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* "EU Ignores the Public, Passes Internet-Wrecking Copyright Proposal:" https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvyqkp/eu-ignores-the-public-passes-internet-wrecking-copyright-proposal

* "After 30 Years, Kazakhstan Gets a New Ruler. Sort Of.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/opinion/sunday/kazakhstan-president-nazarbayev-resignation.html

* "Russia acknowledges presence of troops in Venezuela:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/russian-troops-landed-caracas-talks-venezuela-envoy-military

* "Brexit is a national crisis. Not a careers fair for 22 Tories:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/brexit-national-crisis-careers-tories-theresa-may

* "Ebola disbelief widespread in Congo hotspots:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47732013

* "Italian Politician Who Opposed Mandatory Chickenpox Vaccine Sickened With Chickenpox:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/massimiliano-fedriga-chickenpox-vaccine_n_5c9133d5e4b09b8d563a2dac

* "Erdogan Is Sowing a Turkish Obsession in Latin America:" https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/erdogan-is-sowing-a-turkish-obsession-in-latin-america/92616

* "Trump vows to have a health plan 'far better than Obamacare':" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/trump-health-care-obamacare-1238927

* Important list of how thoroughly we will be fucked. "What Happens if Obamacare Is Struck Down?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/health/obamacare-trump-health.html

* "Trump pressures wary Republicans to produce replacement for health-care law:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-gop-leader-mccarthy-sought-to-deter-trump-from-pursuing-destruction-of-obamacare/2019/03/27/272b1632-50b1-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c944b4979df9

* "White House Obamacare reversal made over Cabinet objections:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/26/trump-obamacare-reversal-cabinet-1238359

* "Conservatism’s Monstrous Endgame:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/opinion/republican-apparatchiks-deep-state.html

* "Give Donald Trump credit: His cover-up is working, so far:" https://www.salon.com/2019/03/25/give-donald-trump-credit-his-cover-up-is-working-so-far/

* "Elijah Cummings Seeks 10 Years of Trump's Financial Records:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrat-elijah-cummings-seeks-10-years-of-trumps-financial-records

* "Judiciary Committee seeks obstruction of justice probe records from DOJ:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/26/mueller-obstruction-of-justice-legislation-1237498

* "‘Undoubtedly there is collusion’: Trump antagonist Adam Schiff doubles down after Mueller finds no conspiracy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/undoubtedly-there-is-collusion-trump-antagonist-adam-schiff-doubles-down-after-mueller-finds-no-conspiracy/2019/03/26/e972d9e8-4fdd-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d8ae95d23d5e

* "McConnell backs effort to investigate alleged bias against Trump at DOJ:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/26/mcconnell-graham-investigate-doj-bias-1238038

* "McConnell blocks vote on release of Mueller report for 2nd time:" https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-blocks-vote-mueller-report-public-117c6833-9385-49e3-a323-c07f555dc385.html

* "Mueller unfinished business apparently includes active grand jury:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-unfinished-business-apparently-includes-active-grand-jury-1466602563598

* "DeVos defends proposed Special Olympics cut amid outcry:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/devos-special-olympics-1300549

* "Five Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago would cover Betsy Devos’s proposed Special Olympics cuts:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/27/five-trump-trips-mar-a-lago-would-cover-betsy-devoss-proposed-special-olympics-cuts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3203b6edb969

* "Proposed DeVos budget eliminates federal Special Olympics funding:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/proposed-devos-budget-eliminates-federal-special-olympics-funding-1466611267833

* "DeVos proposal to cut Special Olympics funding sparks outrage:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/devos-proposal-to-cut-special-olympics-funding-sparks-outrage-1466613827573

* "Trump administration tries to kill Special Olympics funding:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-administration-tries-to-kill-special-olympics-funding-1466414147910

* "Pence calls for NASA to send humans to the moon within five years:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/26/pence-calls-nasa-send-humans-moon-within-five-years/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.55e312f1d37e

* The concrete Republican plan to achieve this is to dramatically cut NASA spending, including zeroing out a component they need to achieve the goal, at least according to 45's budget.

* "Departing Trump aides failed to disclose next job as law requires:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/trump-aides-ethics-1238160

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Trump's cruel agenda:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-elizabeth-warren-on-trump-s-cruel-agenda-1466386499835

* " Sen. Mike Lee says we can solve climate change with more babies. Science says otherwise. :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-mike-lee-says-we-can-solve-climate-change-with-more-babies-science-says-otherwise/2019/03/26/67f91b2e-4fed-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d5de0bf9ea32

* "AOC Torches the Republican Talking Point That Caring About Climate Change Is ‘Elitist’:" https://www.thenation.com/article/aoc-green-new-deal-mcconnell-speech/

* "People seem to really like The Green New Deal despite what Republicans say.:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/people-seem-to-really-like-the-green-new-deal-despite-what-republicans-say-1466437187627

* "3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here’s how they did it:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90316607/3-cities-in-the-u-s-have-ended-chronic-homelessness-heres-how-they-did-it

