#MS Office Fundamentals

[oiuytrewq-00]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Steven Beschloss at America, America:

On January 20, Donald Trump mouthed the presidential oath of office to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” That promise would include the protection and defense of the Fifth Amendment, which states that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” Yesterday Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen appeared on Fox News Sunday to stress how central civil liberty is to the case of Kilmar Ábrego García, who was taken to El Salvador without due process is being held hostage there in its notorious, traumatizing mega-prison. without due process. "I'm not vouching for the man,” said Van Hollen, who met Ábrego García on Thursday. “I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional right to due process." And then he explained why this is so important, not just for Ábrego García, but for everyone living in America,. “My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody,” he said. And “if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."

Meanwhile, the man who uttered the oath to protect our Constitution spent his weekend expanding his fabrications about Ábrego García—determined to persuade the court of public opinion why this allegedly heinous criminal does not deserve due process and fundamental civil liberties. On Saturday, he posted an obviously fabricated photo of a hand with tattoos and, in what looks like a cheap photoshop job, the letters and numbers of the Venezuelan gang on his knuckles: MS-13. “I was elected to take bad people out of the United States,” Trump wrote, mocking the idea that Ábrego García is “such a fine and innocent person.” Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, Trump continued his poisonous diatribe meant to underscore how right he is to keep Ábrego García and others in a foreign gulag. “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country,” he lied.

If Trump were so sure of Ábrego García’s guilt, it would make logical sense that he would support returning the Maryland man to the U.S. and to the judgement of U.S. courts after the government made its case. But not only has Trump worked aggressively to undermine the legitimacy of our court system and flout its rulings, he has worked even more intensely to undermine the capacity of millions of Americans to know what is true and false and to believe his lies over verifiable, evidence-based facts. Remarkably, in an unusually swift order delivered in the middle of the night Saturday, the Supreme Court blocked additional deportations likely headed for the same El Salvador prison without judicial review. This followed an emergency request from the American Civil Liberties Union for the Court to intervene.

[...] As Reagan-appointed Circuit Court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III vividly put it Thursday, concerning the government’s responsibility to facilitate Ábrego García’s return, “If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?”

Permit me to rewind over three decades, to 1989, when real estate developer Trump made clear the depth of his hatefulness toward minorities, his sadistic desire to mete out deadly punishment and his belief in his own judgement over the value of civil liberties. That was when he paid for a full-page advertisement in The New York Times to rant about the failure of the judicial system and the need to reinstate capital punishment to execute the five Black and Hispanic teenagers known as the Central Park Five alleged to have brutally beaten and raped a white woman who was jogging in Central Park. “Bring Back The Death Penalty,” the headline screamed. “Bring Back our Police!” “How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits?” the text implored. “Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!” And in a chilling precursor of what was to come from this hateful, unchanged man, he rejected then-New York Mayor Ed Koch’s urging to not respond to the murder with “hate and rancor.” Nope, not for Trump. “I want to hate these muggers and murderers,” he wrote. “They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes. They must serve as examples so that others will think long and hard before committing a crime or an act of violence…I am not looking to psychoanalyze them or understand them. I am looking to punish them.”

This Steven Beschloss column on due process and Kilmar Ábrego García is a solid one.

See Also:

Harry Sisson: It Isn’t Just Ábrego García: How Donald Trump Has Gaslit You Into Ignoring The Constitution

[m1lfsh4ke]

Heyyyy, would you be able to do a student reader (student is 18) x Marilyn fic where student is cockwarming with Marilyn. Basically Marilyn is busy marking papers in her office but reader wants to be with her so Marilyn makes her sit on her lap whilst Marilyn is inside her??? I know this is a lot to ask so feel free to not write if it makes you uncomfortable 😭😭

Full of you | (18+)

warnings : cockwarming + riding + teacher/student + dirty talk + smut

hi anon :D ! I want to be entirely honest with you, this is my first time actually writing something that dealt with cockwarming, so my knowledge is poorly limited. I've read a few fics here and there to understand the fundamentals but I'm not sure if it does me any justice😭.

"Staying up late again?" your body lazily dragged itself to Ms. Thornhill's private office, her big hazel eyes darting towards the door as you closed it behind you with a click to the lock.

"Sweetheart.." she breathed out, "shouldn't you be asleep by now?"

"The bed felt empty without you, made it hard to get some rest." you pouted, pulling Marilyn's chair out enough to make some space just to squeeze yourself in and sit on top of her. "mph.. much better.." you softly whimpered, burying your face in the croak of her neck taking in her bittersweet scent, as one of her hands held you at your lower back, and the other resuming to marking papers.

As her hand rubbed the small of your back, she started to become aware of the clothing you were wearing. The fabric glided up beneath her fingertips when her hand hiked up your spine, making her feel a slight touch of your bare skin when she lowered it back down.

"You wore your nightdress when coming down?" Her voice interrupted you, making you pull away from the warmth of her neck to look up at her.

"I'm sorry, yes?" you giggled, not knowing what the issue was when its 11pm--way past the students time to be roaming the campus. "Is there a problem?" You fucking knew how possessive Ms. Thornhill was when it came to her star student being perceived by others, but you found it painfully attractive to be put in place by her.

"What if someone saw you in this." The dress was white, silk making it easier to draw out the shape of your breasts and your hardened nipples.

You got closer to her ear, planting a kiss just below her earlobe, feeling her body shiver. The hem of your nightdress was above your thighs, making your movements easier as you ground your clothed pussy down on Marilyn, making the two of you whimper. "They're not the one fucking it off of me" you breathed out with a smile, still continuing to grind down on Ms. Thornhill's already evident bulge.

She dropped her pen, whimpering at the friction as her hips stuttered up to feel more of you. "Poor baby.. here, let me get that for you." Your hand snaked its way to the waistband of her pants with your fingertips lightly playing with the hem. "Continue grading your papers, I'll take care of you" You kissed the side of her lips, finally dipping your hand past the waistband of her pants as she gasped, feeling your fingertips graze her dick.

"Fuck- keep playing with me, feels so good-" Her hips started to buck to your touch which you found adorable.

Tugging her pants along with her boxers down, you licked a stride of your hand and started to pump her dick, making her eyes roll to the back of her head. "feels good doesn't it? little slut loves to fuck herself on my hand, yeah?" She tried her best to make her handwriting look neat and not wobbly, but that came to no avail as you started to line your dripping pussy atop of her.

Sinking down to her length, she let out a guttural moan as you hushed her with a kiss, tugging on her bottom lip.

"Sh-fuckk!- So big, Mari.." you whimpered, fully taking in her whole while you sat there for a moment. You could feel her dick throb inside of you as she tried her best inputting test scores.

"C-can I fuck you, please?" Her big doe eyes looked up at you as you looked in awe, caressing her face and brushing her hair away from her eyes.

"My polite baby, of course" Placing a kiss on her forehead, you grabbed her by her wrist and settled them on your hips as you sort of lifted yourself up from her lap, making her moan at how wet you felt.

She tightened her grasp on your hips as she started to fuck up to you, whimpering at how easy it is for her dick to slide in and out of you.

"That's it- ri-right there, yes!-" You slammed your hips down, taking her full length again, making the poor woman cry out a moan.

"My sweet angel, is this too much for you? Mommy fucking this dick good?" You panted out, continuing to relentlessly ride her as a strap from your dress began to fall down to your shoulders, exposing your cleavage as your boobs bounced every time you rode her.

