#joseph wade

[firelance2361]

Edge of Spider-Verse: Forgotten Threads

In honor of the New Year and the Spider-Verse on the horizon, here is another roster piece I did using the more obscure and overlooked Spider Variants of the multiverse.

Roster (Left to Right)

Charlie Parker/Spider-Kid

Yu Komori/Spider-Man

Jack Warren/Spidercide

Peter Parker/Arachknight

Charlotte Witter/Spider-Woman

Gerry Drew/Spider-Man

Mattie Franklin/Spider-Woman

Oliver Osnick/Steel Spider

Joseph Wade/Scarlet Spider

Maria Vasquez/Tarantula

Tamara Pearson/Fang

Gwendolyn Stacy/Spider-Woman

Micheal Bingham/Blood Spider

April Parker/Mayhem

Carlos Socorro Jr./Aracnido Jr.

Hope you like it and have a Happy New Year!

#spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #spider man #charlie parker #yu komori #jack warren #peter parker #charlotte witter #gerry drew #mattie franklin #oliver osnick #joseph wade #maria vasquez #tamara pearson #gwendolyn stacy #micheal bingham #april parker #carlos socorro jr. #spidercide #arachknight #spider woman #spider kid #steel spider #scarlet spider #tarantula #fang #blood spider #aracnido jr. #mayhem #spiderman into the spiderverse

[burrowingdweller]

Me friend almost broke me

Guess I'm gonna watch those... Misfits.......

#misfits #rudy wade #joe gilgun #joseph gilgun #sudden traditional art #haven't touched my pencil since SUMMER

[fulfillingbineeds]

This one, well, this one is solely for me

#misfits #misfits text posts #shitpost #nathan young #simon bellamy #rudy wade #curtis donovan #nikki misfits #curtis/nikki #nathan/simon #robert sheehan #iwan rheon #nathan stewart jarrett #ruth negga #joseph gilgun #joe gilgun #my posts #my edits

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

But the true shock of their piece lies in fact that none of it is shocking: Samuel Alito came to the court wishing to overturn Roe and lied about that fact at his confirmation hearings; Neil Gorsuch didn’t even bother to read the draft opinion authored by Alito before he agreed to put his name to it, or else secretly viewed a draft before it was circulated to other justices; Amy Coney Barrett has someone in her chambers who wants us to see her as a tormented and complicated woman, even as she refused to do anything but rubber-stamp an opinion that would confirm to the world that she was a token, partisan, politics-haired appointment. And Brett Kavanaugh? He is precisely as absurdly self-important, scheming, untrustworthy, and ineffectual as we all knew him to be.

One could add a note here about Clarence Thomas’ former clerk, who devised the whole case as a bait-and-switch to kill Roe at the same time he was palling around with Clarence and Ginni Thomas at a West Virginia resort. But really, why? The point is not that any part of this meticulously reported piece will surprise anyone who has watched the high court stagger deeper and deeper into disgrace and moral irrelevance. The point is that every single thing described by the New York Times is now deemed ordinary, lawful, acceptable, and accepted at the highest court of the land.

The gist of the report confirms what we all suspected: There was never any real doubt about the outcome of Dobbs. During their confirmation hearings, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett presented themselves as open-minded on abortion, and generally respectful of precedent protecting women’s reproductive autonomy. Once on the court, all three were eager to light that precedent on fire. The only question was one of pacing and optics: Just how quickly, the conservatives wondered, could they overturn Roe v. Wade without delegitimizing the court and cementing their own status as partisan hacks? We learn now that Kavanaugh successfully lobbied the conservatives to conceal their decision to take up Dobbs from the public, waiting until May of 2021 to announce a vote that took place in the preceeding January. The purpose of this delay was to put distance between the announcement and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Kavanaugh did not want the public to think RBG’s passing was the sole reason why the court would now overturn Roe. But it absolutely was.

We learn, too, that Alito shared his draft of Dobbs with several fellow conservative justices without the knowledge of the others, locking in their votes behind closed doors. We learn that Kavanaugh pretended to waffle on his commitment to reversing Roe, when all signs indicate that he was gunning for abortion from day one. It is clear that Scott Stewart, the former Thomas clerk who defended Mississippi’s abortion ban, transformed the case from an incremental attack on Roe to a full-on assault, after attending a reunion with Thomas. We learn that every major aspect of Dobbs was preordained once Barrett replaced Ginsburg: Five Republican-appointed justices wanted to abolish the constitutional right to abortion; they disagreed exclusively over how it would look and how best to deceive and mollify the American public; they fretted about how fast they could rewrite the law without revealing the fundamentally partisan nature of their ruling.

