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juney-blues · 1 year

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ever since i made THIS POST a lot of people have been asking for a tutorial, even though in pretty much all of the screenshots i included the specific part of inspect element showing exactly what i edited.

so buckle the fuck up I guess because the tumblr userbase want to find out how to make html pages unusable and who am I to deny you.

get ready for Baby's First HTML and CSS tutorial lmao

ok so first things first we need to go over BASIC HTML

html is made up of these things called "tags" which specify certain parts of the web page, such as

HEADERS (<h1> through <h6> in terms of importance)

PARAGRAPHS (paragraph here)

LINKS (<a href="linkhere"></a>)

BOLDED SECTIONS OF TEXT(bold here)

and a bunch of other stuff,

by default however, specifying all of this just gives us a plain white page with plain black text of varying sizes

that's of course, no fucking good, and sucks shit, so the arbiters of html decided to let us STYLE certain elements, by adding a STYLE parameter to the tag

this can change any number of elements about how things are formatted.

text colour, page colour, font, size, spacing between elements, text alignment, you name it? you can change it!

you might've noticed that, certain elements are nested in other elements

and that any changes that apply to one element, apply to everything included under that element!

how convenient!

anyway this method of styling things by adding a style=" " to their tags is called "in-line style"

i think because the "style" goes "in" the "line"

it's generally ALSO a pain in the ass to style an entire website like this and should be exclusively reserved for small changes that you only want to apply to specific parts of the page.

for any real change in style you want to create a <style> section in your page's header!

this can be used to make changes to how all elements of a type in your page are displayed

or even add new elements with whatever wacky styling you want that can be used with the <div> tag!

wow! isn't css just dandy!

and hell you can even use External CSS™ if you're making multiple pages and want them all to have a consistent theme, by pointing to a .CSS file (which is basically just a <style> header without the <style> tags lmao

ok this is all well and good and very interesting if, say, you're making your own website

*cough*neocities*cough*itsreallycoolandfree*cough*

but you came here because you want to FUCK UP A WEBSITE and make it look STUPID!!

so this is where the transform css property comes in~

you can read up on it HERE if you want the details but basically it allows you to apply mathematical transformations to any html element you want,

all of these fun bastards,

they can be really useful if you're doing some complicated stupid bullshit like me

OR for having fun >:)

if you'll remember, earlier i said that css properties apply to literally everything nested in an element,

and you MIGHT notice, that literally everything in pretty much all html files, is nested in an <html> tag

you can use style=" " or regular css on pretty much ANY html tag,

INCLUDING HTML!

ok ok that was a lot of buildup for something that i could've explained in one or two lines, but i gave you all this fundamental knowledge for a reason,

well, two reasons, go make a neocities

CHAPTER 2: THIS POST HAS CHAPTERS NOW

CSS KEY FRAMES BABYYYY

THESE FUCKERS DON'T WORK AS INLINE STYLING

I HAD TO TEACH YOU HOW CSS WORKED, TO GIVE YOU THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED, TO ANIMATE PAGES. TO MAKE THE FUCKERY COMPLETE!!!!

OKAY SO AGAIN READ UP ON THIS IF YOU WANT THE FULLEST POSSIBLE UNDERSTANDING

BUT WHAT KEYFRAMES ALLOW YOU TO DO, IS ANIMATE CSS PROPERTIES

and then make a class, which calls that animation...

and then assign that class. to your html tag.

and then vomit forever

we can do it in 3d too,

the only limit is your imagination... (and how many parameters you want to look up on w3schools and mozilla mdn web docs)

CHAPTER 3: APPLYING IN PRACTICE

ok now the fun thing about all of this, is you can apply it to your blog theme, literally right now

like literally RIGHT now

like step one, make sure you have a custom blog theme enabled in your settings, because that's turned off by default for some reason

step 2: edit theme

step 3: edit html:

step 4: apply knowledge in practice >:)

#juney.txt #html #css #web development #psa #long post

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thecoramaria · 4 months

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How to insert images into ao3 in the notes?

Thanks for your ask! I know this can be incredibly frustrating, so here is my method:

Upload your image onto the Internet Archive: Since AO3 doesn't host images itself, you'll need to host it elsewhere, and ensure it's the kind of place that won't delete content or cause your link to break. That's why I use archive.org, because like AO3, it values preservation and runs off of donations (which you should totally contribute to if you can).

In your notes, paste this HTML code: <img src="[IMAGE LINK]" alt="[ALT TEXT]" width="1200" height="600" align="center" />

Get the right image link: Alright, this is the part that I always get tripped up on and takes me forever to figure out. You cannot trust any embed text the Internet Archive gives you; it won't work! You also can't just use the link from the page for your item. What you have to do is right click on the item and open the image in a new tab, and then use that link. It should look something like this, as the percentages in there gives it away: https://archive.org/download/tli-part-iii-banner-for-ao3/TLI%20Part%20III%20Banner%20for%20AO3.png

Fill out the blanks in the HTML: So you take that image link and paste it to replace [IMAGE LINK], then you delete [ALT TEXT] and describe your image in words. This is important because it means screen readers can tell vision-impaired readers what the image is, and also if the image does not load for whatever reason, the alt text will be displayed instead. You may also need to adjust the width and height in the HTML as well, but I've heard that part generally doesn't matter so much.

Preview your story: Before you hit post, you'll want to ensure the embed is working correctly. That's why you should preview before you post. I will warn you that AO3 does like to add random spaces and such around HTML code after you exit from preview back to editing, so watch out for those and fix them before you hit post.

If your code works, SAVE IT! Copy and paste it somewhere it will always be in reach and easy to use later. Trust me: you don't want to have to figure out how to do this all over again.

I reckon the next time I post a fic that involves an embedded image, I should record a tutorial, since it'll give you something to follow along with visually. What does everyone think?

#how to use ao3 #ao3 #how to ao3 #ao3 html #ao3 help #cora's ask box #cora's original posts #fanfiction help

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olivermspecialistpractice · 5 months

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binsofchaos · 1 year

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Roy Finamore

https://www.stainedpagenews.com/p/remembering-editor-and-author-roy

Howdy cookbook fans!

