#administrative hearing

[qqueenofhades]

Preparing to do some good old fashioned academic labor organizing. Wish me luck.

[palestinegenocide]

Palestinians are taking the Biden administration to court this week

The week, a federal court in Oakland will begin hearing arguments in a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of failing to prevent a genocide in Gaza. The case could bring U.S. support for the Israeli assault on Gaza to a halt.

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[goofsoda]

I think you guys don’t understand how much I friggin’ love sub-agent prentis.

can he make a come back? A little appearance? Mentioned? A CAMEO?? PLSSS LEGO I’M NOT ASKING THAT MUCH JUST LET ME SEE HIM AGAINN PLSSLLSLS

[motherofplatypus]

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Dear zionist, say hello to Hitler when you see him in hell.

[lilliththefan]

(A hand roughly yanks at the back of their collar as they are placed face to face with the Lord of Files, copper curls cascading from the bun at the top of her head. Dagon glares at the Archangel. “Fucking look at me when you say that shit, angel. Look at me and mean it.” )

— If You Only Knew (I Can See You) on AO3

It seems I have tapped into the Angelfish nation of Good Omens SO I BRING FORTH THIS EDIT OF THEM TO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG

because I Can See You is so Angelfish coded istg 😭🙏

[racefortheironthrone]

Why aren’t you buying the UFO stuff? Normally I wouldn’t give it much credence, but I thought it was interesting that the Inspector General called the whistleblower’s claims “credible and urgent.”

I don't give it much credence, because the whisteblower in question seems sketchy to me. His claims are quite sweeping - not only that there are legitimate UFO sightings, but also that world governments have both "intact and partially intact vehicles” and "nonhuman... biologics" (i.e alien bodies) and are engaged in a Cold War to reverse-engineer alien technology, and are covering all of this up. Given what we know of real-life conspiracies, I don't think it's credible that you could have this much coordinated activity involving multiple branches of the military and intelligence and scientific communities of multiple governments and have it remain clandestine.

At the same time, his evidence for his claims is remarkably weak. As Grusch himself admits, he's not a first-hand account and is just repeating what he's been told, and he doesn't have any corroborating evidence of either vehicles or aliens or an R&D Cold War or a cover-up (which you would think his sources could have provided if they were credible, given how much government documentation there would be if this conspiracy was actually happening at the level and scale that is claimed).

It's entirely possible that, just like the journalists who the whistleblower went to (who have a long history of writing about UFOs and other new agey topics), Grusch happens to be someone who be someone who believes in aliens and other new agey topics, as well as being a former government intelligence official. He wouldn't be the first guy in that position that these two journalists have run with - a couple years ago, they quoted a guy called Eric Davis (a Pentagon consultant and subcontractor) who had similar claims about UFOs, who also happens to believe that "psychic teleportation" is real - interesting that they don't talk about him any more.

So yeah, when we combine a very strong claim, very weak evidence, and a pattern of sources who are out to lunch on multiple topics, my level of skepticism is pretty high.

[shynrinn]

I read some tweet about angels moaning just to summon a halo and I couldn't help but think about dagon suddenly being alarmed after hearing michael moan while eating her out.

[feline17ff]

We've all been focused on the ICJ hearing which is fine, but there was also the US case against the Biden administration by Palestinians who lost their families, for its complicity and support of this genocide.

These Palestinians literally paid taxes which were then used to kill their families...

[felizusnavidad]

no one:

me 24/7: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FAT, ARROGANT, ANTI-CHARISMATIC NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT KNOWN AS PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS-

[iguessitsjustme]

Alright friends, I have seen many wonderful posts about Tinn’s mom, but I can’t sleep so I’m writing one of my own. I have many thoughts and feelings about her because I ADORE her.

There are so many things to talk about regarding her relationship with Tinn and her journey on how to accept and best support him BUT I’m not gonna talk about that. I’m barely going to mention Tinn. I need to talk about this because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet: she is damn good at her job. I love that we had a misdirect at the beginning of the show from Gun’s perspective that she would be an antagonist that’s out to get the music club. Then we shifted to Tinn’s POV and we got to see that she isn’t out to get anyone. She’s a high school principal just trying to make sure her school keeps on running. We don’t know the exact details of what scuffle the music club got into the previous year. But as the principal, it makes sense that she is making tough choices. Clubs that cause problems that result in damages that need to be paid during a time where she has to tighten the budget? It makes sense that she would consider disbanding the music club. Tinn and Gun’s worldview is smaller because they are students at the high school. They can’t see the whole picture that Tinn’s mother sees and has to see in order to keep the school running. Does she make things more difficult for the music club? Absolutely she does, but not because she wants to. It’s literally her job. She needs to make sure the rest of the school can still function.

She also never stops the music club from trying. In fact, I’d say she encourages it, even though they might not realize it. She signs off on letting them compete but only once they’ve improved their grades. It feels unfair and impossible to the band but it is completely reasonable. “Keep up your schoolwork and your academics and you’ll be allowed to participate in this extracurricular activity with the school’s blessing.” That was a rule at my high school. It isn’t her job to just give students what they want willy nilly. It’s her job to make sure the students are set up for success in the future. Once their grades improve, she signs off on it. She might be skeptical and it might not be her thing, but never once does she stop a student from exploring their own interests.

