#zero III jr

[oobi-oobi-rambles]

Fan art I drew of Zero Jr. dying in a glue trap

Fan art I drew of Zero Sr. dying in a glue trap

Fan art I drew of the old woman dying in a glue trap

[jelliesonline]

"Siggy... PHIDOOOOOO!!"

[mochaticat]

Homemade PFP dump :D

allo tumblr!

i'm Sunflower/S.J., and i like to make pfps :D

(you can use them if you want ehe :3)

[lugidog]

Day 709 - July 21, 2023

Been enjoying the ProZDPlaysGames playthrough of VLR. I like to think Zero III is the one calling everyone dumb dumbs whenever there's an announcement.

[incorrectfabfifteen]

Hello, welcome to Incorrect Fab Fifteen, a blog about all things Silver Age Teen Titans! I've come up with the term Fab Fifteen to broadly refer to all of the members (which I'll explain below) as well as a natural expansion of the Fab Five (plus, it's better than just calling them the OG Teen Titans or the 70s Team).

For DC newcomers, don't be afraid of some of the comic terminology present, they'll make sense with more exposure.

Introducing: The Fab Fifteen!

Dick Grayson

Full name: Richard John "Dick" Grayson

Alter Ego: Robin I, Nightwing, Batman III, Red X

Birthday: March 20th

Love interests: Bette Kane (Pre-Crisis), Princess Koriand'r, Barbara Gordon, Helena Bertinelli (DCYou), Bea Bennett [There's probably more, feel free to send an ask so I can fix this]

Reading recs: The Judas Contract, The Cheshire Contract [collected as Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies], Nightwing Vol 1 by Chuck Dixon, Batman & Robin, The Black Mirror, New 52 Nightwing by Kyle Higgens

Wally West

Full name: Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West

Alter Ego: Kid Flash I, The Flash III

Birthday: January 16

Love interests: Donna Troy (Pre-NTT), Rachel Roth (🤨?), Frances Kane, Linda Park, Jesse Chambers

Reading recs: Born To Run, Savage Velocity, The Flash by William Messner-Loebs and Greg LaRoque, The Flash by Mark Waid, Flash Forward, The Flash by Jeremy Adams (especially The Return of Wally West and One-Minute War)

Donna Troy

Full name: Donna Hinckley Stacy Troy

Alter ego: Wonder Girl, Troia (Who Is Wonder Girl? until Total Chaos; JLA/Titans until Infinite Crisis; No Justice onwards), Darkstar (Zero Hour until Meltdown), Wonder Woman IV (Who Is Wonder Woman?)

Birthday: April 26

Love interests (oh boy): Dick Grayson (FORMERLY), Wally West (only during the Silver Age + some weird thing during DC Rebirth), Garth (Titans 2018 + Titans United), Roy Harper, Kyle Rayner

Reading recs: Who Is Wonder Girl? [Collected in The New Teen Titans Who is Donna Troy?], Wonder Woman By John Byrne Vol. 3, The Return of Donna Troy, Wonder Woman: Who is Wonder Woman?, Titans: The Spark and Into The Bleed

Garth

Full name: Prince Garth of Shayeris

Alter ego: Aqualad (also legal name until Crisis), Tempest

Birthday: March 6

Love interests: Donna Troy, Tula Marinus, Dolphin, Lilith Clay (temporary)

Reading recs: World's Finest: Teen Titans, Death of a Prince, Tempest by Phil Jimenez, Aquaman by Peter David, JLA: The Obsidian Age, Aquaman: Underworld

Roy Harper

Full name: Roy William Harper Jr.

Alter ego: Speedy, Arsenal, Red Arrow

Birthday: November 1

Love interests: Donna Troy, Jade Nguyen, Kendra Saunders

Reading recs: Snowbirds Don't Fly, The Cheshire Contract [Collected as Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies], Arsenal by Devin Grayson, Outsiders 2003, Justice League of America 2007, Infinite Frontier, Green Arrow 2023

Lilith Clay

Full name: Lilith Jupiter-Clay

Alter ego: Omen

Birthday: Not stated but her debut was November 18

Love interests: Gnarrk, Donald Hall, Garth, Bette Kane

Reading recs: The Terror of Trigon, Teen Titans by Dan Jurgens, Teen Titans: Life and Death, Titans Hunt (2015), Titans Rebirth

Mal Duncan

Full name: Malcolm Arnold "Mal" Duncan

Alter ego: Guardian (Pre-Crisis), Hornblower, Herald (Post-Crisis), Vox (Infinite Crisis until Flashpoint)

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Karen Beecher

Reading recs: Silver Age Teen Titans, Titans Hunt, Titans Rebirth, The Other History of the DC Universe #2

Fun fact: Mal Duncan was featured in the first interracial kiss in comics history with a goodbye kiss between him and Lilith!

Karen Beecher

Full name: Karen Beecher-Duncan

Alter ego: Bumblebee

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Mal Duncan

Reading recs: Silver Age Teen Titans, Titans Hunt, Titans Rebirth, The Other History of the DC Universe #2, Doom Patrol by Keith Giffen

Don Hall

Full name: Donald Hall

Alter ego: Dove

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Lilith Clay

Reading recs: The Hawk & The Dove, Silver Age Teen Titans, Crisis on Infinite Earths

Hank Hall

Full name: Henry "Hank" Hall

Alter ego: Hawk, Monarch (Armageddon 2001), Extant (Zero Hour until JSA)

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Dawn Granger, Ren Takamori

Reading recs: The Hawk and The Dove, Hawk and Dove: Ghosts & Demons, Hawk and Dove (1989), Birds of Prey (2010)

Dawn Granger

Full name: Dawn Marie Granger

Alter ego: Dove

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Hank Hall, Sal Arsala

Reading recs: Hawk and Dove: Ghosts & Demons, Hawk and Dove (1989), Birds of Prey (2010)

Duela Dent

Full name: Duela Dent

Alter ego: Joker's/Riddler's/Penguin's Daughter, Card Queen, Harlequin

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Earth-1 Dick Grayson, Earth-3 Dick Grayson

Reading recs: Silver Age Teen Titans, Teen Titans: Titans East

Bette Kane

Full name: Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane

Alter ego: Batgirl (Pre-Crisis), Flamebird (Post-Crisis, current mantle), Hawkfire (N52 Batwoman only)

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Dick Grayson (Pre-Crisis)

Reading recs: Teen Titans Vol 1 #50-53, Hawk and Dove Vol 3 Annual 1, Beast Boy (2000), DC's Legion of Bloom

Charley Parker

Full name: Charles Edmund "Charley" Parker (human name); Ch'al Andar (Thanagarian name)

Alter ego: Golden Eagle, Hawkman IV (Rise of the Golden Eagle)

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Kendra Saunders (I think?)

