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gwydion* "Zimbabwe's resistance leader says Mugabe is "history":" https://news.vice.com/story/zimbabwes-resistance-leader-says-mugabe-is-history
* "Zimbabwe's President Mugabe resigns:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42071488
* "Egyptian lawmakers introduce LGBT criminalization bill:" http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/10/27/egyptian-lawmakers-introduce-lgbt-criminalization-bill/
* "Trump hurts Haitians he promised to help:"
* "Trump looks to boost GOP gerrymandering edge:"
* "VA's quiet plan to widen private care with TRICARE stirs ire:" http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vas-quiet-plan-widen-private-care-tricare-stirs-51216763
* "Trump moving stealthily to privatize the VA, alarming vets groups:"
* "Trump ignores Nixon lesson with public pressure on DoJ, Sessions:"
* 45 has endorsed noted pedophile and bigot, Roy Moore, because "we don't need a liberal person in there." But we do need a pedophile, apparently.
* So they are open about wanting a pedophile in the senate because that’s way better than them not robbing the poor and middle class to give the rich a tax cut they don’t need. Somehow, they still are claiming to be the party of family values. These are the family values they are touting. "White House to Alabama: Stand with Roy Moore:"
* "President Trump backs Roy Moore:"
* "Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now:" https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now
* "Trump FCC to revoke net neutrality: Politico:"
* "Trump FCC would close internet with revocation of net neutrality:"
* "Mueller examining Kushner contacts with foreign leaders: WSJ:"
* Things that make me go hmmmm.... "Dismissal of key US attorney, Dana Boente, a mystery:"
* This is my response to a comment about the tax bill not being about a war on education but a war to only allow the rich into college:
They’ve been fighting against access to education on all levels nearly as long as I’ve been alive. I am pretty sure the goal is to make it impossible for people not born with large trust funds to ever improve their situation, to permanently enshrine extreme wealth inequality and hereditary class distinction.
They are trying to concentrate wealth and power in small number of hands and make it as close to impossible to undo as they can manage. you can see it in every financial policy starting with Regan. You can see it in the battle to destroy Unions and depress wages since the ‘70′s. You can see it in mass incarceration for minor offenses that bar people from voting. You can see it in the voter suppression that keeps eligible citizens from voting. You can see it in targeted voter intimidation aimed at people of colour. You can see it in the deliberate starving of public schools of the funds they need to actually educate students instead of warehousing them. You can see it in supposed school “reforms” designed to lower the quality of education and leave students less prepared for higher education.
You can really see it in this tax bill which punishes teachers for providing school supplies to students who can’t afford them, and which makes college so expensive only the rich get to go, no matter how hard the student works or how intelligent they are.
This is a war on Merit on behalf of the interests of inherited wealth. We need to fight this with everything we have, because they are stealing the future of this generation and every generation to come after and the more battles we lose the harder it will be to keep fighting.
* "Conyers scandal rocks House Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/john-conyers-sexual-harassment-253977
* "Charlie Rose fired by CBS, PBS and Bloomberg over sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/harvey-weinstein-scandal/tv-host-charlie-rose-suspended-apologizes-after-sexual-harassment-accusations-n822691
* "Charlie Rose out at CBS News, PBS:"
* I am not at all surprised that a man willing to assault a woman in the ways he attacked Ms. Tweedan would assault other women. "Woman says Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/al-franken-inappropriate-touch-2010/index.html
* I am uncomfortable using the me too tag because of my gender, but this sort of thing is wide spread. There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we socialize men and boys to believe they are entitled to other people's bodies, because that's what this is. I keep thinking about how much I hated the job I had when I was sixteen where men were always grabbing my ass and rubbing against it. I still remember my raw fury when a coworker surprised me with a finger to the anus. So I keep thinking about the things that I was forced to accept if I wanted my pay check in my teens and twenties, all the women and men I've known with stories like this, and the occasional male friend coming to me over the years with his horror on discovering it had happened to his girlfriend or his women friends or his family members so he could have someone to talk through the process with.
I believe the women. I always believe the women, because it is so disgustingly common. Because I was someone who had to dodge male hands every day at work. Because I had to defend myself and my sister when we were small. Because I have a long list of friends it's happened too, and not just the women. Because it's fucking exhausting to have to deal with constantly, and the things my disease has done to my body and thus put an end to it for me, hasn't erased my long memory of what it felt like to deal with it daily from customers and coworkers and management.
