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laidenbreecatchall · 3 months

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Perhaps, today, it is.

Trafalgar Law x GN!Reader

Summary: Reader has a nightmare which leads into a dissociative episode, teetering on a panic attack. But is grounded by their captain.

Author Notes: This is the first time I've ever posted my fan fic so it may not be the best and he may be out of character but oh well. The choppiness of the writing is intentional btw given the readers state of mind.

This is written with my OC in mind, who was trapped in, essentially, a psychic prison and experimented on prior to meeting Law and the Heart Pirates. So the "him" referred to in the second paragraph is the head scientist where she was kept. The mental episode written is a heightened/exaggerated depiction of my own experiences with panic attacks, Dissociative/Derealization episodes, and the hypersensitivity that sometimes comes with it. This is by no means an over-arching depiction of what these episodes look like for everyone, nor should you attempt to comfort someone in the way that is written here before knowing what is helpful to that person. It's just what sounds nice to me, hypothetically. This is fiction. It's hurt/comfort, baby, not a mental health article.

Tags: TW!Dissociative episode, TW!Derealization, TW!Panic attack, TW!Paranoia, TW!Mentions of self harm desire, hurt/comfort?, Possible OOC for Law (I head cannon him as selective with his physical affection, rather than completely anti)

Gnawing. Biting. Tearing. Clawing. The edges of my brain begin to converge in onto themselves till I feel nothing at all. Overlapping, replaying, distorted. Overwhelmed by the sense of nothing and everything all at the same time. If I had the mental grasp or energy perhaps I would have thought that this is a state no human should ever be in.

Yet here it all is. For a moment I feel as though I may grasp something but, before any comprehension of the world around me filters through my mind, its ripped from me in the most violent manner. Why am I put through all this? Why am I here? Without moving an inch I feel like I'm fighting for any semblance of grounding. I’ve been here before. Over and over and over and over. A grip on my mind thats been there for an eternity. Before I met him and long long after. Tearing me from any normality or reality I held onto. Im cold. Im hot. Im sweating. Im shivering. Its hard to breath. Im falling. Im floating. Like a touch ghosting my skin, I feel it all over, yet not at all. Never fully connecting. Will I snap this way? Im not here. Im not there. Where was I? Where have I gone? Who was I with? Distant. All my senses highly sensitive in a hope to feel something, I hear it far away. A sound I cant quite make out. Louder. Muffled. Sharp in my skull, yet still nontangable. Louder Louder Louder. Turning up the volume before the record even starts playing. Then blasted.

Ripping me from my sheets, my body jolts up. Drenched in a cold cold sweat. Ringing in my ears. Hot streaks from my eyes. So loud yet still distant. Is something beside me? Eyes blurry. Should I focus? Should I focus? Threads interwoven. In. Out. In. Out. Over. Under. Over. Under. Soft yet still textured. Thwik thwik thwik thwik. Threads individually catching against my nails. Every hair on end. Sheets balled in my fists. Where am I? Where have I been? How did I get here? How long have I been here?

Fire! Lightning! Connection! Rejection! Warmth against my skin. Thousands of pin pricks down my spine, along my shoulder blades. Soft. Sharp. Leathery. My body pulls away from the sensation. Eyes agape, diggin through reality, searching, aching to focus. Reaching black watery eyes, animalistic, kind… Worried. Low beside me, crouched down, his soft fluffy white hands placed gingerly on the edge of the bed. Who? Who? Who? My chest feels heavy. Eyes break away from his, tracing the room. Where? Where? Where? Muffled speech. “Ca- -ou he-r me? -o you kn-w --ere y--- ar-?” Delicate, Ginger, As if I’ll shatter or snap. Warrented. Yet the pit in my stomach makes me sick. Skin feeling vile, lungs being torn ragged by quickened breath. Tighter. Tighter. Clawing. Tear it off. Tear it off. I need out of this skin. I need out of this skin.

Then Release.

A sound like a long blade cutting through the distortion clouding my senses. Smooth. Easy. Stong. The air shifts. The bear moves. Ragged breaths still tight in my chest, ease like waves on a beach. Each one easier than the last. A new warmth takes the place where the bear once occupied. Instinctively it pulls a deep breath through my nose from me. Something sweet like vanilla, bergamot, woody. The chaser of underlying antiseptic. Just a twing. I chase it. A safety. My eyes trail to the space he occupies, focusing on his. Gold shimmering in the warm light of my room, framed by dark lashes. Almost unreadable. Almost. There’s worry, but more so, a determination. A calm clarity held in his eyes that washed away my own disorientation. The blade slicing through the strings that tied me to my own head, his voice spoke my name. The air hung heavy, but now with a comforting warmth. Expectation of a hope answered; those outside the door still waited. Breaths almost even, though the soreness of a tight chest still lingered. With each inhale I was grounded deeper and depper to him, breathing in his scent. I needed more of him.