Reading recs: Hawkman: Rise of the Golden Eagle,

Tula

Full name: Tula Marinus

Alter ego: Aquagirl

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Garth

Reading recs: Tempest by Phil Jimenez, New 52 Aquaman, Mera: Queen of Atlantus, Aquaman by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Aquamen

So a special note: despite Beast Boy being a part of the Titans West (as well as appearing in the above photograph), they do not count as part of the Fab Fifteen, mainly because he's already part of the New Teen Titans. Also note that this acc won't be using the New 52 version of Duela Dent (although the Gotham Knights version is fine so feel free to send in any hcs about her)

Also you maybe be asking why Gnarrk's entry is below instead of with everybody else. That's because Gnarrk was never a Titan in the first place. Sure, he appeared as part of the title and was there when the Titans West was formed but he never actually joined the team at all. Gnarrk becoming a Titan became a thing when he was introduced following the New 52.

Gnarrk

Full name: Unknown

Alter ego: Caveboy

Birthday: Not stated

Love interests: Lilith Clay

Reading recs: Titans Hunt (2015), Titans Rebirth

Uhh, yeah, so that's the Fab Fifteen! Again, don't worry about this technical jargon if you're a newcomer and you just wanna look at the other posts, we're all here to have fun.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Adam Zyglis :: @adamzyglis :: Department of Government Efficiency…

* * * *

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 13, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Feb 14, 2025

Four years ago today, on February 13, 2021, Senate Republicans acquitted former president Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial. Although 57 senators, including 7 Republicans, voted to convict Trump for launching the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, that vote did not reach the threshold of 67 votes—two thirds of the Senate—necessary to convict a president in an impeachment trial.

After the trial, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explained his refusal to convict by saying he did not believe the Senate could convict an ex-president, although McConnell had been instrumental in delaying the impeachment trial until Trump was out of office, perhaps out of concern about dividing the Republican Party between pro-Trump MAGAs and his own establishment wing. McConnell acquitted Trump but, after the vote, blamed Trump alone for the events of January 6, calling his behavior “unconscionable” but adding: “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”

Four years later, Trump is back in the White House, and today McConnell provided the only Republican vote against confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the secretary of health and human services, just as yesterday he provided the only Republican vote against the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.

Of Kennedy’s confirmation, Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said to his colleagues: “It’s truly astounding that the Senate stands on the brink of confirming Mr. Kennedy to lead America’s public health agencies. And if the Senate weren’t gripped in this soon-to-be infamous period of total capitulation, I don’t think this nominee would have made it as far as a hearing…. If I’d told you a couple of years ago, ‘There’s a guy who’s been nominated to run public health nationwide. His job will be to protect American families from death and disease. He’s going to run the whole public health system: Medicare, Medicaid, the C[enters] for D[isease] C[ontrol and Prevention], the N[ational] I[nstitutes of] H[ealth]—all of it. He’ll decide how we protect the country from infectious disease, he’ll set the rules for every hospital in the country, he’ll decide what healthcare and medicines get covered by Medicare, he’ll manage our response in the event of a pandemic.’ And then I told you,… ‘Well,... there are a few concerns about this nominee. First of all, zero relevant experience. He’s a trial lawyer, a politician from a famous family. No medical or scientific background, he’s never run a hospital or a health system or anything like that. Second of all… he’s said some pretty wild stuff about public health, over and over and over again, like: he proposed that Covid-19 might be ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews. Ethnically targeted to spare Jews. He said Lyme disease was a military bioweapon. For years he’s been persuading American families against routine childhood immunizations. He’s compared the work of the CDC to ‘Nazi death camps.’... If a couple of years ago I told you all that, and I told you that the Senate was about to put America’s health in this man’s hands, you’d probably tell me the Senate has lost its mind.”

All the Senate Republicans but McConnell voted to confirm Kennedy.

But while Senate Republicans are enabling the Trump administration, a significant revolt against it took place today in New York City and Washington, D.C., when at least six prosecutors resigned in protest after Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, ordered them to dismiss corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams.

In September 2024, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted Adams on five counts of wire fraud, campaign finance offenses, and bribery. According to then–U.S. attorney Damian Williams, “Adams abused his position as this City’s highest elected official…to take bribes and solicit illegal campaign contributions. By allegedly taking improper and illegal benefits from foreign nationals—including to allow a Manhattan skyscraper to open without a fire inspection—Adams put the interests of his benefactors, including a foreign official, above those of his constituents.”

But on February 10, 2025, Bove directed acting interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, who was elevated by the Trump administration just last month, to dismiss the charges against Adams. That same day, Adams told top New York City officials to stay out of the way of immigration enforcement and to refrain from criticizing President Trump.

Yesterday, February 12, Sassoon wrote an 8-page letter of protest to Attorney General Pam Bondi about the order to drop charges against Adams, but to keep open the possibility of future prosecution. She noted that “the evidence against Adams…proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes” and suggested that Bove and the Trump administration proposed “dismissing the charges against Adams in return for his assistance in enforcing the federal immigration laws.” “[T]he rule of law depends upon the evenhanded administration of justice,” Sassoon wrote, and the “legal judgments of the Department of Justice must be impartial and insulated from political influence.”

“But Adams has argued in substance—and Mr. Bove appears prepared to concede—that Adams should receive leniency for federal crimes solely because he occupies an important public position and can use that position to assist in the Administration's policy priorities.” Sassoon called Adams’s offer of help to the Trump administration “an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for the dismissal of his case.” She recounted a meeting on January 31 with Bove, Adams’s lawyers, and members of her office, in which Adams’s lawyers repeatedly offered an exchange, “indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.” Bove ordered the confiscation of notes of the meeting taken by a member of Sassoon’s team.

“Because the law does not support a dismissal, and because I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged,” Sassoon wrote, “I cannot agree to seek a dismissal.” She continued: “I remain baffled by the rushed and superficial process by which this decision was reached, in seeming collaboration with Adams’s counsel….” But if Attorney General Bondi was unwilling to meet or reconsider the dismissal, Sassoon wrote, she was “prepared to offer my resignation.”

Today, in a defensive 8-page letter, Bove attacked Sassoon and accepted her resignation, claiming she was “pursuing a politically motivated prosecution,” and dismissed her suggestion “that you retain discretion to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the politics of a democratically elected President and a Senate-confirmed Attorney General.”

Bove transferred the Adams case to the Public Integrity Section (PIN) in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Rather than dismiss the case, the chief of the Public Integrity Section and the senior career official in the Criminal Division, as well as three of the deputy chiefs at PIN, also resigned. A fourth was giving birth, but Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News reported that she was expected to resign when she was able.

Today, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro sued the Trump administration to guarantee the release of more than $3 billion allocated to Pennsylvania’s state agencies. Shapiro noted that multiple federal judges have ordered administration officials to release the funding they have impounded, but that funding has not been restored. The lawsuit details the programs funded with federal money, including repairing abandoned mining lands and contaminated waterways, plugging abandoned oil and gas wells, upgrading energy efficiency for up to 28,000 low-income households to lower utility bills, and so on.

