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June 8, 2017
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Fascism Watch, January 24
(@USARedOrchestra tweet)
The Media Failed to Prepare Americans for the Trump Whiplash: “The policy stakes of this election were never adequately conveyed by the political press.”
TrumpCongratulations, America — you did it! An actual fascist is now your official president
Trump signed an executive order resurrecting both the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines. Trump is still an investor in Energy Transfer Partners, and Rick Perry is still on its board of directors.
Trump dogged by insecurity over popular vote, media coverage
Trump claims that between 3 and 5 million people voted illegally in the presidential election. This is a lie, but Sean Spicer wouldn’t refute it, and Mitch McConnell backed him up, saying, “It does occur. There are always arguments on both sides about how much, how frequent and all the rest.”
The USDA can no longer publish its research any “public-facing documents”
The EPA’s grants have been frozen and its staff can no longer speak to the public. Also today, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality said that Flint’s water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit. Since staff can’t speak to the public, we don’t know whether lead levels actually dropped or the limit was quietly changed.
NIH staff have been told to cease communications with the press and Congress. WTF.
Badlands National Park Twitter account goes rogue, starts tweeting scientific facts. Let that headline sink in for a minute. Communicating facts to the public is “going rogue.” The Golden Gate National Park Service and NASA Climate accounts followed suit. A Scientists’ March on Washington is now being organized.
Trump–back to using his personal Twitter account–says he’ll send in feds if Chicago doesn’t fix ‘horrible carnage going on’
Congress
Senator Ed Markey and Representative Ted Lieu have filed identical bills that would prevent the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress
The Most Dangerous Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Just Passed The House
Last,
week, under the cover of a media bliss-out except among Koch funded
right-wing channels, the House of Representatives passed a bill which
would effectively repeal future standard setting under every important
environmental, public health, consumer protection, labor standards,
occupational safety and civil rights law on the books.The bill,
called the REINS Act, requires that any future major regulation adopted
by an Executive Agency — say a new toxic chemical standard required by
the recently enacted Chemical Safety Act, or a new consumer protection
rule about some innovative but untested kind of food additive — must be
approved by a specific resolution in each House of Congress within 70
days to take effect.
Cruz introduces bill letting states bar refugees
Cabinet & Federal Appointees
James Comey is keeping his job as FBI director. Surprise, surprise.
Carson, Chao, and Ross have made it through committee, not surprisingly.
Health Secretary nominee Tom Price proposed bill benefiting his Puerto Rico investments.
Price had no idea that women paid more for health insurance pre-ACA until his hearing today.
Betsy DeVos will not get a second hearing.
Protests
Six journalists covering inauguration protests have been charged with felony rioting
Other Fascist NonsenseAt GOP leaders’ urging, Texas Supreme Court will consider undoing gay spousal rights
Good NewsThe Arizona bill banning classes on social justice is dead
CorrectionsYesterday, I’d said that both Tillerson and Pompeo were confirmed, but Tillerson merely cleared the committee vote and still faces a floor vote.
Seems like a good time to remind y’all of this.
devildoll:
spooky-mads:
heidi8:
devildoll:
ziskeit:
May...
May 19th, 2009: Our apologies to the families of Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston, we’re sure they’re very proud of you.
Oh yeah! Whatever happened to these guys? Anyone know?
So, four years ago this month, someone was wrong on the internet!
shia la beuof
i better reblog this
marvel-dc-art:Angela: Queen of Hel #5 (2015)
pencil & ink by...
Angela: Queen of Hel #5 (2015)
pencil & ink by Kim Jacinto & Stephanie Hans
color by Israel Silva & Stephanie Hans
violetxpurple:
ellen-a-book-reading-human-being:
lierdumoa:
kaiayame:
I kind of wish disney’s...
ellen-a-book-reading-human-being:
I kind of wish disney’s ~weird period~ had lasted longer. Like all of a sudden we were getting these films like lilo & stitch and Atlantis and the emperor’s new groove and treasure planet and they were so fun and DIFFERENT. Just thinking about what the pitches for those movies had to have been like is so surreal?? A little blue criminal alien crash lands on a Hawaiian island and gets adopted by two sisters dealing with social services that teach him about the value of family. An Inca emperor gets turned into a llama and john goodman helps him get back to his palace and one of the bad guys talks to squirrels. Treasure island but in SPACE. Like, on the surface, the premise for these films seem so random but they all TOTALLY WORKED IN REALLY GREAT WAYS??? idk I just really miss that early 2000s spark of offbeat creativity in Disney’s timeline.
Okay but the history behind this is so interesting?
All these movies came from the Florida studio, which for a long time was a backup animation studio that did work the main Burbank studio didn’t have time for.
Then in 1996 Disney decided to focus all their energy on transitioning to 3D animation. They acquired Pixar and started working on A Bug’s Life.
They basically told the Florida studio (their only remaining full-time 2D animation studio) – “Eeeeeeh, do what you want.”
And the Florida studio, for the first time, got to produce feature films:
Mulan (1998)[27]
Tarzan (1999)[28]
John Henry (2000)[29]
The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)[30]
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)[31]
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Brother Bear (2003)Then in 2004 Disney decided to stop producing 2-D feature films altogether. They closed down the Florida studio and laid off all the Florida Studio animators.
Many of whom then got hired by Dreamworks.
That. Explains. Everything.
Dude..
June 6, 2017
gingerhaze:
“everything is fine” Nimona AU #2:
Ballister and...
“everything is fine” Nimona AU #2:
Ballister and Ambrosius run away from the Institution and live together in a cabin in the woods, where Ambrosius becomes the most insufferable hippie flower child and Ballister becomes the lumberjack of your dreams. A few years pass and who should come by but a wandering witch scientist and the troubled pre-teen shapeshifter that she rescued and adopted, needing a place to stay for the night.
then they all live together forever and are happy the end
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