"Fuck- Let me cum please- Wanna make sure you walk back to the room with my cum leaking down your thighs-" You moaned at her words, bouncing on top of her even faster as you leaned back against her desk

"Mari, sh-shit!-" A loud wanton moan escaped past your lips as she fucked you deep, painting your walls white. Her legs shook when you continued to slowly bounce on her, helping her ride out her high.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Max Aitchison

Published: Jul 1, 2025

Elon Musk has won a landmark case against the eSafety Commissioner after it tried to censor an 'offensive post' a Canadian man made about an Australian UN trans expert.

Chris Elston, a  children's safety campaigner who goes by the name of 'Billboard Chris' on X and lives in Canada, was sent an Orwellian 'removal notice' from the Australian Government's eSafety Commissioner in March 2024.

Mr Elston's alleged offence had been to share a Daily Mail story about Teddy Cook, a female-to-male trans Australian activist who landed a job on a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert panel drafting care guidelines for trans and non-binary people.

Julie Inman Grant, the eSafety Commissioner, deemed the post to be 'degrading' cyber abuse and ordered X to remove it or face an almost $800,000 fine, prompting both Mr Elston and X to sue the Australian government.

On Tuesday night the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (ART) ruled that Mr Elston's post did not meet the definition of cyber abuse and the eSafety Commissioner should 

'The post, although phrased offensively, is consistent with views Mr Elston has expressed elsewhere in circumstances where the expression of the view had no malicious intentnot have ordered its removal,' ART deputy president Damien O'Donovan ruled.

He added: 'When the evidence is considered as a whole I am not satisfied that an ordinary reasonable person would conclude that by making the post Mr Elston intended to cause Mr Cook serious harm.'

The win was hailed as a victory for free speech by Paul Coleman, executive director of ADF International, who supported Mr Elston's legal challenge alongside the Human Rights Law Alliance in Australia.

'This is a decisive win for free speech and sets an important precedent in the growing global debate over online censorship,' Mr Coleman said.

'In this case, the Australian government alarmingly censored the peaceful expression of a Canadian citizen on an American-owned platform, evidence of the expansive reach of censorial forces, even beyond national borders. 

'Today, free speech has prevailed.'

Mr Elston told Daily Mail Australia the ruling 'provides a safe road map for free speech in Australia - and around the world'.

'My intent was not to harm Teddy Cook but to encourage serious debate about these issues,' he added.

Mr Elston said he believed that 'calling a man a woman and vice versa is not only untrue but has implications for the safety of women and children'. 

The key question the Tribunal determined was that Mr Elston's post was not designed to cause 'serious harm' to Cook. 

'Serious distress is not someone getting offended,. I always say you take offence, you don't give it,' Mr Elston said.

'(This ruling shows) it's fine to tell the truth and if you offend some one then so be it.' 

Lois McLatchie Miller, senior legal communications officer for ADF International, said the ruling set an important 'symbolic global precedent'. 

'Online safety acts, inspired by Australia's eSafety Commissioner, are proliferating across the West,' she said.

Ms Miller pointed to the EU's Digital Services Act which seeks to 'prevent illegal and harmful activities online and the spread of disinformation' but critics say risks freedom of expression.

She said that these 'new laws' needed to be tested and Tuesday's ruling highlighted the 'fundamental right to speak the truth online'.   

Cook, 45, who describes himself as a 'professional queer, man of trans experience', has advocated for taxpayer-funded surgeries for all trans Australians.

His now-private social media posts were awash with X-rated material, including public nudity, bondage parties, trans orgies and even a photo of a man apparently having sex with a dog. 

Mr Elston shared a Daily Mail story about Cook's role as a UN health expert where he referred to Cook as a woman alongside the caption: 'People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards'.

Ms Grant, the eSafety Commissioner, ordered X to remove the post after Cook complained or face a fine of up to $782,500.

X refused, but eventually geo-blocked the post in Australia. 

Yet, in a complete mockery of the 'removal notice', Mr Elston subsequently re-shared a picture of the original post, which can be viewed in Australia. 

'The material also contains a statement that implicitly equates gender identity with a psychiatric condition,' a delegate on behalf of Ms Grant submitted to the tribunal.

'This statement is deliberately degrading and suggests that all transgender people – and in this case the complainant in particular – have something that is ‘wrong’ about their psychology owing to their gender identity.'

But ART deputy president Mr Donovan was not satisfied Mr Elston intended to cause serious harm with his post. 

'I am satisfied that it is his universal practice to refer to a transgender person by the pronouns that correspond to their biological sex at birth,' Mr Donovan ruled.

'I am also satisfied that when he classifies a person as either a man or a woman, he determines which classification to use by reference to their biological sex at birth, rather than the gender related characteristics that they currently express. 

'I am satisfied that he believes doing otherwise has implications for the rights and safety of women and children.'

Musk is yet to comment on the ruling. 

Daily Mail Australia approached the eSafety Commission for comment.

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The "eSafety Commissioner" in Australia is a disgrunted ex-Twitter 1.0 employee who was involved in the worst of Twitter 1.0 censorship. She also has a prevoius history with "Teddy" Cook.

She's known as eKaren, BTW.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

By The Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

Sept. 30, 2024

It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks.

Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in policy and his increasingly bizarre cast of associates.

This unequivocal, dispiriting truth — Donald Trump is not fit to be president — should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country and the stability of our democracy to deny him re-election.

For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president.

Most presidential elections are, at their core, about two different visions of America that emerge from competing policies and principles. This one is about something more foundational. It is about whether we invite into the highest office in the land a man who has revealed, unmistakably, that he will degrade the values, defy the norms and dismantle the institutions that have made our country strong.

As a dedicated public servant who has demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering commitment to the Constitution, Ms. Harris stands alone in this race. She may not be the perfect candidate for every voter, especially those who are frustrated and angry about our government’s failures to fix what’s broken — from our immigration system to public schools to housing costs to gun violence. Yet we urge Americans to contrast Ms. Harris’s record with her opponent’s.

Ms. Harris is more than a necessary alternative. There is also an optimistic case for elevating her, one that is rooted in her policies and borne out by her experience as vice president, a senator and a state attorney general.

Over the past 10 weeks, Ms. Harris has offered a shared future for all citizens, beyond hate and division. She has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families.

While character is enormously important — in this election, pre-eminently so — policies matter. Many Americans remain deeply concerned about their prospects and their children’s in an unstable and unforgiving world. For them, Ms. Harris is clearly the better choice. She has committed to using the power of her office to help Americans better afford the things they need, to make it easier to own a home, to support small businesses and to help workers. Mr. Trump’s economic priorities are more tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the wealthy, and more tariffs, which will make prices even more unmanageable for the poor and middle class.

Beyond the economy, Ms. Harris promises to continue working to expand access to health care and reduce its cost. She has a long record of fighting to protect women’s health and reproductive freedom. Mr. Trump spent years trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and boasts of picking the Supreme Court justices who ended the constitutional right to an abortion.

Globally, Ms. Harris would work to maintain and strengthen the alliances with like-minded nations that have long advanced American interests abroad and maintained the nation’s security. Mr. Trump — who has long praised autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban and Kim Jong-un — has threatened to blow those democratic alliances apart. Ms. Harris recognizes the need for global solutions to the global problem of climate change and would continue President Biden’s major investments in the industries and technologies necessary to achieve that goal. Mr. Trump rejects the accepted science, and his contempt for low-carbon energy solutions is matched only by his trollish fealty to fossil fuels.