The lawsuit reiterates that “unilaterally suspending funds…violates the U.S. Constitution,” which gives Congress alone the power to write the laws that appropriate funding.

Also today, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the Trump administration to disburse the foreign aid it has impounded. As Lindsay Whitehurst and Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press note, the judge rejected the administration's argument that it impounded funds to review each program. He said officials “have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around the country, was a rational precursor to reviewing programs.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[luvhaileyz]

trigerring marauders fans: i despise fanon marauders. this is more like my opinion on the fans rather than the fandom itself but anyways.

i. characters were ruined.

firstly, our main characters: the 4 marauders themselves. why does every single body in this fandom believe they are all gay. remus and james are canonly straight. i despise the fact that people believe regulus & james are true loves and wolfstar is basically canon when in reality the canon thing is jily and remadora. i may not like jily but at least i can accept the fact that it's canon. people go as far as saying you're homophobic when the only thing you said is "i dislike wolfstar" (based on true events). hated how the fanon marauders had zero personality and were treated like gods who only had a small flaw and that is bullying a person that had gone through enough hardship at home and the only reason it started was that snape wished to be in slytherin.

secondly, the not-much-screentime-but-still-important: lily evans. all i have to say is: she is canonly straight and died before taylor swift was even born so she would never get the chance to become a swiftie like yall's "headcanons".

thirdly, the this-was-entirely-made-up: the bunch of barty crouch jr., regulus black, evan rosier (i forgot his name but its that evan guy), pandora lovegood (she was mentioned for half a second in the books), dorcas meadowes, frank & alice longbottom, mary mcdonald. these are the people that were mentioned in the books for half a second and yall made them a whole alternative universe where evan rosier and barty crouch are dating and then theres mary/lily or dorcas/lily or mary/dorcas and all that. sometimes i appreciate yall's creativity.

ii. the fans

here is a list that will automatically get you hatred from 99.9% of the fandom:

being against wolfstar

being against jegulus

being against mary/lily or dorcas/lily or mary/dorcas (idk their ship names)

shipping remadora because rEmUs LoVeS sIrIuS!!!

saying characters such as lily, james, remus were canonly straight.

disliking the swiftie lily headcanon

shipping snily

being a snape fan

i can go on for three years but this is getting long so lets just go to my next point.

iii. the bullying of snape

stfu and stop excusing every single action james & sirius did to snape because "tHeY wErE kIdS!!" did you know snape was also their age? sure they grew up to be more mature but that surely does not mean their past actions should go down the drain and disappear like it was never there. james and sirius literally hung him upside down, was partially the reason why snape lost his only friend, hung snape upside down for their own entertainment, making snape face even more hardships at hogwarts when he was looking forward to escape his abusive household (just because he wanted to be in slytherin).

that is all for today, now thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[wolfgabe]

Astro Bot VIP list Nintendo Edition

Been watching gameplay of Astro Bot on PS5 and now I want to see Nintendo make their own celebration game that is filled with Nintendo character cameos complete with deep cut nods

Super Mario VIPs

Mario

Luigi

Peach

Toad

Captain Toad

Bowser

Bowser Jr

Koopa Troopa

Goomba

Daisy

Waluigi

Wario

Rosalina

Luma

Foreman Spike

Eggplant Man

Yoshi

Kamek

Cappy

Paper Mario

Geno

Legend of Zelda VIPs

Link

Zelda

Ganondorf

Tingle

Tetra

Skull Kid

Epona

Daruk

Mipha

Revali

Urbosa

Guardian Stalker

Koroks

King of Red Lions

Midna

Zant

Happy Mask Salesman

Fierce Diety

Donkey Kong VIPs

Donkey Kong

Diddy Kong

Cranky Kong

Funky Kong

Dixie Kong

Kiddie Kong

King K Rool

Kritter

Rambi

Metroid VIPs

Samus

Zero Suit Samus

Dark Samus

Sylux

Ridley

Kraid

Mother Brain

Raven Beak

SA-X

Metroids

Adam Malkovich

Xenoblade Series VIPs

Shulk

Reyn

Fiora

Dunban

Rex

Pyra

Mythra

Malos

Jin

Noah

Mio

Animal Crossing VIPs

Tom Nook

Tommy and Timmy Nook

Mr Resetti

Rover

Blathers

Celeste

Brewster

Crazy Redd

Villager (Male)

Villager (Female)