“...Captain…” A hoarse voice eeked out, it didn’t sound like my own, though it came from my throat. Perhaps I was leaning closer. Perhaps he was. But the distance was short when he came to place a gentle hand against my cheek. The touch felt foreign, and a part of me wanted to flinch away like I had Bepo, but it was warm. Oh so warm. So against the fear in my body, I followed the yearning, and leaned into the touch. His large hand cupped my face with ease, his fingers slipped behind my ear into my hairline like second nature. It didn’t take much to move my exhausted frame, so the slight tug forward sent my forehead onto his shoulder with a soft fwump. A warm hand pressed against my back gliding across it, finger tips tracing the ridges of my spine. Sweet caresses up. Vertebrae after vertebrae. Still holding me gently, he shifted up from his kneel on the ground, then smoothly next to me. The dip in the bed slipped me deeper into the crook of his neck.

Perhaps if I wasn’t so dazed I would have noticed the hitch in his breath as mine fanned against his skin. And perhaps if I had noticed that, I would have peered up at him to see the slight flush against his tan speckled skin. But I did not. Instead I just closed my eyes and breathed him in. I leaned into him as he draped my knees across his lap, turning to hold me tighter. No, I didn’t notice when or why the tension in the air dissipated. Nor the relieved crewmembers quietly closing the door to my room with a knowing appreciative smile to their captain. All that existed to me in that moment was him. Soon it would extend to my bed, to the room, then the ship, then the sea. But right now all I could hear was his breathing, all I could smell was his scent, all I could feel was his warmth, his heartbeat, one hand still tracing my spine, the other delicately playing with the hair on the back of my head. All of him grounding me to the world my mind pulls away, hidden in the mess of my own memories. Jumbled and disorienting. I squeeze him tighter, warm cotton under my fingertips, afraid he might somehow slip away. Perhaps he’s just a distraction in this moment, a comfort from an issue I must someday face. Or perhaps it’s something he will help me through understanding, that somewhere along the way our similarities, or even differences, will reveal something to me. But in this moment, he holds me tighter, nuzzling his face gingerly into my hair, whispering,

“Im right here… I’ve got you… I’m right here.”

Someday that may not be enough to keep the creeping darkness at bay.

But today it is. Today it is.

#one piece #trafalgar law #my writing #rye writing #rye fan fiction #trafalgar law x reader #hurt/comfort #trafalgar d water law #trafalgar d law x reader #trafalgar law fanfiction #uhhhh yeah... thats it

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Out Representative-elect Robert Garcia (D-CA) may not have been able to get sworn in yesterday due to Republicans’ inability to elect a Speaker of the House, but he has plans for when he finally can be sworn in.

When he takes his oath of office, he’ll swear on a copy of the Constitution, and, beneath that, an original Superman #1 comic from 1939, a photo of his parents, and a copy of his citizenship certificate.

Garcia came to the U.S. from Peru with his family when he was five-years-old and has said that naturalization was “his proudest moment” and the reason he started a career in politics. His parents died in 2020 of COVID-19.

He was the youngest and first out LGBTQ+ person elected as mayor of Long Beach, California (a position he served in from 2014 to 2022). During his time as mayor, he worked with businesses to reduce their environmental impacts, filled vacancies on citizen commissions with diverse and female members, and worked to improve local infrastructure as well as financial opportunities for local artists and home-based business owners.

He’s also an avid comic book fan.

In November, he tweeted a photo of the Superman #1 comic along with Amazing Fantasy #15, in which Spider-Man first appeared, saying he didn’t know which one he would first check out from the Library of Congress.

While many members of Congress will be sworn in on Bibles, they are not legally required to do so. Former Rep. – and current Minnesota attorney general – Keith Ellison (D-MN), who was the first Muslim person elected to Congress in 2007, was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t sworn in with any object after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. And in 2014 Suzi LeVine was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein on a Kindle with a copy of the Constitution open.

“I wanted to use a copy that is from the twenty-first century and that reflects my passion for technology and my hope for the future,” she said at the time.

New members of the House can’t be sworn in until a speaker is elected. Yesterday, after three votes, no candidate for Speaker was able to get a majority of votes because of a faction of Republicans voting against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The Democrats’ candidate – Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) – got the most votes in each round of voting, and around 20 Republicans – including anti-LGBTQ+ Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Bob Good (R-VA), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) – voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

Jordan himself nominated and voted for McCarthy.

The House adjourned without a new Speaker elected.

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paganimagevault · 5 months

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Statue found near Penjikent, possibly depicting Sogdian King Devashtish or a deity 7th-8th C. CE.

"Divashtich (also spelled Devashtich, Dewashtich, and Divasti), was a medieval Sogdian ruler in Transoxiana during the period of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. He was the ruler of Panjikant and its surroundings from ca. 706 until his downfall and execution in the autumn of 722.

Divashtich was the son of a certain Yodkhsetak, who belonged to a noble Sogdian dehqan family from Samarkand, which could trace its descent back to the Sasanian king Bahram V Gur (r. 420–438). The family bore the title of sur and began ruling parts of Sogdia during the 6th century. There were five members of the family bearing the title of sur, Divashtich being the last of them.

