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* "Police officers sacked after probe into racist, homophobic WhatsApp group:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/07/manchester-police-officers-sacked-homophobic-racist-whatsapp-group-chat/

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* "Wagner’s convicts tell of horrors of Ukraine war:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-wagner/

* I am worried they will abandon Crimea to the occupiers. "Over 8 million Ukrainians are now refugees; Kyiv may negotiate on Crimea:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/06/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

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* "Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts:" https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/?fbclid=IwAR2S5r8aLJoOAi_VoBziXjsITzFj6AKywy2t9feVcHeXpam9iPCyeNkqPp0&fs=e&s=cl

* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Clarence Thomas to Be Impeached:" https://advocatechannel.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-calls-for-clarence-thomas-impeached

* "Manhattan claws back people as urban counties stem outflow:" https://apnews.com/article/population-growth-census-bureau-counties-manhattan-ddf358c368ed2628da59670bf8198de5

* "Organizing for POWER with Jane McAlevey:"

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* "Investigating the Jan. 6 investigation, GOP rep exonerates himself:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/investigating-jan-6-investigation-gop-rep-exonerates-rcna77369?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=6425f158de7fbf0001510d8d&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

* "The GOP just passed a blueprint for bullying teachers:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/gops-parents-bill-rights-nightmare-teachers-rcna76554?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=6422f3a65b63c600012b6c9b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

* "Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Blocks Judicial Nominee Who Supports Trans Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/federal-judge-nomination-blocked

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them 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.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "“An Unprecedented Disenfranchisement”: How Republicans Are Stripping Nashville of Political Power:" https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/an-unprecedented-disenfranchisement-how-republicans-are-stripping-nashville-of-political-power/

* "Ouster of Tennessee Dems catapults lawmakers to national political fame:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/07/tennessee-dems-fame-gop-00091060

* "Expelled Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson on his path to reinstatement:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/expelled-tennessee-state-rep-justin-pearson-on-his-path-to-reinstatement-168432197847

* "Fmr TN State Rep. Justin Jones: 'They say the South will rise again, I say the South will rise anew':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/fmr-tn-state-rep-justin-jones-they-say-the-south-will-rise-again-i-say-the-south-will-rise-anew-168497221730

* "How Justin Jones and Justin Pearson Can Reclaim Their Seats:" https://advocatechannel.com/how-justin-jones-and-justin-pearson-can-reclaim-their-seats

* "Reflections of a Trans Minister on What’s Happening in Nashville:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/nashville-tennessee-three

* A reflection on what events in Tennessee and Clarence Thomas' corruption say about the Republican Party. "Clarence Thomas Is Just a Regular Guy Who Loves RVs and Walmart:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/clarence-thomas-regular-guy-walmart

* "The state of America 55 years after MLK's assassination:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-state-of-america-55-years-after-mlk-s-assassination-168497733596

* "Most Republicans think LGBTQ+ attacks have gone too far, poll finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/08/republican-trans-poll/

* "It’s hard living in a state where the politicians hate people like you:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/30/kentucky-red-state-progressives-black-second-great-migration/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3990910%2F6425b1aff19a510b042c55c3%2F5d9aaedc9bbc0f783c6e58af%2F52%2F72%2F6425b1aff19a510b042c55c3&wp_cu=a0c77db18c8d3b19aaf9ee062364dab1%7C944A779F025A26C2E0530100007FDA6E

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* "Analyzing The Trump Indictment & Arrest:"

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* On Christi-fascist takes on Trump. "Trump Is Now the Jesus Figure MAGA America Deserves:" https://theintercept.com/2023/03/31/donald-trump-indictment/

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* "Tennessee Home of Progressive Journalist Shot at While Family Slept:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/tennessee-holler-home-shot

* "US mass shootings, 1982–2023: Data from Mother Jones’ investigation:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-mother-jones-full-data/

* "Sen. Hawley calls for Nashville shooting to be investigated as a hate crime:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-hawley-calls-nashville-shooting-investigated-hate-crime-rcna77013?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=64243b0304cb1500013e5d92&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

"Hawley, the only senator to oppose a bill in 2021 to expedite the review of hate crimes amid a rise in anti-Asian incidents, asked law enforcement officials to investigate The Covenant School shooting as a religiously motivated hate crime."