Blanca

Tortimer

Isabelle

KK Slider

Splatoon VIPs

Inkling Boy

Inkling Girl

Octoling

Callie

Marie

Pearl

Marina

Shiver

Frye

Big Man

Sheldon

DJ Octavio

Mr Grizz

Captain Cuttlefish

Judd

Lil Judd

Fire Emblem VIPs

Marth

Roy

Ike

Lucina

Chrom

Robin

Lynn

Corrin

Ryoma

Xander

Takumi

Byleth

Sothis

Dmitri

Claude

Edelgard

Kirby VIPs

Kirby

King Dedede

Meta Knight

Bandana Waddle Dee

Whispy Woods

Marx

Magolor

Taranza

Queen Sectonia

Susie

President Haltmann

Three Mage Sisters

Elfilin

Pokemon VIPs

Pikachu

Bulbasaur

Squirtle

Charmander

Meowth

Pokemon Trainer

Mew

Mewtwo

Detective Pikachu

Star Fox VIPs

Fox

Falco

Peppy Hare

Slippy Toad

General Pepper

Andross

Krystal

Wolf

Leon

Pigma

Prince Tricky

Earthbound/MOTHER VIPs

Ness

Paula

Jeff

Poo

Mr Saturn

Ninten

Anna

Lloyd

Teddy

EVE

Lucas

Duster

Kumatora

Boney

Porky

F-Zero VIPs

Captain Falcon

Pico

Samurai Goro

Dr Stewart

Black Shadow

Blood Falcon

Mr EAD

Kid Icarus VIPs

Pit

Palutena

Medusa

Dark Pit

Hades

Viridi

Super Smash Bros series VIPs

Master Hand

Crazy Hand

Fighting Polygon

Fighting Wire Frame

Alloy Fighter

Ancient Minister

Primid

Tabuu

Pikmin VIPs

Olimar

Louie

Alph

Charlie

Brittany

The President

Red Pikmin

Blue Pikmin

Yellow Pikmin

Purple Pikmin

White Pikmin

Winged Pikmin

Rock Pikmin

Ice Pikmin

Glow Pikmin

Oatchi

Moss

NES/Famicom era VIPs

Excitebike Racer

Diskun

Hockey Player

Volleyball Player

Baseball Player

Bubbles

Ice Climbers

Ayumi Tachibana

Gumshoe

Duck Hunt Dog

Balloon Fighter

R.O.B

Professor Hector

Urban Champion Fighter

Sherriff

Tamagon

Devil

Mach Rider

Takamaru

Famicom Wars Soldier

Sukapon

Punch Out!! VIPs

Little Mac

Doc Louis

Glass Joe

King Hippo

Bald Bull

Don Flamenco

Mr Dream

ARMS VIPs

Spring Man

Ribbon Girl

Min Min

Helix

Max Brass

Helix

Dr Coyle

Hedlok

Other VIPs

Dillon

Ashley Robbins

Mr Game and Watch

Tethu from Ever Oasis

Wii Fit Trainer

Dr Wright

X Commander

Sable Prince

F-Type Car

Ray Mk III

Isacc from Golden Sun

Starfy

Starly

Moe the Clam

Lip

Karate Joe

Chorus Kids

Cubivore Pig

Chibi Robo

Dr Kawashima

Nintendog

Elite Beat Agents

T-Rex

Captain Rainbow

Zip

Mallo

Nikki

Jill from Drill Dozer

Qbby

Arcade Bunny from Nintendo Badge Arcade

Third Party VIPs

Sonic the Hedgehog

Billy Hatcher

Jason from Blaster Master

Hebe

Simon Belmont

Mega Man

Commander Video

Shovel Knight

Wonder Red

Wonder Blue

Bayonetta

Galaga Ship

Bomberman

Mega Man

Shantae

Erdrick

Banjo and Kazooie

Cuphead

[ao3feed-cockles]

Stories from Tumblr

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/56008546

by MickMarsFanGurl1313

Words: 47746, Chapters: 21/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), KISS (US Band), Ghost (Sweden Band)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: Eric Singer (KISS), Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley (KISS), Peter Criss (KISS), Eric Carr, Bruce Kulick, Misha Collins, Jensen Ackles, West Collins, Maison Collins, Cardinal Copia | Papa Emeritus IV, Sister Imperator (Ghost Sweden Band), Papa Emeritus III, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Darius Marder, Nameless Ghoul(s), Nameless Ghoulette(s), Cumulus (Ghost Sweden Band), Dewdrop | Sodo, Papa Emeritus Zero | Papa Emeritus Nihil, Papa Emeritus I, Papa Emeritus II, Aether (Ghost Sweden Band), Mary Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural), Jody Mills, Bobby Singer (Supernatural)

Relationships: Eric Singer (KISS)/Original Character(s), Gene Simmons/Eric Singer, Gene Simmons/Peter Criss, Rob Benedict/Richard Speight Jr., Gabriel/Sam Winchester, Jensen Ackles/Misha Collins, Castiel/Dean Winchester, Rob Benedict/Jaci Hays/Richard Speight Jr.

Additional Tags: Heavy Angst, Mpreg, Childbirth, Morning Sickness, Abusive Relationships, Panic Attacks, Explicit Language, Character Death, Death in Childbirth, Cheating, Blackmail

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/56008546

[laf-outloud]

https://www.tumblr.com/laf-outloud/731264542247632896

Gino can say whatever he wants, but the business is still public record and until Jensen is removed from ownership ON PAPER he is still an owner. And his name is still all over the paperwork.

Although to be fair, this might be an issue of semantics in a way. Now, I generally put pretty much zero stock in anything that Will says, but in this instance he kinda provided receipts:

https://teamfreewill2pointo.tumblr.com/post/724317956826415104

It looks like Gino might actually be Edward Graul III and his and D's dad is Edward Graul Jr. There was both a EG III and an EG Jr listed at points for FBBC but the Jr was removed and III stayed. By naming "rules", since they were the only two male Graul's involved (originally it was JA, DA, Gino, and both Ed and Deborah Graul), it would make sense that Gino is actually EG III. So he very well could still be an owner. But so is Jensen. If this info above is correct then the owners on paper currently are Jensen and Gino.

Basically all this to say that yes, Gino actually might be an owner of FBBC, but SO IS JENSEN. And lets be really real here, who do we think put up almost all of the collateral to start the business? Jensen. Gino might technically have ownership, but Jensen is the one deeply tied into the business.

Ah, I see. And yes, I doubt Gino holds the majority stake, or is even equal partners in the financial ownership. Either way, that still doesn't absolve one partner from allowing the other to run the business so haphazardly.

[braveryhearted]

MUSE LIST AND AVAILBILTY

**SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

ANIME & MANGA

DEATH NOTE Light Yagami-Secondary L Lawliet / Ryugazaki-Secondary Misa Amane-Secondary

THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA Tsuruya-Secondary Kyon-Secondary

OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB Haruhi Fujioka-Secondary Tamaki Suou-Secondary Kyoya Ootori-Primary

BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA Tenya Iida-Secondary Tamaki Amajiki-Request

JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE Johnathan Joestar-Secondary Joeseph Joestar ( Part 2 only )-Secondary Jotaro Kujo ( Part 3 only )-Primary Giorno Giovanna-Secondary Trish Una- Secondary Diego Brando-Primary

FREE!! IWATOBI SWIM CLUB Rei Ryugazaki-Request

FRUITS BASKET Yuuki Sohma-Request

BLACK BUTLER Sebastian Michaelis-Primary Madame Red-Secondary Lau-Secondary Ronald Knox-Request

SAILOR MOON Usagi Tsukino-Primary Rei Hino-Request

SOUL EATER Death the Kid-Primary Maka Albarn-Primary

FULL METAL ALCHEMIST Ling Yao-Primary Edward Elric-Primary Roy Mustang-Secondary

GINTAMA Gintoki Sakata-Primary Hijikata Toshiro-Secondary Sougo Okita-Secondary Kamui-Request Takasugi Shinsuke-Secondary Tae Shumura-Secondary

MOB PSYCHO 100 Ritsu Kageyama-Request Reigen Arataka-Primary Shigeo / Mob Kageyama-Primary

SLAYERS Lina Inverse-Primary Xelloss-Primary Zelgadiss Greywords-Primary Naga the Serpent-Secondary

SKIP BEAT Kyoko Mogami-Secondary Ren Tsugura-Request Reino-Request

HORIMIYA Izumi Miyamura-Request

SK8 INFINITY / SKATE THE INFINITY Langa Hasegawa / Snow-Request Tadashi Kikuchi / Snake-Request Ainosuke Shindo / Adam-Primary

BLEACH Byakuya Kuchiki-Primary Kaien Shiba-Secondary Ichigo Kurosaki-Secondary Sousuke Aizen-Secondary

TIGER & BUNNY Barnaby Brooks Jr.-Primary Karine Lyle / Blue Rose-Secondary Ryan Goldsmith / Golden Ryan-Secondary Yuri Petrov / Lunatic-Secondary

FAIRY TAIL Gray Fullbuster-Primary Jellal Fernandez-Secondary Lucy Heartfillia-Secondary Loke-Primary

