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bikerlovertexas · 2 years
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hi nerds,
i had a moment of stupidity in which i deleted my tumblr account (same name different dashes) and i freaked out because it had a bunch of old college art assignments on it. i had a fuck ton of art on it and in just a moment, it was gone.
so to celebrate my quick return to tumblr in all my glory and slight shame, here is some recent digital art and photography that i’ve entered into a gallery showcase on my campus. these are all my originals, with credit to my model @moonlit-phoenix .
since i do not have a large tumblr presence, here is a short bio about me. i am 19, an artist/graphic design student, and i have a plethora of neurodivergencies, if you will. a rare brain disease floods my existence, as does hella adhd and all the other spicy things. i am many things. an artist, a gamer, a Gemini (not sorry) probably autistic, bisexual, all the things. cringe.
anyhow, enjoy my presence I guess?
Syd
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chrisgoesrock · 1 year
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N.Y. in the 70′s
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brexiiton · 8 months
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A judge called an FBI operative a 'villain.' Ruling comes too late for 2 convicted in terror sting
BY MICHAEL HILL
Updated 3:59 PM GMT +10, August 8, 2023
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - In a scathing ruling last month, a judge said the FBI had used a "villain" of an informant to manipulate a group of Muslim men into going along with a fictitious plot to destroy military planes and synagogues in New York City's suburbs. She ordered three released from prison, saying "the real lead conspirator was the United States."
Now, a man convicted in another sting carried out by the same FBI operative says he hopes the ruling will prompt U.S. prosecutors to review the fairness of similar counterterrorism operations carried out in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.
"Hopefully this will be the first step for the Justice Department to review all those cases of conspiracy and entrapment," said Yassin Aref, a former imam who spent 14 years in federal custody in a case involving a business loan made to an Albany pizza shop owner and a made-up story about a Stinger missile.
Aref and the shop owner were arrested in 2004 in one of several FBI stings carried out by a paid civilian operative named Shahed Hussain, whose work has been criticized for years by civil liberties groups.
Hussain entered the U.S with his wife and two sons in the 1990s afer he was accused of murder - falsely, he once testified - in his native Pakistan. He settled in the Albany area and was working as a translator when he got caught helping someone get their driver's license illegally. In exchange for leniency, he started working for the FBI.
American law enforcement at the time was on a massive hunt for terrorist "sleeper cells" planning attacks on U.S. soil. Hussain worked with the FBI to approach people suspected of being sympathetic to Islamic militant groups and see if they could be talked into an illegal act.
One target was a group of four men from Newburgh, New York, who were arrested in 2009, convicted of plotting deadly antisemitic attacks and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Courts has upheld their convictions, finding they knowingly became eager participants in a plot to plant explosives at a Bronx synagogue. But when three of the four applied for compassionate release, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon granted the request, saying the FBI had sent a master manipulator "to troll among the poorest and weakest of men for 'terrorists' who might prove susceptible to an offer of much-needed cash in exchange for committing a faux crime."
In a ruling July 28, McMahon called them "hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals" who had no connection to any terrorist group and had "never remotely contemplated" violent extremist before they met Hussain.
The ruling resonated with defendants and attorneys in a case Hussain helped build in 2004 against two men involved with an Albany mosque, Aref and former pizza shop owner Mohammed Hossain.
Posing as a successful businessman, Hussain befriended Hossain, eventually offering to lend him $50,000 for his struggling business. But he also told the pizza parlor owner the money would come from the sale of a shoulder-fired missile, imported from China, to a group that wanted to kill a Pakistani diplomat in New York City.
Hossain later said he thought the talk about an attack was a joke and that the missile he was shown was a plumbing supply. For religious reasons, he asked his imam, Aref, to witness the business transaction, much like a notary.
Aref and Hossain, now free after serving long prison terms for money laundering concealing material support for an attack with a weapon of mass destruction and giving material support to a terrorist organization, say they were innocent.
"I was a businessman taking care of my children," Hossain told the Associated Press.
Defense lawyers said they were manipulated to take part in a deal they didn't understand.
