Not All the News

* "Why Churches Are Now Under Attack in Modi’s India:" https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/is-the-hindu-right-targeting-churches-again/268729/

* "Gadgets for tech giants made with coerced Uighur labor:" https://apnews.com/3f9a92b8dfd3cae379b57622dd801dd5

* "Rob Shaw: Cuts in B.C. budget overshadowed by pipeline protests:" https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/rob-shaw-cuts-in-b-c-budget-overshadowed-by-pipeline-protests/

* I'm going to section off coronavirus stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff.

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* "Coronavirus: France imposes lockdown as EU calls for 30-day travel ban:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/coronavirus-spain-takes-over-private-healthcare-amid-more-european-lockdowns

* "Why South Korea has so few coronavirus deaths while Italy has so many:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/opinions/south-korea-italy-coronavirus-survivability-sepkowitz/index.html

* "I’m in Spain, but this is a message from the future:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/im-spain-this-is-message-future/

* "Germany confirms that Trump tried to buy firm working on coronavirus vaccine:" https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-confirms-that-donald-trump-tried-to-buy-firm-working-on-coronavirus-vaccine/amp/

"The news prompted angry reactions from German politicians who demanded that Berlin do everything possible to prevent the U.S. from controlling access to an eventual coronavirus vaccine.

“The American regime has committed an extremely unfriendly act,” said Social Democrat MP Karl Lauterbach, who said that German health workers on the front lines — as well as people around the world — needed to have access to something developed in Germany, and that no country should be able to purchase exclusive access to the vaccine.

“Capitalism has limits,” he said."

* "The CDC recommends organizers cancel or postpone events with 50 people or more for 8 weeks:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/health/us-coronavirus-sunday-updates/index.html

* So is it him being personally exposed or the market drops that finally convinced him he should maybe take a half assed interest? "'This is a very bad one': Trump issues new guidelines to stem coronavirus spread:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-recommends-avoiding-gatherings-of-more-than-10-people-132323

* It'll be 12 - 18 months for them to get results and start producing even if it works. It's not a quick fix. "Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday:" https://apnews.com/8089a3d0ec8f9fde971bddd7b3aa2ba1

* "U.S. health department hit by cyberattack during coronavirus outbreak:" https://www.axios.com/us-health-department-hit-by-cyber-attack-during-coronavirus-0004b726-ddab-4528-97a9-df25b43b0106.html

* Let them eat cake! Seriously, this is a situation where we need federal action to gear up production and mass purchase. They can't buy respirators that don't exist, especially with money they don't have. "Trump to Governors on Ventilators: ‘Try Getting It Yourselves’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-respirators.html

* "From complacency to emergency: How Trump changed course on coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/14/how-trump-changed-course-on-coronavirus-129528

* "A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html

* "Inside the White House's bungled effort to combat the coronavirus:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/mismanagement-missed-opportunities-how-white-house-bungled-coronavirus-response-n1158746

* "Ten minutes at the teleprompter: Inside Trump’s failed attempt to calm coronavirus fears:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-teleprompter-speech/2020/03/12/81bc8a3a-647a-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html

* "Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for results: Inside the Trump administration’s troubled coronavirus response:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/infighting-missteps-and-a-son-in-law-hungry-for-action-inside-the-trump-administrations-troubled-coronavirus-response/2020/03/14/530c28b4-6559-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html

* "White House Says More Drive-Through Coronavirus Test Sites To Open This Week:" https://www.npr.org/2020/03/15/816117889/white-house-to-give-update-on-how-to-get-tested-for-coronavirus

* "Elizabeth Warren explains economic stimulus coronavirus package:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elizabeth-warren-explains-economic-stimulus-coronavirus-package-80736325796

* "Trump finds his MAGA movement fracturing over coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-maga-coronavirus-movement-130831

* "Ohio governor shutters polling places for Tuesday's primary:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/ohio-governor-recommends-postponing-tuesdays-primary-132340

* I've been saying literally for decades that instead of going to unreliable easily hackable voting machines, the whole country should switch to vote by mail. You have a paper trail. You put in a system like my state has where if there is an issue with your ballot, they contact you. It's easier and faster. No lines. Super easy for the poor, workers, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

And it solves that whole tons of people breathing pathogens on each other thing that is a big fucking problem for people with bodies like mine.

