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fatehbaz · 11 months

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Good question:

In the United States, many jails and prisons can and will charge you money for every single night that you spend imprisoned, for the entire duration of your incarceration, as if you were being billed for staying at a hotel. Even if you are incarcerated for years. Adding up to tens of thousands of dollars. What happens when you’re released?

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So.

You’re getting charged, like, ten dollars every time you even submit a request form to possibly be seen by a doctor or dentist.

You’re getting charged maybe five dollars for ten minutes on the phone.

Any time a friend or family tries to send you like five dollars so that you can buy some toothpaste or lotion, or maybe a snack from the commissary since you’re diabetic and the “meals” have left you malnourished, maybe half of that money gets taken as a “service fee” by the corporate contractor that the prison uses to manage your pre-paid debit card. So you’re already losing money every day just by being there.

What happens if you can’t pay?

In some places, after serving just a couple of years for drugs charges, almost 20 years after being released, the state can still hunt you down for over $80,000 that you “owe” as if it were a per-night room-and-board accommodations charge, like this recent highly-publicized case in Connecticut:

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Two decades after her release from prison, [TB] feels she is still being punished. When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 1/2 year imprisonment for drug crimes. [...] “I’m about to be homeless,” said [TB], 58, who in March [2022] became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state law that charges prisoners $249 a day for the cost of their incarceration. [...] All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars [...]. Critics say it’s an unfair second penalty that hinders rehabilitation by putting former inmates in debt for life. Efforts have been underway in some places to scale back or eliminate such policies. Two states — Illinois and New Hampshire — have repealed their laws since 2019. [...] Pay-to-stay laws were put into place in many areas during the tough-on-crime era of the 1980s and ’90s, said Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Southern California who is leading a study of the practice. [...] Connecticut used to collect prison debt by attaching an automatic lien to every inmate, claiming half of any financial windfall they might receive for up to 20 years after they are released from prison [...].

Text by: Pat Eaton-Robb. “At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt.” AP News / The Associated Press. 27 August 2022.

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Look at this:

To help her son, Cindy started depositing between $50 to $100 a week into Matthew’s account, money he could use to buy food from the prison commissary, such as packaged ramen noodles, cookies, or peanut butter and jelly to make sandwiches. Cindy said sending that money wasn’t necessarily an expense she could afford. “No one can,” she said. So far in the past month, she estimates she sent Matthew close to $300. But in reality, he only received half of that amount. The balance goes straight to the prison to pay off the $1,000 in “rent” that the prison charged Matthew for his prior incarceration. [...] A PA Post examination of six county budgets (Crawford, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lehigh, Venango and Indiana) showed that those counties’ prisons have collected more than $15 million from inmates — almost half is for daily room and board fees that are meant to cover at least a portion of the costs with housing and food. Prisoners who don’t work are still expected to pay. If they don’t, their bills are sent to collections agencies, which can report the debts to credit bureaus. [...] Between 2014 and 2017, the Indiana County Prison — which has an average inmate population of 87 people — collected nearly $3 million from its prisoners. In the past five years, Lebanon’s jail collected just over $2 million in housing and processing fees.

Text by: Joseph Darius Jaafari. “Paying rent to your jailers: Inmates are billed millions of dollars for their stays in Pa. prisons.” WHYY (PBS). 10 December 2019. Originally published at PA Post.

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Pay-to-stay, the practice of charging people to pay for their own jail or prison confinement, is being enforced unfairly by using criminal, civil and administrative law, according to a new Rutgers University-New Brunswick led study. The study [...] finds that charging pay-to-stay fees is triggered by criminal justice contact but possible due to the co-opting of civil and administrative institutions, like social service agencies and state treasuries that oversee benefits, which are outside the realm of criminal justice. “A person can be charged $20 to $80 a day for their incarceration,” said author Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of Rutgers' criminal justice program. “That per diem rate can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees when a person gets out of prison. To recoup fees, states use civil means such as lawsuits and wage garnishment against currently and formerly incarcerated people, and regularly use administrative means such as seizing employment pensions, tax refunds and public benefits to satisfy the debt.” [...] Civil penalties are enacted on family members if the defendant cannot pay and in states such as Florida, Nevada and Idaho can occur even after the original defendant is deceased. [...]

