him. Trump has claimed without evidence that the criminal charges he is facing — a total of 91 across four state and federal indictments — were made up to damage him politically.

“This is third-world-country stuff, ‘arrest your opponent,’” Trump said at a campaign stop in New Hampshire in October. “And that means I can do that, too.”

Special counsel Jack Smith, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Biden have all said that Smith’s prosecution decisions were made independently of the White House, in accordance with department rules on special counsels.

Trump, the clear polling leader in the GOP race, has made “retribution” a central theme of his campaign, seeking to intertwine his own legal defense with a call for payback against perceived slights and offenses to right-wing Americans. He repeatedly tells his supporters that he is being persecuted on their behalf and holds out a 2024 victory as a shared redemption at their enemies’ expense.

It is unclear what alleged crimes or evidence Trump would claim to justify investigating his named targets.

Kelly said he would expect Trump to investigate him because since his term as chief of staff ended, he has publicly criticized Trump, including by alleging that he called dead service members “suckers.” Kelly added, “There is no question in my mind he is going to go after people that have turned on him.”

Barr, another Trump appointee turned critic, has contradicted the former president’s false claims about the 2020 election and called him “a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country’s.” Asked about Trump’s interest in prosecuting him, Barr deadpanned, “I’m quivering in my boots.”

“Trump himself is more likely to rot in jail than anyone on his alleged list,” said Cobb, who accused Trump of “stifling truth, making threats and bullying weaklings into doing his bidding.”

Milley did not comment.

Other modern presidents since the Watergate scandal — when Richard M. Nixon tried to suppress the FBI’s investigation into his campaign’s spying and sabotage against Democrats — have sought to separate politics from law enforcement. Presidents of both parties have imposed a White House policy restricting communications with prosecutors. An effort under the George W. Bush administration to remove U.S. attorneys for political reasons led to high-level resignations and a criminal investigation.

Rod J. Rosenstein, the Trump-appointed deputy attorney general who oversaw the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian interference in the 2016 election, said a politically ordered prosecution would violate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under law and could cause judges to dismiss the charges. That constitutional defense has rarely been raised in U.S. history, Rosenstein said.

“Making prosecutorial decisions in a nonpartisan manner is essential to democracy,” Rosenstein said. “The White House should not be meddling in individual cases for political reasons.”

But Trump allies such as Russ Vought, his former budget director who now leads the Center for Renewing America, are actively repudiating the modern tradition of a measure of independence for the Department of Justice, arguing that such independence is not in law or the Constitution. Vought is in regular contact with Trump and would be expected to hold a major position in a second term.

“You don’t need a statutory change at all, you need a mind-set change,” Vought said in an interview. “You need an attorney general and a White House Counsel’s Office that don’t view themselves as trying to protect the department from the president.”

A FIXATION ON PROSECUTING ENEMIES

As President, Kelly said, Trump would often suggest prosecuting his political enemies, or at least having the FBI investigate them. Kelly said he would not pass along the requests to the Justice Department but would alert the White House Counsel’s Office. Usually, they would ignore the orders, he said, and wait for Trump to move on. In a second term, Trump’s aides could respond to such requests differently, he said.

“The lesson the former president learned from his first term is don’t put guys like me … in those jobs,” Kelly said. “The lesson he learned was to find sycophants.”

Although aides have worked on plans for some other agencies, Trump has taken a particular interest in the Justice Department. In conversations about a potential second term, Trump has made picking an attorney general his number one priority, according a Trump adviser.

“Given his recent trials and tribulations, one would think he’s going to pick up the plan for the Department of Justice before doing some light reading of a 500-page white paper on reforming the EPA,” said Matt Mowers, a former Trump White House adviser.

Jeffrey Clark, a fellow at Vought’s think tank, is leading the work on the Insurrection Act under Project 2025. The Post has reported that Clark is one of six unnamed co-conspirators whose actions are described in Trump’s indictment in the federal election interference case.

Clark was also charged in Fulton County, Georgia, with violating the state anti-racketeering law and attempting to create a false statement, as part of the district attorney’s case accusing Trump and co-conspirators of interfering in the 2020 election. Clark has pleaded not guilty. As a Justice Department official after the 2020 election, Clark pressured superiors to investigate nonexistent election crimes and to encourage state officials to submit phony certificates to the electoral college, according to the indictment.