Earlier this month, cookbook editor, author, co-author, and food and prop stylist Roy Finamore died at the age of 70. Finamore was prolific and accomplished: the list of cookbook authors he worked with includes Martha Stewart, Diana Kennedy, Jean Anderson, Anne Willan, Lee Bailey, Carole Walter, Tom Colicchio, Bobby Flay, Gale Gand, Jacques Pépin, Marcus Samuelsson, and Rick Moonen. He was responsible for acquiring Ina Garten’s first cookbook, The Barefoot Contessa, a book that changed cookbook publishing forever. He also authored several books of his own, including 2006’s James Beard Award-winning Tasty: Get Great Food on the Table Every Day.

Last week, cookbook author and Finamore collaborator Molly Stevens (All About Braising) reached out to make sure I had heard the news. When I offered to run a few remembrances from his friends, little did I know I’d soon have an inbox full of memories a few days later! I am running them below; if you knew Roy and would like to share some memories, I’m opening up comments to everyone on this post.

Roy was, without exception, one of the most creative and brilliant individuals I’ve ever worked with, much less had the good fortune to call a friend. Beyond his massive intellect, Roy was a gifted and intuitive cook with boundless curiosity around ingredients, flavors, and techniques. I believe he was happiest in the kitchen, especially cooking for those he loved. Over the past 25 years, Roy and I spent untold hours cooking together, and in between those times, we’d call, text, and email to scheme and laugh about cooking, work, and life. Roy was my favorite kitchen companion and always the first person I turned to for advice.

—Molly Stevens, cookbook author.

I don’t know how long Roy worked at Clarkson Potter but I first worked for him on a book by Lee Bailey with Ella Brennan called New Orleans in about 1991.

Lee Bailey, Lee Klein and I comprised a team that would invade various grand Garden District homes for a day. It was real location shooting, using the homeowner’s china and flatware. While the Lees set up their tablescapes, I photographed discreet snippets and interior details. The intention was to convey a hint of some longed-for mysterious South without revealing whole rooms. We were careful not to create a catalog wish list of art and furniture for those with thieving in mind.

At lunchtime food would arrive from one of three Brennan restaurants: Commander’s Palace, Mr. B’s, or The Palace Cafe. Then it became all hands on deck, as nothing would work right in a cookbook if the food didn’t. It was a good system made pleasant with competent people.

Publishers find it risky to hand out money in lump sums and photographers need it when they need it so I do recall a prickly phone call or two to Roy about these matters. Never about editing or cropping or any other visual nuts and bolts that you might expect. Through all of it Roy and I still had not met.

That book was successful enough that a year or so later we embarked on a second project called Long Weekends. Our locations were all over the country from Dorset, Vermont to Orcas Island, Washington. It was the same M.O., but this time we added chef James Lartin as chief cook and bottle washer. Still the un-met Roy was left pulling puppet strings from his office in New York.

Lee Bailey went on to do other books with other teams. I didn’t think of myself as exclusively a food photographer. I’d done books on Monticello and Colonial Williamsburg that were more architecture and interiors. I was working a lot for House & Garden doing fine gardens. If you work for “shelter” magazines you end up photographing whatever they put in front of you. But to stay in the swim you need to schmooze with editors. I’d been in Mississippi for ten years and it was time for some visits.

In 1997 I got myself a decent suit and did some rounds. Roy was one of the first I saw. Office buildings in New York can be a bit mind numbing (to the freelancer) and Clarkson Potter was no exception. Traveling the hall, most glass cage offices had the photos of kids and grandkids that you would expect, but then you’re at Roy’s door and in a different world. My memory is telling me there were even voodoo dolls with pins in them. It was all very civil but he didn’t have anything going on and I’m sure he was wondering who this guy in a suit across from him really was.

A year later Roy called and he had a book to do with Anne Willan at Château du Feÿ in Burgundy where she lived and ran a cooking school called La Varenne. The warren—as in rabbits. It had to start in 2 weeks on July 14th with the celebration of Bastille day. Would I be interested?

Thus began nearly two years of shuttling back and forth to Burgundy and the little estate surrounding the 17th century Chateau du Fey. Anne’s book From My Château Kitchen was as much a personal memoir as a cookbook. An Englishwoman’s transformation to being head of her own French cooking school in Paris to moving down the line into Dukes of Burgundy slow food territory. Right to the agrarian source of the food itself and along with it some of the more fanciful aspects of country life.

The château was set up with the center hall as communal (living, dining, and small kitchen), with the right wing as the school with industrial kitchen—with lots of rooms upstairs, and the left wing as Anne and her husband Mark’s quarters, a business office area, a phenomenal culinary library and more bedrooms. The surrounding courtyards and walled vegetable and fruit gardens and pigeonniers were functioning more or less as when built in about 1620. It was in many ways ideal for an extended house party, and that’s what we turned it into.

Roy was there for most of it, and he was very hands on this time. It was his baby and he had done his homework and was not just there for a mini vacation. He and Anne more or less invented the book as we were shooting over several seasons. Molly Stevens, then jack of all food trades—now well-established cookbook author and jill of all food trades—was there as Anne ’s right hand in all that you need a main droite for. Roy’s friend Marian Young, who had her own literary agency, came from New York and charmed us all. Randall Price, chef, writer, actor in PBS style travelogues kept the school in shape when not in session; regaled with his not always tall tales. Even my father George came one evening from Paris on the train and fit right in. There were numbers of interns who rotated in and out and participated in the work and the play.

We worked all day shooting dishes with the chateau as a backdrop or out into Burgundy proper at a Chablis winery, at the cornichon man’s farm, at a jam maker’s up in the Morvan, in a catacomb root cellar under a 13th century cathedral, or at an artisanal cheesemakers sterilized “lab” with the curds and the herds.

Supper time started with some libation and then we usually ate what had been photographed during the day or something being tested for the next day. Any given meal found 10 or 12 of us in lively conversation. Mark was an economist so he filled us in on the EU and the euro which were about to happen. How would I know which king was which without seeing them on banknotes, I wondered. There was internet but no twitter or smart phones so we were not buried in our devices. We pretty much enjoyed each other and everyone pitched in for dishes and cleanup. You were given your own napkin and ring for the duration. If du Feÿ was Showboat then we were one big happy family.

