#integrity in government

[filosofablogger]

I Think This Time Will Be Different ...

Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, has been indicted on criminal charges.  He and his wife have each been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.  Prosecutors allege Mr. Menendez and his wife Nadine accepted bribes of cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage and a…

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#corrupt politicians #Donald Trump #George Santos #Governor Phil Murphy #integrity in government #Ken Paxton #Senator Robert Menendez #U.S. Senate

[stoat-party]

“How dare they burn everything the Courier loves to ashes!”

*imagines my courier reacting to watching everything she loves burn to ashes*

“…that’s some good stuff. you got me this time todd.”

#at this point i do think the horrific continuity snarls were incompetence instead of malice #especially with how lovingly they animated vegas at the end #so i can’t really integrate it into canon in my head but i’m also not mad at it #the show itself? not my cup of tea. but i’m chill now #might still step away from the fandom though because eesh. war never changes huh. #fallout: new vegas #new vegas #fallout nv #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #fallout #fallout amazon #fallout series #fallout prime #fallout show #fallout spoilers #fallout tv show #fallout show spoilers #fallout prime spoilers #fallout tv spoilers #fallout Amazon spoilers #fallout series spoilers #unfortunately my courier’s story requires her to have been imprisoned in shady sands from 2285-2289ish #so that’s gonna be a problem #could make it another city but the ncr needs to have a semi-functional government at least

[riotinyellow]

the writers' strike has caused the American government to start a convoluted aliens plot line

#look i believe in aliens i just doubt the integrity of the american government #i mean “UFOS” are they serious ? #wga strong #wga strikes #support the wga #wga solidarity #wga strike #i stand with the wga #wga #sag solidarity #sag strike #sag aftra #aliens #alien #aliens and ufos #ufo #writers guild of america #america #usa #congress

[bronzeplates]

Latest in his Line!

#my art #new oc #he's just a totally normal guy! #definitely not a government created living integrated electronic network! #body horror

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

David governed Israel faithfully

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. — Psalm 78:72 | New Heart English Bible (NHEB) The New Heart English Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: 1 Kings 9:4; Ecclesiastes 2:21; Ezekiel 34:2

#integrity #skill #hands #leadership #David #govern #shepherd #Israel #heart #Psalm 78:72 #Book of Psalms #Old Testament #NHEB #New Heart English Bible

[rexscanonwife]

Ok hc time because I just thought of something. Last night I rewatched That episode and I noticed that when Utonium's old roommate barges into his home he makes a comment about him 'still living in the 60s' and I always thought it WAS interesting that the show is inspired by the 60s in terms of art style and architecture, but it does indeed take place in the 2000s!

Utonium is also seen drinking from a mug that says 'science con 1985' which also adds a little bit of a timeline but that's just a little tidbit! What I thought of was that while yeah the whole TOWN seems to be a little bit stuck in time, the Utonium household is 100% completely decked out in that 60s art deco style and maybe that's because the professor inherited it from his parents!

He mentions having them once or twice, and maybe when they died (they don't seem to be IN the picture) he moved in and maybe he just didn't have the heart to redecorate. Or didn't really care to 😂

#jane journals #self insert talk #🔬 starkissed scientist 🔬 #or maybe he likes it!! it could be any of those or ALL of them tbh #like...where does his money even come from. what does he DO 😂😂 #he seems to be able to support himself and the girls but hes probably getting money from the government to do so #probably BECAUSE he created them and theyre so integral to the survival of townsville ajfkgkgk #his job is 'science' #i love that he gets to just noodle around all day now like just get REALLY silly with it #UGGHH I AM SO DOWN BAD ITS CRINGE #BUT IM FREE

[mightyflamethrower]

#election fraud #election integrity #media bias #government corruption #political humor

[commonsensecommentary]

“The outcome of the election between former-President Trump and President Biden will be an undeniable tipping point this year, but it will settle few of the underlying tensions that cause Americans to now glare at one another with suspicion.”

