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Oscar Isaac as Michael Perry in "Won't Back Down", 2012

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Oscar Isaac and Viola Davis

Won't Back Down

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Micheal Perry x GN!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals Masterlist• ao3• want to be tagged? | request info • Kinktober 2024 Masterlist • Day 5: Biting

Summary: Micheal has a kink.

A/N: Thank you @thexsanctuaryx for betaing!

Warnings: kissing, biting, a little teasing, please let me know if I have missed a warning!

Word Count: 434

Michael pulls you closer, his hands squeezing your hips as you grind against him. Your fingers tug lightly on his hair, the fabric of his shirt, your thighs either side of his as you sit in his lap and kiss him senseless. 

The date was going much better than he thought it would, especially after he’d fucked up and gone to the wrong place. Resulting in him being forty six minutes late. 

He wouldn’t have held it against you if you’d bailed on him. 

But instead, you’d waited, laughing kindly and calling him ‘silly’ when he’d arrived at last. 

“You could have left, you didn’t have to wait.” 

“You called me Michael, wasn’t as if you’d left me high and dry.” 

He definitely wasn’t going to leave you high and dry now. 

You press him further back into the sofa, licking into his mouth and leaving him breathless. The little whine he lets out that is muffled thankfully by your lips is quickly overshadowed as you break the kiss to mouth against his jaw. The sound that leaves him this time is sinful, putting most pornos he’s watched to shame. 

His hips buck instinctively, desperate for any friction as he ruts against you. He moans your name, his eyes closed as pleasure twists and sparks up his spine. 

You kiss further along his skin, brushing your teeth over his pulse point and he jumps, shivers like lightning striking his skin. 

“Oh god-” He clamps his lips together, breathing hard, embarrassment pulling at his chest. 

You pull back a fraction and Michael keeps his eyes closed, he’d blown it. Been too fucking loud and too fucking into the feeling of your teeth. 

You pause, lightly running your fingers over his cheek. When he doesn’t open his eyes, you speak, soft and needy. “Michael?” 

“Hmm?” 

You tap his bottom lip which is still pressed tight, paling under the pressure. “You okay?”

He swallows, shifting a little and you grin. 

“You like it when I kiss here?” You lean back down, pressing a feather light touch to his pulse point. 

His breathing hitches. 

“Or do you like it more when I…?” You lightly run your teeth over his skin before you bite gently. 

He whines, his fingers tightening in your clothes, a soft gasp leaving his lips. 

“Oh, you dooo.” You tease, unable to hide your glee. 

“I, I know it’s a little, so I-” His quick uncertain mumble is quickly cut off as you sink your teeth back into his neck. Harder this time. “Fuck, fuck, fuck, god, harder, please!”

You do exactly as he asks. 

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Oscar Isaac March Madness

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Voting ended onMar 13, 2025

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

August 3, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Aug 04, 2025

Today, Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny Republican lawmakers the quorum—the number of legislators required to pass legislation—they need in order to push through a new district map that would take five seats currently held by Democrats and give them to Republicans. President Donald J. Trump has demanded this rare mid-decade redistricting in an attempt to hold control of the House of Representatives in 2026. He is urging all Republican-dominated states to make a similar change to guarantee Republican dominance regardless of the will of voters.

Republicans in the Texas legislature rushed a bill that would make the new map law through committee on Saturday morning after the one public hearing they held on it showed overwhelming opposition. Sophia Beausoleil of NBC 5 in Dallas–Fort Worth reports that the Texas House is scheduled to vote on the bill Monday.

“My Democratic colleagues and I have just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop Trump's redistricting power grab,” Texas state representative James Talarico said in a video posted to social media. “Trump told our Republican colleagues to redraw the political maps here in Texas in the middle of the decade to get him five more seats and protect his majority in Congress. They're turning our districts into crazy shapes to guarantee the outcome they want in the 2026 elections. If this power grab succeeds, they will hang on to power without any accountability from the voters. But Texas Democrats are fighting back. We're leaving the state, breaking quorum and preventing Republicans from silencing our voices and rigging the next election. We are not fighting for the Democratic Party. We are fighting for the democratic process, and the stakes could not be higher. We have to take a stand.”