Text by: Megan Schumann. “States Unfairly Burdening Incarcerated People With “Pay-to-Stay” Fees.” Rutgers press release. 20 November 2020.

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So, to pay for your own imprisonment, states can:

-- hunt you down for decades (track you down 20 years later, charge you tens of thousands of dollars, and take your house away)

-- put a lien on your vehicle, house

-- garnish your paycheck/wages

-- seize your tax refund

-- send collections agencies after you

-- take your public assistance benefits

-- sue you in civil court

-- take money from your family even after you’re dead

#abolition

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eric2418 · 2 months

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Canadian native🇨🇦and Southern Connecticut State University gymnast Alexa Melanson: Another lady with a hot body🔥😍.

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d-criss-news · 2 months

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Darren Criss To Headline Long Wharf Theatre's Annual Benefit Concert This May

Long Wharf Theatre has announced that award-winning stage, music, and television star Darren Criss will headline their annual benefit in A Concert for Long Wharf Theatre. The event will take place on May 13, 2024 at Southern Connecticut State University's John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts for the second year in a row.

“This past season at Long Wharf Theatre has been awe-inspiring to witness and I could not be more thrilled to join the celebration in May,” said Darren Criss. “Long Wharf embodies artistic bravery at its finest and most exhilarating; its new model should serve as an example for the entire industry as we look to innovate and imagine new possibilities for presenting and performing work. I can't wait to spend what's certain to be an unforgettable evening with audiences in New Haven and hope you'll join us.”

“Darren is an incredibly dynamic, innovative performer whose acclaim spans theatre, film, music and more,” said Jacob Padrón, Artistic Director, Long Wharf Theatre. “He embodies the groundbreaking, energizing artistry that Long Wharf Theatre aims to bring in all of our performances across New Haven. We're honored to have him join us for an incredible night of celebration and support for performing arts in our community.”

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Darren Criss: A CONCERT FOR LONG WHARF THEATRE will begin with a cocktail hour and speeches from institutional leadership. This will be followed by a paddle raise to support Long Wharf Theatre's vision to bring theatre, without barriers, to spaces and stages across the region. The festivities will include hors d'oeuvres, dinner and drinks, and an after party.

#darren criss #a concert for long wharf theatre #broadway world #upcoming events #press #march 2024

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libraryofmoths · 10 months

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Moth of the Week

Ornate Bella Moth

Utetheisa ornatrix

This moth was first described as Phalaena ornatrix and Phalaena bella by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. In 1960, it became known as the Utetheisa ornatrix by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes. It’s also called the ornate bella moth, ornate moth, bella moth or rattlebox moth and is in the family Erebidae.

Description The body is white with black spots on the back of the thorax and head. The legs are black and white and antennae are black and filiform. The hindwings are a pale or bright pink with an irregular black border. The forewings are orangish-yellow with white bands surrounding black dots. Patterns may vary. These colors are used to warn predators of the moth’s toxicity.

Wingspan range: 33 - 46 mm (1.3 - 1.8 in)

Diet and Habitat The larva feed on plants of the Crotalaria species such as Avon Park rattlebox, rabbitbells, smooth rattlebox, and showy rattlebox. These plants provide the larva and adults with alkaloid compounds which are the unpalatable to predators. They accumulate these toxins from the seed pods of these plants, however if the larva can’t eat a seed pod due to competition they will have to eat the leaves where is concentration is much lower. Larvae may prey on/eat others of its kind to maintain high levels of alkaloids. Alkaloids are also passed down from parents to eggs.

Its northern most range is from Connecticut westward to southeastern Nebraska and southward to southern New Mexico and Florida in the United States. Its southern most range is from Mexico, South America, and Central America. It’s southernmost reach is southeastern Brazil. This species is more common in tropical parts of this range due to host plant populations.

Mating This species demonstrates a form of sexual selection. The females choose a male to mate with based on the intensity of their pheromones. During mating, the females receive a “spermatophore” from the males containing sperm, nutrients, and alkaloid compounds. After mating, the females choose which males’ sperm fertilizes the eggs. Usually, the female chooses the male with the most alkaloids which tends to be the larger males. Adult males invest up to 11% of their body mass to create a spermatophore they provide to a female during mating. The nutrients given in the spermatophore allow the female to produce an average of 32 additional eggs in her brood.

