Rachel Weisz did an interview some years ago stating how she really wanted to play a lesbian character and it is so uplifting that she took the time and put thought and energy into how she’d go about it and what it would look like.
Lexa and Clarke lead a diplomatic mission to the mysterious Trishanakru.
The trouble is Clarke is distracting, Lexa is very very gay, Raven is a
natural wonder, their hosts won’t stop partying, and the forest is kind
of psychedelic.
The Glowing Forest comes alive in this splendid little piece, as we spend time amongst the merry locals and Clarke and Lexa manage to find some time for themselves.
A new study has shed more light on the revelations that Hans Asperger,
the Austrian pediatrician for whom a form of autism is named, had
collaborated with the Nazis and actively assisted in the killing of
disabled children.
Published on Wednesday in the journal Molecular Autism
by the medical historian Herwig Czech, the report relies on eight years
of research that included the examination of previously unseen Nazi-era
documents.
The
study concludes that though Dr. Asperger was not a member of the Nazi
Party, he had participated in the Third Reich’s child-euthanasia
program, which aimed to establish a “pure” society by eliminating those
deemed a “burden.”
Dr.
Asperger was previously thought to have opposed national socialism and to have
defended
his patients against Nazi “euthanasia”. That story ‘needs to be revised in light of the evidence’, the study revealed. Hans Asperger diagnosed children with ‘autistic psychopathy’ and referred them to the notorious Am Spiegelgrund
clinic in Vienna, where 800 children were murdered
by use of drugs of gas from 1940 to 1945.
Without much fanfare (totally apropos, given what’s been happening in the world of the White House in the last 72 hours),
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will
force recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits,
Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to find work or lose their
assistance.
Trump quietly signed the long-anticipated order, oddly named
“Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic
Mobility.” Given that many government agencies, including the Department
of Health and Human Services, have already begun issuing waivers to
Republican governors who want to impose stricter work requirements on
Medicaid recipients to cut costs, it will not make much of an impact, according to the New York Times.
The
fact remains that most able-bodied adults who receive federal aid in
the form of subsidized health care or housing already work—but are still
unable to make ends meet; others receive exemptions for legitimate
reasons.
From the Times:
The order gave
all cabinet departments 90 days to produce plans that impose work
requirements on able-bodied aid recipients and block ineligible
immigrants from receiving aid, while drafting “a list of recommended
regulatory and policy changes” to push recipients off the rolls and into
jobs.
…
The aim, Trump aides said … is to prod federal
and state officials to take a tougher stance with aid recipients —
millions of whom currently receive exemptions from existing work
requirements because they are in training programs, provide care for
relatives or volunteer their labor.
The Agriculture Department is
already pressuring states to impose work requirements in the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the program formerly known as
food stamps. Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human
Services granted a waiver to Arkansas
so it could require Medicaid recipients to get jobs, participate in job
training or engage in job searches at least 80 hours a month.
According
to the Kaiser Foundation, most able-bodied adults who do not already
have jobs face obstacles in working, including mental problems, criminal
records and certain family situations.
Yet the narrative from the Trump administration says differently.
“Our
country suffers from nearly record high welfare enrollments,” said
Andrew Bremberg, the president’s domestic policy chief, according to the
Times, which notes that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
payments to poor people are approaching record lows.
Trump also
reportedly wants to change the word “welfare” to include not only cash
payments but also food and medical benefits (SNAP and Medicaid).
Or
he just doesn’t give AF. And I quote: “Mr. Trump, several aides said,
is unconcerned—or perhaps even unaware—of the distinction between cash
assistance and other safety-net programs … he calls them all welfare.”
And we know what connotations go along with that.
FFFUUUCCCKKK
Goddammit.
To all the people this bullshit is going to harm and make life even more awful/difficult for: remember that the Republicans are the ones responsible for this shit during the midterm elections this year
AND VOTE THESE HATEFUL SACKS OF SHIT OUT
This is how they kill poor people, slowly and legally
My dad will lose both his home and food stamps from this.
This is murder.
By any other name.
MURDER.
Coming from a country where this sort of thing has happened, where people have taken their own lives because they were cruelly denied assistance, I have to agree. This is murderous.
I don’t think marches and demonstrations will do anymore, America.
As you grow angrier, this so-called government tightens its noose about its people, denying you rights and freedoms.
I needed a break from writing angst and my hand slipped. I have created a shamelessly self indulgent canon Clexa AU, with plenty of gratuitous worldbuilding, and eventual smut. This fic was originally inspired by the ‘accidental stimulation’ prompt for Clexa Week 2018. Although it’s incredibly late, I hope it’s still alright to tag it as such.
Lexa and Clarke lead a diplomatic mission to the mysterious Trishanakru. The trouble is Clarke is distracting, Lexa is very very gay, Raven is a natural wonder, their hosts won’t stop partying, and the forest is kind of psychedelic.
Please do read and share LS’s lovely and loving story: there’s some delightful world building within the Glowing Forest, character-building within Clarke and Lexa’s complex but beautiful relationship and, yes, the Smut (the really well-written kind).
The Doctor Is Out 