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Pride Month has arrived!

While every day is a time to be proud of your identity and orientation, June is that extra special time for boldly celebrating with and for the LGBTQIA+ community (yes, there are more than lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender folx in the queer community). June was chosen to honor the Stonewall Riots which happened in 1969. Like other celebratory months, LGBT Pride Month started as a weeklong series of events and expanded into a full month of festivities.

2021 is also the 5th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando where 49 members of our community were murdered on June 12, 2016. On the main floor of the John C. Hitt Library there will be display cases with items from the University Archives relating to Pulse memorials as well as a display wall honoring the lives lost. Both of these library memorials were created in partnership with UCF LGBTQ Services. UCF will also be hosting several events in June to help the community remember, grieve and grow stronger. Full listing of events is available on the Pulse Remembrance event calendar.

Additional Pulse memorial events will be hosted by the onePULSE Foundation. An memorial archival collection from the first anniversary of the shooting can be found as part of the Resilience: Remembering Pulse in the STARS Citizen Curator collection.

In honor of Pride Month, UCF Library faculty and staff suggested books from the UCF collection that represent a wide array of queer authors and characters. Click on the read more link below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links. There is also an extensive physical display on the main floor of the John C. Hitt Library near the Research & Information Desk.

All Adults Here by Emma Straub Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not. Suggested by Rachel Mulvihill, Downtown Library

All the Young Men: a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South by Ruth Coker Burks & Kevin Carr O'Leary A gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America’s fight against AIDS. Suggested by Megan Haught, Student Learning & Engagement/Research & Information Services

And the Band Played On: politics, people and the AIDS epidemic by Randy Shilts An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Suggested by Becky Hammond, Special Collections & University Archives

Big Gay Adventures in Education: supporting LGBT+ visibility and inclusion in schools edited by Daniel Tomlinson-Gray A collection of true stories by 'out' teachers, and students of 'out' teachers, all about their experiences in schools. The book aims to empower LGBT+ teachers to be the role models they needed when they were in school and help all teachers and school leaders to promote LGBT+ visibility and inclusion. Each story is accompanied by an editor’s note reflecting on the contributor’s experience and the practical implications for schools and teachers in supporting LGBT+ young people and ensuring they feel safe and included in their school communities. Suggested by Terrie Sypolt, Research & Information Services

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' house on the Italian Riviera has a profound and lasting influence that will mark them both for a lifetime. Suggested by Rebecca Hawk, Circulation

Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home, ' as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Suggested by Michael Furlong, UCF Connect Libraries

Gender Queer: a memoir by Maia Kobabe; colors by Phoebe Kobabe In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, this is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. Suggested by Megan Haught, Student Learning & Engagement/Research & Information Services

Heaven's Coast: a memoir by Mark Doty The harmonious partnership of two gay men is shattered when they learn that one has tested positive for the HIV virus. Suggested by Claudia Davidson, Downtown Library

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother. Suggested by Rebecca Hawk, Circulation

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite his hard-won citizenship--Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day. Suggested by Claudia Davidson, Downtown Library

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together was the best one of Freddy's life, but nothing's made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, funny, and SO CUTE ... but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy's head spinning - and Freddy's friends can't understand why she keeps going back. When Freddy consults the services of a local mystic, the mysterious Seek-Her, she isn't thrilled with the advice she receives. But something's got to give: Freddy's heart is breaking in slow motion, and she may be about to lose her very best friend as well as her last shred of self-respect. Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell bring to life a sweet and spirited tale of young love that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the heathy ones we need. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

LGBT Health: meeting the needs of gender and sexual minorities edited by K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, K. Nikki Barefoot A first-of-its-kind, comprehensive view of mental, medical, and public health conditions within the LGBT community. This book examines the health outcomes and risk factors that gender and sexual minority groups face while simultaneously providing evidence-based clinical recommendations and resources for meeting their health needs. Drawing from leading scholars and practitioners of LGBT health, this holistic, centralized text synthesizes epidemiologic, medical, psychological, sociological, and public health research related to the origins of, current state of, and ways to improve LGBT health. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

Lived Experience: reflections on LGBTQ life by Delphine Diallo A beautiful series of full-color portraits of LGBTQ people over the age of fifty, accompanied by interviews. Suggested by Jacqui Johnson, Cataloging

Love is for Losers by Wibke Bruggemann When Phoebe's mother ditches her to work as a doctor for an international human rights organization, she is stuck living with her mom's best friend, Kate, and helping out at Kate's thrift shop. There she meet Emma. Phoebe tries to shield her head and her heart from experiencing love-- after all, love is for losers, right? Suggested by Pam Jaggernauth, Curriculum Materials Center

Man Into Woman: an authentic record of a change of sex edited by Niels Hoyer This riveting account of the transformation of the Danish painter Einar Wegener into Lili Elbe is a remarkable journey from man to woman. Einar Wegener was a leading artist in late 1920's Paris. One day his wife Grete asked him to dress as a woman to model for a portrait. It was a shattering event which began a struggle between his public male persona and emergent female self, Lili. Einar was forced into living a double life; enjoying a secret hedonist life as Lili, with Grete and a few trusted friends, whilst suffering in public as Einar, driven to despair and almost to suicide. Doctors, unable to understand his condition, dismissed him as hysterical. Lili eventually forced Einar to face the truth of his being - he was, in fact, a woman. This bizarre situation took an extraordinary turn when it was discovered that his body contained primitive female sex organs. There followed a series of dangerous experimental operations and a confrontation with the conventions of the age until Lili was eventually liberated from Einar - a freedom that carried the ultimate price. Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam -- and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Suggested by Rachel Mulvihill, Downtown Library

Queer Objects edited by Chris Brickell & Judith Collard Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, various reminders of state power, as well as the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? 63 chapters consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. In this unique international collaboration, well-known and newer writers traverse world history to write about items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone. Suggested by Megan Haught, Student Learning & Engagement/Research & Information Services

Real Life by Brandon Taylor A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

Riley Can’t Stop Crying by Stephanie Boulay While his sister tries everything to help, a young boy isn't sure why he can't stop crying in this transitional picture book. Suggested by Pam Jaggernauth, Curriculum Materials Center

Supporting Success for LGBTQ+ Students: tools for inclusive campus practice by Cindy Ann Kilgo This book aims to serve as a one-stop resource for faculty and staff in higher education settings who are seeking to enhance their campus climate and systems of support for LGBTQ+ student success. Included are theoretical frameworks and conceptual models that can be used in practice. Suggested by Terrie Sypolt, Research & Information Services

The City and the Pillar: a novel by Gore Vidal Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, this remains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men. Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

The Invisible Orientation: an introduction to asexuality by Julie Sondra Decker Julie Sondra Decker outlines what asexuality is, counters misconceptions, provides resources, and puts asexual people's experiences in context as they move through a sexualized world. It includes information for asexual people to help understand their orientation and what it means for their relationships, as well as tips and facts for those who want to understand their asexual friends and loved ones. Suggested by Dawn Tripp, Research & Information Services

The New Testament by Jericho Brown The world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing-and the truth is coming on fast. Suggested by Claudia Davidson, Downtown Library

The Prophets by Robert Jones With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning, masterfully reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love. Suggested by Rachel Mulvihill, Downtown Library

The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean A fifth-grader whose best friends walked away, whose mother is detached, and whose father does unspeakable things, copes with the help of friend Sofie and anonymous letters tied to balloons and released. Includes a list of resources related to abuse, gender, sexuality, and more. Suggested by Pam Jaggernauth, Curriculum Materials Center

Tinderbox: the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of gay liberation by Robert W. Fieseler Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic--families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors' needs--revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Fieseler restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs. Suggested by Andy Todd, UCF Connect Libraries

Transgender: a reference handbook by Aaron Devor and Ardel Haefele-Thomas This book provides a crucial resource for readers who are investigating trans issues. It takes a diverse and historic approach, focusing on more than one idea or one experience of trans identity or trans history. The book takes contemporary as well as historic aspects into consideration. It looks at ancient indigenous cultures that honored third, fourth, and fifth gender identities as well as more contemporary ideas of what "transgender" means. Notably, it focuses not only on Western medical ideas of gender affirmation but on cultural diversity surrounding the topic. This book will primarily serve as a reference guide and jumping off point for further research for those seeking information about what it means to be transgender. Suggested by Richard Harrison, Research & Information Services

