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chaoticspacefam · 10 months

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OC Tag Game!

(I was tagged by @a-master-procrastinator , thank you! :D Likewise, I’ll be doing just SWTOR characters for these answers as they’re who I’m most active with rn and who I have info out and about for hahha No pressure tags, if you feel like it! : @actualanxiousswampwitch , @serenofroses , @darkshadeless @mercurypilgrim and anyone else who feels like joining in! <3

Favourite OC - Saarai

*covers everyone else’s ears* I’m sorry everyone but it’s true. She is my favourite child. I care her very much (both the twins tbh, but Rai is just ever so slightly ahead of her sister - based on the number of songs in their playlists alone p much SJKHJSKGDJGD). She and her family started out literally as a filler side-character for a Zephyrverse plot arc, but then I just found her so much fun to play that I kept piling more lore on to their family and now look what I’ve done /lh Yep, they technically existed in the Zephyrverse first, I just loved them so much I wanted to include them in Subterfugeverse as well and here we are owo. I have no regrets tbh. She is a good girl. There is a lot of me in her backstory but also not at the same time. It’s complicated. I guess you could call it a power fantasy of sorts idk, I just really like her a lot. Best girl.

Newest OC - Vris and Berla

These two girls are so new that I don’t even have pictures of them yet! Vris is gonna be my new Jedi Knight - I completely lost muse for yet another JK so I yeeted him a while back. I think I will probably stick with her this tme, atm all I have on her is she’s a Chiss who ended up being given to the Jedi once her parents found out she was Force sensitive as they didn’t know how to deal with the Force-outbursts and wanted her to be safe and have proper training. She’s gonna end up with Kira in the end and proooobably not quite join the Alliance but be a representative for the Jedi Council and act as the liason between the Republic and the Alliance when the time comes.

Berla’s a togruta gal who’s an Imperial Lieutenant in the reverse!Zephyrverse AU. Since we broke Jask and Kas up for this AU and they’ve decided they want to stay split up, Berla’s gonna end up being Jask’s partner eventually but that’s still very early days atm and we haven’t done much with them just yet so I haven’t done much with Berl just yet either <3 She’s a sweet girl, not the biggest fan of fighting but has a strong stomach and absolutely will do her bit to defend her friends and squad. She works under the command rotation of Jask’s cousin which is how the two met, and that’s all I’ve got on her for now!

Oldest OC - Aria

The tiny gremlin gal! She was actually my first ever SWTOR OC. Originally an extra character after I decided to change my Exile headcanons, so I made her her own thing, and then transferred her over to SWTOR once I got into it. Again her backstory started out super simple and I kind of made it up as I went along until I got enough plot beats to string a whole family and a bunch of stuff together. She’s still a favourite of mine to write even if the twins have overtaken her for the top spot, I stilll am very fond of Aria and she’s not going anywhere, fear not! haha

Meanest OC - Maîyun

Now hide me bc she’s gonna kill me if she finds out I said that /jk. I haven’t drawn her just yet either, but she’s a part of the reverse!Zephyrverse AU RP. She’s Nial’s younger half-sister (making her Kas’s sister-in-law. and she is....yeah, a bitch. LMAO)This was...honestly a hard one to pick between (I’m lowkey surprised that I don’t feel the need to put D’leah here but I genuinely do thing Maîyun is worse than D’leah. At least D’leah does still love her family (even if she’s terrible at showing it) - Maîyun pretty much likes their other brother Arne, and her birth mother, and that’s it. Everyone else is collateral to them and she could care less what she has to do or who she has to hurt/kill to get what she and Arne want - she’s the reason Kas has that big set of claw marks across her face in this AU. She’s a nasty lady o.o

Softest OC - Ty and Kissai

I’ve really gotta get better screenshots of these boys, but these will do for now :P

He!! the best boy!! he is the softest of beans and just wants everyone to be friends and not fight ;-; Also, his grandpa, Kissai. Ty gets his soft’n’sweet nature from grandpa even if he didn’t get the muscles :’3 -also fun fact now that I have an excuse to put them so close together so you can actually see it; yes Ty doesn’t look a lot like Rai (apart from his eye colour) but you know who he is almost a spitting image of? Kissai :D

Most aloof/standoffish OC - D’leah (and Abaron)

(art by Varjopihlaja)

D’leah absolutely gets the #1 spot for this category. She’s aloof by default, doesn’t like to “give away” her emotions by emoting or making a lot of facial expressions and while it does make her harder to read if you’re her enemy. It also serves to hinder it if you’re a family member for example. You gotta learn to “speak” D’leah to figure her out or you’ve gotta really wear her down (Kissai managed this and she’s also pretty close with Paa, and both of her brothers, but aside from them you won’t get much of a reaction from her unless she’s mad) D’leah’s got too modes, “resting bitch face” and “pissed off homicidal Sith” /hj

Putting Abe in here too as an honourable mention since he is....teeeechnically kind of an OC but also kind of not at the same time? I mean pretty much all thats the same from canon is his name, voice and appearance and I wrote everything else so xP

Dumbest (affectionate) OC - Saarai again, and also Merak

Big of heart, dumb of ass. It’s her. It’s gotta be her. XD Honourable mention to Merak tho, he’s a pretty close second (but y’know...he’s a smuggler, are we surprised? :P) Pretty much the only reason Merak is still alive is sheer dumb luck. Dude is Han Solo levels of lucky hahaha