The Texas legislators traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, and to Albany, New York, to confer with Democratic leaders. About 30 of them, though, went to Chicago, Illinois, where Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker welcomed them at a press conference tonight.

Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu emphasized that the Democrats had tried to work with the Republicans, but Texas governor Greg Abbott and the Republican lawmakers were forcing the new map through against the will of the voters because Trump told them to. Wu’s explanation mirrors that of Republican state representative Cody Vasut, who told Natasha Korecki and Ryan Chandler of NBC News: “This map was politically based, and that’s totally legal, totally allowed and totally fair.”

Wu warned that the attempt to grab five new seats in Texas to maintain control of the U.S. House of Representatives against the will of voters is a threat not only to Texas, but to the entire country and to the concept of America. “If Donald Trump is allowed to do this, if he is allowed to once again cheat and get away with it, there's no stopping this. This will spread across the country, and…will occur everywhere. Because if one person's going to cheat and no one's going to stop it, why doesn't everyone just do it then? And that is not a society, that is not an America that works.”

Wu continued: “Everyone is already tired of the hyperpartisan bickering and all the fighting because we never get anything done. And they are creating a system that will reinforce that and make it even worse. And we're telling people, please come out, stand up against it, rise up and say no more. Enough."

Wu said the Texas Democratic representatives “did not make the decision to come here today…lightly, but we come here today with absolute moral clarity.”

Governor Pritzker has been in contact with the Texas Democrats to plan for such a moment. His staff will provide logistical support to the visiting Texans. Tonight he made it clear that the Texas Democrats’ fight against Trump’s power grab is the fight of all Americans to protect democracy. “Let's be clear,” Pritzker said, “this is not just rigging the system in Texas. It's about rigging the system against the rights of all Americans for years to come.”

Pritzker continued: “Texas Democrats were left no choice but to leave their home state, block a vote from taking place, and protect their constituents. This is a righteous act of courage.” Pritzker urged other Americans to “take a page from these leaders's playbook. When you show people that you have the will to fight, well, they can muster the will to fight, too. Courage is contagious.”

“To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself, how do I make sure that we’re standing on the right side of history? There's a simple answer. The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid. The right side of history will always expect you to be courageous. Expect courage from people around you, and it will show up. Expect fear, and fear will rule the day. Let the courage of these leaders be an example to the rest of the country. I'm proud to stand side by side with our friends from Texas today.”

Tonight U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) told an audience in Phoenix, Arizona: “My former colleagues from the Texas House—those Texas Democrats—decided to get the hell out of Texas…and breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. You see, this fight is going to take all of us.”

Crockett’s comments came at tonight’s launch of the “Won’t Back Down” Tour, organized by MoveOn and MeidasTouch, to hold Republicans accountable and organize for 2026. Crockett, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Representative Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) spoke tonight; Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) will take the tour to Nebraska next.

Texas governor Abbott responded to the Texas House Democrats' quorum break by threatening to remove from office any Democrats who are not back in their seats for Monday’s vote and to replace them “swiftly” with his own appointees thanks to his power to fill vacancies. He also suggested he would consider them felons for accepting money to pay for their food and housing in Chicago and that such a designation would enable him to cross state lines to get them back. He threatened to use “my full extradition authority to demand the return to Texas of any potential out-of-state felons.”

When a reporter asked about Abbott’s threat, Pritzker responded: “They’re here in Illinois. We’re going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them…. It’s the leaders of Texas who are attempting not to follow the law. They’re the ones that need to be held accountable.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Won't Back Down OGN by Trina Robbins, Marguerite Sauvage, Gene Ha, Stephanie Cooke, Yanick Paquette, Joëlle Jones, Jill Thompson, Dave McCaig, Amy Chase and many more. Out in January 2024.

"In 1973, the Supreme Court gave women the right to make decisions over the care of their own bodies. A mere fifty years later, a rogue Supreme Court has taken that right away. Today, over 32 states have banned or severely restricted abortion. Featuring the work of over 30 artists, writers, inkers, and colorists, Won't Back Down is an important anthology that celebrates women who fight for justice-for anyone interested in women's rights, free speech, or simply great comics. Profits go to Planned Parenthood."

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Rest in peace, Trina Robbins.

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Just Oscar doing his lil snort-smile-nod thing