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gwydion* TW: Rape. "Why the May no-confidence vote was a vote against women in Westminster:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/13/theresa-may-no-confidence-vote-women-westminster
* "After defeat in Iraq, IS fights on in last enclave in Syria:" https://www.apnews.com/63beeecd668b46bcae81d8e7c1dd1cd5
* "Senate rebukes Trump, condemns Saudi crown prince for Khashoggi murder:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/politics/corker-saudi-crown-prince-khashoggi/index.html
* "Trump Reportedly Cancels This Year's White House Holiday Press Party:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-white-house-holiday-press-party_us_5c1241f4e4b0449012f6f651
* "Did Michael Flynn try to strike a grand bargain with Moscow as it attacked the 2016 election?:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/michael-flynn-contacts-russia-campaign-robert-mueller/
* "Accused Russian secret agent pleads guilty:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/13/butina-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-charge-1062300
* "Butina admits being an agent of Russia, will help US prosecutors:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/butina-admits-being-an-agent-of-russia-will-help-us-prosecutors-1397689923893
* "Trump inaugural committee under criminal investigation, source says:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/politics/trump-inauguration-spending-investigation/index.html
* "Trump inauguration finances under criminal investigation: WSJ:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-inauguration-finances-under-criminal-investigation-wsj-1397692995572
* "Nadler vows accountability for Trump 'culture of corruption':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nadler-vows-accountability-for-trump-culture-of-corruption-1397690947720
* "Bob Woodward - "Fear" & President Trump's War on Truth - Extended Interview:"
* "Trump Considering Son-In-Law Jared Kushner For Next Chief Of Staff:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-chief-of-staff-jared-kushner_us_5c12c616e4b0f60cfa277b93?o3l
* "Meadows out of the running to be Trump’s chief of staff:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/12/meadows-out-of-the-running-to-be-trumps-chief-of-staff-1061274
* Remember a few years ago when Democrats tried to make this illegal and Republicans stopped them? "Sen. James Inhofe Bought Defense Stock Days After Pushing for Record Pentagon Spending—Then Dumped It When Asked About It:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-james-inhofe-bought-defense-stock-days-after-pushing-for-record-pentagon-spendingthen-dumped-it-when-asked-about-it
* "Trump says he’ll do ‘whatever it takes to get border security’ as shutdown looms:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-claims-money-we-save-from-trade-deal-means-mexico-is-paying-for-border-wall/2018/12/13/e707e6a6-fec7-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5ee511f506b4
* They decided to murder a seven year old girl by deliberately denying her food and water for eight hours. "7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/7-year-old-migrant-girl-taken-into-border-patrol-custody-dies-of-dehydration-exhaustion/2018/12/13/8909e356-ff03-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.276fe14bef7f
"The ACLU blamed “lack of accountability, and a culture of cruelty within CBP” for the girl’s death. “The fact that it took a week for this to come to light shows the need for transparency for CBP. We call for a rigorous investigation into how this tragedy happened and serious reforms to prevent future deaths,” Cynthia Pompa, advocacy manager for the ACLU Border Rights Center, said in a statement."
Andrew Meehan wants you to know that refusing her water and medical care until she went into seizures from dehydration is proof “Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the child’s life under the most trying of circumstances.” Why didn't "every possible step" include giving her a glass of water? Because that seems not hard to do. I routinely offer people something to drink when they walk into my apartment and I'm not holding them prisoner after they've been wandering for days in the dessert. Food, water, and a medical check up seem like the bare fucking minimum, but that somehow is way beyond every possible step.
* "Refugee teens in Austrian schools straddle different worlds:" https://www.apnews.com/8409f214a9fb4076a0a1691ca4021288
* For the record full immersion vs. language pull outs vs. additional content classes in native language vs. new language support in special pull out classes is a long running and emotionally loaded debate in the United States.
