Big Miss Sunbeam

[liberalsarecool]

Use tax dollars to feed children/students who, by law, have to attend schools.

[soberscientistlife]

[liberalsarecool]

America lifted all boats with high tax rates and investment in infrastructure/education.

Look at the 40s, 50s, 60s,and 70s.

Tax policy created/expanded the middle class.

[la-laborista-republiko]

[quinn-vica-deactivated20201222]

[ivanpahdrylakeracer]

keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

[fangirlofall]

Y’all IK we won the senate and it’s definitely important to celebrate, but if you’re in Georgia please, please, please vote in the runoff on December 6.

If we can get 51 instead of an exact tie it will give us a little wiggle room. For the past two years, a lot of the improvements Biden has attempted to make haven’t made it passed the Senate because one or two Democrats voted no and that was all it took; if we can get Georgia too, one Democrat can vote no and the legislation will still pass. The more seats we have the better chance we have for serious, meaningful change.

Please vote December 6th.

[ms-cellanies]

World is on ‘highway to climate hell’, UN chief warns at Cop27 summit

António Guterres tells leaders ‘global climate fight will be won or lost in this crucial decade – on our watch’

From the article:

António Guterres told world leaders at the opening of the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt on Monday: “We are in the fight of our lives and we are losing … And our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.”

[liberalsarecool]

The system is rigged. The advantages for the wealthy are immediate and endless.

[quasi-normalcy]

I don’t know, I still think that everyone involved in suppressing climate research at Exxon and the like should be mercilessly butchered by an angry mob.

[quasi-normalcy]

Like I don’t know; I can’t help but think that the fact that they may have doomed entire ecosystems and billions of people to unimaginable suffering for their own insatiable greed and their heads *aren’t* stuck on pikes for ravens to feast upon is reflective of a fundamental lack of justice in the universe.

[quasi-normalcy]

#like  retributive justice is rarely productive but on the other hand Gods  would it be satisfying for them to face consequences for once

This. Exactly this.

[amisssunbeam]

A modest tribute to David Warner via TNG and a snark recap of episode 136.

136. Chain of Command, pt. II. In the continuation, Jean-Luc plays Leonardo diCaprio to David Warner's (reg. TM) David-Warner-Character, i.e., David Warner ties Jean-Luc's hands above his head and then threatens him. Still, I like David Warner, and then there's a happy ending! Worm-eating alert! Man, Jean-Luc is STARVED! (Actually, this is a very disturbing episode all about man's indomitable spirit, but mostly our attention is drawn to JLP's naked body, so, under the circumstances, man's indomitable spirit pretty much flies out the window.) Oh, by the way, something about acting with his fellow British hams brings out the fighting best in King P of Stewartville. Maybe it's that competitive thing he sure has got going on. What must it have been like to be all that talented in the nineteen-sixties, yeah, bay-beee, back in the middle of the British Invasion!!! And yet to lack that one overwhelmingly alluring trademark Brit thing: HAIR. PS kicks out the jams here with David Warner – also from the north of England – just as he did back with Jeremy Kemp in ep. 75, “Family”, but nothing compares to his work with fellow Yorkshireman Malcolm McDowell in the movie 'Generations". When Jean-Luc refuses to give Dr. Soran a rocketship, and Soran starts burbling on about time is the fire in which we burn bla bla bla, look at Our Man's face and think about what he's thinking about. Rene. Robert. His face grows paler and more frightened, and he can barely breathe from the grief; then, when Soran finishes nattering, JLP says, "I'll see what I can do," in a strangled emotional voice and basically TAKES NO PRISONERS, ACTING-WISE. Does anyone besides me remember when David Warner and Malcolm McDowell were VERY important British actors? "I'll moptop ye, Ringo-fookin-Starr!"

#ST:TNG #David Warner

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

  Maybe you’re young, and you think this doesn’t affect you. But, it will affect your parents, or your grandparents.   And, remember, if Republicans kill these programs, the dollars you pay in – that are/have been withheld from your paycheck – you will never get back.

[amisssunbeam]

yikes!

[politishaun-deactivated20230409]

The 5 events that led to the demise of Roe v. Wade

As Roe v. Wade is overturned, many Americans will ask, "How did this happen?” These five turning points represent a good place to start.

1. The 2016 blockade. Circling back to our earlier coverage, it was in February 2016 when then-Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly. Then-President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a center-left, compromise jurist — who’d received praise from Senate Republicans — to fill the vacancy. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and his conference instead decided to impose an unprecedented high-court blockade for nearly a year, hoping that Americans might elect a Republican president and Republican Congress despite the GOP’s abusive tactics. It worked: McConnell effectively stole a Supreme Court seat from one administration and handed it to another.