In one conversation described in the federal indictment, a deputy White House counsel warned Clark that Trump’s refusing to leave office would lead to “riots in every major city.” Clark responded, according to the indictment, “That’s why there’s an Insurrection Act.”

Clark had dinner with Trump during a visit to his Bedminster, N.J., golf club this summer. He also went to Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday for a screening of a new Dinesh D’Souza movie that uses falsehoods, misleading interviews and dramatizations to allege federal persecution of Jan. 6 rioters and Christians. Also attending were fringe allies such as Stephen K. Bannon, Roger Stone, Laura Loomer and Michael Flynn.

“I think that the supposedly independent DOJ is an illusion,” Clark said in an interview. Through a spokeswoman he did not respond to follow-up questions about his work on the Insurrection Act.

Clark’s involvement with Project 2025 has alarmed some other conservative lawyers who view him as an unqualified choice to take a senior leadership role at the department, according to a conservative lawyer who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks. Project 2025 comprises 75 groups in a collaboration organized by the Heritage Foundation.

Project 2025 director Paul Dans stood by Clark in a statement. “We are grateful for Jeff Clark’s willingness to share his insights from having worked at high levels in government during trying times,” he said.

After online publication of this story, Rob Bluey, a Heritage spokesman, said: “There are no plans within Project 2025 related to the Insurrection Act or targeting political enemies.”

HOW A SECOND TRUMP TERM WOULD DIFFER FROM THE FIRST

There is a heated debate in conservative legal circles about how to interact with Trump as the likely nominee. Many in Trump’s circle have disparaged what they view as institutionalist Republican lawyers, particularly those associated with the Federalist Society. Some Trump advisers consider these individuals too soft and accommodating to make the kind of changes within agencies that they want to see happen in a second Trump administration.

Trump has told advisers that he is looking for lawyers who are loyal to him to serve in a second term — complaining about his White House Counsel’s Office unwillingness to go along with some of his ideas in his first term or help him in his bid to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

In repeated comments to advisers and lawyers around him, Trump has said his biggest regrets were naming Jeff Sessions and Barr as his attorneys general and listening to others — he often cites the “Federalist Society” — who wanted him to name lawyers with impressive pedigrees and Ivy League credentials to senior Justice Department positions. He has mentioned to several lawyers who have defended him on TV or attacked Biden that they would be a good candidate for attorney general, according to people familiar with his comments.

The overall vision that Trump, his campaign and outside allies are now discussing for a second term would differ from his first in terms of how quickly and forcefully officials would move to execute his orders. Alumni involved in the current planning generally fault a slow start, bureaucratic resistance and litigation for hindering the president’s agenda in his first term, and they are determined to avoid those hurdles, if given a second chance, by concentrating more power in the West Wing and selecting appointees who will carry out Trump’s demands.

Those groups are in discussions with Trump’s campaign advisers and occasionally the candidate himself, sometimes circulating policy papers or draft executive orders, according to people familiar with the situation.

“No one is opposed to them putting together ideas, but it’s not us,” a campaign adviser said. “These groups say they’ll have the whole transition planned. Some of those people I’m sure are good and Trump will appoint, but it’s not what is on his mind right now. I’m sure he’d be fine with some of their orders.”

Trump’s core group of West Wing advisers for a second term is widely expected to include Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s hard-line immigration policies including family separation, who has gone on to challenge Biden administration policies in court through a conservative organization called America First Legal. Miller did not respond to requests for comment.

Alumni have also saved lists of previous appointees who would not be welcome in a second Trump administration, as well as career officers they viewed as uncooperative and would seek to fire on an executive order to weaken civil service protections.

For other appointments, Trump would be able to draw on lineups of personnel prepared by Project 2025. Dans, a former Office of Personnel Management chief of staff, likened the database to a “conservative LinkedIn,” allowing applicants to present their resumes on public profiles, while also providing a shared workspace for Heritage and partner organizations to vet the candidates and make recommendations.

“We don’t want careerists, we don’t want people here who are opportunists,” he said. “We want conservative warriors.”

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laf-outloud · 1 year

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Laura’s ig story - I can’t wait to see Justin’s real life clumsiness in the show!

