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req'd by @paper-ink-and-sorrow

your circus, your monkeys i fear

text: Obi wan is like I got the kids in the divorce. They aren't my kids. Or my divorce.

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I'm pretty universalist and steadfast in my belief that every single living person on this planet deserves basic human rights, dignity, and respect, but being a 31 year old that calls Andrew Cuomo (a known sex pest with over 30 women he victimized) "Daddy Cuomo" pushes me reaaaaaal close to dropping all of that.

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transitioning is a type of magic like "rub this slime on your body and you'll become a man" yeah sure why not

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Door to basement?? Open??? For Malice?????

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Honestly my personal favourite interpretation of how the OT trio line up with the sequel trio will always be

Luke = Finn

Leia = Poe

Rey = Han

idk why my first thought was "well now ive gotta draw them as that one tremendously slutty ANH poster from the 70s" but anyway that's what happened

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Sometimes it feels like you've lived your whole life in a house that's always a little bit on fire. Like it's usually just in one room and you make sure to wet the walls around it so it doesn't spread and that usually works. You were expected to take more responsibility over fire containment when you were like seven because it's not like you can expect your parents to always be 100% on guard about making sure the whole house doesn't catch fire, and you figure that's just how things are like.

And sometimes as a kid you visit your friends' homes and some of then whisper to you - grimacing with embarrassment - about how they're not supposed to tell anyone this, but there's a whole room in their house that's currently on fire. And you're like yeah it's ok I'm not supposed to tell people about the way our house is a little bit on fire all the time, too. And then you visit some other friend's house and there's no trace of fire anywhere, and you think "wow, these people are really good at hiding their house fire."

And one day you show up to work like "hey sorry I'm late, I forgot to wet the walls before going to bed last night and my whole house burned down", and you're startled by the way people react, acting like that must be the worst thing that has ever happened to you. And you're just like "chill, it's been years since the last time this happened, and it wasn't even that bad this time", and that just makes people more shocked, acting like that's the weirdest and most concerning thing they've ever heard anyone say, which only confuses you more.

And then someone tries to explain to you that people aren't supposed to have an ongoing house fire. Most people actually never experience a house fire in their lives. Like not even once. Not even a little bit. The normal amount of having your house be currently on fire is zero.

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Because they're just breaking shit to make people suffer now, I guess.

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when reading the stormlight archive for the first time, you are introduced to spren, which initially seem simply like weird manifestations of phenomena in the real world, like weather, or emotions. anyway, turns out they're little pieces of a god, but that's not the point. people, no matter who they are, naturally attract emotionspren; when you feel strong emotions, the relevant spren show up. and you might think, this is just how the world works, but jasnah rarely if ever shows spren. alright - so if you control your emotions well enough, spren are less likely to show up. except literally no one else does this. almost everyone attracts spren, no matter how stuck up. and then you keep reading, and eventually you get chapters from jasnah's perspective... and you already know she hides her emotions, but then you see: she hides them so much that whenever emotionspren do show up around her (which is itself uncommon), she banishes them. what the fuck?

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“Thanks to the Supreme Court, too, the Trump administration is very much having its way with court orders. Stanford University political scientist Adam Bonica compiled data on the administration’s win/loss record in federal courts from May 1 through June 23. He found that in cases brought against its sprawling excesses the Trump administration has lost 94% of the time at the district court level. That’s a truly terrible litigation record. But at the Supreme Court, Bonica found, DOJ won 94% of the time. “We are witnessing something without precedent,” Bonica wrote. “[A] Supreme Court that appears to be at war with the federal judiciary’s core constitutional function.””

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The Trump Administration’s Assault on Federal Courts Gets More Shockingly Authoritarian 

Democrats have won more elections and more votes than Republicans for decades, because Republicans and their regressive policies are deeply unpopular. Yet Republican presidents have put six of the nine justices on the Court. This is fundamentally wrong and at odds with Democracy’s promise that people choose their leaders and set the course of their government.

The SCOTUS majority is a group of corrupt, anti-American, activist judges who are waging war on the Constitution they swore to defend. Their rulings are obviously political, intended to serve their personal, Christian nationalist agenda. 

The *instant* a Democrat is back in the White House, the court must be expanded to nullify these anti-democratic, anti-American, completely corrupted activists. 

Failing that, I’ll see you at the barricades.

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lol idk

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THE MUPPETS (2011) dir. James Bobin

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It's an egregious conflict of interest.