For the record as someone who had ESL certification and taught it some (various age groups including a bit of Adult ESL as a sub) and who worked in districts with large immigrant populations, I’m a moderate because different kids need different things and there’s this whole older student vs. younger student needs situation and different levels of academic support needed for kids coming with lots of good schooling vs. no formal schooling at al, and... it’s complicated. Instead of one size fits all, the best method is to figure out what sort of support they need and give them that. Which mostly doesn’t happen because money and staffing and all that jazz. I could do hours of ranting about what I know doesn’t work well because I saw it not working well out in the field and I can list some things that really did seem to be helping. *shakes fists at two of the four districts I worked in*
Short Version: I am against tossing people in with zero help because that is miserable for everyone and some kids can’t do it at all without help, and most of them go backward fast on content. I definitely think proper conversation class like we have for French, Spanish, and German for English speaking students is like 100x better than making them chant route conversations and never letting them deviate from script which felt like child abuse so I refused to teach do ESL there. I am for things like the buddy system where you pair up a kid with the same native language who speaks English and send them to say, Math class, because the kids themselves were for it since it was comforting for the Ukrainian students to be doing something they were good at every day and you could see them picking up English fast. I am for them actually getting pull out specific language classes until they get a reasonable level of proficiency to function, and I am emphatically for giving them content support after they integrate into all English all day for as long as they need it instead of cutting it off cold once they can hold a conversation, because academic English is latinate and we loose so many kids because they look fine chatting away in English with their friends but the textbooks are too far above their proficiency level so they get frustrated and discouraged and drop out.
So look, I don’t have a magic answer for the US, let alone Austria. I just wanted to make clear that this sort of debate they are having in Austria now is one whe have been having here at least as long as I’ve been alive and there is no one right answer beyond, you know, hiring more staff and not totally isolating the refugees.
* "2 deadly shootings send a chill through black gun owners:" https://www.apnews.com/74d47b3e3ae74d92be5d1dda0e8ab038
* "Parents Are Biased Against Even Quality ‘Urban’ Schools:" https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/parents-are-biased-against-even-quality-urban-schools/577978/
* "Janelle Monae - Embracing the Uniqueness of Women in "Dirty Computer" - Extended Interview:"
* TW: Suicide, Mental Illness, Neglect. "‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where N.Y. Fails Its Mentally Ill:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/nyregion/nyc-housing-mentally-ill.html
* I love when they do things like this. "Satanic Sculpture Installed At Illinois Statehouse, Just In Time For The Holidays:" https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673422143/satanic-sculpture-installed-at-illinois-statehouse-just-in-time-for-the-holidays?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=203005
* "Medieval Cough Medicine:" http://www.medievalists.net/2018/12/medieval-cough-medicine/
* CW: snakes, Pet Death. "Firefighters in Texas rescued more than 100 snakes from a burning house:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/11/us/texas-firefighters-rescue-snakes-trnd/index.html
* "Mr. Peanut Responds To Trump's 'Peanut Stuff':"
* "Stephen Has A Prison Tip For Michael Cohen:"
* "What Trump Wants In A Chief Of Staff:"
* "Toddlerography w/ Gisele Bündchen:"
* Several people have inquired about my foot lately. The thing is, that bodies like mine heal slowly and poorly. It hurts something feirce if I let my foot get cold, or skip my twice daily arthritis meds, as I did yesterday because of the pathogen, but if I run the space heater at night the celebrex really does handle the foot just fine. Even though the AS is being a monster this week, tthe foot is manageable with the caveats.
Seriously, a broken bone with the best non-narcotic arthritis meds is 100x better than a broken bone with the other options. It is healing, but at the super slow rate any illness or injuries heals for me once I passed a certain level of degenerative disease type sick. I am tired of the pain and the care I must take moving about, but I'll take this over say, lung MRSA any day. for me, well or ill or injured are relative things.