Transnational LGBT Activism: working for sexual rights worldwide by Ryan R. Thoreson Thoreson argues that the idea of LGBT human rights is not predetermined but instead is defined by international activists who establish what and who qualifies for protection. He shows how International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) formed and evolved, who is engaged in this work, how they conceptualize LGBT human rights, and how they have institutionalized their views at the United Nations and elsewhere. After a full year of in-depth research in New York City and Cape Town, South Africa, Thoreson is able to reconstruct IGLHRC’s early campaigns and highlight decisive shifts in the organization’s work from its founding to the present day. Suggested by Sandy Avila, Research & Information Services

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live oak, with moss" and "Calamus" edited by Betsy Erkkila This volume includes Whitman's handwritten manuscript version of the twelve "Live oak, with moss" poems along side with a print transcription of these poems on the opposite page, followed by a facsimile of the original version of the "Calamus" poems published in the 1860-61 edition of Leaves of grass, and a reprint of the final version of the "Calamus" poems in the 1881 edition of Leaves of grass. Suggested by Rebecca Hawk, Circulation

#ucf library #lgbtqia+ pride #featured bookshelf #one pulse

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saiilorstars · 4 years

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Let’s play a game: pull out all of your OCs you haven’t written for in a long time and might never see the light of day...

So I’ve been going through my docs and I found *drum roll*....

Cadence Saveel -- An OC/Elijah story that would start in TVD and go through TO. Being an Original herself, but not a Mikaelson, she’s on the run with the Originals from Mikael. She’s described as “too sweet” for an Original Vampire but when Katerina Petrova crosses her, it all starts to change. Cadence’s relationship with Klaus turns terse until she fears for her life, and her relationship with Elijah spiraled the moment Katerina spewed lies. Eventually, Cadence eventually decides to split from the Mikaelsons in New Orleans (after Michael nearly kills them) and eventually finds her way to Mystic Falls after she learns that Katerina, now Katherine, is there too.

Amelia Hartley -- An SVU OC/Sonny short story. (Maybe this one might make it one day). She’s initially the prime suspect of a murder-turned-rape case. When her alibi checks out, she becomes an informant for the squad which unintetionally puts her in the eye of the actual culprit.

Neveah -- A Doctor Who OC. A Time Lady who accidentally falls through the cracks of time during the Time War. She ends up in a parallel world, trapped, until the 10th Doctor accidentally travels to that world. (This one will probably never come to light because I sort of mixed her story with Grier’s).

Shea -- A Brooklyn 99 OC/Jake story. A new detective is assigned to the 99th precinct. Holt thinks she’s a spy for Madeline Wuntch and is on the fence about her. Shea’s work with all the detectives is rocky as she’s under the close eye of Holt and Terry.

Kamilah Sinclair -- A Total Drama Island OC/Duncan story. She’s the primary OC of the story but there’s like 7 other OC contestants. Kamilah begins as an assistant for Chris until he abruptly throws her into the game to compete just like the rest of the teams.

Tessa Sawyer -- Believe it or not, a Code Lyoko OC. (This one might make it honestly) Semi AU-ish. Set in the future where all the OG Lyoko kids are now in college. Tessa was in a coma during the final battle between XANA and the Lyoko warriors. Just as Tessa dies, XANA caused power outage that -- while failing for his original plans against the Lyoko Warriors -- gives him a last chance to save himself. He reaches Tessa just as she dies and uploads her consciousness into Lyoko. Years later, college student Laura Gauthier turns the super computer back on thinking it’s a video game and awakens a remodeled version of Tessa under the control of a newly-awakened XANA.

Evie Anne Delcroix -- (Okay this one has a higher chance of coming to life; I wrote a new chapter today). Thirteen year old Evie becomes the Winter Miraculous holder and names herself Frostbite. She and her partner, Canari, are presumed dead after one catastrophic battle against Hawkmoth. No one would ever think that Frosbite would become Hawkmoth’s primary akumitized minion. One year later, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste are chosen by Master Fu to finally put an end to this precise minion who’s been causing havoc for a full year without stop. No one would ever think that they would find Frosbite underneath all the icy evil, much less Evie Anne Delcroix. When Evie gets to come home, without her partner, she decides to hang her mantle as Frostbite and leave Ladybug and Chat Noir as the real fighters of France.

Feel free to discuss/ask questions about these OCs with me!

#ocappreciation #maybe discussing might give me new inspiration who knows

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buggynightjar-blog · 3 years

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Beliefs Version II

I believe in the amoral land of faery in which all artists must live, submitting to forces that totally outstrip them or even terrify them.

I believe in the hidden devils of American advertising.

I believe in the bloated gassiness and constipation of Americans, and the poisons they take to make things flow again, to make dead rivers flow with blood.

I believe in the ghost dance and the rainbow-colored clothing of children in ditches.

I believe in the other half of Laura Palmer’s necklace.

I believe in the plastic surgeons who made Melania’s and Ivanka’s faces look like perfectly fortified stone, to withstand the wickedness of the horrible prisons in which they must live.

I believe in the way babies are born knowing how to suck and make the milk flow, and how they show me this in dreams.

I believe in the children who mined for the new diamond on a wealthy divorcee’s finger, and the dreams they have at night under their wild moons and hunger.

I believe in the hunger of all people, and I believe in hunger as the black primordial source of all things, before time and memory.

I believe strong winds may exist. I believe nothing may exist. I believe it is terrifyingly strange that anything exists.

I believe in acid Advaita and the merging of the droplet into the sea, and I believe this, and our assholes, and our farts, and our need to fuck and cry and shit and be loved could save the world.

I believe in the completely unknowable mystery at the other side of night, and that if you go three stars to the left and straight on til morning you may never find what you seek, but you will find a glittering darkness that lives in all directions.

I believe in the vision of original sin, which is not what you think, and can be given through some portal, which is more disturbing than words can convey and which has the strange glitter of magic falling all around it, slowly.

I believe there are people who can live with a violence that is pure and clean and that these are the weird new kind of saints.

I believe in the one holy catholic and apostolic church, the torrential blood of innocents and the way that Mystery lives even in the smoke of the Vatican rooftop, telling history in real time.

I believe in the wet pussies of American housewives and I believe they allow their wet pussies to gleefully cloud their thinking in the vast historical game of democracy because they must use the power of their pussies to cloud, hypnotize, entrance, control or destroy something. I believe in the anger that lives in their breasts and livers, which will finally be enunciated in cancer and revolutions.

I believe in the spontaneous, chaotic, destructive creation of the crab, Karkinos, cancer, and how after his forlorn face is snipped off with poultry shears, as a reward for his service, he becomes a host of stars.

I believe music is scarcely human at all.

I believe in the ghost in the machine.

I believe in the crazy mouths of mystics and fortune tellers, and the weird poetic wheel that could open on any prophetic word.

I believe in the white hot horse in the belly, the lightning of the body meeting death in each moment.

I believe in the abyss against which all thoughts are had, the chaos against which all minds carry out their neat operations, until it floods in like a spilled drink or like honey. And I believe when that finally happens, it is experienced as a vast, unspeakable lucidity.

I believe there are true friends you haven’t yet met, and that there is a love waiting somewhere that could rip you in half, utterly destroy you, and that this could be the most religious experience of your whole life.

I believe in the black mass as the apotheosis of all that is great about Western culture, breaking the most sacred codes. I believe in doing it all and the wild rending of all institutions as they live in the gut, hair, and soul until first light.

I believe in the insanity of my friends, in the wild lightning rod up the central column called “butterflies” and the exotic spices I can discern on the lyrical night wind of our love reaching forward and backward forever.

I believe in Cernunnos and his snake consort. I believe he fucks women in their dreams and I believe I am one. I believe you really can become Satan's bride, the light bearer.

I believe in the strange images people carry with them from other worlds, which they try to materialize.

I believe that in every instance of love there is fuck, in every instance of fuck there is love, and that this makes everyone so uncomfortable that they will invest their lives in making it untrue, but I believe it remains as true as blue shy sky.

I believe that fucking is a portal, a mysterium tremendum et fascinans which no one can control, contain or understand, ever.

I believe this also describes the soul, and art.

I believe it is morally wrong to sell answers to anyone, ever.

I believe that the unfree like to punish freedom, that the ugly like to punish beauty, and that these words are dangerous.