* "Bump Stock Ban Takes Effect As Gun Rights Groups Ask Supreme Court For Delay:" https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706905757/bump-stock-ban-takes-effect-as-gun-rights-groups-ask-supreme-court-for-delay

* "Wisconsin Man Pleads Guilty To Abducting Jayme Closs And Killing Her Parents:" https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707373987/wisconsin-man-pleads-guilty-to-abducting-jayme-closs-and-killing-her-parents

* "Broadly Launches Gender Spectrum Image Collection:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/03/broadly-launches-gender-spectrum-image.html

* "Why your desk job is so damn exhausting:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/5/17818170/work-fatigue-exhaustion-psychology

* "Verizon Employee Uses His Truck to Save a Cat from a Pole and Is Suspended:" https://97x.com/verizon-employee-uses-his-truck-to-save-a-cat-from-a-pole-and-is-suspended/

* "Collusion Conclusion:"

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* "Mick Mulvaney, Bad Scammer:"

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* "Immigrants in the Military:"

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* "U.S. Moon Landing Reboot, A Perfect Basketball Bracket & Kids' Shopping Center Rampage in Australia:"

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* "Getting to Know Dem - Pete Buttigieg:"

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* "Donald Trump Could 'Go Full Animal':"

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* "Healthcare, Puerto Rico Aid, Special Olympics: Everything Must Go!:"

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* "Colbert Gives Mike Lee The Mike Lee Treatment:"

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* "Meanwhile... NASA Only Has Man Suits:"

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* One of the things heart patients and lung patients have is a particular quality of exhaustion that healthy people don't experience. Some part essential part of one's body I working so hard to do an essential thing poorly that there is hardly anything else left to do actual things with. It is nothing at all like the tired of running a distance race, or the tired of the third fourteen hour shift in a row or the insomnia exhaustion, though it is closer to that particularly quality of insomnia exhaustion one gets when one hasn't slept more than half an hour in every twenty four because one is dying. (And yes, I've had that one too, and it really is different from grad school hardly any sleep because the thesis is due tired. It's a thing that happens when you have a projected three months to live if you can't raise surgery money sick to feel it, so yeah, not a healthy person kind of tired).

This particular exhaustion makes the act of sitting up a marathon level act of discipline and fortitude. It robs you of breath over a slow shuffle to the bathroom. It leaves you weeping at the number of steps involved in doing dishes or the laundry. It means that every little gesture or action has a spoon count cost. The longer and worse it gets the more disconnected one feels. Talking is tiring. It takes breath and effort at a time when the simple in and out is like lifting weights. This isn't laziness, this is death creeping close.

My last lung treatment was the 17th, I think. That was Sunday before last right? I call every day to leave yet more messages begging for my fucking compressor motor. I have both numbers by my bed. Them having lost my paperwork since... I think it was last fall has been catastrophic. Oh, I'm in the computer so they've been happily billing Medicare, but they can't replace the equipment without the paper physician's order they apparently threw out at some point. It took most of a week of them ignoring me to get that bit of information ou of them, so then everyday I called my provider to leave a message for them begging them to send the fucking fax to the assholes who lost the first one. Which gets no response over and over. Today was the forth day in this week and a half span when I woke up with my eyes filmed over and in searing pain from the pollen which it also attacking my lungs.

I can't breathe; they are choking me.

This morning I sounded so bad the receptionists called every nurse in the practice trying to get a live human to respond. They were all busy. She marked everything urgent and finally I got a human to actually look into WTF. Eventually. Apparently the compressor assholes where wanting two signatures, one of which my provider was having trouble getting, but also some statement that my motor was beyond repair, which the physicians ethically can't do because they are Doctors not mechanics. Fuckssake. So I'm like, "Could you put in the fax something like, 'Patient reports that the compressor will not turn on at all and is completely dead despite checking all connections, etc.." The nurse said he'd see if that would work and would also try to track down second signature. Compressor assholes called back to let me know they are holding my compressor hostage to force me to buy my lung meds from them instead of cheap sliding scale pharmacy.

I have no choice; I literally can't breathe. I hate them. I hate them so much.

I have given into their demands. They are considering maybe letting me breath tomorrow afternoon. Maybe. I'm not holding my breath.

* All I really want to do is lie still and occasionally eat ice cream or pretzels. None of these things are options.

* "'Us' Reveals the Horror Within Us:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/us-reveals-the-horror-within-us/

* This is sort of like G-rated Miike Snow fanfic that references "Genghis Khan: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/183243715450/me-looking-over-the-architecture-plans-for-my#notes

* "Why Do Guys Like Goth Girls:" https://gothic-charm-school.com/charm/?p=1380

* The Vampires in College hing got better: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/183267762830/why-is-olde-vampires-in-high-school-the-big

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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

* Upset about the abuse of big cats by people who shouldn't be allowed to keep them? Big cat rescue is trying to change laws to protect wild animals. "Cat Laws:" https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-laws/

* 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/

* 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