As for immigration, a huge and largely unsolved issue, the former president continues to demonize and dehumanize immigrants, while Ms. Harris at least offers hope for a compromise, long denied by Congress, to secure the borders and return the nation to a sane immigration system.

Many voters have said they want more details about the vice president’s plans, as well as more unscripted encounters in which she explains her vision and policies. They are right to ask. Given the stakes of this election, Ms. Harris may think that she is running a campaign designed to minimize the risks of an unforced error — answering journalists’ questions and offering greater policy detail could court controversy, after all — under the belief that being the only viable alternative to Mr. Trump may be enough to bring her to victory. That strategy may ultimately prove winning, but it’s a disservice to the American people and to her own record. And leaving the public with a sense that she is being shielded from tough questions, as Mr. Biden has been, could backfire by undermining her core argument that a capable new generation stands ready to take the reins of power.

Ms. Harris is not wrong, however, on the clear dangers of returning Mr. Trump to office. He has promised to be a different kind of president this time, one who is unrestrained by checks on power built into the American political system. His pledge to be “a dictator” on “Day 1” might have indeed been a joke — but his undisguised fondness for dictatorships and the strongmen who run them is anything but.

Most notably, he systematically undermined public confidence in the result of the 2020 election and then attempted to overturn it — an effort that culminated in an insurrection at the Capitol to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power and resulted in him and some of his most prominent supporters being charged with crimes. He has not committed to honoring the result of this election and continues to insist, as he did at the debate with Ms. Harris on Sept. 10, that he won in 2020. He has apparently made a willingness to support his lies a litmus test for those in his orbit, starting with JD Vance, who would be his vice president.

His disdain for the rule of law goes beyond his efforts to obtain power; it is also central to how he plans to use it. Mr. Trump and his supporters have described a 2025 agenda that would give him the power to carry out the most extreme of his promises and threats. He vows, for instance, to turn the federal bureaucracy and even the Justice Department into weapons of his will to hurt his political enemies. In at least 10 instances during his presidency, he did exactly that, pressuring federal agencies and prosecutors to punish people he felt had wronged him, with little or no legal basis for prosecution.

Some of the people Mr. Trump appointed in his last term saved America from his most dangerous impulses. They refused to break laws on his behalf and spoke up when he put his own interests above his country’s. As a result, the former president intends, if re-elected, to surround himself with people who are unwilling to defy his demands. Today’s version of Mr. Trump — the twice-impeached version that faces a barrage of criminal charges — may prove to be the restrained version.

Unless American voters stand up to him, Mr. Trump will have the power to do profound and lasting harm to our democracy.

That is not simply an opinion of Mr. Trump’s character by his critics; it is a judgment of his presidency from those who know it best — the very people he appointed to serve in the most important positions of his White House. It is telling that among those who fear a second Trump presidency are people who worked for him and saw him at close range.

Mike Pence, Mr. Trump’s vice president, has repudiated him. No other vice president in modern history has done this. “I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Mr. Pence has said. “And anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”

Mr. Trump’s attorney general has raised similar concerns about his fundamental unfitness. And his chief of staff. And his defense secretary. And his national security advisers. And his education secretary. And on and on — a record of denunciation without precedent in the nation’s long history.

That’s not to say Mr. Trump did not add to the public conversation. In particular, he broke decades of Washington consensus and led both parties to wrestle with the downsides of globalization, unrestrained trade and China’s rise. His criminal-justice reform efforts were well placed, his focus on Covid vaccine development paid off, and his decision to use an emergency public health measure to turn away migrants at the border was the right call at the start of the pandemic. Yet even when the former president’s overall aim may have had merit, his operational incompetence, his mercurial temperament and his outright recklessness often led to bad outcomes. Mr. Trump’s tariffs cost Americans billions of dollars. His attacks on China have ratcheted up military tensions with America’s strongest rival and a nuclear superpower. His handling of the Covid crisis contributed to historic declines in confidence in public health, and to the loss of many lives. His overreach on immigration policies, such as his executive order on family separation, was widely denounced as inhumane and often ineffective.

And those were his wins. His tax plan added $2 trillion to the national debt; his promised extension of them would add $5.8 trillion over the next decade. His withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal destabilized the Middle East. His support for antidemocratic strongmen like Mr. Putin emboldened human rights abusers all over the world. He instigated the longest government shutdown ever. His sympathetic comments toward the Proud Boys expanded the influence of domestic right-wing extremist groups.

In the years since he left office, Mr. Trump was convicted on felony charges of falsifying business records, was found liable in civil court for sexual abuse and faces two, possibly three, other criminal cases. He has continued to stoke chaos and encourage violence and lawlessness whenever it suits his political aims, most recently promoting vicious lies against Haitian immigrants. He recognizes that ordinary people — voters, jurors, journalists, election officials, law enforcement officers and many others who are willing to do their duty as citizens and public servants — have the power to hold him to account, so he has spent the past three and a half years trying to undermine them and sow distrust in anyone or any institution that might stand in his way.

Most dangerous for American democracy, Mr. Trump has transformed the Republican Party — an institution that once prided itself on principle and honored its obligations to the law and the Constitution — into little more than an instrument of his quest to regain power. The Republicans who support Ms. Harris recognize that this election is about something more fundamental than narrow partisan interest. It is about principles that go beyond party.

In 2020 this board made the strongest case it could against the re-election of Mr. Trump. Four years later, many Americans have put his excesses out of their minds. We urge them and those who may look back at that period with nostalgia or feel that their lives are not much better now than they were three years ago to recognize that his first term was a warning and that a second Trump term would be much more damaging and divisive than the first.

Kamala Harris is the only choice.

https://www.nytimes.com/.../kamala-harris-2024.html...

[coochiequeens]

The truly sad thing is that TRAs are not going to take a moment for self reflection and look at the perverts that have overun the TQ+ movement. Instead they are going to lash out at "TERFs".

Judges have ruled that the UK government acted lawfully in blocking Scotland's gender self-ID reforms.

Legislation making it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex was passed by the Scottish Parliament last year.

The UK government blocked it from becoming law over fears it would impact on equality laws across Great Britain.

The Court of Session in Edinburgh has now rejected a Scottish government legal challenge to the veto.

The Scottish government has 21 days to decide whether it wants to appeal against the ruling, and the case could ultimately end up in the Supreme Court in London.

The legislation received cross-party support in Holyrood, passing by 86 votes to 39 after a highly-charged debate.

Campaigners against the reforms warned the legislation could risk the safety of women and girls in same-sex spaces such as hospital wards and refuges.

Supporters argued it would make the process of obtaining a gender recognition certificate (GRC) easier and less traumatic for trans people.

The legislation would remove the need for trans people to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a doctor before they are allowed to change their legally-recognised sex in Scotland, and would lower the age that someone can apply for a GRC from 18 to 16.

The period in which applicants would need to have lived in their acquired gender would be cut from two years to three months.

The UK government stepped in to block the bill from receiving royal assent after it was passed by MSPs, using powers contained in section 35 of the Scotland Act for the first time.

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack raised concerns that the reforms could adversely impact on the 2010 Equality Act, which applies in Scotland, England and Wales and sets out protections for groups including women and transgender people.