* "Tucker Carlson Spews Truly Evil Trash About Trans People In 'Christianity' Rant:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-trans-christian-rant_n_6423a8dde4b0512ca9217b5f

* "Tucker Carlson worries armed trans people might acquire multi-role stealth combat aircraft:" https://boingboing.net/2023/03/27/tucker-carlson-worries-armed-trans-people-might-acquire-multi-role-stealth-combat-aircraft.html

* "The Vilification of Transgender Identities:"

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* "Who killed Rasheem Carter?:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/03/who-killed-rasheem-carter/

* "Restraining order on Tennessee's oppressive drag ban extended:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/09/tennessee-drag-ban-restraining-order-extended/

* "This Church Was Firebombed for Hosting a Drag Show:"

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* "GOP rep suggests replacing libraries with ‘church-owned’ alternatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gop-rep-suggests-replacing-libraries-church-owned-alternatives-rcna76498

* "Why Are Body Parts Fashion? [RANT]:"

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* "From Dylan Mulvaney to Erin Darke, transphobic appearance policing harms everyone:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/09/dylan-mulvaney-daniel-radcliffe-erin-darke/

* "Second Idaho hospital will no longer deliver babies:" https://boingboing.net/2023/03/31/second-idaho-hospital-will-no-longer-deliver-babies.html

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* "Mace counters SC bill that says women could get the death penalty for having an abortion:" https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article273942400.html

* The headline is incorrect. The drug was approved decades ago. "Texas judge halts FDA approval of abortion pill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/07/texas-judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-00091096

* "WA abortion pill ruling contradicts Texas decision:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/wa-abortion-pill-ruling-contradicts-texas-decision/

* "Abortion pill case likely heads to SCOTUS after two judges issue conflicting rulings:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/abortion-pill-case-likely-heads-to-scotus-after-two-judges-issue-conflicting-rulings-168430661917

* "HHS Sec. Becerra vows Biden admin. Will Protect Access to Mifepristone:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/hhs-sec-becerra-vows-biden-admin-will-protect-access-to-mifepristone-169074757851

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* "Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill already fuelling violence, activist says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/08/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-violence/

* "France and Germany join EU lawsuit against Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/08/france-germany-viktor-orban-hungary/

* "Politician becomes first ever female minister in France to come out as gay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/09/france-sarah-el-hairy/

* "This Southern Mexico Community Has Challenged the Gender Binary for Generations:" https://www.advocate.com/mexico/mexico-third-gender-muxes

* "Anti-trans hate reaches ‘genocidal’ levels in New Zealand after Posie Parker visit, report says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/08/posie-parker-kellie-jay-keen-minshull-anti-trans-online-hate/

* "Why the U.K.’s latest move to pathologize transgenderism feels eerily familiar:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/scotlands-trans-recognition-bill-getting-false-gop-voter-fraud-treatme-rcna66512?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=6421a86ecb00fe0001c10872&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

* "North Dakota sets horrifying record for most anti-LGBTQ+ bills passed in a day:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/07/north-dakota-anti-lgbt-bill-record/

* "KS House passes ban on trans women in female spaces, labels intersex people as disabled:" https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/ks-house-passes-ban-trans-164138252.html

* "Georgia’s new anti-trans law also disparages autistic people like me:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/georgias-new-anti-trans-law-also-disparages-autistic-people-rcna76858?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=642355775b63c600012b88f0&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

* They have criminalized being trans in public. "Idaho passes law letting students sue for “emotional harm” if they see a trans kid in the restroom:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/idaho-passes-law-letting-students-sue-for-emotional-harm-if-they-see-a-trans-kid-in-the-restroom/

* "Indiana Governor Signs Ban on Gender-Affirming Care, ACLU Sues:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-affirming-care-ban-indiana

* "Colorado emerges as a refuge for transgender children and their families:" https://coloradosun.com/2023/03/25/transgender-children-colorado-health-safety/

* "He took part in a right-wing Florida hospital protest. Now, he is losing his board certification for spreading Covid disinformation.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/sarasota-hospital-covid-misinformation-john-littell-desantis-ladapo/

