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notherpuppet · 3 months

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I wrote the full parody to Ready For This in the Role Reversal AU because I wanted to lol.

Transcription below.

Ready For This (Role Reversal AU parody)

Alastor: Have you ever wanted something That was so clear in your mind that you could taste it?  Susan: You mean like ice cream you get for a friend?  Alastor: Ha! No. It's a feeling like a rumbling in your gut That you could finally be faced with A million greedy faces, I guess what I mean to say is  For the first time in my life I might have to be ready for this Ready to be the one who's leading from the front  Couldn’t do it on my own And history has shown Legends cannot win wars alone  The burden is a bit too heavy So I need to be ready for this  Have you ever felt like you're willing to kill To save the people on your own team?  Susan: I don’t know, seems a bit extreme…  Alastor: Not to me! 'Cause right now, we need a leader And it seems to be that Charlie is forcing me to be that because she’s pissy  So who's with me?  Wouldn't it just be swell to see more of Hell? Join up now if you like travel Come on girls, prepare for battle! Lotta sights to see en route to the hotel Not to mention all of the glory!  Yes indeed, your enemies will cower

And heads will be severed!  Charlie: You’ll make a bunch of brand new friends!  Alastor: Whatever.  Exorcists: New friends!? I'm in Oh whoa I’m so lonely  It's time now to act They're on the attack When they move to strike Just know we’ve got your back!  We'll follow your lead We're eager to see everyone we meet On the hellish retreat!  From this moment on, you can count us in To be organized and disciplined  Our thirst for justice keeps us strong, fierce, and brave So I say, "Ho hey! Let’s join in his crusade!"  Alastor: Now thats the spirit! Can we amp it up? Vaggie: Oh, don’t mind their hesitation, that’s just their new inclination

 Alastor: But I can awaken their bloodlust! Vaggie: Careful, kid. Don’t push your luck!

Alastor: Fair enough…  Alastor and Vaggie: We're super duper grateful To have you gals aboard  Exorcists: We can’t wait to hug an overlord! (Alastor: Yeah, sure...)  Alastor: For the first time in my life Maybe I can be ready for this I can be the marshal leading the parade  I can come into my own And I think I've always known My destiny could never be postponed  When they come for the hotel

I’ll give em hell cuz I’m ready for this!  Vaggie: They're dancing along? They're singing his song!? Charlie: Surprised? Why, I knew he could do it all along!  Charlie and Vaggie: He’s bound to be redeemed, the dream has a chance! Though he seemed hopeless at first glance…  Charlie: He’s filled with potential that I could guide! Vaggie: Fine, I’m in.  Charlie and Vaggie: Stick with him, he will surely see the light!  All: For the first time in our lives We know that we are ready for this  Vaggie: We’ll show them we can forgive and forget!  All: It's time to lend a hand  Alastor: It is time to take a stand! (Exorcists: Woohoo!) Against overlords and their deadly threat!  All: We can provide your support The time has come to stop a war Defend your home, we're ready for... THIS!  Alastor: I really hope that they’re ready for this...

#hazbin hotel #shitpost #omg thank u for being nice to me in the replies n tags u guys r cute🥹#role reversal au

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kaapstadgirly · 3 months

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Al Jazeera news ticker: 16 February 2024.

-> Gaza Health Ministry: At least 28, 663 Palestinians killed and 68, 395 injured in Israeli attacks since October 7

-> Gaza Media Office: 126 journalists killed in Gaza strip since October 7

-> Gaza Health Ministry: Hundreds of Palestinian health workers killed since war began

-> UN Relief and Works Agency says 1.7 million Palestinians displaced in Gaza and 1.5 million are sheltering in Rafah

-> UN Relief and Works Agency says 156 United Nations staff members killed in Gaza since October 7

-> Health Ministry: 395 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers in Occupied West Bank since October 7

-> Prisoners Society: More than 7, 003 Palestinians detained in Occupied West Bank since October 7

-> Israeli Government: 1, 139 Israelis killed in Hamas attack on Southern Israel on October 7

-> Israeli troops storm besieged Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

-> Israeli soldiers force patients and families sheltering in Nasser Hospital out of the facility

-> Israeli strike kills at least 8 Palestinians in Rafah, Southern Gaza

-> Video emerges of decomposing premature babies left to die during Israeli forced evacuation of Gaza Hospital in November

-> Israeli strike on a car in Gaza City kills at least two people and injures five

-> At least 12 people killed in Israeli bombing of house in Al Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Central Gaza

-> Ceasefire talks between Egypt, Israel, the U.S. and Qatar end without breakthrough

-> Hezbollah fires rockets at Northern Israel in response to attacks across Lebanese border

-> Funerals held for victims of Israeli air raids in Southern Lebanon

-> Israeli air strikes kill three fighters in southern Lebanese town of Qantara

-> Israeli army says 15 rockets fired from Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona

-> Leaders of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 'gravely concerned' by Israel's planned ground offensive in Rafah

-> South Africa urges International Court of Justice to consider action on possible Israeli ground operation in Rafah

-> UN trade body says Gaza will need new 'Marshall plan' for post-war reconstruction

-> Palestinian authority president urges Hamas to speed up exchange of captives held in Gaza for prisoners in Israeli jails

-> Israeli forces raid towns and villages near Jenin in Occupied West Bank

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Jim Justice

Physique: Heavyset Build Height: 6’ 7" (2.01 m)

James Conley Justice II (born April 27, 1951-) is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 36th governor of West Virginia since 2017. Justice was once a billionaire, but his net worth had declined to $513.3 million as of 2021. He inherited a coal mining business from his father and built a business empire with 94 companies, including the Greenbrier, a luxury resort in White Sulphur Springs.

Justice is a well-liked and wealthy coal magnate who is one big fucking bear of a man. No other way to describe him. Hell… he compared himself to a grizzly bear. A 6-foot-7, 400+ pound millionaire grizzly bear. I’ll admit, I’m a little intimidated by the sheer size of him. But once I leave my goo on him, that’ll pass.

A lifelong West Virginian, he attended Raleigh County public schools and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1969, and attended Greenbrier Military Academy as a post-graduate. Governor Justice went on to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and was captain of the golf team for two years before earning his undergraduate degree and a Masters in Business Administration.

Justice married his high school sweetheart, having two adult children and spend time spoiling four grandchildren. In addition, they have three dogs: two Boston Terriers, and their famous Babydog, an English Bulldog. Plus, he coach girls' basketball. Not the most handsomest guy, but I'd love to fuck around with him for a weekend. And for some reason with his dog, Babydog watching.

#Jim Justice #mydaddywiki politicians

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By Elie Mystal

“Civil asset forfeiture” is the legal euphemism for when the cops steal your stuff. In this country, if you are stopped or arrested, the police can take all the personal property you have on you and call it “incident to the arrest.” That property can include your phone or your legally purchased guns, and it almost always includes your car.

When cops decide to help themselves to your property, they can do it without a warrant, without securing a conviction, without even charging you with a crime. Once they’ve taken it, the cops then force people to engage in a long legal fight to get their stuff back. Often, the value of the property stolen by the government is less than the cost of lawyers needed to fight the government. There’s no right to public counsel when the cops steal from you, so most people can’t afford to fight them, never get their stuff back, and the cops end up selling it for profit.

Civil forfeiture is a booming business and has become a key source of income for some cities and entire states. According to “Policing for Profit,” a report from the Institute for Justice, federal, state, and local governments made $68.8 billion from civil forfeiture between 2000 and 2019.

Most people I know think that civil forfeiture should be unconstitutional as a point-and-click violation of the Due Process clause. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments both say that we should not be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” Civil forfeiture is literally depriving people of their property with no process at all.

Unfortunately, most people I know are not on the Supreme Court. On Thursday, the six unelected Republicans who rule this country said that civil forfeiture can continue to happen so long as the government eventually provides a hearing, even if the hearing takes place long after the theft and most people can’t afford to appeal.

The case is called Culley v. Marshall and deals with two straightforward civil forfeiture examples from Alabama. Halima Culley loaned her car to her son, who was stopped and arrested while driving with marijuana. Lena Sutton loaned her car to a friend who was subsequently busted while driving with methamphetamines. Alabama cops seized both vehicles, even though they didn’t belong to the person driving them, and didn’t return them to their real owners even after they learned of their mistake. Instead, the cops made a civil forfeiture claim and attempted to keep Culley’s and Sutton’s cars.

A report from the Southern Poverty Law Center found that Alabama made $2.2 million in 2015 from stealing property through civil forfeiture, so the cops are fairly heavily incentivized to take property even when the owners are not guilty of anything. But according to alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh, Alabama’s grand theft auto operation is just fine.

Writing for a 6-3 majority (it was the usual split: all Republican justices in the majority, all Democratic justices in dissent), Kavanaugh reduced the issue to one of timing. The plaintiffs Culley and Sutton wanted the state to provide a “preliminary” hearing and force the police to justify stealing their cars. Kavanaugh said that the state already provides a “timely” hearing and said that all the plaintiffs wanted was to get their stuff back more quickly. He argued that the plaintiffs’ arguments were just “a backdoor argument for a more timely forfeiture hearing to allow a property owner with a good defense to recover her property quickly.”

As he does so often, Kavanaugh willfully missed the point. The plaintiffs want to stop the government from taking their property, not argue after the fact that the government should give it back. Remember, we’re talking about cars here. If the cops arrest somebody and take their car, then find out later that the car does not belong to the person they arrested, the normal (and constitutional, and basically decent) thing to do is return the car to its rightful owner. But instead of returning the cars to the people who own them, the police in these cases wanted to not only keep the cars but then force the owners to enter into litigation against the police to get the cars back. That’s not a timing issue: That’s a mugging issue.