Females mate an average of 4-5 times and up to 13 times, each with a different male. In the north there there two generations per year with more in the south.

Predators The larva and adults keep predators at bay with alkaloid compounds accumulated during feeding and inherited from parents. These toxins make them unpalatable to their main predators: spiders and bats. Specifically, the adult moth secretes an alkaloid foam from its head when threatened. However, larva and moths with low concentrations are more susceptible to predation than those with higher concentrations who are usually released and unharmed after being caught.

These toxins do not work against some predators like loggerhead shrikes.

Unlike other moths of the Arctiidae subfamily, this species moth does not have a way to audibly communicate their toxic which would help it to avoid bats altogether.

Fun Fact This species was first described on 1758 by Carl Linnaeus as two different species: Phalaena ornatrix was used to describe the paler moth specimens, and Phalanea bella, described the bright pink moth specimens. It was then moved to the genus Utetheisa in 1819 by Hübner. After nearly a century of struggling to identify this species and its subspecies, Forbes combined both species Utetheisa ornatrix and Utetheisa bella into one in 1960: Utetheisa ornatrix.

(Source: Wikipedia; The Island Packet; Institution of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida)

#libraryofmoths #animals #bugs #facts #insects #moth #mothoftheweek #lepidoptera #ornate bella moth #bella moth #rattlebox moth #ornate moth #Erebidae #Utetheisa ornatrix

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knockyasocksoff2022 · 5 months

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The Cask of Manhasset {RANPOE}

When his Dad gets a teaching job at an American University, Ranpo must move with them to the American state of Connecticut. Once there he starts his Junior year of high school at Manhasset Maor Academy, which is also attended by the children of the elite Fitzgerald Family. Four of them are Juniors just like he is, four are Seniors, and the youngest Lucy is a Sophomore.

Lucy is wild and social and eager to make friends with the new student, but Ranpo is more curious about her introverted older brother.

After a failed introduction, Ranpo becomes even more curious to find out all he can about Edgar, determined, if not to befriend him, then to beat him out for top rank in the next exams. But what will happen when he turns up something far more disturbing than just gory mystery novels and a strange obsession with Racoons?

~ CAST ~

RANPO (17) (has come to finish his junior and senior high school in America after his father gets a job at a university)

ELISE (8) (in 3rd grade)

KYUSAKU (13) (in 7th grade and a little crazy but that's okay)

YUKICHI (45) (got a job teaching at a university in Connecticut)

OUGAI (40) (is a surgeon)

The Fitzgerald Coven

Seniors

LOUISA (19) (older than Poe but just as shy, they have tea and cookies together when it’s too sunny to go to school, he confides in her first about his feelings for Ranpo and she promises not to tell, she keeps her word. Was turned many decades ago by Francis to be his secretary.)

HOWARD (18) (tired)

MARGARET (19) (loves Southern Belle fashion, reading and writing, neutral to Poe, but secretly finds him endearing, only telling this to Nathaniel. She worries about what his relationship w/ Ranpo may bring)

NATHANIEL (18) (loves god and Margaret. The two joined the Fitzgerald Coven as a couple)

Juniors -

Lucy & Edgar had been doing homeschool during their first year as vampires but Francis and Zelda wanted them to have the full High School Experience so he enrolled them at Manhasset Manor Academy. The older coven members agreed to join as well just to keep an eye on Edgar and Lucy and make sure they stay out of trouble.

EDGAR (19) (Was taken in by Francis six years ago after his parents were killed when someone attempted to rob the Poe family home. Edgar's father owned a lucrative publishing business and his mother was a semi-famous interior decorator. Fitzgerald bought both businesses and the home. Since Edgar had no other living relatives, he went to live with Francis and Zelda, who raised him like their own. He was turned two years ago and has been living with him since, he is quiet and shy, loves poetry, and books, and doesn't talk to anyone . . . until Ranpo)

JOHN (17) (He asked to be turned so he could be stronger and provide for his family and their farm after several bad harvests, he wanted to see the world and after his family members all passed of old age he came to live with the Fitzgerald coven.)

