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* "AP Explains: Catalans appear at ‘trial of century’ in Spain:" https://www.apnews.com/5c35835c33ba42d296a6bf737dea7440

* "National debt hits new milestone, topping $22 trillion:" https://apnews.com/91b54fd7207c45eb93523567152e43dc

* "Americans ask: What happened to my tax refund?:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/americans-ask-what-happened-to-my-tax-refund-1442308163610

* "President Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-installed-a-room-sized-golf-simulator-at-white-house/2019/02/13/ed3f6d5c-2e45-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.74253b51a3e8

* "House Democrats plan their own vast Russia probe focused on Trump's finances:" https://www.axios.com/house-democrats-donald-trump-russia-investigation-05918127-c77a-424d-a805-cde8e67bffe9.html

* "Judge rules Manafort lied to Mueller about contacts with Russian:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/13/paul-manafort-ruling-1169380

* "How Manafort’s 2016 meeting with a Russian employee at New York cigar club goes to ‘the heart’ of Mueller’s probe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-manaforts-2016-meeting-with-a-russian-employee-at-new-york-cigar-club-goes-to-the-heart-of-muellers-probe/2019/02/12/655f84dc-2d67-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.58930860c491

* "Manafort-Linked PAC Failed To Report $1 Million And The FEC Wants To Know Why:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/manafort-linked-pac-failed-to-report-1-million-and-the-fec-wants-to-know-why

* "Mueller extends winning streak as judge blows up Manafort deal:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-extends-winning-streak-as-judge-blows-up-manafort-deal-1442365507719

* "Schiff: Mueller findings 'too big to be swept under the rug':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-mueller-findings-too-big-to-be-swept-under-the-rug-1442364995532

* "Justice Department investigating leak of confidential Michael Cohen bank records:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/michael-cohen-personal-bank-records-charges/index.html

* "FEMA chief William ‘Brock’ Long, who faced hurricanes, wildfires and an internal investigation, quits:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/13/brock-long-resigns-fema-administrator/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2bcc4e593446

* "Trump urges Tennessee Valley Authority to keep open an aging coal-burning power plant:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-urges-tennessee-valley-authority-to-keep-open-49-year-old-coal-plant/2019/02/12/6fa1810c-2ed9-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5515116aca73

* "'Uniquely American': Senate passes landmark bill to enlarge national parks:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/13/senate-bill-public-lands-national-parks-expanded

* "Meet the Christian Reconstructionist Waging War on School Bonds:" https://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2019/02/meet-the-christian-reconstructionist-waging-war-on-school-bonds.html

* "House Judiciary passes first major gun violence bill in decades:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-judiciary-passes-first-major-gun-violence-bill-in-decades-1442367555506

* Republicans are really winning their class warfare against working Americans. "A record 7 million Americans are 3 months behind on their car payments, a red flag for the economy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/12/record-million-americans-are-months-behind-their-car-payments-red-flag-economy/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.82550de4572b

* "Border deal nears passage as lawmakers prepare for votes, with Trump expected to sign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawmakers-rush-to-resolve-last-minute-snags-in-spending-bill-as-shutdown-looms/2019/02/13/3f9b33e6-2f91-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.116c86d709cf

* "20 Years After NYPD Killing of Amadou Diallo, What’s Changed?:" http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/after-the-nypd-killing-of-amadou-diallo-whats-changed.html

* "A No-Knock Raid in Houston Led to Deaths and Police Injuries. Should Police Rethink the Practice?:" https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/a-no-knock-raid-in-houston-led-to-deaths-and-police-injuries-should-police-rethink-the-practice/

* "When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.):" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/magazine/when-the-camera-was-a-weapon-of-imperialism-and-when-it-still-is.html

* "Drunk History - Love:" http://www.cc.com/episodes/eid54x/drunk-history-love-season-6-ep-605

* "Green New Deal:"

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* "Thicc not Sick:"

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* "'(Trump's Rally In) El Paso' By Marty Robbins:"

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* "Trump's Friends At Fox Don't Like The Bipartisan Deal:"

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* "Trump 2020: Murders, Murders, Murders, Killings, Murders!:"

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* "Meanwhile... When You Have To Resign Over Face-Licking:"

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* "Bricky the Border Wall Heads to Texas:"

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* "What It Feels Like To Have Plants In The House Now:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/what-it-feels-like-to-have-plants

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

* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/

* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment

* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1

* 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

* The Rainbow Road and other ways to help Gay Refugees: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/160470723507/the-rainbow-railroad-is-helping-gay-men-escape

* 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? If you can not protest in person, 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/

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* 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