DETECTIVE CONAN / MAGIC KAITO Ai Haibara / Shiho Miyano-Secondary Heiji Hattori-Secondary Saguru Hakuba-Primary Akako Koizumi-Secondary

TRIGUN

Meryl Stryfe-Primary Vash ( Stampede ) Saverem -Primary Knives Millions-Seconday

CHAINSAW MAN

Kobeni Higashiyama-Secondary Asa Mitaka-Secondary Denji ( Hayakawa )-Primary

NARUTO

Hinata Hyuuga-Request Itachi Uchiha-Primary

TRINITY BLOOD

Abel Knightlord-Primary Cain Knightlord-Primary Ion Fortuna-Request Esther Blanchett-Primary

JUJUTSU KAISEN

Maki Zenin-Secondary Satoru Gojo-Primary Kento Nanami-Secondary Suguru Geto-Request

BLACK CLOVER

Asta-Primary

SNOW WHITE WITH THE RED HAIR

Zen Wisteria-Primary Shirayuki-Primary

CORRECTOR YUI

Yui Kasuga / Corrector Yui-Primary Synchro-Secondary Control-Secondary

CODE GEASS Lelouch vi Britannia / Zero-Secondary Suzaku Kururugi-Secondary

BLUE EXORCIST

Rin Okumura-Secondary

MLB

Adrien Agreste-Request

SPY X FAMILY

Yor Briar / Forger-Primary

TRC

Fai D. Flourite / YUI-Secondary

ONE PIECE

Tashigi-Primary Uta-Secondary

PRETEAR

Himeno Awayuki-Secondary

TOKYO GHOUL

Ken Kaneki-Secondary

D-GRAY MAN

Miranda Lotto-Primary Lavi ( real name redacted ) Bookman-Secondary Arystar Krory III-Request

DANDADAN

Momo Ayase-Secondary Ken Takakura / Okarun-Primary Jin Enjoji / Jiji-Secondary

VIDEO GAMES

FINAL FANTASY SERIES Sephiroth-Request Noctis Lucis Caelum-Primary Zidane-Secondary Aerith Gainsborough-Secondary Vincent Valentine-Primary Clive Rosfield-Primary Cidolfus Telamon-Primary

FIRE EMBLEM SERIES Micaiah-Primary Charlotte-Secondary Celica-Secondary Niles / Zero-Primary Hilda Valentine Goneril-Request Ferdinand von Aegir-Secondary Griss / Gregory-Primary Alcryst-Primary Diamant-Primary Ephraim-Secondary F! Alear-Primary F! Robin-Secondary

ACE ATTORNEY SERIES Phoenix Wright-Secondary Athena Cykes-Primary Simon Blackquill-Primary Franziska von Karma-Secondary Herlock Sholmes-Secondary

PERSONA SERIES Maya Amano-Primary Akihiko Sanada-Primary Mitsuru Kirijo-Primary Sho Minazuki-Secondary Labrys-Primary Naoto Shirogane-Secondary Yukiko Amagi-Primary Tohru Adachi-Secondary Toshiro Kasukabe-Primary Wonder- Request Haru Okumura-Primary Futaba Sakura-Seconday Sophia-Secondary Goro Akechi-Request Takuto Maruki- Secondary Zenkichi Hasegawa-Primary Akira Konoe-Request Sumire Yoshizawa-Secondary

SMT SERIES Aogami-Secondary Hayao Koshimizu-Request Nanashi / Akira-Secondary Dagda-Request Nozomi-Request Asahi-Secondary

DANGANRONPA SERIES Byakuya Togami-Request Junk Enoshima-Secondary Kaede Akamatsu-Request

DEVIL MAY CRY SERIES Nero de Angelo-Secondary Dante Sparda-Primary Lady / Mary-Request V & Vergil Sparda-Primary

TWEWY: NEO Sho Minamimoto -Secondary Nagi Usui -Secondary Shoka Sakurane -Secondary Rindo Kanade -Secondary Hishima Sakazuki -Secondary

TALES OF

Jude Mathis-Secondary Alphen-Secondary Law-Secondary

RESIDENT EVIL SERIES

Karl Heisenburg -Primary Ethan Winters -Secondary Leon Kennedy -Secondary Clair Redfield-Request Jill Valentine-Request Albert Wesker-Primary

DOT HACK GU Haseo-Primary Atoli-Secondary Ovan-Primary

BAULDER’S GATE 3 Astarion Ancunín-Primary Shadowheart-Request Tav / Serenity Caldwell-Primary

FNAF MOVIE Mike Schmitt-Request

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA

Link ( Twilight Princess )-Secondary

TWISTED WONDERLAND

Skully J. Graves-Secondary Deuce Spade-Request Idia Shroud-Secondary

METAPHOR: REFANTAZIO

Leon Strohl da Haliaetus-Primary Louis Guiabern-Primary Juani Cygnus-Second

SONIC SERIES

Shadow the Hedgehog-Secondary

AMNESIA MEMORIES Ikki ( Ikkyu )-Primary Kento-Primary Ukyo-Primary Sumire Kurusu / MC-Request

MYSTIC MESSENGER

Jumin Han-Secondary Hana Kang-Request

the ARCANA

Julian Devorak-Secondary Count Lucio-Secondary Zara / the Arcana Main Character-Request

OBEY ME! SHALL WE DATE?

Lucifer-Request

COLLAR X MALLICE

Kei Okazaki-Request Aiji Yanagi-Request Takeru Sazasuka-Request Kageyuki Shiraishi-Request Ichika Hoshino-Request

CAFE ENCHANTE

Canus Espada-Secondary

PIOFIORE: FATED MEMORIES

Nicola Francesca-Secondary Henri Lambert-Request Dante Falzone-Request Yang-Request Lilianna Adornato-Primary

STEAM PRISON

Eltcreed Valentine-Secondary Cyrus-Request

CUPID PARASITE

Shelby S.-Primary Raul Aconite-Primary Peter Flage / Jupiter-Primary Allan Melville-Request Lynette Mirror / Cupid-Primary

LOVE & DEEPSPACE

Rafayel-Primary MC / Kasumi Kurusu-Secondary Sylus-Secondary Galen Zayne & Dawnbreaker Zayne-Request

DIALOVERS

Yui Komori-Secondary Reiji Sakamaki-Secondary

CODE REALIZE

Cardia Beckford-Secondary Abraham Van Helsing-Secondary

POKEMON SERIES

Wes: Pokemon Colosseum-Secondary Kotone: Pokemon Heartgold & Soulsilver-Secondary

HUNDRED LINE

Darumi Amemiya-Secondary Hiruko Shizuhara-Request Takumi Sumino-Primary Yugamu Omokage-Request V'ehxness-Secondary Eito Aotsuki-Secondary Karua Kashimiya-Request

TOKYO MIRAGE SESSIONS

Itsuki Aoi-Primary Kiria Kurono-Primary Yashiro Tsurugi-Request Tsubasa Oribe-Request

MISC SERIES.

