#u.s. imports

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

there's just... there is no reason to make yet another cop show in this day and age. copaganda is not only bullshit, it is a failure of imagination.

you want to watch brooding characters with dark pasts investigate crimes in an official capacity? just use private detectives (cops have a miserable solve rate anyway). want eccentric geniuses & their sidekicks solving mysteries? i present you with armchair detectives & neighborhood busybodies. oh, you're craving a workplace comedy-drama starring overworked protagonists doing their heartfelt best to resolve community conflicts? social worker office sitcom! bitch this is ACHIEVABLE

#i lied the one reason to make a cop show is you want a mafia show and the cops are currently by far the most powerful u.s. mafia #BUT! i cannot emphasize enough: the police have none of the aesthetics or personality of the actual mafia so why even bother #The Sopranos but in an office setting with buzzing fluorescent lighting? and half your co-workers are weekend neo-nazis? come on #no. just no #from now on i want all tv cops to be villainous side characters #but BORING villainous side characters #i like villains as much as the next queer audience member but i cannot overstate the importance of portraying cops as not just bastards #but BORING bastards #they are so boring. they are boring and hateful and also neither particularly smart nor interesting #i need to emphasize: there is NOTHING to romanticize there #i am so passionate and supportive of anti-romanticizing cops. ANTI-ROMANTICIZE THE POLICE. #the police are BORING and HATEFUL and CRUEL and BASIC AS HELL #and we should be pointing that out publicly every chance we get #the police are BORING BASIC BITCHES and mocking them publically is a patriotic service

[beardeddetectivepaper]

So, this is the Jordanian Hospital in Gaza and today is Friday, and I'm sick.

I can't walk, like, I took maybe three pills of different painkillers just to walk from Nasser Hospital- they don't have any medicine- to the Jordanian Hospital. I have a stomach ache, I threw up, I have an ache in my back and my leg - And they told me at the hospital that today is a vacation, it's a break.

So, now allow me to ask a question; Why is there a Jordanian Hospital when they are not dealing with any injuries? They are just dealing with some diseases, acting like a pharmacy, or a very tiny medical center, not working on Friday, so What am I going to do? And what are they doing here?

They put a table at the entrance and prevent people from entering the place. Just say it: It's a pharmacy, not a hospital.

You are not dealing with anything, any emergency, and now, I have a stomach ache, I can't eat anything, I just throw up everything and I have severe pain in my back, in my leg and I don't have painkillers- I don't have any medicine.

Thank you, thanks Jordan. Thanks, Arabs, Thanks World.

#palestine #free palestine #israel #current events #gaza #free gaza #important #israel terrorism #gaza strip #stop israel #palestinian genocide #justice for palestine #save palestine #wizard bisan #gazaunderfire #gaza under attack #gazaunderattack #gaza genocide #u.s #Instagram

[ausetkmt]

Black women have made important contributions to the United States throughout its history. However, they are not always recognized for their efforts, with some remaining anonymous and others becoming famous for their achievements. In the face of gender and racial bias, Black women have broken barriers, challenged the status quo, and fought for equal rights for all. The accomplishments of Black female historical figures in politics, science, the arts, and more continue to impact society.

Marian Anderson (Feb. 27, 1897–April 8, 1993)

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Contralto Marian Anderson is considered one of the most important singers of the 20th century. Known for her impressive three-octave vocal range, she performed widely in the U.S. and Europe, beginning in the 1920s. She was invited to perform at the White House for President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1936, the first African American so honored. Three years later, after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Anderson to sing at a Washington, D.C. gathering, the Roosevelts invited her to perform on the steps of the Lincon Memorial.

Anderson continued to sing professionally until the 1960s when she became involved in politics and civil rights issues. Among her many honors, Anderson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.

Mary McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875–May 18, 1955)

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Mary McLeod Bethune was an African American educator and civil rights leader best known for her work co-founding the Bethune-Cookman University in Florida. Born into a sharecropping family in South Carolina, the young Bethune had a zest for learning from her earliest days. After stints teaching in Georgia, she and her husband moved to Florida and eventually settled in Jacksonville. There, she founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute in 1904 to provide education for Black girls. It merged with the Cookman Institute for Men in 1923, and Bethune served as president for the next two decades.