I want a better world than the one we had and the one we have now and that means changing the culture. That means men confronting men and calling them on their bullshit. That means believing and supporting the ones who were attacked. That means listening to the stories. That means raising the next generation of boys better.
* "Sex harassment accusations continues to rock media, politics:"
* "Woman with crude anti-Trump sticker adds new decal to her truck:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-fonseca-trump-sticker-new-decal-troy-nehls-pickup-truck/
* "Moni's 2017 TDOR Thoughts:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/monis-2017-tdor-thoughts.html
* "A Ten Point Post TDOR Plan:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-ten-point-post-tdor-plan.html
* Warning: contains ableist language at the end. "How do you avoid Thanksgiving arguments? We asked a hostage negotiator:" http://www.kgw.com/news/how-do-you-avoid-thanksgiving-arguments-we-asked-a-hostage-negotiator/493752055
* I am not convinced those are leashes, but the carvings are interesting. "The first-ever depiction of dogs shows them on leashes:" http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-8000-year-old-rock-art-first-ever-depiction-dogs-and-humans-had-715114
* "Ancient Ruins Discovered Under Lake in Turkey:" https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/underwater-fortress-urartu-lake-van-turkey-archaeology-video-spd/
* "The Anti-Roy Moore Headlines You Haven't Seen:"
* "On Elephants, Trump Has A Change Of Heartlessness:"
* Sunday, the winds were so wild, they kept startling poor Tavy awake. Monday, I did some excellent adulting: tanks, garden stuff, foraging, meds, library, fish food (We only had a day or two of micro pellets left). My the time the forage was away and dishes done, etc., I didn't have much left. I did promised things and necessary things, but I wasn't up to tackling the news firehouse. Instead I went to bed early and got good sleep. Tuesday I spent the afternoon on phone bureaucracy (Progress!) and went on a long loop for a kibble run in really wild weather. I made it home safe despite wind strong enough to bat my car around, rush hour, and accidents on the freeway. There was a break in the rain the last half of the journey home and I stood next to my car a good five minutes, watching the clouds rush north alarmingly fast. Through occasional breaks in the stormclouds, I could see another layer higher up moving slower, but still fast for clouds. It was beautiful and strange and it made me wish I had a camera so I could film it for you.
Anyway, I am a day and a half behind on postings, and it may be some time before I catch up.
* Amoung the random bits of phone bureaucracy today, I talked to a supervisor at the clinic where I go. This is not a thing that normally happens, but I need to make special arrangements for some unusual medical documentation another bit of bureaucracy is going to need apparently.
Anyway, some of you will remember that I was one of the earliest trans patients to pioneer at this clinic. There were two others I know of before me but seriously, it was a huge thing for this city as when we started advocating for trans services there, trans patients still had to travel all the way to Seattle for basic services like prescriptions. I'm not even talking first prescribing. I am talking about on going treatment. The only endocrinologist in town was a notorious transphobe and wasn't taking new patients anyway. One doctor at the poverty clinic was willing to do script renewels, and a little while after that, I talked a second into trying it. Word of mouth spread, because even having two practitioners doing basic trans friendly GP type stuff North of Seattle was a Big Fucking Deal, especially as they take Medicare/Medicaid and do sliding scale for patients in poverty. People kept coming; services kept expanding. The clinic realized how big the need was, and they evolved to take proper care of us. New staff was hired with the trans patient base in mind. They did special training to make sure trans patients were being treated properly. They asked actual trans patients how they were doing and took suggestions seriously. This is how to be an ally on a medical professional level, and I am incredibly proud of them. They adjusted standardized forms to make them trans friendly. They have a standard protocol for use names vs. legal names and are super careful about calling trans patients by the correct ones. They changed the fucking names of the clinic a number of years ago because the old one made them look a tad catholic and that was scary for LGBTQIA+ patients, and thus counter productive given that they are now not only the major provider up here for transfolk, but they have a large HIV+ patient base as well and have for decades before we invaded them, but us being around helped encourage the change, as when they asked us about things they could do better, the name kept coming up.
