#dozen states

[reportwire]

Why Politics Has Become So Stressful

Why Politics Has Become So Stressful

No matter which party wins control of the House and Senate next month, the results are virtually certain to reinforce the paradox powering the nation’s steadily mounting political tension. American politics today may be both more rigid and more unstable than at any other time since at least the Civil War. A politics that is rigid and unstable sounds like a contradiction in terms. But the system’s…

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#21st-century Information Age economy #American history #balance of power #best evidence #coastal states #consecutive elections #control of Congress #control of the chamber #control of the House #Democrats #demographic change #Donald Trump #dozen states #dream of occasional statewide wins #federal government #fifth consecutive time #first extended period of political instability #FiveThirtyEight election-outcome probabilities #gubernatorial win #handful of states #highly competitive Senate races #joe biden #last presidential election #list of genuine swing states #longest period #modern American politics #modern Democratic electoral coalition #momentary mood swing #next month #outcome of elections teeters

[emeraldcitynerdfighter]

10 years ago, TV shows that were cancelled after 2, 12-to-23-episode seasons due to poor writing/production/audience reception.

Now they're cancelled despite raking in awards (from multiple organizations) for writing/production/acting/representation, have large & devoted fanbases (that are doing most of the promotion of the show), are the highest-viewed show on a network/streaming platform, only air for 6 or 8 episodes per season. And they're cancelled more than once, if not also wiped from the face of the earth.

Make it make sense.

#yes I rewrote this post because I wanted to say it better #it's still true #I hate you streaming #I hate you current state of television #I hate that this could apply to more than a dozen shows #a league of their own #warrior nun #first kill #our flag means death #willow #rise of the pink ladies #schmigadoon

[mcyt-cats]

some day I'm gonna be both a big MC streamer and have a herd of cats

and then maybe I will be featured on this cute cat blog as well, among other cool things that come with being a big MC streamer and having a herd of cats

I will be waiting for that day :)

In the meantime, I do accept cats belonging to small streamers! I may not keep up with them as well, but that's where you guys come in. I will try to post things when I receive them in my inbox. Please include your name/name of the streamer and, if it is different, the channel name. I like to link the channels on the post for visibility for smaller creators.

#asks #i do have to say i will 'try' to post #bc frankly the state of my inbox is abysmal and i do miss/not post every ask or submission #there's also a chance posts might happen like two months late xD #anyway i'm one person so i'm not consistently monitoring dozens of CCs so i'm probably not gonna spontaneously discover someone #that's why asks and submissions are important!

[clownprince]

soooo was anyone gonna tell me there's a canon arkham knight prequel novel that not only overtly says that bruce is mourning joker but actually gets into his psyche and grieving process and how it's affected him. or was i just supposed to find that out myself from poking around the arkhamverse tv tropes page

#it's not like. the main of the book. but it's directly referenced abt a dozen times by bruce or others #like we have the tie-in comics and the harley's revenge dlc that HEAVILY heavily imply it #but i cannot stress this enough the book outright states it. and then talks abt it. multiple times. from his pov #i'm saving the excerpts for a bigger post on his reaction in the arkhamverse #but like. i've never heard anyone in the fandom mention this??? #and it's just so??? #it's a pretty good book too #(riddler's gambit) #uhhh #batjokes #ig #arkhamverse

[crimeronan]

absolutely can't relate to juliette's moral quandary wrt killing a person. i literally know exactly which of my classmates in high school i would have murdered if i was a vampire & i would have done it without a second of remorse. girl git gud smh

#when you live in one of the whitest most libertarian states in the US there's a lot of horrible kids to choose from #juliette is in GEORGIA come on girl i KNOW u can find a dozen necks to snap #(this is a joke) #first kill #gfs are watchin it together

[fideidefenswhore]

reading alison weir's new novel; she's adapted and altered the primary source material she's clearly using in a way that is...um. something?

#i mean it's a novel. and it is not called creative license for nothing #i also know im not the target audience and that #the vast majority of the people reading this book are not like me (insofar as i've #read what's available from the archives/state calendar papers from 1533-36... #probably. front to back altogether; chronologically; about a dozen times or so? taken detailed notes etc ) #*so i doubt it's a bugbear for many; if any; other than myself #but i was very easily able to pick out the primary source quotes ; and her intent in #placing; for example; a quote from a chapuys report of 1536 in late 1533 #and switching the identities of certain people (here; norfolk subbed in for shelton ) for certain incidents #so as to bolster certain theories she clearly has about certain people and their loyalties... #i mean again it's a novel but this is what she does in her nonfiction too; she just has had more liberty to do so here #and there is a reason training in history is important to being labeled 'a historian' #you are to develop your theories from the evidence. not vice versa. #(or more specifically...she does literally the opposite of what historians are trained to do. she molds the evidence to fit her theories. ) #anyway. review forthcoming...maybe #i'll have to read her author's note once i'm done with this section to see if she admits to any of these specific alterations #evidence first; theory after! otherwise we end up with all these superficial renderings

[viktoriakomova]