Think about it this way: If the cops arrest somebody and throw them in jail, the accused is entitled to a preliminary hearing where the government has to explain to a court why that person should be kept in jail and denied bail. That hearing is different from the trial to convict and sentence the person. As a threshold issue, cops have to explain why they locked somebody up. The same constitutional rule should apply to a person’s property. If the police jack a car, they should be forced to explain to a court why they’re keeping the car instead of releasing the car on its own recognizance (just pretend that the car is Lightning McQueen).

In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor (joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson) made a critical distinction between criminal forfeiture and civil forfeiture. It’s one thing if the property involved is the subject of crime. If the car itself is stolen, or if the car is a getaway vehicle that may contain blood or other evidence of criminal activity, one can understand why the cops might need to keep it. Criminal asset forfeiture can also be a form of punishment—for instance, in the unlikely event that a Wall Street type is ever forced to disgorge illegal or fraudulently obtained profits.

Civil forfeiture, however, requires no crime. Sotomayor notes that 80% of civil forfeiture cases “are not accompanied by any ultimate criminal conviction.” She further argues that unchecked civil forfeiture can also lead to false pleas and settlements from property owners desperate to just get their stuff back. She writes:

“Loss of a car not only 'takes away one’s ability to commute' but also imposes a barrier to 'buy[ing] necessities, access[ing] healthcare, and visit[ing] family members, pharmacies, grocery stores, hospitals, and other essential services.' … Given these burdens, low-income communities are also the most vulnerable to pressure from unchecked prosecutors, who can use coercive civil forfeiture processes to extract settlement money from innocent owners desperate to get their property back.”

Kavanaugh was unmoved by these arguments, noting only that states are free to rein in civil forfeiture abuses through legislation but the Constitution does not require them too. It’s worth noticing that the Republicans who claim to care so much about private property and protecting citizens from government “theft” when it comes to environmental regulations or tax laws have no problem allowing states to steal cars from innocent citizens who aren’t even charged with crimes.

For what it’s worth, while Kavanaugh is probably off at a Buffalo Wild Wings somewhere wondering if Alabama can use its forfeiture funds to hire better offensive coordinators for their football programs, Justice Neil Gorsuch seemed at least to struggle with his intellectual hypocrisy. Gorsuch wrote a concurring opinion (joined by Justice Clarence Thomas) where he declared both the majority and the dissent to be right.

Oh, he came down on the side of the Republican majority of course, because even if both sides are right, Gorsuch usually thinks the Republican position is more right. And, because this is Gorsuch we’re talking about, he treated us in his opinion to an archaic, intellectually masturbatory discussion of the law of “deodand”—which (I’ve now been forced to learn) was the 11th-century English equivalent to civil forfeiture: Property that caused someone’s death was forfeited “to God” or “the Crown,” but usually the local lord who needed some cash.

Luckily, Gorsuch didn’t seem fond of this particular 11th-century law (probably because he couldn’t figure out how to use it to hurt women or Black people), so the legal upshot of Gorsuch’s concurrence was this musing:

“Why does a Nation so jealous of its liberties tolerate expansive new civil forfeiture practices that have 'led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses'?… In this Nation, the right to a jury trial before the government may take life, liberty, or property has always been the rule. Yes, some exceptions exist. But perhaps it is past time for this Court to examine more fully whether and to what degree contemporary civil forfeiture practices align with that rule and those exceptions.”

What I think Gorsuch is saying is that if some kind of carefully crafted lawsuit came before the court, Gorsuch (and Thomas) would declare at least some aspects of civil forfeiture unconstitutional. I don’t know what that lawsuit would look like. In this case, Culley and Sutton were asking the court to impose a process, that of a “preliminary” hearing, on the states, but we already know that justices like Gorsuch and Thomas don’t like for the courts to do anything to proactively stop the states from violating the Constitution or civil rights (unless the states are trying to keep guns out of the hands of mass shooters—then they think the Constitution gets violently angry). They were never going to go for this one, theft of private property be damned.

But perhaps a lawsuit challenging the asset seizure itself instead of the timeliness of the hearing would tickle Gorsuch’s fancy. I’m sure he could find something from Beowulf about the proper procedure for stealing a golden cup.

In the meantime, the cops will continue to rake in billions of dollars from taking people’s stuff. As usual, Republicans have rendered the Constitution impotent in the face of any two-bit criminal who happens to wear a badge instead of a ski mask.

#us politics #news #the nation #op ed #Elie Mystal #Civil asset forfeiture #due process #5th amendment #14th amendment #us constitution #us supreme court #Culley v. Marshall #property rights #2024

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The streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, resemble an open-air drug market.

