#extended supreme family

[strangeironaf]

*Family group chat*

Tony: who the fuck added me to a fucking group chat?

Peter: >:0 language

Morgan: yeah dad, watch your fucking language

Stephen: OKAY WHO TAUGHT MORGAN THE FUCK WORD

America: 'the fuck word'

Pepper: Are you stupid? You guys use the f word all the time.

Harley: oh my god she censored it

Tony: Say fuck Pepp

Christine: do it Pepper. Say fuck.

#supreme family #extended supreme family #incorrect supreme family #incorrect quotes #ironstrange #strangeiron #iron dad #doctor dad #tony stark #stephen strange #christine palmer #pepper potts #harley keener #peter parker #america chavez

[lukas-dusk]

*after the Family has been separated for a few years*

Friday : So what have you been up to recently?

Pepper : Leading a revolution with Peter.

Harley : Good for you two! Me, I've joined the mob.

America : *nods* Oh, how cool! That's awesome!

Harley : I know! Anyway, have you heard from the others? Rhodey?

Christine : Happily living as a hermit in the woods. Tony?

Stephen : Wrongfully locked up in an asylum, which reminds me, we need to break him out later. Jarvis?

Peter : Cult leader.

Friday : Yeah, that sounds about right.

#extended supreme family #supreme family #incorrect quotes #stephen strange #tony stark #pepper potts #christine palmer #james rhodes #Friday #Jarvis #america chavez #peter parker #harley keener #iron man #spider man #doctor strange #war machine #marvel #family

[proton-wobbler]

Round 3, Poll 16

Arabian Babbler vs Groove-billed Ani

sources under cut

Arabian Babbler

“I spend lots of time in the Desert and see them around a lot!”

“in Hebrew, they are called ”“Zanvan”“ which means ”“Tail haver”“! They have a habit of lifting their long tail up and wagging it a bit like wagtails :) Also I often see them in the morning and they are so cute that they almost make living in the middle of the desert worth it despite the giant camel spiders everywhere.”

They have private sex. We still don’t know why because it’s typically the main mated pair doing this, so it’s not like it’s a competition thing. They just like to be private.

Y'all they are So Complex with their social grouping, I would need an entire post to describe them. They’ve been studied as a particularly altruistic species with many helpers to the breeding pair.

Groove-billed Ani

“Silvery lacing…funky beak…love-filled eyes…”

All Ani have the same, super cool breeding system. The social group is made up of 1-5 pairs which all defend a group territory. Multiple nests are built, but only one becomes the communal nest in which all the females will lay their eggs. Ironically, they also have the habit of kicking out any eggs in the nest before they’ve laid their first eggs. Because of this, there is a theory that this nesting strategy began as a form of self-parasitism (as Ani are cuckoos), so the removal of eggs that a female knows aren’t hers could be a holdover from a time before this breeding strategy existed. Regardless of all that, all members of the group incubate the eggs and raise the chicks within the nest.

Images: Babbler (Itamar Donitza); Ani (Jeff Hapeman)

Birds of the World: both species

#hipster bird main bracket #round 3 #quarterfinals #bird poll #animal poll #arabian babbler #groove billed ani #battle of the funky families #supreme monogamy structure w extended relatives (Babbler) vs Communal Monogamy. Air-bender style (Ani)

[fairuzfan]

Would you rather have a president that enables a genocide? Or would you rather have a president that vilifies immigrants, promotes facism, dismantles the rights of women and minorities, emboldens white nationalists, worsens the wage gap, defunds vital services, AND enables a genocide?

It's an unfair and unreasonable question to ask. I know. Unfortunately those are our choices for president. It sucks, but it's a 2 party system. And until any change is made where a 3rd party vote is no longer equivalent to not voting at all, it's better to just vote blue for the presidential election. Not because Democrats are the "lesser evil", but because NOT having a Republican president will prevent further suffering of Americans and will lessen the risks of minorities' rights being threatened and revoked.