"The government wanted to make me something big, to make me look like danger," said Aref, speaking to the AP from his native Iraq, where he now lives. When the FBI was not able to find real terrorists, he said, "then they created one."
The FBI declined to comment. Emails seeking comment were sent to the Department of Justice and the regional U.S. attorney's office.
At the time of the arrests, then-deputy attorney general James Comey said "we are working very, very hard to infiltrate the enemy." After their convictions, then-U.S. Attorney Glenn Suddaby said the pair were "prone to support terrorism."
But the Albany case became a prime example used by critics who believed the government overreacted in its response to 9/11. In their view, Hussain was not informing on potential terrorists, but pushing people toward illegal behavior.
Judge McMahon described Hussain as "most unsavory," saying he encouraged his naive targets with rhetoric and a large cash reward.
McMahon's government-led conspiracy criticism is "exactly the argument we were making," said Terence Kindlon, the attorney who represented Aref. Kindlon called a "contrived case" tried amid rage over 9/11.
Hussain is believed to have returned to Pakistan, but he maintained a limo company in upstate New York that was operated by a son. In 2018, one of the company's vehicles wrecked while carrying a group on a birthday outing, killing 20. Hussain's son was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to at least five years in prison after prosecutors presented evidence that the company had evaded safety regulations.
The FBI said in a prepared statement that it did not take any action that allowed the limousine company to operate, "nor did we take any action to interfere with the prosecution of the case."
Contact information for Hussain in Pakistan could not be found.
Aref, 53, was deported after his prison sentence but says he bears no ill will. His appeals attorney, Kathy Manley, said legal appeals are exhausted.
Hossain, 68, was released in 2020 and lives in Albany. He no longer has the pizza place, but maintains a handful of rental properties. He said the experience has left him with lingering fears.
"If I look back and I'm thinking about what has happened," he said, "it just makes me numb."
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Shadowless & Brightness of Darkness and Brightness. (GOOD LUCK ARTIST IMAGE OF SUMMER SOLSTICE LAST IN 2022, 2018 AND MORE) between Avenue X and East 29th Street and 6th Avenue and Prospect Place. Brooklyn, New York: 11235 & 11217.
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Sheepshead Bay and Park Slope.
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lorenzlund · 2 years
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"Drum nimm den vergoldeten Ring endlich von mir, damn!!" "Golden Ei-s, ooh, Golden ..."
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nemfrog · 8 months
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"Wonderful Tesla oscillating tower...intended for radiating electrical energy in the form of high frequency waves propagated through the Earth itself."
The Electrical experimenter. March 1916.
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turismofmny · 2 years
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N.Y. remonta con 4 HR para vencer a Twins
N.Y. remonta con 4 HR para vencer a Twins
MINNEAPOLIS — Gerrit Cole concedió jonrones a sus primeros tres adversarios y recibió la cifra más alta en su carrera, de cinco cuadrangulares en dos entradas un tercio, pero los Yanquis de Nueva York lograron remontar para vencer el jueves 10-7 a los Mellizos de Minnesota tras dos bambinazos de Joey Gallo. Los Yanquis iban abajo 7-3 cuando Cole dejó el montículo y empataron en el sexto inning…
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grrl-beetle · 7 months
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Alexander McQueen x Puma
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quirky-vg · 4 months
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From: Rockin’ Kats (aka N.Y. Nyankies)
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tomo8455 · 3 months
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What you should stop doing is Let's stop it. and I hope you have a good year for all of the worid. that's all.
thx2023. tomo8455
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vocaloidderivativeotd · 3 months
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Today's Vocaloid derivative of the day is:
Kagamine Rin (or Len) from Alice in N.Y. by Suzunosuke!
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daguerreotyping · 9 months
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Daguerreotype of a strikingly handsome older gentleman, possibly photographed by Matthew Brady, c. 1840s
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cure-stars · 10 months
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CHASE ME, FASHIONISTA !! ♠️
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munsevi · 1 year
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gölgelere sığınmış bir ölüm için yalvarıyorum.
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piggybacktail · 2 months
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