I Am Drowning in Links

* "‘Now I have nothing’: Tigray conflict has changed Ethiopia for ever, say refugees:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/06/now-i-have-nothing-tigray-conflict-has-changed-ethiopia-for-ever-say-refugees

* "Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region say Eritrean troops are part of the conflict and the war is far from over:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/africa/ethiopia-war-tplf-exclusive-intl/index.html

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* "Covid Survivors With Long-Term Symptoms Need Urgent Attention, Experts Say:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/health/covid-long-term-symptoms.html

* "Britain launches the West’s first mass coronavirus vaccination — with a Maggie and a William Shakespeare first in line:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/covid-vaccine-pfizer-uk/2020/12/08/f78a8978-3676-11eb-9699-00d311f13d2d_story.html

* "People living with HIV to receive coronavirus vaccine alongside cancer patients, diabetics and severe asthmatics:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/09/coronavirus-vaccine-hiv-positive-priority-groups-pfizer-biontech/

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 12/8/20 are 15,114,000. The official death toll is 286,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "'Late spring' before substantial reduction in Covid spread: W.H. Coronavirus Task Force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-late-spring-before-substantial-reduction-in-covid-spread-w-h-coronavirus-task-force-97381957589

* "FDA says Pfizer vaccine is safe and effective:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/fda-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-safe-443587

* Yep. They botched this too. "NYT: Trump Admin. passed when Pfizer offered to sell more vaccine doses, could delay further doses:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/nyt-trump-admin-passed-when-pfizer-offered-to-sell-more-vaccine-doses-could-delay-further-doses-97286725928

* "‘Not nearly enough’: Former HHS Secretary concerned about vaccine doses reaching public:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-not-nearly-enough-former-hhs-secretary-concerned-about-vaccine-doses-reaching-public-97369669701

* "‘I literally don’t know’: Operation Warp Speed scientist can’t explain Trump’s vaccine order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/operation-warp-speed-trumps-vaccine-order-443574

* "Azar: Every American should be able to get a coronavirus vaccine by mid-2021:" https://www.axios.com/azar-coronavirus-vaccine-axios-hbo-075da60d-b807-43b0-9853-0bfe6c90a678.html

* "Anti-Vaccine Doctor Has Been Invited to Testify Before Senate Committee:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/us/politics/anti-vax-scientist-senate-hearing.html

* "Biden lays out plan to combat covid in first 100 days, including requiring masks on interstate buses, trains:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/biden-covid-100-days-plan/2020/12/08/16e0a47e-3965-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

* "Biden pledges to vaccinate tens of millions, reopen schools in first 100 days:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/biden-pledges-vaccinations-reopen-schools-443733

* "'We will make it through this': Biden advisor outlines Covid vaccine distribution efforts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-we-will-make-it-through-this-biden-advisor-outlines-covid-vaccine-distribution-efforts-97306182001

* "Next coronavirus challenge for U.S.: vaccine distribution infrastructure:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/next-coronavirus-challenge-for-u-s-vaccine-distribution-infrastructure-97380933948

* "In rural North Carolina, COVID-19 skepticism meets surging case counts and deaths:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article247576435.html

* "Los Angeles closes playgrounds, outdoor dining while allowing filming to continue:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/los-angeles-closes-playgrounds-outdoor-dining-while-allowing-filming-to-continue-97296965521

* "Masks Are Legal, Dummy | LegalEagle’s Real Law Review:"

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* "Entire Arizona legislature shuts down after Rudy Giuliani potentially exposed lawmakers to COVID-19:" https://www.salon.com/2020/12/07/entire-arizona-legislature-shuts-down-after-rudy-giuliani-potentially-exposed-lawmakers-to-covid-19/

* "After swingers convention in New Orleans, 41 test positive for coronavirus, organizer says:" https://www.nola.com/news/article_59c7a560-33db-11eb-8639-dffaf4948c1c.html

* "Trump lawyer who attended White House party tests positive for Covid:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-covid-443688