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS

Jinu-Primary Rumi-Secondary Mira-Request Abby-Request Bobby-Request

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February 13, 2025 

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

FEB 14

Four years ago today, on February 13, 2021, Senate Republicans acquitted former president Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial. Although 57 senators, including 7 Republicans, voted to convict Trump for launching the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, that vote did not reach the threshold of 67 votes—two thirds of the Senate—necessary to convict a president in an impeachment trial.

After the trial, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explained his refusal to convict by saying he did not believe the Senate could convict an ex-president, although McConnell had been instrumental in delaying the impeachment trial until Trump was out of office, perhaps out of concern about dividing the Republican Party between pro-Trump MAGAs and his own establishment wing. McConnell acquitted Trump but, after the vote, blamed Trump alone for the events of January 6, calling his behavior “unconscionable” but adding: “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”

Four years later, Trump is back in the White House, and today McConnell provided the only Republican vote against confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the secretary of health and human services, just as yesterday he provided the only Republican vote against the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.

Of Kennedy’s confirmation, Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said to his colleagues: “It’s truly astounding that the Senate stands on the brink of confirming Mr. Kennedy to lead America’s public health agencies. And if the Senate weren’t gripped in this soon-to-be infamous period of total capitulation, I don’t think this nominee would have made it as far as a hearing…. If I’d told you a couple of years ago, ‘There’s a guy who’s been nominated to run public health nationwide. His job will be to protect American families from death and disease. He’s going to run the whole public health system: Medicare, Medicaid, the C[enters] for D[isease] C[ontrol and Prevention], the N[ational] I[nstitutes of] H[ealth]—all of it. He’ll decide how we protect the country from infectious disease, he’ll set the rules for every hospital in the country, he’ll decide what healthcare and medicines get covered by Medicare, he’ll manage our response in the event of a pandemic.’ And then I told you,… ‘Well,... there are a few concerns about this nominee. First of all, zero relevant experience. He’s a trial lawyer, a politician from a famous family. No medical or scientific background, he’s never run a hospital or a health system or anything like that. Second of all… he’s said some pretty wild stuff about public health, over and over and over again, like: he proposed that Covid-19 might be ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews. Ethnically targeted to spare Jews. He said Lyme disease was a military bioweapon. For years he’s been persuading American families against routine childhood immunizations. He’s compared the work of the CDC to ‘Nazi death camps.’... If a couple of years ago I told you all that, and I told you that the Senate was about to put America’s health in this man’s hands, you’d probably tell me the Senate has lost its mind.”

All the Senate Republicans but McConnell voted to confirm Kennedy.

But while Senate Republicans are enabling the Trump administration, a significant revolt against it took place today in New York City and Washington, D.C., when at least six prosecutors resigned in protest after Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, ordered them to dismiss corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams.

In September 2024, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted Adams on five counts of wire fraud, campaign finance offenses, and bribery. According to then–U.S. attorney Damian Williams, “Adams abused his position as this City’s highest elected official…to take bribes and solicit illegal campaign contributions. By allegedly taking improper and illegal benefits from foreign nationals—including to allow a Manhattan skyscraper to open without a fire inspection—Adams put the interests of his benefactors, including a foreign official, above those of his constituents.”

But on February 10, 2025, Bove directed acting interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, who was elevated by the Trump administration just last month, to dismiss the charges against Adams. That same day, Adams told top New York City officials to stay out of the way of immigration enforcement and to refrain from criticizing President Trump.

Yesterday, February 12, Sassoon wrote an 8-page letter of protest to Attorney General Pam Bondi about the order to drop charges against Adams, but to keep open the possibility of future prosecution. She noted that “the evidence against Adams…proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes” and suggested that Bove and the Trump administration proposed “dismissing the charges against Adams in return for his assistance in enforcing the federal immigration laws.” “[T]he rule of law depends upon the evenhanded administration of justice,” Sassoon wrote, and the “legal judgments of the Department of Justice must be impartial and insulated from political influence.”

“But Adams has argued in substance—and Mr. Bove appears prepared to concede—that Adams should receive leniency for federal crimes solely because he occupies an important public position and can use that position to assist in the Administration's policy priorities.” Sassoon called Adams’s offer of help to the Trump administration “an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for the dismissal of his case.” She recounted a meeting on January 31 with Bove, Adams’s lawyers, and members of her office, in which Adams’s lawyers repeatedly offered an exchange, “indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.” Bove ordered the confiscation of notes of the meeting taken by a member of Sassoon’s team.

“Because the law does not support a dismissal, and because I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged,” Sassoon wrote, “I cannot agree to seek a dismissal.” She continued: “I remain baffled by the rushed and superficial process by which this decision was reached, in seeming collaboration with Adams’s counsel….” But if Attorney General Bondi was unwilling to meet or reconsider the dismissal, Sassoon wrote, she was “prepared to offer my resignation.”

Today, in a defensive 8-page letter, Bove attacked Sassoon and accepted her resignation, claiming she was “pursuing a politically motivated prosecution,” and dismissed her suggestion “that you retain discretion to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the politics of a democratically elected President and a Senate-confirmed Attorney General.”

Bove transferred the Adams case to the Public Integrity Section (PIN) in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Rather than dismiss the case, the chief of the Public Integrity Section and the senior career official in the Criminal Division, as well as three of the deputy chiefs at PIN, also resigned. A fourth was giving birth, but Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News reported that she was expected to resign when she was able.

Today, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro sued the Trump administration to guarantee the release of more than $3 billion allocated to Pennsylvania’s state agencies. Shapiro noted that multiple federal judges have ordered administration officials to release the funding they have impounded, but that funding has not been restored. The lawsuit details the programs funded with federal money, including repairing abandoned mining lands and contaminated waterways, plugging abandoned oil and gas wells, upgrading energy efficiency for up to 28,000 low-income households to lower utility bills, and so on.

The lawsuit reiterates that “unilaterally suspending funds…violates the U.S. Constitution,” which gives Congress alone the power to write the laws that appropriate funding.

Also today, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the Trump administration to disburse the foreign aid it has impounded. As Lindsay Whitehurst and Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press note, the judge rejected the administration's argument that it impounded funds to review each program. He said officials “have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around the country, was a rational precursor to reviewing programs.”

—

[4bttnra]

Heather Cox Richardson

February 13, 2025 (Thursday)

Four years ago today, on February 13, 2021, Senate Republicans acquitted former president Donald Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial. Although 57 senators, including 7 Republicans, voted to convict Trump for launching the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, that vote did not reach the threshold of 67 votes—two thirds of the Senate—necessary to convict a president in an impeachment trial.

