Not Even Close to All of Last Week.

* "White House drafting executive order to tackle Silicon Valley’s alleged anti-conservative bias:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051

* "'Dump Trump! Dump Equinox!': Fiery West Hollywood Protest Draws 100:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2019/8/09/dump-trump-dump-equinox-fiery-west-hollywood-protest-draws-100

* "Banks Hand Over Documents on Russians Possibly Linked to Trump:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-give-documents-possibly-linked-to-trump-to-investigators-11565256601?shareToken=st807c341d6159493e8791d19dca182c04

* "Nadler: ‘This is formal impeachment proceedings’:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/nadler-this-is-formal-impeachment-proceedings-1454360

* "Kimberly Breier resigns as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/kimberly-breier-resigns-as-assistant-secretary-of-state-for-western-hemisphere/2019/08/07/fab2b6dc-b956-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html?noredirect=on

* He's never been a good Presidential candidate. A gaffe is when you say something you believe by accident. He's always been a gaffe machine. It is zero surprise to me that he popped out with something racist. "Joe Biden Says ‘Poor Kids’ Are Just as Bright as ‘White Kids’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/politics/joe-biden-poor-kids.html

* "'Heartbreaking' Scene on Boston Streets as Police Destroy Wheelchairs Belonging to Homeless Residents:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/07/heartbreaking-scene-boston-streets-police-destroy-wheelchairs-belonging-homeless?fbclid=IwAR1cc_mrBLxbkf-_k9el7IPIGY3FipmWSnI3gyXEDvAvWWPyr7ujf3pwB7k

* "Trump’s openness to extensive background checks for gun buys draws warning from NRA:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-openness-to-extensive-background-checks-for-gun-buys-draws-warning-from-nra/2019/08/07/a5f82060-b92d-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html?noredirect=on

* "White House rebuffed attempts by DHS to make combating domestic terrorism a higher priority:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/politics/white-house-domestic-terrorism/index.html

"Why the White House pushed back so much is a matter of some debate. The former senior administration official noted that the White House, specifically the President, has a problem criticizing white supremacy, and says he "didn't have expectation they would get behind it" -- the brief mention of domestic terrorism as a threat in the National Counterterrorism Strategy -- "because the preponderance of it involves white supremacy and that's not something this administration is comfortable speaking out against, until the other day by the President and even that was pretty hedged."

* "El Paso suspect said he was targeting ‘Mexicans,’ told officers he was the shooter, police say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/el-paso-suspect-said-he-was-targeting-mexicans-told-officers-he-was-the-shooter-police-say/2019/08/09/ab235e18-bac9-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html?noredirect=on

* "From El Paso to the War on Terror, the Dangers of Historical Amnesia:" https://theintercept.com/2019/08/07/el-paso-border-war-terror/

“Unfortunately, I think the war on terror itself was a failed methodology that has driven a lot of the fear and anger and xenophobia that is crystalized in white nationalism,” he reflected. “What you saw was the growth of this anti-Muslim lobby that eventually merged with the white supremacist movement, which was focused on the border already. … It’s not surprising that when a right-wing populist comes along that he can stoke them up in way that is quite dangerous.”

* "ICE Just Arrested Nearly 700 Immigrants in Mass Raids Across Mississippi:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7ydn/ice-just-arrested-more-than-600-immigrants-in-mass-raids-across-mississippi

* "Straight Pride Organizer: 'We're a Totally Peaceful Racist Group':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/8/09/straight-pride-organizer-were-totally-peaceful-racist-group

* "Uruguay conservatives try to reverse trans rights and fail:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/08/uruguay-conservatives-reverse-trans-rights-fail/

* "Scotland: street festival to be held in Edinburgh for transgender rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/10/edinburgh-street-festival-transgender-rights/

* "Trump Again Insults a Gay Journalist, This Time Fox's Shepard Smith:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2019/8/08/trump-again-insults-gay-journalist-time-foxs-shepard-smith

* TW: Rape "48 gay and bisexual students say university doctor sexually abused them:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/08/48-gay-bisexual-male-students-university-doctor-abuse/

* "How many LGBT people identify as asexual in the US?:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/09/how-many-lgbt-people-identify-asexual-america/

* "Judge: School District Violated Trans Student Gavin Grimm's Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/8/09/judge-school-district-violated-trans-student-gavin-grimms-rights

* "Third transgender person murdered in less than a week in US:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/09/third-transgender-person-murdered-less-than-week-us/

* "500-Plus Alabama Methodists Apologize for Church's Anti-LGBTQ Stances:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/8/09/500-plus-alabama-methodists-apologize-churchs-anti-lgbtq-stances

* "Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/climate/climate-change-food-supply.html

* It looks like Livia's having an oops about every twelve hours, which I can live with. I am concerned about Chewy.com. I contacted the vet about faxing her prescription first thing in the morning after I ordered and thought it was sorted. Chewy says they never got it idk. Which means I should likely go to the vet and buy emergency food tomorrow. Sigh.

I stayed up all day Tuesday to try to force a sleep reset, because this schedule isn't tenable. I went out to the grocery store, which was annoying as hell. Apparently 1:30 PM is when upper middle class twenty-something straight couples like to shop, and by shop I mean, walk at a snails pace carefully spaced so as to block aisles with having boring conversations, thus preventing me, in obvious pain from doing my quick in and out for four super specific things. The check out people were very cool at least, but Jesus Able-bodied straight people, some of us have shit to do and just want to grab a few things so we can go home and put them away before a leg gives out.

Friday update: Three phone calls later, they are shipping me cat food. I went and bought 40.00 of wet today after forage. My body is carrying on troublesome, but no one is going hungry.

Saturday: I'm really ill. I've been really struggling since the second round of antibiotic ended. I feel terrible, by I'm suspecting it's my immune system finally trying to do something about the lung infection I had all summer, hence the shakes, the extreme exhaustion, and sporadic fever on top of the ongoing lung symptoms. I keep hitting the exhaustion wall hard with little warning, which is why digest readers may have noticed the ridiculously long delay in me posting. It's the reason for me falling behind this week and the weird posting times tumblr readers may have noticed. I am having to spend an annoying amount of time lying still. The cats are making the best of it, soaking up extra cuddle pets, and today they took a really long back to back cuddle nap while I read a really alarming LeCarre novel.

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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/

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

* 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