* "Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, Partner Test Positive for COVID-19:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/11/29/colorado-gov-jared-polis-partner-test-positive-covid-19

* "Former Alabama state senator dies of Covid, warns in his last words, 'We messed up':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-alabama-senator-dies-covid-age-78-his-last-words-n1250236

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* "Trump orders troop withdrawal from Somalia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/04/trump-orders-troop-withdrawal-from-somalia-442960

* "Imperial Wars Always Come Home:" https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/imperial-wars-always-come-home

* "First lady announces new White House tennis pavilion:" https://apnews.com/article/melania-trump-announce-tennis-pavilion-86b3b05efd0b9ebebdbe1ba1528a8857

* "Can the President Pardon Himself? His Family? Co-Conspirators?:"

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* "Judge tosses criminal charge against Flynn following Trump pardon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/flynn-criminal-charge-trump-pardon-443685

* "Michael Flynn judge says pardon doesn’t mean ex-national security adviser is innocent:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynn-case-dismissed/2020/12/08/31abb5de-0975-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html

* "Former Cybersecurity Chief Sues Trump Campaign and Others, Charging Defamation:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944270554/former-cyber-security-chief-sues-trump-campaign-and-others-charging-defamation

* "Federal watchdog finds Peter Navarro violated Hatch Act:" https://www.axios.com/watchdog-peter-navarro-hatch-act-569a1de5-347c-49c5-8d19-9e1d9cc88639.html

* "Trump’s Final Days of Rage and Denial:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/trump-presidency-election-loss.html

* "A Judge Just Shot Down 25 of the Trump Campaign's Conspiracy Theories in Nevada:" https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/a-judge-just-shot-down-25-of-the-trump-campaigns-conspiracy-theories-in-nevada/

* "Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Biden’s win in Georgia:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-challenging-bidens-win-in-georgia/UXSI5WUROJA4JHLTVTJ6UWNWOM/

* "Special session over Georgia election would ‘nullify the will of the people,’ secretary of State says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/06/raffensperger-election-trump-georgia-443216

* "Georgia governor pushes back on Trump attacks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/05/brian-kemp-trump-georgia-election-443068

* "Federal judges reject GOP effort to overturn swing state election results:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07/judge-rejects-overturn-michigan-election-results-443411

* "'Nothing but speculation and conjecture': Judge swats down GOP lawsuit to decertify Biden's Michigan win:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/nothing-speculation-conjecture-judge-swats-down-gop-lawsuit-decertify-biden-n1250255

* "Armed pro-Trump protesters gather outside Michigan elections chief's home:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/07/michigan-elections-chief-trump-protesters
"What Would Jesus do? Attempt to terrorize a four year old to punish the mother for holding a free and fair election.

Bet their mothers are incredibly proud.

* "Black Michigan lawmaker gets lynching threat from male caller, threatening call possibly from Wheeling woman after voter fraud hearing:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-michigan-lawmaker-threatened-after-giuliani-hearing-20201207-hnoggozf3fe6xgja5sm6tvni5y-story.html

* "Trump asks Pennsylvania House speaker for help overturning election results, personally intervening in a third state:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pennsylvania-speaker-call/2020/12/07/d65fe8c4-38bf-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html

* "Arizona Supreme Court Rejects GOP Bid to Undo Biden Victory:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2020-12-08/judge-peppers-lawyer-with-questions-on-arizona-election-suit

* "The Arizona GOP Asked People to Commit to Dying for Trump:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5b59w/the-arizona-gop-asked-people-to-commit-to-dying-for-trump

* "Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn Biden’s win in Pennsylvania:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/supreme-court-rejects-bid-to-overturn-bidens-win-in-pennsylvania-443751

* "Kenyatta: Republican political self-interest props up Trump's bogus election claims:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kenyatta-republican-political-self-interest-props-up-trump-s-bogus-election-claims-97382469726

* "Legally troubled Texas A.G. concocts absurd election lawsuit as Trump muses about pardons:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/legally-troubled-texas-a-g-concocts-absurd-election-lawsuit-as-trump-muses-about-pardons-97380933944