Smartest OC - Ni’kasi

I’d be insulting Kas if I didn’t give her this one. Rai’s the brawn, Kas is the brains, and they both know it. She might be as emotionally constipated as her mother sometimes, but in terms of intelectual smarts and knowing how to read people? Kas is “evil genius” levels of smart. She knows how to figure out what someone wants so she can tailor her responses to get the best outcome out of an interaction with them, she might not be the most (openly) empathetic person but it’s absolutely not because she doesn’t notice and understand people’s emotions - she does. She just prefers to keep detached and logical, certainly around the beginning of her story especially, because that means no-one is likely to catch her by surprise and get her off guard. There’s very little that Kas can’t figure out if given enough time to consider all the available options and anyone who’s spent any amount of time with her will tell you that.

Horniest OC - Aria (and honestly I gotta put both Kas and Rai in here as a close second. )

Ik that’s like three but genuinely I cannot pick between these three they ALL need to go to horny jail and stay there LMAO Kas is so bad that essentially all of her emotional character development happens during smut scenes. Girl. Please. Find another way to grow as a person its kinda bad js /lh

Aria used to work the red light sector at Nar Shaddaa to make ends meet, so that says a lot about why she’s here. Andddd one of Rai’s trauma responses is “hypersexuality” so there ya go *shrugs* XD

OC you’d bang - N/A

Too ace for that. I’d rather write about them banging eachother, y’know? XD

OC You’d Be Best Friends With - Vano

As much as I’d like to put Rai here again, I think realistically she’s too extroverted for me to actually enjoy hanging out with her often enough to be her best friend. I’d get on much better with Vano I reckon, we could start a book club or something, it’d be fun :D

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g1itchstream · 2 years

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Star Wars AUs make brain go brrrrrrrrrr

#star wars #fan art #star wars au #ocs #jedi consular #jedi temple guard

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sayruq · 14 days

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It's actually crazy talking to friends and relatives about what's going on because very few of them know that this is a retaliatory attack. I keep seeing people online call the attack unprovoked too.

So those who don't know, on April 1st Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's consulate in Damascus. The attack killed 7 of Iran’s military advisers including 3 senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main Iranian embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

Iran's ambassador to Syria said the strike hit a consular building in the embassy compound and that his residence was on the top two floors. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that seven Iranian military advisers died in the strike including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in its Quds Force, which is an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm.

This attack on the embassy is against international law. Embassies are protected sites. But instead of condemning the attack and putting pressure on Israel, the US has spent the past week and a half calling West Asian countries to put pressure on Iran, with Biden going as far as to warn Iran not to attack Israel and saying that his support for Israel is 'iron clad'.

The West, the UN, and UN Security Council have largely failed to condemn the attack which means Iran has no choice but to retaliate with force in order to prevent future attacks. Otherwise, the country will look vulnerable and weak, especially to the Israeli occupation government which has spent months bombing neighbouring countries like Syria and Lebanon

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #iran #axis of resistance #regional war #joe biden #united nations

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27-moons · 14 days

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🇮🇷 BREAKING

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps announces operation "His Promise is Truthful":

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

"Indeed, we will take vengeance on the criminals."

In the name of Allah

The noble and martyr-loving Islamic people of Iran, in response to the numerous crimes of the evil zionist regime, including the attack on the consular section of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus and the martyrdom of military leaders and Iranian advisers, the brave men of the Aerospace Force, with the support of other forces, have carried out a large-scale military operation against targets inside the occupied territories, launching dozens of missiles and drones during the operation ""His Promise is Truthful" under the sacred symbol "O Messenger of Allah (PBUH)".

Details of this operation, which was conducted with the approval of the Supreme National Security Council and under the supervision of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, supported by the zealous men of the Islamic Republic of Iran and with the assistance of the Ministry of Defense and the support of the armed forces, will soon draw the attention of the heroic Iranian people and the free peoples of the world.

"And victory is only from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise."

Source: Resistance News Network

#iran #israel #palestine

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josefavomjaaga · 2 months

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Laure about Bessières and Junot

In her memoirs, Laure for the time of her marriage (i.e., early Consulate) mentions Bessières as one of Junot's close friends:

Colonel Bessières, as he still only held that rank at the time, was at that time considered to be one of Junot's close friends.

However, with a caveat in a footnote:

Since then, this friendship cooled. I have always deplored the cause, which was as futile and ridiculous as possible, especially between two men such as Bessières and Junot, both young sprouts from the same tree and destined to live under its shade. I was the judge between the two of them, and I must say that I did not always rule in favour of Junot.

In the same chapter, Laure also mentions Bessières sharing his lodgings with Eugène and the two of them partying hard:

He was then colonel of the guides, i.e. the mounted chasseurs of the consular guard, together with Eugène Beauharnais. They were living in the same lodgings, and rumour had it that they were both very fond of all the joys that come with fortune and youth.

Does anybody happen to know what „futile and ridiculous“ thing caused the friendship between Bessières and Junot to break up? My first guess would have been a woman. But it might as well have been Bessières' catholicism?

