#violence washington

[intersectionalpraxis]

NUMEROUS injustices are continually being committed against Sudanese people. I implore you to stay informed about this. There are many resources people have shared on this platform -some I have re-posted and others I have personally uploaded. Please keep talking about Sudan. The RSF must be stopped, and the countries supporting this violence must also be held accountable.

This is also happening in a few weeks, so please spread the word/attend if you're able to. All out for Sudan:

#feminist #social justice #eyes on sudan #keep eyes on sudan #sudan genocide #sudan #sudan crisis #liberate sudan #free sudan #tw sex trafficking #khartoum #violence against women #telecommunications blackout #telecommunications #global news #current events #current news #human rights violations #washington #protest #all out for sudan

[contemplatingoutlander]

Apocalyptic rhetoric is just as dangerous as the violent kind

Paul Waldman is absolutely correct about how the Republican's "apocalyptic rhetoric" about the Democrats could ultimately lead to violence just as much as the violent rhetoric. The GOP frames Democrats now as deliberately wanting to "destroy" America. (Ironically, it is the GOP who have turned toward autocracy and seem determined on establishing one party rule at all costs. This suggests that once again, Republicans are projecting onto Democrats.)

“I cannot stand these people that are destroying our country,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to a crowd of Donald Trump’s supporters at the Iowa State Fair this past weekend while the former president looked on approvingly. Gaetz then added: “Only through force do we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington, D.C.” The second part of that statement made headlines, as it’s not every day that a member of Congress advocates “force” to achieve political goals. But the first part ought to be just as troubling, because the two parts operate together. The idea that our opponents are purposely attempting to lay waste to America is often the justification for all kinds of radical action — violence very much included. Barely a day goes by without prominent Republicans repeating that claim. Trump regularly says his political opponents will “destroy the country,” or have already nearly destroyed it. It’s a staple of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s rhetoric. “If woke ideology takes over, it will destroy this country,” DeSantis says. If President Biden is reelected, the governor insists, “the left is gonna absolutely destroy this country.” [...] Yes, liberals have made dire warnings about a second Trump presidency. But that’s unique to Trump, who actually tried to overturn a lawful election and retain power, and last year called for the “termination” of the Constitution. So the assertion that if he became president it could mean the end of democracy is at least not too far-fetched.* The talk of the United States ending its run some time in the next few years because Democrats passed some modest expansion of health coverage or kept pushing for a transition to green energy, on the other hand, is bonkers. Yet, unlike other kinds of rhetorical calls to extremism, we don’t police it at all. Journalists tend to be very attuned to hints of political violence. When a candidate says he wants to start “slitting throats” in the federal government, as DeSantis recently did, we condemn it and explore its troubling implications. We press Republican contenders to admit that Biden fairly won the 2020 election and to repudiate the violent insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. In contrast, we treat partisan apocalyptic rhetoric as mere hyperbole. But it’s the premise that turns anger into action. If you actually believed your opponents were literally trying to destroy your country, what wouldn’t be justified? Threatening election officials? Storming the Capitol? Assassinations? You might protest that Republican politicians don’t really believe this talk. But clearly, many of their supporters do. Which is no surprise given how often they’re told that it’s true. [...] Any rational Republican knows the truth about the next election: If Biden wins, it will mean nothing more than four years of policies they don’t like. That will be deeply unpleasant for them. But it won’t mean the end of America, and they shouldn’t be allowed to say so without challenge. We ought to treat apocalyptic rhetoric just like we treat violent rhetoric: Take note of it, condemn it, challenge candidates to defend it, and explain the threat it poses. Why? Because many of the voters who are listening think the Republicans spinning out wild tales of America’s imminent destruction mean what they say. [emphasis added]

____________ *In my opinion it isn't just Trump, many on the left have legitimate concerns about extreme right-wing Republicans like DeSantis and white Christian nationalists who seem to want autocracy/ one-party rule because they have either said and/or shown that they do.

#republicans #apocalyptic rhetoric #gop lies about democrats can indirectly lead to violence #donald trump #paul waldman #the washington post

[cinemagal]

QUENTIN TARANTINO RANKED: 8th - Django Unchained (2012)

#filmgifs #userfilm #moviegifs #filmedit #userstream #chewbacca #django unchained #samuel l jackson #jamie foxx #leonardo dicaprio #christoph waltz #kerry washington #violence #quentin tarantino #qtranked #remake #2010s #oscar winner #controversial take but dicaprio should have won best supporting NOT christoph #but academy knew dicaprio's first oscar couldn't be for 'supporting' #that's my theory anyway #fire #blood

[january-summers]

Whoops. Started thinking about Sarge's pre-sim-trooper-era ODST era and resulting PTSD and Wash's 7-9 years in the military pre-PFL and the idea of them having been on the same campaign but never having met during it but finding out later when they're both just needing a minute on a specific (memorial) day of that time when that campaign redefined "clusterfuck" in the dictionary to mean a whole new level of terrible, and them just sitting quietly (or not so quietly) maybe drinking a beer in a solidarity.

