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* "The children challenging segregation in Bosnia's schools:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48760442https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48760442

* "Migrants stranded in Libya endure sewage, maggots, disease:" https://www.apnews.com/43eb47c8ce6b4946a91f8c37f41c7cbe

* "Two Americas, Celebrating Separately in One Place:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/us/politics/trump-july-4th.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

* "Trump’s Fourth of July is a bad imitation of Bastille Day:" https://beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/03/trumps-fourth-july-is-bad-imitation-bastille-day/?outputType=amp

"Some have drawn parallels between the 41-year-old French president and his 73-year-old American counterpart: Both campaigned as political disrupters, both love the pomp of the presidency, and both share an evident disdain for the media. But Macron, a staunch defender of the European project, has denounced Trump’s “America First” nationalism as a “betrayal of patriotism”; at last year’s Armistice Day celebration, Macron said, “By saying ‘Our interests first. Who cares about the others?’ we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great, and what is essential: its moral values.”

Those ideals, against which Trump has declared war, are central to the parade that runs along the famed Champs Elysees avenue every year in Paris. Bastille Day, in roughly its current form, has taken place annually since 1880, independent of politics or partisanship; Trump’s July 4 equivalent would mark the first such American military parade since 1991, which was held to celebrate the U.S. victory in the Persian Gulf War. And Trump appears to view it as yet another campaign rally — this time with a hard militaristic edge — that glorifies his own presidency, not as a celebratory tribute to those broader American values he often emphatically disregards.

Bastille Day was Trump’s inspiration, but he seems to have confused that event with the Soviet-style military parades now parroted by authoritarian leaders from China to North Korea. His objective isn’t to celebrate the U.S. presence on the world stage, tip a hat to allies and celebrate the nation’s rich democratic history. Rather, it’s to show off a “new” America unencumbered by what he sees as a bygone commitment to the international order and the civic values it represents. Trump may have watched the French parade, but he failed to look past its shiny military surface."

* "Warning to Progressive Dems: You’re Leaving Corporate Media’s Comfort Zone:" https://fair.org/home/warning-to-progressive-dems-youre-leaving-corporate-medias-comfort-zone/

* "The Supreme Court Is One Vote Away from Changing How the U.S. Is Governed:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-supreme-court-is-one-vote-away-from-changing-how-the-us-is-governed

* "Trump Admits Census Citizenship Question Is About Elections and Districting:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-census-citizenship-elections-856124/

* "'Help, 40 days here': Photos show migrants crammed into U.S. border...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/help-40-days-here-photos-show-migrants-crammed-into-u-s-border-facilities-idUSKCN1TX28H

* "Fmr. CBP agent: Academy taught agents to use racist terms for migrants:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/fmr-border-patrol-agent-in-the-academy-they-teach-agents-to-use-racist-terms-for-migrants-63419973687

* "Rep. Pressley on conditions in migrant detention facilities:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/rep-pressley-on-conditions-in-migrant-detention-facilities-63420997854

* Tw: Pedophilia "Jeffrey Epstein Shouldn’t Expect to Wriggle Free Again:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-shouldnt-expect-to-wiggle-free-again-with-sdny-sex-trafficking-charges

* "Trans-inclusive lesbians lead Pride in London, year after anti-trans protest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/06/trans-inclusive-lesbians-lead-pride-london-march-anti-trans-protest/

* "UK Black Pride 2019: Best pics from LGBTQ celebration in London's Haggerston Park:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/07/uk-black-pride-2019-best-pics-lgbtq-people-of-colour-celebration/

* "Court sides with student who branded gay people an ‘abomination’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/07/court-sides-with-student-who-branded-gay-people-an-abomination/

* "Mhairi Black hits out at ‘toxic’ fearmongering over trans rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/07/mhairi-black-toxic-fearmongering-trans-rights/

* "Gay Tunisian politician Mounir Baatour is running for President:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/07/mounir-baatour-gay-president-tunisia/

* "Trans woman spat at by a woman walking with her kids in Stoke-on-Trent:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/08/trans-woman-spat-at-by-woman-with-kids-stoke-on-trent/

* "Black queer people are still regularly harassed and threatened:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/07/black-census-queer-people-harassed-threatened/

* "Denny's defends transgender woman who was arrested after using the bathroom:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/07/dennys-defends-transgender-woman-who-was-arrested-after-using-the-bathroom/

* "Eleven Black Trans Women Have Been Murdered This Year. It’s Time for Another Uprising.:" https://www.thenation.com/article/alicia-garza-stonewall-transgender/

* "Shaken communities take stock of damage after Southern California...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-quake/shaken-communities-take-stock-of-damage-after-southern-california-quakes-idUSKCN1U1096

* "The secondhand harms of drinking impact 1 in 5 adults, study says:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/health/alcohol-harms-secondhand-drinking-study/index.html

* "Empire, By the Numbers:" https://thenib.com/empire-by-the-numbers

* "Saving vanishing words: Why Queens is the ‘Noah’s Ark of languages’:" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2019/0705/Saving-vanishing-words-Why-Queens-is-the-Noah-s-Ark-of-languages

* "Sunday Sweets Is ON FIRE:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/7/7/sunday-sweets-is-on-fire

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

* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around

* 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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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html