Heroin, meth and fentanyl use is rampant and often visible on city streets. Portland police officers drive by homeless addicts buying and using.

The signs of drug addiction are actually increasing throughout the state, according to law enforcement sources. Oregon ranks second-highest among U.S. states for substance abuse with nearly one in five adults addicted.

In November 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed Measure 110. The Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act secured 58% of the votes and decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs such as heroin, meth, cocaine and fentanyl.

FEDS SEIZE 478,000 COUNTERFEIT FENTANYL-LACED PILLS, CHARGE 26 WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING AND OTHER CRIMES

The new law made possession of those substances no more than a Class E violation, the equivalent of a traffic ticket punishable by a maximum $100 fine. But the fine is dismissed when someone who is fined calls a help hotline, Lines for Life, and completes a health assessment. The idea is to connect drug abusers with services and treatment instead of putting them behind bars.

Sixteen months into this first-in-the-nation experiment, the numbers paint a bleak picture. Drug overdose deaths hit an all-time high in 2021 with 1069, a 41% increase from 2020. And very few people are getting into treatment. According to The Lund Report, after one year, just 136 people had entered treatment, less than 1% of those helped by Measure 110. But the actual number may be even lower.

David Murray is a senior fellow in the Hudson Institute who advised drug czars in two different presidential administrations.

"It is predictable, was predicted and now, unfortunately, is coming to pass in front of our eyes," said Murray, "It is a tragedy and a self-inflicted wound."

The Oregon Judicial Department reports that, through the end of May, police throughout the state had written 2,576 tickets for drug possession since Measure 110 was enacted. Seventy-five percent of the tickets resulted in convictions, the vast majority because the offender never showed up in court.

Dwight Holton, CEO of Lines for Life, tells Fox News only 116 people have called the help hotline. Sixty-six of those callers just wanted verification of the assessment, so they could void the ticket, Holton said. Twenty-six, he says, were already in services of some kind and didn’t want any more.

"About 20% — 24 people — were not previously involved in (addiction) services and wanted resources, so we connected them to relevant services," Holton says.

Mike Marshall, co-founder and director of Oregon Recovers, is not surprised by the dismal treatment numbers following implementation of Measure 110.

"It was never designed to reduce our addiction rates, so it was never designed to deal with our addiction crisis," Marshall says, "It was always meant to deal with the war on drugs."

Oregon’s war on drugs may be over, but other crimes are on the rise and keeping police busy.

"What we’re absolutely seeing is that as drug possession has been decriminalized, property crimes have increased and so has violent crime," said District Attorney Kevin Barton of Washington County, Oregon. Police in rural parts of Oregon also tell Fox News they are seeing more theft as people steal to feed their addiction.

TENNESSEE SHERIFF'S OFFICE WARNS PEOPLE NOT TO PICK UP FOLDED DOLLAR BILLS BECAUSE THEY MAY CONTAIN FENTANYL

Portland, the state’s largest city, set an all-time record with 90 murders in 2021. Police in Multnomah County link these to Measure 110, saying there's been a rise in homicides tied to drug turf wars between gangs.

Tera Hurst, executive director of the Health Justice Recovery Alliance, which is working to implement Measure 110, says the criticism is premature. Only 10% of $300 million in available Measure 110 funds has been allocated to date.

The money is coming from cannabis tax revenue, making it ineligible to be used for treatment, which is primarily covered by Medicaid. What Measure 110 is funding is recovery and harm reduction services.

The first $30 million in grants went to needle exchange programs, peer-to-peer counseling, support housing and even Narcan, which is used to revive people who overdose on heroin.

"I don’t think it’s just about getting folks into treatment," says Hurst. "It’s also about meeting people and getting people out into the streets doing outreach for folks and getting them life-saving drugs. You can’t save somebody if they overdose and die."

The Oregon Health Authority, which overseas Measure 110, also defends the lack of people in treatment.

"People enter treatment when they are ready to," said OHA spokesman Timothy Heider, "The support being built to help people will meet them where they are."

#nunyas news

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“ . . . we urgently appeal to our honored President, and hereby PETITION him to URGE the enactment into LAW . . . of either Senator France's or Representative Dyer ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.” Petition from the International Uplift League, 10/15/1922.

File Unit: 158260 section 3 #1, 1904 - 1974

Series: Straight Numerical Files, 1904 - 1974

Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of Justice, 1790 - 2002

Transcription:

[HEADER]

The International Uplift League

(Organized 1911: Re-Organized and Incorporated, A.D. 1915)

Object:-To Uplift and Develop the Colored Race Everywhere.

Motto:-Justice, Knowledge (Material and Spiritual) Health and Wealth.

President, Rev. Dr. Robert W. S. Thomas, M.A.

Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth M. Collett

Auditor, Charles M. Dorsey, Esq.

