#rita joe

[tepkunset]

This is Elder Rita Joe

She is the honouree of 2023's Nova Scotia Heritage Day. Rita Joe is a household name among the Mi'kmaq as a poet laureate, her most famous work being "I Lost My Talk", about the struggle of having her language stolen in residential school. Maybe you've heard it before, or maybe this is your first prompt to look it up. I strongly suggest expanding your interest to her other works as well; she has a huge poetry collection of beautifully crafted words.

#rita joe #mi'kmaq #nova scotia #canada #heritage day #Youtube

[finisheachday]

I Lost My Talk

 I lost my talk

The talk you took away.

When I was a little girl

At Shubenacadie school.

You snatched it away:

I speak like you

I think like you

I create like you

The scrambled ballad, about my word.

Two ways I talk

Both ways I say,

Your way is more powerful.

So gently I offer my hand and ask,

Let me find my talk

So I can teach you about me.

Rita Joe

#I lost my talk #Rita Joe #orange shirt day #trc day #truth and reconciliation #truth and reconciliation day #canada #poetry #poems and quotes #poem #poems and poetry #language rights #it’s a scandal that I couldn’t find this poem on here #🧡 #every child matters #indigenous

[kp777]

By Julia Conley

Common Dreams

April 8, 2024

"As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them," said a Democratic National Committee spokesperson.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s stated platform in the 2024 presidential race centers on promoting an "honest government," a "clean, healthy environment," and the protection of civil liberties—but his New York State director last week boiled down the Independent campaign's true goal at a meeting with Republican voters: ensuring former President Donald Trump wins the election.

Speaking at a meeting last Thursday, Rita Palma first checked to make sure there were "no Biden voters in the house" before telling her audience that her "No. 1 priority" is to ultimately take electoral votes away from President Joe Biden.

"The Kennedy voter and the Trump voter," said Palma, "our mutual enemy is Biden."

States including New York, California, and "most of the Northeast" are likely to vote for the Democratic president, she continued, but if Kennedy, whom Palma referred to as Bobby, is on the ballot in New York, the campaign could help "get rid of Biden."

She urged the assembled GOP voters to give their "vote to Bobby and at least get rid of Biden and give those 28 electoral votes to Bobby rather than to Biden, thereby reducing Biden's 270 [electoral votes]."

"Two hundred seventy wins the election," added Palma, who was hired by Kennedy's campaign after she canvassed for Trump in 2016 and 2020. "If nobody gets to 270 then Congress picks the president, so who are they gonna pick if it's a Republican Congress? They'll pick Trump, so we're rid of Biden either way."

Political observers have noted in recent months that Kennedy has drawn support from right-wing billionaires, but Palma's blunt description of her plan to "block Biden from winning the presidency" left critics stunned as the video of the event circulated on social media on Monday.

"Whole thing is an epic fraud. Kennedy is spouting Russian propaganda, is now openly betraying the country," said political strategist Simon Rosenberg, referring to the candidate's recent comments about Russia's claim that it aims to "de-Nazify" Ukraine.

"RFK Jr.'s campaign is saying the quiet part out loud," Matt Corridoni, spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, told CNN. "As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them: RFK Jr.'s campaign isn't building a plan or a strategy to get 270 electoral votes, they're building one to help Trump return to the Oval Office."

#robert f kennedy jr #rita palma #donald trump #joe biden #2024 presidential race #electoral college #republican party #republicans

[memory-party-support-certain]

#lacey jane #j hope #fugou keiji balance: unlimited #chloe price #victor nikiforov #tanthamore #joe biden #house md #stocks #elfen lied #graphic art #juliantina #rita ora #svt #jibaku shounen hanako kun

[woman-see-be-soldier]

#fate series #dibujo #kj apa #dibujos #ed not sheeren #couture #exid #free the tiddy #alhaitham x reader #joe biden #rita ora #e3 #bimbo hypnosis

[successful-seem-i-be]

#j hope #fugou keiji balance: unlimited #chloe price #victor nikiforov #joe biden #stocks #graphic art #juliantina #rita ora #svt #pinup #jibaku shounen hanako kun

[mercurytrinemoon]

Astro observations: celebrity edition part 2 aka latest news roundup

⭐️ Dua Lipa announced on her instagram that she's actually a Gemini rising as opposed to Libra. Now my Gemini detector told me that ages ago but I accepted the Libra rising just because it's my default token "plain good looking and polite" sign BUT it actually now makes much more sense in terms of house placements. Her Venus is now cazimi in the 3rd house - house associated with creative writing and thinking. The ever-changing and fast-moving Mercury is now in her 4th house of family and home situation and she's actually been always moving a lot between England and Albania. That healthy domicile Mercury as well as the Sun-Venus conjunction in the 3rd shows her close connection to family overall.

Funnily enough, her discovery took place during Mercury station in her 4th house. Talk about finding out your true roots (astrological, in that instance).