In the early 2000’s a woman from Memphis named Ellen Rolfes, whom I had only known socially, contacted me about a cookbook called Occasions to Savor for the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Delta Sigma Theta was formed in 1913 at Howard University and currently has over 350,000 initiated members. Tempted by this (and spurred on by having 3 kids in private school), I called Roy. His tenure at Clarkson Potter was over so he was available. We needed to do it in sorority members houses around Washington, DC. so he found a local chef and we all met at Union Station for the first time.

I stayed in the attic room of photographer/sculptor Bill and Sandy Christenbury’s house on McComb Street. Roy stayed on a friend’s couch. Roy, a city kid, didn’t or wouldn’t drive so every day I had to go pick him up in my van. The van had a faulty sensor in the automatic transmission that prevented moving from third to fourth gear every third try. Not the best for Beltway driving, but it held lots of trays of food. It all started as a bit of a comedy of errors with two crazy white boys helming a cookbook for the most serious of black sororities which claim as one of several nicknames “Devastating Divas”.

In the end not so devastating once our team cohered and the mission became clear. Any pro will tell you that if you sign on, you do your damnedest to make it work. Everybody brings something. Despite his iconoclasm Roy was always serious about work.

A coda to my working life with Roy came on a one day project—again produced by avowed Elvis nut Ellen Rolfes in Memphis: Graceland’s Table. It was a book of recipes from Elvis fans—end of story. As ideas for a book go, it was nothing if not commercial. One featured dish was a coconut-encrusted chicken submitted by a thirteen year old. Graceland is a justly famous but oddly un-grand, suburban colonial with Southern columns slapped on as a porte-cochere. It is open every day of the year but for Tuesdays in January. Nevertheless, I tapped Roy, who corralled Molly Stevens, and we picked a day and went. And did it. In one day.

The Rendezvous BBQ where we repaired to lick our wounds at the end of that day was the last place I saw Roy until he debuted his own cookbook, Tasty, in 2006 at L&M restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi, an hour plus from me in Sumner. It was a big splash made more fun for knowing most of the guests. Roy was all over signing and schmoozing. He was having whirling dervish kind of fun.

Then this winter some of our same friends at that event told me of Roy in hospice in Brooklyn. I had to go to New York to photograph my third version of the 42nd street panorama. With that project in the can we traipsed out to say goodbye. His room reminded me of his office back at Clarkson Potter. He owned the place— with games and newspapers and magazines strewn about, but of course also now the tubes and wires. We talked a bit of old times but you can’t get too deep in 15 minutes. We traded Instagram pics of our grandchild and his grandnephews and grandnieces, who will never know him.

He was so proud of his new blue hair, saying: “At last I’m an old blue-haired lady”. I had to fight like hell with myself not to take a picture.

—Langdon Clay, photographer.

Roy was one of the best editors I ever worked with, and that is saying a great deal.

—Anne Willan, cookbook author and cooking instructor.

Among the great cookbook editors of our time, Roy Finamore was unique. A James Beard Award-winning author in this own right, he was also a versatile collaborator who captured the voices of chefs as diverse as seafood expert Rick Moonen, Harlem restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson, and pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini, cooking alongside them and then streamlining their recipes to make them friendly to the home cook. As if that wasn’t enough, he was a talented prop stylist who made the food of Jacques Pépin, pastry chef Gale Gand, and even Elvis Presley look timelessly beautiful. In all these roles, Roy had a consistent approach. He was first and foremost an artist.

So it was fitting that in the pandemic lockdown, he taught himself weaving and turned out artisan napkins and placemats. He was still working his loom from his hospice bed a few days before he died.

A long-time editor at Clarkson Potter, Roy brought his visual talents to the books of Lee Bailey, Martha Stewart, and Anne Willan. He had a nose for talent. His most notable find: he acquired and launched a book by a then little-known Long Island caterer. The Barefoot Contessa began with a tiny print run and went on to become a runaway New York Times bestseller, a perennial classic with millions of copies in print. Ina Garten remains the top-selling cookbook author in the country.

Roy became the impresario of every photo shoot he worked on because he understood all aspects of food and cookbooks. He could size up in an instant exactly how long a recipe would take, which dishes would wilt when they sat and which could hold, and how long it would take to get the photo right, from which he could calculate the order that the dishes should be made.

When we discussed the photography for his book One Potato, Two Potato (coauthored with Molly Stevens), for which he chose both the designer and the photographer, he told me he planned to put the vichyssoise in a white bowl against a creamy background

Wouldn’t it look better against something more colorful? It would not, he informed me derisively. The photo, still surpassingly elegant twenty-two years after it was published, became the cover.

His culinary apprenticeship took place beside his Italian grandmother, an exacting cook, beginning when he was about four. From her, he inherited an approach summed up in the introduction to Tasty: “Good, simple food is meant to be shared and enjoyed. Cook often.” That outlook, and the memorable dishes within, earned him a James Beard Award in General Cookbooks, the most competitive category, where Tasty triumphed over hundreds of other titles.

He was a craftsman in the kitchen, neatly squaring pastry off with his hands before rolling it out, nimbly pleating Chinese dumplings, jury-rigging a steamer for crabs from what we had on hand. He would arrive at Christmas bearing all manner of jarred and bottled treats he had made over the summer: sour cherries in rum, silky tomato passata, a phenomenal Worcestershire sauce. Then he would inhabit the kitchen for the next week, turning out three superb yet simple meals a day. Nothing made him happier than when people loved his food.

As a writer, he had a light touch on the page and a direct, knowing voice. Reading his recipes, you feel him looking over your shoulder, issuing injunctions, cajoling, correcting. He didn’t suffer fools. An editorial query reflecting inattention and a lack of rigor would be met with a stinging rebuke.

When he sent me the manuscript for Tasty, he enclosed a note. “I wrote a book. I hope you like it.”

I did.

—Rux Martin, cookbook editor.