A passionate philanthropist, Bethune also led civil rights organizations and advised Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Roosevelt on African American issues. In addition, President Harry Truman invited her to attend the founding convention of the United Nations; she was the only African American delegate to attend.

Shirley Chisholm (Nov. 30, 1924–Jan. 1, 2005)

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Shirley Chisholm is best known for her 1972 bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination; she was the first Black woman to make this attempt in a major political party. However, she had been active in state and national politics for more than a decade and had represented parts of Brooklyn in the New York State Assembly from 1965 to 1968. She became the first Black woman to serve in Congress in 1968. During her tenure, she co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus. Chisholm left Washington in 1983 and devoted the rest of her life to civil rights and women's issues.

Althea Gibson (Aug. 25, 1927–Sept. 28, 2003)

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Althea Gibson started playing tennis as a child in New York City, winning her first tennis tournament at age 15. She dominated the American Tennis Association circuit, reserved for Black players, for more than a decade. In 1950, Gibson broke the tennis color barrier at Forest Hills Country Club (site of the U.S. Open); the following year, she became the first African American to play at Wimbledon in Great Britain. Gibson continued to excel at the sport, winning both amateur and professional titles through the early 1960s.

Dorothy Height (March 24, 1912–April 20, 2010)

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Dorothy Height has been described as the godmother of the women's movement because of her work for gender equality. For four decades, she led the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW )and was a leading figure in the 1963 March on Washington. Height began her career as an educator in New York City, where her work caught the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt. Beginning in 1957, she led the NCNW and also advised the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.

Rosa Parks (Feb. 4, 1913–Oct. 24, 2005)

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Rosa Parks became active in the Alabama civil rights movement after marrying activist Raymond Parks in 1932. She joined the Montgomery, Alabama, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1943 and was involved in much of the planning that went into the famous bus boycott that began the following decade. Parks is best known for her December 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White rider. That incident sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, which eventually desegregated that city's public transit. Parks and her family moved to Detroit in 1957, and she remained active in civil rights until her death.

Augusta Savage (Feb. 29, 1892–March 26, 1962)

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Augusta Savage displayed an artistic aptitude from her youngest days. Encouraged to develop her talent, she enrolled in New York City's Cooper Union to study art. She earned her first commission, a sculpture of civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois, from the New York library system in 1921, and several other commissions followed. Despite meager resources, she continued working through the Great Depression, making sculptures of several notable Black people, including Frederick Douglass and W. C. Handy. Her best-known work, "The Harp," was featured at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, but it was destroyed after the fair ended.

Harriet Tubman (1822–March 20, 1913)

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Enslaved from birth in Maryland, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in 1849. The year after she arrived in Philadelphia, Tubman returned to Maryland to free her family members. Over the next 12 years, she returned nearly 20 times, helping more than 300 enslaved Black people escape bondage by ushering them along the Underground Railroad. The "railroad" was the nickname for a secret route that enslaved Black people used to flee the South for anti-slavery states in the North and to Canada. During the Civil War, Tubman worked as a nurse, a scout, and a spy for Union forces. After the war, she worked to establish schools for formerly enslaved people in South Carolina. In her later years, Tubman also became involved in women's rights causes.

Phillis Wheatley (May 8, 1753–Dec. 5, 1784)

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Born in Africa, Phillis Wheatley came to the U.S. at age 8, when she was captured and sold into enslavement. John Wheatley, the Boston man who enslaved her, was impressed by Phillis' intellect and interest in learning, and he and his wife taught her to read and write. The Wheatleys allowed Phillis time to pursue her studies, which led her to develop an interest in poetry writing. A poem she published in 1767 earned her much acclaim. Six years later, her first volume of poems was published in London, and she became known in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom. The Revolutionary War disrupted Wheatley's writing, however, and she was not widely published after it ended.