I believe that if Christ was alive today, he would be hanged on the 4 o’clock news.

I believe in the etheric violence of our brave new dystopia and the new bravery of the soul it demands.

#weirdpoems freeversepoetry badpoemsforbadpeople

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isolaradiale · 4 years

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Lost in Space 15

Hello, Isolans! We have conducted an activity check for the month of November!

If your character isn’t on this list, make sure to check this page to see how many stars that character has earned this month! Stars can be used for purchases at the marketplace.

The blogs that were removed from the Isola Radiale masterlist are under the cut. Note that both blogs with broken links and deactivated accounts will be included both at the top of this list and in their proper categories.

If you were removed in error, please simply send a re-application message. Several different people work on the activity checks, so it’s possible there are mistakes! If this happens to you, you will be able to keep everything you previously had, you just may be placed in a different residence.

Our general activity rules regarding checks are as follows:

Make at least three in-character posts during a calendar month (for instance, if the activity check is for January, have three in-character posts between the 1st and 31st of January).

Only one drabble and/or meme response of 300+ words counts as activity.

One-liners or minis not tagged #isola mini also do not count.

Please Note: If you are removed during two consecutive activity checks, you will not be allowed to re-apply as that character for two calendar months.

Additionally, anyone removed during the activity check will have a 12-hour window from the time of posting to re-claim their character. Any character not reclaimed during that period will be open to the community at large.

Please send in your reapplications from the account of the character that was removed.

Broken URLs:

Madeleine Valois (CONFINES OF THE CROWN)

Vega (DOOM)

Gharet (ORIGINAL CHARACTERS) *DASH ONLY

Ranger (QUAKE)

Momiji Inubashiri (TOUHOU)

Rinnosuke Morichika (TOUHOU)

ACE ATTORNEY

Yumihiko Ichiyanagi (TOWNHOUSE 243)

THE ADVENTURE ZONE

Indrid Cold (APARTMENT 325)

AI THE SOMNIUM FILES

Kaname Date (CONDO 462)

AKASHIC RECORD OF BASTARD MAGIC INSTRUCTOR

Glenn (APARTMENT 328)

AKUMA NO RIDDLE

Haru Ichinose (TOWNHOUSE 211)

AR TONELICO

Aurica Nestmile (TOWNHOUSE 251)

Misha (TOWNHOUSE 252)

B THE BEGINNING

Koku (HOUSE 104)

BANG DREAM

Aya Maruyama (APARTMENT 334)

BEETLEJUICE

Betelgeuse (TOWNHOUSE 220)

BIOSHOCK

Jack (APARTMENT 360)

BLUE EXORCIST

Amaimon (TOWNHOUSE 244)

Rin Okumura (CONDO 405)

BUNGOU STRAY DOGS

Sakunosuke Odasaku (TOWNHOUSE 215)

CARCIPHONA

Veloce (TOWNHOUSE 212)

A CERTAIN MAGICAL INDEX

Touma Kamijou (CONDO 410)

CODE VEIN

Jack Rutherford (HOUSE 107)

CONFINES OF THE CROWN

Madeleine Valois (APARTMENT 324) *BROKEN URL

CRASH BANDICOOT

Nina Cortex (CONDO 401)

D. GRAY MAN

Kanda Yuu (CONDO 434)

Lavi (CONDO 465)

Lenalee Lee (TOWNHOUSE 262)

Road Kamelot (TOWNHOUSE 240)

Tyki Mikk (TOWNHOUSE 236)

DANGANRONPA

Junko Enoshima (HOUSE 110)

DC COMICS

Jason Todd (Red Hood) (APARTMENT 366)

Selina Kyle (Catwoman) (CONDO 443)

The Joker (APARTMENT 329)

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT

Kate Denson (CONDO 442)

DISNEY

Adira (CONDO 427)

Hector (TOWNHOUSE 222)

DOOM

Vega (CONDO 425) *BROKEN URL

DRAGON AGE

Kaitlyn Hawke (APARTMENT 372)

Morrigan (HOUSE 120)

THE DRAGON PRINCE

Callum (CONDO 471)

FATE

Hakuno Kishinami (APARTMENT 312)

Lancer (Nagao Kagetora) (APARTMENT 326)

FINAL FANTASY

Elidibus (HOUSE 124)

Estinien Wyrmblood (Aymeric's House [Archimedes])

Omega Weapon (APARTMENT 316)

Warrior of Light (Dark Knight - Lycelle Astarinn) (TOWNHOUSE 232)

Warrior of Light (Dragoon - Selenie Armour) (APARTMENT 354)

Y'shtola Rhul (TOWNHOUSE 206)

FIRE EMBLEM

Ike (HOUSE 102)

Reyson (CONDO 427)

FRANKENSTEIN (FRANK3N5T31N)

Monster (HOUSE 175)

FRUITS BASKET

Mutsuki Sohma (TOWNHOUSE 242)

GUILTY GEAR

Ky Kiske (CONDO 436)

HELLSING ULTIMATE

Alucard (TOWNHOUSE 253)

HOMESTUCK

Damara Megido (TOWNHOUSE 248)

Jade Harley (HOUSE 102)

Karkat Vantas (APARTMENT 344)

Marvus Xoloto (APARTMENT 363)

Xefros Tritoh (HOUSE 116)

HUNTER X HUNTER

Feitan Portor (CONDO 464)

INTO THE DARK

Maggie (TOWNHOUSE 219)

JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE

Mariah (CONDO 441)

KAMEN RIDER

Kaizo Jingu (TOWNHOUSE 256)

KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN

Squalo Superbia (CONDO 437)

KID ICARUS

Pit (HOUSE 127)

KILL LA KILL

Mako Mankanshoku (APARTMENT 347)

KIMETSU NO YAIBA (DEMON SLAYER)

Gyuutarou (HOUSE 105)

Kokushibou (TOWNHOUSE 236)

Sanemi Shinazugawa (HOUSE 172)

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

Evelynn (CONDO 434)

LEGEND OF ZELDA

Zelda (Breath of the Wild) (TOWNHOUSE 203)

MAGIC THE GATHERING

Liliana Vess (TOWNHOUSE 235)

MARVEL

Laura Kinney (X-23) (CONDO 423)

Remy LeBeau (Gambit) (Miriam's House [Fibonacci])

METAL GEAR

Dr. Strangelove (TOWNHOUSE 261)

MOBILE LEGENDS BANG BANG

Guinevere Baroque (TOWNHOUSE 204)

MORTAL KOMBAT

Liu Kang (HOUSE 173)

MURDERBOT DIARIES

SecUnit (Murderbot) (TOWNHOUSE 213)

MY HERO ACADEMIA (BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA)

Fatgum (HOUSE 125)

MYSTIC MESSENGER

Rika (TOWNHOUSE 219)

NARUTO

Kakashi Hatake (HOUSE 130)

Neji Hyuuga (CONDO 422)

NINJAGO

Lloyd Garmadon (CONDO 428)

OK K.O.!

Darrell (TOWNHOUSE 237)

ONE PIECE

Shanks (TOWNHOUSE 255)

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Asher Otero (TOWNHOUSE 251)

Gharet (CONDO 411) *BROKEN URL

Goldie (HOUSE 119)

Katsuo Sunohara (HOUSE 174)

OSOMATSU-SAN

Ichimatsu Matsuno (HOUSE 139)

OVERLORD

Narberal Gamma (CONDO 458)

OVERWATCH

Angela Ziegler (Mercy) (APARTMENT 342)

PARKS & RECREATION

Ron Swanson (CONDO 415)

PERSONA

Yukari Takeba (TOWNHOUSE 250)

PORTAL

Wheatley (Wheatley’s Lair [Golden])

PROFESSOR LAYTON

Luke Triton (HOUSE 129)

QUAKE

Ranger (HOUSE 122) *BROKEN URL

RESIDENT EVIL

Ada Wong (HOUSE 153)

RWBY

Ilia Amitola (TOWNHOUSE 253)

Winter Schnee (Winter's Mansion [Fibonacci])

SAINTS ROW

Shaundi (APARTMENT 331)

SENNEN MEIKYUU NO NANA OUJI

Lawrence Ackroyd (CONDO 420)

SERVAMP

Hyde/Lawless (Greed) (CONDO 451)

Licht Todoroki (CONDO 452)