Laura's IG story

AAAHHH! So much to unpack in this description! First off, yes, I can't wait to see clumsy Justin because I just can't picture it! Second, what "...iest" is Timothy doing??? And finally... "with. a. bang." I can only assume this is setting up what we learn about Gus in the 1.13 episode description, but dang! I can't wait to watch!

#walker: independence #WIndy bts #WIndy spoilers #WIndy 1.11 #matt barr #justin johnson cortez #laura terry #mike carnes #josh gilbert #geoff shotz #timothy granaderos #johnny marfa #gavin lewis

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bighermie · 2 years

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Joe Biden on Tuesday traveled to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to promote his ‘Safer America Plan’ to ‘reduce gun crime.’ Biden delivered remarks at the Marts Center at Wilkes University after hiding out for several days. Joe Biden could barely read his teleprompter. 79-year-old Joe confused which offices Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman are running for. Shapiro…

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stlhandyman · 1 year

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Supreme Court, U.S FILED In The OCT 2 2022 Supreme Court ofthe United States RALAND J BRUNSON, Petitioner,

Named persons in their capacities as United States House Representatives: ALMA S. ADAMS; PETE AGUILAR; COLIN Z. ALLRED; MARK E. AMODEI; KELLY ARMSTRONG; JAKE AUCHINCLOSS; CYNTHIA AXNE; DON BACON; TROY BALDERSON; ANDY BARR; NANETTE DIAZ BARRAGAN; KAREN BASS; JOYCE BEATTY; AMI BERA; DONALD S. BEYER JR.; GUS M. ILIRAKIS; SANFORD D. BISHOP JR.; EARL BLUMENAUER; LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER; SUZANNE BONAMICI; CAROLYN BOURDEAUX; JAMAAL BOWMAN; BRENDAN F. BOYLE; KEVIN BRADY; ANTHONY G. BROWN; JULIA BROWNLEY; VERN BUCHANAN; KEN BUCK; LARRY BUCSHON; CORI BUSH; CHERI BUSTOS; G. K. BUTTERFIELD; SALUD 0. CARBAJAL; TONY CARDENAS; ANDRE CARSON; MATT CARTWRIGHT; ED CASE; SEAN CASTEN; KATHY CASTOR; JOAQUIN CASTRO; LIZ CHENEY; JUDY CHU; DAVID N. CICILLINE; KATHERINE M. CLARK; YVETTE D. CLARKE; EMANUEL CLEAVER; JAMES E. CLYBURN; STEVE COHEN; JAMES COMER; GERALD E. CONNOLLY; JIM COOPER; J. LUIS CORREA; JIM COSTA; JOE COURTNEY; ANGIE CRAIG; DAN CRENSHAW; CHARLIE CRIST; JASON CROW; HENRY CUELLAR; JOHN R. 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garbagevanfleet · 1 year

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Okay so first of all, I absoutetly adore your writing so I gotta say I'm so happy to see you doing these so even if for a minute I can be a small part of your writing universe. I'm a Leo sun, Gemini moon, and Libra rising. I love summer and can't stand winter I don't know how to dress for any other weather then just hot so I'm always just freezing. Appearance wise, I have long wavy brown hair that constantly toes the line between 'cute and beachy' and 'swamp witch coming into town to scare the locals' and I have 4 tattoos; a disco ball on my collarbone, "it's only forever not long at all" on my arm, sailor moon's wand on my leg, and my cat Max on my right arm (I'm getting another one in March which is an 'old enchanted' floral type arm wrap). My friends call my Bagel because after a particularly crazy night out I somehow made it home with a dozen fresh baked bagels. I'm a bartender at a local small concert venue, so I work a lot of evenings but even with that being said my friends are the most important thing in my life and I'll drop everything to be there for someone. But I hate beer, it's sad wheat water and that's a hill I'll die on and then haunt later!! I love baking (I make an incredible espresso banana bread), reading (currently reading Pamela Des Barres' bio), board games, music (I love hearing what people are listening to/passionate about), and movies (my favourite movie is Labyrinth, and a new favourite movie is Everything Everywhere All At Once. I also have very strong opinions about Stanley Kubrick, sorry Jake and Josh)