Charlotte Ray (Jan. 13, 1850–Jan. 4, 1911)

Charlotte Ray has the distinction of being the first African American woman lawyer in the United States and the first woman admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia. Her father, active in New York City's Black community, made sure his young daughter was well educated; she received her law degree from Howard University in 1872 and was admitted to the Washington, D.C., bar shortly afterward. Both her race and gender proved to be obstacles in her professional career, and she eventually became a teacher in New York City instead. 

#10 of the Most Important Black Women in U.S. History #Black Women #Black Women Matter #Black Lives Matter #us history

[ermesskiss]

IMPORTANT - please reblog

The U.S. senate is conducting an outreach survey about pressing issues including ceasefire in gaza and funding for 🇮🇱

Please take time to fill out the survey and spread especially if you’re living in the U.S.

note: (what is above was copied and pasted from this twt post)

something else, these questions are set up to be intentionally bias (you can see in the photo above) so please answer thoroughly and correctly!!

i don't trust the U.S government but taking this survey will give Congress an insight on peoples views on these events. As long as people are choosing the options that are opposed of being pro-Israel or bigoted i think it'll be fine (in theory)

here are two questions that are very misleading

as you can see they are trying to paint china's government and immigrants in a bad picture, hopefully anyone who is reading this understands that

1) the U.S government is using China's government in a way to look like they steal Americans information but in reality they don't care about our privacy. if they did, Mark Zuckerberg (owner of Facebook) wouldn't have several cases of taking peoples data and selling it

also that banning TikTok is not because of peoples information, it's about the fact that U.S citizens have an easier access to learn things that the Government doesn't want them to know and spread (e.g. Israel colonizing and commiting genocide on the people of Palestine) there is even a video of a government official talking about this (if I can find it I'll come back and link it here)

2) calling immigrants violent (probably referring to middle eastern ppl and muslims) is a way to convince people to deport them, obviously being xenophobic, and other stuff

if you can understand that these questions are bigoted and quite loaded it should be easy to understand which option is morally right.

at the end of the survey they will ask you what topics you care about and what Congress should focus on. don't leave it empty.

say something like:

• call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza

• stop the funding of the illegal occupation of Israel

• hold big tech American companies accountable for using unethical Congon cobalt to make electronic devices

• literally anything important

putting one of these in the box before submitting will highlight that people want the government to call for a permanent cease fire and to stop funding Israel and etc.

sorry, this was a lot, I didn't plan to write this much out but I thought it was important to add additional information to inform people about the situation. hopefully this made sense!!!

#gaza #free palestine #Palestine #free Gaza #world events #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #u.s politics #u.s government #U.S senate survey #★ important

[kisstytea]

!! ABORTION RIGHTS MAY BE ABLE TO BE RESTORED IN MISSOURI !!

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND IT WOULD BE A HUGE WIN

IF YOU LIVE IN MISSOURI AND THIS DOES IN FACT HAPPEN, MAKE SURE YOU VOTE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS

YOU should be able to decide when you want a child, NOT your state government.

#missouri #abortion #abortion rights #abortion is not a crime #pro choice #actually important #u.s. politics #reproductive freedom

[bunnymajo]

Hey Bunny! I was wondering; Do you have any idea if the novel for "Ocean Waves" is one to one with the Ghibli film version of it? I recently watched a video about the unintended queer subtext between Taku and Yutaka and I was wondering whether this was something that wasn't in the light novel and added by Ghibli, or if it had more focus in the Light Novel which was downplayed in the Ghibli movie (like how so many 70s shoujo had to basically pull a no homo in the final chapter)

I don't unfortunately (I was hoping those scans I did years ago would peak someone's interest enough into translating it, but I don't think it did as far as I know) if there is a translation for the novel out there I'd love to read it.

The love triangle is still present in the novel from what I can tell looking at Japanese wikipedia so it's very possible it could be one or the other. I'm looking at the author's (Saeko Himuro) body of work and it looks like she's famous for writing dramas aimed at girls/women and mentions Moto Haigo as one of her inspirations. Just from that I'm willing to bet that the novel has more subtext between Taku & Yutaka than the ghibli film lets on haha

Pretty sure I know the video you're talking about, definitely my favorite video regarding Ocean Waves!