MARK (17) (always down for anything, he found the coven by accident. He’s totally chill with Ranpo, maybe a little intimidated by his IQ but still welcomes him into the family.)

LUCY(16) (Was turned by Fitzgerald only one year ago, but she's been living with them for 9 years, ever since Francis rescued her from an abusive orphanage when she was 8. She is wild and is kind of annoyed at Poe's shyness and they fight a lot but still loves him a lot, she's a sophomore at Manhasset Manor Academy)

Parents/Coven leaders

FRANCIS (32) (loves his adopted children, and turned them because he wants his daughter back) (he donated the school library which is called The Zelda and Francis Fitzgerald Library.

ZELDA (32) (was and kind of still is, depressed because of the loss of her and Francis' daughter but got better after getting to raise Edgar and Lucy, she just wants to see them happy)

#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #ranpoe fanfic #bsd ranpoe #ranpoe #bsd twilight saga au #The Cask of Manhasset #bsd twilight au

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ncaapeaches · 1 month

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Southern Connecticut State Gymnastics

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scsulibrary · 5 months

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Give back to the Library for Giving Tuesday! Details on donations available at https://LibGuides.SouthernCT.edu/SupportBuleyLibrary

#Giving Tuesday #GivingTuesday #SCSU #Southern Connecticut State University #Library

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sillyname30 · 15 days

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longwharftheatre: Have you heard? Darren Criss is coming to New Haven to support Long Wharf Theatre! If you haven't stayed up to date with pop culture in the last decade and are asking, "Who is Darren Criss?" No worries, here's a quick rundown. @DarrenCriss is an Emmy and SAG award-winning actor, composer, singer, touring, theater company co-founder, and all-around phenom. It would be hard to list all of Darren Criss' accomplishments, but it is easy to tell you where he'll be on May 13. At our benefit concert, get your tickets! Darren Criss: A Benefit Concert for Long Wharf Theatre May 13, 2024 Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, Southern Connecticut State University Tickets at longwharf.org or at the link in our bio. BTW here is a small snapshot of Darren's work and contributions, of course we had to share something 😉 GLEE // TV Series AMERICAN CRIME STORY // TV Series AMERICAN BUFFALO // Broadway HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING // Broadway THE TREVOR PROJECT // Charity

#darren criss #longwharftheatre #instagram

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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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Medical licensing officials in multiple states are scrambling to stop nurses with fraudulent academic credentials from caring for patients, after three Florida schools were accused of selling thousands of bogus diplomas.

New York regulators told 903 nurses in recent weeks to either surrender their licenses or prove they were properly educated. Delaware and Washington state officials have yanked dozens of nursing licenses. Texas filed administrative charges against 23 nurses. More actions in additional states are expected.

In some cases, lawyers for the nurses contend states are questioning the credentials of caregivers who earned diplomas legitimately. But there's wide agreement in the industry that nurses with fraudulent degrees need to be rooted out.

"The public needs to know that when they’re the most fragile, when they’re sick, when they’re in a hospital bed, that the individual who is at their bedside has gone through the required training," said Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association union.

States are acting in the wake of Operation Nightingale, a federal investigation into what officials say was a wire fraud scheme in which several now-closed Florida nursing schools sold phony nursing diplomas and transcripts from 2016 to 2022. Twenty-five defendants, including school owners and alleged recruiters, have been charged, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Markenzy Lapointe announced in late January. Those cases are pending.

About 7,600 students paid an average of $15,000 for bogus diplomas, according to prosecutors. Around 2,400 of those people then passed a licensing exam to obtain jobs as registered nurses and licensed practical nurses or vocational nurses in multiple states, prosecutors say.

FEDERAL AUTHORITIES IN FLORIDA CHARGE 25 PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH SCHEME TO CREATE FAKE NURSING DIPLOMAS

How did so many test takers pass without the required classroom and clinical work? In some cases, they were experienced L.P.N.s seeking to become R.N.s. Some had been health care providers in other countries.

