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odinsblog · 1 year
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Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury trips from a major GOP donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.
If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.
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Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, front left, with Harlan Crow, back right, and others in Flores, Indonesia, in July 2019. Credit: via Instagram
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures. His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht, these experts said.
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hymnsandhearses · 5 months
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Anyone want to help me finish grading these midterm exams? I can pay you in kisses (or friendly hugs and platonic cuddles) and wine. I refuse to spend a Saturday night being this responsible.
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sga-mcshep-4ever · 1 year
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"Think you can fly it?"
"What do you say we find out?"
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So, not only is his work shoddy and inept, but he insists that everyone forever owes him for this defective work.
Imagine a mechanic who crashes into your car, without your consent tries to unsuccessfully fix it, then makes you show your gratitude, while also sending out a bill to every one of your relatives.
From genocide to that foreskin thing, the bible is full of cases of bizarre quid pro quo, where god wants something in exchange for his help. Not only can a perfect god not have either needs or wants, but it means the god who can do anything can't be altruistic.
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Quid pro quo, Clarice.
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pratchettquotes · 1 year
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"There is a favor I need to ask, to tell the truth," said William. Vetinari smiled.
"Of course. If I can do anything for the Ti--"
"Will you be going to Harry King's daughter's wedding on Saturday?"
To his secret delight, the look that Vetinari gave him seemed to be blank because the man hadn't got anything to fill it with. But Drumknott leaned towards him, and there were a few whispered words.
"Ah?" said the Patrician. "Harry King. Ah, yes. A positive incarnation of the spirit that has made our city what it is today. Haven't I always said that, Drumknott?"
"Yes indeed, sir."
"I shall certainly attend," said Lord Vetinari. [...]
"In return, however," said the Patrician, "I must ask you not to upset Commander Vimes." He gave a little cough. "More than necessary."
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
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authorkims · 4 months
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Round 1 Poll 8
Non, sin male nunc, et olim sic erit
Means "if now it (goes) poorly, at some point also it will not be so" ~r/latin
Though things are bad now, they will not always be so
Quid pro quo
Means "something for something," tit for tat / a favour for a favour
"Quid pro quo, Clarice".... (The Silence of the lambs)
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wallacepolsom · 1 year
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Wallace Polsom, Quid Pro Quo (2022), paper collage, 15.9 x 27.8 cm.
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stellarred · 4 months
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I'm very happy and grateful that Q never did a quid pro quo on Picard. Except from the "I NEED YOU!!!" in Q Who, I don't recall Q doing this.
**Let's be honest, though. Would Q REALLY have let the Borg destroy the Enterprise in Q Who if Picard didn't yield at the end?***
Anyway...
Q could've easily taken advantage of a scenario in which Picard needed Q's help, and in exchange for sex, agreeing to spend eternity with him, etc., Q would help him.
"Need a quick save from a Romulan warbird ambush?
Sleep with me, Jean-Luc, and I'll take care of it for you."
Knowing full well the obvious and extreme power imbalance in their relationship (mortal and space god), Q still avoided doing that to Picard.
Of course, Q REALLY wants Picard to love him and willingly give himself to him.
But, despite that longstanding dream and hope, Q never wanted to coerce Picard.
He knows that it would've lowered himself in Picard's eyes, and potentially risked any progress he'd made with his capitaine.
Q didn't do a quid pro quo on Picard because he deeply and genuinely loves him.
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2023 Writing/Stories Look-Forward
thanks to everyone who's read and liked and commented and tagged and sent in asks for my writing this year!
today i sat down to sketch out a vague--and definitely not set in stone plan for 2023--and I thought i'd share it with you guys, from a very high level and with the caveat that it will likely not be followed to the letter as i always inevitably bite off more than i can chew
but i lik to shoot high! lol so here's what i've got
Main goal: finishing the first draft of Nothing's Wrong with Dale and getting it all posted. this is the goal i'm most confident about and will lik, cannibalize other parts of my plan to achieve. i also have some like bonus offshoots for Dale, but those will likely get posted after the story is over and so are not part of the plan
Short Story goals: I plan to finish both Selfish (f!naga) and Free Piano: Haunted (m!spirit). I want to put out my Sci-Fi oneshot Snapped (m!alien) and the three part Seen (f!deity) - both of which i posted sneak peeks of a little while ago for that 'WIPs u didn't finish this year' ask meme.
Then it gets a little fuzzy - i'll either do two shorter 5 parts fics (both with winged monsters f&m) or one longer fic (probably Goddaughter or Quid Pro Quo - both m!demon fics), depending on what i'm feeling like for lik April-May ish. My summer fic will be about a runalong. In the fall/winter, I'll post the rest of Free Piano: Haunted and Feral (f!hellhound).
Choosing these from all my ideas was super hard, but I think i'm happy with what i picked (and all are technically subject to change).
At least, that's the plan.
As far as the short term, i plan to finish off some shorter things now (Selfish, Snapped, and Seen - idk y they all start with 'S' lol) in January. After that February and March are literally the busiest time of year for me at work and this will not be an easy busy season so I might literally post nothing (which is another reason that part of my plan is so up in the air). I will be working a minimum of 6 days a week, 55 hours a week - likely more than that so my brain will not be up for much writing during that time.