Chairman of the Executive Committee, Rev. George L. White, D.D., M.D.

General Secretary, David N.E. Campbell, M.D., M.O.

1369 N. Carey Street,

Baltimore, Md., U. S. A.

New Address,

119 Lefferts Place,

Brooklyn, New York.

ALL MEN UP!

Roosevelt.

Amended Petition. October 15th 1922.

A PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT

From

THE INTERNATIONAL UPLIFT LEAGUE.

To His Excellency,

The President of

The United States of America,

The White House, Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. President:

For the GOOD and true HONOR of our beloved country, the United States of America, in the NAME of ALMIGHTY GOD, LYNCHING should be abolished. Opinion seems unanimous that the United States Government possesses permanently the greater jurisdictional control (about 3/4) over each United States Citizen; and the State in which the citizen resides holds the remaining (1/4) jurisdiction.

Hence the elimination of LYNCHING, our most heinous STIGMA, should be accomplished through the Federal Government, because the respective States, for more than fifty years, have failed to suppress LYNCHING. Therefore, we urgently appeal to our honored President, and hereby PETITION him to URGE the enactment into LAW, during the Extra Session of Congress, of either Senator France's or Representative Dyer ANTI-LYNCHING BILL. By such worthy and magnanimous ACT, Mr. President, you will immortalize your NAME like the illustrious Lincoln when we signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Amen.

For the Women.

(Miss) Emma J. Chrichton

For the Men.

David Newton E. Campbell

Secretary I.U. League

P.S. We hope to secure millions of signatures to this PETITION and forward same duly.

VIce Presidents,

Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, Jr.

Hon. Ernest Lyon, D.D., LL.D.

Rev. Dr. Wm. Sampson Brooks, D.D.

Rev. W.W. Allen, D.D.

Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Reed

Hon. George W.F. McMechen

Mrs. Mary F. Bond.

Rev. Junius Gray, D.D.

Rev. L.C. Curtis, D.D.

Rev. N.M. Carroll, D.D.

Charles B Rodgers, Esq.

Mrs. Alric R. Campbell.

Rev. Ananias Brown, D.D.

Rev. James R. Diggs, A.M.

Rev. Dr. J.A. Briscoe.

Rev. Dr. A.B. Callis, Washington, D.C.

Miss Nannie H. Burroughs.

Rev. William H. Dean, D.D.

Rev. J. Harvey Randolph, D.D.

Rev. M.W.D. Norman, D.D.

Rev. C. Harold Stepteau, D.D.

Dr. Charles H. Marshall.

Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D.D.

Directors,

Joseph P. Evans, Esq.

Miss. Mary A.E. Bennett.

Joshua F.G.L. Duvall.

Arthur L. Macbeth, Esq.

Joseph S. Fennell, Esq.

William H. Bates, Esq.

Columbus Gordon, Esq.

Dr. Robert W. Brown.

Dr. Luther E. McNeill.

Rev. T.A. Thomas.

Prof. Howard M. Gross.

Dr. E.C. Morris.

Mrs. Mary F. Handy.

Dr. A.A. Terrell.

Mrs. Fannie Jenkins.

Mrs. Urania M. Ross.

Samuel Carroll, Esq.

Dr. John W. Derry,

Dr. E. Verry Stokes.

Dr. Harry F. Brown.

Dr. J. Edward Fisher.

Rev. William Holt.

Rev. S.A. Virgil.

Rev. J.C. and Mrs. S. Love.

#archivesgov #October 15 #1922 #1920s #petitions #right to petition the government for a redress of grievances #lynching #anti-lynching #Black history #African American history

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The Black men’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has announced it will move its 2025 general convention from Orlando in light of “racist” policies.

The fraternity announced the news Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, citing “Governor DeSantis’ harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against the Black Community,” as the reason behind the decision.

Willis L. Lonzer III, the fraternity’s general president, told The Hill that last week’s controversy surrounding new education standards in the state became the tipping point in the fraternity’s decision.

“Governor DeSantis has continuously advocated for laws and policies that negatively impact Black people and other marginalized communities,” Lonzer said.

“We start first with the laws rejecting the teaching race and the cultural diversity of our nation. We can even talk about the bill that he supported, banning [diversity, equity and inclusion] initiatives in colleges and universities. But the final straw really was his advancement of this new curriculum standards released last week, suggesting enslaved people developed skills that could later be a personal benefit to them, which is absolutely absurd.”

“This is a stunt,” DeSantis’s office said in a statement to The Hill.

Florida’s new guidelines, approved last week, require lessons on race be taught in an “objective” manner that does not seek to “indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.”

One of the updated standards that received backlash requires instructors to teach that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Another requires that students must learn about “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.” This includes massacres such as the Tulsa Race Massacre.

The new education standards were immediately met with backlash from Black leaders around the nation, including Vice President Harris, who blasted DeSantis in a speech in Jacksonville for “pushing propaganda” on children.