The nurses got jobs across the country, including at a hospital in Georgia, Veterans Affairs medical centers in Maryland and New York, a skilled nursing facility in Ohio, and an assisted living facility in New Jersey, according to court filings.

Students came not only from Florida, but also New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Delaware. Many of the students took their licensing exam in New York, where they can sit it multiple times, according to investigators.

Investigators identified the Florida nursing schools as the Palm Beach School of Nursing; Siena College, a school in Broward County that wasn't related to the college of the same name in New York; and the Sacred Heart International Institute, which was also based in Broward County and had no relation to a university with a similar name in Connecticut.

It was not entirely clear how many of the roughly 2,400 nurses with credentials from these schools are currently employed, or where.

Federal officials shared information so states could pursue nurses with phony academic credentials. Some states have taken action.

The Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission rescinded the R.N. licenses of 17 people and denied license applications for four. The Delaware Board of Nursing annulled 26 licenses. The Georgia Board of Nursing asked 22 nurses to voluntarily surrender their licenses.

TEEN GETS COLLEGE DIPLOMA BEFORE FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL

The 23 nurses facing possible license revocations in Texas can continue working while their disciplinary cases are pending. Texas Board of Nursing general counsel James "Dusty" Johnston said more charges could come as officials develop "the necessary information for each individual."

A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs said it removed 89 nurses "from patient care" nationwide last year immediately after being notified by federal officials. The agency has not found any instances of patients being harmed.

New York's Office of the Professions posted on the state education department's website that it expects some of the 903 licensees who attended the schools "did, in fact, attend required hours and clinicals and are properly licensed." Those people are being asked to have a qualified nursing program submit verification.

Attorneys for some of the nurses in New York and Georgia say nurses who legitimately earned diplomas are getting caught up in the investigation.

"There are obviously people who bought transcripts who are fraudulent and should not be practicing nursing under any circumstances," said Atlanta attorney Hahnah Williams. "But there are also people who went to those schools legitimately and did nothing wrong. And they are somehow being lumped together with the fraudulent nurses."

Williams said her clients are hardworking immigrants who went to schools that were accredited at the time and have since worked for many years without incident.

Similarly, attorney Jordan Fensterman in New York said he has clients who attended classes at one of the schools to finish up their R.N. degrees and then worked during the pandemic. He said those nurses deserve due process now.

The state board actions are taking place as hospitals across the nation try to deal with chronic staffing challenges.

"Hopefully, the number is smaller once the authorities sort things out," said Kennedy, the American Nurses Association president.

#nunyas news

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the-phoenix-heart · 2 years

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The Table Human Names

(You may have seen these human names on another site. I thought it was finally time to post it on Tumblr. Also, some names have since been updated.)

These are the standard human names that the states usually use when they have to hide their identities. These are also for my sake, because I need them for...reasons...fanfic reasons...

My usual pattern for naming the states is their first name starts with the first letter of their state and their last name the second letter of their acronym. Sometimes I play around with that format, for example if someone already has the two letters of their acronym I play with their last name or if a last name that doesn't follow the pattern I make their middle name follow the pattern. I try to have their names emblematic of the people that live in that state, but obviously some names I went more American with than others. The less I care about a character the less effort I will put into their name.

I did implement a rule for the "New" states that I could ignore the first part of their name if I so pleased. Although I think I only used that for one of them.

In universe the states usually don't think about their human names a lot. Either it was assigned to them or it was just the vibe they were picking up when they named themselves. Some of them do think a little bit more on their names and the meanings. If I'm writing the states as states you will almost never see their human names come up. The states don't see their human names as their real names and just as fake names.

Note: For three of these names I used Native American names in them as tributes they would pay to the Native Americans in their land. I flipped flopped back and forth on if this was a good idea or a bad one. I eventually decided to risk it but if enough people think it is insensitive and take issue with this I will change them. On to the names!

Alabama - Alexander Smith

- Probably has gone by Albert before, but nobody takes a guy named Albert seriously. His first human name was probably Alfred. Sometimes southern states will mess up and call him either of those names.