This is the first time I've ever done this but I fell in love while reading your ask and I don't think any of them really deserve you so I'm pairing you with me. We will thoroughly enjoy hating winter together and telling each other all about our tattoos, and I'll come and sit at the bar while you're working and let you make me fun drinks to try (but no beer because I also hate it). I literally just made banana bread yesterday and also love baking so be prepared to put our recipes to the test against each other and the winner will get to pick what kind of bagels we eat in the morning, but be prepared for my choice to always be french toast bagels <3 Also, the very first bit you wrote was jarringly sweet to me and thank you i love you. (if you want me to actually pair you with one of the boys I absolutely will, just send me another ask referring to this one, but I thought this would be fun and cute.)

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planetabio · 2 years

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A luz da sabedoria..............do rock and roll!

Antes de se apresentar no dia 08 de setembro no Rock in Rio, os integrantes do grupo californiano The Offspring demitiu seu costumeiro baterista, Pete Parada.

Por qual motivo?

Bem, o músico recusou-se a receber as doses de vacina anti-COVID 19, orientado pelo seu médico. Pete Parada alegou ser portador de síndrome de Guillain-Barré, doença autoimune muito rara que afeta o sistema nervoso, especialmente os nervos.

No entanto, maior parte da comunidade científica defende que o risco de ocorrerem efeitos indesejáveis graves relacionados às vacinas é consideravelmente menor do que o risco de desenvolver quadros graves decorrentes da infecção por Sars-Cov 2.

Especialistas afirmam que a vacina contra a COVID-19 não está contraindicada para pacientes com histórico pregresso de síndrome de Guillain Barre, a não ser que eles estejam manifestando sintomas ou sequelas da doença.

Ocorre que o líder do The Offspring é nada mais, nada menos que Dexter Holland, PhD em Biologia Molecular pela USC (University of Southern California).

Já viu, né? Um cara com o perfil de Dexter não suporta negacionistas! Aliás, qual cientista com "C" maiúsculo" suporta?

O tema de doutorado de Dexter Holland, Discovery of Mature MicroRNA Sequences within the Protein-Coding Regions of Global HIV-1 Genomes: Predictions of Novel Mechanisms for Viral Infection and Pathogenicity, está disponível no acervo digital da USC.

O trabalho científico de Dexter disserta sobre a importância dos chamados microRNAs (miRNA) na capacidade do vírus HIV (causador da AIDS) infectar as células do sistema imunológico.

Sabe-se que os miRNAs pertencem a um pequeno grupo de moléculas de RNA, que embora não codificantes, parecem ser fundamentais na regulação da expressão gênica de múltiplos processos celulares. Vários estudos científicos apontam que anormalidades dos miRNAs podem desencadear certos tipos de câncer, doenças inflamatórias e autoimunes.

Além disso, os miRNAs afetam as interações entre a célula hospedeira e os vírus de diversas maneiras, dentre elas, os estágios da replicação viral e a suscetibilidade das células à infecção.

Na verdade os miRNAs podem ajudar ou atrapalhar o HIV. De um lado, o HIV pode fazer com que a célula hospedeira se defenda produzindo certos tipos de miRNA que se ligam ao RNA viral, interferindo em etapas variadas da replicação viral, principalmente na produção de proteínas virais. Por outro lado, há certos tipos de miRNA que podem desencadear um período de latência do HIV no interior da célula, o que não é exatamente sua destruição.

Desvendar os complexos mecanismos de ação do miRNA e a relação dessas moléculas com a patogenicidade do HIV é um dos desafios atuais dos biólogos moleculares. Uma extensa área de pesquisa está se abrindo para o desenvolvimento de vários medicamentos antirretrovirais. O vocalista Dexter Holland é mais uma das mentes que colaboram para o desenvolvimento de novas terapias contra o HIV, vírus que infecta aproximadamente 40 milhões de pessoas no mundo e que mata cerca de 1 milhão de pessoas por ano.

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E quando a ciência caminha com o rock and roll, ou, se você preferir, quando o rock and roll caminha com a ciência, bem, aí a jornada rumo ao conhecimento se torna mais prazerosa.

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Aliás, a apresentação do The Offspring no Rock in Rio foi sensacional, e o baterista substituto, Josh Freese, mandou muito bem!!