* "NY Times Fires Off Warning to Staffers After Trans Coverage Brouhaha:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-times-fires-off-warning-to-staffers-after-trans-coverage-brouhaha?source=twitter&via=desktop

* "Washington Post Data Spun by Tabloid to Justify Opposing Trans Healthcare:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/us-trans-data-spun-by-daily-mail-to-justify-opposition-to-trans-care

* "Gay Man Brutally Stabbed in New York City, Police Search for Suspects:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nyc-gay-man-stabbed

* Cw: Suicide "Family of Bullied Gay Teen Who Died by Suicide Settles With Alabama School District:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-suicide-teen-atlanta

* "White House Announces Crisis Hotline for LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/lgbt-youth/lgbtq-youth-crisis-hotline

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* "COVID-19 death rates varied dramatically across US, major analysis finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-death-rates-varied-dramatically-us-major/story?id=98055024

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* "Autism now more common among Black, Hispanic kids in US:" https://apnews.com/article/how-common-is-autism-e38179682e2759b0aff9c017bf7ebf61

* "Cystic fibrosis often goes under-diagnosed—unless you’re white:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/cystic-fibrosis-under-diagnosis-race-health-disparities

* "Black couple say Texas authorities took away their baby just because they had a home birth :" https://www.today.com/parents/parents/black-couple-say-texas-authorities-took-away-baby-just-home-birth-rcna78657

* "Here's how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities:" https://apnews.com/article/child-protective-services-algorithms-artificial-intelligence-disability-02469a9ad3ed3e9a31ddae68838bc76e

"The U.S. Justice Department is asking the same question. The agency is investigating the county’s child welfare system to determine whether its use of the influential algorithm discriminates against people with disabilities or other protected groups, The Associated Press has learned. Later this month, federal civil rights attorneys will interview the Hackneys and Andrew Hackney’s mother, Cynde Hackney-Fierro, the grandmother said."

* "Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete?:" https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/

* "Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/health/end-of-life-care-hospice.html

* "US maternal death rate rose sharply in 2021, CDC data shows, and experts worry the problem is getting worse:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/health/maternal-deaths-increasing-nchs/index.html

* "Tattoos Do Odd Things to the Immune System:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/tattoo-science-immune-system-effects/673462/

* "68 now sickened, 4 lose eyeballs in outbreak linked to eyedrops:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/more-people-lose-eyeballs-in-outbreak-linked-to-eye-drops/

* "Higher cancer rates found in military pilots, ground crews:" https://apnews.com/article/military-cancer-pilots-ground-crew-pentagon-study-298f70c4f7581fe5e08637fcb61abc71

* "Salt, Sugar, Water, Zinc: How Scientists Learned to Treat the 20th Century’s Biggest Killer of Children:" https://asteriskmag.com/issues/2/salt-sugar-water-zinc-how-scientists-learned-to-treat-the-20th-century-s-biggest-killer-of-children

* "In the War on Bacteria, It’s Time to Call in the Phages:" https://www.wired.com/story/phages-fight-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria/

* "The U.S. Adderall shortage deserves to be taken seriously:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna76851

* "How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-loneliness-reshapes-the-brain-20230228/

* "Why music causes memories to flood back:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/26/songs-music-memory-connection/

* "Seeking Alzheimer's clues from few who escape genetic fate:" https://apnews.com/article/alzheimers-memory-gene-resilience-5f7c6bfb3774d9d86c018cfcdfc3f425

* "Doctors, Not Dealers:" https://www.guernicamag.com/doctors-not-dealers/

* "Where is marijuana legal and how do people feel about it? Five charts show the shifting landscape:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/us/20230306-oklahoma-marijuana-vote-five-charts-dg/index.html

I am 100% pro-legalization.

At the same time, I'm a lung patient and I wish the guys who moved in across the hall recently would stop hot boxing the entire hall and my kitchen, because it’s fucking with my respiration and not safe as we pass through there on the way to the parking lot.

I really wish they would switch to vapes or edibles because this is not sustainable for us.