* "‘Ticking time bomb’ for democracy: Chris on why the Electoral College needs to go:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ticking-time-bomb-for-democracy-chris-on-why-the-electoral-college-needs-to-go-97375813616

* "Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Biden’s win, Washington Post survey finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/survey-who-won-election-republicans-congress/2020/12/04/1a1011f6-3650-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html

* "Congressional Republicans continue campaign of resistance to accepting Biden’s win:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-trump-house-election/2020/12/08/bb792018-396c-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html

* "Trump Loyalist Kash Patel Blocking Some Pentagon Officials From Helping Biden Transition:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-loyalist-kash-patel-blocking-some-pentagon-officials-from-helping-biden-transition/2763545/

* "Pentagon denies blocking Biden transition team:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/05/pentagon-denies-blocking-biden-transition-443080

* "'If you or I did that we'd be indicted': Trump pressing officials to falsify vote results:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-if-you-or-i-did-that-we-d-be-indicted-trump-pressing-officials-to-falsify-vote-results-97308229515

* "Trump's potentially criminal election interference tests bounds of prosecution:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-potentially-criminal-election-interference-tests-bounds-of-prosecution-97306181994

* "Trump appointee who oversees Voice of America refuses to cooperate with Biden transition team:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/michael-pack-voice-america-biden-transition/2020/12/08/8212f630-38e7-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html

* "To rebuild CDC, Biden picks Rochelle Walensky:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/06/rochelle-walensky-cdc-biden-443384

* "Trump’s health nemesis gets a new starring role: Reversing Trump’s policies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07/trump-becerra-reversing-policies-hhs-443555

* "Zients, Murthy tapped to head up Biden’s Covid-19 response:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/03/zients-murthy-biden-coronavirus-team-442609

* "Two Lesbians of Color Named to White House Communications Staff:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/11/29/black-lesbian-karine-jean-pierre-gets-key-white-house-job

* "Biden picks Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge to be HUD secretary:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-picks-ohio-rep-marcia-fudge-to-be-hud-secretary-97373253922

* "Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick for budget chief, runs a think tank backed by corporate and foreign interests:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/05/neera-tanden-biden-omb-cap/

* "As Trump rants over election, his administration accelerates push to lock in policy and staffing gains:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lame-duck-policies/2020/12/06/8165088c-3661-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

* "Washington Post and New York Times: EPA declines to adopt stricter regulations on soot:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/politics/trump-administration-soot-regulations/index.html

* Help save ANWR from drilling! https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/246991.html

* We need to win Georgia or we are fucked. "Chris Hayes: The rot won't go away with Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-rot-won-t-go-away-with-trump-97375301793

* "Republicans Make Clear Their Georgia Senate Strategy: Attack Warnock:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/politics/georgia-senate-debate-warnock-loeffler.html

* "Jon Ossoff debates empty podium:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/jon-ossoff-debates-empty-podium/GWJQ5Y62DBFVTKZPNK7NDSRJRM/

* "Empty podium had better Georgia debate performance than Loeffler:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/empty-podium-had-better-georgia-debate-performance-than-loeffler-97297989750

Want to try to flip the Senate?

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* "Georgia reducing voting locations ahead of runoffs:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/georgia-reducing-voting-locations-ahead-of-runoffs-97370693908

* "House votes to decriminalize marijuana as GOP resists national shift:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-marijuana-republicans-election/2020/12/04/db2b00a8-35b0-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html

* "DEATH & FEMINISM:"

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* "Notorious ISIS terrorist desperate to return to the UK wishes he could’ve seen gay men thrown from buildings:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/29/terrorist-gay-rooftops-syria-isis-aseel-muthana-cardiff-radicalisation-prison/

* "Heroic queer bar owners donate hundreds of pounds of gender-neutral toys for families struggling this Christmas:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/08/regency-tavern-le-village-brighton-gay-bar-donate-gender-neutral-christmas-charity/