#napoleon's marshals #jean baptiste bessières #napoleon's generals #jean andoche junot #napoleon's family #eugène de beauharnais #paris 1800 #consulate

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ospreyeamon · 8 months

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playing politics

It’s been said before, but there is a clear disparity in the way the Jedi Consular and Jedi Knight are treated when it comes to their promotion prospects. While both are knighted at the end of their prologues, the Consular is given the rank of Master at the start of Act 2 while the Knight is only maybe promoted again at the close of Act 3.

The Consular’s promotion to Master is political. They are being given the rank because the Jedi Council thinks it will be necessary for the Rift Alliance to take them seriously, not because of anything the Consular has achieved up to this point Hence why they are given the rank upon being given a mission rather than completing one. Which makes sense as the Consular’s achievements during Act 1 are pretty variable.

A Consular who has LS-choiced their way through Act 1’s achievements are very impressive, even if the stint on Alderaan is their only prior diplomatic experience that we know of. A Consular who – despite being asked to shield the afflicted Jedi – chooses to kill them at varying points before accidentally (or “accidentally”) causing the deaths of hundreds more Jedi offscreen by killing Lord Vivicar, I think, probably wouldn’t have been trusted with a sensitive diplomatic post if the Council thought they had a better option. Unfortunately, in this scenario, the better options were probably numbered among the now dead Jedi Masters.

Conversely, the Jedi Knight definitely succeeded in their overall mission in Act 1. They might have been a jerk, they might have passed up opportunities to save or spare people, they might have delayed rescuing Nasan Godera for a loot acquisition detour, but they still did (eventually) retrieve Dr Godera, stop the power-guard project, save Master Kiwiiks and Tatooine, help destroy the death-mark laser, and prevent Darth Angral from torching Tython. The Knight also helps (or “helps”) guide Kira Carsen to Knighthood; successfully training a Padawan is traditionally one of the main gauges the Council uses to determine who is ready to become a Master.

A DS!Knight proves considerably more effective in Act 1 than a DS!Consular, but the Consular is still the one promoted. The promotion isn’t given in recognition of their skills or as reward for their achievements. It isn’t withheld because of any action or shift in alignment. The Consular is promoted at the start of Act 2 because their new mission is to make nice with the politicians; the Knight isn’t because they are assisting other Jedi. If the Consular’s promotion truly was a matter of merit the Knight would have been promoted too.

The end of Act 3 has incredibly stark differences in how a Dark-aligned Consular and Knight are treated by the Jedi Council. Neither of them receives the promotion they would have if they had been Light-aligned, but of the behaviour of the Council towards them is markedly different. The Consular is publicly rewarded. The Knight is publicly snubbed.

“Your relentless pursuit of the First Son merits a unique position. We would like to make you our special military advisor. You will rank alongside us, but work with the Republic, to capture the remaining Children and prepare for any future threat from the Sith.” Jaric Kaedan “Rank alongside? So I would not be a member of the Jedi Council.” Jedi Consular, Option 3 “We would prefer you to focus on assisting the Republic, rather than on Council duties. But this is only a small reward beside the great service you have done, for all of us.” Jaric Kaedan

The post of the Jedi Council’s special military advisor is a promotion, even if it might not be the promotion the Consular wanted. Jaric Kaedan doesn’t say anything to suggest that a Council Seat could have been on the table under other circumstances; the idea is only brought up if the Consular brings it up.

The Consular has experienced a meteoric rise through the ranks; their class story takes place over about three years and they go from Padawan to Knight to Master to senior Master advising the Jedi Council. Going from Padawan to Master in the span of two years is (I think) the fastest turn around we are shown for any Jedi, and most members of the Order never sit on the High Council. Being promoted to Master without having trained a Padawan in any capacity is also highly unusual. The Consular has nothing to complain about.

Even if they do complain, Jaric’s justification is that they don’t want the Consular’s attention split between their work with the Republic and the duties of a Council Member. He is quick to praise the Consular again. No mention of their turn to the Dark Side is made.

“And then there is you. How do we even begin to account for the turns your life has taken since you first arrived on Tython? The dark side has cast its shadow over you. I sense your anger and ambition growing. I can no longer ignore it. I wanted so much for you to become a Jedi Master, but you are not ready.” Satele Shan “What have I done to deserve being passed over? I've saved trillions of people.” Jedi Knight, Option 1 “Your battles on Corellia cost us Master Kiwiiks and dozens of brave Jedi. Your leadership there was questionable, at best. You struck a great blow against the Sith, but the war goes on. There will be other opportunities for you to prove yourself worthy.” or “How much have you sacrificed on your path to victory? What emotions drove these decisions? These are the questions we must answer. You struck a great blow against the Sith, but the war goes on. There will be other opportunities for you to prove yourself worthy.” Satele Shan “Master Satele, this Jedi is one of the greatest war heroes I’ve ever met. He/she deserves recognition for his/her victories. By the authority of the Supreme Chancellor, I hereby grant you the honorary rank of Republic general.” Admiral Dabrin

In contrast, in a Dark-aligned Knight’s class story ending Satele Shan tells them that they are wrathful, power-hungry, under the influence of the Dark-Side of the Force, and not being promoted to Jedi Master. It’s a public humiliation at a ceremony intended to honour the Knight’s achievements. Small wonder Admiral Dabrin tries to patch things over by naming the Knight an honorary general.