The Scottish government challenged the move at the Court of Session - Scotland's highest civil court - with its top law officer, Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, arguing that Mr Jack did not have "reasonable grounds" to block the bill.

Ms Bain also claimed that if the UK government was successful, Westminster "could veto practically any act of the Scottish Parliament having an impact on reserved matters because he disagreed with it on policy grounds".

But in her written ruling, judge Lady Haldane dismissed the Scottish government's appeal and said the block on the legislation was lawful.

She said Mr Jack followed correct legal procedures when he made his decision to invoke section 35 and that the Scottish government had failed to show that he had made legal errors.

The judge wrote: "I cannot conclude that he (Mr Jack) failed in his duty to take such steps as were reasonable in all the circumstances to acquaint himself with material sufficient to permit him to reach the decision that he did."

Lady Haldane also said that "Section 35 does not, in and of itself, impact on the separation of powers or other fundamental constitutional principle. Rather it is itself part of the constitutional framework."

Welcoming the judgement, Mr Jack said it "upholds my decision to prevent the Scottish government's gender recognition legislation from becoming law".

He added: "I was clear that this legislation would have had adverse effects on the operation of the law as it applies to reserved matters, including on important Great Britain-wide equality protections.

"Following this latest court defeat for the Scottish government, their ministers need to stop wasting taxpayers' money pursuing needless legal action and focus on the real issues which matter to people in Scotland - such as growing the economy and cutting waiting lists."

Alister Jack blocked the legislation because of its potential impact on equalities law that applies across Scotland, England and Wales

Humza Yousaf decided to proceed with the legal challenge shortly after succeeding Nicola Sturgeon - a passionate supporter of trans rights - as first minister earlier this year.

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he described the ruling as a "dark day for devolution".

Mr Yousaf said: "Today's judgment confirms beyond doubt that devolution is fundamentally flawed. The court has confirmed that legislation passed by a majority in Holyrood can be struck down by Westminster.

"The only way to guarantee we get true self-government is through independence. Sovereignty should lie with the people of Scotland, not a Westminster government we didn't vote for with the ability to overrule our laws."

He was the only one of the three candidates in the SNP leadership contest who backed taking legal action and the issue has been deeply divisive within the party.

Colin Macfarlane, director of nations at LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, said the ruling would "mean more uncertainty for trans people in Scotland who will be waiting once again to see whether they will be able to have their gender legally recognised through a process that is in line with leading nations like Ireland, Canada and New Zealand."

Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray said it was "disappointing this legalisation ended in the courts but this ruling should be respected".

Shortly after the reforms were passed, double rapist Isla Bryson - who changed gender after being arrested for attacking two women - was remanded to a women's jail.

Bryson was subsequently moved to a male prison after the case sparked widespread anger. The Scottish government said the new legislation had no impact on the decision about where Bryson was held.

As befitting an unprecedented case, this is in Lady Haldane's words a "novel and complex" ruling.

She actually concluded in part that this is a situation where many decisions could have been taken, and that "there is possibly no single right answer" - but that the courts should only intervene in the case of a clear error in law.

The judge concluded that Alister Jack was entitled to make a decision on this, and that he had taken the proper steps to come to a view, without going into the even knottier territory of whether it was the right one.

All of that complexity means there could be room for appeal.

The Scottish government will be combing through the ruling to see if there are grounds to go back to court.

Mr Jack has urged them not to, telling them not to waste public funds on further legal action.

But ministers will perhaps put more weight on the position of the Scottish Greens, their partners in government, who are absolutely furious about the "horrible, heartbreaking and unjust" outcome.

Challenging UK ministers on this has been a red line for the Greens in the past. It may be that Scottish ministers have little choice but to fight on if they are to keep their partnership government together.

[themirokai]

The Bell Bird - Chapter 4

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3

In this chapter, plans are put in motion.

Chapter is 2,545 words.

Extra thanks to @once-in-a-blue-moon-rising for normal Brit-pick and beta support PLUS incredible help with details of the logistics for this chapter.

Read it below or on AO3.

~*~

Gregory had the decency to wait a week before asking. Mycroft was not surprised. Gregory was, after all, a fundamentally decent man.

The intervening week had been busy, but no more taxing than Mycroft was used to.

The DNA test had, of course, shown that the Bell Bird was David’s daughter, and they had quickly begun to implement the plan he had sketched out for her that first night in his office. Arranging for Jenny to sing a concert at the Nevill Holt Theatre two weeks later took very little effort, and Ahmad had barely concealed her eagerness to travel with Jenny to Leicestershire and remain there as primary bodyguard under the guise of Ms. Lindish’s personal assistant.

Romer had come back to work the following day with his tail between his legs, and had apologised for his behaviour. To demonstrate that there were no hard feelings, Mycroft had moved Yang to another assignment and put Romer on his personal security detail. Though Wilkinson was older than Romer, Romer had been in Mycroft’s unit for longer, meaning he was technically the senior agent on the detail. He had taken the responsibility with enthusiasm and extra gravitas, and Mycroft was grateful to Wilkinson for his bemused acceptance of Romer’s bluster.

The day to day of Mycroft’s work had all gone relatively smoothly that week, with the dozen or so operations his agents were conducting both domestically and abroad tracking with no major hiccups.

Which all left Mycroft free to lounge in bed with Gregory on Saturday morning at – for him – the late hour of eight AM. Gregory was half-sitting up against the pillows and Mycroft was laying with his cheek on Gregory’s stomach. Gregory was ostensibly reading something on his mobile but Mycroft could tell he hadn’t scrolled in some time and likely had something on his mind. Finally Gregory put the mobile down and stroked his hand down Mycroft’s back.

“Darling?”

“Mm?”

“Can I ask? About Jenny’s father?”

“Were you and my father lovers?” Jenny had asked that night, when Ahmad had stepped out and they were alone in his office. Her bravado was gone, and she suddenly looked very young. When Mycroft didn’t respond she continued. “It’s just… the way he talked about you… and you have a partner…”

“‘Lovers’ is too strong a word for what we were,” he had said quietly. “And I want to be clear that your father was devoted to your mother. As far as I know he was never unfaithful to her. But—” Mycroft sighed "—I suppose I don’t mind telling you that a long time ago… I loved him.”

“I think he loved you too.”

“We were very close, for a time,” Mycroft told Gregory. “There were a few times, before he met Jenny’s mother, when the adrenaline of a mission got the better of us and we… well… But that was a different time.

“It wasn’t safe for us to be together, both because of our work and even moreso because we were both men. I was closeted in my professional life until shortly before I met you. And David met and fell in love with Jenny’s mother in the nineties. If the circumstances had been different, if we had been brought together in the 2010s instead of the late seventies… if I had met him instead of you… I don’t know.” Mycroft sighed. “I owe him my life. I hope by protecting his daughter I’m doing what I can to repay him and honour his memory.”

Gregory hugged him closer and kissed the top of his head. “I think you are, darling.”

Mycroft was honest enough with himself to acknowledge that in the days leading up to Jenny’s concert, he became irrationally nervous. He deployed extra agents around Leicestershire and had nearly every resource at his disposal scanning for any sign of the Black Tornado. He repeatedly questioned whether using Jenny as bait was the best way to keep her safe, but just as often resolved that, yes, taking out the Black Tornado was the only way to protect her, and they had no other way of making him surface.