#leadership #democracy #save america #democrats #american history #debt #debt crisis #election 2020 #election 2024 #election integrity #fear #government spending #hate #identity #identity politics #national debt #patriotism #political polarization #voter anger

[ivygorgon]

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Out with Incest Laws: Reconsider Blood Quantum Laws in Native Reparations

An open letter to State Governors & Legislatures

1 so far! Help us get to 5 signers!

I am writing to express profound concerns about the continued reliance on Blood Quantum Laws, or Indian Blood Laws, in Native Reparations Programs. These laws, established by federal and state governments as far back as 1705, define Native American status based on fractions of Native American ancestry, perpetuating harmful consequences for tribal communities and some, alarmingly, terminating before just 5 generations.

The use of Blood Quantum Laws has led to detrimental effects on Native American families and communities. It has incentivized harmful family planning practices, compelling individuals to marry within close kin networks to maintain "pure bloodlines." This practice not only violates individual autonomy but also jeopardizes genetic diversity and the long-term viability of tribal populations.

Of utmost concern is the declining population within many tribal communities, with some nearing critical thresholds of fewer than 1000 individuals. This situation is further exacerbated by the principles of population biology, particularly the 50/500 rule, which underscores the need for a minimum population of 500 individuals to reduce genetic drift and ensure sustained viability. It is troubling to note that these laws inadvertently encourage cousin marriages, posing additional risks to community health and resilience.

Moreover, Blood Quantum Laws impose an arbitrary expiration date on government-funded reparations and jeopardize the cultural continuity of these communities. By tethering Native American status to ancestry thresholds, these laws undermine the diversity and autonomy of tribal enrollment criteria.

I urge policymakers to urgently reconsider the use of Blood Quantum Laws in Native Reparations Programs and advocate for a more inclusive and sustainable approach to reparations. This approach should prioritize the cultural and social integrity of Native American communities, safeguarding their continued existence and resilience for future generations.

Our villages were razed by colonizers, our ancestors were genocide survivors, and, as ever, our children bear the enduring impacts of historical injustices.

Thank you for considering these critical issues and taking decisive action to address them.

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#IVYPETITIONS #PBDXGL #resistbot #Blood Quantum #Native American #Reparations #Tribal Communities #Genetic Diversity #Indigenous Rights #Cultural Integrity #Population Biology #Government Policy #Historical Injustices #Tribal Enrollment #Ancestry Criteria #Native Identity #Kinship Networks #Genetic Drift #Tribal Sovereignty #Cousin Marriages #Diversity and Autonomy #Indigenous Heritage #Colonial History #Policy Reform #Social Justice #Human Rights #Cultural Survival #Community Health #Historical Trauma #Advocacy

[blackwolfmanx2]

Real Talk:

Segregation isn't inherently bad and integration isn't inherently good. If both of those are enforced by the government, it's always detrimental to private property.

#blackwolfmanx2 #ancap #libertarian #real talk #segregation #integration #civil liberties #property rights #statism #authoritarianism #abolish the government #abolish the state #free the market

[llewelynpritch]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/small-book-more-memory-nye-aneurin-bevan-honour-our-nhs-pritchard-ma-ldp7e/ PART I: 1 - 4 A human-centric, holistic, rights-based advocating regenerative culture, just transition to a regenerative society. Rapidly end fossil fuel finance by implementing climate justice valuation strategies rooted in human indigenous rights with moral compass as educational opportunities to better protect our life-sustaining systems in the cost of living climate crisis on planet Earth.