Seriously y'all! Coronavirus is fucking with the election. Let's get it sorted nationwide by November.

* "Supreme Court postpones arguments due to coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/supreme-court-postpones-arguments-coronavirus-131881

* "Most federal workers will report to the office Monday — as the rest of the country isolates itself:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-federal-workers-will-report-to-the-office-monday--as-the-rest-of-the-country-isolates-itself/2020/03/15/d7915324-66cc-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html

* "Coronavirus in N.Y.C.: The Latest:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc.html

* "New York City to close schools; bars, restaurants around U.S. ordered closed over coronavirus:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-city-close-schools-bars-restaurants-around-u-s-n1159651

* "Gov. Cuomo appeals to Trump for 'help and guidance to states':" http://www.msnbc.com/video/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-appeals-to-trump-for-help-and-guidance-to-states-80689733660

* "New Jersey announces curfew over coronavirus:" https://www.nbcnews.com/video/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-appeals-to-trump-for-help-and-guidance-to-states-80689733660

* "EvergreenHealth doctor tests positive for coronavirus, in critical condition:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/evergreenhealth-doctor-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-critical-condition/

* "How the San Francisco Bay Area coronavirus 'shelter in place' order works:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-16/how-the-san-francisco-bay-areas-coronavirus-shelter-in-place-order-works

* "NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeals to Trump for 'help and guidance to states':" https://www.msnbc.com/video/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-appeals-to-trump-for-help-and-guidance-to-states-80689733660

* "Shelter-in-place starts in S.F. but could become nation policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shelter-in-place-starts-in-s-f-but-could-become-nation-policy-80754757648

* "Business response to coronavirus transforms American work habits:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/business-response-to-coronavirus-transforms-american-work-habits-80757829580

* "Conn. gov.: 200 nurses furloughed due to lack of coronavirus testing, Danbury hospital at capacity:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/conn-gov-200-nurses-furloughed-due-to-lack-of-coronavirus-testing-danbury-hospital-at-capacity-80736325731

* "Why Losing Late-Night TV to Coronavirus Feels So Bleak:" https://time.com/5803937/late-night-tv-canceled-coronavirus/

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* "Dow plunges nearly 3,000 points as Fed intervention does little to subdue Wall Street’s distress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/stocks-markets-today-coronavirus/

* "Fed announces massive stimulus to shield economy from coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/15/fed-unveils-emergency-action-effort-to-support-economy-from-coronavirus-130608

* "Airline industry seeking more than $50 billion in government aid amid coronavirus crisis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/airline-industry-seeking-more-than-50-billion-in-government-aid-amid-coronavirus-crisis/2020/03/16/62f21e06-67ab-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html

* "Trump says he’s ‘strongly considering’ pardoning Michael Flynn:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-hes-strongly-considering-pardoning-michael-flynn/2020/03/15/9137ddfe-66e4-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html

* "McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/mcconnell-judges-republicans.html

“If Mitch McConnell is having direct conversations to pressure sitting federal judges to basically retire so Trump can name more picks, it is court-packing in a different form,” said Brian Fallon, the executive director of the progressive judicial group Demand Justice. “It raises the question of what, if anything, McConnell is offering them to take senior status earlier than planned. This type of hand-in-glove coordination shows how utterly politicized the judicial branch is.”