The president chooses the members of the supreme court who hold lifelong positions and whose legal decisions have decades-long ramifications. Trump picked 3 of the 11 current members who currently hold a Republican majority. It was that supreme court that overturned Roe V Wade and that decision is harming thousands of people today in multiple states.

Biden already nominated one SCOTUS, and in his next term he could appoint 1-2 more Democratic members who would work to protect rather than erode American rights.

The Trump administration was lethal for thousands of Americans for a multitude of reasons, including his failure to properly respond to and then proceeded to politicize the COVID-19 pandemic.

As awful as it sounds, as hard as it is to believe in the moment, ESPECIALLY with the atrocities Biden is perpetuating in Palestine right now, don't believe for a moment that this genocide would be even slightly less cruel under Trump. The difference is Trump's cruelties would extend to Americans as well— especially immigrants.

The point I'm making is the only ethical choice for this election is to vote for Biden, but at the same time that vote is not the same as condoning his actions. Don't let voting be the end all for political action, and I hope you understand why this choice is necessary in an unfair voting system. Please participate in your local elections, Call your representatives. Continue demanding a permanent ceasefire and an end of Israel's occupation over Palestine. And please keep helping Palestinians.

I think it's quite wild to say people domestically haven't been dying under Biden. Hundreds of thousands disabled people have died during the Biden presidency due to covid. I myself only got covid because people around my family stopped masking. Even some of my family members stopped masking because of the CDC thing. There have been countless other things that I'm too tired to list as well that directly contributed to the death of people.

I'm sorry I don't know why you sent this I'm not going to change my mind. I'm not voting for the man that killed people I know and lied to our faces about it.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

just a heads-up that if i get married my husband will have access to my tumblr so be cool you guys

#- HK #it will likely be the only social media i have at that point beyond business accounts lmao #either he will merely choose to be a keeper of keys or ​this blog might fulfill its destiny and become a true joint account after all #who can say #x #Tumblr #teenaged me: we’re gonna stop using Tumblr at like 21 right #me with an almost fully-developed frontal lobe: no DUH 🤪 #definitely won’t choose to document my kids’ lives from here bc it provides an outlet without the convention of photographic exposure #love my extended families’ babies but there are only so many photos i can see per week before they all start blending together #into one supreme MultiBaby #mobile

[zmyaro]

Re. Conservative Voters And The Recent SCOTUS Decisions

(I originally wrote this for Facebook, since that is where the most conservative people I know are, but it is easy enough to x-post elsewhere.)

Since some folks missed some of these, reiterating that the Supreme Court just said:

Police cannot be sued for failing to read you your rights.

States are required to fund private religious schools.

Public school employees may lead students in prayer during school events.

States cannot require people to show “proper cause” to get a concealed carry gun permit.

States may ban abortion.

They should reconsider the rulings that currently protect contraception, same-sex sex, and same-sex marriage.

All of this is consistent with what the Republican party on the whole has supported for years (Donald Trump explicitly said while campaigning he would nominate anti-abortion, pro-gun Supreme Court Justices, for instance), so yes, if you supported politicians with these positions, you supported this happening.

I do recognize politics are imperfect, and sometimes you get stuck supporting a candidate with some positions you support and some you do not (see: me voting for Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton in the 2020 and 2016 general elections).  You still need to own that you decided xe was the best option despite xer worst positions.

And to be clear, if you have exercised those rights yourself but still supported those politicians, you still supported this happening.  Me having sex with a same-sex significant other would not somehow make it OK to support denying that right to others.  Me marrying a same-sex SO would not somehow make it OK to support denying that right to others.  My SO (or me, when it is finally available) using contraception would not somehow make it OK to support denying that right to others.  My SO having an abortion would not somehow make it OK to support denying that right to others.

If you did support politicians who promised these things, but you have since had a change of heart, I am glad you changed your mind, but it is on you to let people know what you now believe if you want them to treat you differently based on that, and more importantly, it is on you to undo the harm you have supported in the past.

For myself, I try to keep a consistent set of personal values, and I am certainly open to having it pointed out (in good faith) where a contradiction needs to be reconciled, or where I am falling short.  For the Facebook audience this was originally written for, my political views have been in my profile for quite some time, so hopefully none of this comes as a shock.

