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Oct. 7th, 2017 04:29 am* "Russian Kaspersky anti-virus software eyed in serious NSA breach:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russian-kaspersky-anti-virus-software-eyed-in-serious-nsa-breach-1064019523796
* "Trump signed law to help mentally ill get guns:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-signed-law-to-help-mentally-ill-get-guns-1064009283995
* How much does 45 want to deprive ordinary working people of affordable health care? 45 personally intervened to stop Iowa from stabilizing their market. This will drive prices up on purpose, an important Republican goal.
* "US Intelligence Unit Accused Of “Domestic Spying” On Americans’ Finances:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/us-intelligence-unit-accused-of-illegally-spying-on?utm_term=.eqQnDn2NN#.nkYqkqXoo
* "New charter jet scandals rock Trump's cabinet:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-charter-jet-scandals-rock-trump-s-cabinet-1064724547960
* "Manafort looked to capitalize on Trump camp role with oligarch:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-looked-to-capitalize-on-trump-camp-role-with-oligarch-1064858691543
* "Exorbitant jet travel at taxpayer expense a Trump admin hallmark:"http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exorbitant-jet-travel-at-taxpayer-expense-a-trump-admin-hallmark-1064831043860
* "John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, White House believes:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/john-kelly-cell-phone-compromised-243514
* "Trump Nominates a Coal Lobbyist to Be No. 2 at E.P.A.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/climate/trump-epa-andrew-wheeler.html
* "Scoop: CIA director Pompeo considered to replace Tillerson:" https://www.axios.com/cia-director-pompeo-considered-to-replace-tillerson-2493643532.html
* I just spotted someone calling the Tillerson/45 dust up "Morongate." should I be amused or horrified that this is where we are in our national discourse?
* Republicans insist that calling for common sense and extremely popular gun reforms like universal background checks is forbidden because it's "politicizing a tragedy", but that politicizing a mass shooting to shut down debate, demonize people protesting the murder of innocent people, and to rob woman of the right to make their own medical decisions is somehow not a political act. I call bullshit!
* "Pro-life Rep. resigns after asking mistress to have abortion:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/pro-life-rep-resigns-after-asking-mistress-to-have-abortion-1063901251514
* "House GOP says Las Vegas massacre inspired them to crack down on reproductive rights:" https://thinkprogress.org/house-gop-shooting-reproductive-rights-56aa970278a8/
* "Lin-Manuel: Trump response to Puerto Rico 'jaw-dropping':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lin-manuel-trump-response-to-puerto-rico-jaw-dropping-1064747075653
* "Media accesses Puerto Rico roads FEMA won't drive with aid:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/media-accesses-puerto-rico-roads-fema-won-t-drive-with-aid-1064846915694
* "Ta-Nehisi Coates: The GOP 'has been playing with fire':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ta-nehisi-coates-the-gop-1064735811636
* "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.jcod4dlGG#.nfNbybmrr
* Inclusive Activism and Self Care: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166109602475/elodieunderglass-in-reference-to-this-post-in#notes
* "The Triumvirate Of Stupidity: Tillerson, Mattis And Mnuchin:"
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* "A Gun Regulation Analogy For All You Stoners:"
( Embed: )
* One of the things about being "That House" is that neighbors on walks slow down to look at my decorations, nearly always smiling, and in that twilight period between me turning on the lights and the full dark setting in, I often find myself looking into their faces as the stare in my front window. The sensation is strangely intimate and more than a little peculiar, looking into the faces of strangers and seeing their enjoyment from so close and yet on the other side of a screen/glass. I wonder if this is how the chimpanzees feel in the zoo and delighted strangers wander pass their enclosure day after day.
* Artist Modelling: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166109351280/authorbettyadams-ravenstolethesun
* "Market Forces:" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166111174220/market-forces#notes
* On the scent of Faeries: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166113283850/im-in-the-middle-of-a-toby-re-read-and-stopped-to
* On Libraries: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166122507150/its-hard-for-me-to-even-remember-the-last-time-i
* More Cavett: Wow, Bob Fosse was a shitty human being. You DO NOT casually mention someone's partner has died just to get a reaction. I hate that this sort of abusive shit was/is considered acceptable in Hollywood.
* "Games for Three:" https://thegenealogyofstyle.wordpress.com/category/ballet/
* Birth of a Cryptid: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/166112787980/caledoniaseries-gallusrostromegalus
* That thing towards the beginning of Gifted were the parents threaten to sue the school to the ground if they don't put a stop to the bullying right now? Those of you who are long time readers will know that is what I always advise parents do when there kid is being picked on. I know y'all are sick of hearing this, but it really is the best way to protect your kids, especially if you kid is LGBTQIA or another minority. Hand write a dated, contemporaneous log of all incidents. Threaten to sue. Get a lawyer if they don't step up. It is the fastest way to get a school culture to change not jut for your student, but for every student who comes after. take no shit. Accept no shared blame. Make yourself a thorn in their side, a potentially incredibly expensive thorn. Public Schools are by definition short of funds and it is cheaper to retrain staff and provide admin guidance than it is to fight and worse yet lose a law suit. Some will inevitably fight in red areas particularly, but most won't, and either way you win and so does your kid and all the ones coming up behind them.