#roy finamore #cookbooks #editor #ground-breaking #james beard #cook #pioneer #stained page news #molly stevens #langdon clay #anne willan #tasty #rux martin

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deviantfunbiz · 2 years

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BOOK PREVIEW - RECENT RELEASE OUR COLORS https://www.deviantfun.biz/comics/en/comics/12203-our-colors-9781524748562.html A mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the Eisner Award-winning breakout hit My Brother's Husband Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda, a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synesthetic hues of blues and reds and is governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society. His best friend and childhood confidante is Nao, a young woman whom everyone thinks is (or should be) his girlfriend, and it would be the easiest thing to play along--she knows he's gay but knows, too, how difficult it is to live one's truth in his situation. Sora's world changes forever when he meets Mr. Amamiya, a middle-aged gentleman who is the owner and proprietor of a local coffee shop and is completely, unapologetically out as a gay man. A mentorship and platonic friendship ensues as Sora comes out to him and agrees to paint a mural in the shop, and Mr. Amamiya counsels Sora about how to deal with who he is. But it won't be easy. Mr. Amamiya paid a high price for his freedom of identity, and when a figure from his past suddenly appears, the situation becomes a vivid example of just how complicated life can be. #comicbooks #comic #deviantfun #comicbookshop #shopineurope #graphicnovel #bookpreview #manga #comingofagemanga #comingout https://www.instagram.com/p/CgaMgtisxJ_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#comicbooks #comic #deviantfun #comicbookshop #shopineurope #graphicnovel #bookpreview #manga #comingofagemanga #comingout

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a-small-batch-of-dragons · 3 years

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My dude. I promise one day I will stop spamming creators with asks, but can you please explain how to do italics and stuff on Ao3? I’ve been using the website for forever and I STILL CAN’T FIGURE IT OUT.

AND IT IS IRKING ME.

So, could you please (because you’re the only human who I have enough courage to ask) tell me how you figured it out or explain if you have the time?

(Also! You’re the only author I’m subscribed to. Everytime I get a notification for one of your fics I drop everything. Immediately. And it’s worth it.)

TL;DR: Can you explain how to do italics and stuff on Ao3 or if there’s a website or something? I love your work.

Thanks. Sorry, cause this is random, and honestly, probably rude. I’m just tired of not being able to figure it out.

Absolutely NO worries my dude I gotchu

SO! When you go to create a new work it looks like this:

See how the HTML thing is highlighted in the upper corner? That means all you’re going to be putting in is just plaintext. No spacing, no italics, no nothing. I presume you already know that I’m just walking it through for my peace of mind. When you click on the OTHER one, Rich Text, your thing changes to look like this:

You got a toolbar now! Bold, Italics, Underline, Strikethrough, and some other nifty things. Rich Text is a way for you to paste pre-formatted text in and it’ll preserve it. I never write straight into Ao3 (I mean I don’t really write straight either) so I’m always copying over my work from somewhere else. That means it already has all the italics and spacing that I want it to have. Using the Rich Text option makes it easy to make sure Ao3 doesn’t fuck up anything else.

Now the tricky part is that only the Work Text block has the Rich Text option. Everywhere else; the summary, the author’s notes, the additional blocks, they don’t have it. That doesn’t mean you can’t use italics and underline and other stuff in them, it just means you have to do it yourself.

How do you do that? Well, this is where you gotta know a little HTML. I won’t bore you with an in-depth explanation of absolutely everything but I will give you the ones I think you’ll need. Basically when you use HTML and you want to apply formatting--paragraph, italics, bold, whatever--you need to enclose the text you want to be formatted in a pair of tags.

if I want this text italicized in HTML, this is how I do it.

If I want this text italicized in HTML, this is how I do it.

See? You sandwich the stuff you want italicized between the and tags.

is for italics (Ao3 also accepts the tags)

is for bold (Ao3 also accepts the tags)

is for underline

is for paragraph, helps break up the text like the enter key

This is how I italicized stuff in my summaries. Since I can’t use the Rich Text to keep my formatting, I gotta do it myself. This is what it looks like when I’m in the Post New Work screen:

And then this is how it looks once the work gets posted:

Hope this helps!

#dragonbabbles #ao3 #ao3 stuff

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 years

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

September 19, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

Last Friday, Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie of U.S. Central Command admitted that the August 29 drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that the U.S. had claimed hit ISIS-K fighters had instead killed 10 civilians, including seven children. This “tragic mistake,” as he called it, at the very end of the country’s 20-year engagement in Afghanistan, opens up the larger question of the growing U.S. use of unmanned aerial systems—drones—in warfare.

Drones are a relatively new technology, and we have not yet had a national discussion about what it means to use them.

The U.S. began to develop armed drones in the early 21st century and has used them against terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen. President George W. Bush used them experimentally, launching 9 drone strikes between 2004 and 2007. In 2008, he launched 34 strikes, illustrating an increasing reliance on the unmanned weapons that spared U.S. lives while disrupting terrorist camps.

When he took office, President Barack Obama followed the trend toward drone strikes, dramatically increasing their use in the war on terror. S. E. Cupp of the Chicago Sun-Times notes that compiling numbers of drone strikes is difficult but that in 2018, The Daily Beast attributed 186 drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia to Obama in his first two years and that the Associated Press and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism counted 154 strikes in Yemen during the eight years of Obama’s tenure. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a UK-based think tank, noted 1,878 drone strikes during the eight years of Obama's presidency.

Obama did add bureaucratic restraints to the use of drones, permitting strikes only against terrorist targets that pose a “continuing, imminent threat to U.S. persons.” His administration also provided that “[a]bsent extraordinary circumstances, direct action against an identified high-value terrorist (HVT) will be taken only when there is near certainty that the individual being targeted is in fact the lawful target and located at the place where the action will occur. Also absent extraordinary circumstances, direct action will be taken only if there is near certainty that the action can be taken without injuring or killing non-combatants.” In 2016, under pressure for more transparency on his use of drones, the Obama administration began to publish the number of civilian casualties associated with drone strikes.

