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THIS IS THE 2ND TIME WE RATIOED THE LES MIS TWITTER ACC SO HARD THAT THEY DELETED THEIR TWEETS IM CRYING
just so y’all know: les mis deleted their in memoriam tweet but hamilton has yet to do so. HAMILTON
going to hell for the express purpose of explaining this tweet to thomas jefferson
“Not even to save the life of the mother.”
Um, guys. That is not own you think it is.
This is fucking disgusting. Women aren't just birthing units.
Even the Catholic Church’s official stance is that if the mother’s life is in danger, her life is paramount.
They are making the Catholic Church look liberal. FFS.
The Catholic Church IS quite liberal and very educated when compared to your average evangelical ... which is terrifying frankly
Try to have some respect the queen just DIED. It's not like she was evil or anything
And why should I do that for the head of a family that oversaw the British Empire's legendarily brutal concentration camps in colonialist Kenya during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau rebellion, has personally and repeatedly shielded credibly accused rapist Prince Andrew and tried to get the scandal to go away, personally paid Andrew's financial settlement while the family treated Meghan Markle terribly and gave her none of the same protection, exerted a huge amount of control over UK public finances without any transparency or disclosure (while also receiving huge amounts of that money), got to personally edit laws according to her likes and dislikes, enjoyed sweeping legal immunities that are described as a "threat to UK democracy," is the most visible figurehead of British colonialism even as her descendants put on a horribly tone-deaf Caribbean tour (twice in one year!) that was basically about unreconstructed imperial imagery of the kind that is poisoning Britain, while the entire country buys into the fantasy that she is an impartial, uninvolved, kindly and benevolent grandmotherly figure....?
Nah.
Monarch dispatched private solicitor to secure exemption from transparency law
The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents discovered by the Guardian.
A series of government memos unearthed in the National Archives reveal that Elizabeth Windsor’s private lawyer put pressure on ministers to alter proposed legislation to prevent her shareholdings from being disclosed to the public.
Following the Queen’s intervention, the government inserted a clause into the law granting itself the power to exempt companies used by “heads of state” from new transparency measures.
The arrangement, which was concocted in the 1970s, was used in effect to create a state-backed shell corporation which is understood to have placed a veil of secrecy over the Queen’s private shareholdings and investments until at least 2011.
The true scale of her wealth has never been disclosed, though it has been estimated to run into the hundreds of millions of pounds.
Evidence of the monarch’s lobbying of ministers was uncovered by a Guardian investigation into the royal family’s use of an arcane parliamentary procedure, known as Queen’s consent, to secretly influence the formation of British laws.
Unlike the better-known procedure of royal assent, a formality that marks the moment when a bill becomes law, Queen’s consent must be sought before legislation can be approved by parliament.
It requires ministers to alert the Queen when legislation might affect either the royal prerogative or the private interests of the crown.
The website of the royal family describes it as “a long established convention” and constitutional scholars have tended to regard consent as an opaque but harmless example of the pageantry that surrounds the monarchy.
But documents unearthed in the National Archives, which the Guardian is publishing this week, suggest that the consent process, which gives the Queen and her lawyers advance sight of bills coming into parliament, has enabled her to secretly lobby for legislative changes.
Thomas Adams, a specialist in constitutional law at Oxford University who reviewed the new documents, said they revealed “the kind of influence over legislation that lobbyists would only dream of”. The mere existence of the consent procedure, he said, appeared to have given the monarch “substantial influence” over draft laws that could affect her.
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British monarchists sometimes defend their ridiculous institution by saying that it’s all purely symbolic, that the royal family is just a cultural tradition without any impact on the democratic nature of the British government. The problem with this argument is that it’s false, and there are tons of modern examples where British royalty have successfully lobbied to change the law, often in a harmful way! Anyway, appropriate all of the Queen’s assets
Oh damn.
Reddit conservatives being shocked about the GOP being against birth control is certainly something to witness.
They said this all along.
This man could teach me as much about masculinity as much as Steven Seagal could teach me about being a good actor.
Damn. Courtney has been calling out problematic men for decades and been ignored.
I took my anger over the Kavanaugh hearing and confirmation and invested it in documenting the Republicans long history of sexual predators,
Holy shit, The FBI is executing a search warrant at Trump’s home right now.
POINT AND LAUGH
While yes this is objectively hilarious, it is also a GREAT EXAMPLE of exactly why your trans friends are asking you to boycott all things Harry Potter. The only way to deplatform Rowling is to take away her influence, and that means removing HP from the public lexicon. Corporations take notice of profits more than anything else and if it can become clear that Rowling is no longer profitable because of her hatred of trans people, they will support that. If they don't think you care, they'll keep giving her a platform by continuing to fund her art.
This is why it doesn't matter if it's 'official' or not - if she is being paid directly or not. What matters is that the words even studio and publisher hears is 'we no longer support Rowling because she is transphobic.'