* ToS Rewatch, Season 2:
( Cut for your pleasure: )
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with
* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight
"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside
* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the
* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html
* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries
* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn
* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide
* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633
* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets
* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how
* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires
* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* "Trump signed law to help mentally ill get guns:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-signed-law-to-help-mentally-ill-get-guns-1064009283995
* How much does 45 want to deprive ordinary working people of affordable health care? 45 personally intervened to stop Iowa from stabilizing their market. This will drive prices up on purpose, an important Republican goal.
* "US Intelligence Unit Accused Of “Domestic Spying” On Americans’ Finances:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/us-intelligence-unit-accused-of-illegally-spying-on?utm_term=.eqQnDn2NN#.nkYqkqXoo
* "New charter jet scandals rock Trump's cabinet:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-charter-jet-scandals-rock-trump-s-cabinet-1064724547960
* "Manafort looked to capitalize on Trump camp role with oligarch:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-looked-to-capitalize-on-trump-camp-role-with-oligarch-1064858691543
* "Exorbitant jet travel at taxpayer expense a Trump admin hallmark:"http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exorbitant-jet-travel-at-taxpayer-expense-a-trump-admin-hallmark-1064831043860
* "John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, White House believes:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/john-kelly-cell-phone-compromised-243514
* "Trump Nominates a Coal Lobbyist to Be No. 2 at E.P.A.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/climate/trump-epa-andrew-wheeler.html
* "Scoop: CIA director Pompeo considered to replace Tillerson:" https://www.axios.com/cia-director-pompeo-considered-to-replace-tillerson-2493643532.html
* I just spotted someone calling the Tillerson/45 dust up "Morongate." should I be amused or horrified that this is where we are in our national discourse?
* Republicans insist that calling for common sense and extremely popular gun reforms like universal background checks is forbidden because it's "politicizing a tragedy", but that politicizing a mass shooting to shut down debate, demonize people protesting the murder of innocent people, and to rob woman of the right to make their own medical decisions is somehow not a political act. I call bullshit!
* "Pro-life Rep. resigns after asking mistress to have abortion:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/pro-life-rep-resigns-after-asking-mistress-to-have-abortion-1063901251514
* "House GOP says Las Vegas massacre inspired them to crack down on reproductive rights:" https://thinkprogress.org/house-gop-shooting-reproductive-rights-56aa970278a8/
* "Lin-Manuel: Trump response to Puerto Rico 'jaw-dropping':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lin-manuel-trump-response-to-puerto-rico-jaw-dropping-1064747075653
* "Media accesses Puerto Rico roads FEMA won't drive with aid:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/media-accesses-puerto-rico-roads-fema-won-t-drive-with-aid-1064846915694
* "Ta-Nehisi Coates: The GOP 'has been playing with fire':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ta-nehisi-coates-the-gop-1064735811636
* "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.jcod4dlGG#.nfNbybmrr
* Inclusive Activism and Self Care: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166109602475/elodieunderglass-in-reference-to-this-post-in#notes
* "The Triumvirate Of Stupidity: Tillerson, Mattis And Mnuchin:"
( Embed: )
* "A Gun Regulation Analogy For All You Stoners:"
( Embed: )
* One of the things about being "That House" is that neighbors on walks slow down to look at my decorations, nearly always smiling, and in that twilight period between me turning on the lights and the full dark setting in, I often find myself looking into their faces as the stare in my front window. The sensation is strangely intimate and more than a little peculiar, looking into the faces of strangers and seeing their enjoyment from so close and yet on the other side of a screen/glass. I wonder if this is how the chimpanzees feel in the zoo and delighted strangers wander pass their enclosure day after day.
* Artist Modelling: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166109351280/authorbettyadams-ravenstolethesun
* "Market Forces:" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166111174220/market-forces#notes
* On the scent of Faeries: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166113283850/im-in-the-middle-of-a-toby-re-read-and-stopped-to
* On Libraries: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/166122507150/its-hard-for-me-to-even-remember-the-last-time-i
* More Cavett: Wow, Bob Fosse was a shitty human being. You DO NOT casually mention someone's partner has died just to get a reaction. I hate that this sort of abusive shit was/is considered acceptable in Hollywood.
* "Games for Three:" https://thegenealogyofstyle.wordpress.com/category/ballet/
* Birth of a Cryptid: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/166112787980/caledoniaseries-gallusrostromegalus
* That thing towards the beginning of Gifted were the parents threaten to sue the school to the ground if they don't put a stop to the bullying right now? Those of you who are long time readers will know that is what I always advise parents do when there kid is being picked on. I know y'all are sick of hearing this, but it really is the best way to protect your kids, especially if you kid is LGBTQIA or another minority. Hand write a dated, contemporaneous log of all incidents. Threaten to sue. Get a lawyer if they don't step up. It is the fastest way to get a school culture to change not jut for your student, but for every student who comes after. take no shit. Accept no shared blame. Make yourself a thorn in their side, a potentially incredibly expensive thorn. Public Schools are by definition short of funds and it is cheaper to retrain staff and provide admin guidance than it is to fight and worse yet lose a law suit. Some will inevitably fight in red areas particularly, but most won't, and either way you win and so does your kid and all the ones coming up behind them.
* ToS Rewatch, Season 2:
( Cut for your pleasure: )
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/
* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with
* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight
"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside
* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the
* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html
* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries
* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn
* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide
* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633
* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets
* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how
* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires
* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com