#I’ve only heard vague mentions of this stuff before idk details but yeah #there’s like a dozen very evil things that company does on the regular and it’s been a huge stain on the Utah programs reputation for me #even before all this shit about tom came to light. like ok byu is one thing but ur a pac 12 state flagship university #with a fuckhuge athletics dept. it’s insane to me that normal people want anything to do with the institution

[fountainpenguin]

Fun FOP Fact of the Day:

There is an in-universe conspiracy theory that Cosmo and Wanda are actually pixies

#Fairly OddParents #FOP #77 Secrets of the Fairly OddParents Revealed #<- It's not stated in the episode you have to look closely at the newspaper #I've said it a dozen times and I'll say it again: Pixies are basically the Lorem Ipsum #and the artists love sprinkling references to pixies in in-universe documents #This post has been in my drafts for 4.5 years so I'm finally posting it #Dragonfly parents

[paragonrobits]

i think its fair to say that Finn is absolutely an extremely important presence in Bubblegum's life, way more significant than she generally lets on at least earlier in the series, though it is supported when by the time of Pajama Wars she is going out of her way to just hang out with him and he seems to be just about one of the very few people PB is honest with or lets her defenses down around

but another big element of it, ironically, ties back to their relationship becoming unrequited pining on Finn's end. PB ended it by going 'oh, silly boy, that was YEARS ago!' when its unclear how much of that is her fucking around and not taking it seriously, especially when PB is often not entirely honest about her feelings.

It IS clear that at the time, she had been taking it seriously; she genuinely wanted to stay a kid and with Finn, though responsibility demanded otherwise. But it is notable that while she sort of implies its not a romance anymore at the time, she otherwise just sort of leaves it hanging and seems to be ignoring it, or trying not to think about it, and that IS extremely significant in the light of The Suitor.

This episode establishes that PB has no patience or interest in actual suitors of any kind, firmly rebuffing them and refusing any kind of flirtation. If they want to waste their time waiting in line to court her when she makes it clear its not going to happen, that's their problem. But with Finn, she doesn't do this. She doesn't encourage it, but she also doesn't just go 'NOT GONNA HAPPEN' in a direct sense.

Significantly, PB doesn't address it at all, and this is EXTREMELY atypical in her normal characterization. She is blunt and direct to a point that it is the reason she and Marceline originally broke up, and as we see in The Suitor she does not care for anyone courting her.

PB not addressing it at all is a notable outlier in her behavior, and being secretive about her feelings is a recurring motif (as we see with her and Marceline); this suggests that Finn is an extremely important person to her, and that she goes out of her way to avoid addressing them at all when normally she doesn't avoid it at all suggests that its all a huge complicated mess that may frankly concern her a bit.

the complex and uncertain nature of PB's feelings towards/about Finn raise a lot of questions because of how much of an outlier they are compared to the way she normally is; if you compare the way PB acts around Finn (very honest, kind of socially awkward) to the way she acts when acting in an official capacity around everyone else (usually bouncing back and forth between regal granduer and informal wackiness for comic effect, but always feeling in control and self assured) it definitely feels like she's sort of taking the mask off compared to how she acts otherwise.

#adventure time #princess bubblegum #finn mertens #i think if forced to state her actual feelings towards him PB would just vibrate in space for a few minutes and then pull out #a dozen graph charts and also neatly avoid giving a direct answer #like she very explicitly goes 'NOPE' to pretty much everyone else #but with Finn regardless of the actual context of their relationship #she humors him and rolls with things in a way she doesn't really do with anyone else #she gives him significantly more slack than even marceline gets #queued

[wrenhavenriver]

it's kind of a bummer going from studying a language that has hundreds of millions of speakers to trying to study one that has less than a tenth of that because the availability of learning materials plummets really noticeably and people in general have a very ".....why bother" attitude about it :/ shoutout to anyone trying to study a "dead" or endangered or "obscure" language, it must be even more frustrating and you are stronger than god

#studying a ~major world language~ you've got dozens of textbooks and sites and audio programs and youtube channels and classes to pick from #studying anything less ~popular~ you've got like. two paid programs that teach you vocab but no grammar and a night class one state over

[that-butch-archivist]

Discovered that two of the femme books I'd been wanting for a while (that JUST arrived) were written by femmes who actually live in my state. Is. Is there a secret femme lesbian society I'm not aware of??? And would you folks mind an eavesdropper???? I don't want to interrupt, I'd just love to take notes.