Alaska - Anatoly Tanax̂ Morozov

- Anatoly is a Russian name meaning “sunrise” which I felt was fitting since the sunrises in Alaska and doesn’t set for a long ass time. Morozov I got from @icestarphoenix and I felt was a good last name for him. Tanax̂ is an Aleut/Unangax̂ (Unangax̂ is their self-name) name meaning "land" or "place", I thought Alaska would take on a tribute name for the people he got his name from in the first place. I hope you appreciate this because I actually had to read a book to get this name. I broke my rules for this one.

Arizona - Armando Ziegler

- I gave him a Spanish name since he was originally a Mexican territory. His last name is German partially because there aren't a lot of good Z last names that are Spanish, but also because Mexico does have a German population and German is the third most spoken non English language in Arizona.

Arkansas - Archer Dubois-Johnson

- Ark switches between using Dubois and Johnson as his last name. On paperwork with his human name he'll probably just use both. Dubois because it was his last name back when he was French and Johnson because he just liked that Anglo name.

California - Camilo “Calvin” Goldsmith

- Camilo is the name he prefers to use as his human name, but because of slip ups with his state name Calvin gets used quite a bit. I almost went with Calvino which IS a Spanish name but it means BALD so XD no. Goldsmith is obvious.

CDC - Charles Drew-Collins

- I wasn't originally going to include CDC, but I came up with a name for him so dammit I’m gonna keep him here. Drew is obviously a reference to his actor.

Colorado - Colton Mendoza

- I got the idea for Colorado's last name to be Mendoza from @hibiscuslynx, although I had already decided to name Connecticut Connor. Colton just felt like a Colorado name.

Connecticut - Connor Thompson

- Here's a note, if it is part of New England, chances are I didn't put that much thought into it.

DC (District) - Dean-Cooper Washington

- He did not get to choose his name lmao. At least he has a good excuse as to why he can just call himself "DC" around regular people. He's pissed that he and Gov share a last name.

Delaware - Daniel Edwards

- Honestly just thought of a D name and then an E name. Not much thought in this one.

Florida - Fernando Juan Ponce de Leon Rodriguez

- Florida is extra and would just straight up take Juan Ponce de Leon as a middle name to commemorate him.

Georgia - George Peachtree Andrews

- Georgia is tired. If Georgia wasn't a girl's name which makes him feel emasculated then he'd just go with that. As it stands, George. And his middle is Peachtree because he's lazy and it's a reference to Atlanta (and also I neglected to look at Georgia's initials so I originally had Peachtree as his honest to god last name). Andrews is just an A last name.

Gov - Franklin Abraham Washington

- Yeah I just took three famous presidents and smashed their names together. You're lucky I didn't call him Grover.

Hawaii - Hōkūlani Kahale

- Hōkūlani meaning: "Heavenly Star". The name is especially fitting because names including "lani" were usually reserved for chiefs in ancient Hawaii. I don't imagine she uses a last name often, since traditionally Hawaiians did not have last names, but she does have one she uses if she has to. Kahale meanings "house" or "home" in Hawaiian, which I felt was fitting as she is the home for Hawaiians. She was one of the characters I threw my rules out for.

Idaho - Ian Dickinson

- Just gave him a name with ID initials. And also a pun about his state name lmao.

Illinois - Issac Lincoln

- IL initials. Lincoln because he’s the Land of Lincoln. Pretty much all of what I refer to as the “FourGettable I States” did not get a lot of thought into their names. Except for Iowa, for some ungodly reason.

Indiana - Isaiah Newton "Indiana Jones"

- Indiana would LOVE to be called "Isaiah", but unfortunately pretty much no one remembers that name and just calls him Indiana Jones which he hates.

Iowa - Izod Allard

- Originally I had his last name down as Ike Andrews. Unfortunately, I realized upon re-read that Georgia had that last name so I switched gears. The Iowa state flag is modeled off of France's flag, therefore he gets a French name with the initials IA. Only Louisiana can remember his name and most just call him Izzie when pretending to be human.

Kansas - Keaton Sampson

- Keaton just stuck out to me for no reason and Sampson was the first "S" last name I thought of so I went with it.

Kentucky - Kent Yarbrough

- Kentucky is lazy and just uses Kent for his first name. Yarbrough is just a Y last name.