The latest set of guidelines follows the state’s decision earlier this year that prohibited an Advanced Placement African American studies course from running. At the time, the state said the class lacked educational value.

Alpha Phi Alpha was the fraternity of some of the most prominent Black leaders in America, and remains so today. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Whitney Young and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall were all members of the fraternity.

Today, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, are all members.

While a new location has not been decided upon just yet, Lonzer said the fraternity expects their decision will cost the greater Orlando area some $4.6 million in revenue.

“We will not spend our money where Black people and other marginalized communities are continuously harmed by policies at the highest level of government,” Lonzer said.

He added that other members of the Divine Nine — a group of nine historically Black fraternities and sororities — are all “aligned” on the significance of ensuring that all people are treated with respect.

But he also urged those in Florida to exercise their right to vote when the time comes.

“We have not forgotten our membership or the citizens of Florida,” Lonzer said. “We are committed to encouraging them to stay vigilant and to ensure that they are in the voting process. We will continue to make our voter education opportunities available as we funnel funds to the state of Florida to ensure that they can hold various forums and can have the appropriate conversations. When the time comes to vote, we will get them out to vote.”

–Updated on July 27 at 10:36 a.m.

#Alpha Phi Alpha moves 2025 convention out of Florida over ‘racist’ policies #florida #Alpha Phi #alpha #Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity #A Phi A #Racism in Florida #florida is dangerous for Black People

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rockislandadultreads · 1 year

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Native American Heritage Month: More Nonfiction Recommendations

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by checking out one of these nonfiction recommendations from your local library!

Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, this memoir reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Weaving together the voices that shaped her, Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, the teachings of a changing earth, and the poets who paved her way.

The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III

Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who - with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership - fought for his people’s land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating biography, Joseph Marshall, himself a Lakota Indian, creates a vibrant portrait of the man, his times, and his legacy.

Life of Black Hawk by Black Hawk

Westward expansion of the American frontier was not without its attendant tragedies - many of which involved injustices committed against Native Americans. One such tragedy was the Black Hawk War, which took place when the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by tribal chieftain Black Hawk, resisted the establishment of white settlements in Indian territory in western Illinois. This volume is the autobiography of Black Hawk, in which he wished to disclose "the causes that had impelled him to act... and the principles by which he was governed."

White Magic by Elissa Washuta

Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

#Native American Heritage Month #Native American Authors #native american history #nonfiction #library books #reading recs #reading recommendations #book recs #book recommendations #to read #TBR pile #tbr #booklr #book tumblr

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graymanbriefing · 8 months

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Civil Unrest / Societal Collapse / Citizen Actions Brief: National Summary In Pennsylvania; 300+ students at the Perkiomen Valley School District conducted a "walkout" in protest against the district's policy in permitting males who identify as transgender into female's ba...(CLASSIFIED) In NYC, NY; 500+ citizens in Staten Island created a pedestrian blockade to prevent a bus of illegal immigrants from offloading at a taxpayer funded conversion of a senior cit...(CLASSIFIED) An internal communique from U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) obtained by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project found that the service warned of protests "at both the U.S. Supreme Court and Justices’ residences" and that "there have been several acts of property damage, arson, vandalism, and threats/intimidation against federal courthouses, protected persons, as well as private businesses, houses of worship, and reproductive health care services facilities/providers." The message also advised that pro-lif...(CLASSIFIED) In Fort Worth, TX on September 19th; the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club called for fellow members, LGBT activists, and Antifa to conduct a direct action at the court proceedings in a case brought on by the New Columbia Movement (Christian organization). The far-left group directed members to "pack the courtroom" and provided methods on how to conceal their ide...(CLASSIFIED) Nationwide; protests calling for secure borders amid a "record" influx of illegal imm...(CLASSIFIED) In Canada; 10,000+ parents protested against LGBT indoctrination in public schools (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or SOGI) during the "Million March 4 Kids" march. "Hands off our Children" and "Freedom Family" organized the event. The events occurred nationwide and were counter-protested by LGBT act...(CLASSIFIED) Nationwide, October is "Respect for Life" month. Pro-life protests and res...(CLASSIFIED) 》Continued in comments, see full unredacted briefs by joining us on Telegram or Signal at www.graymanbriefing.com

#News #Intel #Situational Awareness #Prepping

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dukesoakedoats · 1 year

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JUSTICE FOR MARSHALL AND MILLIONS

These dogs were murdered by the police due to their incompetence and failure to investigate a report of the dogs being aggresive. Spoiler alert, they were not. They were killed though in front of the owner they tasered! Some people may say it’s just dogs but you’re wrong, dogs are family, they feel things and are very emotionally intelligent creatures. They were treated harshly due to their breed. A man has lost his best friends and the police need to be held responsible.