The information Mycroft had on the Black Tornado indicated that he would spend as little time in the UK as possible. Unlike the Bell Bird, he had operated there in the past, but those had been extremely rapid strikes that had him out of the country within hours. By having Jenny’s concert be at Nevill Holt it would force the Black Tornado to travel a great distance by car, regardless of how he arrived in England, which would give Mycroft’s team ample opportunity to apprehend him. It also meant that it narrowed the window of when he was likely to strike at her, since the night of the concert would be the only time he would know exactly where she was.

Gregory and Mycroft would be attending the concert and spending the night at a nearby inn. It would give Mycroft the opportunity to direct operations more or less on-site, and the idea of intentionally putting Jenny in harm’s way while he stayed in London was unthinkable. And while he considered it, he did not bother suggesting that Gregory stay behind.

He and Gregory were packing for the night away when Mycroft’s mobile buzzed in his pocket. He took it out and saw it was one of his agents working in the operations centre. He answered. “Go ahead, Parnell.”

“Sir, we believe the Black Tornado has boarded a plane in Istanbul headed for Heathrow.”

“Good. Keep scanning in case you’re wrong, but send a team to intercept him as soon as the flight lands.”

“Yes, sir.”

Mycroft disconnected the call to see Gregory watching him.

“Got him?” Gregory asked.

“Not yet,” Mycroft told him. “But he should be landing in about four hours, and my people will be there.”

Gregory smiled. “Maybe we’ll be able to relax and enjoy the concert after all.”

Mycroft certainly was not superstitious enough to believe in the concept of a jinx, but Gregory’s words still felt like a lead weight in his stomach.

In the car on the way to Leicestershire, Mycroft was not on comms. He knew the Black Tornado’s plane would be landing while they were en route, but he also knew that there was nothing he could meaningfully add to the operation at that point, so he forcefully resisted the urge to micromanage. He had found that his agents felt more free to communicate openly when he was not listening in, which improved group cohesion on the ground. While it was more difficult when he was so personally invested in the operation, it helped that Simmons was monitoring comms while she drove – a role she happily fulfilled when required. Simmons had known Mycroft long enough to know what updates he would find useful, and the agents trusted her to keep their non-essential chatter to herself.

In theory, Mycroft was reading a report from an operation in Abu Dhabi, but he couldn’t help frequent glances at Simmons. At one point when he looked up, their eyes met in the rearview mirror, and she gave a short nod. The plane must have landed. Mycroft glanced at Gregory, who was engrossed in a book, but decided not to say anything. He gave up all pretence of reading the Abu Dhabi report, and just waited.

He saw when Simmons’ shoulders tensed, and when she gripped the steering wheel more tightly, and so he was not entirely unprepared for her to swear.

“Shit!”

Gregory startled out of his book. “Lucy? You okay?”

Simmons looked at Mycroft in the rearview again. “They lost him, sir.”

Mycroft felt the breath squeeze out of him in a hiss. He pinched the bridge of his nose. “Pull over, Simmons.”

Simmons tapped her ear to change the channel on her comm. “Wilk, we’re pulling over.”

Ahead on the road a nondescript grey van pulled off to the side as Simmons manoeuvred their vehicle over. Mycroft got out of the car just as a motorbike pulled up beside them and Romer took off his helmet. His face showed that he had been monitoring comms too. Simmons joined them beside the car.

“Tell me,” Mycroft said.

“Massive crowds at Heathrow,” Simmons reported, “and there was some mix-up with the gate, so two planes-worth of people thought they were supposed to be boarding their flight through that gate just as Black Tornado’s flight was disembarking. The team lost him in the crowd.”

Mycroft felt a cold fury rise in his stomach but he kept his tone even. “Completely unacceptable! That entire team is being reassigned for additional crowd training.” Well, maybe not entirely even.

“He must’ve had someone mess with the gates, sir,” Romer put in.

“And he’s an extremely skilled operative, not a random mark,” Simmons said.

“Both observations are irrelevant. This unit is supposed to be the best in the world. I do not care how skilled the mark is or how big the crowd, a five person team should not lose one individual in a crowd. And you can tell them I said so.”

Mycroft wheeled around and got back in the car, shutting the door with perhaps a bit more force than was necessary.

Gregory, apparently, had also gotten out and had been listening. He returned to his seat and tentatively reached out to touch Mycroft’s hand.

“Maybe a bit of an overreaction, darling?”

Mycroft snorted. “Nothing of the sort. My agents should be better than that.”

“Sure,” Gregory said gently, “but are you perhaps taking it a little hard because you’re worried about Jenny?”

“If I were being hard on them,” Mycroft informed him, “I would have called them myself. Having Simmons and Romer deliver the message that I am displeased and sparing them my full thoughts on the matter is taking it easy on them.”

Gregory raised an eyebrow at him, then squeezed his hand.

After Mycroft and Gregory had deposited their bags in their very nice room at the inn, they went for a walk to stretch their legs. Though Romer was moving nearly silently, Mycroft did spot him tracking them through the woods at several points. At the pre-arranged time, they encountered Jenny and Ahmad on an abandoned lane.

Before the women caught sight of Mycroft and Gregory, Ahmad said something they couldn’t hear to Jenny and Jenny threw her head back in a melodious laugh and rested her hand on Ahmad’s arm. Ahmad grinned at Jenny, then quickly looked down at her feet. While they were a little too far to see, Mycroft strongly suspected that she was blushing.

Ahmad caught sight of them then, and her entire expression changed. Her grin faded, and she stood straighter: the picture of a calm, professional agent. Jenny, on the other hand, lit up when she saw them.

“Hello!” she called. “Welcome to the picturesque Nevill Holt estate.”

Mycroft felt a surge of fondness. Her accent was exactly the same as David’s: one of the regional American ones; midwestern, if he recalled correctly.

“Beautiful day for a stroll,” Gregory said.

“Ms. Lindish,” Mycroft said. “Are you well?”

She leaned closer to him. “You know you can call me Jenny,” she mock-whispered conspiratorially.

“Mr. Holmes only does first names under duress,” Ahmad told her.

Mycroft glanced at her with a small smile. “Thank you, Ahmad.”

“I’m very well, Mr. Holmes, thank you for asking,” Jenny said with a smile. “Agent Ahmad has been taking very good care of me.”

Mycroft looked between them quickly but answered without hesitation. “I’m glad to hear it.” He turned to Ahmad. “Have you been on comms today, Ahmad? Or in touch with anyone from the unit?”

Ahmad’s face grew even more serious. “No, sir.”

Mycroft grimaced. He had been fairly sure that was the case, but it didn’t make his next task any easier. “I have some unfortunate news, then. I had a team go to intercept the Black Tornado at Heathrow, but they lost him. We have to assume that he’s on his way, or potentially already here.”

Ahmad grew angry. Jenny’s face detoured quickly from frightened to resolved.

“I understand,” Jenny said quietly.

“I don’t,” Ahmad said. “How big was the team, sir?”

“Big enough that they should not have lost him,” Mycroft told her. “There will be consequences, but you will let me worry about that. You have a much more immediate concern.”

Ahmad took a deep breath, and Mycroft watched her consciously unclench her jaw. “Yes, sir.”

“Your team is ready?” he asked her.

“Yes, sir.”

As Ahmad briefed him on how she had deployed the agents assigned to help her protect Jenny and the plan for the concert that night, Mycroft watched out of the corner of his eye as Jenny took a few steps closer to Gregory and the two of them had a quiet conversation.