Once Trump took office, his administration wrote new rules for drones, permitting strikes without a threat standard against any person deemed to be a terrorist and allowing military commanders themselves to make strike decisions. It significantly increased the use of drones and revoked the Obama administration’s rule about reporting the number of civilians killed by drone strikes, calling that rule “superfluous.” According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Trump launched 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of his presidency, a significant jump from the 1,878 launched in Obama's eight years.

Famously, Trump launched a drone strike against top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020, killing him and nine other people. The UN's expert on extrajudicial killings at the time, Agnès Callamard, said the attack violated international law because the U.S. had not provided evidence that Soleimani presented an imminent threat to justify the attack. The administration responded that she was “giving a pass to terrorists.”

On his first day in office, President Biden suspended Trump’s rules and began to review how the policies of both Obama and Trump had worked. On July 21, Foreign Policy reported that in its plan to end “forever wars,” the Biden administration had brought drone use to an all-time low. But his move away from drones got little attention compared to the August 29 drone strike on Biden’s watch that killed 10 civilians.

American presidents turned to the use of drones because they enabled the U.S. to attack terrorists without risking the same numbers of U.S. soldiers ground operations would require. But scholars note a significant downside to the use of drones. First of all, on occasion, they fall into enemy hands, transferring new technologies that could lead to military proliferation. Second, they lower the bar for military engagement, enabling the U.S. to insert itself into other countries at a much lower cost than in the past, opening the way for permanent hostilities around the world.

And, third, they kill civilians.

It is not clear what the ratio of military deaths to civilian deaths actually is: estimates of the civilian casualties from drone strikes range from 30% to 98%. But we do know that the U.S. admitted to killing dozens of civilians at an Afghan wedding in 2008 and more than 100 civilians in a strike on Afghanistan in 2009.

What seems to be different about the August 29 killing of civilians in Afghanistan is that the U.S. government has admitted the killings, taken responsibility for them, called them “a tragic mistake,” and offered “profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed.” In the wake of the strike, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered an inquiry into “the degree to which strike authorities, procedures and processes need to be altered in the future.”

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Notes:

Ahmed S. Hashim and Grégoire Patte, “‘What is that Buzz?’ The rise of Drone Warfare,” Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, 4 (September 2012): 8-13.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/01/us-drone-strikes-all-time-low-biden-forever-wars/

https://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-library/procedures_for_approving_direct_action_against_terrorist_targets/download

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/trump-war-terror-drones/567218/

https://www.rollcall.com/2017/05/31/trumps-total-authorization-to-military-gives-some-deep-concerns/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/world/asia/05iht-afghan.3.17553439.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/world/asia/15farah.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/us/politics/pentagon-drone-strike-afghanistan.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53345885

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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[from comments:

”Peppered throughout today's thoughtful letter is the term terrorist. It has become like the hypnotist's trigger to suspend analysis or curiosity. A famous American dissident has observed, "There is no right to self defense against the empire." And those of us looking critically at our country's actions globally have long seen with clarity how we are expected to suspend judgment when "terrorist" is applied. Famous Israeli general, Matti Peled, went on a speaking tour in the US in the last century to say that US military aid to Israel was corrupting the country, creating "irresistible temptations" and that the country was losing its soul in its occupation of areas taken by force. I visited then-senator John Edwards' office with a group seeking closure of the infamous "School of the Americas" which taught torture to Latin American military officers. The CIA officer posted to Edwards' office was overjoyed in anticipation of a coming "electronic battlefield." It was chilling to hear the delight at armchair warriors pushing buttons to kill people far away, at no personal risk. We now read even in the New York Times, always ready to deliver official excuses for war, some truth about the irresistible temptations of extreme military power, and the inevitable crimes of those ready to term self defense "terrorism."

jc markatos

#drone strikes #warfare #weapons #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #history

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uozlulu · 3 years

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Been trying out Tumblr's new posting system, which is basically it's mobile browser posting system but turned on even when your laptop browser is full screen.

So, I have two requests for @support because there are two things that are super annoying about this beta posting:

There should be an HTML mode. HTML is faster, easier, and I can write text posts in Word and copy/paste them for later. It also allows me to make posts using the br command instead of forever stuck with the p command.

It would be nice if we could see frequently used tags when typing up tags in the tag area. These make posting so much faster especially since the suggested tags don't suggest the tags I'm trying to use.

Other than those two things I think the beta mode is a livable posting method. I would say the lack of HTML access is the biggest complaint, because it really slows everything down to have to rich text everything.

#anyway i've turned beta off again #because i need the html option too much #tumblr #tumblr support #ymmv #tumblr beta

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friendlylocalrobot · 9 months

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i am striving to be #1 biggest laptop simp out there

#this was me trying to figure out what my tech kintype looks like and i think i got the general vibe of it #mettaton undertale left a lasting impact on me #anyways. i love my laptop so much. did you guys know that #literally get butterflies thinking about him.#meowing into the void #forever thinking in html#my art #techkin #robotkin #androidkin #otherkin #objectum #hashtag tech 4 tech 🗣️🔥

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sirjustice1395 · 3 years

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Stop liquid cash LC

Horse top speed at this link and compare with ya machine

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=Horse+top+speed

Sugar made at the road bend as of Migosi school church gate, the rough red one heap placed as u touch the same wall or on slanting roads, with ya road making tractor beside it make a slanting platform against the road or the lake or the same with ditches where on the sides inside the ditches that stones joins with cement u place like kale and look 4 another 1 to place on the floor half way as eggs on the create and on side when the slab meets the soil, separate with hard metal to make holes or fissure and inside any fruit to along the fissure as hoho and in between the stones place like avocado and boom ya sugar crystal where the heap can be sugar cane with hay then u chop mango on wood soaked in milk in mud sand mixture as u hang raw paw paw to grab up-to the inside seed as u chop or step on hay within CD hole on mango cabbage heap and boom ya sugar and same u can try with any succulent fruit as mango with pumpkin, oranges with okwaju, paw paw with hay, melons with mango, tangerine with hay and guava with kale as u step on many and chop many or resort to the wash style or Jog naked running grabbing ya penis on mud bent or not bent in the dark or not in the dark dude

