OFF CAMPUS — 1.06, “The Breakaway”

⁂

★
d e v o n
Today's Document
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Cosimo Galluzzi

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year

ellievsbear
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Peter Solarz
Monterey Bay Aquarium
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

Discoholic 🪩

JBB: An Artblog!
No title available
Stranger Things
Xuebing Du

seen from Singapore

seen from Argentina
seen from China

seen from Italy

seen from France
seen from United Kingdom

seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Israel

seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from China

seen from Brazil

seen from United States
seen from Türkiye

seen from Canada
@reilly310
OFF CAMPUS — 1.06, “The Breakaway”
MIKA ABDALLA and STEPHEN KALYN as Allie Hayes and Dean Di Laurentis — OFF CAMPUS 01.02 'The Practice
+Bonus
I read these books years ago and didn't know it was being made into a series. I'm excited to watch and hope it lives up to the book series.
My Oxford year is the top movie on Netflix at the moment. It kind of reminded me of the plot of a movie Sam was supposed to star in a few years ago. Do you remember it? So many missed opportunities for him.
It's the same movie but with changes made by Netflix after they purchased the rights. Here's info from Reddit quoting the original script consultant/writer and also author of the book that was written after the first script was completed.
There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.
I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.
As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.
The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.
The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.
As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.
I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.
I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.
All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.
I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.
My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:
It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.
Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.
Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.
Sources:
• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text
• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)
upon closer inspection it looks to me like hes spooning(?)smth to her😭
Podría ser, a mi marido y a mi nos encanta compartir plato cuando comemos fuera para discutir cual está mejor, si el suyo o el mío o buscar ese gusto que tal vez no encuentras a la primera😉
It could be, my husband and I love to share a plate when we eat out to discuss which is better, his or mine, or to search for that taste that you might not find the first time 😉
Savannah Icecreamgate v.2.0.
Classic bantering game. Here comes the airplane, not just for toddlers:
Ahem.
I enlarged this 700%. He's definitely holding something in his right hand and directing it towards Caitriona. She appears to be leaning towards Sam to retrieve whatever is in his hand.
For my own understanding, what man would allow another man to 'spoon feed' his 'wife'? Adding he's sitting at the same table, 8 feet away, talking with a woman with an abundant amount of curly hair.
I think he's holding a piece of paper and pointing out something on that paper to her. My guess is that its the dinner menu that is placed on everyone's plate at the reception.
Sample:
My reflection on the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections: Trump did not become a Republican, all the Republicans became Trump.
Active Duty & Veterans, do you want trump selling you out to Russia, yes or no. Vote Blue.
Women, do you want trump and trump republicans controlling your medical decisions, your menstrual cycle, your life or death decisions, yes or no. Vote Blue.
Men, do you want trump bullies to be defined as what real men are supposed to be like, kicking poor people or abusing women, staring at other men’s ‘junk’. Is that what you want, yes or no. Vote Blue.
Gen Z ers, do you want to work 100 hours a week, not paid for overtime, worse healthcare every year, no pensions, 401k plans disappearing, and Social Security cut because of more tax cuts for corporations. You think student loan debt is bad, wait til you have debt to the company that pays you. Is that what you want, yes or no. Vote Blue.
Vote Blue. Vote Now before it’s too late.
The majority of Americans are pro choice. Listen to the will of the people
Scum of the Earth conglomerates in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.