“Very good, Ahmad,” Mycroft said when she finished. “That’s all well-thought out.”

Ahmad gave a very small smile.

Jenny and Gregory cut off their conversation and Jenny turned to him with a smile.

“He’s most likely to attack tonight, when he thinks you’re asleep,” Mycroft addressed both Jenny and Ahmad. “I’ll be monitoring comms following the concert.” He reached out his hand towards Jenny, and she took it. “You don’t need to be frightened. Ahmad is skillfully deploying an excellent team.”

Jenny looked at Ahmad through her lashes. “I have every confidence in Agent Ahmad, Mr. Holmes.”

“Good,” Mycroft said. “My dear, we will keep you safe. I give you my word.”

Jenny smiled warmly and squeezed his hand. “Thank you.”

“Now,” Mycroft said, “we should all get back to where we’re supposed to be.”

Romer faded out of the woods and onto the road once Mycroft and Gregory were headed back to the inn, walking hand in hand.

“Ahmad’s soft on the Bell Bird, sir.”

“I’m well aware, Mr. Romer.”

“I think Bell Bird likes Ahmad, too.”

“Yes,” Mycroft said, “you are correct.”

“Is that a problem, sir?”

“Ahmad and Ms. Lindish are more emotionally invested in protecting each other. I see that as an asset to the operation, Mr. Romer.”

Romer walked beside him for a few steps, considering. “Guess I’ll have to find a hot assassin with a sob story,” he said.

On Mycroft’s other side, Gregory chuckled. “You do know there are other ways to meet people, right Peter?”

Romer looked briefly thoughtful. “I guess I could be introduced to a handsome copper by my troubled brother, but I don’t have any siblings.”

Gregory shook his head. “We’ve got to get you some other role models, kid.”

Romer flashed a smile at Mycroft before heading back into the woods. “Nah. I’m good.”

“What were you and Jenny talking about?” Mycroft asked Gregory when Romer was far enough away to not be able to hear their conversation.

“You, mostly.” Gregory chuckled. “She was asking how we met and how we got together. Whether you usually brought me along on operations. She’s a sweet girl.”

Mycroft raised an eyebrow at him. “She is a deadly assassin.”

Gregory shrugged. “And a sweet girl. We should have her to dinner when this is all wrapped up.”

Mycroft stopped walking, pulled Gregory to him, and kissed him.

~*~

Thank you for reading!

Final chapter is now posted.

[veelzebub-the-dingus]

Woe, Glitch Productions x Hatchetfield au be upon you

Long so more under cut. Also Hatchetfield and Murder Drones spoilers

The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

Most of the major characters are Murder Drones characters, although there are a few characters who get cameos that have a bigger role later (Smg4 appears, Meggy is mentioned, and Kinger is alluded to)

Paul: N

Emma: Uzi

Ted: J

Bill: V

Alice: Cyn (without solver)

Professor Hidgens: Khan

General Macnamara: Doll

Jane Perkins: Nori

I’m not gonna say who Pokey is just yet- the Lords in Black are getting their own section because it gets kinda weird.

Black Friday

The least developed idea thus far, only know a few castings. Most of the major characters are Tadc/Gaslight District characters

Tom: Kinger

Becky: Queenie (I’ll explain later)

Lex: Melancholy Hill

Hannah: my current idea is the human that comes from the egg that we saw in the trailer but we’ll see.

Linda Monroe: current idea is Princess Loolilalu but please give me ideas

Wilbur Cross (Uncle Wiley): either Jax or Mr. WPNZ

Nerdy Prudes Must Die

I know a few people have had this idea with similar roles but the major characters are Smg4 characters. Probably the most developed one in terms of cast? All plot-significant roles have been filled except for the mayor/Steph’s dad.

Peter: Smg4

Steph: Smg3

Grace: Meggy

Ruth: Tari

Richie: Mario

Max: Desti

Detective Shapiro: Karen

Officer Bailey: Mr. Monitor

Nightmare Time characters

PSA: I have not finished Nightmare Time. I still need to finish The Witch in the Web and watch season 2.

Jenny: Tessa (doomed yuri my beloved)

Duke: Pomni

Ms. Holloway: Ragatha

Webby: Melony

Lords in Black

This is separate from everything else so that I can explain it as concisely as possible. The main roles (aka Nightmare Time and Nerdy Prudes roles) go as follows:

Pokey: Absolute Solver

Blinky: Caine

Tinky: Flesha

Nibbly: Bubble

Wiggly: Mr. Puzzles

Solver and Flesha are treated as different entities but still fundamentally linked. The Solver is the Singular Voice, the controller of the Hivemind. Flesha is the one who toys with those below her, mainly J in this au’s version of Time Bastard.

Another thing: although Mr. Puzzles is the main Wiggly role, in Black Friday the dolls are of Caine. Unsure how I’m having this work- whether Caine is orchestrating it all or the dolls are Caine but Puzzles is overseeing it.

Other casting notes:

All roles are consistent between the musicals and Nightmare Time except for Wiggly and POSSIBLY Wilbur

Not an end all be all but like I had an idea for Lizzy being Zoey (one of Emma’s coworkers)

Might have Ethan’s role split between Ken, Breadhead and Mud. THERE’S NO SHIP BETWEEN ONE OF THEM AND MEL THIS IS JUST THE BEST I HAVE

Paul’s boss, Sam, Tim, Grace’s parents, and others will most likely be ocs

Character personalities are somewhat merged with their role, like Pomni is more (outwardly) composed and Meggy gets to go batshit insane

Nori is still Uzi’s mom and was close friends with Kinger. Him and Queenie are divorced at the beginning of Black Friday and Nori helped take care of their kid for a while until her death.

…Yeah Jane’s a Car is getting overhauled for this au

Even though Nori and Uzi are still mother and daughter I lowkey want to keep J and Smg4 being siblings in this au because it’s funny

V and (non-solver) Cyn are sisters

If they do make a Ms. Holloway musical (which they said that the next Hatchetfield musical would most likely be about her) there will hopefully be roles for more Tadc characters

Uhhhh that’s all I have for now I think. Please suggest more roles

[cobaltegg]

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Dropping this petition from the ACLU here.

“President Biden, as your constituent, I urge you to seize this moment before you leave office to make history as the first U.S. president to commute all federal death sentences. For decades, the federal death penalty has disproportionately affected people of color and those with disabilities – while offering no improvements to public safety. Now, in 2024, with over half of the federal death row comprising people of color, you have the chance to prevent irreversible miscarriages of justice and build a legacy rooted in racial justice and compassion. You came into office committing to take action on the death penalty because of its fundamental flaws. Now is the time to follow through on that promise especially as the nation gets closer and closer to a Trump administration once again.”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Payton Armstrong and Jack Wheatley at MMFA:

Right-wing media personalities have dismissed the importance of due process rights in the case of Kilmar Ábrego García — a Maryland resident with protected legal status who the government has admitted was wrongfully deported to El Salvador due to an “administrative error” — claiming that “it would literally take 1,000 years to give 10 million illegal immigrants one hour each of ‘due process,’” and lamenting that “if every MS-13 member goes through their own hearing, we'll never get these guys out of here.” Others have claimed that “if you're in the country illegally, you don't get due process,” and said that noncitizens “do not have due process under the law like U.S. citizens do.”

