#Club Election

[freeshza]

what the hell is going ON

#text post #qsmp #qsmp election #video #bangers club

[miralyk]

i'm not really a serious artist

#protocreed #prototype 2009 #alex j mercer #assassin's creed #desmond miles #fun fact: this is in my election video to run as an advertisement artist for my college's art/animation club so Oh Boy LMAO #doodles

[batarangsoundsdumb]

#tom taylor is like a chef serving you ketchup when you ordered fries WITH ketchuo #like thank you for the sauce bestie but where's my fucking meal #i would apologise to jon kent for this shit happening to him but he doesnt have enough personality to even give a fuck #he is BORING #and everybody's solution is just to make him a mini kon #which NO #so i've decided to elect myself as president of the jon kent fan club and give him some pezzazz #like for example; he wants to make nature documentaries and has been told his voice would be very soothing #see! that wasnt so hard. personalty traits #jon kent #tom taylor #superman #superman: son of kal el

[rist-ix]

verrry rough animation of (maybe?) bloom doing fun stuff

Like arson!

#rist animates #winx bloom #winx club #pls ignore the constantly changing scale #i did this for an elective so i had time constraints

[arguablysomaya]

everybody hates jack drake

#steph is elected president of the jack drake hate club #shut up somaya #tim drake #stephanie brown #batfam #dc universe #dcu #batman #batfamily #batfam memes #DC comics #dc #DC Universe #incorrect dcu #incorrect batfam quotes #incorrect quotes #incorrect dc quotes #incorrect batman quotes #incorrect batfamily quotes #batkids

[pezberrypolls]

#glee #polls #glee polls #rachel berry #pezberry #the jury is still out on whether glee club is an elective or after school activity lol #we may never know #but at our school we got to pick two so

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Philosopher and presidential Green Party candidate Cornel West currently owes more than half a million dollars between unpaid taxes and unpaid child support, according to tax records.

Records show West owes nearly $466,000 in federal income taxes from 2013 until 2017. This came after he accrued (and later repaid) a debt of nearly $725,000 from 1998-2005, and more than $34,000 in 2008, according to tax records in Mercer County, New Jersey – where he owns a home.

Additionally, West has an outstanding $49,500 child support judgement from 2003, records show.

The debts were first reported by The Daily Beast.

The tax debts have not been paid off as of 30 days ago – the last available data, according to Mercer County records. ABC News reached out to West and his campaign to see if West had plans to pay off the debt or set up a payment plan; they have not returned those requests for comment.

The outstanding child support payment is owed to Aytul Gurtas, his former partner and mother of one of his children. ABC News was unable to reach Gurtas for comment.

While it's not clear how long West didn't pay child support, New Jersey family lawyer Kathleen Stockton said that the amount of money appears substantial. The average U.S. child support obligation is about $5,800 per year, according to census data, making West's nearly $50,000 more than eight times that.

Stockton noted that it is possible West paid Gurtas and didn't register it with the court – though West has given no indication of that.

When the question of his debts was brought up on The Breakfast Club radio morning show last week, West told the radio show host "Charlamagne the God" that they were being used as a "distraction" from his presidential campaign, which has focused on ending poverty, mass incarceration and environmental degradation.

"Any time you shine a flashlight under somebody's clothes, you're gonna find all kind of mess, because that's what it is to be human," West said.

Earlier on the show, West mentioned he was "broke as the Ten Commandments financially, personally, collectively."

West's debts are personal, not related to the campaign, so they may not directly bear on the finances of his candidacy. Still, personal finance issues have been known to interfere with campaigns: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's sometimes imprudent management of his own finances were scrutinized during his 2016 campaign for president, and then-Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's personal debt seemed to undermine his message of fiscal hawkishness.

According to West's financial disclosure filed with the Federal Election Commission in August 2023, he currently makes at least $200,000 annually. That includes his professorship at the Union Theological Seminary, where his annual income falls upward of $100,000; his speaking engagements, where he makes at least another $100,000; and his retirement fund, which earns him somewhere between $5,000 and $15,000 annually. His spouse, a professor, makes at least $50,000 per year.

Kedric Payne, an ethics lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center, said in an email to ABC News that the U.S. Office of Government Ethics advises candidates to disclose debts the size of West's.

"The federal disclosure law requires candidates for president to report liabilities owed over $10,000. Child support is excluded, but OGE advises that overdue taxes are reportable. If West in fact owes taxes, voters have a right to know why this isn't disclosed," Payne wrote.