#Supreme Court #SCOTUS #Republicans #Conservatives #Vent #But a vent with some direction and editing! #Also unsubtly in response to certain members of my extended family #Dobbs v. Jackson #Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization #New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen #New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc v. Bruen #Vega v. Tekoh #Roe v. Wade #Planned Parenthood v. Casey #Griswold v. Connecticut #Lawrence v. Texas #Obergefell v. Hodges

[tomorrowusa]

Don't risk a rerun of the 2000 election.

In the first presidential election of the 21st century many deluded progressives voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Their foolishness gave us eight years of George W. Bush who plagued the country with two recessions (including the Great Recession) and two wars (one totally unnecessary and one which could have been avoided if he heeded an intelligence brief 5 weeks before 9/11).

Oh yeah, Dubya also appointed one conservative and one batshit crazy reactionary to the US Supreme Court. Roberts and Alito are still there.

Paul Waldman of the Washington Post offers some thoughts.

Why leftists should work their hearts out for Biden in 2024

Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace. The first is the number of votes Ralph Nader received in Florida in 2000 as the nominee of the Green Party; the second is the margin by which George W. Bush was eventually certified the winner of the state, handing him the White House. Now, with President Biden gearing up for reelection, talk of a spoiler candidate from the left is again in the air. That’s unfortunate, because here’s the truth: The past 2½ years under Biden have been a triumph for progressivism, even if it’s not in most people’s interest to admit it. This was not what most people expected from Biden, who ran as a relative moderate in the 2020 Democratic primary. His nomination was a victory for pragmatism with its eyes directed toward the center. But today, no one can honestly deny that Biden is the most progressive president since at least Lyndon B. Johnson. His judicial appointments are more diverse than those of any of his predecessors. He has directed more resources to combating climate change than any other president. Notwithstanding the opposition from the Supreme Court, his administration has moved aggressively to forgive and restructure student loans.

Three years ago the economy was in horrible shape because of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic. Now unemployment is steadily below 4%, job creation continues to exceed expectations, and wages are rising as unions gain strength. The post-pandemic, post-Afghan War inflation rate has receded to near normal levels; people in the 1970s would have sold their souls for a 3.2% (and dropping) inflation rate. And many of the effects of "Bidenomics" have yet to kick in.

And in a story that is criminally underappreciated, his administration’s policy reaction to the covid-induced recession of 2020 was revolutionary in precisely the ways any good leftist should favor. It embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

It worked. While inflation rose (as it did worldwide), the economy’s recovery has been blisteringly fast. It took more than six years for employment rates to return to what they were before the Great Recession hit in 2008, but we surpassed January 2020 jobs levels by the spring of 2022 — and have kept adding jobs ever since. To the idealistic leftist, that might feel like both old news and a partial victory at best. What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president. And that brings me to the heart of how people on the left ought to think about Biden and his reelection.

Biden has gotten things done. The US economy is doing better than those of almost every other advanced industrialized country.

Our rivals China and Russia are both worse off than they were three years ago. And NATO is not just united, it's growing.

Sadly, we still need to deal with a far right MAGA cult at home who would wreck the country just to get its own way.

Biden may be elderly and unexciting, but that is one of the reasons he won in 2020. Many people just wanted an end to the daily drama of Trump's capricious and incompetent rule by tweet. And a good portion of those people live in places that count greatly in elections – suburbs and exurbs.

Superhero films seem to be slipping in popularity. Hopefully that's a sign that voters are less likely to embrace self-appointed political messiahs to save them from themselves.

Good governance is a steady process – not a collection of magic tricks. Experienced and competent individuals who are not too far removed from the lives of the people they represent are the best people to have in government.

Paul Waldman concludes his column speaking from the heart as a liberal...