I did NOT want to get up and Tavy did his level best to prevent me, but is only a Tiny Terror, and so I masked up made it where I needed to be only a few minutes late. Unfortunately I forgot a gift I was meant to transport from a mutual friend that is still sitting accusingly on the living room table. Sigh. It worked out really well, though, despite my legs being rickety as fuck. Furniture was transported, people dropped off and wood chips for litter transported to appropriate locations. There was enough gas left from their contributions for two forage runs. There was still B parking when I got back, which is another miracle. I feel like an asshole for taking it, but I really can barely walk and the little bit of standing I had to do for things like adjusting the car seats to make room, opening and shutting doors against cat escape and the like took nearly all today's limited number of steps. Temp Tags has shown no signs of movement in literal weeks, so I suspect whatever went wrong to get them temp tags is really bad. I am pretty sure there are now two disabled people living in A where once it was just a Tuesday night visitor. I really do feel like an asshole taking the B slot, but I really couldn't face even a shortish gimp up that small slope.
When I got home, I discovered some kind person has solved bills for this month, so that's a load off. The cats are being low drama tonight. I think the Imperial couple wore themselves out with the busy box I fixed and restocked during lung time. It was a productive day.
* Why do good wheelchair cushions have to be so expensive? Maybe next year. Sigh.
* "On The Run: Black Lightning 2x08, ‘Exodus’:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/black-lightning-208-exodus/
* "Nordic Noir Turns Into a Love and Loss on Doctor Who:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/doctor-who-s11-e9/
* Solstice Reading Sign Ups are here: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2050603.html
* 2ish days; no bids. BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302986892927?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:
- 2.17: A Piece of the Action.
* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:
- 7.3 Interface.
* Star Trek, The Animated Series:
- 1.14: The Slaver Weapon.
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* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/
* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment
* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html
They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001
* Naral https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/donate/supportnaral/#.W7nPzmNRfIU
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* "Resources for Male Victims of Abuse:" http://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/178933672694/resources-for-male-victims-of-abuse
* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/
* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1
* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/
* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
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* "After defeat in Iraq, IS fights on in last enclave in Syria:" https://www.apnews.com/63beeecd668b46bcae81d8e7c1dd1cd5
* "Senate rebukes Trump, condemns Saudi crown prince for Khashoggi murder:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/politics/corker-saudi-crown-prince-khashoggi/index.html
* "Trump Reportedly Cancels This Year's White House Holiday Press Party:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-white-house-holiday-press-party_us_5c1241f4e4b0449012f6f651
* "Did Michael Flynn try to strike a grand bargain with Moscow as it attacked the 2016 election?:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/michael-flynn-contacts-russia-campaign-robert-mueller/
* "Accused Russian secret agent pleads guilty:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/13/butina-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-charge-1062300
* "Butina admits being an agent of Russia, will help US prosecutors:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/butina-admits-being-an-agent-of-russia-will-help-us-prosecutors-1397689923893
* "Trump inaugural committee under criminal investigation, source says:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/politics/trump-inauguration-spending-investigation/index.html
* "Trump inauguration finances under criminal investigation: WSJ:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-inauguration-finances-under-criminal-investigation-wsj-1397692995572
* "Nadler vows accountability for Trump 'culture of corruption':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nadler-vows-accountability-for-trump-culture-of-corruption-1397690947720
* "Bob Woodward - "Fear" & President Trump's War on Truth - Extended Interview:"
* "Trump Considering Son-In-Law Jared Kushner For Next Chief Of Staff:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-chief-of-staff-jared-kushner_us_5c12c616e4b0f60cfa277b93?o3l
* "Meadows out of the running to be Trump’s chief of staff:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/12/meadows-out-of-the-running-to-be-trumps-chief-of-staff-1061274
* Remember a few years ago when Democrats tried to make this illegal and Republicans stopped them? "Sen. James Inhofe Bought Defense Stock Days After Pushing for Record Pentagon Spending—Then Dumped It When Asked About It:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-james-inhofe-bought-defense-stock-days-after-pushing-for-record-pentagon-spendingthen-dumped-it-when-asked-about-it
* "Trump says he’ll do ‘whatever it takes to get border security’ as shutdown looms:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-claims-money-we-save-from-trade-deal-means-mexico-is-paying-for-border-wall/2018/12/13/e707e6a6-fec7-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5ee511f506b4
* They decided to murder a seven year old girl by deliberately denying her food and water for eight hours. "7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/7-year-old-migrant-girl-taken-into-border-patrol-custody-dies-of-dehydration-exhaustion/2018/12/13/8909e356-ff03-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.276fe14bef7f
"The ACLU blamed “lack of accountability, and a culture of cruelty within CBP” for the girl’s death. “The fact that it took a week for this to come to light shows the need for transparency for CBP. We call for a rigorous investigation into how this tragedy happened and serious reforms to prevent future deaths,” Cynthia Pompa, advocacy manager for the ACLU Border Rights Center, said in a statement."