Ask rain water comes from where and if there are pipes from lake Baikal to trukana to lake Victoria and more and if on plane u see such pipes and made of what and the dimension and if u can get there and let us know dude

Ask IF northwhitehead strong than Gor mahia or Lwanda Magere and what load in KG could both of them carry or hurl and at what distance with any KG if on the right side and one started him and if they can finish the world and what type of bomb can only destroy him

Who championed Northwhitehead suffering if not Orengo and whay and he thinks his father owns what in Russia and what have relent them with the Bar Kalare with Gold thing and the hoax was to do what that, that place have Gold and who came out with such idea and why they wanted to kill nelson and if 50 cent was pro that game and if not Good

Ask who called WSU that Nelson have money to frustrate him and the figures behind all happening and why and the lies told to WSU to send 1 out of the campus to take his cash when this side and why was it not done this side and did the Ethiopian shoe company know or pay pal behind it and if its truth, he cant continue being abuse on the media indirectly to find a way he lives good as the same tribe wanting to kill him still saying investigating him if he can take their women to wives or live with their kids which he wants not, if not so thwart his deals or kill him on the road which he got voodoo telling them the same to go ahead without stop. Dude how can it be stopped and the figures in such big school be sent home cause it aint a joke destroying the name of the state or the city and if its a plane and why and who behind it dude

And ask who sand this song long time ago on the Eminem side and Dre side and what they did in Oklahoma to get to like Kenya and get to know dude and if he was Daniel u read his scripts and u belittle when u see, maybe a lesson 4 women to learn as synonymous with me dude

Charity called the University and said if Kevy deported she will get out the cash and give them like 100% and that was the deal and now still such women crop without 2nd bearing to castigate the fact the world destroyed and now is not even a hoot that One has this man or that and with the property and better u can create now every single race of no other disturbing races as Kamba or kikuyu or trukana or Hindu and if weak as the Devil or coded voice to inbuilt another tribe strong in weak tribe so people just have sex and buy Made kids cause now those already living got much bad blood will destroy the world more dude and ask what if u do the world extends to to end as said when u ask when it will end and see if 1 u belittle is right dude

Ask what if u eat maybe 3 like Gor mahia your hands becomes active forever and cant be destroyed unless u ask the coded voice 4 how it can be destroyed and use it dude

In all the USA bank stealing and robbery and even of Eu and of ya own nation ask the culprits who did the same and with what machines as submarine and jets and with whom they shared the money and who send them and even with the killings of most affluent people who keep cash in their homes as Kobe Bryant, u see how this side they abuse 1 and that side without people they do this, to show the world the same that pretenders of well behaving are bad dude and better the reverse bro

If u make a hole on Gebo house and climb the roof and urinate on the hole to the floor and defecate at the same time what happens and with the roofs of other houses and if u don’t urinate what happens dude and let us know bro. And ask why the Whites want black people in Kenya most and mostly answer are 2 to let u know so u stop with them and who is behind their advice and why with men who have lived much as what he wants with them and a blessing in disguise and currently he lives where and how many years old and in which songs dude

Ask the jet with green, like siren gas cylinder made how and even of red, purple, maroon and yellow and red and maroon and red and marble white are made in what boom environments, the heap combination, the chop what on wood or stir what or wash what and let us know the speed in Miles/hr and the shortcomings and such remedies to the former dude and even with the missile and ask this beautiful house and this and that hotel and this or these posh hire cars are 4 which nations and why and even such people owning them so u stop the same cause enriching rude people who ought to suffer

And ask in these cheap chain store why are such produce cheap yet of high quality and even if u buy such place it in ya mind and ask the same. U will find they are produce from those rich nations that have stayed half way on the shelves so brought to nations poor yet saying are rich so it moves on as the poor now can save without such they disturb their own poor wanting them to be tired with life so they die as kill themselves and take their properties and ask if good and let it be more cheap bro and Kenyan chains also ought to do the same, maybe underlying reasons 4 many shop and ask as above this shop belongs to which nation and which dude and lets us know bro

And to save the3 day what makes, the vision of a picture of something on a kid forehead that makes their nation men hate her/him and bring them to certain poor nations to struggle dude and get the answer and warn women not to listen to the same or watch motion pictures with the same as get into a kids mind send forth wrong ideas which are right in a kid as he/she will follow suit of the above dude

Ask the 2 kids now currently living in Kenya but were born in Denver who were brought to Solon to judge and who killed Solomon and why and even with his father David and if justified and what was the underlying reasons why they were killed and if it is beautiful dude. With stealing the monies did the school some teachers or workers send like Tychus, Muga and Omwaka to steal the bank yet this side u can afford an affront without them, they sideline ya as outcast cause u have refused the above deal and if they should be wiped and who are behind the whole game and what ought to be done to them. And even ask with Tunisia, SA and the fallen recent Airplane since 2015 and get to know and as u solve the same solve remember to solve my case with a haste dude

And ask which kind of people love to be all alone and their characteristic and why and if its beautiful and if Northwhitehead got that blood dude and if where they came from should accept them if they got that blood but not infused with the bad above instead of letting others to those nations which aint of such blood into their yards cause the same above as with kids were done to them and if a curse to such people doing the same or good this side only few bolts need to be tightened bro

And ask on the step on the CD hole with a running metal bar fixed within ya shoes where heap is 1 and cloud being the heap or water vapor how can u make such rain of these harmful substances and how can it be barred so affect our soil, food and health not and let us know dude and even when jets and drone monitored 1 can resort to this dubious means

Has some1 been shot by the method i did, same, don’t start me, it will end with the corrupted police, i will pluck ya hand as the way bullet gets into me not and ask from which distance the same way if am right will amputate ya hands and war will start cause they will understand not dude

With ya cool heart dude now its the time to eliminate liquid cash and make money transfer all online as in the link below and why not dude when u got it as can make many and sell to region blocks or nations. We are here, We got it dude

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/18/african-fintech-startup-chipper-cash-raises-30m-backed-by-jeff-bezos/

And even ask 4 the bombers of many cities of the world, who sent them and why and get them to justice bro

Buy the CD on such machines to avoid placed on the sun or home made which can burst and increases the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Condom-Vending-Machine-Detergent-Cigarette-Mini_1600172139930.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_title.282736f0LY9FGn&s=p

https://intelligencebriefs.com/kenya-army-acquires-hi-tech-ground-surveillance-for-border-security/

Ask how u can take hot tea with less sugar place the outer peel of Euphorbia main trunk unto it and make drug u can inject ya body with or take to get the nucleolus of Leech outside that transfigure within ya body system to Disturb ya

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💡TUTORIAL - EA Gallery Links💡 How to link to your EA Gallery item for Download / How to link to your account on your Tumblr profile.