I’ve been in and around politics for many years, and even among liberals, I’ve almost always been one of the most liberal people in the room. Yet only since Biden’s election have I realized that I will probably never see a president as liberal as I’d like. It’s not an easy idea to make peace with. But it suggests a different way of thinking about elections — as one necessary step in a long, difficult process. The further you are to the left, the more important Biden’s reelection ought to be to you. It might require emotional (and policy) compromise, but for now, it’s also the most important tool you have to achieve progressive ends.

Exactly. Rightwingers take the long view. It took them 49 years but they eventually got Roe v. Wade overturned. To succeed, we need to look upon politics as an extended marathon rather as one short sprint.

Republicans may currently be bickering, but they will most likely unite behind whichever anti-abortion extremist they nominate.

It's necessary to get the word out now that the only way to defeat climate-denying, abortion-restricting, assault weapon-loving, race-baiting, homophobic Republicans is to vote Democratic.

#paul waldman #liberalism #election 2000 #election 2024 #joe biden #third parties #vote blue no matter who #donald trump #dumpster fire #trumpster fire #fascism vs. democracy #nra republicans #abortion #climate change #lgbtq+ rights #race-baiting #take the political long view #phil hands

[apollos-boyfriend]

I think it would be supremely funny if when Jaiden and Roier and Bobby became a family Jaiden was like "so uh, what's your last name?" and Roier just looks up at his username like "uh, actually I don't have a last name XD" and then they are the Animations family. But this extends further to when Roier is getting married and Cellbit is also just Cellbit and ends up also getting the last name. shenanigans. When your husbands partner says you can get the last name, as a treat.

no bc i have also been thinking about this. my own headcanon is that cellbit ends up taking animations-gaymers, due to roier having taken a mixture of vegetta and foolish's last names (gaymer + gamers) when they adopted him. so when he married roier, cellbit also adopted that last name. slapping an amalgamation of surnames on that bad boy

#muse talk #anon #roier would've taken 777 but. turns out you can't have numbers in your name. so #it's there in Spirit but not in legality #richas also adds it to his own name collection #of which he has. so many of.

[blood-orange-juice]

Ok, Childe as a wuxia/xianxia trope. It's honestly a bit embarrassing how well this fits.

(blame @a-yarn-of-purple-prose for this post and if anyone here is a wuxia fan feel free to correct me, I'm new to the genre)

Wuxia is a Chinese martial arts fantasy genre you are all familiar with. An adjacent genre is called xianxia, "immortal heroes", it ramps all the fantasy elements up to eleven and skews tropes a bit (we'll get back to that).

A common trope is some kind of unorthodox school/sect or technique, allowing to achieve greater power without the usual decades of training. It could be straight-out evil or just revolving around chaos.

Such a martial school is usually called an evil/demonic sect (sect is more like a clan in that setting, not the modern concept of sect) and their techniques tend to drive practitioners to insanity. Either because they are inherently corrupting or because getting too much power without growing as a person is really not the best thing for your mental health. They are also often cast from hp points.

And then there's the archetype of a demonic sect heir. The best pupil or simply someone who has inherited a lost art. Proud, always greedy for more strength, often noble in some weird way.

*points to our calamity of a boy*

Common elements of such stories include:

Falling into some weird realm or meeting a weird person who teaches the hero a Forbidden Technique

Learning a technique too quickly through some sort of magic/alchemy/memory manipulation

Some people are so singular in their pursuit they become insane (走火入魔)

Ambition bad, loyalty and family good

Conflicting loyalties, generally a conflict between a chosen path and personal weaknesses/attachments (could be both ego and familal love, and this is more of a xianxia trope)

Fits like a horoscope so far but wait.

There's a very interesting case of Korean murim genre (their version of wuxia) where sects are less varied (I recommend this post for a basic introduction) and we get three paths:

Justice/Righteous/Orthodox/Light — theoretically they keep the Evil Faction at bay, and protect innocent people, but usually are corrupt to the core

Evil/Unorthodox/Dark — these try gaining as much power as possible and attempt ruling the whole world

Demonic Cult — usually dont take part in evil and justice battles, follow their own code of conduct based on their religion, value strength above all else.