In 720, Divashtich, along with another Sogdian ruler named Karzanj, are mentioned as the leaders of an anti-Arab rebellion in Sogdia. They managed to earn the allegiance of at-Tar, the Sogdian ruler of Farghana, who promised to give them protection in case their rebellion turned into a failure. While the army of Karzanj was staying at Khujand, at-Tar betrayed him, and told the Umayyad general Sa'id ibn Amr al-Harashi where Karzanj and his army was stationing. Al-Harashi quickly marched towards Khujand, where he defeated the army of Karzanj, brutally massacring over 3,000 Sogdian inhabitants in the city.

Al-Harashi then left for Zarafshan, the location of Divashtich. A battle shortly took place near the city in 722, where al-Harashi managed to emerge victorious once again. Divashtich then fled to a fortress near Zarafshan, but eventually agreed to surrender to Arabs, and was taken prisoner, where he was treated well. The Arabs then began burning several houses and a temple in Panjikant.

The Umayyad governor of Iraq, including other high officials, wanted to set Divashtich free. Al-Harashi, however, had Divashtich crucified on a Zoroastrian burial building, and sent his head to Iraq.

Archaeologists have found evidence that Panjakent was founded around 400 AD. The town of Panjikent grew during the Hephthalite period, its fortifications were strengthened and temples were rebuilt. The city itself did not long outlive its last ruler. Consisting of a fortified castle of the ruler (kuhendiz, or citadel), the city itself (shahristan), surrounded by a fortress wall with numerous towers, a suburban settlement (rabad) and a large necropolis, with separate small crypts - nauses, in which there were assuaries (small clay boxes) with the remains of the dead, Penjikent ceased to exist after the death of Divashtich, and the inhabitants left it."

-taken from IranicaOnline, UNESCO, Wikipedia, and DCAT

#sogdiana #iranian #persian #ancient persia #ancient history #history #antiquities #art #sculpture #museums #statue

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casgirl · 5 months

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hi casgirl! do you have any fanfic recommendations for sasuke/naruto or destiel? i haven’t read much about either of these ships and ur the only one i trust on them (i think i read a college hookup naruto fic you recommended once, and 3 destiel fics you recced: twist and shout, the fic about cas being homeless for months, and the fic where dean is sent away for false accusations and cas is institutionalized)

happy holidays :]

i've been sitting on this message for ages bc i gotta deliver nothing but the best recs for you!!

sasunaru:

something to remember me by by heimei: modern au, kind of a coming of age story, kind of a ghost story. sweet and sad. iconic.

a world of truth by luchia: everyone is stuck in a genjutsu where Everything is Perfect but sasuke is the only one who's aware of it. very fun plotwise i'm such a sucker for like that kind of scenario.

komorebi by saltedpotato and come find me when by kintou are both good examples of one of my favorite sns fanfiction genres which is "post canon sasuke and naruto both leave the village and travel the world together". komorebi is one of my faves, and come find me when is a newer one that i liked a lot!

baby animals, weddings, and other things not normally associated with uchiha sasuke by prettypreistess sasuke becomes a teacher :)

destiel:

all things shining by askance and standbyme (one of the writers of twist and shout): one of my all time faves, a case fic that's really well written and just feels very magical. like its the odyssey to twist and shout's illiad.

somewhere by foolondahill17: a west side story au. the period typical racism tag refers to castiel getting called anti-italian slurs. absolutely ridiculous.

r/supernatural by renrub: the reddit format fic by @tiktaalic. iconic in its own right and hilarious.

misty water-colored memories by ireallydidthistomyself : i recommend everything zoe @klainebayeuxtapestry writes, but this i think might be my favorite. its destiel, but mostly about cas raising jack and its sooooo good. i've read it like a hundred times.

the face of heaven by orange_crushed ohhhh so sweet so good. cas is a fallen star who lands on earth.

there's a bunch i'm probably forgetting but these all have the maj casgirl stamp of approval!!!

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lounesdarbois · 9 days

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"Article intéressant mais je vous promets que nombre de nationalistes français métissés ne trouvent pas vos propos de nationalisme racial pan-européen, poivré dans quelques articles ici et là, drôle. Ce sont des gens qui se savent trahi. C’est la trahison qui leur incite le plus et quand ils voient qu’après avoir été trahi par les réseaux vétérotestamentaires cosmopolites à la Kalergi, puis par la nouvelle gauche, puis par des influenceurs du nationalisme auparavant français mais finalement racialiste pan-européen, ce seront ces derniers qui se prendront des bombes, innovatrices, mais nuisibles et violentes, des nationalistes français trahis. L’élément est dorénavant planté. Les bombes et autres armes de vengeance commencent déjà à se faire contempler. Ca va finir très mal."

Cher "anonyme".

Le ton de demi-menace et les termes "inciter", "bombes", "armes de vengeance" rendent votre démarche curieuse. Cette équivoque est le privilège des anonymes et la pente naturelle des lettres anonymes.