Getting their memories out in bits and pieces.

and now I'm sad about old, worn-down space marines who were forced to survive because they were too stubborn to die and found reasons to live in a bunch of reject soldiers.

#rvb #red vs blue #sarge rvb #agent washington #my feelings woke up and chose violence

[odinsblog]

Not that Republicans plan on funding mental health services anyway, but these last few civilian shootings have nothing to do with mental health. Somebody turned in a man’s driveway so he shot them. A Black child knocks on the wrong door, so the resident—who said that “seeing a Black person at his door scared him to death”—shot him! Teenage cheerleaders mistakenly get into the wrong car, he shoots them!

These are all boringly routine occurrences that happen every single day when you live in a society with other human beings.

The GOP and the NRA have cowardly gun nuts armed to the teeth and afraid of their own shadow.

Getting startled is not an excuse to murder someone.

Imagining the worst about a stranger isn’t an excuse to murder someone. Nobody is responsible for the fearful imaginations of trigger happy cowards.

These are cowards. Not “Patriots”. COWARDS. Cowards who love cosplaying that they’re living in some shoot ‘em up fantasy.

#politics #ralph yarl #guns #republicans #gun nuts #cowards #nra #kaylin gillis #payton washington #gun violence

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Crackpot barricades himself in a house and then fires 30-40 flares into the upscale neighborhood. Hours later the police arrive with a warrant and the man starts shooting at them with a gun. Moments later the large house spectacularly explodes. All four walls and roof disintegrate and are replaced with a massive fireball. Blast heard, seen, and felt 5 miles away in DC. Authorities do not know what was going on inside.

#gun crime #gun violence #shooting #explosion #home explosion #wtf #Washington DC #Arlington Virginia

[batwynn]

Throwback to the most piece of art I’ve ever made. Peaked at 7 years of age, and already pissing my teachers off.

George Washington Committing War Crimes With Multi Weapon Mace and Horse Pooping on the Dead.

#listen so my mom sat me down and explained some things about the All American History Propaganda they were teaching us so I took it and ran #george washington #American history #art #that horse is amazing ok #I think I was like 7? #anyway time to tw tag this #tw: colonialism #tw: violence #tw: death #tw: war crimes #tw: poop #I don’t know what else to tag but as always feel free to message me to add more #also his horse is shitting on the British soldiers who I thought all had those huge fuzzy hats #so that’s what was going on there on the dead guy under poop

[houseofpurplestars]

[Image id: descriptions provided by @ arixanxim:

Face Coverings Criminalized

Any items worn that cover most of the face are now criminalized, with detention or arrest as the penalty. This includes, but is not limited to hoodies, bandanas, and hijabs. The police will be the sole deciders of which face coverings are allowable.

Fear is Now Cause for Arrest

Anyone wearing any item that covers most of the face who “causes” another person to feel “afraid” can now be arrested regardless of the persons actions.

Gatherings of 2+ People Criminalized

The police can now designate any neighborhood as high-risk, allowing them to arrest innocent people for gathering in groups of 2 or more. If police suspect they might commit a crime, they can be fined or imprisoned.

Active Duty Status of Officers is Now Secret

The public will no longer be able to know if an officer who was found to have engaged in misconduct is still on active duty or not.

Killing Car Chase Suspect Now Legal

Police can now kill suspects during car chases, a practice that is currently banned. The police will become the sole decision-maker about life or death — regardless of guilt or innocence.

“Show Your Papers” Metro Law

The police will now be able to immediately arrest anyone suspected of misconduct while riding the metro who refuses to share their name and home address. For instance if a plainclothes officer demanded your address on the Metro, not telling then could now lead to arrest.

Body Camera Restrictions Removed

The plan will overturn current policy that prohibits the police from viewing their own body camera footage before they write statements. This has nothing to do with lowering the crime rate.

Discarding a Gun Will Become a Crime

You illegally possess a gun, which is already a crime, the moment that you drop the gun or put the bullets down, you’ve committed two more additional crimes! So if you keep holding the gun you’ll get shot by the police and if you drop the gun you’re now getting a longer sentence. /end id]

#us politics #washington dc #stop cop city #colonialism #police violence #racism

[2bpoliticallycurious]

Another excellent critique by Ruth Marcus of the Supreme Court’s originalist madness when it comes to guns. She notes a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision that overturned the Federal government’s charges of illegal gun ownership of Zackey Rahimi, a man who was involved in “five shootings” in Texas, and who had a restraining order issued after reportedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend. 