(I'm sure there's a similar distinction in wuxia too, I just can't find it in the deluge of lore)

"Demonic" is closer to "pagan" or "heathen" than Christian idea of demonic here, their beliefs are often based on Zoroastrianism and worshipping a sacred flame. Do you remember all the Persian themes used for Khaenri'ah? And Surtalogi being the flame on Surtr's sword in Norse mythology. I also had the impression that Genshin gnostic references are based on the Zoroastrian-flavoured branch of Gnosticism.

In murim the trope of demonic sect heir is called "heavenly demon" (I believe, a more correct translation would be "supreme heathen"), they are utterly badass, live for the glory of battle, seem more like forces of nature and follow a very strict honour code often conflicting with normal human ethics.

(do I need to spell it out)

TvTropes also says this about Korean stories:

(do I need to spell it out pt.2)

I'm not sure why a Chinese studio would focus on the Korean version of this trope but I'm sure something like this exists in China as well or maybe there's a popular manhwa that inspired authors.

Xianxia extends the fantastic element further, focusing on Taoist concepts and practices and adding all kinds of magical realms (celestial, demonic, etc) and magical beings and making immortality achievable. I still need to read more about it but if I understand that right, demonic heir trope turns into a demon prince in this case. An actual visitor from the demon realm or a practitioner who achieved immortality through dubious means.

These are fae-coded in a way very similar to Childe and have a certain nonchalance towards things most humans would consider traumatic. They are simply not bothered by them, having a different set of morals or faring from a realm that is much worse.

Our boy isn't that (he's still very much human) but he's aesthetically coded like one, same as Scaramouche is yokai-coded, despite not being a yokai.

So. When people say Childe's arc is a reference to Journey to the West, it's not entirely untrue, JttW is the classic of xianxia genre and Childe does belong to the same genre. He, however, is not Sun Wukong but a different, darker trope.

This also explains why he has that "shonen anime protag but not quite" vibe. Shonen was heavily influenced by wuxia but this trope never quite made it to anime or maybe never became popular enough. It's not a deconstruction, it's a different story. Or perhaps a deconstruction of that different story.

#childe #tartaglia #my investigation into what the hell this boy is is concluded #this means I'll get to think about something else #many thanks to saoki for indulging my questions for the past two days #there's also an argument for childe being a demon princess rather than a prince but I'm tired #maybe I'll get back to it if anyone wants to meme together #genshin lore tumour #skirk #khaenri'ah #if abyss be thy name I pledge to you my loyalty #I'll need another post to explain how it fits into some scenes #this is already too long

[strangeironaf]

Stephen: Can I be frank with you guys? Tony: Sure, but I don’t see how changing your name is gonna help. Peter: Can I still be Peter? America: Shh, let Frank speak.

#ironstrange #Strangeiron #supreme family #extended supreme family #incorrect quotes #incorrect strangeiron #incorrect ironstrage #stephen strange #tony stark #iron man #doctor strange #peter parker #spider man #spider son #america chavez #iron dad #doctor dad

[lukas-dusk]

Tony, at Pepper : You're my significant other.

Pepper : Yeah I am.

Tony, at Friday : You're my child.

Friday : Yes boss.

Tony, at Stephen : You're my bitch.

Stephen : Yeah I am- wait, what?

Tony, at Rhodey : My bestie.

Rhodey : Naturally.

Tony, Harley : HA, GAY!

Harley : Fuck you.

#incorrect quotes #extended supreme family #supreme family #stephen strange #tony stark #pepper potts #james rhodes #harley keener #Friday #iron man #pepperony

[leportraitducadavre]

okay, guys:

Sakura having sensor skills is bs? Yes. Sort of. Yes in the sense of that novel.

Is being a sensor a Kekkei Genkai? No.

A sensor is a type of shinobi that is more sensitive to chakra signatures than regular shinobi, but every ninja has it as a basic skill as every one of them can perceive chakra (which is why many can sense danger approaching, more so if the attacker has immense reserves) and train such skill. The main difference between Sensors and non-sensors is the extent to which they can extend their sensitivity to chakra signatures (naturally, they are more alert to energies) and the fact that they can mould chakra and turn it to "sensory mode" to precisely detect foreign signatures, recognize the chakra of an individual, get information of the clan (if they previously know the family) and the nature of such individuals (if they are aggressive or not, their mood, and so on).