Est-ce que vous suivez mon parcours? E&R est composé pour 1/3 de banlieusards et métis patriotes comme moi. Depuis 15 ans j'espère en l'avènement d'une classe "racailles patriotes" pour simplifier, comme le furent autrefois corsaires et flibustiers sur les mers pour le compte du Roi. Hommes durs, fraternels, collectifs, et par-dessus tout LOYAUX envers le pays. Ni ratonneurs ni racailles. Loyauté envers le pays c'est loyauté envers les lignées patrilinéaires des hommes de la souche du pays, qui nous ont précédé, qui ont façonné le pays, qui en ont fait ce merveilleux potentiel, cette table toute prête à laquelle nous venons nous asseoir. Les Desouche ont la préséance dans un ordonnancement national. C'est normal. Nul ne récuse la préséance des Desouche en Italie, Tunisie, Thaïlande etc. Voyez comme la Tunisie a expulsé sa 1ère invasion de migrants en 2023! Patriotisme = loyauté = gratitude. Tout le reste est idéologie, névrose, manipulation.

Je viens de Grenoble ultra-gauchiste bordéleux corrompu, j'y ai appris la vie. Je ne suis pas un Français de souche et rallie la France car je n'ai qu'elle, cela par gratitude, par souvenir de tout ce qu'elle m'a donné de Charité, de Beauté, de grandeur et j'aimerais que nos "nationalistes français métissés" dont je fais partie, s'occupent, dans un contexte de racisme anti-Blanc banalisé, de modérer les invectives de certains "métis" attentistes. Les diatribes des Noah, Booba sont des appels à la destruction par métissage et agression et sont i-nac-cep-tables. Le discours de haine de soi de certains bobos Blancs comme Sylvie Laurent, Molard etc doit être critiqué par les Blancs ET les métis unis. "L'humoriste en paix", je ne l'aime pas. Dans les moments cruciaux il a toujours pris la voie facile. L'affaire Obono… Assez de ce "métissage" qui ne tolère les Blancs de France que comme corvéables, métissables dociles réceptacles.

Cher "anonyme" seuls des métis patriotes loyaux (comme vous et moi), sont opportuns pour contredire durement de tels propos. Quand des Blancs le font, le mot magique "raciste" met fin au débat. Nous les métis devront faire face à une autre mise en danger qui sont les références à la "harka" et au "bountisme", j'y reviendrai en détail c'est important.

Je ne suis pas moi un de ces types qui chie sur les Blancs ou au contraire qui appelle à la violence contre tel ou tel autre en restant en retrait.

Nous sommes Français par la bonté des Français qui ne le savent même pas et se croient coupables de tous les maux. Il faut répondre au bien par le bien. Nous ne devons AUCUNE LOYAUTÉ à des partis communautaires quels qu'ils soient: ni chinois du 13e ni LFI ni likoudnik ni antillais ni espagnol ni franmac ni rien de tout ça. Ils n'ont rien fait pour nous, ils sont incapables par eux-mêmes de produire, de servir, d'ordonner, d'apaiser. Quand il y arrivent c'est par la souche française pré-existante. Ils ne sont pas la vraie substance qui souffre, qui paie, qui porte le pays. Par exemple qui en France produit la nourriture ? Les 1% d'agriculteurs blancs persécutés, suicidés de désespoir sans personne pour les aider, accablés de moqueries, d'impôts et d'ingratitude alors qu'ils sont les plus utiles, les plus bosseurs, les moins payés, et pourtant les plus directement issus des plus anciennes lignées populaires françaises.

J'aime Bassem. Et des gars, des bons gars, maghrébins bac+5 m'ont dit "Mais pourquoi tu le relaies c'est une caillera il nous enfonce". Ce n'est pas ainsi qu'il convient de regarder les choses leur ai-je dit. Il faut pour le pays des bac+5 spécialisés et précis oui mais aussi des patriotes de rue, ouvriers, avec émotion directe. J'espère que Bassem fasse un jour de la politique car c'est sa vocation profonde: passer de blogueur "leader d'opinion" à "Grand frère des Français patriotes et traditionnels d'origine immigrée". Mais je prends mes distances quand soudain malgré 10 ans de d'expérience il dit soudain à un gars assez connu "sale gw** de merde". La voie facile du racisme anti-Blanc dans un contexte d'invasion massive constitue une aggravation du déséquilibre. Je suis pour l'équilibre, l'ordre, la tranquillité de l'ordre qui est la définition même de la Paix. Quand on est immigré, écraser les Français de souche conduit par Justice Immanente à se faire ensuite écraser par d'autres immigrés plus récents, ça se vérifie à chaque génération depuis les premiers Italiens de 1960. Aimer les Français de souche rendra la paix au pays et à tous les hommes dans le pays. Les Français de souche doivent sortir de la haine de soi vendue par la Canaille au pouvoir. Et les non-Blancs comme vous et moi doivent aider ces Blancs à s'aimer eux-mêmes. Et nous le faisons non servilement dans un esprit mondain mais pour le pays, pour la "chose en soi" comme disait Kant.

À bien y réfléchir je vous remercie de votre message et des menaces voilées qui s'y trouvent car je dois dévoiler un manifeste qui s'appelle "Vous avez dit bounty?" que j'ai en réserve depuis longtemps et vous m'en rappelez l'urgence.