Judge Cory T. Wilson, of the Fifth Circuit Court wrote:

“Rahimi, while hardly a model citizen, is nonetheless part of the political community entitled to the Second Amendment’s guarantees, all other things equal.”  [emphasis added]

 Here are some other excerpts from Marcus’ column:

This is the insane state of Second Amendment law in the chaotic aftermath of Bruen. The problem isn’t that decision’s precise outcome, striking down New York state’s gun licensing law because it required a showing of “special need for self-protection” to obtain a concealed carry permit.

The problem is that in doing so, the six-justice conservative majority imposed a history-based test — a straitjacket, really — for assessing the constitutionality of gun laws. No longer can judges decide whether restrictions are a reasonable means to protect public safety.

Instead, they have to hunt down obscure, colonial-era statutes to determine if there are counterparts to modern rules. So it’s little surprise that conservative judges in the lower courts are now busy declaring all sorts of perfectly sensible gun laws unconstitutional. [...] As to historical analogues, [Judge] Wilson acknowledged that there were “laws in several colonies and states that disarmed classes of people considered to be dangerous, specifically including those unwilling to take an oath of allegiance, slaves, and Native Americans.”

But, he said, despite some “facial similarities” with laws disarming domestic abusers, “the purpose of these ‘dangerousness’ laws was the preservation of political and social order, not the protection of an identified person from the specific threat posed by another.”

As Pepperdine law professor Jacob Charles pointed out on Twitter, this criticism is “absolutely bonkers” — it faults the domestic abuse law for being “too tailored.” The law applies to those who have been determined, after a court hearing, to present a “credible threat to the physical safety” of an intimate partner or child.

All of which serves to underscore the real difficulty with the Supreme Court’s history fetish: As Bruen itself demonstrated, the matter of what historical examples to accept and what to reject is open to manipulation by judges predisposed to strike down gun laws.

And it poses a dilemma for the conservative justices, who are about to find this issue back in their laps. Are they going to instruct lower courts they have gone too far, or are they going to let it rip, while bullets fly and judges scour statutes from the age of muskets?

[emphasis added]

A dystopian America will be the legacy of the far right justices now sitting in majority on the Supreme Court--as well as the legacy of Trump, McConnell and the GQP senators who appointed them.

#gun culture #gop #fifth circuit court of appeals #gun ownership and domestic violence #scotus #second amendment #originalism #ruth marcus #the washington post

[coochiequeens]

Within one week two women in two different countries were attacked by men and the gender cult.

A woman who was assaulted by a trans-identified male during a demonstration in Tacoma, Washington, was instructed by his legal representative to refer to him with feminine pronouns during court proceedings.

April Morrow was left injured after a trans-identified male “crushed” her hand in a bid to stop her from recording video on her phone during a women’s rights rally in October 26, 2022. Morrow is a women’s rights campaigner and the founder of Sovereign Women Speak, a grassroots organization that aims to “build resistance to a culture which conflates gender and sex,” and had attended the rally in support of women who wanted to voice their opposition to gender ideology. 

The event was one of several that had been organized as part of a US tour featuring British women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen. Keen is known for having founded Standing for Women to raise awareness of issues surrounding sex self-identification policies.

Morrow and other women had gathered at Tacoma’s Tollefsen Plaza for a peaceful demonstration, but were quickly met with violent behavior from trans activists who showed up to counterprotest.

While the female demonstrators held signs which listed slogans such as “Woman: Adult Human Female” and “Girls’ Privacy is Not Yours to Give Away,” counter protesters arrived prepared with brass knuckles, face masks to obscure their identity, and aggressive signage. Some were students from the local high school, Tacoma School of the Arts, which was located nearby. 

The trans activist group quickly outnumbered and surrounded the women in the plaza, removing signs that had been posted by the women’s rights collective in the vicinity. As tensions escalated, some of the trans rights activists were recorded attempting to spit on the women’s rights activists……..

She was then assaulted by Elijah Lane, 27, who attempted to wrestle her phone from her hand. The assault was captured on video during the event’s live-streamed broadcast, and Morrow can be heard screaming over the protesters’ chants…..

“I just found out the man who assaulted me is claiming he is a woman,” Morrow wrote. “I just left the courtroom shaking and holding back tears of fury. The prosecuting attorney referred to Elijah Lane as a ‘she’ and said ‘she’ has requested we use ‘her’ pronouns.”

See rest of article

A British women’s rights campaigner was forced to cut her New Zealand tour short after being met with extreme aggression at her first stop in Auckland. Kellie-Jay Keen, also known by her moniker Posie Parker, had to be escorted out of the Albert Park area by police before her event was even able to kick off.