THIS ISNT ABOUT THE OWNER OF THE DOGS BUT HOW THEY WERE MURDERED.

I’ve seen the photos and the videos and it was brutual.

I’m crying my eyes out

#petitions #human rights #animals rights #the UK

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the-monkey-ruler · 1 year

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Monkey King and Million Demons City (2018) 齐天大圣·万妖之城

Director: Xiang Qiuliang / Xiang Hesheng

Screenwriter: Xiang Qiuliang / Xiang Hesheng

Starring: Chen Haomin / Lin Zicong / Fan Meng / Zhao Ziluo / Wang Hongqian / Li Jiaying / Luo Yingjun / Li Pingan

Genre: Fantasy / Adventure / Costume

Country/Region of Production: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Date: 2018-03-02 (Mainland China)

Duration: 90 minutes

Also known as: Monkey King, City of Ten Thousand Monsters

IMDb: tt9726522

Type: Retelling

Summary:

"A stick becomes a Buddha, but an unintentional one becomes a demon." The Golden Cicada’s Ninth life traveled westward and was buried in Liusha River. He retain obsession and got rid of the heart, transforming into a demon, which is called Wuxin. On his 10th life, Xuanzang got the stone monkey and the canopy marshall escorted to learn Buddhist scriptures, and flowed sand again...

The story of "The Great Sage Equaling Heaven: City of Demons" is based on Journey to the West. Always alone, facing the twists and turns and hardships along the way alone, with great righteousness in mind, yearning for the salvation of all living beings and the kindness in the world. Needless to say how difficult the journey is, but the real resistance is always directed at the heart.

The shadow on the back of the sun always remains. When the edge of good and evil begins to blur, when innocence and beauty are trampled, even if you are powerful, you will be helpless and fall into a desperate situation. However, brave people will still create light in the darkest corners, even if they are in prison, they will not give up the struggle. Knowing that he must sacrifice, but still willingly.

Stick with heart, only struggle can create hope. Although justice will eventually defeat evil, when you find that good and evil come from yourself, if you start to hesitate, please don't forget the original pure heart, fight and work hard for it. Don't forget the original intention, only then can we always succeed.

Source: http://chinesemov.com/2018/Million-Demons-City.html

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNIRHvS2bLM&ab_channel=YOUKUMOVIE

#Monkey King and Million Demons City #齐天大圣·万妖之城 #jttw #jttw media #jttw movie #movie #live action #Retelling #sun wukong centered #sun wukong #zhu bajie #Flower Demon #Tang Sanzang #monk tripitaka #sha wujing #Purple Potato Demon #addition

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.

The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the Court finishes its work for the summer, usually in late June. The 23-page decision was unanimous, though all the Justices didn’t join the whole opinion.

The Justices sided with a group of states that said that Delaware had improperly received hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed funds over more than a decade that should have been shared among the states.

Each Justice typically writes at least one opinion from the seven separate two-week arguments sessions the Court holds from early October to late April. But in January and February, for example, the Court has only seven argued cases each month, meaning there are not enough to go around.

Jackson, 52, joined the high court in June following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer. She is the first Black woman to serve as a Justice and just the third Black person on the court. The others are Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving among the nine Justices, and the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Jackson’s first majority opinion came in a case involving two products sold by the money-transfer company MoneyGram: the company’s “teller’s checks” and “agent checks.” Customers can buy the checks at banks and credit unions.

When teller’s checks and agent checks aren’t cashed, the Dallas-based MoneyGram sends the abandoned funds to Delaware, the state where MoneyGram is incorporated. But other states pointed to a federal law about abandoned money orders, traveler’s checks and “similar written instruments.” The law says that when those go uncashed, the funds from them go back to the state where they were purchased.

The states argued that MoneyGram’s teller’s checks and agent checks counted as “money orders” or “similar written instruments” and that they were due money.

In ruling against Delaware, Jackson noted that teller’s checks and agent checks operate “like a money order” and that the unclaimed funds were being sent back “inequitably” solely to Delaware.

In a statement Brenda Mayrack, the director of Delaware’s Office of Unclaimed property, said the state is “disappointed in the ruling.”

The case now returns to a federal judge the court has appointed to oversee the dispute, a “special master,” for additional proceedings.

Jackson wrote her first dissenting opinion in November, in support of a death row inmate from Ohio who failed to win Supreme Court review of his case.

Lawyers for the inmate, Davel Chinn, argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial.

Jackson wrote that she would have ordered lower courts to take another look at the case. Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined Jackson’s opinion.

#us politics #news #the associated press #2023 #us supreme court #scotus #justice ketanji brown jackson #Delaware #unclaimed funds #justice stephen breyer #justice clarence thomas #Justice Thurgood Marshall #MoneyGram #teller's checks #agent checks #Brenda Mayrack #Delaware Office Of Unclaimed Property #Davel Chinn #Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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beardedmrbean · 7 months

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BALTIMORE -- A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the shooting of five people last week on the campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said Friday. A second suspect was also identified.