Hiatus: Last year I was able to keep posting Nothing's Wrong with Dale for some of January, but that's not going to be the case this year - putting up half of the next 4 part arc and then not finishing it until April would be unfair imo - both to you for the cliffhanger and to me because i will be able to write them far better if i write all oft he at once/in a row. So no more Dale until April, I'm afraid. The only reason I'll be able to post some of the other things at all in January is because most of them are already partially done where as next Dale is not started.
Feel free to send in any asks about upcoming/current stories! Happy New Year!
(please note that this is me, if anything, overestimating how much I'll be able to write and asking me to change my mind about say, Dale, to be more frequent etc will not work)
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odinsblog · 1 year
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GOP megadonor Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas. The Justice did not disclose the deal.
“Thomas was hiding a financial relationship with Crow,” said Kathleen Clark, a legal ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis who reviewed years of Thomas’ disclosure filings.
"A federal disclosure law passed after Watergate requires justices and other officials to disclose the details of most real estate sales over $1,000," per ProPublica.
👉🏿 https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus
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Harlan Crow has been very good to Justice Clarence Thomas, lavishing gifts and other favors on Thomas and his family.
Crow provided $500,000 to allow Thomas’ wife to start a Tea Party group, and he once gave Thomas a $19,000 Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass. He also served on the board of a corporate-aligned think tank called the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which once gave Thomas a $15,000 gift.
As ThinkProgress reported earlier, AEI filed at least three briefs in the Supreme Court after giving Thomas this very expensive gift, and Thomas either sided with AEI or took a position that was much more extreme that AEI’s in all three of these cases.
👉🏿 https://archive.thinkprogress.org/second-harlan-crow-connected-group-has-a-perfect-litigation-record-before-justice-thomas-1aaf50c21db8/
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mr-dusk14 · 3 months
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ifridiot · 10 months
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Chapters: 1/3
Fandom: Deadpool (Movie verse) , The Punisher (TV 2017)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nathan Summers/Wade Wilson, Wade Wilson/Frank Castle, Nathan Summers/Frank Castle
Characters: Nathan Summers, Wade Wilson
Additional Tags: Hand jobs, teasing, multiple orgasms, dacryphilia, consensual non-consent, rape fantasy, other additional tags to be added
Summary: Nate's the only one Wade's this honest with.
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Former President Donald Trump blamed the United States for "almost forcing" Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.
Trump's remarks came as Russia continued to stall in their struggling "special military operation," ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin more than seven months earlier on February 24, 2022. The ex-President has been critical of how President Joe Biden, who he may run against in the 2024 presidential election, has handled diplomatic relations with Russia. But critics accuse Trump of taking positions seen as favorable to Putin.
During an interview on Real America's Voice, a right-wing network favorable to Trump, the former President criticized the Biden administration. He argued that their "rhetoric" in the months leading up to the Ukraine invasion contributed to Putin's decision.
"They actually taunted him, if you really look at it. Our country, and our so-called leadership, taunted Putin. I said, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb."
He claimed, without evidence, that the Ukraine invasion would have "never" happened if he were still President. He also did not provide any specific examples of how the U.S. "taunted" Putin into invading Ukraine.
Trump also touted his working relationship with both Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky when Real America's Voice host Wayne Root suggested Biden could send Trump to negotiate a peace deal.
"I got along very well with both Zelensky and Putin," Trump said. "If you remember, Zelensky was very nice because when they asked him about the Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine hoax—that was the phone call—he looked at them and said 'What was wrong with the call? He did nothing wrong.'"
William Pomeranz, the Director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, cast doubt on Trump's comments in an interview with Newsweek, pointing out that Biden said Ukraine would need to work on its corruption in order to gain entry to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but that Putin's given justification for the invasion was unrelated to NATO.
"It's something Putin has been thinking about for many years," he said. "I think Putin basically launched this campaign to annex what was two territories—but is now four territories—to expand the Russian Federation. I think this was an example of imperial intent. He wanted to expand his territory and the Russian empire."
He said it will never be known if the invasion would have occurred if Trump won the 2020 election but that he did not believe Trump would have "stood up for Ukraine."
"Did Trump think that he had such a great relationship that he could dismay him from attacking, I just don't think so," he said.
TRUMP FACED CRITICISM FOR PAST RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR COMMENTS
Trump has faced criticism for several comments about the Russia-Ukraine war. In the days leading up to the conflict, Trump said Putin was a "genius" for moving troops into Ukraine.
"Here's a guy that says, you know, 'I'm gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent.' He used the word 'independent,' 'and we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.' You gotta say that's pretty savvy," Trump told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton in February.
In March, he again renewed controversy after appearing to push Putin to release any information he has about Hunter Biden's alleged business dealings in Russia during a conversation on Real America's Voice about an accusation that Biden's company received $3.5 million from the widow of a former Moscow mayor.
"She gave him three and half million dollars. So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer," he said.
Newsweek reached out to Trump's office and the White House for comment.
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hsincerely · 2 months
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just stick a knife in me already
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