⭐️ We also now have the birth time of Elon Musk, who turns out to be a Cancer rising. Jupiter in his 5th house of children now makes perfect sense with his 11 kids (and probably counting).

⭐️ If you're wondering why Ariana Grande is the way she is, look no further than Moon conjunct Jupiter - aka her 7th house ruler multiply; as well as both being square to the Sun. Usually Sun square Jupiter can point to legal issues and excess while Sun square Moon often points to broken families. Now add that together and you have… a homewrecker, yaaay!

⭐️ I was thinking a lot about Blink 182 and Tom Delonge (his chart resembles mine a bit) due to him rejoining the band last year and now releasing a new Blink album. Natally, he has a retrograde Gemini Mars so I looked at his progressed chart to see the stationary period. Turns out his progressed Mars stationed direct early 2014, followed by progressed Sun entering Aquarius. Early following year the band announced that he left permanently. One of the things he focused on was research on the UFOs and work with the government. Of course, keep in mind progressed Mars stations for quite a while and his issues with the band lasted throughout the whole 2014 so it makes sense that the final split occured a year later. And why Mars? Well it can literally speak about our focus in life and our direction - where we put our energy. Not to mention Mars rules his MC so it brought him a massive turn in his career. So makes sense.

⭐️ Britney Spears just released a memoir book. Putting aside the questionable fact on who really wrote it, it stirred up a lot of drama. Her chart is one big mine but today I'm only focusing on current transits: she just had an eclipse in her first house of Libra. That eclipse landed right on her Pluto, which natally squares Venus (talking about toxic relationships and exposing them). Pluto itself is making last hits to those degrees as well as it's stationing direct in the late Capricorn. Interestingly I think Jupiter being in her 8th house can point to this as well - it lights up all the secrets and talks about working on past traumas. Now, you're also probably thinking, why was she involved with so many iffy people in her life? A lot of things in her chart point to that but what always struck me was her 7th house ruler - a malefic Mars - being in her 12th house of enemies. And it squares Neptune so they're also liars and exploiters.

⭐️ There's been A TON of celebrity breakups during this Venus retrograde season but I'm gonna quickly focus on Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner because their charts are an interesting example. Their synastry is mostly having planets in sister signs but this also means that if one of them gets hit with a transit, so is the other. Involve Saturn in that transit and you get trouble. Saturn is currently in early Pisces, where Sophie has some of her planets in the 12th house (loss, enemies). Her Mars (disputes, cutting) is at 4° of Pisces while Joe's Mars is at 7° Virgo - right opposite that. Saturn transit stirred up some proper drama: and Saturn is also coldness, being restrained and cut off. On top of that they also have their rising signs in the opposite signs of Aries and Libra and we just started having eclipses in those signs earlier this year.

Not to mention Joe's Leo Sun got hit by Venus retrograde and a Uranus square. Among other stuff.

FUN FACT: according to my research they met for the first time in October of 2016 when Jupiter was in Libra. So, interestingly, not only they had Jupiter going through their angles but Jupiter in their Davidson chart is in Libra.

⭐️ Taylor Swift is currently going through her 10th house profection year (Leo). It would make sense then that her career would take a turn this year considering that Venus was retrograding in Leo. Of course as it turned out she had a massive succes with her ongoing world tour, which is said to become the highest grossing tour of all time.

⭐️ A Vogue article popped up about Rita Ora's and Taika Waititi's wedding that took place a year earlier (they kept all the info and date private until now). Jupiter played a huge role in them getting married (as it often does, especially for a couple like them, who have it strong in their charts, which I wrote about HERE). At the time of their wedding Jupiter was at 8° Aries, which for Rita is that sweet spot between her Sagittarius Sun and Venus (4° and 10° respectively) and Leo Jupiter (13°) - as it completed a grand trine in her chart. Transiting Sun was also 12° of Leo, highlighting that trine even more.

Man I love astrology.

For Taika it was pretty prominent as well although his Jupiter aspects were more sign-based. He had a Jupiter return; his Moon is somewhere in the middle of Sagittarius so he received these fire trines as well. Interestingly, at the time of the wedding Saturn was at 22° Aquarius - exactly opposite his Leo Sun but also sextile his natal Jupiter. So for him it had a bit of a Saturnian flavour that called for stability and maturity.

⭐️ Similarly, I just read the other day that Frances Bean Cobain got married earlier this month. She has a Venus-Jupiter conjunction on top of her Virgo ascendant (interestingly Kurt had the trine between Venus and Jupiter - so seems like a family pattern). Also interestingly, transiting Jupiter is currently trining both her Venus and Jupiter (on the day of the wedding it was trining Venus exact), thereby her natal pattern got repeated. Jupiter is also her 7th house ruler.

Her now husband, Riley Hawk is having a nice transit of that Jupiter over his Taurus Moon - and remember, Moon rules the women in your family as well as your wife.