Cordialement,

Lounès Darbois

#Grenoble #Sylvie Laurent #France #E&R #Bassem #Kalergi #LFI #Booba #Yannick Noah #Obama #Greg Lansky #Julien Dray #Daniel Riolo #Olivier Cachin #Skyrock

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eretzyisrael · 10 months

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The House will vote on Tuesday on a resolution introduced on Monday by House Republicans rejecting claims that Israel is racist or an apartheid state, condemning antisemitism and declaring support for Israel.

While the text of the legislation itself does not mention Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) by name, the brief, eight-line resolution comes in response to comments over the weekend by the congresswoman describing Israel as a “racist state.”

The resolution was introduced by Reps. August Pfluger (R-TX), alongside the two Jewish Republicans in the House, Reps. David Kustoff (R-TN) and Max Miller (R-OH). House Republican leadership fast-tracked the legislation to a vote on Tuesday, ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.

In statements on the legislation, its sponsors specifically called out Jayapal and other Democrats critical of Israel.

“Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar’s repeated comments denigrating Israel are unacceptable and disgusting,” Pfluger said in a statement. “I am proud to introduce this resolution ensuring all Americans know where their Representatives stand when it comes to supporting Israel and our Jewish communities.”

Kustoff called Jayapal’s comments “repulsive and repugnant” with “no place in the hall of Congress, nor in our national conversation.”

Miller, who sponsored the legislation earlier this year that expelled Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that “Congresswoman Jayapal can try to take back her comments, but her intent was crystal clear—and absolutely deplorable… There is no place for this type of rhetoric in the House.”

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said the legislation comes “in light of the recent rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric we’ve seen from leading figures in the Democrat Party,” without referencing Jayapal, and noted that he’s “proud to schedule this bill ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit.”

The resolution is expected to receive wide bipartisan support. Democratic leaders in the House quickly distanced themselves from Jayapal’s comment. On Monday, 43 House Democrats joined a statement led by pro-Israel Jewish Democrats disavowing Jayapal’s comments and declaring support for Israel.

Signatories to that statement include nine members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which Jayapal leads: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), Dan Goldman (D-NY), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Grace Napolitano (D-CA). Additional progressive lawmakers have also distanced themselves from Jayapal’s remarks.

At the same time, some on the left have dismissed the legislation.

“This is not a pro-Israel resolution. It’s a cynical ploy so that Republicans can continue to waive their arms and yell about Israel and antisemitism while not doing anything to make life better for Israelis, much less even acknowledging that Palestinians exist,” Americans for Peace Now CEO Hadar Susskind said in a tweet. “It’s garbage.”

J Street, which endorsed Jayapal, did not respond to a request for comment on how or whether it was advising members to vote on the resolution.

On Monday, Jayapal tweeted out excerpts from a New York Times op-ed by columnist Michelle Goldberg that derided the backlash to her initial comments as a “hysterical overreaction.”

“The rush to condemn her offhand remarks is […] about raising the political price of speaking about Israel forthrightly. […],” the excerpt that Jayapal tweeted read. “It’s easier for Israel’s most stalwart boosters to harp on a critic’s slight misstatement.”

#house resolution #house republicans #pramila jayapal

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starlightsweetheart · 10 months

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Some friendship... (also I'm fucking up past and present tenses, but idgaf)

You know I just realized how absolutely humongous a crock of shit the whole Maya turning into Riley because she's getting better grades thing is, and that Riley only was accusing her of that because of Lucas. I mean, I knew it was bullshit before, but I never really though of how gigantic a 💩 it was until today.

Girl Meets Father is the fourth episode of season one. In that episode, Cory gives Maya an F on her test. Maya gets upset that she failed the test.

Maya tells Riley that "sometimes, I'm not so proud of who I am".

Maya tells Riley and Cory that she "tried to write like I was smart", Riley responds that Maya is smart.

Cory corrects Maya on one answer of the test saying "it's a tiny difference but an important one. Because if you know it, Maya, you don't fail". Maya then replies "I want to not fail".

Riley was encouraging Maya, while Cory was quizzing her on the subject of the test.

Maya says to Cory: "I just don't wanna fail, Mr. Matthews.

We go from that (Riley encouraging Maya to grow and better herself) to season three, Girl Meets Triangle, where Riley accuses Maya that the person that Maya has grown into is not who she really is.

Riley tell the art teacher that "Maya's a rebel". That Maya dances on teachers' desks, is the queen of detention and the president of Mayaville.

Riley is saying that Maya needs to be fixed because "she's been getting good grades, she's behaving all over the place".

Maya tells Riley, "I'm me! I've always been me, I'm always gonna be me! Nothings going to change that!", Riley retorts with"you haven't stood on a teachers desk or been in detention for a long time. You sold your house in Mayaville and you moved to Rileytown."

No matter what Maya says, Riley keeps insisting that Maya turned into her, blah blah blah.

Riley goes on about how Maya's style has changed towards Riley's style.

So, in the beginning of the series Riley was encouraging Maya to grow and do better. Maya even told Riley that she's not proud of who she is. Maya does mature and grow...