Satele Shan did not have to manage the situation with the Knight this way. She could have quietly led the Knight off into a side room before the ceremony and asked them if they knew they were clouded by the Dark Side. She could have had the kind of talk with them that Orgus Din does on Rishi. Making a public spectacle was taking the nuclear option.

Satele can claim that the Knight isn’t being promoted because of their poor leadership on Corellia, but Satele was the one to put the Knight in charge of the Jedi forces on Corellia, possibly over the Knight’s objections. Besides, we the audience know it isn’t the truth. The Jedi Council’s refusal to grant them the rank of Master isn’t tied to any decision they could have taken on Corellia – it is solely determined by their alignment.

The denunciation being so public makes me feel that its motivation was either highly political or deeply personal. Did Satele feel betrayed by the Knight? Did the rest of the Jedi Council even know she was planning on going off script in front of the Republic brass? Was she convinced the Knight’s Dark-alignment was evidence they had done terrible things she would never be able to find proof of?

Was the decision to try to crack down hard on the Knight made because the Consular had also turned but couldn’t be reprimanded without insulting the Rift Alliance? Were Council concerned that members of the Order like Unaw Aharo were admiring a Dark Jedi? Was Satele under pressure to make a statement against Jedi drawing on the Dark-Side while fighting in the war?

But if a DS-choicing Knight got Jedi unnecessarily killed, then a DS-choicing Consular got more Jedi killed; hundreds compared to dozens. If it’s dangerous to have impressionable Jedi looking up to a Dark-aligned Hero of Tython, then it’s no less dangerous to have them admiring a Dark-aligned Barsen’thor. If a Dark Jedi shouldn’t be permitted to become a Master, then a Dark Consular should be demoted rather than set to advise the Council.

There is an incredible double-standard in how the Consular is treated in comparison to the Knight – and a double-standard in how the Consular is treated compared to the norms of the Order. This is surely something people in-universe have opinions about.

#Meanwhile in a Galaxy Far Far Away #swtor meta #jedi consular class story #jedi knight class story #Jedi Consular #Jedi Knight #star wars the old republic

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taviamoth · 14 days

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🚨🇮🇷 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps:

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In response to the zionist regime's crime in attacking the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, the Aerospace Force of the Guards targeted specific locations in the territories of the zionist regime with dozens of drones and missiles.

🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING - Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps announces operation "His Promise is Truthful":

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In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

"Indeed, we will take vengeance on the criminals."

In the name of Allah

"And victory is only from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise."

🚨 In the past few hours, Al-Manar reported a series of intense airstrikes, heavy artillery shelling, and ground-to-ground missiles which targeted the area of Al-Kharayeb between Al-Khiam and Rashaya al-Fukhar, and the areas of Burghuz and Al-Dalafah in the Hasbaya region.

Continuous zionist artillery shelling was also reported on the surroundings of the town of Hula, Wadi al-Salouqi, the outskirts of Al-Khayyam, and Wadi Burghuz, amidst heavy presence of warplanes and drones flying over the eastern sector.

The IOF announced that it was carrying out a wide-scale attack in the heart of Lebanon.

#jesus christ #lebanon #iran #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #jerusalem #israel #tel aviv #gaza strip #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #joe biden #benjamin netanyahu #news #breaking news

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ralfmaximus · 15 days

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Here's the complete list of DHS flagged search terms. Don't use any of these on social media to avoid having the 3-letter agencies express interest in your activities!

DHS & Other Agencies

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SOCIAL MEDIA?!

#dhs #privacy #paranoia #security

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eretzyisrael · 17 days

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BY: TAMAR STERNTHAL

On April 1, Iran condemned Israel “for its attack on the consular building of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus,” and threatened that the “Zionist regime will be held responsible.”

Israel, however, disputes that the fatal strike, which killed seven Revolutionary Guards members, including two commanders, hit a diplomatic facility. As Haaretz‘s Amos Harel explained:

Since the Damascus bombing Monday, the Iranians have focused on the site that was attacked, a building attached to their embassy in Syria. Iran has described the structure as part of its consulate in the city. Israel asserts that it is not a diplomatic facility, that Iran has no consulate in Damascus and that all those who were killed were from the IRGC, Hezbollah and Syrian militias, known terrorists and no diplomats or ordinary civilians. Iran’s assertion of the building’s diplomatic status is aimed at laying the groundwork in the international arena for the Iranian case that the facility was under Iranian sovereignty, and tantamount to an attack on Iranian soil.

The United States, for its part, has not yet determined whether or not the attacked site was a consular facility. As State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated in an April 8 press briefing: “It is our position that we are still attempting to answer that question, whether it was a consular facility or not.”

Enter United Press International journalist Adam Schrader, a New York-based reporter who has trouble reporting United Nations data on Palestinians killed by Israeli civilians without fabricating libels, who accepted at face value unfounded claims from anti-Israel activists that a New Jersey synagogue was selling off Palestinian land, who has exonerated Hamas for its Oct. 7 atrocities, and has falsely reported that “Israeli leaders raided the al-Aqsa Mosque.”