It’s no accident that this week, too, that yet more blockbuster reporting from ProPublica revealed that the body built to police Supreme Court conduct, the Judicial Conference, has been the government equivalent of one of those inflatable air dancers that flops around outside a carwash. Faced with decades of evidence of ethics breaches by Thomas, the Judicial Conference has waved its inflatable arms around, flopped and flapped, accomplished nothing, and then covered it up. When billionaires and oligarchs seek to buy shares in a conservative justice, the only thing standing in their way is the same enterprise pointing you to the $4900 beige Ford Pinto.

So while there is a lot to say about the Times revelations, let’s be perfectly clear about this: Every aspect of Dobbs departed from the court’s norms and tradition. Granting certiorari because the composition of the court has changed; allowing a party to radically change its position after cert has been granted; pre-gaming opinion drafts so justices can sign off within minutes; refusing to change material errors in a leaked draft? It’s all legal! It’s all constitutional! It’s how the court rolls! And if any of this surprises or upsets you, be advised there’s nothing you can do about it.

We all read The Brethren. We aren’t children. We fully expect logrolling, horse-trading, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, and outcome-driven decision-making from justices, who attempt to hide from us the fact that they are mere politicians, they’re just poor. We are told by the Supreme Court’s defenders that no such thing as crass political maneuvering could ever happen at the sacred temple on One First Street. We are assured that the robed oracles merely read briefs, take votes, and render judgments in good-faith, largely as a result of the noise-canceling originalist headphones they wear once they are sworn into office. The New York Times piece is stunning and unsurprising: The only thing that is worth tracking is that this maneuvering is now so publicly known ,reported in the Times like the fundamentally political story that it so obviously is. The sources who leaked this information, possibly including a justice, evidently believed it was important for Americans to know what went down here.

With each new peek behind the curtain, this fantasy becomes more difficult to buy into, even for those desperate to believe. It turns out that the justices—at least five of them on the right—are functionally indistinguishable from cynical partisan lawmakers making deals in the Senate cloakroom. It turns out that abortion rights vanished in America because five conservatives barely tried to hide the fact that they could do that, simply because they could do that. And it turns out that they’re increasingly bad at covering their tracks.

#corrupt SCOTUS #Roe v Wade #Dobbs #reproductive rights #abortion rights #women's health care #Dahlia Lithwick #Mark Joseph Stern

[thesquirrelart]

Underused FC Challenge de @sweetieschallenge.

DAY 5 : Visible tattoo

#underusedfcchallenge #tasksweekly #joseph gilgun #sweetieschallenge #tattoos #my edits #avatar #preacher #preacher edit #preacher cast #misfits #rpg ressource #rpg resource #joe gilgun #cassidy #rudy wade

[index-wwe-gifs]

Wade has no chill😂

#index #indi hartwell #dexter lumis #vic joseph #wade barrett #wwe #nxt #wwe nxt

[rueluxprince]

19th-early 20th century lit

A stereotype:

American: I’m going to die for freedom.

English: I’m going to die for glory.

French: I’m going to die for love.

Russian: I’m going to die.

Japanese: I want to die.

Chinese: I’m going to live goddamn it.

#In order of call out #nathaniel hawthorne #joseph conrad #victor hugo #fyodor dostoevsky #dazai osamu #lu xun #hugo is a little bit early but hey I'm still gonna count him #the chinese really went on the bender there after they overthrew their monarchy #everything was shit #everything will be shit #but goddamn it they are going to continue wading through it because the mandate of heaven didn't raise a quitter #my thing

[miru-has-thoughts]

Wade doing Booker's improve 💀

And Vic saying Booker gonna sue for infringement 🤣

#wwe #wade barrett #vic joseph #nxt #nxt vengeance day

[rawsmackdownnxtdivas]

❤💛💙

#cathy kelley #kevin patrick #corey graves #mike rome #byron saxton #mckenzie mitchell #alicia taylor #vic joseph #booker t #samantha irvin #kayla braxton #megan morant #wade barrett #michael cole #wwe #raw #nxt #friday night smackdown

[claymorexpunisher]

#LOL #drew mcintyre #wade barrett #vic joseph

[duberyan]

I’m running to be on the cover of Inked Magazine this year. If you could please vote for me and share my Inked profile link , I’d really appreciate it . This would be an absolute dream of mine. Thank you ! 🙏🏻🖤

http://cover.inkedmag.com/2023/rachel-2

#piercings #me #tattoos #my tattoos #alternative #alt woman #blue eyes #tate langdon #evan peters #wade walker #johnny depp #crybaby #eddie munson #joseph quinn #stranger things #snaketattoos #inked and curvy #inked magazine

[burrowingdweller]

Been doing silly sketches from photos

#rudy wade #misfits #lockout #joe gilgun #joseph gilgun

[fulfillingbineeds]

Why in Misfits was there so much urinal gay framing?? All of them, might I add, was with Simon. Like, I can get it happening twice, but it happened FOUR times!