So as part of our conversation about arranging for the special documentation, my trans status came up. He was looking at my chart and noticed that they had no pronouns listed for me. Apparently they'd added a standardized pronoun slot to the forms in the last decade, but I've been out so long, they'd missed me. We had a conversation about them in which my choice of "ze, zir, zim" caused rather a bit of confusion as he'd not heard them and couldn't figure out at first that'd I'd understood and was answering. (They had they as one of the expected options, but he wasn't as up on other non-binary variants). Anyway, he was fine and my chart is updated and he's expected to call back tomorrow about my documentation for the bureaucracy, which is fine. Mostly I just wanted to say how impressed I am at how hard those cisfolk down at the poverty clinic are trying to do things right and how open they are to evolving to fit the needs of a population that is extremely underserved every where.
Revaunchist forces may be trying to beat us down and take our basic rights from us and kill us, but people who decided to stand up for what's right voted in Transfolk in Virginia and Minneapolis this month, and at the downtown poverty clinic I can have a calm adult conversation about non-binary pronoun options with a cis-person admin at a local clinic that is doing it's damnedest to keep my people healthy and make them feel respected.
* Tavy had his first serious oops for the season today. One would think from his personality, that he'd be a terror with Gothmas ornaments and nothing in Halloweentown would be safe, but he is as careful as he can reasonably be given his disability and while he does tip over halloween village people with his feet, it's clearly accidental and the larger items and the Halloween trees/ornaments are safe. Tonight he messed up a jump and sent the Halloweeen globe, a ceramic pumpkin and some village people flying, but nothing was broken and it was very load and scary for him so he got a nice cuddle. Seriously, he tries so hard, and I am honestly impressed we got all the way to Thanksgiving week without mishap.
* "Signs You're About To Be In A Gay Subplot In A Period Drama:" http://the-toast.net/2015/11/24/signs-youre-about-to-be-in-a-gay-subplot-in-a-period-drama/
* It is quite possible that I'm a character in a Stoppard play. "How To Tell If You Are In A Tom Stoppard Play - The Toast:" http://the-toast.net/2015/11/30/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-tom-stoppard-play/
* Snerk. Warning: contains nudes from Western Art. "Normal, Old-Fashioned Heterosexuality In Western Art History:" http://the-toast.net/2016/02/29/normal-old-fashioned-heterosexuality-in-western-art-history/
* "Z Nation, Season 4, Episode 8: A Crisis of Faith:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/z-nation-season-4-episode-8-crisis-of.html
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/
* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc
* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* "Zimbabwe's President Mugabe resigns:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42071488
* "Egyptian lawmakers introduce LGBT criminalization bill:" http://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/10/27/egyptian-lawmakers-introduce-lgbt-criminalization-bill/
* "Trump hurts Haitians he promised to help:"
* "Trump looks to boost GOP gerrymandering edge:"
* "VA's quiet plan to widen private care with TRICARE stirs ire:" http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vas-quiet-plan-widen-private-care-tricare-stirs-51216763
* "Trump moving stealthily to privatize the VA, alarming vets groups:"
* "Trump ignores Nixon lesson with public pressure on DoJ, Sessions:"
* 45 has endorsed noted pedophile and bigot, Roy Moore, because "we don't need a liberal person in there." But we do need a pedophile, apparently.
* So they are open about wanting a pedophile in the senate because that’s way better than them not robbing the poor and middle class to give the rich a tax cut they don’t need. Somehow, they still are claiming to be the party of family values. These are the family values they are touting. "White House to Alabama: Stand with Roy Moore:"
* "President Trump backs Roy Moore:"
* "Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know Now:" https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now
* "Trump FCC to revoke net neutrality: Politico:"
* "Trump FCC would close internet with revocation of net neutrality:"
* "Mueller examining Kushner contacts with foreign leaders: WSJ:"
* Things that make me go hmmmm.... "Dismissal of key US attorney, Dana Boente, a mystery:"
* This is my response to a comment about the tax bill not being about a war on education but a war to only allow the rich into college:
They’ve been fighting against access to education on all levels nearly as long as I’ve been alive. I am pretty sure the goal is to make it impossible for people not born with large trust funds to ever improve their situation, to permanently enshrine extreme wealth inequality and hereditary class distinction.
They are trying to concentrate wealth and power in small number of hands and make it as close to impossible to undo as they can manage. you can see it in every financial policy starting with Regan. You can see it in the battle to destroy Unions and depress wages since the ‘70′s. You can see it in mass incarceration for minor offenses that bar people from voting. You can see it in the voter suppression that keeps eligible citizens from voting. You can see it in targeted voter intimidation aimed at people of colour. You can see it in the deliberate starving of public schools of the funds they need to actually educate students instead of warehousing them. You can see it in supposed school “reforms” designed to lower the quality of education and leave students less prepared for higher education.
