Not Even Close to Caught Up.

* "Ecuador protests end after deal struck with indigenous leaders:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/ecuador-protests-end-after-deal-struck-with-indigenous-leaders

* "Rival unionists accuse DUP of catastrophic Brexit miscalculation:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/17/rival-unionists-accuse-dup-of-catastrophic-brexit-miscalculation

* "Exclusive: U.S. carried out secret cyber strike on Iran in wake of Saudi oil attack: officials:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-military-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-carried-out-secret-cyber-strike-on-iran-in-wake-of-saudi-oil-attack-officials-say-idUSKBN1WV0EK

* "Trump helps Putin tick through Russia's world affairs wish list:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-helps-putin-tick-through-russia-s-world-affairs-wish-list-71535685646

* "Pence and Erdoğan agree on ceasefire plan but Kurds reject 'occupation':" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/17/us-delegation-seeks-syria-ceasefire-after-trump-undercuts-mission-turkey-mike-pence

"When asked, Pence remained silent on whether the agreement amounted to a second abandonment of the US’s former Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State."

* "Turkish president 'threw Trump letter in bin':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50080737

* "Pullback Leaves Green Berets Feeling ‘Ashamed,’ and Kurdish Allies Describing ‘Betrayal’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/kurds-syria-turkey-trump.html

* "Syrian troops enter key towns in northeast under deal with Kurds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/syrian-troops-enter-towns-in-northeast-as-erdogan-warns-of-wider-offensive/2019/10/14/3fe2c420-ee06-11e9-bb7e-d2026ee0c199_story.html

* "Abandoned by U.S. in Syria, Kurds Find New Ally in American Foe:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-invasion-isis.html

* "Yang: No easy answer to fixing Trump's disaster in Syria:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/yang-no-easy-answer-to-fixing-trump-s-disaster-in-syria-71530053786

* "Duckworth: ‘We have abandoned our allies’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/duckworth-we-have-abandoned-our-allies-71522373746

* "Chris Hayes: This is how bad things have gotten:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-this-is-how-bad-things-have-gotten-71431237632

* "Shrugging off allegations of self-dealing, Trump picks his Doral resort for G-7 summit:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/white-house-selects-trumps-doral-resort-as-site-of-next-g-7-summit-000289

* "Shock as Trump awards G-7 summit to his own resort:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/shock-as-trump-awards-g-7-summit-to-his-own-resort-71520837987

* "Trump ordered diplomats to work with Giuliani on Ukraine, Sondland testifies:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/17/gordon-sondland-testimony-trump-giuliani-ukraine

* "Sondland asked Ukrainians at White House about firm linked to Hunter Biden:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/sondland-asked-ukrainian-officials-during-private-white-house-talk-about-n1067861

* "Rick Perry spoke with Rudy Giuliani at Trump's direction about Ukraine:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/rick-perry-rudy-giuliani-trump-ukraine/index.html

* "Mulvaney acknowledges Ukraine aid was withheld to boost political probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/mulvaney-confirms-ukraine-aid-2016-probe-050156

* "List of Ukraine characters keeps expanding:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/list-of-ukraine-characters-keeps-expanding-71429189827

* "Trump secretly and openly abuses presidency:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mick-mulvaney-admits-to-a-quid-pro-quo-with-ukraine-71520325914

* "Alex Wagner - Assessing the Fourth 2020 Democratic Debate:"

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* "Democrat Candidates Tell LGBTQ Youth on Spirit Day: 'You're Not Alone':" https://www.advocate.com/people/2019/10/17/democrat-candidates-tell-lgbtq-youth-spirit-day-youre-not-alone#media-gallery-media-1

* "Yang: Universal basic income should be in Democratic politics:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/yang-universal-basic-income-should-be-in-democratic-politics-71528517784

* I’m honestly having trouble processing this. He will really be missed. "Elijah Cummings, Baltimore congressman and civil rights leader, dies at 68:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/17/elijah-cummings-dies-baltimore/

* "Rep. Elijah Cummings, LGBTQ Rights Champion, Dead at 68:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/10/17/rep-elijah-cummings-lgbtq-rights-champion-dead-68

* "Elijah Cummings 'genuinely, humblingly inspiring':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-elijah-cummings-genuinely-humblingly-inspiring-71533637558