The Trump administration has removed hundreds of immigrants without due process including Kilmar Ábrego García, who the government admitted was deported due to “administrative error”

President Donald Trump has flown hundreds of undocumented immigrants to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act without court hearings and due process. After the administration sent 238 immigrants to CECOT, a Salvadoran megaprison that is notorious for human rights abuses, the White House and right-wing media repeatedly painted the migrants as dangerous “criminals.” A CBS News investigation “found that an overwhelming majority have no apparent criminal convictions or even criminal charges.” [ABC News, 3/26/25; CBS News, 4/6/25; Media Matters, 4/1/25]

The Department of Justice admitted in court filings that Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported and subsequently imprisoned in El Salvador due to an “administrative error,” but the Trump administration has been resisting a court order requiring the government “facilitate” his return. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has ordered at least four officials to give sworn testimony about the administration’s refusal to comply with her order that it facilitate Ábrego García’s return to the U.S. [The New York Times, 4/1/25; Politico, 4/15/25]

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met with Ábrego García last week after initially being denied, and he has since “accused the Trump administration of ‘outright defying’ court orders” to return him to the United States. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has backtracked from initial government admissions that Ábrego García was erroneously deported, asserting on Fox News that “we did not make a mistake.” A report that described him as an MS-13 member — based in part on wearing a “Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie” that police claimed was “indicative of the Hispanic gang culture” — was later revealed to have been authored by a now-fired Maryland officer who was suspended for misconduct “just days after the March 2019 encounter at a Home Depot in Hyattsville where Ábrego García was flagged as a potential MS-13 gang member.” [The New York Times, 4/20/25; BBC, 4/20/25; Twitter/X, 4/21/25; BBC, 4/17/25; USA Today, 4/17/25]

Due process is a fundamental right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution for both citizens and noncitizens to ensure people in America are given fair legal proceedings and protected from arbitrary government decisions. Conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices alike have affirmed this right for noncitizens. When asked in 2014 whether undocumented people have rights guaranteed under the Constitution, the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said, “Anybody who’s present in the United States has protections under the United States Constitution.” [CNN, 4/1/25; PBS, 6/25/18]

Right-wing media figures have previously praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for creating CECOT and urged the creation of similar prisons in the United States. American conservative media personalities have showered praise on Bukele’s imprisonment of alleged drug dealers in CECOT. The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles declared, “We need to learn from El Salvador, never thought I would say that sentence, but we in the United States need to follow the lead of the government of El Salvador.” [Media Matters, 3/7/23]

Right-wing media push a load of nonsense lie that undocumented immigrants have “no due process.”

[babymagazinewizard]

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[wiltedsunflowr]

10th December, 2024

Brother left at 2 in the morning. I am going to miss him so much. I hope he has a great time there.

I made milk toast for breakfast in the morning. Its so cold that you have to eat everything right out of the pan, if you try to plate it, it will just grow cold. Mum gave me some warmer clothes. I had a debate meeting later. I am just helping the participants to practice. It was nice to see my friend. She has gotten a new hair cut and looks amazing. Things have been changing for the better for her lately. Kinda like hot girl summer, but winter edition.

Then I made spring onion soup. I love the fragrance of spring onions cut up and the aroma when I had left the pot to simmer. I like these sorts of things. Soup is also something that heals your heart. I mixed it together in a mixer. The potato base made it really sumptuous. All it needed was some lemon. I wished that my friend were here, so that I could cook for her and feed her. I don’t cook very well, but I like to try making new things. Maybe she wouldn’t like the food after all. I finally sat down to study but the network sort of broke down completely. I’ll have to fix it today.

I have to go out and get milk later. The prospect of going out is a bit unpleasant. Firstly Id have to change my clothes, which means getting cold. Not to mention that the outdoors are really cold as well. Plus, since I haven’t been home so long, everybody in the neighbourhood is going to look at me and want to have a chat.

I am doing most of the things that I had decided to do this month. Which is great. Just need to get a head on with the more unpleasant stuff.

I had a discussion with mum about my MS plans before she left for office in the morning. That made my anxious.

I have started studying differential geometry and measure theory. I will be taking these courses next sem. I also started revising complex analysis. Because I didn’t do well on it this semester. I am really liking differential geometry right now. Though I have just brushed up on some vector calc stuff as of now. I read about some of the global theorems about curves, isoperimetric inequality, 4 vertex theorems, fundamental theorem of curves etc.

I was thinking about the isoperimetric inequality while making the omelette yesterday. I tried telling my brother about it, but he wasn’t interested.

There is some soup left. I am not playing the tv today. So the house is really quiet. I will be alone like this all of winter. Why can’t I ever not be alone? Not that I am complaining very much. I am thinking of watching ‘Haikyuu’. I have a friend who recommends it highly. I would love to see something motivating like that right now.

[aimerscomputer]

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I’m an elementary school librarian and our school does a Storybook Character Parade every year where we try to encourage the kids to dress up as a book character or find a book to match their costume. This year I decided I was going to do the witch from Room On The Broom and spent a week putting the whole thing together. Because the librarian ALWAYS dresses up like a book thing. It’s a fundamental law of the elementary school universe.

Then yesterday while I’m standing there in Full Witch, with our yearbook photographer taking photos of me with a half dozen kids holding picture books, our office manager comes in and tells me that all the clerical staff was supposed to dress like condiments and I was mustard here’s your costume *holds out tshirt with Heinz Mustard label logo on it*

Everyone stared at her like she was a lunatic.

Photographer was like, “Yeah she’s not wearing that.”

One of the kids was like, “She’s the library lady, an we’re s’pposed to dress like a book thing” in the most scathing tone I’ve ever heard come out of a seven year old’s mouth.

Another kid was like “Ms Jones you got to go find a book about ketchup the parade’s going to start”

I did not have to change into the stupid mustard costume

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By The New York Times Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

Sept. 30, 2024

It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks.

Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in policy and his increasingly bizarre cast of associates.

This unequivocal, dispiriting truth — Donald Trump is not fit to be president — should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country and the stability of our democracy to deny him re-election.

For this reason, regardless of any political disagreements voters might have with her, Kamala Harris is the only patriotic choice for president.

Most presidential elections are, at their core, about two different visions of America that emerge from competing policies and principles. This one is about something more foundational. It is about whether we invite into the highest office in the land a man who has revealed, unmistakably, that he will degrade the values, defy the norms and dismantle the institutions that have made our country strong.

As a dedicated public servant who has demonstrated care, competence and an unwavering commitment to the Constitution, Ms. Harris stands alone in this race. She may not be the perfect candidate for every voter, especially those who are frustrated and angry about our government’s failures to fix what’s broken — from our immigration system to public schools to housing costs to gun violence. Yet we urge Americans to contrast Ms. Harris’s record with her opponent’s.

Ms. Harris is more than a necessary alternative. There is also an optimistic case for elevating her, one that is rooted in her policies and borne out by her experience as vice president, a senator and a state attorney general.

Over the past 10 weeks, Ms. Harris has offered a shared future for all citizens, beyond hate and division. She has begun to describe a set of thoughtful plans to help American families.

While character is enormously important — in this election, pre-eminently so — policies matter. Many Americans remain deeply concerned about their prospects and their children’s in an unstable and unforgiving world. For them, Ms. Harris is clearly the better choice. She has committed to using the power of her office to help Americans better afford the things they need, to make it easier to own a home, to support small businesses and to help workers. Mr. Trump’s economic priorities are more tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the wealthy, and more tariffs, which will make prices even more unmanageable for the poor and middle class.