Andrew Meehan wants you to know that refusing her water and medical care until she went into seizures from dehydration is proof “Border Patrol agents took every possible step to save the child’s life under the most trying of circumstances.” Why didn't "every possible step" include giving her a glass of water? Because that seems not hard to do. I routinely offer people something to drink when they walk into my apartment and I'm not holding them prisoner after they've been wandering for days in the dessert. Food, water, and a medical check up seem like the bare fucking minimum, but that somehow is way beyond every possible step.
* "Refugee teens in Austrian schools straddle different worlds:" https://www.apnews.com/8409f214a9fb4076a0a1691ca4021288
* For the record full immersion vs. language pull outs vs. additional content classes in native language vs. new language support in special pull out classes is a long running and emotionally loaded debate in the United States.
For the record as someone who had ESL certification and taught it some (various age groups including a bit of Adult ESL as a sub) and who worked in districts with large immigrant populations, I’m a moderate because different kids need different things and there’s this whole older student vs. younger student needs situation and different levels of academic support needed for kids coming with lots of good schooling vs. no formal schooling at al, and... it’s complicated. Instead of one size fits all, the best method is to figure out what sort of support they need and give them that. Which mostly doesn’t happen because money and staffing and all that jazz. I could do hours of ranting about what I know doesn’t work well because I saw it not working well out in the field and I can list some things that really did seem to be helping. *shakes fists at two of the four districts I worked in*
Short Version: I am against tossing people in with zero help because that is miserable for everyone and some kids can’t do it at all without help, and most of them go backward fast on content. I definitely think proper conversation class like we have for French, Spanish, and German for English speaking students is like 100x better than making them chant route conversations and never letting them deviate from script which felt like child abuse so I refused to teach do ESL there. I am for things like the buddy system where you pair up a kid with the same native language who speaks English and send them to say, Math class, because the kids themselves were for it since it was comforting for the Ukrainian students to be doing something they were good at every day and you could see them picking up English fast. I am for them actually getting pull out specific language classes until they get a reasonable level of proficiency to function, and I am emphatically for giving them content support after they integrate into all English all day for as long as they need it instead of cutting it off cold once they can hold a conversation, because academic English is latinate and we loose so many kids because they look fine chatting away in English with their friends but the textbooks are too far above their proficiency level so they get frustrated and discouraged and drop out.
So look, I don’t have a magic answer for the US, let alone Austria. I just wanted to make clear that this sort of debate they are having in Austria now is one whe have been having here at least as long as I’ve been alive and there is no one right answer beyond, you know, hiring more staff and not totally isolating the refugees.