2. Trump was elected in 2016. With the Supreme Court even divided, with four justices on the right and four justices on the left, Democrats tried to tell voters the 2016 election was a historic, once-in-a-generation opportunity to stop the high court’s drift to the right. Just enough Americans voted for Donald Trump anyway, helping set the stage for today’s ruling.

3. Changing the rules for Gorsuch. As of early 2017, Senate rules still permitted filibusters for Supreme Court nominees. Given the GOP’s 2016 blockade, Senate Democrats weren’t about to treat Neil Gorsuch’s nomination as a routine matter. Senate Republicans responded by executing the so-called “nuclear option” and confirming the conservative jurist anyway.

4. From Kennedy to Kavanaugh. Justice Anthony Kennedy, ignoring concerns about Trump’s corruption and radicalism, retired and gave the incumbent president another opportunity to fill a high court vacancy. Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh, who faced fairly broad public opposition and bipartisan opposition in the Senate. The Republican majority confirmed him anyway. A month later, voters rewarded the Senate GOP, slightly expanding its majority.

5. From RBG to ACB: In September 2020, then-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and according to her family, her dying wish was that the Senate would wait to confirm her successor until after the election. Republicans nevertheless scrambled to confirm Amy Coney Barrett, ignoring all of the principles they pretended to care about four years earlier regarding filling vacancies in an election year, and confirmed the conservative during the early voting period.

Soon after, voters elected a Democratic White House and a Democratic Congress, but by that point, it was too late — the 4-4 split that existed on Election Day 2016 had given way to a six-member, far-right majority that could effectively do as it pleased on any issue.

To be sure, this summary is truncated. The fight over reproductive rights unfolded over decades, and there have been a great many important developments that unfolded outside of these five points.

But when your gobsmacked friends and relatives wonder aloud about Roe‘s demise, these five turning points represent a good place to start.

[artemisarticles]

Fashion Has Abandoned Human Taste

Stores are stocked with copycat designs. It’s a nightmare.

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

"This problem is not limited to fashion. As creative industries become more consolidated and more beholden to producing ever-expanding profits for their shareholders, companies stop taking even calculated risks. You get theaters full of comic-book adaptations and remakes of past hits instead of movies about adults, for adults. Streaming services fill their libraries with shows meant to play in the background while you scroll your phone. Stores stock up on stuff you might not love, but which the data predict you won’t absolutely hate. “You have too many fashion companies, both on the retail side and the manufacturing side, being driven by empty suits,” Grain Carter said. Consumable products are everywhere, and maybe the most we can hope for is that their persistent joylessness will eventually doom the corporations that foist them upon us."

[amisssunbeam]

Yep.

[atthemomentofsurrender]

“And then I remember Edge picking the guitar, sitting down in a corridor, once. He was playing Neil Young’s ‘The Needle and the Damage Done.’ I was trying to play it as well. I was envious because I could tell that he could play a little better than I could. What I didn’t realize at that time is that he could play a lot better than I could. He always had that thing about him, that he wouldn’t nominate himself to run in the race. But if he was put in the race, he would want to win it. It’s a strange thing, and I don’t know where it comes from. He has a healthy disrespect - and respect - for his own ego… He knows that he’s capable of, and he would not push himself forward. He would rather hang back in the shadows and be discovered.” - Bono on The Edge

[amisssunbeam]

He wouldn't nominate himself to run in the race, but if he was put in the race, he would want to win it.

[wtframe]

“Oh, go on, Captain, you finish it”.

THE TERROR Terror Camp Clear 

[amisssunbeam]

beyond myth

[tennant]

Jean-Luc Picard + Outfits STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994)

[amisssunbeam]

Including cap-jammies.

[deleting-this-blog-2]

I want to see something, if you ship Qcard reblog this

[amisssunbeam]

I shipped them starting in 1998.

[theterrorzine]

The Terror Zine sales will close in two (2) days, at the end of 2021!!! Make sure to grab your zines and merch on our BigCartel before they’re gone :D ⛵❄️⛵ All proceeds are going to the Arctic Eider Society - we’ll be making our first donation within the next few days :)

We also have the 2021 pinup calendar on sale with a huuuge discount for anyone interested! 😉

[amisssunbeam]

Most enjoyable! A pleasure for throughout the year!