Beyond the economy, Ms. Harris promises to continue working to expand access to health care and reduce its cost. She has a long record of fighting to protect women’s health and reproductive freedom. Mr. Trump spent years trying to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and boasts of picking the Supreme Court justices who ended the constitutional right to an abortion.

Globally, Ms. Harris would work to maintain and strengthen the alliances with like-minded nations that have long advanced American interests abroad and maintained the nation’s security. Mr. Trump — who has long praised autocrats like Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban and Kim Jong-un — has threatened to blow those democratic alliances apart. Ms. Harris recognizes the need for global solutions to the global problem of climate change and would continue President Biden’s major investments in the industries and technologies necessary to achieve that goal. Mr. Trump rejects the accepted science, and his contempt for low-carbon energy solutions is matched only by his trollish fealty to fossil fuels.

As for immigration, a huge and largely unsolved issue, the former president continues to demonize and dehumanize immigrants, while Ms. Harris at least offers hope for a compromise, long denied by Congress, to secure the borders and return the nation to a sane immigration system.

Many voters have said they want more details about the vice president’s plans, as well as more unscripted encounters in which she explains her vision and policies. They are right to ask. Given the stakes of this election, Ms. Harris may think that she is running a campaign designed to minimize the risks of an unforced error — answering journalists’ questions and offering greater policy detail could court controversy, after all — under the belief that being the only viable alternative to Mr. Trump may be enough to bring her to victory. That strategy may ultimately prove winning, but it’s a disservice to the American people and to her own record. And leaving the public with a sense that she is being shielded from tough questions, as Mr. Biden has been, could backfire by undermining her core argument that a capable new generation stands ready to take the reins of power.

Ms. Harris is not wrong, however, on the clear dangers of returning Mr. Trump to office. He has promised to be a different kind of president this time, one who is unrestrained by checks on power built into the American political system. His pledge to be “a dictator” on “Day 1” might have indeed been a joke — but his undisguised fondness for dictatorships and the strongmen who run them is anything but.

Most notably, he systematically undermined public confidence in the result of the 2020 election and then attempted to overturn it — an effort that culminated in an insurrection at the Capitol to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power and resulted in him and some of his most prominent supporters being charged with crimes. He has not committed to honoring the result of this election and continues to insist, as he did at the debate with Ms. Harris on Sept. 10, that he won in 2020. He has apparently made a willingness to support his lies a litmus test for those in his orbit, starting with JD Vance, who would be his vice president.

His disdain for the rule of law goes beyond his efforts to obtain power; it is also central to how he plans to use it. Mr. Trump and his supporters have described a 2025 agenda that would give him the power to carry out the most extreme of his promises and threats. He vows, for instance, to turn the federal bureaucracy and even the Justice Department into weapons of his will to hurt his political enemies. In at least 10 instances during his presidency, he did exactly that, pressuring federal agencies and prosecutors to punish people he felt had wronged him, with little or no legal basis for prosecution.

Some of the people Mr. Trump appointed in his last term saved America from his most dangerous impulses. They refused to break laws on his behalf and spoke up when he put his own interests above his country’s. As a result, the former president intends, if re-elected, to surround himself with people who are unwilling to defy his demands. Today’s version of Mr. Trump — the twice-impeachedversion that faces a barrage of criminal charges — may prove to be the restrained version.

Unless American voters stand up to him, Mr. Trump will have the power to do profound and lasting harm to our democracy.

That is not simply an opinion of Mr. Trump’s character by his critics; it is a judgment of his presidency from those who know it best — the very people he appointed to serve in the most important positions of his White House. It is telling that among those who fear a second Trump presidency are people who worked for him and saw him at close range.

Mike Pence, Mr. Trump’s vice president, has repudiated him. No other vice president in modern history has done this. “I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Mr. Pence has said. “And anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”

Mr. Trump’s attorney general has raised similar concerns about his fundamental unfitness. And his chief of staff. And his defense secretary. And his national security advisers. And his education secretary. And on and on — a record of denunciation without precedent in the nation’s long history.

That’s not to say Mr. Trump did not add to the public conversation. In particular, he broke decades of Washington consensus and led both parties to wrestle with the downsides of globalization, unrestrained trade and China’s rise. His criminal-justice reform efforts were well placed, his focus on Covid vaccine development paid off, and his decision to use an emergency public health measure to turn away migrants at the border was the right call at the start of the pandemic. Yet even when the former president’s overall aim may have had merit, his operational incompetence, his mercurial temperament and his outright recklessness often led to bad outcomes. Mr. Trump’s tariffs cost Americans billions of dollars. His attacks on China have ratcheted up military tensions with America’s strongest rival and a nuclear superpower. His handling of the Covid crisis contributed to historic declines in confidence in public health, and to the loss of many lives. His overreach on immigration policies, such as his executive order on family separation, was widely denounced as inhumane and often ineffective.

And those were his wins. His tax plan added $2 trillion to the national debt; his promised extension of them would add $5.8 trillion over the next decade. His withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal destabilized the Middle East. His support for antidemocratic strongmen like Mr. Putin emboldened human rights abusers all over the world. He instigated the longest government shutdown ever. His sympathetic comments toward the Proud Boys expanded the influence of domestic right-wing extremist groups.

In the years since he left office, Mr. Trump was convicted on felony charges of falsifying business records, was found liable in civil court for sexual abuse and faces two, possibly three, other criminal cases. He has continued to stoke chaos and encourage violence and lawlessness whenever it suits his political aims, most recently promoting vicious lies against Haitian immigrants. He recognizes that ordinary people — voters, jurors, journalists, election officials, law enforcement officers and many others who are willing to do their duty as citizens and public servants — have the power to hold him to account, so he has spent the past three and a half years trying to undermine them and sow distrust in anyone or any institution that might stand in his way.

Most dangerous for American democracy, Mr. Trump has transformed the Republican Party — an institution that once prided itself on principle and honored its obligations to the law and the Constitution — into little more than an instrument of his quest to regain power. The Republicans who support Ms. Harris recognize that this election is about something more fundamental than narrow partisan interest. It is about principles that go beyond party.

In 2020 this board made the strongest case it could against the re-election of Mr. Trump. Four years later, many Americans have put his excesses out of their minds. We urge them and those who may look back at that period with nostalgia or feel that their lives are not much better now than they were three years ago to recognize that his first term was a warning and that a second Trump term would be much more damaging and divisive than the first.

Kamala Harris is the only choice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion/editorials/kamala-harris-2024.html

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DCA Course in Bhilai: Your First Step Towards a Successful IT Career

Introduction:

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What is the DCA Course?

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Computer Fundamentals

Microsoft Office Suite

Basic Programming Languages (C, C++)

Internet Technologies

Database Management

Web Designing

Whether you're interested in learning how to manage data or create websites, DCA provides a well-rounded introduction to the world of IT.

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IT Support Technician

Web Designer

Office Automation Clerk

Computer Operator

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4. Internet Technologies and Web Designing

Understanding how the internet works and learning basic web designing is a key part of the DCA curriculum. You’ll gain hands-on experience in creating simple websites and managing online content.

Expanding Your Skills: Computer Courses in Durg

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Students who have completed their 10th or 12th grade and are looking to enter the IT field.

Professionals who want to update their computer skills and stay relevant in today's digital age.

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