* I wish. "Anti-LGBT+ Christian activist claims Joe Biden is forming a ‘transgender atheist army’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/29/anti-lgbt-christian-activist-gordon-klingenschmitt-joe-biden-transgender-military/

* "Teachers caught making ‘disturbing’ homophobic comments in front of students on Zoom:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/29/homophobic-teachers-zoom-class-dumont-high-school-new-jersey/

* "Wildlife conservationists rescue 8 stranded giraffes from flooded island in Kenya:" https://www.wfla.com/news/international/wildlife-conservationists-rescue-8-stranded-giraffes-from-flooded-island-in-kenya/

* "Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year:" https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/23/21591420/comcast-cap-data-1-2tb-home-users-internet-xfinity

* "Here's Why Being "Fashionable" Is a Pretty Modern Concept:"

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* "How Did They Pee in Those Dresses? A Superficial History of Underwear:"

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* "When the Enslaved Went South:" https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-the-enslaved-went-south

* "FIRST FEMALE FUNERAL HOME OWNER- Henrietta Bowers Duterte:"

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* "The Bisexual Artist Who Changed The World From Bed // Frida Kahlo [CC]:"

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* "The Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45:"

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* "Language, Voice, and Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye Part 1: CC English Literature #6:"

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* "Holden, JD, and the Red Cap - The Catcher in the Rye Part 2: Crash Course English Literature #7:"

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* "Mother Cat Brings Her Ill Kitten To The Hospital, Medics Rush To Help Them:" https://www.boredpanda.com/mother-cat-takes-her-sick-kitten-to-hospital/?utm_source=conuly.dreamwidth&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

* "Media Market Research (and why its undermining all the things you love):" https://impostoradult.tumblr.com/post/636806288131702784/media-market-research-and-why-its-undermining-all

* "Real Lawyer Reacts To the Trial of the Chicago 7:"

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* "Real Lawyer Reacts to Legally Blonde | LegalEagle:"

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* "Designing the Other: Aliens on Film:"

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* "Is Titanic Good, Actually?:"

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* "President Vents His Election Grievances In Conspiracy Theory Fueled Facebook Rant:"

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* "New Orleans Orgy Organizers Regret Lax Enforcement Of Social Distancing Rules:"

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* "This Barn Owl Baby Just Heard Thunder for the First Time :"

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* So here's what's going on with me. 1. My arm isn't recovering. It's better than it was the week after the ill advised physio upgrade, but it plateaued and doesn't seem to be improving the way it did when I first started physio. It hurts a lot. I keep having to use the sling.

2. We're towards the end of a plot cycle on a MUSH where I play, which is time consuming and means I wouldn't be getting enough sleep even if I weren't in horrible pain and being endlessly awakened my mostly medical phone calls, though at least once it was polling on banking regulation and once was that fucking police union again.

3. I am typing this Tuesday morning right before I go in for yet another COVID test. I think it's going to be okay. I'm coughing chunks but I'm nowhere near as sick as I was Thursday night and Friday. My money is still on nuisance virus ramping up on me rather than a new infection. We know nuisance virus isn't COVID, but it's been a month and given all the extra symptoms, checking is wise.

* ”What popular saying is actually bullshit?” https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k557c1/what_popular_saying_is_actually_bullshit/ged1pdj/?utm_term=35696958391&utm_name=188364da-34ea-11eb-adf2-0e32438a004b&utm_content=timestamp&utm_source=embed&utm_medium=comment_embed&context=3

* Translating Cicero: https://twitter.com/CSMFHT/status/1335709452847046656

For the record? As bad as Cicero is, Aristotle is 100x worse.

* The Old English Bookbinder: https://twitter.com/Sotherans/status/1335617481826824192

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help save ANWR from drilling! https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/246991.html

* "8 Overlooked LGBTQ Groups to Donate to for Giving Tuesday:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/02/8-overlooked-lgbtq-groups-donate-giving-tuesday

* "Protect the Results - Organizing to Protect the Results of the 2020 Election:" https://protecttheresults.com/

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