THEN Riley finds out that Maya likes the same guy as her. That can't happen, she can't have Lucas choosing Maya; so she accuses Maya of becoming her and wants Maya to become that failure that Maya thought she was in the beginning of the series (plus telling Maya that while Riley will have one husband, Maya will go through 5 husbands and that Lucas won't be one of them). Riley accuses Maya pulling the fire alarm, of stealing from the cafe (for me, that kind of accusation is something that a friendship can never bounce back from) and she basically forces Maya to revert back to the person she wasn't proud of being, to believe that she doesn't deserve good things or good guys... all because they like the same guy.

Thus, by the end of the series; Riley destroyed all of Maya's growth and forced Maya's regression and Riley became a hypocrite.

#girl meets world #gmw #lucaya #my take #realization #realisation #anti riley #anti r*cas #maya hart #Maya deserved so much better #Riley is a hypocrite #Maya's regression #toxic friendship #how was Riley the main character?#she's soo opposite of a protagonist #I don't understand how Riley/Rucas fans don't see this #smh smh #breaks my heart

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 4 months

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

January 2, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JAN 3, 2024

The new year has hit with news flying in from a number of quarters.

At home, minimum wage increased in nearly half of U.S. states; it has been 14 years since the last increase in the federal minimum wage, the longest stretch since 1938 according to the AFL-CIO. NPR correspondent David Gura quoted Goldman Sachs’s chief equity strategist to note, ”The S&P 500 index returned 26% including dividends in 2023, more than 2x the average annual return of 12% since 1986.”

Representative Bill Johnson (R-OH) today submitted his resignation, effective January 21, to become the president of Youngstown State University. This shaves the Republican majority in the House of Representatives even thinner. With the recent expulsion of George Santos (R-NY) and resignation of Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the Republicans will control just 219 seats, permitting them a margin of only two seats to pass legislation when the House returns on January 9.

The Republican House has been one of the least effective in history, and it has its work cut out for it in the new year. The first phase of the continuing resolution Congress passed in November to fund the government expires on January 19, ending funding for transportation, housing, energy, agriculture, and veterans’ affairs. The second phase expires on February 2. Much of the 2018 Farm Bill that covers food and farm aid expired in 2023. As of yesterday, January 1, the items usually covered in farm bills fall under a hodge-podge of fixes, with some old provisions from the 1930s and 1940s going back into force.

Also outstanding is the measure to provide supplemental funding for Israel, Ukraine, and the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico, as well as providing humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

House Republicans refused to pass that measure unless it included their own extreme anti-immigration measures, but they have refused to participate in efforts to hash out legislation, clearly preferring to keep the issue hot to use against the Democrats in 2024. Since President Joe Biden took office, he and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have asked Congress for additional funding for Customs and Border Patrol officers and additional immigration courts, but despite Republicans’ own demand for such legislation, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote to Biden in December demanding that he impose stricter immigration rules and build a border wall through executive action. Today, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) echoed the idea that Biden, not Congress, should deal with the border.

Meanwhile, Emily Brooks and Rebecca Beitsch of The Hill reported today that about 60 House Republicans are planning to visit the border in Texas to emphasize the issue. They are also preparing to impeach Mayorkas on the grounds that he has failed to meet the requirements of the Secure Fence Act, “which defines operational control of the border as a status in which not a single person or piece of contraband improperly enters the country.” As Brooks and Beitsch point out, “not a single secretary of Homeland Security has met that standard of perfection.” House Republicans plan to hold hearings on impeaching Mayorkas, but Homeland Security Committee chair Mark Green (R-TN) has suggested to the Fox News Channel that the articles of impeachment are already written.

At the intersection of domestic and foreign affairs, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), whom federal prosecutors have already indicted for using his office to work for Egypt, was charged again today with using his political influence to work for the government of Qatar. This is a big deal: at the time, Menendez was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a key position in the U.S. government. Two Republican operatives are pleading guilty to evading lobbying laws in their own work for Qatar; their activities appear to have been much more limited than Menendez’s.

The turn of the new year has also produced lots of news in foreign affairs.

On February 4, 2021, just after Secretary of State Antony Blinken took office, Biden spoke at the State Department and said “the message I want the world to hear today” is that “America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.” In a New York Times article from December 31, Peter Baker, Edward Wong, Julian E. Barnes, and Isabel Kershner emphasize that Biden and his team have been engaged constantly in diplomacy with Israel, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Since the October 7, 2023, attack by Iran-backed Hamas on Israel, Biden has spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu 14 times and visited Israel; Blinken has traveled to the region three times and visited Israel five times.

On December 22, in the Christian Science Monitor, Arab political journalist Taylor Luck and correspondent Fatima AbdulKarim reported that Arab Gulf states, Egypt, Jordan, the U.S., and the European Union have created “[a] massive postwar reconstruction plan…for the besieged Gaza Strip.” The plan is to “rebuild the coastal strip, unite and overhaul Palestinian governance, and create a Palestinian security force in Gaza to ensure Palestinian and Israeli security.”