West's associate, author Christopher Phillips described West as "authentic" and someone who hasn't hesitated to spend his own money to help others.

Phillips, who said he has known West for eight years, said that when he first met West over the phone, the scholar volunteered to lecture and spend time with his students at the University of Pennsylvania, where Phillips was a writing fellow.

"He said he could come down on his own nickel, and he spent the entire day breaking philosophical bread with my students … just because he likes what I do," Phillips said.

The campaign did not respond to ABC News' multiple requests for comment.

#us politics #news #abc news #green party #Cornel West #third party #2023 #2024 elections #unpaid taxes #unpaid child support #Aytul Gurtas #Kathleen Stockton #The Breakfast Club #Charlamagne the God #Federal Election Commission #Kedric Payne #Campaign Legal Center #U.S. Office of Government Ethics #financial disclosure #Christopher Phillips

[tomorrowusa]

Apparently the GOP used to have a reputation as the party of "law and order". That has certainly not been true since it became a Trump cult in 2016.

Republicans will now tell any lie to justify the violent rantings made by the Dear Leader and his terrorist base – both visible and underground.

The United States has never been this close to fascism – even in the pre-World War II era when there were Nazis openly organizing and there were pro-Hitler members of Congress.

The only way to preserve democracy this year in the USA is to vote for Joe Biden. Third party fantasies, Leninist "heightening the contradictions", and old school slackerism are all bullshit. There is no such thing as a "dictator for one day" in history.

#the rule of law #republicans #republican assault on law and order #donald trump #convicted felon trump #gop stockholm syndrome #strongman fanboy club #michelle goldberg #tim miller #alex wagner #democracy vs. fascism #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[violetsandshrikes]

jacinda laughing at our clowns asses from Boston

#sorry for election spam gang I’m suffering rn! #katie rambles #i just KNOW she’s feeling karma in the club tonight

[kay-kay-is-kray-kray]

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst polls #i'm genuinely curious #there's a lot of different paints and art styles twst characters could and lots of instruments #i can't think of other electives like idk maybe different sports but that's clubs

[goldensunset]

that’s all to say it’s funny to see these blueberry academy kids fretting over the implications of an outsider having dethroned their champion bc in my mind i’m like oh no i don’t care about being in charge of the club or anything. i just wanted to beat him for my own personal reasons. to snap him back to reality. to prove i could. it’s just a clout thing to me trust me i do not intend to kick anyone out of their place

#but like it makes sense in this context. bc this isn’t a government this is a school club #election by combat makes sense here to me in such an ultimately trivial situation #the sv dlc experience #sv dlc spoilers

[eileennatural]

when i was in high school the librarian used to let me pick out the new books that would get purchased and added every year. and basically what i'm saying is that 17 yr old me might be indirectly responsible for the very weak local chapter of moms against liberty that protests the books i chose

#i was president of the reading club which is actually not the nerdiest thing about high school me #i also spent my lunches in the library bc i didnt have many friends until my classmates started joining me there bc i guess it was cooler #as seniors to take up the comfy sitting area than to sit with our non-ap and non-jock classmates or the underclassman lol #and the librarian was my field hockey coach so what im saying is she played favorites. she also let me break the tie for the #homecoming court election. perks of being a loser i guess. or a wallflowrr #she was also like. one of the only queer adults i knew so. allies in the buying gay books crusade ig

[kp777]

By Jessica Corbett

Common Dreams

June 3, 2024

"We have an opportunity for 18 months to organize, to take out the oil and gas industry," said one environmental leader during a Sanders Institute event in Vermont.

"Now is the time to go for the jugular. Now is the time to kill the fossil fuel industry, because we don't have another chance at survival after this."

That's what Jamie Minden, senior director of global organizing for the youth-led group Zero Hour, told the audience Saturday during The Sanders Institute Gathering, in Burlington, Vermont. The three-day event featured panel discussions on various topics and a few screenings, including the trailer for The Welcome Table, Josh Fox's forthcoming documentary about climate refugees.

"In order to win, we need to go on the offensive," said Minden, "because defense has not been working."

Playing offense against the incredibly powerful and well-funded fossil fuel industry requires growing the movement and seizing political opportunities to implement lifesaving policies, according to experts and organizers who participated in a series of panels focused on the climate crisis.

One of those opportunities that campaigners are already gearing up for is the January 2025 expiration of tax cuts signed into law in December 2017 by then-President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the November election.