Yamakana, all of them, are sensors (they do seem to hone that skill to be able to sense further) and they use this exact "sensory mode" to use the Kanchi Denden (sensing transmission). Ino seems to be the best sensor in Konoha alive in Boruto.

Karin (and Mito?) have the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, which is a supreme form of sensing only present in some Uzumaki members, they can sense all chakra signatures within many kilometers as well as discern how many signatures there are, what type of being it belongs to and whether a specific individual is present. Sasuke chose Karin as his teammate for this exact reason, she's the best sensor alive in Boruto.

Tobirama and Minato seem to be very powerful sensors. Naruto, Hashirama, and likely Kabuto can sense chakra when in Sage Mode.

Hyüga, Inuzuka, and Aburame are not "sensors" in the strict term of the word, as they do not sense chakra signatures, Hyüga can see chakra, Inuzuka can smell individuals (not chakra as far as I'm aware of), and Aburame have their Kikaichus to perceive others.

The Sharingan can see chakra in far more detail than the Byakugan.

#sensors #naruto meta #anti sakura uchiha #anti sasuke retsuden #sensing

[ironstrange-is-the-endgame]

I developed an unhealthy obsession with Barbie’s character posters

Here’s extended Supreme Family

#ironstrange #supreme family #stephen brings his own kids into the fam #stephen strange #tony stark #harley keener #peter parker #morgan stark #illyana rasputin #america chavez #sofia strange #barbie movie #barbie

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

In October, tens of millions of borrowers will be required to pay their monthly federal student loan bills for the first time since March 2020, the Department of Education clarified Monday.

The pandemic-related pause on both payments and interest accumulation has been set to end later this summer, though the exact date payments would be due was a little fuzzy.

The Biden administration had previously said that the pause would end either 60 days after June 30 or 60 days after the Supreme Court rules on the separate student loan forgiveness program – whichever comes first.

A law passed in early June to address the debt ceiling officially prevented the pandemic-related pause from being extended again. The repayment date has been extended a total of eight times under both the Biden and Trump administrations.

“Student loan interest will resume starting on September 1, 2023, and payments will be due starting in October. We will notify borrowers well before payments restart,” the Department of Education said in a statement sent to CNN Monday.

The update was first reported by Politico.

Borrowers typically receive their bill statements from their loan servicer a few weeks before they are due. Not every borrower’s bill is due at the same time of the month.

The Department of Education has said that it will be in direct communication with borrowers and ramp up its communication with student loan servicers before repayment resumes.

Student loan experts recommend that borrowers reach out to their student loan servicer with any questions about their loans as soon as possible, especially if they are interested in enrolling in an income-driven repayment plan. Those plans, which set payments based on income and family size, can lower monthly payments but require borrowers to submit some paperwork.

Federal student loan borrowers can check the Federal Student Aid website for updates on resuming payments.

SOME BORROWERS COULD BE AT RISK OF DEFAULT

Some borrowers may struggle to resume paying their monthly student loan bills.

More student loan borrowers are currently behind on other kinds of bills than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The report also said that about 1 in 5 student loan borrowers have risk factors that suggest they could struggle when scheduled payments resume, like being delinquent on student loan payments before the pandemic or having multiple student loan servicers.

When payments restart, many people might be confused about how much they owe, when to pay and how. Millions of borrowers will have a different servicer handling their student loans since the last time they made a payment.

Originally, the pause on federal student loan payments was put in place to help borrowers struggling financially due to the pandemic.

From a jobs perspective, the economy has largely recovered from the pandemic-related disruptions. In May, 3.7 million more people were working than in February 2020.

But there are some soft spots. Major layoffs have recently been announced at big companies like Disney and Amazon. Earlier this year, a regional banking crisis was set off by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis. And inflation remains high but is cooling after reaching a 40-year peak last year.

STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS STILL ON THE TABLE

Meanwhile, all eyes are on the Supreme Court as borrowers wait to see if the Biden administration will be allowed to move forward with its student loan forgiveness program. A decision is expected in late June or early July.

Under the proposal, individual borrowers who made less than $125,000 in either 2020 or 2021 and married couples or heads of households who made less than $250,000 a year could see up to $10,000 of their federal student loan debt forgiven.

If a qualifying borrower also received a federal Pell grant while enrolled in college, the individual is eligible for up to $20,000 of debt forgiveness.

But several lawsuits argue that the Biden administration is abusing its power and using the pandemic as a pretext for fulfilling the president’s campaign pledge to cancel student debt.

No debt has been canceled yet. But if the Supreme Court allows the program to take effect, it’s possible the government moves quickly to forgive the debts of 16 million borrowers who the administration already approved for relief.

If the Justices strike down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, it could be possible for the administration to make some modifications to the policy and try again – though that process could take months.

#us politics #news #cnn politics #president joe biden #biden administration #student loan forgiveness #cancel student loans #federal student loans #student debt forgiveness #student loan debt #us supreme court #scotus #2023 #Department of Education #politico #Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

[odinsblog]

This is the deeply homophobic + transphobic autocracy that tankies worship so much 😒

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ “international public movement” as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ community in the increasingly conservative country.

The crackdown, which began a decade ago, slowly but surely chipped away at LGBTQ+ rights. In 2013, the Kremlin adopted the first legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, known as the “gay propaganda” law, banning any non-critical public depiction of “nontraditional sexual relations” among minors. In 2020, Putin pushed through a constitutional reform to extend his rule by two more terms that also outlawed same-sex marriage.

In 2022, after sending troops into Ukraine, the Kremlin ramped up its rhetoric about protecting “traditional values” from what it called the West’s “degrading” influence, in what rights advocates saw as an attempt to legitimize the war in Ukraine. That same year, the authorities adopted a law banning propaganda of “nontraditional sexual relations” among adults, too, effectively outlawing any public endorsement of LGBTQ+ people.

Another law passed this year prohibited gender transitioning procedures and gender-affirming care for trans people. The legislation prohibited any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records. It also amended Russia’s Family Code by listing gender change as a reason to annul a marriage and adding those “who had changed gender” to a list of people who can’t become foster or adoptive parents.

“Do we really want to have here, in our country, in Russia, ‘Parent No. 1, No. 2, No. 3’ instead of ‘mom’ and ‘dad?’” Putin said in September 2022 at a ceremony to formalize Moscow’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions. “Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed in our schools from the primary grades?”

(continue reading)

#politics #russia #vladimir putin #lgbt #homophobia #transphobia #tankies #lgbtq #authoritarianism #this is the bullshit tankies are defending 🙄😒 #tankies = red fash #putin apologists #russian invasion of ukraine #vladimir putin is a war criminal #russia is a terrorist state

[rapeculturerealities]

Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births. — ProPublica

Idaho legislators disbanded a state committee that investigated the root causes of maternal deaths, making it the only state in the nation with no such mortality review.

They allowed two bills to die that would have put Idaho on the same track as nearly every other state with abortion restrictions — including Florida, Kentucky and Texas — by extending postpartum Medicaid coverage to 12 months. Idaho’s Medicaid coverage ends two months after birth, the minimum under federal law.

They turned down $36 million in federal grants to support child care this summer, while other states with new abortion restrictions — Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri among them — made investments in early childhood education and day care. Idaho lawmakers at the time attributed the decision to a pending audit of a different batch of grants.

Democrats generally support these kinds of measures, but Idaho Republicans dominate the state capitol and therefore control which bills move forward.

Rep. Brent Crane, a longtime Republican leader who chairs the House State Affairs Committee, said GOP lawmakers last year had hoped to put forward bills to improve health care and support for kids and families after the Supreme Court struck down federal protections for abortion rights. They instead got bogged down in debate over exceptions to the abortion ban.

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