Keen was set to host a pro-women’s rights rally with the intention of allowing women to voice their concerns about gender ideology. But the decision to cancel her New Zealand tour was made after a mob of trans activists broke through the barriers at her event in Auckland and directed aggression towards the women gathering to speak on their rights.

During the altercation, Keen and her security staff were assaulted by trans activists. Reports have also been made that an elderly woman attending the event in support of Keen was also subject to physical abuse, but those claims are as-of-yet unconfirmed.

see rest of article

#Male violence #USA #washington #tacoma #april morrow was assaulted by a man #Sovereign Women Speak #Standing for Women #Elijah Lane is a man #Elijah Lane assaulted a woman #New Zealand #Albert Park #the trans cult and censorship #Let Women Speak

[barefootbaltimore]

One of these things is not like the other.

#Palestine #Washington dc protest #free palestine #anti zionisim #literally so many of the folks there were jewish and there was No violence #antizionism is not antisemitism

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“SEVERAL HURT AT WASHINGTON,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 6, 1933. Page 9. ---- Police Broke Up Unemployment Demonstration - Little Damage ---- WASHINGTON, Marc 6. - Several persons were injured today in fighting between police and unemployed at Twelfth and P. Street when officers broke up a demonstration.

The disturbance arose after the demonstrators had marched from a hall on Eleventh Street with the announced intention of going to the district building to demand more unemployment relief and equality between whites and negroes.

#washington dc #unemployed #unemployed demonstration #unemployed demands #unemployed workers #unemployment relief #racial equality #political protest #police violence #law and order politics #the great depression

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

11/03/2024

Jurassic Park is a 1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton.

Spielberg purchased the rights to the book before it was published in 1990, and Crichton was hired to create a film adaptation. David Koepp wrote the final screenplay, in which many of the violent features of the book and much of the narrative part were lost, also making numerous changes to the characters. Spielberg hired Stan Winston Studios to create the animatronic subjects that would bring the dinosaurs to the screen to interact with Industrial Light & Magic's nascent computer-generated imagery technique. If Tron was the first Disney film to use the then newborn computer graphics, Jurassic Park is considered the first big budget film to make use of CGI.

Paleontologist Jack Horner helped the authors and the team responsible for the special effects to make what they were working with as truthful as possible (although the whole appearance of the dinosaurs turns out to be partly wrong due to subsequent changes in evolutionary theories, in particular way in Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus). Filming lasted from August 24 to November 30, 1992 on the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu, California, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.

Jurassic Park premiered on June 9, 1993 in Washington, and was released on June 11 in the United States. The film was a huge success with audiences: against a budget of $63 million, it grossed over $914 million worldwide in its first theatrical release, surpassing E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of Titanic in 1997.

#jurassic park #film #1993 #steven spielberg #michael crichton #Film adaptation #david koepp #violence #stan winston #animatronics #dinosaur #Computer generated imagery #Industrial Light & Magic #tron #the walt disney company #paleontology #jack horner #Special effect #velociraptor #dilophosaurus #hawaii #kauai #oahu #california #costa rica #dominican republic #washington dc #blockbuster #film distribution #e.t. the extra terrestrial

[profeminist]

"Powerful photograph of Fredi Washington wearing an Anti-Lynching Armband. She was a Civil Rights Activist and co-founded the Negro Actors Guild of America (NAG), with Noble Sissle, W. C. Handy, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters."

Source: Old Black Hollywood

#fredi washington #black women #anti lynching #lynching #racism #racist #racial oppression #racist violence #civil rights #activism #black activist

[cabbxges-and-kings]

I heard you guys like imagines 🥰

Part 2

A collaborative post from a dm convo between @honorhearted ​and I. Not all of these were made up by myself.

#turn amc #turn washingtons spies #caleb brewster #abraham woodhull #abe woodhull #edmund hewlett #robert rogers #john graves simcoe #( crack ) #( saved ) #medical mention tw #medical tw #noose cw #violence mention tw #food mention tw #// suggestive #murder mention tw #smoking cw #( ask to tag ) #benjamin tallmadge #period drama edit #period drama

[ryanthedemiboy]

In the article from the Washington Blade, a famously pro-queer news outlet, repeatedly he/him'd a nonbinary/2S teen about aforementioned teen.

I guess I could be misinformed, but I thought the kid was they/them.

#they say it's a suicide but frankly even if they technically killed themself it's the fault of those who assaulted them #if it was suicide this assault was the last straw #at the very least now they're not suffering #gods. #washington post get your shit together #fuck. #i hope the assaulters feel horrible about it for the rest of their lives. #irl death / #suicide / #child death #child abuse #violence /