* "$500 Million for Bloomberg Equals… What for You or Me?:" https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020/03/06/500-million-for-bloomberg-equals-what-for-you-or-me/

* "Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/companies-are-contracting-out-more-jobs-thats-not-great-for-workers/

* "Why Are Workers Struggling? Because Labor Law Is Broken:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/19/magazine/labor-law-unions.html

"But the N.L.R.B., whose five members are nominated by the president to serve staggered five-year terms, had the power to overrule Esposito. With two Trump appointees in the majority, the board ordered the judge to approve the settlement by a vote of two to one. (A fourth board member didn’t participate in the decision; the fifth seat was vacant at the time.) One of the two N.L.R.B. members who overruled Esposito, William J. Emanuel, was a former partner at Littler Mendelson, the firm McDonald’s hired to give legal advice to franchisees, but declined to recuse himself. Trump’s chairman of the N.L.R.B., John F. Ring, whose former firm also advised McDonald’s on the Fight for $15, later issued an unprecedented report finding that each N.L.R.B. member could “insist on participating” in a case even if the agency’s own ethics officials said otherwise. In response to my questions about the case, McDonald’s sent a statement: “McDonald’s and its franchisees agreed to resolve the proceeding in a manner that provides 100 percent of the remedies that those employees were eligible to receive under the National Labor Relations Act.”"

* "Rachel Carson's Critics Called Her a Witch:" https://daily.jstor.org/rachel-carsons-critics-called-her-a-witch/

* "A Call to Arms: Under Attack, Pro-Vaccine Doctors Fight Back:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/health/vaccines-protest-doctors.html

* "A stench in the nostrils of God:" https://theoutline.com/post/8633/smithfield-pork-tar-heel-north-carolina-industrial-farms-lawsuits?zd=3&zi=jg5ebyja

* "Ain't I a woman: The speech that never happened.:" https://fabulizemag.com/aint-i-a-woman-the-speech-that-never-happened/

* "From Enemy to Icon: The Life of Emma Goldman:" https://daily.jstor.org/emma-goldman/

* CW: Eating Disorder "I could never understand my grandmother's sadness – until I learned her tragic story:" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/22/grandmother-sadness-story-hadley-freeman

* "8 Badass Asian-Americans We Can't Overlook This Women's History Month:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asian-americans-womens-history-month_l_5c8699b9e4b0d936162a9eac

* "Margaret S. Collins, Pioneering Black Entomologist:" https://daily.jstor.org/margaret-s-collins-pioneering-black-entomologist/?utm_term=margaret-s-collins-pioneering-black-entomologist&utm_campaign=jstordaily_02202020&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email

* I managed to catch Elder Kitty easily and lock her in her room, but the Imperial couple strenuously resisted corralling. The hope was they'd run for my room when the Invaders came. Tavy did. Livia darted into the desk corner I can;t reach and so was forced to hide there until I came out for the bathroom during contractor lunch time. She willingly returned to the room for afternoon session.

When I came out in the evening it was to chaos. Apparently they spent part of the time doing Squirrel's drywall, the rest on starting to replace my bathroom walls and putting in real faucets in the bathroom. The third wall, the surround, the shower kit, the dry walling stuff, a massive amount of tools and equipment are now completely filling the space between my living room table and the window. I barely managed to close the window. There wasn't a chance of me working on anything by the benches tonight. There is painting stuff piled on the patio.

I didn't even try to move any furniture back including the ca tboxes, as there seemed no point. One can only hope the little assholes are using them and not going in the debris.

It really is nearly finished though.

The millennial dropped off some supplies in the morning, so I should be okay this week.

* A Haiku for 2020:

Season of Fever
I do not want your snake oil
Only Solitude

* "‘Birds of Prey’ Frees Harley Quinn and Comic Book Movies:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/birds-of-prey-frees-harley-quinn-and-comic-book-movies/

* "The Doctor’s Gothic Adventure is a Series High:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/doctor-who-s12-e8/

* "Cyber Terror and Irish Tales:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/doctor-who-s12-e9/

* "Doctor Who’s Controversial Game Changer Ends a Season:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/doctor-who-s12-e10/

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

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* 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/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* 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

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

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