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* "Water disasters on both ends of the spectrum -- dry and wet -- are getting more intense as planet warms, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/world/water-extremes-drought-floods-nasa-study-climate/index.html

* "Tornado-spawning storms may get worse due to warming:" https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-climate-change-supercells-mississippi-disaster-dc7e22dd4d2173543463f4e4df4da076

* "10 years later, see how Superstorm Sandy changed the Northeast:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/10-years-later-see-how-superstorm-sandy-changed-the-northeast

* "These images tell the stories of families reeling from the East Palestine fiasco:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/photos-images-stories-east-palestine-toxic-train-derailment-norfolk-southern/

* "Daunting recovery underway in tornado-devastated Mississippi:" https://apnews.com/article/tornado-mississippi-delta-rolling-fork-silver-city-78b84695687a7c9f6f0ea574001fbc16

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* "World's water in focus as clean supplies squeezed:" https://apnews.com/article/water-climate-photo-gallery-e442d0462ed0a5b8f063dbab1aea673b

* "As flooding increases, these cities are designed to work with -- not against -- the water. Here's how they're doing it:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/26/world/flooding-cities-water-design-climate-intl/index.html

* "Fighting Fire With Fire in California:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fighting-fire-with-fire-california-180981810/

* "Iwi protectors want Grand Wailea’s permits for expansion denied:" https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2023/04/04/iwi-protectors-want-grand-waileas-permits-expansion-denied/

* "A Water System So Broken That One Pipe Leaks 5 Million Gallons a Day:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/us/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis.html

* "U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves - over internet cables:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-cables/

* "Awash in Asphalt, Cities Rethink Their Parking Needs:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/business/fewer-parking-spots.html

* "Afghan girls struggle with poor internet as they turn to online classes:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-girls-struggle-with-poor-internet-they-turn-online-classes-2023-03-27/

* "To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians:" https://grist.org/energy/electrician-shortage-electrify-everything-climate-infrastructure-labor/

* "NYC’s Shadow Transit Network Seeks a Greener Future:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-28/can-new-york-city-s-dollar-vans-go-legit-and-go-electric

* "Brazilian researchers find 'terrifying' plastic rocks on remote island:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/brazilian-researchers-find-terrifying-plastic-rocks-remote-island-2023-03-15/

* "Scientists find a way to suck up carbon pollution, turn it into baking soda and store it in the oceans:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/world/carbon-capture-sea-water-climate-intl-scn/index.html

* "U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022:" https://apnews.com/article/renewable-energy-coal-nuclear-climate-change-dd4a0b168fe057f430e37398615155a0

* "High-Speed Photo of Electrical Storm Shows How Lightning Rods Work:" https://gizmodo.com/how-does-a-lightning-rod-work-photo-brazil-1850225334

* "The Artisans Behind India's Living Root Bridges:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/living-root-bridges-india

* "Rare Beaches in Japan Feature Star Shaped Sand:" https://mossandfog.com/rare-beaches-in-japan-feature-star-shaped-sand/

* "A.I. is B.S.:"

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* "Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuary:" https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/03/28/musk-is-remaking-twitter-into-a-climate-denier-sanctuary/

* "Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/elon-musk-twitter-germany-hate-speech-takedowns/

* "Twitter appears to censor LGBTQ+ terms including 'trans':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/01/twitter-appears-to-censor-lgbtq-terms-including-trans-in-dm-previews/

* "Twitter labels NPR's account as 'state-affiliated media,' which is untrue:" https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media

* "White House won't pay for Twitter verification:" https://www.axios.com/2023/03/31/twitter-verification-white-house-biden-check-mark

* "Twitter is secretly boosting Elon Musk, Dril, and MrBeast for some reason:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659842/twitter-boost-elon-musk-dril-mrbeast-algorithm-accounts

* "Twitter's Moment of Truth Has Arrived:" https://www.disconnect.blog/p/twitters-moment-of-truth-has-arrived

* "Petulant Musk rants about New York Times and takes away its blue check:" https://boingboing.net/2023/04/02/petulant-musk-rants-about-new-york-times-and-takes-away-its-blue-check.html

* "Get the fuck off twitter right the fuck now:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/05/get-the-fuck-off-twitter-right-the-fuck-now/

* "Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact

* "The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/the-dirty-secrets-of-a-smear-campaign