Sleepy Ash (Kuro) (TOWNHOUSE 259)

SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER

Adora (She-Ra) (TOWNHOUSE 259)

SKULLGIRLS

Nadia Fortune (APARTMENT 368)

STAR VS. THE FORCES OF EVIL

Star Butterfly (APARTMENT 330)

STEVEN UNIVERSE

Garnet (TOWNHOUSE 248)

Greg Universe (CONDO 407)

Sapphire (HOUSE 119)

TOUHOU

Momiji Inubashiri (APARTMENT 335) *BROKEN URL

Rinnosuke Morichika (HOUSE 108) *BROKEN URL

Sekibanki (HOUSE 111)

TRANSFORMERS

IDW Megatron (TOWNHOUSE 242)

Skids (OUTSIDE)

TRAUMA CENTER

Angela Thompson (APARTMENT 339)

Erhard Muller (HOUSE 127)

TSURUNE

Masaki Takigawa (CONDO 435)

UMINEKO NO NAKU KORO NI

Eva Ushiromiya (HOUSE 103)

VOCALOID

Gumi (HOUSE 131)

VOLTRON

Lance Mcclain (TOWNHOUSE 234)

XENOBLADE CHRONICLES

Lord Zanza (HOUSE 171)

YAKUZA

Majima (APARTMENT 307)

YOUR TURN TO DIE (KIMI GA SHINE)

Kai Satou (TOWNHOUSE 258)

Sara Chidouin (HOUSE 158)

YUGIOH

Seto Kaiba (APARTMENT 365)

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⭐ for Tomorrow's Lovers Will Be Found please :)

Yesssssss, I loved writing this fic!

- Inspired by scioscribe’s totally wonderful Trick or Treat prompt for hurt/comfort after One-Eyed Jack’s turning into something tender and romantic. I absolutely love how Audrey and Cooper act around each other after One-Eyed Jack’s, how fragile and tender and careful everything feels, and I feel like it works so well as a moment in time for something to happen between them. It was so much fun to write for this part of s2.

- The title is from “50s” by House of Wolves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j0WtwlDwJA), a profound Audrey jam that I found through this 8tracks: https://8tracks.com/seaswallowme/kiss-me-like-it-s-the-fifties

- (Other tracks I had on repeat: Are You The One That I’ve Been Waiting For by Nick Cave, Lord Knows Best by Dirty Beaches, Fire to the Stars by Angelo Badalamenti, Fever by Meiko.)

- I really liked the idea of a first time/getting-together fic set as a coda to “Lonely Souls,” both for the emotional intensity and because Cooper’s very open to following mystic directives. I had the idea that one way for him to get past the high school issue would be for him to feel like he has permission to think of a relationship with Audrey as part of the magic, intuitive, mysterious side of his life, where he stops worrying about external codes of ethics and lets himself try to do good in other ways.

- Also it meant I could write an opening with Margaret, and I love their whole dynamic so much – how respectful Cooper is with her, and how she has to tell him when to be patient and listen sometimes. (And as a sidebar, I totally think Margaret would appreciate Audrey and Cooper as a couple: they’re maybe the only two people weird and otherworldly enough to match her and her husband, and somebody has to be that couple.)

- I tried to ease myself into Cooper’s POV with something vaguely like the cadence of his Diane tapes, but still wanted it to be a little more skewed and strange than his normal observations on evidence, so that’s when I had the idea of him reading the time from the beer bottles outside the Roadhouse.

- I love how much Cooper touches Audrey during and after the rescue from One-Eyed Jack’s, so I had to sneak in a reference to it when he sees her in the Timber Room.

- I’m low-key obsessed with One-Eyed Jack’s and the Black Lodge as mirrors of each other, and I love the idea that Audrey’s kind of come back from the underworld in a way that we usually associate with Cooper. (Also, I love how Audrey totally mythologizes herself with the Little Red Riding Hood story at One-Eyed Jack’s, hence “the girl with the pomegranates.”)

- I worried so much about the dialogue for this scene, oh my god. (I feel like I’m profoundly not a dialogue writer, so that’s always something that worries me, plus all of Audrey and Cooper’s conversations are so iconic and weird and beautiful.)

- I love the noir-typical imagery that comes with Twin Peaks. I really enjoyed trying to tap into that a little with lines like “a rotary dial to nowhere.”

- Also, I love that scene Audrey has with one of the other girls at One-Eyed Jack’s before she sees Battis (who I think is also the girl who comes onto Cooper when he’s undercover?), and I love the idea of her talking to them some more. I wanted it to be a little like a continuation of her relationship with Laura.

- I really, really love writing them kiss. I’m always weak for old Hollywood imagery, so I tried to get a kind of… lush 1940s credits feel with the description of the powered silk in her lipstick.

- I also spent a lot of time watching Hays Code era kisses and trying to figure out what makes some of them look so filthy and romantic for when they kiss again later.

- I love how awfulmazing the decorations in Cooper’s room are, and how very Ben Horne they are (there’s deer hooves holding up a decorative shotgun!) and I wanted to show Cooper being very careful and tender and considerate of Audrey as a counterpoint to the predatory atmosphere that Ben’s effectively set up around them.

- It’s my diehard headcanon that both of them learned to kiss from the movies. (Or moreso that both of them learned most of their social interactions from the movies. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH OKAY.)

- I love how thorough and precise Cooper is about everything, and I loved trying to write ways for this to come across during sex as well.

- I also really wanted to focus on Audrey’s sexual agency, how she has really intense ideas and desires even if she hasn’t had any practical experience.

- Cooper needs to always go down on her. That’s my considered opinion.

- I wanted to fit in so much more detail and injury porn when Cooper gets undressed, but then the deadline snuck up on me. NEXT TIME.

- I don’t know if it should have been an author’s note at the end, because I tried to keep their afterglow talk kind of canon-typical levels of oblique, but: the song they’re talking about is “Don’t Smoke in Bed.” I really liked trying to write a moment for them just as Audrey starts to become a part of Cooper’s life, so that’s where the discography for Diane came from.

- And just. DARLINGS. They’re one of my OTPs to the point where I feel like it’s very difficult to do them justice in fic, but it felt so good to post something for them, and I can’t wait to write them again.

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I love the rare times Sue and Storm team-up. What team-ups would you like to see now that the team are back?

Val and Riri, Lunella, Viv, Nadia...all of the girl geniuses just need to be BFFs. Plus, I feel that they all need friends they can talk to.

Sue and any of the younger female superheroes who have emerged since she’s been gone -- Riri, Viv, Nadia, Kamala, Lunella, etc. Sue’s been a mentor for younger female superheroes before (Jean Grey, Laura Kinney, and Anya Corazon spring to mind) and I really would like to see more of her acting in that capacity. She is the most experienced female superhero in Marvel, after all, and Marvel’s First Lady. I’m sure they must look up to her.

Reed and Lunella. Lunella is in a lot of ways Reed’s legacy character -- she’s the one who took the title of Smartest There Ever Was from him, so I think they really need to meet. Plus, Lunella’s been hoping to find him so she’ll have someone to talk to who gets what it is to be her, and I just think they’d really get along. She’s been looking for a mentor and Reed would be perfect in that capacity. Besides, an older autistic-coded superhero mentoring a younger one would be very cool.

Reed, Ben, and Kamala -- Reed and Kamala have very similar powers, and we know that Kamala’s a huge fan of Ben’s. Besides, in 616, the FF are the top superhero team around. The first, the most beloved. I’m sure that Kamala must just be a fan in general of the FF.

Reed and T’Challa. They were mystically and permanently married linked during Hickman’s run, so they need to reconnect. They also just adore each other, so I’m sure T’Challa’s very happy to see Reed safe and sound and back home. Maybe they can go on another joint camping trip together (they canonically spend their vacations together and go on double dates).

I’d love to see Reed and Sue team up with Medusa and Black Bolt. They are all extremely close friends, and I’m sure Medusa and Black Bolt will be overjoyed that Reed and Sue are still alive (...or vice versa).

Reed and Tony. They’re BFFs and they remember a timeline where they were actual college roomies, so I’d love to see them get together and science. Or just talk about their feelings about being dead but not for an entire issue. I’d be down for that. Slott is writing both Tony’s book and Reed’s, so I suspect there may be crossovers.