The suspect, who was not identified due to his age, is charged with multiple counts of attempted murder. Baltimore Police said he was arrested Thursday in Washington D.C.

Police also released an image of 18-year-old Jovan Williams, who is wanted in connection to the shooting.

Police consider Williams "armed and dangerous," and ask anyone who comes in contact with him to call 911 immediately.

"BPD has been working tirelessly on the investigation into this incident and are grateful for the many partners that assisted us in identifying and capturing one of our suspects," said BPD Commissioner Richard Worley. "We will not rest until Williams is in custody. While this arrest cannot undo the damage and trauma caused that day, it is my hope that it can bring some peace and justice to the victims, the Morgan community and our city."

Washington D.C. Metro police and Federal law enforcement agencies helped Baltimore police identify and locate the suspects from surveillance video from the incident, police said.

It was not immediately clear if there are further suspects or people of interest.

The shooting happened shortly after the crowning of Mr. and Ms. Morgan State University, a kickoff to homecoming week events at the school.

Investigators believe there was a dispute between two groups when gunfire erupted near the Marshall Apartment Complex dorms, Acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley said last week. At least three people are believed to have been armed.

Four men and a woman between the ages of 18 and 22 were shot, and all were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds. Four of the victims were students at Morgan.

All homecoming activities, events and classes were canceled for the week as a result. It was the third year in a row the university saw a shooting during homecoming week.

The university announced a multi-million dollar plan to increase security on the campus that includes barrier fencing around the perimeter of the campus.

Anyone with further information in the shooting is urged to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7-LOCKUP. Tips can remain anonymous.

#nunyas news

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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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This day in history

#15yrsago Science Fiction Writers of America reinstates E-Piracy Committee — new name, same chairman https://memex.craphound.com/2007/11/29/science-fiction-writers-of-america-reinstates-e-piracy-committee-new-name-same-chairman/

#15yrsago Universal Music CEO’s fears illustrated in funny webcomic https://web.archive.org/web/20071130023109/http://hijinksensue.com/2007/11/29/robots-are-everywhere-and-they-eat-old-peoples-medicine-for-fuel/

#10yrsago America’s “Six Strike” copyright punishment system on hold until 2013 https://torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-anti-piracy-plan-delayed-till-121128/

#10yrsago Big Tobacco will have to run a national advertising campaign apologizing for lying about health risks from smoking https://web.archive.org/web/20131031154351/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/28/tobacco-companies-lied-smoking-danger

#10yrsago Bill O’Reilly-watching climate-change-denier is moved to tears by polar melting documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw1dZNWiL8

#10yrsago Grey Album remastered by golden-eared engineer https://www.forbes.com/sites/leorgalil/2012/11/28/the-story-behind-the-newly-remastered-version-of-the-grey-album/?sh=7d997c5e8775

#5yrsago Net Neutrality is just for starters: municipal networks are the path to paradise https://www.wired.com/story/net-neutrality-fiber-optic-internet/

#5yrsago Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren introduce a bill to provide $146B in aid to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands https://theintercept.com/2017/11/28/bernie-sanders-puerto-rico-elizabeth-warren-propose-146-billion-marshall-plan-for-puerto-rico/

#5yrsago Incentives matter: America’s for-profit medical industry thrives on massive wastage, unnecessary procedures, overbilling and overtreating https://www.propublica.org/article/a-hospital-charged-to-pierce-ears-why-health-care-costs-so-much

#5yrsago US Army doxes itself, reveals $100 million NSA spy program that got flushed before it was ever used https://www.ibtimes.com/army-spent-100-million-intelligence-system-it-never-used-nsa-leak-says-2620733

#5yrsago Student debt: more people, paying more money, and mounting year on year https://jacobin.com/2017/11/student-debt-data-higher-education

#5yrsago Mass incarceration and disenfranchisement of brown people was the key to GOP control in Alabama, but thanks to criminal justice reform, black people can vote against child-molester Roy Moore https://www.salon.com/2017/11/29/roy-moores-poetic-justice-could-alabamas-criminal-justice-reform-haunt-gop/

#5yrsago Morgan Stanley, with a long rapsheet for corporate crimes, says Jeremy Corbyn holding them to account would hurt them worse than the worst Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/27/corbyn-becoming-pm-is-worse-threat-to-british-business-than-brexit-says-bank">

#5yrsago Comcast flushed its 3 year old net neutrality promise down the memory hole the instant the FCC announced its plan to allow network discrimination https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-deleted-net-neutrality-pledge-the-same-day-fcc-announced-repeal/

#1yrago The once and future mass-resignation and what it means for working people https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/29/ordinance-of-labourers/#we-all-quit

#pluralistic

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