#archivist talk #also very glad i am putting a pause on book purchasing for fixing the subaru budget reasons #because since i posted those photos of my current collection for example #more than a dozen books have come in #and i'm still waiting on a couple more arrivals #a few of them are black lesbian anthologies i've had my eye on for quite a while so i'm really excited EEEEEEE #if i had $300-ish to spare i think i could probably clear out the niche on my book list that is black/southern usa/sapphic #i think wrapping up the rest of the femme collection might take $400-ish but god i am willing #the butch collection .... is gonna be a real doozy for a fat minute i need to find somewhere that even has copies of certain books to sell #which will also be hard because in my two years of looking i am still looking for books that i have never seen pop up #worst comes to worst i'm going to scout every bookstore in my area #maybe go through the whole state if i'm feeling plucky #and then definitely go to chicago because i love chicago and miss their bookstores #also i have found a few really good finds in chicago bookstores before so i hope my luck holds

[sad-endings-suck]

been feeling sick and tired the past day or three. will be more active again when feeling less sick and tired. 😴😴

#I realize this may sound sardonic but it’s not meant to lol i really am in a state of chronic napping #slept through at least a dozen alarms and phone calls haha so great 😃🙃

[jonahark8]

As an American I perceive America in a very specific way

I think it looks like this

#trust me I know American geography #don't mind the dozens of failed geography quizzes #but I do know where all the good states are #like Florida and California #and I think that is tennesse #Tennessee is the official backrooms of roadtrip drives #*enters Tennessee* #“Yo we're in Tennessee!” #*Nine hours later you're still in Tennessee*

[qqchurch]

giving my MC a Combat Tentacle for violence and gore reasons but slowly realizing that this, too, can be used for yuri

#qq posts #i wonder if i should research about cannibalism yuri just to Get It #the tentacle can partly shapeshift so it can pierce through armor/burrow through solid rock/extend dozens of meters/etc #but it's mostly a way for the MC to feed herself on the vitality of others as well as stealing parts of their power #and comes with the 'bonus' of inflicting a frenzied state if she gets too 'hungry'

[reasoningdaily]

https://x.com/TexasFBA4Ever/status/1701295821898260842?t=MOjViB7Z5lx5f2BmRbQfZw&s=09

Children in the dominant society commit all kinds of heinous crimes and don't even see a handcuff. Meanwhile Black children are sent to Angola by these WS judges.

As of 2019, Black children were 4.4 times more likely to be incarcerated compared to white children, according to the Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy organization focused on decarceration efforts.

insider.com

Dozens of jailed kids, nearly all of them Black, must be removed from a former Louisiana death row...

The children have been incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, the nation's largest adult maximum security prison.

A judge said dozens of jailed kids must be moved out of a former Louisiana death row prison unit.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest adult maximum security prison in the country.

The kids faced lengthy detainment in their cells and diminished education, testimony revealed.

A group of incarcerated children, most of them Black, spent nearly a year jailed in a former death row wing of the Louisiana State Prison.

Court testimony later brought to light concerning conditions: They were forced to stay in their cells for sometimes an entire day. One child was pepper-sprayed for throwing liquid at a guard. And they were denied adequate education.

Louisiana State is the country's largest adult maximum security prison. It is sometimes called Angola, the name of the old prison — a slave plantation — where the new one now sits.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards first ordered the kids moved to Angola last summer. Months of legal battles followed.

Now, after a year, a federal judge has intervened, ruling Friday that the kids must be moved out of the prison by September 15.  

"For almost 10 months, children — nearly all Black boys — have been held in abusive conditions of confinement at the former death row of Angola — the nation's largest adult maximum security prison," David Utter, lead attorney on the case, wrote in a statement on Friday. "We are grateful to our clients and their families for their bravery in speaking out and standing up against this cruelty."

While rates of US youth incarceration have fallen in recent decades — declining 77 percent between 2000 and 2020 — racial disparities persist. As of 2019, Black children were 4.4 times more likely to be incarcerated compared to white children, according to the Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy organization focused on decarceration efforts.

In his ruling, the judge said prison officials had violated the Fourteenth Amendment and that the children had faced cruel and unusual punishment, according to the ACLU of Louisiana.

The ruling came after a hearing last month revealed officials detained the children in their cells for long periods of time, used pepper spray in certain cases, and limited their access to education.

Testimony from a guard at the facility and an expert witness revealed officials held several children in their cells for anywhere between 14 and 22 hours, depending on the day, local news station WWNO reported. State law prohibits guards from holding children in their cells for longer than eight hours outside of sleeping hours. 

Video footage played at the hearing also revealed a guard had used pepper spray against a child after he threw liquid from his cell toilet, according to WWNO. Submitted testimony from the children involved in the case also indicated that their required access to education had declined since moving to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. 

Following the judge's ruling, the Office of Juvenile Justice said in a statement their office has taken "extraordinary measures" to ensure the children maintained access to education and had suitable living conditions.

"While we disagree with the court's ruling today and will be seeking an emergency writ, we will continue to explore every option available to us that ensures the safety of staff, community members, and youth in our care," the statement read.

#Dozens of jailed kids #nearly all of them Black #must be removed from a former Louisiana death row unit after facing cruel punishment #judge says #louisiana #deathrow #juveniles #deathrow dismissal #angola #louisiana state prisons

[jumpscaregoose]

it took me four years to get lost in this building but by god have I just managed to do it

#I WAS TRYING TO FIND A WASHROOM I'VE BEEN TO DOZENS OF TIMES #FULLY DID A LAP OF THE FLOOR BECAUSE I'M A DUMBASS #what does this say about my mental state right now #I AM SO SORRY PEOPLE I WALKED BY THREE TIMES IN THE HALLWAY