Louisiana - Louis Hebert Beaugard

- Louis for his name because that’s easy. Also another rule I had was if a States first name was basically their name they didn’t need to follow my rules. Hebert is both a common Cajun last name and first name. Beaugard is the Cajun spelling of the French last name Beauregard. I imagine that Beauregard would have been his last name back when he was French, but after Cajun influences he would have changed the spelling.

Maine - Morgan Eugene Barbeau

- Morgan as a gender neutral name of course. Maine's name was fun because there's a history of Scots-Irish people in the area as well as French people which mean I got to play. "Morgan" means "born of the sea" and is a Gaelic name, and "Barbeau" is a French name meaning "fisherman". The middle name of Eugene was an afterthought but I like how it sounds. Eugene in this case is working as a varient of Ewan.

Maryland - Marion Douglas

- Marion came to me first and then later I thought of Douglas.

Massachusetts - Matthew Adams

- Matthew sounds fairly close to Massachusetts and is a religious name. Adams is a reference to all the Adamses from his state. And also a reference to that Adam I guess.

Michigan - Michael "Misha" Nieminen

- I got the idea for Michigan's name being Michael/Misha from icestarphoenix (I know it seems like I keep taking names from other creators, but they just work really well and I think I bring enough of my own stuff to The Table). "Nieminen" is a Finnish last name meaning peninsula, which Michigan is. There was a lot of Finnish immigration to Michigan back in the day.

Minnesota - Magnus Nygaard

- Minnesota was settled a lot by Scandinavians, and as I had neglected them a bit for my names of states I decided to do that for Minnie (he gets called Minnie as well quite a bit). Magnus means "Great" but also it's just a name often used by Scandinavians in general. Nygaard means "new farm/homestead/garden" which Minnesota's status as a frontier state would make him.

Mississippi - Milo Sebastian-Sawyer Payne

- Once again icestarphoenix inspired me. When I first posted this list his name was shorter (Milo James Sawyer) but their headcanon name for Mississippi made me want to give him a longer name. I did the same for other states anyway so why not him as well. So MSSP are his initials now. All of the names just gave me Mississippi vibes. I also am of the belief that southern names need to be able to be loudly yelled by their mother to work.

Missouri - Mason Osborne

- Mason stuck out to me for Missouri for some reason. Osborne I used mostly because I was tired of looking at "O" last names.

Montana - Marcus Thorn

- Fun fact about me: My dad wanted to name me Montana after his home state. Glad he didn't win that argument because I would have been the butt of SEVERAL jokes after Hannah Montana came out. Marcus and Thorn were just names I thought sounded neat or cool.

New Hampshire - Nicholas Hamilton

- NH. I considered making his last or first name Hunter, but eh decided against it.

New Jersey - Joey Cifarelli

- Joey is a J name. Cifarelli means “Devil Demon” and is a reference to the Jersey Devil.

New Mexico - Niyol Martinez

- "Niyol" is a name in the Navajo language that means "wind" which I felt was fitting for New Mexico. I know that New Mexico is probably not Native American in any way and I headcanon Navajo Nation has its own personification (backed up by canon), but I feel like New Mexico would feel a connection to the Navajo people and take human first name that reflected that (I also think Arizona would feel a connection with them but New Mexico is the only one in canon to mention them). And Martinez is a Spanish last name.

New York - Yancy Malone

- Yancey is just such a New York name I couldn't not give it to him. I gave him an M last name as a reference to Manhattan.

Nebraska - Ned Brandt

- Humans sometimes call him Edward because Ned can be a nickname for that. Honestly did not put that much thought into his name.

Nevada - Narciso Vega

- I was originally going to call Nevada "Narcissus" but then I saw I could just call him Narciso which is the name is Spanish. Vega because...well, Las Vegas.

North Carolina - Nathaniel Carrow

- Nathaniel because it had a similar ending to the name I gave South Carolina and Carrow because, why not? Actually it is a bit fitting since Carrow actually means like rock or hill, and it reminded me of the Carolina Back Country (fun fact when my family first came to America all the way back in the 1690s they lived in the Carolina Back Country).

North Dakota - Noah Dakota

- The Dakotas use Dakota for their last names, because they are lazy but they also constantly argue about the other changing theirs. Noah is just an N name.

