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* "Amazon and Apple data equipment hacked by China with super small chips, says Bloomberg:" https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/10/04/amazon-apple-data-equipment-hacked-china-chips-bloomberg.html

* "UK accuses Russian spies of cyber-attacks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45741520

* "Russian Official Tied to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Trump Tower Lawyer, Is Dead:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-official-linked-to-natalia-veselnitskaya-the-trump-tower-lawyer-is-dead

* "U.S. indicts Russians in hacking of nuclear company Westinghouse:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber/u-s-indicts-russians-in-hacking-of-nuclear-company-westinghouse-idUSKCN1ME1U6

* "US Navy proposing major show of force to warn China:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/us-navy-show-of-force-china/index.htmlv

* "Pence accuses China of trying to undermine Trump:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/04/pence-china-undermining-trump-868240

* "Melania Trump was greeted with a "not a shithole" sign as a "welcome to Malawi":" https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-greeted-shithole-sign-malawi-1152619

* "EPA left key official out of 'secret science' rule:" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/409777-epa-left-key-official-out-of-secret-science-rule

* "Special counsel's office has radio interviews between Roger Stone and alleged WikiLeaks 'back channel':" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/kfile-roger-stone-randy-credico-special-counsel/index.htmlv

* "FBI confidential Kavanaugh report handed to White House, Senate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mcconnell-sets-vote-friday-move-kavanaugh-confirmation-forward-n916491

* "More than 2,400 law professors urge senators to reject Kavanaugh:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/03/kavanaugh-confirmation-temperament-law-professors-868125

* "Key red state Democratic senator to vote no on Kavanaugh:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/heidi-heitkamp-kavanaugh-nomination-senate-democrat/index.html

* "GOP Sen. Daines out on Saturday; Kavanaugh vote could be held open overnight:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/kavanaugh-vote-steve-daines-senate/index.html

* "Kavanaugh does not belong on Supreme Court, retired Justice Stevens...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh-stevens/kavanaugh-does-not-belong-on-supreme-court-retired-justice-stevens-says-idUSKCN1ME2P8

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren Casts Doubt On Thoroughness Of FBI Investigation Into Brett Kavanaugh:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2018/10/04/senator-elizabeth-warren-casts-doubt-on-thoroughness-of-fbi-investigation-into-brett-kavanaugh

* "The single copy of the FBI's Kavanaugh report is behind closed doors. Here's what senators have to do to see it:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/senator-fbi-report-review/index.html

* "Menendez calls FBI's new probe of Kavanaugh a 'bullshit investigation':" https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/10/menendez_calls_fbis_new_probe_of_kavanaugh_a_bulls.html

* "Some undecided GOP senators on Kavanaugh call FBI report 'reassuring' and 'thorough':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/grassley-says-new-fbi-report-kavanaugh-includes-no-new-info-n916601

* "100,000 U.S. Christian Churches Demand Withdrawal of Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Nomination:" http://fortune.com/2018/10/03/national-council-of-churches-demands-kavanaugh-withdraw/

* "Yale roommate says Kavanaugh lied under oath about drinking and yearbook:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/yale-roommate-kavanaugh-cnntv/index.html

* "More than 300 protesters arrested as Kavanaugh demonstrations pack Capitol Hill:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/kavanaugh-protests-us-capitol/index.htmlv

* "Kavanaugh vote looms as GOP pushes and voices of protest rise:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kavanaugh-vote-looms-as-gop-pushes-and-voices-of-protest-rise-1337286211607?v=railb&

* "Meager FBI report no help to senators conflicted over Kavanaugh:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/meager-fbi-report-no-help-to-senators-conflicted-over-kavanaugh-1337268291877?v=railb&

* "Women rush to Washington to make objections to Kavanaugh heard:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/women-rush-to-washington-to-make-objections-to-kavanaugh-heard-1337266243696?v=railb&

* "Booker: FBI Kavanaugh report not a sincere effort to find truth:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/booker-fbi-kavanaugh-report-not-a-sincere-effort-to-find-truth-1337265731990?v=railb&

* "Chris Hayes on the presumption of innocence:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-presumption-of-innocence-1337169475819?v=railb&

* "Sen. Blumenthal: FBI's Kavanaugh report is a "cover-up":" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-blumenthal-fbi-s-kavanaugh-report-is-a-cover-up-1337173571900?v=railb&

* This tumblr thread has a whole bunch of sourcing links at the bottom for issues around Sexual Assault Accusations, memory of trauma, etc.. http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/178754043117/tbc-since-tumblrs-posting-methods-changed-linked

* Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have Joe Manchin, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, or Lisa Murkowski. You may want to contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition. Please keep the pressure on them!

Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:

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/

* "Judge blocks Trump from ending protections for 300,000 immigrants:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/03/immigrants-protections-trump-legal-868126

* "NC Trans Feminine Student Denied Run For Homecoming Queen:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/10/nc-trans-feminine-student-denied-run.html

* "Undercover Girl Scout - Extended:"

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* "Trump Takes A Stand For The Real Victims: Men:"

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* "Kavanaugh's Drinking Buddy Speaks Out:"

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* So the Imperial Couple get crunchy treat from me of an evening, but LM gets soft treats from Squirrel separately. I want to be clear that they all get treats. LM still has her teeth and will nibble at kibbles, but won't eat anywhere near enough for her to survive on. She hates senior kittie dental treats and prefers the type I used to give the cats when she and her brother first came to live with us, so that's what squirrel gives her. She also really doesn't like to eat with the rambunctious youngsters. This is accommodation; not cruelty. Still, she does like the occasional crunchy treat too and we try to encourage her to eat hrd things when she's willing to do it, so I like to slip her one when I give mine treats if she's visible without be encroaching on Squirrel's room, since I only cross his threshold in emergencies. If she's not around, I'll hide one where Livia isn't likely to sniff it out and give it to LM next i notice her wandering past.

Last night, I was doing this, and was making a small scale fuss like cats enjoy, and livia got all excited. "The Hu-mon said 'Good Girl!' I'm Good Girl! That must mean something for me!" She came barrelling over, but LM had already gnoshed the treat, so all poor Livia got was Pettins and a Good Girl fuss of her own, as she had had her share earlier. The Heartbreak! The Cruelty!

I am for real sick, which is very annoying. This week, for the first time, Livia stopped running away in terror when I cough. She' a cat; she emphatically doesn't like it. She will wake from her nap and peer worriedly at me. If i keep coughing, she makes a rather plaintive meep. If I still inexplicably continue coughing she wanders off to the other room to continue her nap. Progress. I'm not ill enough yet for cough until I pass out, or wake up because I'm suffocating, both of which are notoriously unnerving to cats, but this is for sure progress, what with me having a serious degenerative lung disease that will likely kill me one day.

I still haven't got the flat decorations up, and I can't handle oils, so I can't do sale prep for another round of BPALs. Puttering is all I can really manage, and I'm pasted together with a lot of medication.

* "fuck it until you make it:" http://sodiumflare.tumblr.com/post/178748023675/fuck-it-until-you-make-it

* A Delightfully nerdy debate about Legolas' dialect of Sindarin vs. Frodo's version.: http://sodiumflare.tumblr.com/post/178748054535/musicalhell-penny-anna-sainatsukino

* "Killjoys: Season 4, Episode 9: The Kids Are Alright:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/10/killjoys-season-4-episode-9-kids-are.html

"Instead they settle into a kind of fun dynamic where Turin is the grumpy father figure and they’re all his wise-cracking kids who respect him and love him but don’t necessarily do as they’re told. Especially Pree and Dutch who are the Problem Children."

* From Bucky Barnes' perspective: http://sodiumflare.tumblr.com/post/178715506595/shaylogic-one-of-my-first-thoughts-when-i-woke

* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $150.00 behind on bills. 2ish Days; no bids. If you'd like to chip in directly towards helping me pay my bills Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

The all items for sale link is here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302887410358

BPAL: Regina Erebi (2011) (Halloween : An Evening in Hades (LE)): The Queen of Hell: pomegranate, spear mint, black mulberry, and myrrh. 1/2 Full & Scorpio (2007) (Celestials (LE)). 1-2 Imps worth. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Regina-Erebi-2011-Halloween-An-Evening-in-Hades-Scorpio-2007/302887503915?hash=item468580882b:g:rlMAAOSwb2JboFtP

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232

* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0

* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/

* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/

* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border

This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call

* 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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? 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/

* This is a cool person and the swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* 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.comn