* "FROM 2015: Elijah Cummings on Baltimore:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/from-2015-elijah-cummings-on-baltimore-71518789589

* "Remembering Elijah Cummings:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/remembering-elijah-cummings-71523397735

* "Hours before passing, Cummings signed subpoenas directed to two US immigration agencies:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/politics/cummings-subpoena/index.html

* "New Jersey Church, Homes Tagged With Swastika, Antigay Graffiti:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/10/15/new-jersey-church-homes-tagged-swastika-antigay-graffiti

* "Prison guards are mocking trans inmates and sharing their personal information in private Facebook groups:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/18/trans-inmates-illinois-prison-facebook-groups/

* "Cyntoia Brown-Long - "Free Cyntoia" and Living Her Dream After Prison - Extended Interview:"

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* "House of Commons speaker John Bercow declares trans rights are human rights in passionate speech at PinkNews Awards:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/16/john-bercow-trans-rights-house-commons-pinknews-awards-2019/

* "Ann Widdecombe, who thinks homosexuality can be cured, confronted on live TV for ‘peddling’ hate:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/17/ann-widdecombe-brexit-debate-peddling-hate-anti-lgbt-jeremy-vine/

* "Labour's Dawn Butler condemns government in rousing, sweary and NSFW speech:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/17/dawn-butler-gender-recognition-act-delay-pinknews-awards-labour-mp-community-group/

* "Gay Icelandic minister unleashes on anti-LGBT Trump lackey who compared homosexuality to alcoholism:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/15/iceland-gay-minister-anti-lgbt-trump-homosexuality-alcoholism-rick-perry/

* It’s not over. "Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban on Anti-Trans Bias in Health Care:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/10/15/federal-judge-strikes-down-ban-anti-trans-bias-health-care

* "The History of GLAAD's Annual Spirit Day:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/10/17/history-glaads-annual-spirit-day#media-gallery-media-2

* They gave in to right wing terrorists. "Georgia school district reverses transgender-friendly bathroom policy after death threats:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/us/georgia-transgender-bathroom-policy-reversal-death-threats/index.html

* "Edward Thomas Trial Starts Today:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/10/edward-thomas-trial-starts-today.html

* "Transphobic Defense Attorney Andrew Wilkerson Found In Contempt Of Court:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/10/transphobic-defense-attorney-andrew.html

* TW: Sexual Assault "Gay man beaten and robbed in horrific attack after refusing to perform oral sex on a stranger:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/15/oral-sex-attack-gay-man-queens-new-york-city/

* "Mysterious "Blob" at a Paris Zoo, Ancient Coffins Found in Egypt & California's Roadkill Law:"

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* "So Much News, So Little Time - Trump and Pelosi's "Meltdown" Insults & Gordon Sondland's Bombshell:"

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* "Trump Is Trying to Get America to Break Up with Him:"

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* Hunter Biden, Trump's Kids and Cashing In on Family Connections":"

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* "Highlights of the Fourth 2020 Democratic Primary Debate:"

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* "Leo Deblin's Family Fill-In:"

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* "Rudy Giuliani's Shady Friends Get Arrested & Trump Sows Violent Chaos in the Middle East:"

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* "Trump Thinks He Bought America:"

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* Apparently I needed 14 hours of sleep. I'm still trying to figure out if I have a virus, if I'm just having a chronic illness thing, or if swimming really wiped me out this much. Add to the list: Do I have food poisoning? Some combination? All of the above? Who knows! Chronic Illness is full of these little mysteries.

I really was have a fairly productive evening once I escaped my room and even started some rp. Signs of trouble began to develop. I took extra pain meds and extra nausea meds. (Sometimes pain contributes to nausea. The head and neck ache were borderline for scaling up a level on my pain management, but with other assorted symptoms things were becoming intolerable. I waited for things to kick in be things were escalating too fast, so i bowed out of rrp, intending to take blankets and pillows to my bathroom to lie down.

Only it dawned on me a long, really hot salt bath might be the better option. This turned out to be the case. I was well enough to come back and work on the news eventually. Later on, i managed some nuts with my water, which helped. Things look stable for now.

I need them to be. It's my birthday and I have shit to do, including a party planned with secret pumpkins and the whole 9 yards.

*fingers crossed*

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* 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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html