Ohio - Owen Hughes-Irving Oakley

- OH! IO! Yeah and I just went with names that sounded very white.

Oklahoma - Oliver Kanuna Kempf

- Oliver was just an O name. Kempf is a K name, but I also liked the meaning for Oklahoma alright, “fight.” Kanuna is a Cherokee name meaning "bullfrog" which happens to be the state amphibian. I gave him a Cherokee middle name because Cherokee nation is located in Oklahoma and is a big part of it.

Oregon - Oscar Reynolds

- Oregon is like, the one confirmed gay character in the series, or at least the closest. Oscar is a reference to Oscar Wilde, a gay writer, and Reynolds is a very backdoor reference to Ryan Reynolds, who got a mention in "LBGTQ+ Comes to the Table" where Dan says that he knows he's gay because of Ryan Reynolds. Oregon didn't even appear in that episode, but I ran with it. Let me have my fun, this project has mostly been a lot of stress and research.

Pennsylvania - Philip Arnold

- Phillip because it shares a root word with Philadelphia, and Arnold because not only is it German in origin, but also because it means "Strength of an Eagle" which felt fitting for PA. He still usually goes by PA when he's acting like a human.

Rhode Island - Rhodey Isaias Peters-Prince

- Rhodey is a no brainer. Isaias is for his initials. I decided to have his last name as a PP as a reference to Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, since I thought it'd be funny to give him a long name. Peters is a reference to Peter Griffin, and Prince is just Prince. In recent times he has dropped his double last name and is currently shopping around for a new last name. If Lovecraft wasn’t such a loaded person then he probably would have already co-opted his last name.

South Carolina - Samuel Carrow

- They do share the same last name even though they claim they don't like sharing it. SC.

South Dakota - Silas Dakota

- Dakota as his last name same as North. Silas just had a good ring to it, but it is also a Roman god of the countryside and forests and Idk that felt fitting for South Dakota. I think he would brag to ND that his name is better than his.

Tennessee - Tobias Nash

- Tobias is a T name, and Nash is a reference to Nashville.

Texas - Tristan Xavier (Tejano Ximenez)

- Tristan Xavier is just a TX name. Tejano Ximenez is the name I think that he would have gone by back when he was much more Spanish/Mexican/Texican, but he would have made the switch later in life. I mention it because I just really like the name.

Utah - Uriel Beckett Turner

- Uriel is the name of an angel, no brainer. Beckett was taken from icestarphoenix, once again, although I spelled it the regular way (I know the joke is how dumb Utah spells it but I’m boring lmao). This time it was more of, Beckett was a great name for Utah so I wanted a reference to it. Turner is just a last name starting with "T" although I like the idea of Utah taking his last name from Illythia.

Vermont - Vincent Robert-Madison Taylor

- Honestly just went with vibes. I did intentionally give him the initials VRMT. Just felt right.

Virginia - Victor Alfred

- Victor is a V name. Alfred is an old English name fitting for the Old Dominion. And also a reference to Hetalia.

Washington - Washington Green

- Washington is a no brainer. Though he is bitter he has to share his human first name with DC and Gov's last name. His last name is a reference to his status as The Evergreen State.

West Virginia - Walker Virginia

- Walker just had West vibes. Virginia remains pissed off that West just went and made Virginia his last name to piss him off.

Wisconsin - Wade Ixonia

- Wisconsin just gave off "Wade" vibes. "Ixonia" is fun because it's the name of a town in Wisconsin that picked its name by drawing letters of the alphabet. Wisconsin is a little shit and I love that for him.

Wyoming - William Yates

- Just a WY name.

#ben brainard #wttt #wttsh #welcome to the table #welcome to the statehouse #not tagging all the states are you crazy??#alaska hawaii and new york's might be my favorites #but i also love gov florida both of the south and wisconsin's #actually y'know what I'm quite proud of most of these #hey just a note: check your fucking sources #finding a middle name for alaska was like pulling teeth because NOTHING is properly sourced #couldn't find any areas of origin for those inuit names or even their languages #at least with the Unangax̂ name i could verify all that #on that note don't lump all inuit tribes together #they all have their own cultures and areas they are from #soap box moment over

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