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June Doe, Day 14 - Cut Characters
The man, the myth, the legend
Bonus unfinished doodle of all the cut characters:
I may have taken a few creative liberties with these designs
They all have Goonies tattoos because they bonded over the film as kids and also because that's one of my comfort movies and I make the designs here >:]
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Several lawmakers told HuffPost they want to make sure no one forgets the most shameful day in U.S. history — and they’re playing the long g
Brandi Buchman at HuffPost:
WASHINGTON — It’s the sound of thousands of fists slamming on doors and windows that lawmakers can still hear when they close their eyes and take themselves back to Jan. 6, 2021. The terror that coursed through their bodies as rioters — many armed — breached the U.S. Capitol and demanded Donald Trump remain in power is something they can still tap into. The weight of a single question that raged in their minds that day still fresh: Would they get out of the building alive?
“These insurrectionists were calling to kill [then-Speaker of the House] Nancy Pelosi,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said. “They were threatening to kill all of us. I didn’t know if we were going to get out.” At one point, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said, he opened a “go bag” containing a gas mask. “I had never done that before or since,” he said. “You never think a day like that will come.” Trump has so far evaded responsibility for the events of Jan. 6 — namely, allegations that he conspired to intimidate lawmakers to keep them from certifying the results of the 2020 election. His election victory in 2024 stopped former special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal case against him cold.
But Lee v. Trump, a civil case brought by a group of lawmakers, has survived every bid Trump has made to bury it for four years. And soon, the judge presiding over the case will make a critical decision that could be the very last chance the country will ever have to hold Trump to account in a court of law for Jan. 6. In a series of exclusive interviews with HuffPost, some of the lawmakers suing Trump discussed their yearslong fight for accountability for one of the most shameful days in U.S. history.
Back To The Future
Jayapal was recovering from a knee operation on Jan. 6, which limited her mobility as she scrambled to safety from rioters beating down the doors, smashing through windows and screeching threats. She spent hours inside a room with fellow legislators, including Republicans who refused to wear masks even though COVID-19 was surging at the time. When she got home that night and poured herself a “stiff drink,” she said she told her husband they were going to get COVID. They both tested positive days later. “It was very, very stressful and led to some long-term COVID impacts for my husband, too,” she said. “He had a heart attack we were pretty sure was brought on by that because he’s one of the healthiest guys you could ever meet.” She counts herself lucky not to have been physically attacked. On Jan. 6, over 140 police were assaulted by rioters. Five police who defended the Capitol later died, including some by suicide. Four people in the crowd died on the scene — including rioter Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by police while climbing through a shattered glass door and ignoring multiple commands to stand down.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) was on the third floor of the gallery inside the House, squeezed between narrow rows of seats where reporters often sit to watch proceedings, as he heard a “growing crescendo of speech that seemed out of order.” He understood the severity of the moment when a police officer commanded lawmakers to put on gas masks stowed under seats in the gallery. “That crystallized for me the danger we were in,” he said. Some lawmakers were hyperventilating, Johnson said. Another colleague, he remembered, was on the ground having a panic attack.
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It would take hours for the Capitol to be secured, and for lawmakers to be able to return to what they were there to do: certify the 2020 election results. The certification is the last step before a president is inaugurated. It’s a crucial event where members of the House and Senate meet to count the Electoral College results received from the states and hear objections. Objections can only be upheld if both the House and Senate agree. After the chaos of Jan. 6, the long-standing process underpinning the certification was made less ambiguous with the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022. (The law was originally written in 1877.) Deadlines for states to send electoral certificates were more clearly enumerated with the revised law, for example, and the role the vice president plays in the certification — which was always considered ceremonial — was clarified as a “purely ministerial” role. Trump’s interpretation of the 1877 Electoral Count Act was particularly tortured. He baselessly claimed that widespread voter fraud had tainted the election and insisted that the certification could be unilaterally stopped by then-Vice President Mike Pence.
“States want to revote. The states got defrauded. They were given false information. They voted on it. Now they want to recertify. They want it back. All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people,” Trump said on Jan. 6 from the Ellipse. “And I actually, I just spoke to Mike. I said: ‘Mike, that doesn’t take courage. What takes courage is to do nothing. That takes courage.’ And then we’re stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot and we have to live with that for four more years. We’re just not going to let that happen.” Trump’s stolen election lies had gone on for weeks before Jan. 6. It was no secret that Republican allies of Trump in the House and Senate had planned on objecting when the certification came around. Many Republicans broadcast their plans to object on social media and a plan to hold out fake electors as real unfolded in public.