#astrology #random #astro notes #mercurytrinemoon #celebrity chart #astroblr #dua lipa #britney spears #tom delonge #sophie turner #joe jonas #rita ora #taika waititi #frances bean cobain #taylor swift

[storiesofsvu]

REQUESTS OPEN!!

Alright besties. I’m loaded up with smut prompts & got some wips going for y’all but now I need some fluffy thoughts & angsty ideas to help balance it out!

This master post has a ton of prompts!

All characters I write for, but specifically:

Alex Blake

Derek Morgan

Tara Lewis

Amanda Rollins

Joe Velasco

Sonny Carisi

Elana Barth

Alex Cabot

Abigail Borin

Anthony DiNozzo

Let’s get writing!!

#writing #ask box open #criminal minds #law and order svu #ncis #aaron hotchner #emily prentiss #tara lewis #derek morgan #amanda rollins #olivia benson #joe velasco #alex cabot #rita calhoun #rafael barba #elana barth #abigail borin #anthony dinozzo

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Today marks the five (5) year anniversary of the Jussie Smollett Hate Hoax & he's still not in prison.

When they ask you why Trump?

#Joe Biden #usa #potus #trump 2024 #jussie smollett #hate hoax #liars & frauds #Jill Biden is cruel #dementia #Rita Panahi

[p-c-ba-dcforever]

Continuing Doom Patrol month with Rita Farr, Elasti-Girl!

#dc comics #elasti girl #rita farr #richard case #jeff moy #ron frenz #joe staton #ramona fradon #cliff chiang #glen murakami #john byrne #brian bolland #john watson

[rolloroberson]

Rita Coolidge - Superstar from the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour

#rita coolidge #leon russell #joe cocker #mad dogs and englishmen #Youtube

[flankingmanoeuvres]

#kris kristofferson #rita coolidge #tony joe white #donnie fritts #full moon

[minominq]

mom signed me up for driving school (like the one haruka went to) and the first thing my brother did upon hearing that i was going was “go rewatch boonboomger” 😭 (while clutching the bunblack plush and opening his newly acquired joe acrylic standee)

#i cannot with my brother sometimes #he *forgot* to buy the plushies i gave him money to get while he got his own #i still do not have the ace plush or the gira plush #but he has inuzuka #and rita #and now joe #thinking about stuff

[justbeingnamaste]

“Someone else is writing those lines and I wonder if he has any full comprehension of what they are getting him to say.” ❤️ Rita Panahi ❤️

#‘You enormous liar’: Rita Panahi reacts to Joe Biden’s blunders #Sky News Australia #Youtube

[latibvles]

For the affection ask game, you know I gotta ask about my bbs Joe and Rita <3

MAMA Y PAPA!! MAMA Y PAPA!!

He keeps a sweater in the back of his cab because she always forgets one on her way to work. He sprays it with his cologne before giving it to her.

She always stops at the comic book store to make sure he has the latest issue of whatever series he’s following at the time.

They cook together. Even if it’s takeout, they’ll go get it together.

He learned Spanish so it would be easier to talk to her sisters and mom.

Rubs circles into her back whenever they’re out with friends, keeps his arm draped over the back of her chair.

Similarly, she always keeps a hand on his knee.

[ Unspoken Affection Meme! ]

#poet’s mail box #ch: rita mccarney #ship: rita/joe

[mariocki]

Maniac (1980)

"This has got to stop. It's silly. And it's not getting us anywhere. You think they don't know? They do. I heard it, and I know. They all know, and I don't like it anymore. But you don't listen, do you? It's got to stop!"

#maniac #blood tw #horror imagery tw #american cinema #slasher film #william lustig #joe spinell #1980 #c. a. rosenberg #caroline munro #tom savini #abigail clayton #kelly piper #rita montone #hyla marrow #james l. brewster #linda lee walter #tracie evans #sharon mitchell #nelia bacmeister #jay chattaway #hey did you know that iconic 1980 slasher film and movie so reviled in the uk that it was straight up banned before the video nasties #scandal even happened Maniac is also an xmas film? it totally is! it has no impact on plot or shape or anything but it is very visibly set #during the festive season and there is at least one reference in dialogue (when a neighbour mistakes Spinell's plastic wrapped mannequin #he's bringing to his creepy murder apartment for an xmas tree). I'm late getting to this (I've been aware of it for the best part of 2 #decades but could never get ahold of a decent copy) but I'm suitably impressed with what i find. grubby indie slasher filmmaking of the #nastiest grungiest kind but also clearly a labour of love that Spinell threw himself into mind body and soul; he had writing and producing #credits as well as starring‚ and his disturbed lead is so thoroughly drawn and intensely performed that he manages to wring real pathos #from a truly horrific and repugnant persona. a masterpiece of cheapo slasher sleaze and a film much better than it has any right being #merry xmas everyone! don't be a maniac!