#aneurin bevan #nhs #ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeValuations #HumanRights #IndigenousRights #HumanIndigenousRights #ConnectWithTheLand #DoughnutEconomics #RightsOfNature #Beliefs #BeliefSystems #Faith #Trust #Health #HealthCare #MedicalTreatment #HiddenGem #EcologicalCare #ClimateCare #EcologicalClimateHealthCareTreatmentForMotherEarth #Governments #Integrity #TrustInPoliticians #Popularism #Democracy #Dictatorship #ElectiveDictatorship #RightWingExtremists #Tyranny

[definitelynotlazav]

I have some fucking thoughts about Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Era 2 (and by extension Mistborn Era one) and the ways in which they mirror Avatar: The Legend of Korra (and by extension Avatar: The Last Airbender) but it is too late for me to type them up so I will have to do so another time

#the short version is that the sequel series takes a world in which the protagonists of the initial series fight and destroy an unjust #system and turns it into a setting in which the new protagonists must defend a clearly failing system from a variety of threats while givin #lip service to real world political realities and movements and portraying most of them with a liberal's laughably inept view of them #but still making them Integral To The Plot because the author wants to make a whole thing of it. #and in doing so the whole thing becomes a series in which characters I enjoy drove me absolutely insane by being inherently unable to choos #answers that make the most sense in regards to the questions that the series is actively raising. #which is maybe worse in Me2 because at least in legend of korra the main character doesn't go 'well I feel for these striking workers #guess I'll go actively hide the failures of their government from them' #they're both god's specialest little cop though. I'm telling you the parallels are uncanny #BS

[gch1995]

I’ve contemplated a lot about why Luke was the sort of person that Anakin felt inspired enough to turn his back on Sidious and the dark side for, while Padme, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka weren’t.

While Anakin does become a hypocrite who no one was obligated to forgive after he turned dark, regardless of his tragic circumstances and compromised agency, I think Luke was the one who finally inspired him to turn back because, in spite of as “above it all” as Obi-Wan, Padme, and even Ahsoka wanted to believe they were, they still had many of the same issues Anakin developed of feeling pressured to be people pleasers to corrupt authority figures, expectations, and rules that they knew were wrong out of fear of the unknown under compromised agency, moral hypocrisy, pride, manipulative tactics, selfishness, and/or an exceedingly vengeful side in their anger that they were not willing to pull back on when they dueled him or other enemies that piss him off.

Padme, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka loved Anakin, but they were also prideful, self-centered, and terrified people who were too afraid to admit that their methods flawed, too afraid to take a stand against the standards of these broken systems they were born into, too afraid to admit they were wrong, too afraid to take risks to do better, and too afraid to admit that they weren’t as “above it all” as they pretended to be.

Luke Skywalker being Anakin’s son is definitely one of the influencing factors that inspires him to turn back to the light. However, it’s also because Luke is self-accepting of his bad decisions, flaws, and mistakes. He’s aware that the old Jedi Order was deeply flawed, hypocritical, and misguided, in spite of their good intentions. He’s unwilling to stoop to the same level as his enemies. He won’t let himself get carried away with baiting his father into a fight when he gets angry, and start making justifications of how he’s “right” just because he has good intentions, just because he was fucked with first, just because he’s not a Sith, or just because it’s “too dangerous” to take a risk to be honest, kind, and offer one of his enemies (his father) a better opportunity when he sees that he really is also a victim of Sidious who is still struggling against his darker instincts and searching for freedom and love from family. He refuses to enable Anakin’s slave mentality and ultimately refuses to let his father believe that “Anakin Skywalker is dead.”

This isn’t saying that Anakin is an innocent, that Luke was obligated to forgive him, or that his victims didn’t have valid reasons to fear him and resent him. Of course, they did. The point is that in those little moments where he tries to reach out to Ahsoka, Padme, and Obi-Wan about being unhappy with the Jedi and keeping secrets of his marriage before going dark, backs off, says “Don’t make me destroy you,” or lets them go, they all had an opportunity to refuse to further perpetuate the cycle of abuse by acting in anger and vengeance. They could have refused to encourage his sense of compromised agency. They could have broken the cycle of system sting abuse, crime, and oppression with Anakin in those instances by being the bigger person.

