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Sen. John Fetterman cast the deciding vote to block a resolution that would have limited the president's ability to attack Iran.

The resolution failed in a 48-47 vote, with several senators breaking ranks.

The vote occurred the day before the U.S. and Iran signed a peace agreement.

Despite losing a staffer after a recent similar vote, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, again broke from his party and voted against advancing a war powers resolution, stopping the Senate from limiting President Donald Trump's ability to attack Iran without restrictions.

On June 16, the U.S. Senate voted on a resolution that, if advanced, would have called for the removal of the U.S. military from hostilities with Iran that were not authorized by Congress. With Fetterman's vote against the measure, the resolution failed 48-47. He has repeatedly voted against such measures, previously casting a deciding vote in May.

There's a website (https://reciprocard.com/) that will pull up this info if you put in your hometown library, and gives you a link to apply to the different libraries. Sometimes you don't even need to apply. My library is in a consortium that just uses my card to cover all the other libraries. I use the same card number.

And I totally get the point they were making. Part of what we love about Steve is all the people he runs into who knew him before the ice. Those living connections are important.

I’ve written before about how most Golden Age superheroes represent specific power fantasies — Superman’s the desire to single-handedly fix the world’s problems, Wonder Woman is feminist empowerment, etc — and I think Captain America is a great example of that. After all, he was very much explicitly created as antifascist propaganda by Simon & Kirby, and since then he typically represents the fantasy of the “good American” that cares more about the welfare of the people around him than he cares about maintaining his nation’s status as a global superpower. On a political level, the United States’ involvement in WWII was suspiciously-motivated at best (after all, the US spent years avoiding joining the war in order to reap the economic benefits of selling supplies to both sides of the war), but plenty of American citizens joined the war effort simply because they believed that the Axis Powers needed to be stopped.

I’m having a hard time finding the right words for my point, but I think that it’s something along the lines of “Steve Rogers has to be a WWII veteran, because if he was a vet from any other American war, he’d come across as a thug at worst and a sucker at best”. The earnest enlistment of Steve Rogers into the military to fight the Nazis is a direct parallel to his co-creator Jack Kirby’s own experiences from the era, but translating that to any other war would just make Steve’s eagerness to serve seem either concerning or foolish.

SWORDTEMBER DAY 15: KINTSUGI

Scarred Seraphim, of chipped porcelain and gleaming gold ⚜️🕊️ The figure held the blade so delicately in her hands. Her flesh was made from a pale white stone, and like the sword, cracks webbed her forearms. A pale gold had been worked into her skin, repairing the fractures, and caught the light as she moved through her kata. Each stance perfect, the movement of her blade was so practised, and reverent. The warm sunset danced across her golden form, over the beads of sweat on her forehead, and glinted across the sharp edge of the sword. For something once considered broken, she was beautiful. 

Perhaps this blade was originally made by the same smith that made the pottery sword last year…

Yesterday’s sword!