* "Children's Apps That Collect The Most Data, Visualized :" https://digg.com/data-viz/link/children-s-apps-that-collect-the-most-data-visualized-IFD0LeiJnd

* "Found through Google, bought with Visa and Mastercard: Inside the deepfake porn economy:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/deepfake-porn-ai-mr-deep-fake-economy-google-visa-mastercard-download-rcna75071

* "Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say:" https://www.space.com/space-bricks-potato-starch-mars-moon-dirt

* "Scientists explain alien comet 'Oumuamua's strange acceleration:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/scientists-explain-alien-comet-oumuamuas-strange-acceleration-2023-03-23/

* "The four astronauts NASA picked for the first crewed moon mission in 50 years:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/world/artemis-2-astronaut-crew-scn/index.html

* "Not Your Grandfather’s Moon Mission:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/04/artemis-moon-mission-nasa-astronaut-crew/673609/

* "8-year-old boy disrupts 100 years of scientific knowledge regarding insects and plants:" https://www.thebrighterside.news/amp/8-year-old-boy-disrupts-100-years-of-scientific-knowledge-regarding-insects-and-plants

* "A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meat-rotten-putrid-paleo-diet-fire-neanderthal

* "Is The Viking Raven Banner REALLY On A COIN?:"

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* "Coloring the Past:" https://elierlick.com/color.html

"Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973."

* "Sublime Autochromes From Early 20th Century France:" https://flashbak.com/sublime-autochromes-from-early-20th-century-france-459487/

* "The long history of drag – from vaudeville to Reagan – and why backlash is nonsense:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/08/drag-history-theatre-art-movies-tv-pop-culture-ban-lgbtq/

* "Will the Harm from Baltimore’s Highway to Nowhere Ever Be Repaired?:" https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/businessdevelopment/highway-to-nowhere-baltimore-expressway-demolished-black-neighborhoods/

* "Behind 'Oklahoma!' Lies the Remarkable Story of a Gay Cherokee Playwright:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/behind-oklahoma-lies-remarkable-story-gay-cherokee-playwright-lynn-riggs-180981895/

* "Photographs of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City:" https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/m7bjeq/photographs-of-kowloon-walled-city

* "Sweet Dreams: How Eurythmics Outraged America and Made MTV:"

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* "The Rise & Fall of the Phantom Chandelier:"

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* "Trailblazing trans DC Comics writer Rachel Pollack dies aged 77:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/08/rachel-pollack-death-dc-comics-trans-writer/

* "Texas LGBTQ+ Activist Kirk Myers-Hill Dead at 54:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/kirk-myers-hill-dead-dallas

* "How Michelle Yeoh Went from Bond Girl to Best Actress Oscar Winner in the American Media:"

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* "The End of the English Major:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

* "Ukrainian ballerina uprooted by war flies high again in Swan Lake:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-hungary-ballerina/

* CW: Animal Death "Cobra bites boy, boy bites it back (the boy was fine, the snake wasn’t):" https://www.livescience.com/child-kills-venomous-cobra

* "Homeowners Associations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Tolkien F***ed Up First:"

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* "CANCELLED: How Homophobia is Killing Queer TV:"

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* "Trump Easter Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Jafar on Ron DeSantis ' Attacks on Disney - SNL:"

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* "Macbeth to go (Shakespeare in 11 minutes, English version):"

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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.

* "You can now sponsor refugees yourself. Here’s how.:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23569848/how-to-sponsor-refugees-welcome-corps-biden

* "LGBTQ Refugees Welcome campaign:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/lgbtq-refugees-welcome

* There's a new Indivisible Guide! "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* This is a long time friend of mine. They have secured future housing, but have spent everything in the previous fundraiser on gofundme to survive to this point and they need They need $5000 over the next couple months until their move in date.

Gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/hdykv-housing-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

You can also support them via their Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Kandrinchae/shop?fbclid=IwAR0E1PRHlG45LWhBfDtVpGigD1YUk9Njm-__SviL4W7C8JZUCppFc1oG9Gs%22

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive.  Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. :

SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

They are also trying to GM for pay. They are an excellent GM. Here's where to sign up: https://startplaying.games/gm/1617744454089x564714756631343740

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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