Instead Padme and Obi-Wan encouraged him to continue to stay with the Jedi and/or keep his marriage secret when they knew their systems were corrupt, and knew he was becoming increasingly emotionally/mentally unstable and unhappy in ways that made him a danger to himself and those around him out of fear of the unknown by pretending that he would just get better if they told him he would when he tried to say otherwise.

Instead, Ahsoka ended up declaring that she’d “avenge her master” when he refused to join her right away and told her “Anakin Skywalker is dead because he destroyed him.”

Instead, Obi-Wan egged him on into a duel on Mustafar by using Padme as bait, and refused to back off after getting him to let go of Padme from his reckless blind rage/paranoia force choke before killing her when he thought she brought Obi-Wan to kill him and even got him to a point where he could tell Obi-Wan “Don’t make me kill you.” When Anakin cornered him again 10 years later for revenge that he clearly didn’t want as much as he had convinced himself he did because he still cared about Obi-Wan deep down, tells Obi-Wan “I destroyed Anakin Skywalker, not you,” and even gives Obi-Wan a chance to run away, Obi-Wan allows Anakin to continue to believe that Anakin is dead, convinces himself that he is, and he runs away to compartmentalize his own guilt over how he mistreated Anakin.

Instead, another ten years later, Obi-Wan more or less encourages Anakin/Vader to kill him by just standing there after confronting him in A New Hope, and saying “I’ll become more powerful than you can ever imagine.”

So the reason as to why Anakin can’t be inspired to atone or do better by Ahsoka, Padme, or Obi-Wan isn’t just because he’s a deeply flawed person. It’s because they are too, they live in denial of it, and let him live in denial of it, too.

#Padme Amidala was deeply flawed #Anakin was deeply flawed #Ahsoka was deeply flawed #obi wan was deeply flawed #and they all lived in denial of just how deeply broken and flawed they all were and kept encouraging Anakin to pretend like he was okay #sacrificing his better instincts and happiness to try to conform to these broken systems that they all knew were messed up out of fear #until he finally stopped trying to fight back and became a serious problem for their well-being out of fear of these corrupt authorities too #when he couldn’t get anyone to listen when he DID try to reach out for emotional support and escape to fight back #like in spite of telling them that ‘Anakin Skywalker is dead’ are obi-wan Ahsoka and Luke willing to let him believe that or not? #when he tells obi-wan and Luke ‘don’t make me destroy you’ hesitated to kill them or gives them a chance to reason with him or walk away #are they going to run away act defensively or stoop to his level and try to kill him when he’s hesitating and being vulnerable? #when he gives obi wan ahsoka and Luke a chance to back off in their duels as vader are they going to fight run away or try to reason? #when he tells Ahsoka revenge is not the Jedi way is she going to agree that vengeance is bad or stoop to his level? #it’s because Anakin is desperately looking for someone who is good and self-aware enough to realize that both sides are messed up #and he can feel safe just being the best version of himself rather than throwing away his moral integrity and sense of self to conform #it’s like he’s testing people he cares about to see if they will encourage him to break the cycle of toxicity in the galaxy #to realize that both the old Jedi/Republic and Sith/Empire were deeply fucked up governments and institutions #or continue to enable and perpetuate it themselves #to not stoop to his level and enable or perpetuate terrible behaviors choices or crimes ‘for good’ fear of the unknown or revenge #to these broken systems that enable and perpetuate systematic abuse of power crime and vengeance ‘for the greater good’ out of fear #pt jedi critical #anti jedi apologists #anakin skywalker #darth vader #luke skywalker #Luke was the only one who could inspire Anakin to redeem himself because he was the only one who didn’t get caught up in the cycle himself #and the only one who refused to let his father believe that ‘Anakin was dead’

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel the waves of history crashing over them constantly and like they can't escape the generational trauma that permeates and poisons every interaction they have or do I just need to chill and have a drink lol