Sueladysims again 😁 my dear simmers! Have you ever wanted to link to your Origin Account aka EA Gallery Profile? Or how about providing a direct Download Link to your Library within your game via Tumblr without being actually ingame? What? You didn’t know that this actually works? It does and I will tell how. The linking to your creation is a bit tricky, simply because you need to know where to find the link! Don’t worry I got you covered! @simstreasurehunter was so kind as to ask me how I do it and I told them that I will do a quick tutorial for a better understanding on how this works. Because once you know how it works it’s actually pretty easy peasy.

So here we go:

1. STEP - Bookmark your EA Gallery

Open your browser and make sure to bookmark the link rename it, call it simply EA Gallery. I did put it on my Bookmark Bar, for quicker use. As you are going to use it from now on as much as I do, once you know how it works, hehe.

https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/pc/gallery

Or visit the official EA site for The Sims, you can find the Gallery under the tab “The Community”.

2. STEP - Login in to your Origin Account

For that, you need to be logged in because otherwise, you can’t browse through the creations by name if you aren’t logged in. It will ask you to do so.

3. STEP - Search your Profile

Once you logged in, you need to click on the tab next to “Trending” on “BROWSE”. Enter your Origin Name within the search bar, sort by “Newest” and uncheck under “Advanced” Maxis Fav or it will only show creations which are fav’d by Maxis, this is not what we need, right? ;) Dunno why but under advanced it’s mostly checked by default. Now click on “SEARCH” and your latest creations will pop up as you can see below.

4. STEP - Get the LINK

Open the creation for which you want to provide a download link for your Tumblr Post. Do you see the Social Media icons below the gallery image? Right, above the surprised “WOW” smiley. Click on the Twitter Icon. Sadly we don’t have a link to Tumblr. Goolge+ is obsolete and the other icons are linking directly to the profiles if you have but it doesn’t show the link you need before posting. That’s why Twitter is simply the best choice.

A new little window will open, this contains the shareable link for this one creation. You need to scroll a bit down within the tab because it will show first the description of your creation but after your description, you will find the link. Make sure to copy the whole link, otherwise, it won’t work. It should look as follows:

This link is pretty long that’s why I use Bitly to shorten the links and to track how many are using the EA Gallery Link for download. Actually quite interesting because of course, SFS is more popular than the Gallery but still a bunch do download my creation via the Gallery as well and some even comment, too and that’s supa cool. Simply want to give you the opportunity to pick and choose. I think most aren’t aware that it’s possible. This is how the original link looks when you copy it:

https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/pc/gallery/3A86342AFC8A11E98289342C8609C7AD?category=all&searchtype=ea_origin_id&sortby=newest&time=all&searchquery=sueladysims&max=50&maxis=false

You can click to follow the creator via the gallery, fave the creation by the creator and also add it to your library without even being in-game and on the EA Gallery. How convenient right?

I find it very convenient as it works faster and better. I do search sometimes for hours via the browser for new creations via hashtags or creator’s I know and add them to my library. When I log in it says you have new items in your library and I love it! No need to use the mods folder, unpack and add it, right? It’s just a click away when the creation is NOCC. Sure, it works of course for CC too but you need to provide additional the cc /or the links for simmers to grab the cc as you know and then you need still to add those file to the mods folder but even the CC build can be added to your library if it’s available via the Gallery, in that case, you need to include cc in your filter options when you want to check it out your library.

5. STEP - Create your post and share the LINK

I always provide in my posts for new builds both links the one to the Gallery and the other to SFS as seen below, clear and understandable for everyone - I think 😄 Thinking also to do it for my NOCC Households, yep works like charm. 📥 DOWNLOAD [ EA Gallery ] 📥 DOWNLOAD [ SFS] forever ad-free 😍

6. STEP - Share a “direct working link” to your EA Profile on your Tumblr as well.

You can also link to your profile itself within your info section on Tumblr. Check out, right here how it works. Follow the instruction as I described under the 3rd Step, now copy this time the link directly from the browser.

When simmers visit your Tumblr, provide a working link, it’s easier for them to see your latest creations and follow you also on the gallery, right?

Here is the snippet on how to implement a working link on your Tumblr profile. Like I said I use Bitly to shorten and track the links and a bunch of peeps are using it and it’s always nice to see if your work pays off! Replace the bold text with your link, name and copy it to the info section within your Tumblr Theme under the “info section”.

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<center> Origin ID <a href="http://bit.ly/sueladysims/" target="_blank">Sueladysims</a></center> ____________________________________________________

If you now click on Sueladysims it will lead you directly to my EA Gallery profile via your browser and you can check out the creations I have published over the years via the Gallery, like them and follow if you like it that much. You can remove the wording <center> and </center> if you don’t want your text to be centered this is just the HTML text formatting code to center the text in the middle. Check below this is how it looks on my Tumblr - test it out and see how it works yourself.

Hope you find it useful and let me see from now on that you also provide a Download- Link to your Gallery creations and profiles as well. If you have questions simply drop an ask on my main blog @sueladysims I don’t bite.

May your plumbob shines brighter in the darkest hour... With simlish luv, Sue

#ts4 tutorial #sueladysims #sims tutorial #ea gallery #how to use the ea gallery #link to ea gallery #tutorial

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6dogs9cats · 3 years

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One Year, 400,000 Coronavirus Deaths: How the U.S. Guaranteed Its Own Failure

The failure is also on the hands of the American voter for I recall in 2016 when so many people said how could it get any worse or anyways how could it get bad too many people are involved here besides the people they elected and those people should be found guilty but how do we find the voter guilty? They are your everyday citizen who you see promoting being assholes or sometimes even being nice hold your citizens accountable otherwise this shit is going to continue I think it's time to make Confederate flags Nazi Flags band forever from this country and we might as well ban the other Ruckus causing flag of blue lives matter

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 years

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

August 14, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

On this day in 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. While FDR’s New Deal had put in place new measures to regulate business and banking and had provided temporary work relief to combat the Depression, this law permanently changed the nature of the American government.