Sue and Jen Walters. They actually haven’t ever been that close -- Jen’s interacted more with Ben, really, than anyone else on the FF, but I’d love it if Sue and Jen got to be close friends.

Sue and Janet Van Dyne. Now they are very good friends, and I would love to see them catch up.

Sue and Laura Kinney -- they met, they’re friends, Laura babysat Val and Franklin once, and it was adorable. Maybe Sue and Val could team up with Laura and Gabby.

Sue and young Jean Grey (she’s still alive/around, no?) -- Sue mentored young Jean Grey back when she was just starting out, so I’m assuming she’d want to turn to Sue for guidance and advice.

Peter Parker and Reed. Peter admires Reed a lot (as a teenager he even had posters of him up on his wall), and they’ve generally been pretty close, so I’m sure that Peter will be very happy that Reed’s back.

But anyway, there are a lot of heroes, new and old, that I’d like to see the FF interact with!

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End of Year Book List

In the order they were read, separated by category:

Fiction

1. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

2. The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

3. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

4. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

5. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

6. The Martian by Andy Weir

7. Zone One by Colson Whitehead

8. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

10. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Nonfiction

1. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

2. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

3. Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

4. Heroines by Kate Zambreno

5. The Other Side of the River by Alex Kotlowitz

6. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 20th Anniversary Edition, by Beverly Daniel Tatum

7. The Battle of Blair Mountain by Robert Shogan

8. Female Husband by Jen Manion

9. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

10. War Against the Weak by Edwin Black

11. Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe

12. White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler

13. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

14. The Book by Alan Watts

15. Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah

16. The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

17. Holding the Line by Barbara Kingsolver

18. Playing the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

19. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

20. On Fascism: 12 Lessons from American History by Matthew C. MacWilliams

21. The Lies that Bind by Kwame Anthony Appiah

22. The Violence of Organized Forgetting by Henry Giroux

23. The Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron

24. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

25. No More Nice Girls by Lauren McKeon

26. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah

27. The Melancholia of Class by Cynthia Cruz

28. The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

29. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Higher Education & Teaching

1. A Short History of Writing Instruction by James Murphy

2. Everyone Can Write by Peter Elbow

3. Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World by Eli Meyerhoff

4. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez

5. Why They Can’t Write by John Warner

6. The End of Composition Studies by David Smit

7. Composing Critical Pedagogies by Amy Lee

8. Sustainable, Resilient, Free: The Future of Public Higher Education by John Warner

9. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough

10. Ungrading by Susan Blum

11. Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin Gannon

12. Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities by Kelly Nielson and Laura T. Hamilton

13. Cracks in the Ivory Tower by Jason Brennan and Philip Magness

14. The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching by Jonathan Zimmerman

15. The Adjunct Underclass by Herb Childress

Poetry

1. Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss

Total books: 55

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8 SPD Books Regarding Material Girl

IN THIS MONTH'S SPD CLICKHOLE. By Nich Malone

I wake up in the morning wrapped in my millennial pink bedsheets. I'm hungry. I have $24.73 in my checking account. My knee hurts. I know in my heart that it's okay to be hung over on a Tuesday. I open my laptop to YouTube and type in M-A-D-O-N-N-A, all caps, letting the "Up next" feature take me where I need to be. Which is work, eventually, but right now it's just me and my thread count, dressed up in Madonna music videos like a prayer to my current material condition. Time goes by so slowly. I'm hung up on you, Madonna music video playlist. I want my life to be like those fierce stair walking sequences that eventually shows up in the majority of you. Just that on repeat, forever. It feels like home.

Which brings us to this month's HANDPICKED theme at SPD which is MATERIAL! And 'cause we're living in a material world, this month we're focusing on Material Girl.

In the wise words of Madonna: You try everything you can to escape The pain of life that you know When all else fails and you long to be Something better than you are today I know a place where you can get away

...and it's within these 8 SPD books! Okay, Madonna didn't say that last part. She's actually talking about the dance floor. But why not let these books be your dance floor! So hold tight to your pomegranate martini and let each verse, each line break, open your heart. These are the ones you've been dreaming of.

1. Material Girl by Laura Jaramillo (Subpress)

"Before Madonna was Monroe, before Monroe, Mina Loy, before Mina Loy, was Laura Jaramillo, who crosscuts a multitude of materialities so that a girl will appear, abject, yet a star, a girl who lives in Italian movies and in Queens, who, knowing her Adorno, is as well a materialist girl, a dazzling embodiment of critical thought and purest longing, awakening to life in and away from the city. True, as she intimates, Manhattan may not exist, but the romance of it lives on in every lyrical, sharp-eyed, exhilarating, witty, and sad line of this marvelous book. Reader, beware: Laura Jaramillo will make you miss New York so much it hurts, even if, especially if, you've never been there."—Joseph Donahue

2. Giving Godhead by Dylan Krieger (Delete Press)

"If a girl, a virus, a horned animal, milkweed, an exchange of cash for dirty looks, the near-rhyme of greed to death, the names of all brutes, and a shroud in which was wrapped the erect ascendant all met in an ovum and, lodged deep in the earth's core, fused into a supernova. If, from that long ago time until this very moment—perhaps even into the future—that supernova were listening in on us, her grave canal located such that she were overexposed to US American politicovangelizing, all at once began to speak: this is what she says." —Danielle Pafunda

3. The Galaxy Is a Dance Floor by Bianca Lynne Spriggs (Argos Books)

Bianca Lynne Spriggs, a poet and visual artist, records, catalogs, and mythologizes our all-at-once grotesque and heart-wrenching present. Her irresistible voice imparts upon her readers the natural world, the cosmos, our hearts, all retransmitted through a prism of sensuous and enchanted language. In The Galaxy is a Dance Floor, we encounter "a nursery for unborn stars." We are asked to consider: "You think the cosmos was engineered / by elements that always perform / like the rest?" Before you realize it, Spriggs will be "feasting on the savory red sugar of you."

4. These Branching Moments: Forty Odes by Rumi (Copper Beech Press)

Translated from the Persian by John Moyne and Coleman Barks. These are the first English translations in nearly a hundred years of the great 13th-century Sufi poet's finest odes. At once clear and mysterious, passionate and idealistic, witty and profound, they are filled with down-to-earth images of time transcended. For Rumi, life is not a pointless series of discrete events but a tree of "branching moments." The way to discover this truth, his poems reveal, is to follow the mystical via affirmative, whereby true happiness is found not by rejecting the world but by plunging into it and, instead of getting lost in its many splendors, finally rejoicing in - and joining forces with - its underlying oneness. Rumi's vision of the ultimate unity of all things, especially of Islamic, Judeo-Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist thought, speaks to our own fragmented age, and these spirited versions render his search for peace as exhilarating as it is enlightening.

5. Top 40 by Brandon Brown (Roof Books)

Like the wavering foliage which inspired William Wordsworth's autobiographical epic, "America's Top 40 Countdown" is the catchy Beatrice of Brandon Brown's new book. Writing through the Top 40 pop songs on the chart of September 14, 2013, Brown's poems track the life of a song as it resounds through an organism. An organism who bathes, reads, writes, likes, fights, loves, hates, and fucks seems human; the soundtrack never stops.

6. Becoming the Virgin by taylor jacob pate (Action Books)

Simultaneously enchanting and brutal, taylor jacob pate's debut book Becoming the Virgin is a work of desperate intensity. This series of interconnected confessional-cum-fairy-tale poems whisk the reader along at a breakneck pace. pate's language is at once hard and gem-like, exquisitely ornate, and succinctly muscular. The text oscillates from spellbinding beauty and wonder to undercurrents of uncontrollable violence, passion, pain, and melee. It travels the fluxes between self and creature. It loses itself in dark forests of language: branches in which we all become entangled.

7. THEME & VERSION: Plath & Ronsard by Sylvia Plath (Menard)

Formerly unpublished translations of Ronsard by Sylvia Plath. Essays about Ronsard by Yves Bonnefoy, Audrey Jones, Daniel Weissbort. According to the internet, Sylvia Plath is one of Madonna's favorite poets. This translation is a great and exciting way to engage with Plath's work. Ronsard was considered the "prince of poets" and Madonna is the queen of pop. An obvious must-read for Madonna fans.