It’s astonishing that while U.S. intelligence has yet to determine whether or not the attacked Damascus building is indeed a diplomatic facility, Adam Schrader has gotten to the bottom of the matter.

“Israel launched an attack Monday that destroyed Iran’s consulate in Damascus, the capital of Syria,” he unequivocally reported in his April 7 article (“Iran’s top commander warns Israel it committed suicide with Damascus attack“).

If U.S. intelligence, with all of its vast resources, has not yet determined whether the building that was hit was a consular facility, how exactly has the UPI reporter with a troubled relationship with facts managed to do so?

Going even beyond Iran’s claim, Schrader deemed the building “Iran’s consulate in Damascus.” Thus, he falsely reported that the whole consulate was destroyed, as opposed to a specific building which the Iranians say belong to its consular mission.

Meanwhile, Schrader further harms UPI’s standing as “a credible source for the most important stories of the day” while bolstering Iranian and Hamas messaging. Veering sharply from the attack on the building in Damascus to uncritically parroting highly dubious propaganda accusing Israeli troops of carrying out sexual violence against Palestinians, he wrote:

[Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim] Safavi also encouraged the Palestinian militia Hamas to preserve its strength and continue its offensive operations against Israel, as he said that the Israeli occupation has led to “war crimes, genocide, rape and famine.” U.N. experts have previously expressed alarm at reports of rape of Palestinian women amid the war, while experts have long expressed concern of sexual violence against Palestinian women detained by Israeli forces. And Israel is currently facing charges of genocide levied by South Africa.

Who needs a building in Damascus for diplomacy when a UPI journalist in New York eagerly promotes Iranian messaging?

CAMERA commends McClatchy newspapers for pulling Schrader’s story from the following news sites following communication from our Israel office: Merced Sun Star, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Rock Hill Herald, Belleville News-Democrat, Lexington Herald-Leader, The Telegraph (Macon), Centre Daily Times, San Luis Obispo Tribune, The Bellingham Herald, The Modesto Bee, The Sacramento Bee, Olympian, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wichita Eagle, Tri-City Herald, Herald-Sun, Bradenton Herald, Fresno Bee, Idaho Statesman, Tacoma News Tribune, The State, Island Packet, Sun News, and Miami Herald.

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Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans

Former President Donald Trump is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up people living in the United States without legal permission on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.

The plans would sharply restrict both legal and illegal immigration in a multitude of ways.

Trump wants to revive his first-term border policies, including banning entry by people from certain Muslim-majority nations and reimposing a COVID-19-era policy of refusing asylum claims — although this time, he would base that refusal on assertions that migrants carry other infectious diseases like tuberculosis.

He plans to scour the country for immigrants living here without legal permission and deport people by the millions per year.

To help speed mass deportations, Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due-process hearings. To help Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping raids, he plans to reassign other federal agents and deputize local police officers and National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states.

To ease the strain on ICE detention facilities, Trump wants to build huge camps to detain people while their cases are processed and they await deportation flights. And to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Trump would redirect money in the military budget, as he did in his first term to spend more on a border wall than Congress had authorized.

In a public reference to his plans, Trump told a crowd in Iowa in September, “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” The reference was to a 1954 campaign to round up and expel Mexican immigrants that was named for an ethnic slur — “Operation Wetback.”

The constellation of Trump’s 2025 plans amounts to an assault on immigration on a scale unseen in modern American history. Millions of immigrants living in the country without legal permission would be banned from the U.S. or uprooted from it years or even decades after settling here.

Such a scale of planned removals would raise logistical, financial and diplomatic challenges and would be vigorously challenged in court. But there is no mistaking the breadth and ambition of the shift Trump is eyeing.

In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled. U.S. consular officials abroad will be directed to expand ideological screening of visa applicants to block people the Trump administration considers to have undesirable attitudes. People who were granted temporary protected status because they are from certain countries deemed unsafe, allowing them to lawfully live and work in the United States, would have that status revoked.

Similarly, numerous people who have been allowed to live in the country temporarily for humanitarian reasons would also lose that status and be kicked out, including tens of thousands of the Afghans who were evacuated amid the 2021 Taliban takeover and allowed to enter the United States. Afghans holding special visas granted to people who helped U.S. forces would be revetted to see if they really did.

And Trump would try to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States to parents living in the country without legal permission — by proclaiming that policy to be the new position of the government and by ordering agencies to cease issuing citizenship-affirming documents like Social Security cards and passports to them. That policy’s legal legitimacy, like nearly all of Trump’s plans, would be virtually certain to end up before the Supreme Court.

In interviews with The New York Times, several Trump advisers gave the most expansive and detailed description yet of Trump’s immigration agenda in a potential second term. In particular, Trump’s campaign referred questions for this article to Stephen Miller, an architect of Trump’s first-term immigration policies who remains close to him and is expected to serve in a senior role in a second administration.

All of the steps Trump advisers are preparing, Miller contended in a wide-ranging interview, rely on existing statutes; while the Trump team would likely seek a revamp of immigration laws, the plan was crafted to need no new substantive legislation. And while acknowledging that lawsuits would arise to challenge nearly every one of them, he portrayed the Trump team’s daunting array of tactics as a “blitz” designed to overwhelm immigrant rights lawyers.