#with all the Japanese light novels that have been getting translated in the U.S. recently- #-I'm surprised no one's taken on the task of importing more books that inspired ghibli works #then again Ocean Waves isn't exactly a very famous movie even among ghibli buffs #anyway #sorry i couldn't be more help #thefloatingstone

[mariannewilliamson1]

TikTok LIVE Q&A with Democratic Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson

#marianne williamson #2024 presidential election #2024 presidential race #vote #voting is important #know who is running #u.s president #usa #world issues #gaza #housing issues #lgbt #lgbtq+ #immigration #healthcare #tiktok #climate change #economy #roe v wade #palestine #Youtube #transgender #fight transgender hate

[adorabubblesblog]

#important #please boost #signal boost #news #Palestinian news #american news #save palestine #palestine #gaza #gazaunderattack #u.s. #resolution

[hopeymchope]

Yeah Republicans came up with this idea in response to the “stolen” election from 2020, You know — “The Big Lie” that has literally no evidence behind it and which ahs been laughed out of every court in the nation for not having a single basis in reality?

They claimed that this plan would help them “prevent another stolen election.” But of course, the election was never stolen. What they mean is that they will use this to prevent ever losing an election.

We already know that most of the conservative justices on the court have spoken or written in favor of ISLT. The only one who hasn’t already established her opinion of this on the record is Amy Coney Barrett, and she’s more than extreme enough for most people to assume she’s in favor. In other words: This is basically a done deal. The decision of the court is plainly obvious, and it will signal the end of America as a democracy forever.

...unless someone can do something to stop them/change the makeup of the court before the decision comes down, of course.

Biden either needs to pack the court ASAP, or make certain multiple sitting judges are prosecuted/impeached.

#american #united states #important #u.s. supreme court #supreme court #scotus #supreme court of the united states #doom #well i guess it was semi-nice while it lasted #america

[vonkarmic]

this is a fine post but i want to know where this person got this number? 15 hours is about the time it takes to travel from nyc to charleston (about a quarter of the distance to la). potentially if we had higher quality rail this speed would be possible but with the state of trains in the u.s the fastest this trip could be is 18 hours. and even then the trains that reach that speed have a limited range rn

#also i think some ppl are overestimating the pleasantness of amtrak trips after a certain point #i think advocating for improved public transit in the u.s is super important but as someone from the southeast we need to be realistic #anyways. sorry for being pedantic. it will probably happen again #tea.txt

[sinigangsta-ao3]

as the election cycle in the u.s. draws nearer, i might find myself peeling away from fandom spaces (especially on the former bird app) bc i really don’t wanna deal with any half-baked takes on the current state of global affairs…

but i’m just sharing this here for anyone who might find this helpful. it’s an old article from 2018 about low voter turnout during midterm elections and increasingly low voter turnout in general (particularly within left-leaning, poor, young, hispanic/latine & asian american communities). but the sentiment still remains:

if you are eligible and have access, please 👏🏼 fucking 👏🏼 vote

the choices this year (especially for the presidential candidates) aren’t ideal. the system is flawed (and racist and inequitable by design). and monumental positions and policies have been enacted by margins of difference due to low voter turnout.

voter suppression is very real. not too long ago, people who identified like i did (and people who had even fewer privileges than me) would never have been allowed to have their voices heard. we have that option now.

and while the tools presented to us aren’t the ideal tools to get the job done, it would be irresponsible for us not to use them while we are also constantly reimagining and finding ways to reform the government and the systems that are supposed to serve us.

again: i’m not telling you how to vote. i’m not telling you what to vote for. i’m just imploring you to please consider not throwing away this right that so many have fought and died for—and consider how you can repurpose it this election season in a way that can start the (extremely) slow and incremental move toward collective good.