* "2 deadly shootings send a chill through black gun owners:" https://www.apnews.com/74d47b3e3ae74d92be5d1dda0e8ab038
* "Parents Are Biased Against Even Quality ‘Urban’ Schools:" https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/parents-are-biased-against-even-quality-urban-schools/577978/
* "Janelle Monae - Embracing the Uniqueness of Women in "Dirty Computer" - Extended Interview:"
* TW: Suicide, Mental Illness, Neglect. "‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where N.Y. Fails Its Mentally Ill:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/nyregion/nyc-housing-mentally-ill.html
* I love when they do things like this. "Satanic Sculpture Installed At Illinois Statehouse, Just In Time For The Holidays:" https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673422143/satanic-sculpture-installed-at-illinois-statehouse-just-in-time-for-the-holidays?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=203005
* "Medieval Cough Medicine:" http://www.medievalists.net/2018/12/medieval-cough-medicine/
* CW: snakes, Pet Death. "Firefighters in Texas rescued more than 100 snakes from a burning house:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/11/us/texas-firefighters-rescue-snakes-trnd/index.html
* "Mr. Peanut Responds To Trump's 'Peanut Stuff':"
* "Stephen Has A Prison Tip For Michael Cohen:"
* "What Trump Wants In A Chief Of Staff:"
* "Toddlerography w/ Gisele Bündchen:"
* Several people have inquired about my foot lately. The thing is, that bodies like mine heal slowly and poorly. It hurts something feirce if I let my foot get cold, or skip my twice daily arthritis meds, as I did yesterday because of the pathogen, but if I run the space heater at night the celebrex really does handle the foot just fine. Even though the AS is being a monster this week, tthe foot is manageable with the caveats.
Seriously, a broken bone with the best non-narcotic arthritis meds is 100x better than a broken bone with the other options. It is healing, but at the super slow rate any illness or injuries heals for me once I passed a certain level of degenerative disease type sick. I am tired of the pain and the care I must take moving about, but I'll take this over say, lung MRSA any day. for me, well or ill or injured are relative things.
I did NOT want to get up and Tavy did his level best to prevent me, but is only a Tiny Terror, and so I masked up made it where I needed to be only a few minutes late. Unfortunately I forgot a gift I was meant to transport from a mutual friend that is still sitting accusingly on the living room table. Sigh. It worked out really well, though, despite my legs being rickety as fuck. Furniture was transported, people dropped off and wood chips for litter transported to appropriate locations. There was enough gas left from their contributions for two forage runs. There was still B parking when I got back, which is another miracle. I feel like an asshole for taking it, but I really can barely walk and the little bit of standing I had to do for things like adjusting the car seats to make room, opening and shutting doors against cat escape and the like took nearly all today's limited number of steps. Temp Tags has shown no signs of movement in literal weeks, so I suspect whatever went wrong to get them temp tags is really bad. I am pretty sure there are now two disabled people living in A where once it was just a Tuesday night visitor. I really do feel like an asshole taking the B slot, but I really couldn't face even a shortish gimp up that small slope.
When I got home, I discovered some kind person has solved bills for this month, so that's a load off. The cats are being low drama tonight. I think the Imperial couple wore themselves out with the busy box I fixed and restocked during lung time. It was a productive day.
* Why do good wheelchair cushions have to be so expensive? Maybe next year. Sigh.
* "On The Run: Black Lightning 2x08, ‘Exodus’:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/black-lightning-208-exodus/
* "Nordic Noir Turns Into a Love and Loss on Doctor Who:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/doctor-who-s11-e9/
* Solstice Reading Sign Ups are here: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2050603.html
* 2ish days; no bids. BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302986892927?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:
- 2.17: A Piece of the Action.
* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:
- 7.3 Interface.
* Star Trek, The Animated Series:
- 1.14: The Slaver Weapon.
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/
* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment
* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html
They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001
* Naral https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/donate/supportnaral/#.W7nPzmNRfIU
* Planned Paranthood: https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/onlineactions/hkv0R7LN0E-Q-U5mXFaXRA2?sourceid=1004272&ms=4NALz1800K1N1A&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4I2IxID03QIVA7bACh3CCwHWEAAYASAAEgKlD_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
* "Resources for Male Victims of Abuse:" http://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/178933672694/resources-for-male-victims-of-abuse
* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/
* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1
* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/
* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border
* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0
* 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 swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616
* 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