8. Popular Music by Kelly Schirmann (Black Ocean)

A meditation on messages, Popular Music asks: how does art make itself heard? The poems of Kelly Schirmann's debut full-length collection offer a unique voice, investigating the spaces between-between the singer and the audience; the lyrics and the message. Like a pop song, these poems encourage and distract, inviting the reader and listener in, wanting to tell you things that seem intimate, while telling them to everyone. They want to know: is anyone listening? And reader, we hope you are.

Happy reading!

All #SPDhandpicked books are 20% off all month w/ code HANDPICKED

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Eliot & MC most definetly go impulse clothes shopping at 3 AM and you can't change my mind.

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How Many Republicans Voted Against Budget

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How Many Republicans Voted Against Budget

Support Our Troops Is Only A Marketing Gimmick To Conservative Lawmakers They Wrap Themselves In The Flag While Turning Their Backs On Actual Troops

Nov 15, 2016

And here we have it again folks, Democrats trying to support our troops while the Republicans shoot them down.

Last Thursday, the day before Veteran’s Day, this happened:

“The largest piece of veterans legislation in decades — aimed at expanding health care, education and other benefits — was rejected Thursday by the Senate. The legislation died on a vote of 56–41, with only two Republicans voting for it.”

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The legislation would have restored cost-of-living increases for the pensions of future military retirees, expanded VA health care and would have provided benefits for family caregivers of disabled veterans — and was supported by nearly all veterans groups.

Funding was to come from billions of dollars the government projected it would spend on wars overseas in the fight against al-Qaeda. Republicans said this was “phony” because the wars are winding down. Which was exactly Bernie Sanders’ point of reallocating these funds… because, in theory, they wouldn’t now be needed to fund the wars.

The Vote Opens The Door For Democrats To Use A Key Legislative Maneuver To Try To Bypass Republican Opposition And Enact Bidens Economic Agenda

Hours after the Senate advanced a bipartisan bill to improve the nation’s infrastructure, Democrats forged ahead independently on a second front — adopting a $3.5 trillion budget that could enable sweeping changes to the nation’s health care, education and tax laws.

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The 50-49 vote came early Wednesday morning, after lawmakers sparred in a marathon debate over the proposed sizable increase in spending and its potential implications for the federal deficit. Its passage marked another critical milestone in Democrats’ complex economic agenda, which includes new public-works investments that Republicans support — and a slew of additional policy proposals that the GOP does not.

“The Democratic budget will bring a generational transformation for how our economy works for average Americans,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said after the vote.

Chiefly written by Sen. Bernie Sanders , the $3.5 trillion blueprint sets in motion Democrats’ plans to expand Medicare, combat climate change and boost federal safety net programs, including those that target children and low-income parents. It paves the way for universal prekindergarten and new family leave benefits, and it aims to help immigrants obtain legal permanent residency status. Democrats aspire to finance the array of new initiatives through tax increases targeting wealthy families and profitable corporations, undoing the rate cuts imposed under President Donald Trump.

How Mitch Mcconnell And Senate Republicans Learned To Stop Worrying About A Biden Victory And Love The Infrastructure Bill

What happened Tuesday in the Senate might seem like nothing short of a political miracle: Nineteen Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined with Democrats to pass a $1?trillion infrastructure bill, advancing President Biden’s top domestic priority.

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But those Republicans said there was nothing mystical about it. The vote was the result of a carefully calibrated alignment of interests, one shepherded and ultimately supported by a group of senators isolated from the immediate pressures of the GOP voter base, which remains loyal to former president Donald Trump, who repeatedly urged the bill’s defeat.

Among those interests is a strategic one, McConnell and other Republicans said. By joining with Democrats in an area of mutual accord, they are seeking to demonstrate that the Senate can function in a polarized political environment. That, they believe, can deflate a Democratic push to undo the filibuster — the 60-vote supermajority rule than can allow a minority to block most legislation — while setting up a stark contrast as Democrats move alone on a $3.5?trillion economic package.

“I’ve never felt that we ought to be perceived as being opposed to everything,” McConnell said in an interview Tuesday, before commenting on the slender nature of the Democratic congressional majorities, then rattling off bipartisan bills that passed during his time as party leader under two previous presidents.

List Of 17 Cowardly Republicans Who Voted To Break Filibuster And Allow Massive Infrastructure Bill To Come To Floor

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The so-called “infrastructure” bill is expected to be around $1.2 trillion over eight years with roughly $550 billion in new spending, but details on key components were still being worked out. Some procedural steps still lie ahead before the final passage.

CNN correspondent Manu Raju tweeted about the 17 cowardly Republicans who voted this afternoon to advance Biden’s climate change infrastructure bill to the Senate floor:

67-32, 17 Senate Republicans voted to break a filibuster and proceeed to the bipartisan infrastructure plan. All Democrats voted yes. Measure expected to be on the floor for at least a week and bipartisan coalition will have to deal with amendment process

— Manu Raju July 28, 2021

“Clearing the Fog” clarified why this bill is not a done deal:

Just to be clear, the infrastructure bill has not been passed. 17Republicans agreed to break the filibuster, and allow it to come to the floor. It isn’t nearly over.

Just to be clear, the infrastructure bill has not been passed.

17 Republicans agreed to break the filibuster, and allow it to come to the floor.

It isn’t nearly over. https://t.co/7LcB7mw17d

— ClearingTheFog July 28, 2021

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Conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham also tweeted about the vote by the feckless Republicans who continue to sell the future of our children down the river:

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Democrats Close Ranks Behind New President As Republicans Accuse Him Of Undermining Promises Of Bipartisanship

House Democrats voted Wednesday to set the stage for party-line approval of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, heeding the president’s calls for swift action on his first big agenda item — but without the bipartisan unity he promised.

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The 218-to-212 nearly party-line vote approved a budget bill that would unlock special rules in the Senate allowing Biden’s relief package to pass with a simple majority, instead of the 60 votes usually needed. The Senate is expected to take action on the same legislation later in the week.

With the budget resolutions in place, Democrats would be able to get to work in earnest on writing Biden’s proposed relief bill into law — and ultimately pass it without any Republican votes if necessary, though they continued to insist that is not their preference.

Biden said Wednesday that “I think we’ll get some Republicans.” He made the remark as he met in the Oval Office with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and the Senate committee chairs who will be responsible for writing the legislation.

Earlier Wednesday, the president told House Democrats on a conference call: “We need to act. … We need to act fast,” according to two people on the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity to relay his comments.

“It’s about who the hell we are as a country,” Biden said on the call.

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Nine Democrats Call For Prioritizing Vote On Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill At Odds With Pelosis Timeline

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WASHINGTON—A group of centrist House Democrats threatened to block a vote on approved by the Senate this week until a bipartisan infrastructure bill is passed, highlighting the predicament Democratic leaders face trying to keep dueling factions of the party united around both pieces of legislation.

In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, nine House Democrats said they “will not consider voting for a budget resolution until” the House approves a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed Tuesday in the Senate and it is signed into law.

“With the livelihood of hardworking American families at stake, we simply can’t afford months of unnecessary delays and risk squandering this once-in-a-century, bipartisan infrastructure package,” the lawmakers wrote.

That position puts them squarely at odds with the timeline mapped out by Mrs. Pelosi, who has repeatedly said she wouldn’t bring the infrastructure bill to the House floor until the Senate has passed the broader budget package now being crafted. Mrs. Pelosi’s office didn’t immediately respond to the letter.

Lawmakers Cite Concerns About Elimination Of State And Local Tax Deductions As Reform Framework Is Oked

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ALBANY — U.S. Reps. John Faso and Elise Stefanik voted against the federal budget resolution on Thursday, joining 18 of their GOP colleagues in opposition to the budget blueprint. The resolution was approved by a razor-thin 216-212 margin, taking a step toward a tax code rewrite that Democratic officials have warned will have dire consequences for New Yorkers.

The budget resolution — approved by the U.S. Senate last week — includes the framework to allow the Senate to approve a tax plan with only 51 votes, thereby precluding the possibility of a Democratic filibuster.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have pushed for an elimination of state and local tax deductions as part of tax reform.

Some New York officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have decried that move, saying it amounts to unconstitutional double taxation.

Faso, who represents the 19th Congressional District, said in a statement he could not vote for a budget that paves the way for the elimination of the SALT deductions.

Stefanik, who represents the 21st Congressional District, similarly cited concerns about the elimination of the SALT deductions.

