#newland

[househunting]

$499,999/4 br/2 ba/1,784 sq ft

Newland, NC

Built in 1937 [househunting on substack - free]

[kimberly40]

This log building is located beside of the Avery County Museum in Newland, North Carolina. Built in the late 1700’s by Samuel Franklin, the building was used on his farm on the side of Humpback Mountain continuously by family members until being donated to the museum in 1976.

•See this and much more at the Avery County Museum in Newland.

**Samuel Franklin was my 5th Great Grandfather. (-Kim Wright)

[travelella]

Linn Cove Viaduct, Blue Ridge Parkway, Newland, North Carolina, USA

Taken by Wes Hicks

[movie--posters]

[zukyinnederland]

HELLO!

Hi everyone, I'm Zuky and I'm new here! I want to use this site because I've been bored with Instagram and Twitter lately, so I need a little space where I can free myself! Of course now I speak for myself, but that's exactly the point! talk to everyone and nobody at the same time.

[cogitoergofun]

I’m Haunted by What I Did as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department

No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future.

I was an attorney at the Justice Department when Donald Trump was elected president. I worked in the Office of Legal Counsel, which is where presidents turn for permission slips that say their executive orders and other contemplated actions are lawful. I joined the department during the Obama administration, as a career attorney whose work was supposed to be independent of politics.

I never harbored delusions about a Trump presidency. Mr. Trump readily volunteered that his agenda was to disassemble our democracy, but I made a choice to stay at the Justice Department — home to some of the country’s finest lawyers — for as long as I could bear it. I believed that I could better serve our country by pushing back from within than by keeping my hands clean. But I have come to reconsider that decision.

My job was to tailor the administration’s executive actions to make them lawful — in narrowing them, I could also make them less destructive. I remained committed to trying to uphold my oath even as the president refused to uphold his.

But there was a trade-off: We attorneys diminished the immediate harmful impacts of President Trump’s executive orders — but we also made them more palatable to the courts.

This burst into public view early in the Trump administration in the litigation over the executive order banning travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, which my office approved. The first Muslim ban was rushed out the door. It was sweeping and sloppy; the courts quickly put a halt to it. The successive discriminatory bans benefited from more time and attention from the department’s lawyers, who narrowed them but also made them more technocratic and therefore harder for the courts to block.

After the Supreme Court’s June 2018 decision upholding the third Muslim ban, I reviewed my own portfolio — which included matters targeting noncitizens, dismantling the Civil Service and camouflaging the president’s corruption — overcome with fear that I was doing more harm than good. By Thanksgiving of that year, I had left my job.

Still, I felt I was abandoning the ship. I continued to believe that a critical mass of responsible attorneys staying in government might provide a last line of defense against the administration’s worst instincts. Even after I left, I advised others that they could do good by staying. News reports about meaningful pushback by Justice Department attorneys seemed to confirm this thinking.

I was wrong.

Watching the Trump campaign’s attacks on the election results, I now see what might have happened if, rather than nip and tuck the Trump agenda, responsible Justice Department attorneys had collectively — ethically, lawfully — refused to participate in President Trump’s systematic attacks on our democracy from the beginning. The attacks would have failed.

[archerdiana]

One illus. to each numbered page, with descriptive footnotes

A book of engraving and descriptions of costumes in the western world by they XVI century. There’s sections on American, Asian and African clothing too!

It’s a gorgeous testament of its time. On American clothing, it talks about the “island” of Florida (Europeans hadn’t discovered it was a peninsula at the time). It’s also mad interesting to see this italian man’s engravings of foreign clothes

[buckydoll]

🏞️ 🍂 Watching the trees on a long drive 🍁🌳 🍃 . . . #driving #nature #siteseeing #peaceful #buckydoll #buckybarnes #wintersoldier #sebastianstan #whitewolf #marvel #avengers #captainamerica #toyphoto #toyphotography #toysofinstagram #newland #northcarolina #scenic https://www.instagram.com/p/B4GlORHFClj/?igshid=1ltehfi585c8d