After the trial, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explained his refusal to convict by saying he did not believe the Senate could convict an ex-president, although McConnell had been instrumental in delaying the impeachment trial until Trump was out of office, perhaps out of concern about dividing the Republican Party between pro-Trump MAGAs and his own establishment wing. McConnell acquitted Trump but, after the vote, blamed Trump alone for the events of January 6, calling his behavior “unconscionable” but adding: “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”

Four years later, Trump is back in the White House, and today McConnell provided the only Republican vote against confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the secretary of health and human services, just as yesterday he provided the only Republican vote against the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.

Of Kennedy’s confirmation, Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said to his colleagues: “It’s truly astounding that the Senate stands on the brink of confirming Mr. Kennedy to lead America’s public health agencies. And if the Senate weren’t gripped in this soon-to-be infamous period of total capitulation, I don’t think this nominee would have made it as far as a hearing…. If I’d told you a couple of years ago, ‘There’s a guy who’s been nominated to run public health nationwide. His job will be to protect American families from death and disease. He’s going to run the whole public health system: Medicare, Medicaid, the C[enters] for D[isease] C[ontrol and Prevention], the N[ational] I[nstitutes of] H[ealth]—all of it. He’ll decide how we protect the country from infectious disease, he’ll set the rules for every hospital in the country, he’ll decide what healthcare and medicines get covered by Medicare, he’ll manage our response in the event of a pandemic.’ And then I told you,… ‘Well,... there are a few concerns about this nominee. First of all, zero relevant experience. He’s a trial lawyer, a politician from a famous family. No medical or scientific background, he’s never run a hospital or a health system or anything like that. Second of all… he’s said some pretty wild stuff about public health, over and over and over again, like: he proposed that Covid-19 might be ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews. Ethnically targeted to spare Jews. He said Lyme disease was a military bioweapon. For years he’s been persuading American families against routine childhood immunizations. He’s compared the work of the CDC to ‘Nazi death camps.’... If a couple of years ago I told you all that, and I told you that the Senate was about to put America’s health in this man’s hands, you’d probably tell me the Senate has lost its mind.”

All the Senate Republicans but McConnell voted to confirm Kennedy.

But while Senate Republicans are enabling the Trump administration, a significant revolt against it took place today in New York City and Washington, D.C., when at least six prosecutors resigned in protest after Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, ordered them to dismiss corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams.

In September 2024, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted Adams on five counts of wire fraud, campaign finance offenses, and bribery. According to then–U.S. attorney Damian Williams, “Adams abused his position as this City’s highest elected official…to take bribes and solicit illegal campaign contributions. By allegedly taking improper and illegal benefits from foreign nationals—including to allow a Manhattan skyscraper to open without a fire inspection—Adams put the interests of his benefactors, including a foreign official, above those of his constituents.”

But on February 10, 2025, Bove directed acting interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon, who was elevated by the Trump administration just last month, to dismiss the charges against Adams. That same day, Adams told top New York City officials to stay out of the way of immigration enforcement and to refrain from criticizing President Trump.

Yesterday, February 12, Sassoon wrote an 8-page letter of protest to Attorney General Pam Bondi about the order to drop charges against Adams, but to keep open the possibility of future prosecution. She noted that “the evidence against Adams…proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes” and suggested that Bove and the Trump administration proposed “dismissing the charges against Adams in return for his assistance in enforcing the federal immigration laws.” “[T]he rule of law depends upon the evenhanded administration of justice,” Sassoon wrote, and the “legal judgments of the Department of Justice must be impartial and insulated from political influence.”

“But Adams has argued in substance—and Mr. Bove appears prepared to concede—that Adams should receive leniency for federal crimes solely because he occupies an important public position and can use that position to assist in the Administration's policy priorities.” Sassoon called Adams’s offer of help to the Trump administration “an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for the dismissal of his case.” She recounted a meeting on January 31 with Bove, Adams’s lawyers, and members of her office, in which Adams’s lawyers repeatedly offered an exchange, “indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.” Bove ordered the confiscation of notes of the meeting taken by a member of Sassoon’s team.

“Because the law does not support a dismissal, and because I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged,” Sassoon wrote, “I cannot agree to seek a dismissal.” She continued: “I remain baffled by the rushed and superficial process by which this decision was reached, in seeming collaboration with Adams’s counsel….” But if Attorney General Bondi was unwilling to meet or reconsider the dismissal, Sassoon wrote, she was “prepared to offer my resignation.”

Today, in a defensive 8-page letter, Bove attacked Sassoon and accepted her resignation, claiming she was “pursuing a politically motivated prosecution,” and dismissed her suggestion “that you retain discretion to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the politics of a democratically elected President and a Senate-confirmed Attorney General.”

Bove transferred the Adams case to the Public Integrity Section (PIN) in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Rather than dismiss the case, the chief of the Public Integrity Section and the senior career official in the Criminal Division, as well as three of the deputy chiefs at PIN, also resigned. A fourth was giving birth, but Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News reported that she was expected to resign when she was able.

Today, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro sued the Trump administration to guarantee the release of more than $3 billion allocated to Pennsylvania’s state agencies. Shapiro noted that multiple federal judges have ordered administration officials to release the funding they have impounded, but that funding has not been restored. The lawsuit details the programs funded with federal money, including repairing abandoned mining lands and contaminated waterways, plugging abandoned oil and gas wells, upgrading energy efficiency for up to 28,000 low-income households to lower utility bills, and so on.

The lawsuit reiterates that “unilaterally suspending funds…violates the U.S. Constitution,” which gives Congress alone the power to write the laws that appropriate funding.

Also today, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the Trump administration to disburse the foreign aid it has impounded. As Lindsay Whitehurst and Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press note, the judge rejected the administration's argument that it impounded funds to review each program. He said officials “have not offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shockwave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around the country, was a rational precursor to reviewing programs.”

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A Wrap-Up of What I Wrote in 2016

Before we dive into what I've watched in 2025, let's recap what I had written prior to 2024.