Cuomo said that Stefanik, Faso and the other five New York House Republicans who voted against the resolution “understand the dire and devastating consequences to our middle class families and our economy.”

Former Us Attorney In Atlanta Says Trump Wanted To Fire Him For Not Backing Election Fraud Claims

Mr. Pak, who provided more than three hours of closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, stepped down with no notice on Jan. 4, saying that he had done his best “to be thoughtful and consistent, and to provide justice for my fellow citizens in a fair, effective and efficient manner.”

While he did not discuss Mr. Trump’s role in his decision to resign at the time, he told the Senate panel that the president had been dismayed that Mr. Pak had investigated allegations of voter fraud in Fulton County, Ga., and not found evidence to support them, according to the person familiar with the statements.

Mr. Pak testified that top department officials had made clear that Mr. Trump intended to fire him over his refusal to say that the results in Georgia had been undermined by voter fraud, the person said. Resigning would pre-empt a public dismissal.

He also described work done by state officials and the F.B.I. to vet Mr. Trump’s claims of voter fraud, and said they had not found evidence to support those allegations.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is examining Mr. Pak’s departure as part of its broader investigation into the final weeks of the Trump administration and the White House’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to falsely assert that the election was corrupt. The Justice Department’s inspector general is also looking at Mr. Pak’s resignation.

Senate Approves $35t Budget Plan That Would Expand Health Care Education And Climate Initiatives

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WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a sweeping Democratic budget resolution along party lines early Wednesday that would make it possible to expand Medicare, education and environmental measures largely through higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

The $3.5 trillion blueprint to pave the way for the massive social safety net expansion was adopted in a 50-49 vote after more than 14 hours of debate on a myriad of amendments.

Leaving the Capitol after the marathon “vote-a-rama,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said, “Well it’s been quite a night. Look, we still have a ways to go, and we’ve taken a giant step forward toward transforming America.”

House To Vote On $19 Trillion Covid Relief Bill This Week As Senate Considers Minimum Wage Hike

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Rep. Andy Levin on COVID relief, minimum wage…10:23

Washington — The House is expected to approve President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief proposal later this week in a party-line vote, after the House Budget Committee advanced the bill on Monday. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Tuesday evening that the House would vote on the legislation on Friday.

Although the narrow Democratic majority in the House will likely pass the bill as is, it’s unclear whether a provision raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025 will be included in the final Senate version of the legislation.

The bill, which includes $1,400 in direct payments to Americans making under $75,000, extra money for vaccine distribution and funding to state and local governments, was approved by the Budget Committee on Monday by a vote of 19 to 16. Congressman Lloyd Doggett was the sole Democrat to join Republicans in voting against the bill, although a spokesperson for Doggett later said in a statement that his “no” vote was a mistake and he “supports the COVID-19 relief legislation.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters on Tuesday that he believed the final bill would be passed by March 14, which is the day that enhanced unemployment benefits established by relief legislation passed at the end of last year are set to expire.

“I haven’t seen a Republican yet that found something in there that they would agree with,” McCarthy said.

Did The White House Knowingly Leave Afghanistan In Chaos If So What Are The Possible Outcomes

The reader may feel by now that they are bursting to say that all this has to do with the attitude of Trump and his supporters, namely, that they do not want to cast those resisting the insurrection as valued heroes. But it is interesting that the fights over this spending largely avoids being being bluntly cast explicitly as “for” or “against” branding the action as horrendous. That tone is there, but not just tough words. One may doubt that the issue is far from the thinking or calculations of the Congressmen thinking about the appropriation, but the exchanges are carried out in a verbal code fitting the appropriation world.

Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, finally proposed a supplemental appropriation bill smaller than the Democrats in the House or Senate. It does provide money for the Capitol Police salaries. However, it allocated far less funding to the Architect of the Capitol, and none for the National Park Service. Apparently, Senate Republicans are proposing to release the funding being withheld for the Capitol Police, but only in return for dropping the projects to harden the security of the Capitol.

Senator Shelby said “We should pass now what we all agree on: the Capitol Police and National Guard are running out of money, the clock is ticking, and we need to take care of them.” He indicated that projects to defend the Capitol were in a lesser category.

As Redistricting Process Begins Advocates Push For States To Keep Lgbtq Communities In Mind

A national organization dedicated to increasing the number of L.G.B.T.Q. Americans who hold elected office began an effort on Wednesday to lobby states and localities to keep gay neighborhoods united as they begin the once-a-decade process of redrawing congressional districts and other political boundaries.

The group, the L.G.B.T.Q. Victory Fund, will push entities tasked with redistricting to consider gay communities as “communities of interest,” or populations with shared political priorities. Its campaign, called “We Belong Together,” was announced a day before the Census Bureau is expected to release data that will be used to inform redistricting.

“We’re a distinct population, and our voices need to be heard in government,” said Sean Meloy, the vice president of political programs at the Victory Fund. “We’re trying to empower more people to make that argument to their respective redistricting entity.”

According to a poll by Gallup, 5.6 percent of Americans identify as L.G.B.T.Q. But fewer than 1,000 elected officials in the United States — less than 0.2 percent — are openly gay, according to the L.G.B.T.Q. Victory Institute. And some areas where L.G.B.T.Q. residents are a higher percentage of the population, like Washington, D.C., have no openly gay representatives.

Activists cite that seat as evidence that a focus on redistricting is not only effective but can lead to a trickle-up effect in terms of political representation.

House Dems Tell Pelosi They Wont Vote On Budget Resolution Till Infrastructure Bill Passes

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Nine moderate House Democrats told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they won’t vote on a budget resolution that lays out $3.5 trillion in spending until an infrastructure bill passes, the Associated Press reported.

The resistance is another hurdle for the proposed spending legislation, established as one of President Joe Biden‘s main priorities since taking office.

The House remains narrowly divided along party lines, and many Republicans are anticipated to resist the legislation. Democrats can lose only three votes and still prevail in finalizing the resolution without Republican support.

“We will not consider voting for a budget resolution until the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes the House and is signed into law,” the nine centrist Democrats wrote in a letter to Pelosi, obtained Friday by AP.

For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.

The centrists’ threat directly defies Pelosi’s announced plans, and she is showing no signs of backing down. It also completes a two-sided squeeze on the California Democrat, who has received similar pressure from her party’s progressives.

Congressional passage of the budget resolution seems certain because without it, Senate Republicans would be able to use a filibuster, or procedural delays, to kill a follow-up $3.5 trillion measure bolstering social safety net and climate change programs. That measure, not expected until autumn, represents the heart of Biden’s domestic agenda.

Negotiators Say They Expect To Make Significant Progress By Monday On Details Of The Plan

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WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans blocked an effort to begin debate on a bipartisan infrastructure deal still under negotiation Wednesday, but lawmakers said they expected to close in on a final agreement by early next week.

The vote failed, with 49 in favor and 51 against, short of the 60 needed to open debate. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer switched his vote to no, which he said gave him the option to bring the bill up again.

Senate Democratic leaders had hoped to start the process Wednesday of moving both the infrastructure bill and a separate $3.5 trillion package of child care, education, antipoverty and climate provisions expected to pass with only Democratic votes.

On Wednesday night, President Biden said he remained confident that the Senate will vote next week to move forward with consideration of the bill. “I think we’re going to get it done,” Mr. Biden said during a CNN town hall in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Biden said Wednesday’s failed procedural vote was irrelevant.

The failed vote Wednesday pushed the timeline for both deeper into the summer, although lawmakers involved in the infrastructure negotiations said they expected to have enough of an agreement in place to move forward by Monday, if Senate Democratic leaders agree to schedule another vote.

How Congressional Republicans Maneuver Against Funding The Capitol Police For January 6

A highly complex series of maneuvers is occurring in the Congress about the little-known “legislative branch appropriation” which funds operations on Capitol Hill, including the Capitol Police. The issues come from the January 6 insurrection. Congressional Republicans are attempting to hold hostage vital funding for the Capitol Police, by resisting supplemental funds relating to that day. Congressional Democrats are trying to free up the vitally needed funds to pay the overtime for the police, as well as other funds for hardening the Capitol site against the new attacks. Right now the funding situation is perilous for the Capitol Police.

