Me: It’s 2017, no one wants to hear Gravity Falls meta
Also me: Stan never believed Gideon was an actual psychic—even though he knew supernatural things were possible, and even though everyone in Gravity Falls was against him, Stan always insisted he absolutely knew Gideon was a fraud. Why was he so certain?
Gideon always called him “Stanford.”
Anyone with real mind-reading powers would’ve known that was actually his brother’s name, and he was living under a false identity
Chapters: 4/5 Fandom: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince), Jord & Laurent (Captive Prince) Characters: Damen (Captive Prince), Laurent (Captive Prince), Auguste (Captive Prince), Jord (Captive Prince), Nicaise (Captive Prince), Orlant (Captive Prince), Halvik (Captive Prince) Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, pseudo infidelity, Past Child Abuse Summary:
It starts because Aimeric is a pushy, arrogant, little bastard who has never learned when he needs to keep his mouth shut. His very presence at this party already irritates Laurent in the worst way.
Laurent is only trying to be a good friend to Jord. Damen was never supposed to be a factor.
what liberals mean when they say they’ll keep families together
For those who noticed this was 2019, here is stuff from march 2021.
And the same facility one month later in april 2021:
It is important to note that this isn’t because there are less people. In fact, the dems in charge fully admit that they had just as many people in late april as in early march, but the Biden administration took emergency measures to solve the problem and massively expanded the facilities to ensure that there was enough space.
What’s more, they got the average processing time down a huge amount, and didn’t just settle for the mandated maximum. For minors, the average wait time went down from 133 hours to 28 hours, with the federally mandated maximum being 72 hours. Immigration cases are being processed in record time and numbers with a strong focus on humane treatment and ease of immigration. Plenty of moderate democrats are genuinely angry about it, claiming that the Biden administration is letting thousands in with a rubber stamp approval process. “It isn’t how it is supposed to be!” complain moderate democrats over Biden’s far left approach to immigration reform.
Now, these were just temporary emergency measures throw together in roughly three weeks to deal with a massive, record breaking influx of migrants. It could easily be suspected that the administration was just acting good as long as the nation was paying attention, except the Biden administration continued working on immigration reform even when the news cycle moved on, steadily making major changes for immigration reform and continuing to do so even now.
DACA was re-opened to new applicants.
Temporary Protected Status has been reinstated and expanded
DACA-like status for domestic violence victims and other crime victims, allowing victims of crime a green card and a work license during the years long waiting period.
People can wait in the US for court hearings, allowing families to reunite and waiting to happen under humane and safe conditions.
There are a ton of things the Biden administration has massively improved over the last 4 months or so, and I am not going to list them all out. And they are still making changes in a positive direction. Here is an article that lays out some of these things written by an immigration lawyer. It was written two days ago, and there is no sign that the Biden administration is going to stop chipping away at immigration reform within their capacity to do so.
Remember, as long as it is the law Biden has to enforce it, and all law making is on deadlock as republicans refuse to cooperate. He literally cannot change these laws without every single democrat senator signing on and at least 10 republicans jumping the fence. He is not a king. If you want to be angry at someone focus on the one or two democrat senators that refuse to get rid of the filibuster, specifically Joe Manchin.
What Biden can do on his own is restructure and reform the DHS and ICE to be much more humane organizations through rule changes, executive orders, administrative policies, and putting pro immigration reform people in charge of the whole process. And that is exactly what he has done and continues to do.
If immigration reform is an important issue to you, and it should be, consider where we were a year ago and where we are now. Many leftists will have you believing that virtually nothing has changed, that people have moved on due to their bias that democrats are better than republicans. They are wrong.
This is why “both sides are bad” political opinions are so dangerous. In six months we have gotten better immigration reform from Biden than we have in 30 years and he doesn’t even have the power to make laws about it. All that effort we made to get democrats (and better democrats) in is paying off.
Please don’t get discouraged now, we are actually making serious progress for the first time in years! Don’t let your preconceived notions of a “moderate democrat” president cloud your judgement!
If this is what we can achieve with a moderate in charge and a deadlocked senate, imagine what we can do with a real leftist at the top and a couple more senators to break the deadlock. Real change is within our grasp but we have to keep on pushing for it.
Every tiny improvement helps. No one said that the fight was over if Biden got elected; we knew from the beginning that he was a centrist, but a centrist is, indeed, better than a right-wing whackjob. Keep pushing. And somebody, for the love of God, please primary Manchin and Sinema.
Eliot @ Parker like a human who didn’t quite see what exactly the dog just ate, just heard the smacking noise and turned to look a little too late as the dog finishes licking their chops
But it’s less What’s In Your Mouth? and more
“…hey. Hey! What did you just put on that sandwich?!?! Park- PARKER! WHAT IS ON THAT SANDWICH! Give-… GIVE ME THE JAR OF CAKE FROSTING!”
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee by Redbone plays in the background of the Tik Tok.
White text starts at the top of the screen, displaying information. “The song you are hearing was not allowed to be played on U.S radio stations in 1970’s”.
The dancer makes hoops go from Eagle to Earth form.
“It created by a popular Native American band called Redbone and it hit number 1 charts all over Europe.”
“The song raised awareness about what happened at Wounded Knee”
They finish the Earth form, centering themself. “Let’s get it trending”.
Screen switches to the Tik Toker’s name and username, James Jones / @notoriouscree
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No one’s reblogged this video with versions of the whole song yet, so here’s a spotify link and the youtube video.
A friend of mine, a First Nations person here in Canada, has been sharing this petition to hold accountable the Canadian government to dig up the rest of the residential schools to be able to lay their children to rest.
It’s on an official Canadian Government site, so only citizens and residents of Canada can sign, but anyone could share it.
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”
Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers
Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft
In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.
nicky of course doesn’t actually care about the illegal part but if they get caught they’ll be late for dinner and he’s making cheese soufflés. time is critical, booker, chop chop