Then we get to the homophobic teacher. She listens to his story while he demands punishment. She asks Tinn if what he said is correct. And she’s asking him because he’s involved, because he’s her son, but also because he’s the school president. Tinn has proven he is responsible and she takes that into consideration. She looks at the situation as a whole. She wants to make sure she hears both sides of the story. So many principals of people in authority will take the teacher’s side and not once ask for the student’s side of the story. But she is fair and she sees her students as people who deserve to be heard. And that entire scene I wasn’t worried about Kajorn’s punishment because I knew she would be fair because she is good at her job. Kajorn needed to be disciplined for using violence, but not for standing up to the homophobic teacher. And she punished accordingly. Then she moved on to tell the teacher what she would do regarding his role in the situation. She was being pressured by the other teacher’s regarding Tinn’s sexuality but she remained professional the entire time and did her job to support her students. And at the prom, standing right next to two of the homophobic teachers, who I’m sure texted her, she loudly told the students to cheer for Tinn and Gun.

She is doing everything in her power to make that school a safe place for students even if that means she has to face backlash. She does that because it’s her job. It’s not her job to judge students. It’s not her job to make life more difficult for students. It is her job to make sure each and every student in that school has the best chance for success when they eventually leave.

[supbreak20-ofa]

What? Are you gonna cry?

Cry like the pathetic little BRAT you are?

Go ahead!

Someone... please... help...

[todaysdocument]

Children take a hearing test given by Works Progress Administration instructors in Holyoke, MA, 5/12/1937. 

Come for the New Deal, stay for the creepy fairy tale about playing in water! 

Series: WPA Information Division Photographic Index, ca. 1936 - ca. 1942

Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944

Image description: A class of white, elementary-aged children sit at desks in a school room. Each child is wearing headphones and is writing on a piece of paper. A blackboard in the background is covered in cursive writing. 

Transcription of blackboard: 

The First Fountain

Once there was a little girl who loved to play in the water. One day she came to a little stream. She jumped up and down in it. At last she heard a voice from the grounds. She tried to run away but her feet were held fast. Her hair became streams of water. A fairy had turned her into a fountain.

[plethoraworldatlas]

Despite growing worldwide calls for an arms embargo, the Biden administration in recent days has approved the transfer of billions of dollars worth of new weapons shipments to Israel, including warplanes and 2,000-pound bombs that have been dropped on densely populated areas of Gaza with devastating results.

The Washington Postreported Friday that the administration has "quietly" authorized arms shipments including more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, as well as 25 F-35A fighter jets and engines worth approximately $2.5 billion. The transfers are the latest of more than 100 arms shipments authorized by the Biden administration since the October 7 attacks on Israel.

"'Quietly,'" Palestinian American writer and political analyst Yousef Munayyer scoffed in response to the report. "This is cowardly from the administration. If you are going to be full backers of genocide, own it. We see you and history sees you as well."

"It is scary to think of the world U.S. support for Israel is creating. A world with no rules, no limits in war, where norms don't exist, and where genocide is supportable," he added. "Good luck getting anyone to listen to you about international law after this."

Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, said in a statement: "We strongly condemn the Biden administration's unbelievable and unconscionable decision to secretly send hundreds of new 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to support Benjamin Netanyahu's genocide. Arming a war criminal makes you a war criminal."

According to the Post:

The 2,000-pound bombs, capable of leveling city blocks and leaving craters in the earth 40 feet across and larger, are almost never used anymoreby Western militaries in densely populated locations due to the risk of civilian casualties. Israel has used them extensively in Gaza, according to severalreports, most notably in the bombing of Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp October 31. U.N. officials decried the strike, which killed more than 100 people, as a "disproportionate attack that could amount to war crimes." Israel defended the bombing, saying it resulted in the death of a Hamas leader.

The Biden administration's arms shipments to Israel continue despite urgent pleas from United Nations officials, international human rights groups, and some progressive U.S. lawmakers to stop arming Israel's 175-day Gaza onslaught, during which Israeli bombs and bullets have killed more than 32,600 Palestinians—mostly women and children—while wounding over 75,000 others and damaging or destroying hundreds of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals, mosques, and other structures.

[somethings-diner]

Ayo Palu! Lucina!

Remember that time you all died to a thing called Galeem and only Kirby survived and saved everyone?

Are you talking about Crazy Hand's fanfic?

I believe he called it World Of Light. The intro was very detailed...though it was ridden with plot holes...and the rest of the "story" was merely a few sentences

@supbreak20-ofa

[lazer-screwdriver]

Oops I’m still insane about Liz’s family. What if your daughter vanished and then you found her again and she wasn’t your daughter anymore. What if your most recent memory of the sister you always beat at video games was her threatening to kill the man who reunited you. What if you taught her to tie her shoelaces and then suddenly she was the older one.

[hussyknee]

You are right on every account in that tiktk reblog tags, except for one thing. Putin maybe didn't veto humanitarian corridors, but he sure did shell them. Several times.

Oh. I knew he'd sabotaged them somehow but I forgot how. Hard to keep track of all his war crimes. I didn't mean to imply that he was better for allowing one, just that he knew how to play the optics better, which is what I meant by "how is Biden WORSE at spinning a narrative than Putin". I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I was giving him any credit whatsoever.

Also I started out by saying that the previous Israeli governments colluded with the US and conceded to ceasefires so that they could pick civilians off one by one while the US played up their PR by playing the mediator. I meant that context to be carried into Putin's actions too but I realize that wasn't obvious. The man only tries to look like he's playing ball if it serves his agenda better.

Imperialists are all like that tbh. If you want to know the difference between a fascist and an imperialist, it's that the fascist thinks too small.