“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error. Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Miller said, adding, “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”

Todd Schulte, the president of FWD.us, an immigration and criminal justice advocacy group that repeatedly fought the Trump administration, said the Trump team’s plans relied on “xenophobic demagoguery” that appeals to his hardest-core political base.

“Americans should understand these policy proposals are an authoritarian, often illegal, agenda that would rip apart nearly every aspect of American life — tanking the economy, violating the basic civil rights of millions of immigrants and native-born Americans alike,” Schulte said.

The Tools to Exploit

Since Trump left office, the political environment on immigration has moved in his direction. He is also more capable now of exploiting that environment if he is reelected than he was when he first won election as an outsider.

The ebbing of the COVID-19 pandemic and resumption of travel flows have helped stir a global migrant crisis, with millions of Venezuelans and Central Americans fleeing turmoil and Africans arriving in Latin American countries before continuing their journey north. Amid the record numbers of migrants at the southern border and beyond it in cities like New York and Chicago, voters are frustrated, and even some Democrats are calling for tougher action against immigrants and pressuring the White House to better manage the crisis.

Trump and his advisers see the opening and now know better how to seize it. The aides Trump relied upon in the chaotic early days of his first term were sometimes at odds and lacked experience in how to manipulate the levers of federal power. By the end of his first term, Cabinet officials and lawyers who sought to restrain some of his actions — like his Homeland Security secretary and chief of staff, John Kelly — had been fired, and those who stuck with him had learned much.

In a second term, Trump plans to install a team that will not restrain him.

Since much of Trump’s first-term immigration crackdown was tied up in the courts, the legal environment has tilted in his favor: His four years of judicial appointments left behind federal appellate courts and a Supreme Court that are far more conservative than the courts that heard challenges to his first-term policies.

The fight over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals provides an illustration.

DACA is an Obama-era program that shields from deportation and grants work permits to people who were brought unlawfully to the United States as children. Trump tried to end it, but the Supreme Court blocked him on procedural grounds in June 2020.

Miller said Trump would try again to end DACA. And the 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court that blocked the last attempt no longer exists: A few months after the DACA ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and Trump replaced her with a sixth conservative, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump’s rhetoric has more than kept up with his increasingly extreme agenda on immigration.

His stoking of fear and anger toward immigrants — pushing for a border wall and calling Mexicans rapists — fueled his 2016 takeover of the Republican Party. As president, he privately mused about developing a militarized border like Israel’s, asked whether migrants crossing the border could be shot in the legs and wanted a proposed border wall topped with flesh-piercing spikes and painted black to burn migrants’ skin.

As he has campaigned for the party’s third straight presidential nomination, his anti-immigrant tone has only grown harsher. In a recent interview with a right-wing website, Trump claimed without evidence that foreign leaders were deliberately emptying their “insane asylums” to send the patients across America’s southern border as migrants. He said migrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” And at a rally Wednesday in Florida, he compared them to the fictional serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter, saying, “That’s what’s coming into our country right now.”

Trump had similarly vowed to carry out mass deportations when running for office in 2016, but the government only managed several hundred thousand removals per year under his presidency, on par with other recent administrations. If they get another opportunity, Trump and his team are determined to achieve annual numbers in the millions.

Keeping People Out

Trump’s immigration plan is to pick up where he left off and then go much further. He would not only revive some of the policies that were criticized as draconian during his presidency, many of which the Biden White House ended, but also expand and toughen them.

One example centers on expanding first-term policies aimed at keeping people out of the country. Trump plans to suspend the nation’s refugee program and once again categorically ban visitors from troubled countries, reinstating a version of his ban on travel from several mostly Muslim-majority countries, which President Joe Biden called discriminatory and ended on his first day in office.

Trump would also use coercive diplomacy to induce other nations to help, including by making cooperation a condition of any other bilateral engagement, Miller said. For example, a second Trump administration would seek to reestablish an agreement with Mexico that asylum-seekers remain there while their claims are processed. (It is not clear that Mexico would agree; a Mexican court has said that deal violated human rights.)

Trump would also push to revive “safe third country” agreements with several nations in Central America and try to expand them to Africa, Asia and South America. Under such deals, countries agree to take would-be asylum-seekers from specific other nations and let them apply for asylum there instead.

While such arrangements have traditionally only covered migrants who had previously passed through a third country, federal law does not require that limit, and a second Trump administration would seek to make those deals without it, in part as a deterrent to migrants making what the Trump team views as illegitimate asylum claims.

At the same time, Miller said, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would invoke the public health emergency powers law known as Title 42 to again refuse to hear any asylum claims by people arriving at the southern border. The Trump administration had internally discussed that idea early in Trump’s term, but some Cabinet secretaries pushed back, arguing that there was no public health emergency that would legally justify it. The administration ultimately implemented it during the coronavirus pandemic.

Saying the idea has since gained acceptance in practice — Biden initially kept the policy — Miller said Trump would invoke Title 42, citing “severe strains of the flu, tuberculosis, scabies, other respiratory illnesses like RSV and so on, or just a general issue of mass migration being a public health threat and conveying a variety of communicable diseases.”