Speaking alongside Minden on the livestreamed panel, Friends of the Earth (FOE) president Erich Pica described the looming fight as a "Tax Super Bowl" that will take place shortly before the next president is sworn in. The climate movement is organizing aggressively to show just how much U.S. consumers and taxpayers are being ripped off by the greed of the fossil fuel giants that enjoy massive federal subsidies and enormous tax breaks despite the "eye-popping" profits they post year after year.

"We know that there will be a tax bill that, if it is not passed, will end up increasing taxes on all individual Americans. And so we have an opportunity for 18 months to organize, to take out the oil and gas industry," Pica said.

Trump in April made a reported quid pro quo offer to fossil fuel executives: Pour just $1 billion into his current campaign, and he will repeal climate policies implemented under Democratic President Joe Biden, who is seeking reelection.

Pica pointed out that Big Oil—which has benefited from federal tax breaks since the Revenue Act of 1913—could profit handsomely by taking Trump up on his offer, if the Republican returns to the White House. In an analysis published last month, FOE Action found that the industry fueling the climate emergency could see an estimated $110 billion in tax breaks alone if Republicans get their way.

Throughout the weekend, multiple panelists highlighted the End Polluter Welfare Act recently reintroduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—whose wife Jane O'Meara Sanders and son Dave Driscoll co-founded the Sanders Institute. The legislation aims to close tax loopholes and end corporate handouts to the fossil fuel industry, and the sponsors estimate it would save American taxpayers up to $170 billion over a decade.

The bill's reintroduction last month was "an important step," said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, an organization that grew out of the senator's 2016 presidential campaign. "The thing is, we need a movement and a strategic opportunity to be able to get that policy over the finish line."

Some panelists argued that the moment is now, but the movement must expand beyond what Rev. Lennox Yearwood, president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, said is, "at this time, a siloed, segregated, progressive climate movement."

Americans are not only "dying because of the climate crisis" but also paying fossil fuel companies "to kill us," Yearwood told the audience. "Their business plan literally means a death sentence for our communities."

"The issue on taxation," he explained, "allows us to once again broaden our movement, allows us to go to Republicans, go to Democrats, to go to Independents, and go across this country... and say simply: 'Your tax dollars are going to go to those who are rich and are killing our communities. Do you want that?'"

Another way to grow the movement is to include communities—especially those historically represented in politics by Big Oil beneficiaries—in the global green transition.

On the Gathering's opening night, which was also livestreamed, Sierra Club executive director Ben Jealous, also a Sanders Institute fellow, spoke about recently visiting a plant where workers make solar panels in the district of far-right Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a major Trump ally.

While touring the Hanwha Qcells solar facility in Dalton, Jealous asked about a wall of drawings and paintings. He learned that they were created for Earth Day last year by children of the employees, who were asked to portray "how they see their parents working at this factory."

"In maybe the most, arguably the most conservative congressional district in America," workers' children "portrayed their parents as heroes saving the planet," he said. "The kids in that district get that we need solar panels, get that we got to work together to save this planet. There's reason to be hopeful."

The plant's South Korean company has been able to grow because of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that congressional Democrats passed and Biden signed in 2022. While members of the climate movement have long framed the law as a flawed but still historic package in terms of tackling the planetary emergency, with the general election mere months away, speakers at the Gathering stressed the need to showcase such progress to voters nationwide.

"We really do have to take those moments when something happens and claim it. And partly that means in this election being willing to say how important that IRA was," said panelist and Sanders Institute fellow Bill McKibben, who founded Third Act, which organizes elders for climate advocacy.

"Was it perfect? Not even close… but it was in some other sense, remarkable," he continued. "We've got to actually talk about that enough that people understand it. And truthfully, we don't… Certainly, the Democratic Party does not a good job of talking about those things in those ways."

Also pointing to the Georgia solar plant, McKibben added that "one of the things that's really brilliant about the IRA is that the bulk of the money is going to red state America to do this work, which is not something that we're used to anymore in our country... people being willing to do anything other than support their own supporters. And it's a remarkable possibility for a kind of political healing going forward."

No matter the outcomes of the upcoming U.S. congressional and presidential elections, climate campaigners are committed to the fight against fossil fuels. As Pica put it, "I think we have to wage the fight regardless."

"The oil and gas industry has been operating with impunity for over a hundred years," the FOE leader said. "They're crushing our politics, they're polluting the climate, and they're getting away with it."