Arab diplomats insist the reconstruction of southern Gaza, including alleviating suffering, rebuilding housing and infrastructure, and restoring jobs, must be “rapid”; Gulf states have set $3 billion a year for ten years as the first budget. The plan calls for a “revamped and revitalized” Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza and the West Bank with current president Mahmoud Abbas as a figurehead and an apolitical unity government running affairs.

The plan is still developing, but already the main obstacles are Israel’s governing coalition, led by Netanyahu, who refuses the ideas of a two-state solution and of a Palestinian Authority in charge of Gaza, and Hamas, which Gulf states as well as the U.S. reject as a participant in the future governance of Gaza. Other Iran-backed militias also oppose such a solution.

From the beginning of the Hamas-Israel war, the Biden administration has been very clear that its first goal was to make sure the conflict didn’t spread, with Lebanon’s Iran-allied Hezbollah and other proxy militias joining in fully. Biden immediately sent two carrier groups to the region and promised “to move in additional assets as needed.” On October 10 he warned: “Let me say again—to any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of this situation, I have one word: Don’t. Don’t.”

The New York Times piece by Baker, Wong, Barnes, and Kershner revealed that Biden and his national security team, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security advisor Jake Sullivan, also warned Netanyahu against launching a preemptive strike on Hezbollah. Israel and Hezbollah have been attacking each other with drones, missiles, and air strikes along the countries’ border.

Meanwhile, Iran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen have attacked ships in the Red Sea, which is one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, handling about 12% of global trade and about 8.2 million barrels of crude oil and oil products every day. On December 31, four small boats attacked the Hangzhou, a container ship from the Danish shipping giant Maersk sailing under a Singapore flag, and then fired on the U.S. Navy helicopters that responded to the Hangzhou’s distress call. The helicopter crews sank three of the boats, killing their crews; the fourth fled.

Today, Iran sent a naval frigate to the Red Sea, and Maersk announced it would stop using the Red Sea route until further notice. Hezbollah media said that an Israeli drone strike in Beirut, Lebanon, killed Saleh Arouri, the deputy political head of Hamas and a founder of its military wing. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate.

Also today, in response to calls from Israeli cabinet members for the resettlement of Palestinians outside Gaza, the U.S. State Department issued a “rejection” of both the language and the idea. “We have been clear, consistent, and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of its future and with no terror groups able to threaten Israel. That is the future we seek, in the interests of Israelis and Palestinians, the surrounding region, and the world.”

And in today’s Washington Post, Lebanon’s former prime minister Fouad Siniora and former Lebanese lawmaker Basem Shabb noted that “[d]espite the ferocity of the bombing and the great loss of innocent civilian lives in Gaza, the conflict remains largely contained to an Israeli-Palestinian confrontation—and more specifically, is broadly understood in the Arab world to be a conflict with Hamas, a non-state actor,” but warned the conflict must not spread. They noted that in November, “[i]n a first, 57 Arab and Islamic countries…called for a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on a two-state solution,” the same concept embraced by the Biden administration.

“In response to Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the Arab world responded with denunciation—but, more importantly, with diplomacy. No military threats were issued by any of the Arab states toward Israel,” the Lebanese lawmakers pointed out. They urged Israel to embrace the two-state solution “and, in doing so, usher in a new era in the Middle East.”

Lots of pieces moving around the board on this second day of January 2024.

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claireneto · 6 months

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My favorite sign from the protest I went to last night:

One of my states is the 14 that have passed anti-abortion laws and had a huge case dealing with the abortion given to a ten year old r*pe victim.

Also very interesting that Christian Zionists who are usually part of the pro-life "movement" are very silent right now. As children in cancer wards are being bombed to families buried under rumble together.

I will leave the article to the case in my state:

Here is a resource/website for Palestine made by my moot Fahad, in Australia:

Finally here are the numbers of babies murdered by the Israeli government:

None of us are free until we are all free!!!

#free palestine #palsetine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #abortion rights #health rights #ziønists will be blocked on sight #same with the usual people trying to say palestine is homophobic while in the us my rights are being taken away #also if you go to a rally/protest be safe and follow the organizers guidelines so no one is hurt 💖#protests

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castielsparkle · 1 year

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horses your guy....cringe is dead supernatural pony made in the year 2023.... my beloved Dear Whinnycanter <3

base credits!

anywhoo!!! i am working on my ponynatural au >:3 some random trivia below the cut 4 anypony interested!! :P hehe

fun little facts abt dean ponysona (dear!!) and his world below:

-he was a blank flank up until he was raised from maredition perdition by cas in . s4e1 in the show canon timeline. and thus when he woke up with this cutie mark he was like umm what the fuck . me when my special talent is torturing ponies for eternity. what the fuck. this is so messed up. anyways the cutie mark is actually just cas' hoofprint and. all that other stuff ehehe. but he has a little dilemma abt it at first and its a Whole Thing. also some sam lore. sam has a cutie mark . this is a point of contention for them. also dear not getting a cutie mark is in no way reflective of his whole deal . god and the narrative and whatnot. this guy was not allowed to have a cutie mark. on a similar note angels all have the same cm when possessing a vessel, and when they take over the vessels cm will change (to an angel blade,) however cas ended up getting his own cutie mark its a whole thing<3