The situation starts with the Congress passing its spending bill last year to pay for the entire Capitol complex, including the Capitol Police and a projection of their expected overtime. As it was dryly put, Congress did not budget for the January 6 insurrection. Who knew? Everything spent on dealing with that insurrection went beyond budgeted-for projections.

As the Senate Appropriations Chair, Patrick Leahy , said Friday, July 9, “without action the Capitol Police will go without payment for the hours of overtime they have incurred, without proper equipment, and without sufficient mental health services to deal with the continued trauma from that day.” This is not off in the distance. House appropriators noted that the salaries account for the Capitol Police would be exhausted in August.

Youtube Suspends Rand Paul For A Week Over A Video Disputing The Effectiveness Of Masks

YouTube on Tuesday removed a video by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky for the second time and suspended him from publishing for a week after he posted a video that disputed the effectiveness of wearing masks to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

A YouTube representative said the Republican senator’s claims in the three-minute video had violated the company’s policy on Covid-19 medical misinformation. bans videos that spread a wide variety of misinformation, including “claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of Covid-19.”

“We apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of speaker or political views, and we make exceptions for videos that have additional context such as countervailing views from local health authorities,” the representative said in a statement.

In the video, Mr. Paul says: “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection.” Later in the video, he adds, “Trying to shape human behavior isn’t the same as following the actual science, which tells us that cloth masks don’t work.”

In fact, masks do work, according to the near-unanimous recommendations of public health experts.

On Tuesday, Twitter suspended Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, for seven days after she posted that the Food and Drug Administration should not give the coronavirus vaccines full approval and that the vaccines were “failing.”

Top Republican: Gop Wont Help Raise Debt Limit To Fund $35 Trillion Spending Package

The top Senate Republican pledged Monday to oppose a massive spending package Democrats plan to greenlight in a budget vote this week.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, warned Monday that Senate Republicans would not only vote against the spending package, but they would also oppose a measure to raise the nation’s borrowing limit.

“Democrats have all the existing tools they need to raise the debt limit on a partisan basis,” McConnell said. “If they want 50 lockstep Democratic votes to spend trillions and trillions more, they can find 50 Democratic votes to finance it. If they don’t want Republicans’ input. They don’t need our help.”

Senate Democrats Monday unveiled a $3.5 trillion spending framework that would fund social programs the party believes will boost the middle class, lower taxes, and help create jobs.

INFRASTRUCTURE BILL ADVANCES TO FINAL PASSAGE THIS WEEK

The measure would pay for universal preschool, free community college, expanded Medicare benefits and child tax credits, and more. It would also provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrant farmworkers and their families.

Democrats plan to approve the bill without help from Republicans by using a budgetary tactic that would allow the bill to pass with 51 votes instead of the usual 60 votes.

The vote to unlock that procedure is expected to take place this week after the Senate passes a $1.2 trillion, bipartisan infrastructure bill.

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Budget And Infrastructure Bills Have Been Top Priorities For Us President Joe Biden

The U.S. Senate approved a $3.5-trillion US spending blueprint for President Joe Biden’s top priorities early on Wednesday morning in a 50-49 vote along party lines after lawmakers sparred over the need for huge spending to fight climate change and poverty.

The vote marks the start of weeks of debate within Biden’s Democratic Party about priorities including universal preschool, affordable housing and climate-friendly technologies.

With narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress, Democrats will need to craft a package that will win the support of both progressives such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who want robust action on climate change, and moderates including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has expressed concern at the size of the bill.

The vote followed about 14½ hours of debate that started right after the Senate on Tuesday passed a $1-trillion US infrastructure bill in a bipartisan 69-30 vote, proposing to make the nation’s biggest investment in decades in roads, bridges, airports and waterways.

“It’s been quite a night. We still have a ways to go, but we’ve taken a giant step forward to transforming America,” Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters after the budget resolution passed. “This is the most significant piece of legislation that’s been considered in decades.”

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These 35 Senate Republicans Voted Against Moving Forward With January 6 Commission

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Senate Republicans on Friday blocked moving forward with a bill to create a commission to investigate the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, with 35 conservative members voting against it.

Just six GOP senators broke ranks with the party to support advancing the January 6 commission, including Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah and Ben Sasse of Nebraska.

Eleven senators were not present for the vote, including nine Republicans. A spokesperson for Republican Sen. Patrick Toomey said he missed the vote due to a “family commitment” but he “would have voted in favor of the motion.”

“We have a mob overtake the Capitol, and we can’t get the Republicans to join us in making historic record of that event? That is sad,” Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said ahead of the vote. “That tells you what’s wrong with the Senate and what’s wrong with the filibuster.”

The formation of a January 6 commission, which would be modeled off the probe that took place after the 9/11 attacks, has been delayed for months over negotiations about the panel’s make-up and scope.

Some Republican lawmakers, including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, oppose the bill because they want the committee to also investigate far-left forms of political violence. Other lawmakers, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have slammed the bill as a “purely political exercise.”

Republicans Oust Liz Cheney From Party Leadership For Telling Truth About Election

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Because she won’t tell Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, Republicans ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from party leadership.

Republicans voted during an internal party meeting on Wednesday morning to remove Cheney from her position as House Republican Conference chair, the third-highest rank among Republicans in the House of Representatives. They removed her via voice vote soon after the meeting commenced, meaning no member went on the record.

The decision won’t silence Cheney, she told reporters after the meeting.

“We must go forward based on truth,” Cheney said. “We cannot both embrace the big lie and the Constitution.”

“I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” Cheney added.

Ahead of the meeting, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had made it clear that Cheney should get the boot, saying in a letter to members that “our leadership team cannot afford to be distracted from the important work that we were elected to do.”

The distraction? The plain truth. In recent weeks, Cheney has been increasingly vocal about the validity of the 2020 election and Donald Trump inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” Cheney tweeted last week in response to the disgraced ex-president. “Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.”

Elise Foley contributed reporting.

Texas Republicans Order The Arrest Of Democrats Who Fled To Block Gop Voting Bill

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday authorized state law enforcement to round up and potentially arrest absentee Democrats who fled the Republican-led chamber to block action on polarizing election legislation.

The 80-12 vote empowered the House sergeant-at-arms to dispatch law enforcement officers to compel the attendance of missing members “under warrant of arrest, if necessary.”

After the vote, Dade Phelan, the speaker of the Texas House, signed 52 civil arrest warrants which will be delivered to the House Sergeant-at-Arms Wednesday morning for service, Enrique Marquez, the speaker’s communications director, said in an email.

The move by the Texas House, sitting in Austin, came hours after the all-Republican Texas Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Gov. Greg Abbott and Mr. Phelan, overturned an earlier ruling. That ruling, from a district court in Austin’s home county of Travis, had determined that the two officials, both Republicans, did not have the authority to order the arrest of their fellow elected officials.

Tuesday’s vote was the second time in recent weeks that Texas House Republicans raised the threat of law enforcement action to compel the presence of the more than four dozen Democrats who bolted the chamber during the final hours of the 2021 legislative session in May to rob the House of a quorum and so block the passage of a restrictive election measure.

Many Republicans Are Perfectly Fine With Extra Unemployment Benefits Disappearing

WASHINGTON ? As Senate Republicanstry to advance a coronavirus relief bill with only $200 a week in extra unemployment benefits ? down from the expiring $600 ? many House Republicans are signaling that they’re opposed to any extra money at all.

“Zero is the number for me,” Rep. Roger Williams told HuffPost on Wednesday.

Several of Williams’ House GOP colleagues also questioned whether the federal government should be providing any additional money to state unemployment benefits as more than 25 million people on Saturday will lose the stipend the federal government has been kicking in since March.

“Too much is $1 over what they would make if they had a job,” Rep. Jason Smith said.

Rep. Austin Scott claimed the majority of people thought it was a good idea to not have any “bonus unemployment” .

Rep. Steven Palazzo said it should be left up to each state’s governor, meaning the federal government shouldn’t be handing out extra money. And Rep. Ralph Norman said he would prefer a payroll tax cut over added unemployment benefits, though he also said he wouldn’t vote for a $1 trillion bill like Senate Republicans were offering ? let alone a $3 trillion bill like the one House Democrats passed in May.

“I’m not sure that we should be adding to a state’s unemployment,” said Rep. Andy Biggs head of the Freedom Caucus whose members consist of the House GOP’s most conservative members.

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“But when it comes to poor people, they’re like, ‘Screw ‘em,’” he said.

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