"We discovered during the Inflation Reduction Act fight, when there was a real effort to repeal the oil and gas subsidies, that they expended a lot of political capital to keep those subsidies in place," he noted. "The fact that we can wage a campaign that forces the oil and gas industry to expend political capital to maintain their largesse from the federal government, regardless of if we win or we lose, is a winning strategy for us."

"'Cause that means they're not trying to repeal the stuff in the Inflation Reduction Act. That means that they're not trying to work on reducing… their corporate taxes," he explained. Like Minden, Pica wants the climate movement to make the fossil fuel industry finally play defense.

The End Polluter Welfare Act "is the organizing vehicle," Pica said. "We've gotta get support behind it. We've gotta get members of Congress on it. We've gotta get community activists out there in the streets."

The organizers battling Big Oil underscored the urgency, emphasizing that not only are the Trump tax cuts set to expire soon, but also communities across the country and around the world are already enduring the effects of a hotter planet—including rising sea levels, more destructive storms, extreme temperatures, devastating floods, and raging wildfires.

"A hundred years from now really matters. But also what's going on today and in the next five years really matters," said Minden. "I think within the next five years… our world's gonna be pretty unrecognizable in many ways."

The 21-year-old climate campaigner told the Gathering's audience—full of academics, advocates, policymakers, and more—that "whether you're here working in healthcare or income inequality or labor, the reality is that this issue is about to become a part of your work, if it's not already."

"I know we all have our own fights. I know everyone here is working on things that are really, really important. But if we don't all go out on this fight, if we don't all go out on climate, we're gonna get taken out," she warned. "It's a matter of survival."

#bill mckibben #2024 elections #fossil fuels #friends of the earth #sanders institute #sierra club #taxation #zero hour #climate emergency

[elite-amarys]

The BBA has so many activities, and we’re, I mean… I’m aiming to assist in all aspects. All of them. Like… every single one. I’ll be a phantom a ghost you won’t see me until it’s too late and then I’ll help out with any issues you’ve been having, clubwise!! :3

-Tsumaranai

Response to prompt 2 "What would you do to better the clubs of BBA?" accepted!

The next prompt will post in roughly 30 minutes. Unused response is below the cut.

#pkmn irl #bba election 2024 #tsumaranai #not amarys #//I'm almost bummed that “I'm gonna make the League Club stfu” didn't make the cut. That's an objectively hilarious promise #//But “im gonna scurry around like a little ghoulie” is also. very funny. So we stay winning!

[ziraconarose]

Played Always Sometimes Monsters. Very fun! The plot needs to account for people truly didn’t give a shit about the ex or the book though, bc literally all I cared about was trying to make amends with Sam after realizing the PC has committed a Max Caulfield level friendship sin TWICE. Still, I got quite fond of my pathetic, sad, wet dog author of a protagonist. They hate to see a homeless Chinese little gay boy on a friendship-redemption journey winning, yet here I am with a million dollars, a book deal, a cowboy uncle, and a clean conscience to go with the start.

#always sometimes monsters #bro I got called more slurs in this game than I have irl in a year they really do hate to see him winning yet here I am. I loved my boy #can’t believe the way I found out my rpg block man was Chinese was through that like Jesus also is it 1890??? #anyway it was a fun game but I’d kill for Sam centric additions bc I didn’t give a shit about anyone else #also Casey blamed me for rigging the election when I helped the detective and didn’t??? and for Darkeff when literally I just didn’t see th #drugs - also she told me I skipped on Mark for the strip club but I literally didn’t??? whatever but like??? #Korsel Ami #I kind of want to play the sequel but I also don’t want my or Sam’s life to fall apart when we were both happy so

[venacoeurva]

I just now realized that Dusk connecting Wren with people because he thinks they’ll get along repeatedly just comes across as him trying to find him a boyfriend because Wren doesn’t reach out for anything like that with anyone at all, like your well meaning but kind of out of touch aunt would do, but they’re all weird and some degree of fucked up instead of like. That nice priest of Mara down the street who would do him good or something

Imagine your relative is like “I think there’s someone here you might like :)” and it’s MIRAAK, fresh from Apocrypha and oozing various goos and looking halfway to a bog body (Dusk figured they’d get along more than he and him did...or if he tried some shit Wren would just kill him)

#Tel is the most normal person there and I wouldn't call him normal exactly #That household interrupted 6th house cult activities and was haunted by the sharmat for a while and 2/3 were nonplussed like are you guys ok #vena vents #not art #I elect to believe that if alma can be a spirit of worship into 4e via the creation club stuff so can everyone else