-his markings are inspired by cowboy boots on his legs and a cowboy hat on his ears, his face markings consist of a star, stripe, and lip marking (the lip marking is asymmetrical.) i briefly considered giving him markings to resemble a western style saddle and blanket but 1) he is a free horse and untamed 2) he looked too much like a turtle. so. not the vibe unfortunately pft

-his back hoof fetlocks r shorter for kicking purposes

-i assumed this would go without saying however it probably doesnt but he is transgender. just need this to be known. hes in like his s4-5 i gotta overcompensate and be super butch era still so like....thats why hes got the vibe with the hair and the hooves and such. he lets himself explore his identity more later on

-very fluffy guy . so he can stay warm. also just because. anyways it also helps make his anti-possession symbol less immediately visible bc hed have to part the fur for it to show typically

-i gave him piercings for funsies. septum ring nostril ring little ear ring and also two brow piercings. and some optional bracelets (one of which is a stand in for his rings from early on in spn)

ok i think thats all i have im so so sleepy goodnight everypony i love you all<33333

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scoobydoodean · 1 year

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I took your uquiz and some of the possible answer were some absolutely brainrotted takes. Are these all takes you have encountered real people actually writing on the internet or did you make up/exaggerate some of them? I'm hoping you made up some of them, but knowing the spn fandom you might not have. (For the record, what inspired this ask was the "Cas and Sam are trauma bonded because of Deans transgressions" one.)

All of them I have seen. Some of them dozens of times, even. Including the one you specifically asked about.

If it helps explain, I used to go on r/Supernatural. However, when those types go on r/Supernatural and try to fight with you on there they usually googled some crit SPNblr blogs right before hand to prepare for battle.

Also I used to blog hop SPNblr a lot and you never realize how few degrees of separation you are from some truly insane takes until you do that. I have observed all kinds of putrid filth. Crits to antis to bronlies to the most vile tinhats to the groups that I am pretty sure are the ones who send the actors death threats. Also when the show was airing like the most insane takes on the characters would get hundreds of notes. I still don't surf the character tags because I am traumatized. There is a reason I used to only interact with SPNblr through memes and never spoke to anyone in any way other than through images.

#mail

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bpod-bpod · 1 year

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Predisposed to Decay

The memory loss, confusion and diminished cognitive function experienced by Alzheimer’s disease patients is the result of progressive neurodegeneration, which itself is linked to the accumulation of misfolded proteins and inflammation in the brain. Despite extensive research, the primary cause of the disease remains unknown, but recent studies reveal Alzheimer’s patients’ brain cells may be fundamentally different to those of similarly aged healthy individuals. Neurons derived from patient stem cells, like the green-stained cells shown, are more prone to age-related deterioration, or senescence, than those from healthy people, it was discovered, and this senescence causes the cells to release pro-inflammatory factors. The increased occurrence of senescence was also seen in postmortem brains. Because anti-senescence drugs are already used to treat some other inflammatory conditions, the hope is that such drugs, if capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, might help to lower inflammation and degeneration in the Alzheimer’s brain too.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from work by Joseph R Herdy and colleagues

Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA

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Research published in Cell Stem Cell, December 2022

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-OH) has an idea of why House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his caucus want her removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee: to appeal to Islamophobic and racist members of Congress.

The Democratic congresswoman appeared alongside Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Sunday’s State of the Union, where anchor Dana Bash pressed them on Republicans’ reasoning over their committee placements. On Tuesday, McCarthy used special House rules to reject Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ request to reappoint Schiff and Swalwell to the House Intelligence Committee.

He has since pushed for a full House vote to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee—necessary under House rules—though three Republicans have since said they would vote against her ouster. The moves come after Republicans promised to enact revenge after Democrats removed Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) over racist comments and dangerous conspiracy theories the two had made.

Bash questioned Omar on the bipartisan condemnation of her past comments regarding Israel, which both Democrats and Republicans labeled as anti-Semitic. Bash addressed specific concerns over Omar’s suggestion that Israel had “hypnotized” the world had politicians who supported Israel did so for financial reasons—statements Omar had apologized for.

Omar repeated those apologies and suggested, as in the cases of Schiff and Swalwell, that McCarthy’s quest to oust her was rooted in political revenge.

“It is politically motivated,” Omar said. “In some cases, it’s motivated by the fact that many of these members don’t believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee.”

“It sounds like you’re accusing Kevin McCarthy of racism,” Bash said.

“I’m not making any accusations. I’m just laying out the facts,” Omar said. She proceeded to reference comments Donald Trump made about her election; Greene’s repeated Islamophobic statements about Omar; and Rep. Lauren Boebert’s remarks to a crowd about how she was glad Omar didn’t “have a backpack” as they got on a Capitol elevator together.

“What did McCarthy do? He said, she apologized, and we don’t have to worry about her Islamophobia,” Omar said. “And so these people are OK with Islamophobia. They’re OK with trafficking in their own ways in antisemitism. They are not OK with having a Muslim have a voice on that committee.”

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