#sorry to get political #but this is just too fucking important #u.s. politics

[beardeddetectivepaper]

#palestine #free gaza #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #israel #current events #important #israel terrorism #stop israel #u.s #america #united states #white house #justice fot palistinians #justice for palestinians #justice for palestine #save palestine #the gaza strip #gaza genocide #Instagram

[fandom-hoarder]

So... a PUBLIC LIBRARY in Michigan has been defunded by its city's voters. Because a single LGBT graphic novel titled "Gender Queer" was found in the library. In the adult section, mind you, and they even tried moving it to behind the counter like fucking pornography after the first backlash, but that wasn't enough for these fucking assholes.

#u.s. politics #u.s. bullshit #anti purity culture #THIS IS WHAT PURITY CULTURE BEGETS!!!! #libraries are so important

[lenniershairlessredacted]

there's really nothing like having your <1yr old phone suddenly die dramatically from a motherboard defect while you're overseas without a u.s. phone number and trying to migrate accounts from your dead phone to a new one to make you fully comprehend just how stupid and unsafe the no-really-we-need-to-tie-your-entire-identity-to-your-phone-number 2fa implementation used by EVERY COMPANY EVERYWHERE NOW is

#I have the vital stuff figured out but it took ALL DAY and I am more diligent than most about trying to link things to email #technical difficulties #one of the most important features that narrowed down my new phone search was esim capability #because apparently that's what I need to set up to have constant access to a u.s. number for my bank et al. #SO. DUMB. this wasn't a problem 8 years ago

[rotzaprachim]

Im rewatching Nimona with my mother and just. Can’t get over what a goddamned political (in a good way!) movie it is

#You know that really excellent video essay about the importation of Anglo U.S. immigration policy and criminalization into coco? #Nimona is like…. The exact opposite #The world is full of modern or futuristic trappings of a police state and it KNOWS the problem in fact those #Are all part of the movies Problem! #But yeah the shot of ballister’s Special Model Minority knight poster being painted over now he’s not the special little Good Commoner #The way that monster killing rhetoric is a part of kids games and the advertisements for breakfast cereal #The see something say something and the posters on the tube #Like it’s actually genuinely all There in canon

[deadsince1973]

I've just finished episode 5 of Vivant, and I have to say, I really love and appreciate the mix of languages on this show. You just KNOW that if this show were American, all the "Balkan"/Mongolian characters would be speaking English with a foreign accent for the convenience of the audience. So I absolutely love this show's choice to have huge chunks of the show's dialogue delivered in Mongolian, including lines by the Japanese main characters, and to simply subtitle it in Japanese. No handwaving about how the main characters' foreign contacts just happen to speak Japanese with no expectation that the main characters might also speak Mongolian. No, instead, all the main characters speak Mongolian and English (and Arabic maybe, in Nogi's case?) in addition to Japanese, none of the Americans speak Japanese, only the Balkan/Mongolian characters for whom it makes sense that they would speak Japanese speak Japanese, and the language of the scene is chosen based on what language would most likely be used in that situation in real life. Convenience for the audience is simply not a consideration. And I love it!

#Vivant #original #P.S. Do not watch this show if you can't speak at least some Japanese. The English subtitles are machine-translated and they are IMPOSSIBLE #to understand! And they don't even translate the parts that are subtitled in Japanese so if you can't read the Japanese subtitles you'll #miss like 20% of the story! Not that my Japanese is good enough to understand every word or anything but I can at least get the gist. And #the horrible subtitles are at least able to supply some important words I otherwise wouldn't know. #Anyway. I wish Japanese dramas were more popular in the U.S. so we could get more of them available with English subtitles! #Good professional English subtitles I mean. #As it is I think it's pretty much just whatever Netflix produces in-house and whatever Viki has isn't it? And Viki seems to have their #biggest focus on Korean dramas. I mean they do have dramas from a lot of Asian countries and they have subtitles available in a lot of #languages and that they have that learning mode that lets you watch a show with native-language subtitles with a built-in dictionary which #is awesome. But I am not at this point in my life interested in dramas that don't come from China or Japan so I wish it was easier to watch #Japanese TV in America!