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If someone is using gratitude to make you feel like you have no right to your feelings and needs, whether they intend it or not, they're not empowering you, but weaponizing their privilege.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

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my overall was 90, so, average. but my verbal IQ was 130. meaning my other scores have to be lower than 90 for the most part. and since i expect the visual spatial score to be above average but not so high due to my giftedness for art/music/puzzles but poor coordination and processing.

leaves the rest of the scores between 68-80, given everything. i dont have the test results unfortunately. the state does. but its things like processing, memory, comprehension, coordination, literally everything else to do with intellect and cognition.

so. im not. intellectually/cognitively abled. but i dont have global intellectual disability either. people assume im one or the other, and the ableism that comes w that is awful.

and when people call me the r slur its when i dont/cant understand something or do something. and it makes me feel horrible. like. im sorry i dont get it and cant do it. you dont gotta treat me garbage though...

“If you're American, you've almost certainly heard about how Indigenous reservations were and are located on whatever land the US doesn't want anyway. That they're just a way to whisk away undesirables until the land becomes useful to the US. That's the two-state solution.”

Two state solution is living side by side with people that tried to exterminate you with land theft genocide ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism When we say land back We mean all land stolen by settler colonizers Not just half of it to appease colonizers or respectability politics

“it’s worth mentioning that the proposal of a “two-state solution” is exactly what was offered to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by European settler colonizers as a peaceful way to coexist.”

They already have. I mean during the Jan 6 coup in America a few years ago, we had one of our Canadian hate groups over there. And we are a nation built on white supremacy. This is a weird title

This is fucking appalling.

But I also need to draw people's attention to this bit of the Guardian article:

No. They weren't 'protests'. Protesting is what the grannies and vicars are doing when they get arrested for holding Palestine placards. The word you're searching for, The Guardian, is 'pogroms'. And the same word ought to be used for the racism-driven mass violent attacks which took place elsewhere in these islands. Stop fucking legitimising racist violence.