2016

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Bob Backlund, UWF, 12/22/88

Eita vs. Ciclon Ramirez, Jr., Dragon Gate, 3/28/16

Paige vs. Emma, WWE Main Event, 4/8/16

Will O’Spreay vs. Mandrews, TNA Xplosion, 4/8/16

Yuji Okabayashi vs. Ryota Hama, BJW Ikkitousen Strong Climb 2016, 4/9/16

The Wolves vs. Will O’Spreay and Mandrews, TNA Xplosion, 4/23/16

Timothy Thatcher vs. Marty Scurll, APW Kristmas Kaos 2015, 12/18/15

Dragon Lee vs. Rey Horus, Lucha Memes Chairo Kingdom, 3/8/16

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Akira Maeda, UWF, 11/10/88

Bryan Danielson vs. Tommy End, wXw AMBITION 1, 4/7/10

Hideki Suzuki vs. Masato Tanaka, Zero-1, 1/1/16

Yuji Hino vs. Minoru Tanaka, Wrestle-1, 2/10/16

Team Sendai Girls vs. Team ROH, Chikara King of Trios 2012, 9/16/12

Nanae Takahashi vs. Meiko Satomura, Stardom The Highest 2012, 3/20/12

Meiko Satomura vs. Mayu Iwatani, Stardom Goddesses of Stardom, 11/15/15

Meiko Satomura vs. Syuri, Sendai Girls, 3/11/16

Meiko Satomura vs. Aja Kong, Sendai Girls, 4/8/16

Kengo Mashimo vs. Kento Miyahara, AJPW, 4/9/16

Daichi Hashimoto & Jun Akiyama vs. Yoshihisa Uto & Yuji Okabayashi, BJW, 4/29/16

Yuji Okabayashi vs. Shuji Ishikawa, BJW Ikkitousen Strong Climb 2016, 3/6/16

Daichi Hashimoto vs. Daisuke Sekimoto, BJW Ikkitousen Strong Climb 2016, 3/31/16

Shuji Ishikawa vs. Hideoyoshi Kamitani, BJW Ikkitousen Strong Climb 2016, 4/10/16

Kengo Mashimo vs. Naoya Nomura, AJPW Champion Carnival, 4/10/16

Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Kento Miyahara, AJPW Champion Carnival, 4/24/2016

Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Zeus, AJPW Champion Carnival, 4/24/2016

Yuji Hino vs. KAI, Wrestle-1 2016 Triumph Night 2, 5/4/2016

Kento Miyahara © vs. Daisuke Sekimoto, AJPW Super Power Series 2016 Night 4, 5/25/2016

Pentagon Jr. vs. Fenix, Royal Road The Beginning, 4/20/2016

Evolve 59, 4/2/2016

Chris Hero vs. Zack Sabre Jr., WWNLive Mercury Rising 2016, 4/3/2016

Yuji Okabayashi vs. Zeus, AJPW Super Power Series 2016 Night 4, 5/25/2016

Eita vs. Akira Tozawa, Dragon Gate, King of Gate Night 2, 5/11/2016

Eita vs. Jimmy Susumu, Dragon Gate King of Gate Night 14, 6/2/2016

Maybach Taniguchi vs. Shelton Benjamin, Pro Wrestling NOAH Great Voyage 2016 in Osaka, 5/28/2016

Axel Dieter Jr. vs. Sasa Keel, wXw Superstar of Wrestling III Night 1, 4/22/2016

Jimmy Rave vs. Kyle Matthews, Atlanta Wrestling Entertainment AWE Goes to Hell, 1/29/2015

Steiner Brothers vs. Fire & Ice, WCW Worldwide, 6/8/96

Miyako Matsumoto vs. Ryota Hama, Ice Ribbon, 3/12/16

Jeff Cobb vs. Adam Thornstowe, SPW 16th Anniversary, 4/17/16

Jimmy Rave vs. Kyle Matthews, NWA Smoky Mountain, Smoky Mountain Cup 2016 First Round, 4/16/16

Joe Lider vs. Extreme Tiger, d2p Prelude, 7/19/05

Joe & Dean Malenko vs. Ricky Steamboat & Nikita Koloff, Clash of the Champions XIX, 6/16/92

Chris Hero vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Evolve 60, May 6, 2016

Hideki Suzuki & Yoshihisa Uto vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue & Yuji Okabayashi, BJW, May 30, 2016

Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko, NJPW Explosion Tour 1993 Night 17 - Top of the Super Junior IV Second Round Play Off, June 14, 1993

Go Shiozaki & Yuji Okabayashi vs. Yuji Hino & Daisuke Sekimoto, Fortune Dream 3, June 14, 2016

Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Kairi Hojo, Fortune Dream 3, June 14, 2016

Evolve 64 (07/16/16) (Queens, NY)

Arn Anderson & Dustin Rhodes vs. Harlem Heat, WCW Saturday Night, June 25, 1994

Ryota Hama vs. Yuji Hino, Wrestle-1 Grand Prix 2016 First Round, June 15, 2016

Happy Motel (Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo) vs. Jun Akiyama & Yuma Aoyagi, AJPW Dynamite Series 2016 Night 1, June 15, 2016

The Big Guns (Zeus & The Bodyguard) © vs. Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi), AJPW Dynamite Series 2016 Night 1, June 15, 2016

Kento Miyahara © vs. Kengo Mashimo, AJPW Dynamite Series 2016 Night 1, June 15, 2016

Meiko Satomura © vs. Io Shirai, Sendai Girls 10th Anniversary Show ~ Women’s Wrestling Big Show in Niigata, July 2, 2016

Evolve 67 (08/20/2016) (Brooklyn, NY)

Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) © vs. The Big Guns (The Bodyguard & Zeus), AJPW Summer Action Series 2016 Night 5, July 23, 2016

Kento Miyahara © vs. Jun Akiyama, AJPW Summer Action Series 2016 Night 5, July 23, 2016

Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) © vs. Daichi Hashimoto & Jun Akiyama, AJPW Summer Explosion 2016 Night 4, August 20, 2016

Kazusada Higuchi vs. Kota Umeda, DNA19, August 6, 2016

Fenix vs. Daga, AAA Sin Limite, July 8, 2016

Dragon Lee vs. Flamita, Luha Liga Elite, LLE on Lucha Azteca 7, August 21, 2016

Chris Hero vs. Matthew Riddle, Evolve 57, March 20, 2016

Chris Hero vs. Matthew Riddle, Evolve 71, October 16, 2016

Tracy Williams vs. Chris Hero, Evolve 72, November 12, 2016

Chris Hero vs. Matthew Riddle, Evolve 73, November 13, 2016

Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) © vs. The Big Guns (Zeus and The Bodyguard), AJPW New Explosion at Ryogoku Kokugikan, November 27, 2016

Kento Miyahara © vs. SUWAMA, AJPW New Explosion at Ryoguki Kokugikan, November 27, 2016

Chris Hero vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Revolution Pro/NJPW Global Wars 2016 Night 1, November 10, 2016

Evolve 74, December 10, 2016 (Queens, NY)

Katsuyori Shibata © vs. Chris Hero, Revolution Pro/NJPW Global Wars 2016 Night 2, November 11, 2016

Zack Sabre Jr. © vs. Jeff Cobb, Revolution Pro Uprising 2016, August 12, 2016

Twin Towers (Kohei Sato & Shuji Ishikawa) © vs. SMOP (Akebono & Ryota Hama), BJW Ryogukutan 2016, July 24, 2016

Yuji Okabayashi © vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani, BJW Ryogukutan 2016, July 24, 2016

Meiko Satomura © vs. Chihiro Hashimoto, Sendai Girls 10th Anniversary Show ~ Women’s Wrestling Big Show In Sendai, October 16, 2016

Drew Gulak vs. Mike Quackenbush, Chikara Supremacy, December 3, 2016