Honestly, slay. I don’t kink shame.

#misfits #simon 'piss kink' bellamy #Simon Bellamy #Nathan Young #Rudy Wade #Peter misfits #My posts #my thoughts #my gifs #Iwan Rheon #robert sheehan #Joseph Gilgun #Michael Marcus

[mrawkweird]

12/10 entrance.

#WWE #NXT #Giovanni Vinci #Wade Barrett #Vic Joseph

[aereth]

I love how Joe called out the US Supreme Court in that Esquire video with Jamie.

#joseph quinn #joe quinn #eddie munson #roe versus wade #womens rights #jamie campbell bower

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Iowa state Supreme Court has overruled a 2018 decision it previously made that deemed abortion rights protected under the state constitution.

The reason for the reversal, which was announced on Friday, appears to only have happened because four justices, nominated by anti-abortion Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), were placed on the state’s highest bench over the past five years. Six of the seven Justices overall were appointed by Republicans.

The ruling does not make abortion illegal in Iowa, as federal standards and other laws in the state remain in place. But it does remove the previously held recognition from the court that abortion is a fundamental right under the state constitution.

The ruling will likely allow for Republican lawmakers in Iowa to have the ability to place greater restrictions on the procedure in the near future, should the federal Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade later this summer.

“We don’t know yet what [Republicans will] propose, but previously-blocked laws [by state courts] have included a 72-hour waiting period and a ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill,” Des Moines Register politics reporter Katie Akin observed.

The 5-2 ruling examined a case involving a 24-hour waiting period to have an abortion, a law that Republicans passed in 2020. A lower court deemed that restriction unconstitutional. In reversing its 2018 ruling, the state Supreme Court sends the case back to the lower court to reconsider, based on the new precedent that says the state constitution doesn’t recognize and protect abortion rights.

Justice Edward Mansfield, writing the opinion for the court, said he and his like-minded colleagues “[rejected] the proposition that there is a fundamental right to an abortion in Iowa’s Constitution subjecting abortion regulation to strict scrutiny.” However, Mansfield said that the court would not produce any new guidelines for the time being, noting that the federal Supreme Court was set to rule on the issue itself.

Chief Justice Susan Christensen, who was also appointed by Gov. Reynolds, dissented from the ruling, stating that the majority overturned the court’s previous precedent at the first opportunity it had. The court was doing so too quickly, ignoring the standard of stare decisis — the idea of respecting previous precedents established by courts.

“Out of respect for stare decisis, I cannot join the majority’s decision to overrule” the previous precedent, Christensen wrote in her opinion.

The Chief Justice also recognized that the only reason for the reversal of the previous ruling was a change in its ideology. The ruling on Friday would make people question the legitimacy of the court, she added.

“This rather sudden change in a significant portion of our court’s composition is exactly the sort of situation that challenges so many of the values that stare decisis promotes concerning stability in the law, judicial restraint, the public’s faith in the judiciary, and the legitimacy of judicial review,” Christensen said.

“This is not to say that we may never overrule precedent that is clearly incorrect because we are worried about the public’s perception of our decision in relation to the change in our court’s makeup. … But we must only use this power when there is a ‘special justification’ over and above the belief ‘that the precedent was wrongly decided,’” Christensen wrote, quoting previous rulings that established how courts were meant to treat matters relating to stare decisis.

Critics blasted the court’s decision to overturn a precedent and the manner in which it was done.

“This decision was made possible by Gov. Kim Reynolds’ addition of Republican justices to the court — nothing more, nothing less,” wrote Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern.

“Today’s ruling is a step backwards for Iowa,” Democratic state Rep. Jennifer Konfrst said. “Like a large majority of Iowans, I believe in reproductive freedom. I will continue to fight like hell to ensure every family has access to safe, legal abortion.”

#us politics #news #2022 #2018 #iowa #ia #truthout #state supreme court #abortions #abortion bans #roe v. wade #Gov. Kim Reynolds #Des Moines Register #Katie Akin #Justice Edward Mansfield #Chief Justice Susan Christensen #slate #Mark Joseph Stern #Rep. Jennifer Konfrst