You can really see it in this tax bill which punishes teachers for providing school supplies to students who can’t afford them, and which makes college so expensive only the rich get to go, no matter how hard the student works or how intelligent they are.
This is a war on Merit on behalf of the interests of inherited wealth. We need to fight this with everything we have, because they are stealing the future of this generation and every generation to come after and the more battles we lose the harder it will be to keep fighting.
* "Conyers scandal rocks House Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/john-conyers-sexual-harassment-253977
* "Charlie Rose fired by CBS, PBS and Bloomberg over sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/harvey-weinstein-scandal/tv-host-charlie-rose-suspended-apologizes-after-sexual-harassment-accusations-n822691
* "Charlie Rose out at CBS News, PBS:"
* I am not at all surprised that a man willing to assault a woman in the ways he attacked Ms. Tweedan would assault other women. "Woman says Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/al-franken-inappropriate-touch-2010/index.html
* I am uncomfortable using the me too tag because of my gender, but this sort of thing is wide spread. There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we socialize men and boys to believe they are entitled to other people's bodies, because that's what this is. I keep thinking about how much I hated the job I had when I was sixteen where men were always grabbing my ass and rubbing against it. I still remember my raw fury when a coworker surprised me with a finger to the anus. So I keep thinking about the things that I was forced to accept if I wanted my pay check in my teens and twenties, all the women and men I've known with stories like this, and the occasional male friend coming to me over the years with his horror on discovering it had happened to his girlfriend or his women friends or his family members so he could have someone to talk through the process with.
I believe the women. I always believe the women, because it is so disgustingly common. Because I was someone who had to dodge male hands every day at work. Because I had to defend myself and my sister when we were small. Because I have a long list of friends it's happened too, and not just the women. Because it's fucking exhausting to have to deal with constantly, and the things my disease has done to my body and thus put an end to it for me, hasn't erased my long memory of what it felt like to deal with it daily from customers and coworkers and management.
I want a better world than the one we had and the one we have now and that means changing the culture. That means men confronting men and calling them on their bullshit. That means believing and supporting the ones who were attacked. That means listening to the stories. That means raising the next generation of boys better.
* "Sex harassment accusations continues to rock media, politics:"
* "Woman with crude anti-Trump sticker adds new decal to her truck:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-fonseca-trump-sticker-new-decal-troy-nehls-pickup-truck/
* "Moni's 2017 TDOR Thoughts:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/monis-2017-tdor-thoughts.html
* "A Ten Point Post TDOR Plan:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-ten-point-post-tdor-plan.html
* Warning: contains ableist language at the end. "How do you avoid Thanksgiving arguments? We asked a hostage negotiator:" http://www.kgw.com/news/how-do-you-avoid-thanksgiving-arguments-we-asked-a-hostage-negotiator/493752055
* I am not convinced those are leashes, but the carvings are interesting. "The first-ever depiction of dogs shows them on leashes:" http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-8000-year-old-rock-art-first-ever-depiction-dogs-and-humans-had-715114
* "Ancient Ruins Discovered Under Lake in Turkey:" https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/underwater-fortress-urartu-lake-van-turkey-archaeology-video-spd/
* "The Anti-Roy Moore Headlines You Haven't Seen:"
* "On Elephants, Trump Has A Change Of Heartlessness:"
* Sunday, the winds were so wild, they kept startling poor Tavy awake. Monday, I did some excellent adulting: tanks, garden stuff, foraging, meds, library, fish food (We only had a day or two of micro pellets left). My the time the forage was away and dishes done, etc., I didn't have much left. I did promised things and necessary things, but I wasn't up to tackling the news firehouse. Instead I went to bed early and got good sleep. Tuesday I spent the afternoon on phone bureaucracy (Progress!) and went on a long loop for a kibble run in really wild weather. I made it home safe despite wind strong enough to bat my car around, rush hour, and accidents on the freeway. There was a break in the rain the last half of the journey home and I stood next to my car a good five minutes, watching the clouds rush north alarmingly fast. Through occasional breaks in the stormclouds, I could see another layer higher up moving slower, but still fast for clouds. It was beautiful and strange and it made me wish I had a camera so I could film it for you.