The Social Security Act is known for its payments to older Americans, but it did far more than that. It established unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children; funds to promote maternal and child welfare; and public health services. It was a sweeping reworking of the relationship of the government to its citizens, using the power of taxation to pool funds to provide a basic social safety net.

The driving force behind the law was FDR’s Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins. She was the first woman to hold a position in the U.S. Cabinet and still holds the record for having the longest tenure in that job: she lasted from 1933 to 1945.

She brought to the position a vision of government very different from that of the Republicans who had run it in the 1920s. While men like President Herbert Hoover had harped on the idea of a “rugged individualism” in which men worked their way up, providing for their families on their own, Perkins recognized that people in communities had always supported each other. The vision of a hardworking man supporting his wife and children was more myth than reality: her own husband suffered from bipolar disorder, making her the family’s primary support.

As a child, Perkins spent summers with her grandmother, with whom she was very close, in the small town of Newcastle, Maine, where she witnessed a supportive community. In college, at Mount Holyoke, she majored in chemistry and physics, but after a professor required students to tour a factory to observe working conditions, Perkins became committed to improving the lives of those trapped in industrial jobs. After college, Perkins became a social worker and, in 1910, earned a masters degree in economics and sociology from Columbia University. She became the head of the New York office of the National Consumers League, urging consumers to use their buying power to demand better conditions and wages for the workers who made the products they were buying.

The next year, in 1911, she witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in which 146 workers, mostly women and girls, died. They were trapped in the building when the fire broke out because the factory owner had ordered the doors to the stairwells and exits locked to make sure no one slipped outside for a break. Unable to escape the smoke and fire in the factory, the workers—some of them on fire—leaped from the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the building, dying on the pavement.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire turned Perkins away from voluntary organizations to improve workers’ lives and toward using the government to adjust the harsh conditions of industrialization. She began to work with the Democratic politicians at Tammany Hall, who presided over communities in the city that mirrored rural towns and who exercised a form of social welfare for their voters, making sure they had jobs, food, and shelter and that wives and children had a support network if a husband and father died. In that system, the voices of women like Perkins were valuable, for their work in the immigrant wards of the city meant that they were the ones who knew what working families needed to survive.

The overwhelming unemployment, hunger, and suffering caused by the Great Depression made Perkins realize that state governments alone could not adjust the conditions of the modern world to create a safe, supportive community for ordinary people. She came to believe, as she said: “The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.”

Through her Tammany connections Perkins met FDR, and when he asked her to be his Secretary of Labor, she told him that she wanted the federal government to provide unemployment insurance, health insurance, and old-age insurance. She later recalled: “I remember he looked so startled, and he said, ‘Well, do you think it can be done?’”

Creating federal unemployment insurance became her primary concern. Congressmen had little interest in passing such legislation. They said they worried that unemployment insurance and federal aid to dependent families would undermine a man’s willingness to work. But Perkins recognized that those displaced by the Depression had added new pressure to the idea of old-age insurance.

In Long Beach, California, Dr. Francis Townsend had looked out of his window one day to see elderly women rooting through garbage cans for food. Appalled, he came up with a plan to help the elderly and stimulate the economy at the same time. Townsend proposed that the government provide every retired person over 60 years old with $200 a month, on the condition that they spend it within 30 days, a condition designed to stimulate the economy.

Townsend’s plan was wildly popular. More than that, though, it sparked people across the country to start coming up with their own plans for protecting the elderly and the nation’s social fabric, and together, they began to change the public conversation about social welfare policies.

They spurred Congress to action. Perkins recalled that Townsend “startled the Congress of the United States because the aged have votes. The wandering boys didn't have any votes; the evicted women and their children had very few votes. If the unemployed didn't stay long enough in any one place, they didn't have a vote. But the aged people lived in one place and they had votes, so every Congressman had heard from the Townsend Plan people.”

FDR put together a committee to come up with a plan to create a basic social safety net, but committee members could not make up their minds how to move forward. Perkins continued to hammer on the idea they must come up with a final plan, and finally locked the members of the committee in a room. As she recalled: “Well, we locked the door and we had a lot of talk. I laid out a couple of bottles of something or other to cheer their lagging spirits. Anyhow, we stayed in session until about 2 a.m. We then voted finally, having taken our solemn oath that this was the end; we were never going to review it again.”

By the time the bill came to a vote in Congress, it was hugely popular. The vote was 371 to 33 in the House and 77 to 6 in the Senate.

When asked to describe the origins of the Social Security Act, Perkins mused that its roots came from the very beginnings of the nation. When Alexis de Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America in 1835, she noted, he thought Americans were uniquely “so generous, so kind, so charitably disposed.” “Well, I don't know anything about the times in which De Tocqueville visited America,” she said, but “I do know that at the time I came into the field of social work, these feelings were real.”

With the Social Security Act, Perkins helped to write into our laws a longstanding political impulse in America that stood in dramatic contrast to the 1920s philosophy of rugged individualism. She recognized that the ideas of community values and pooling resources to keep the economic playing field level and take care of everyone are at least as deeply seated in our political philosophy as the idea of every man for himself.

When she recalled the origins of the Social Security Act, Perkins recalled: “Of course, the Act had to be amended, and has been amended, and amended, and amended, and amended, until it has now grown into a large and important project, for which, by the way, I think the people of the United States are deeply thankful. One thing I know: Social Security is so firmly embedded in the American psychology today that no politician, no political party, no political group could possibly destroy this Act and still maintain our democratic system. It is safe. It is safe forever, and for the everlasting benefit of the people of the United States.”

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Notes:

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php

https://www.ssa.gov/history/perkins5.html

https://francesperkinscenter.org/life-new/

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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