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A Turning Point
In February 2021, the Senate acquitted Trump of inciting an insurrection. The lawsuit was filed the next day. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) first filed the claim. The NAACP and the law firm Cohen Milstein represented the case. Nadler, Jayapal and Johnson joined the lawsuit in April 2021, along with Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.), Steve Cohen (Tenn.), Veronica Escobar (Texas), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Maxine Waters (Calif.) and then-California Reps. Karen Bass, now the mayor of Los Angeles, and Barbara Lee, now the mayor of Oakland. (Thompson removed himself from the lawsuit after becoming chairman of the Jan. 6 committee. With subpoena powers, he felt it was necessary to avoid “even the appearance of a conflict of interest,” and Lee took over as head plaintiff.) Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act by whipping people into a frenzy and, with the assistance of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, intimidated lawmakers to keep them from performing their duties in certifying the 2020 election.
When he rules in the weeks ahead, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta will decide whether Trump’s conduct around Jan. 6 was done in his “official capacity” or if he operated mostly as a “private” candidate seeking reelection. A candidate seeking reelection is acting in his own self-interest, not an official capacity. For the purposes of the suit, Trump wants to be seen as an official actor.
His calls to supporters to reject the certification, his demands that Pence send the certified results “back to the states,” and his failure to immediately summon help to the Capitol — and instead blast out campaign-focused messages on social media — are prime examples of “private” and “campaign seeking” behavior, according to the lawmakers’ lawsuit. Mehta already ruled in 2022 that some remarks Trump made during his speech from the Ellipse, like telling supporters to “fight like hell,” were not done in an “official” capacity. Trump appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which agreed that Trump’s conduct was likely that of an office-seeker, not an officeholder. It was huge when Mehta refused to dismiss the lawmakers’ civil case, said Joseph Sellers, an attorney for the plaintiffs. [...] If Mehta finds Trump acted as an office-seeker, the president is likely to make a beeline for the appellate court — or go to the Supreme Court — and demand the case be thrown out or the ruling reversed. [...]
Nowhere Left To Hide
Trump called Jan. 6 a “hoax” only weeks ago. He continues to falsely claim, against intelligence community assessments and independent inspector general findings, that FBI agents were responsible for agitating the mob on Jan. 6. In the lawsuit, Trump has defended his conduct on Jan. 6 as necessary and normal for a president concerned with goings-on across government. One of Trump’s first moves when he reentered the White House was to pardon over 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, including those who violently assaulted police. He issued pardons and commutations for members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys convicted of organizing a seditious conspiracy to stop the transfer of power.
The impending Lee v. Trump case could be the last chance for any means of holding insurrection-inciter Donald Trump accountable for what happened on January 6th, 2021.
Read the full story at HuffPost.
May I request Ricky at a protest? Any Ricky might be accompanied by anyone from the choir I'm leaving that up to you :DD
Decided to draw him with Hank cause I don’t get to draw Hank super often
(Backgrounds are hard sorry hehe)
For all of the Floridian Ride the Cyclone fans...
Theatre South Playhouse is back! And with more potential cast combos than ever!
(Oh, and Mini Mirage Theatre is back too!)
What if YellowJackets happened to them?
shoutout hank and astrid for being the first ever loverboy and hatergirl
guys, GREAT news!! at my school band we are planning to play Small Things Become Big Things as part of our concerts!! i proposed that song to our coordination teacher and he really enjoyed it, and didn't even asked me to translate it so i will sing it on english!!
since i'm not an native english, i'm finding it quite hard to actually listen the lyrics and i'm mainly using a youtube comment i found some days ago, but if you guys can help me with the lyrics i would be really grateful! same for chords if you are musicians but obviously u guys are not forced :) hopefully i will show you guys soon in a few months the final product!
but at the end of the day the important thing is:
lovebug(bite) stans, we won
JUNE DOE IS HERE!!!
I have prepared a fic for this very occasion (How does he have fic for this? /ref) and hope those who read will enjoy!
Day One: Summer! <- Link
Word Count: 2,693
Summary: On a hot summer day the Blackwood-Lamb couple have an announcement to make. Ocean knows exactly what it is and can't wait for their secret to be shared with everyone.
Tags: Summer, Butch Constance Blackwood, Surprises, pregnancy announcement, Adulthood, Found Family, Marriage Proposal, rarepairs galore, Friendship, Family Fluff, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Pairings: Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg/Trishna Virahanna, Noel Gruber/Corey Ross, Constance Blackwood/Jane Doe | Penny Lamb, Ricky Potts/Hank
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