Trump and his aides have not yet said whether they would reenact one of the most contentious deterrents to unauthorized immigration that he pursued as president: separating children from their parents, which led to trauma among migrants and difficulties in reuniting families. When pressed, Trump has repeatedly declined to rule out reviving the policy. After an outcry over the practice, Trump ended it in 2018, and a judge later blocked the government from putting it back into effect.

Mass Deportations

Soon after Trump announced his 2024 campaign for president last November, he met with Tom Homan, who ran ICE for the first year and a half of the Trump administration and was an early proponent of separating families to deter migrants.

In an interview, Homan recalled that in that meeting, he “agreed to come back” in a second term and would “help to organize and run the largest deportation operation this country’s ever seen.”

Trump advisers’ vision of abrupt mass deportations would be a recipe for social and economic turmoil, disrupting the housing market and major industries including agriculture and the service sector.

Miller cast such disruption in a favorable light.

“Mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers, who will now be offered higher wages with better benefits to fill these jobs,” he said. “Americans will also celebrate the fact that our nation’s laws are now being applied equally and that one select group is no longer magically exempt.”

One planned step to overcome the legal and logistical hurdles would be to significantly expand a form of fast-track deportations known as “expedited removal.” It denies immigrants living in the country without legal permission the usual hearings and opportunity to file appeals, which can take months or years — especially when people are not in custody — and has led to a large backlog. A 1996 law says people can be subject to expedited removal for up to two years after arriving, but to date, the executive branch has used it more cautiously, swiftly expelling people picked up near the border soon after crossing.

The Trump administration tried to expand the use of expedited removal, but a court blocked it, and then the Biden team canceled the expansion. It remains unclear whether the Supreme Court will rule that it is constitutional to use the law against people who have been living for a significant period in the United States and express fear of persecution if sent home.

Trump has also said he would invoke an archaic law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without due process. That law allows for summary deportation of people from countries with which the United States is at war, that have invaded the United States or that have engaged in “predatory incursions.”

The Supreme Court has upheld past uses of that law in wartime. But its text seems to require a link to the actions of a foreign government, so it is not clear whether the justices will allow a president to stretch it to encompass drug cartel activity.

More broadly, Miller said a new Trump administration would shift from the ICE practice of arresting specific people to carrying out workplace raids and other sweeps in public places aimed at arresting scores of immigrants living in the country without legal permission all at once.

To make the process of finding and deporting immigrants already living inside the country without legal permission “radically more quick and efficient,” he said, the Trump team would bring in “the right kinds of attorneys and the right kinds of policy thinkers” willing to carry out such ideas.

And because of the magnitude of arrests and deportations being contemplated, they plan to build “vast holding facilities that would function as staging centers” for immigrants as their cases progress and they wait to be flown to other countries.

Miller said the new camps would likely be built “on open land in Texas near the border.” He said the military would construct them under the authority and control of the Department of Homeland Security. While he cautioned that there were no specific blueprints yet, he said the camps would look professional and similar to other facilities for migrants that have been built near the border.

Such camps could also enable the government to speed up the pace and volume of deportations of people who have lived in the United States without legal permission for years and so are not subject to fast-track removal. If pursuing a long-shot effort to win permission to remain in the country would mean staying locked up in the interim, some may give up and voluntarily accept removal without going through the full process.

The use of these camps, he said, would likely be focused more on single adults because the government cannot indefinitely hold children under a long-standing court order known as the Flores settlement. So any families brought to the facilities would have to be moved in and out more quickly, Miller said.

The Trump administration tried to overturn the Flores settlement, but the Supreme Court did not resolve the matter before Trump’s term ended. Miller said the Trump team would try again.

To increase the number of agents available for ICE sweeps, Miller said, officials from other federal law enforcement agencies would be temporarily reassigned, and state National Guard troops and local police officers, at least from willing Republican-led states, would be deputized for immigration control efforts.

While a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids the use of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes, another law called the Insurrection Act creates an exception. Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act at the border, enabling the use of federal troops to apprehend migrants, Miller said.

“Bottom line,” he said, “President Trump will do whatever it takes.”

#US Immigration #immigration issues #trump #Sweeping Raids #Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans #deportations #forced deportations #illegal migration #gop #lies #posse comitatus act

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Ahoy! 10 or 24 for the ask game?

10. I have soooo many favourite art pieces omg 😫💗

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s “The Roses of Heliogabalus”. I like it simply because it’s pretty. Like omgg look at all the details! The guy in the painting (lying down and wearing gold) is the Roman emperor Elagabalus. His story is ABSOLUTELY WILD 😨

Ilya Repin’s “Barge Haulers on the Volga.” I don’t know how to explain this one, I just love the energy it gives off!

And finally, my favourite genre is anything with cavalry charges! They always look so brave and hot but also crazy! 😍 Like, imagine riding on some creature at a crazy speed towards an enemy (with barely any kind of protection) and then proceed to smash each other’s faces with swords! How do they find the guts to do that!?!? 😳

Richard Caton Woodville Jr’s “Relief of the Light Brigade”

Nikolai Samokish’s “The Red Cavalry at Perekop”

Alphonse Lalauze’s Consular Guard’s Charge at Marengo. This one has Marshal Bessières in it!