#'our day has come and we are here. we are alive here. we've built this place. we suffered and starved here. #we own not an acre of land we belong to it. the land of cú chullain and macha. ní muid 'hungry crocodiles'. we are full. #full of knowledge. and talent. and success. #full of drink. and drugs. and stories. #agus beautiful ceol. that spills on sundays. from the windows of ancient pubs like smoke #tá vóta agam. tá acht Gaeilge agam. agus táimid sa rialtas. #we are the landscape. we are the trees and the rivers and the mountains. an integral piece of someone else's infrastructure. #growing strong between cracks in the concrete.' #and whatever else seán an seanchaí said..... #would recommend his instagram. his posts always hit #ngl tho when men post stuff like this about ireland i always think...do you see the similarities between this and patriarchy tho? #but maybe im better off not knowing the answer #whatever!!! we will persevere!!! we will help one another and build trust and relations and improve no matter what governments say or do!!! #just like generations have been doing before us!!! and we who have benefited from our parents making this place better will work to make it #better for our children. who will make it better for theirs. #and maybe i need to stop shying away from difficult conversations. maybe we all do. and maybe then we'll be okay. #my thoughts on mental health + the north + my own personal experience is such a mish mash of several different things #im only truly starting to realise that it's all connected. yes i got depression because i was lonely and vulnerable. but also because of th #trauma my family's been through. and sometimes i feel so angry thinking about what certain family members have been through #and there has been too much silence surrounding it. but maybe i just have to feel the anger and sadness and allow myself to feel it #but continue reaching out and trying to talk and having cups of tea and walking my dog and making memories. #memories that aren't political or based on trauma. to get out of my head and realise that yes this was a terrible thing #but there's so many good things too. and the best thing i can do is to try to make life better for those who lived through the worst of it #and make society better for those who are too young to know any of it yet. #instagram is actually a tonic for me sometimes. would never get such taig specific posts on here like the one from seán #which is probably a good thing lol

[prep4tomoro]

Will Fair, Legal and Legitimate Elections Ever Happen Again?

What Will it Take to Get Back There?

CL - Do you believe that Trump could pull 25+% of Black American votes?

SL - I don’t think it matters what Trump pulls, because, first of all, you guys are still believing there will be an election.  Okay, that’s a possibility.  You believe the [2024] election is not going to be rigged.  The elections have been rigged since . . . you and I were together on election night 2012 and you and I know good and well that he did not win Florida; you know good and well Obama did not win Florida.  But guess what got reported?

SL – These things have been rigged; if you want to do the history, go back to 1960.  John Kennedy did not win that election.  So, what makes you think, 60 years later, with all the practice they’ve had, and they’ve ramped it up since 2012, that any election result you get is actually going to be legitimate?  And the thing is that you’re at the point where the Republic that you know is being actively erased.

SL - You did not start the Republic that you are trying to keep by voting.  Nobody voted George the 3rd out.  Nobody voted chattel slavery away.  Nobody voted Jim Crow out; although there was more legislation going on with that than the others.  At every point in time, you had to make your choice between a peaceful life and a violent freedom.  And if you’re not willing to make that choice  . . .

Resources:

7 Events That Led to the American Revolution

Surviving Under Martial Law

Why Join or Start a Survival Group?

The Threat of Civil Breakdown is Real (April 2023)

[14-Point Emergency Preps Checklist] [11-Cs Basic Emergency Kit] [Learn to be More Self-Sufficient] [The Ultimate Preparation] [5six7 Menu]

#FlushGov #government #politicians #elections #voting integrity #civil war 2 #peace #freedom from tyranny #term limits #american revolution #revolutionary war #1776 #martial law #survival companionship

[smalltofedsblog]

Power Of Partnerships Advances Business And Mission Goals

The power of industry partnerships goes well-beyond the prime and sub relationship to deliver capabilities that quickly and effectively address mission gaps for the government – particularly in areas where speed and innovation are critical.

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#government contract teaming #government contracting #Government Contractors #Innovation culture #Partnering #system Integration