Anyway, I am a day and a half behind on postings, and it may be some time before I catch up.
* Amoung the random bits of phone bureaucracy today, I talked to a supervisor at the clinic where I go. This is not a thing that normally happens, but I need to make special arrangements for some unusual medical documentation another bit of bureaucracy is going to need apparently.
Anyway, some of you will remember that I was one of the earliest trans patients to pioneer at this clinic. There were two others I know of before me but seriously, it was a huge thing for this city as when we started advocating for trans services there, trans patients still had to travel all the way to Seattle for basic services like prescriptions. I'm not even talking first prescribing. I am talking about on going treatment. The only endocrinologist in town was a notorious transphobe and wasn't taking new patients anyway. One doctor at the poverty clinic was willing to do script renewels, and a little while after that, I talked a second into trying it. Word of mouth spread, because even having two practitioners doing basic trans friendly GP type stuff North of Seattle was a Big Fucking Deal, especially as they take Medicare/Medicaid and do sliding scale for patients in poverty. People kept coming; services kept expanding. The clinic realized how big the need was, and they evolved to take proper care of us. New staff was hired with the trans patient base in mind. They did special training to make sure trans patients were being treated properly. They asked actual trans patients how they were doing and took suggestions seriously. This is how to be an ally on a medical professional level, and I am incredibly proud of them. They adjusted standardized forms to make them trans friendly. They have a standard protocol for use names vs. legal names and are super careful about calling trans patients by the correct ones. They changed the fucking names of the clinic a number of years ago because the old one made them look a tad catholic and that was scary for LGBTQIA+ patients, and thus counter productive given that they are now not only the major provider up here for transfolk, but they have a large HIV+ patient base as well and have for decades before we invaded them, but us being around helped encourage the change, as when they asked us about things they could do better, the name kept coming up.
So as part of our conversation about arranging for the special documentation, my trans status came up. He was looking at my chart and noticed that they had no pronouns listed for me. Apparently they'd added a standardized pronoun slot to the forms in the last decade, but I've been out so long, they'd missed me. We had a conversation about them in which my choice of "ze, zir, zim" caused rather a bit of confusion as he'd not heard them and couldn't figure out at first that'd I'd understood and was answering. (They had they as one of the expected options, but he wasn't as up on other non-binary variants). Anyway, he was fine and my chart is updated and he's expected to call back tomorrow about my documentation for the bureaucracy, which is fine. Mostly I just wanted to say how impressed I am at how hard those cisfolk down at the poverty clinic are trying to do things right and how open they are to evolving to fit the needs of a population that is extremely underserved every where.
Revaunchist forces may be trying to beat us down and take our basic rights from us and kill us, but people who decided to stand up for what's right voted in Transfolk in Virginia and Minneapolis this month, and at the downtown poverty clinic I can have a calm adult conversation about non-binary pronoun options with a cis-person admin at a local clinic that is doing it's damnedest to keep my people healthy and make them feel respected.
* Tavy had his first serious oops for the season today. One would think from his personality, that he'd be a terror with Gothmas ornaments and nothing in Halloweentown would be safe, but he is as careful as he can reasonably be given his disability and while he does tip over halloween village people with his feet, it's clearly accidental and the larger items and the Halloween trees/ornaments are safe. Tonight he messed up a jump and sent the Halloweeen globe, a ceramic pumpkin and some village people flying, but nothing was broken and it was very load and scary for him so he got a nice cuddle. Seriously, he tries so hard, and I am honestly impressed we got all the way to Thanksgiving week without mishap.
* "Signs You're About To Be In A Gay Subplot In A Period Drama:" http://the-toast.net/2015/11/24/signs-youre-about-to-be-in-a-gay-subplot-in-a-period-drama/
* It is quite possible that I'm a character in a Stoppard play. "How To Tell If You Are In A Tom Stoppard Play - The Toast:" http://the-toast.net/2015/11/30/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-tom-stoppard-play/
* Snerk. Warning: contains nudes from Western Art. "Normal, Old-Fashioned Heterosexuality In Western Art History:" http://the-toast.net/2016/02/29/normal-old-fashioned-heterosexuality-in-western-art-history/
* "Z Nation, Season 4, Episode 8: A Crisis of Faith:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/11/z-nation-season-4-episode-8-crisis-of.html
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/
* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc
* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com