24. Emilia Plater! I’ve already mentioned her in another post, but here’s another painting of her 💕

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What were Lannes' political views, as far as the issues of his time ? (e.g. republicanism, abolition) Thank you ! <3

With regard to the "issues of his time," Jean-boy was far more interested in survival. Like his siblings, he worked at odd jobs--sometimes quite odd--from the time he was around seven or son until he enlisted in the regional national guard for a short while in 1791--too many minor aristos still in charge--and then as a volunteer in mid-1792.

By that time he had four immutable viewpoints: he loathed the Bourbons, all of them; he was unrelentingly contemptuous of emigres in particular and aristocrats in general; he hated the British; and was a committed anti-clerical. Although his older brother was a priest, for economic and social reasons rather than from any sort of religious calling, he didn't think much of the upper clergy in their silk vestments and golden crucifixes.

From 1792 until the beginning of the Consulate, Lannes was a Jacobin, and would often make brief little political speeches back home that were known more for their fervor and profanity than any deep political insights.

He obviously had no problem with his Jacobin views or his contempt for aristocrats at the same time he cheerfully--for the most part--and loyally--also for the most part--followed First Consul Bonaparte and then Emperor Napoleon or was addressed as Monsieur le duc. His theory on that obvious dichotomy was that Napoleon had earned his consular and imperial rank, unlike all those other "divine right" idiots, and he had certainly earned his own rank through personal risk and bloodshed and not inheritance.

If you're interested in someone with more finely-expressed and wide-ranging political views, with an educated eye on the issues of the day, look elsewhere. Our Hero was soldier, and way too busy studying how to be a better one. He attended a few social gatherings and salons and dinners where politics, social issues, and perhaps even economics were discussed. His contributions to those dic=scussions were generally brief, pithy, and replete with F-bombs.

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Jérôme's duel

Ever since I made that post for @flowwochair about Eugène and Jérôme I have wondered about the source of the story about Jérôme’s duel with Davout’s brother. I’ve found it on several web pages and even on Jérôme’s Wikipedia page, but always without a source. So I’m not sure if I have really found the earliest mention, but it’s my best bet so far:

Mémoires et correspondance du roi Jérôme et de la reine Catherine, Vol. 1+2 by … Albert DuCasse. The single most annoying editor of the Second Empire, as far as I am concerned. (He also published Eugène’s and Joseph’s correspondence.)

The memoirs’ part seem to have been written by DuCasse himself, and it has several anecdotes I’d read before, the story about the expensive nécessaire (though in this case I prefer a German version that is even funnier), the one about the sabre of Marengo and also the one about the duel. So, here’s what DuCasse has to say about it:

A few days after this little scene [i.e., the sabre of Marengo story], Jérôme was incorporated into the consular guard, the chasseurs à cheval, as a private soldier. He did not stay there for long. Having quarrelled with a young man of the same age, a brother of general Davout, he had the most bizarre and dangerous duel with him. They both agreed to go to the Bois de Vincennes, armed with a pair of pommel pistols and a packet of cartridges in their pockets. There, they took up positions twenty-five paces apart and, sitting on the ground, fired until one of them was wounded! Jérôme was hit in the chest by a bullet that flattened out on the sternum and embedded itself in the bone. It was removed sixty years later, after his death, when his body was embalmed! The First Consul was extremely moved on learning of the danger his brother had run, and expressed his deep dissatisfaction that such a duel between two young men barely out of childhood had not been stopped. He withdrew Jérôme from the consular guard, and perhaps eagerly seized this pretext to open up for his brother a career more in keeping with the new politics he foresaw.

Some things I was wondering:

I don’t think Jérôme really entered the guard as a simple soldier. This would have been completely out of tune with Napoleon’s usual behaviour towards his brothers, especially seeing as later during Jérôme’s career he will have his baby brother rise through the ranks in record time. I also don’t think an officer like Davout’s brother would have duelled with a simple soldier? I imagine Jérôme entered the guard as a sous-lieutenant, just like Eugène had a couple of years earlier.

If he really belonged to the chasseurs-à-cheval, he must have been under Eugène’s direct command. Ouch. (Plus, Eugène probably grounded until next year for not having found out and prevented Jérôme’s duel in time.)

Maybe I am mistaken about this as I have not read up much on Davout, but I seem to be unable to find a brother of Davout’s who was close in age to Jérôme? The two brothers mentioned on Wikipedia both would have been in their twenties in 1800. That's a far cry from "barely out of childhood". Most accounts of this incident also state that the quarrel was about a woman (Jérôme was 15 years old!) and that it was Jérôme who challenged his opponent (again - 15 years old!), though I do not know where this bit of information comes from.

In any case, if this duel had really been provoked by Jérôme I could see why Napoleon considered some disciplinary measures necessary.

By the way, these memoirs also repeat the claim that Eugène was held up as an example to Jérôme by the Bonaparte brothers:

Jérôme, spoilt by his mother and Joséphine, found affectionate correctors in his two eldest siblings, Joseph and Lucien, and as Eugène de Beauharnais's adolescence had always been marked by precocious calm and reason, it was his example that the two brothers invariably preached to their younger brother, who was full of vivacity and foolhardiness.

Yes, I could see how that might poison a friendship.

#napoleon's family #jerome bonaparte #paris 1800

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