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* "Football in India: The Mumbai girls defying tradition to follow World Cup dreams:" https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46907915
* "The strange normality of life in a breakaway state:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46510917
* "'The trash never stops': Indonesia battles to clean up rivers:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-environment-plastics/the-trash-never-stops-indonesia-battles-to-clean-up-rivers-idUSKCN1PH0CQ
* "Blind woman allegedly told to get her guide dog off bus because it's 'black':" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/blind-woman-allegedly-told-get-guide-dog-off-bus-black-011926957.html
* "U.N. Execution Expert Will Investigate Khashoggi Killing:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/world/middleeast/un-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia.html
* "Everyone Who’s Been Charged in Investigations Related to the 2016 Election:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/21/us/mueller-trump-charges.html
* "Robert Mueller indicts Trump associate Roger Stone:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roger-stone-arrested-fbi-raid-home-indictment-trump-associate-obstruction-false-statements-witness-tampering-today-2019-01-25/
* "Steve Bannon is the 'high-ranking Trump campaign official' mentioned in Roger Stone's indictment:" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/25/steve-bannon-is-high-ranking-trump-official-mentioned-in-roger-stone-indictment.html
* "Paul Manafort faces sealed Feb. 4 hearing on Mueller probe allegations he lied after pleading guilty:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/paul-manafort-due-in-court-to-face-mueller-probe-allegations-he-lied-after-pleading-guilty/2019/01/24/6e92b6f0-2001-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e15324e1716e
* "Four Revelations from the Dramatic Arrest of Roger Stone:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/roger-stone-indictment-details-784796/
* "Roger Stone's long history of dirty tricks:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/roger-stone-s-long-history-of-dirty-tricks-1432259139936
* "Roger Stone allegedly made ‘mob tactic’ threats targeting witness Randy Credico’s dog:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/roger-stone-charged-with-obstruction-witness-tampering-giving-false-statements-1432481859969
* "Trump public conduct similar to case for Stone witness tampering:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-public-conduct-similar-to-case-for-stone-witness-tampering-1432323651923
* Sigh. "Republicans slow to staff key committee, slowing Mueller help:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-slow-to-staff-key-committee-slowing-mueller-help-1432324163767
* "House Democrats eager for Trump-Russia answers after GOP stalling:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-democrats-eager-for-trump-russia-answers-after-gop-stalling-1432323651758
* "Sen. Wyden: I will fight to make sure Mueller report is public:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-wyden-i-will-fight-to-make-sure-mueller-report-is-public-1432259139713
* "Civil penalties for polluters dropped dramatically in Trump’s first two years, analysis shows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/civil-penalties-for-polluters-dropped-dramatically-in-trumps-first-two-years-analysis-shows/2019/01/24/7384d168-1a82-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7857436a56a2
* "Malcolm Nance: I’ve never heard of editing a security clearance application like Kushner:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/kushner-security-clearance-rejection-was-overruled-by-trump-appointee-report-1432493123647
* "Trump signs bill to open the government, ending the longest shutdown in history:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-leaders-continue-to-seek-a-deal-to-end-shutdown-that-will-satisfy-trump/2019/01/25/09c898dc-20ad-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9eec97e48cf6
* "Longest shutdown in history ends after Trump relents on wall:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/trump-shutdown-announcement-1125529
* "At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work as broad shutdown disruption hits tax agency, according to House aides:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7f0f46e2dfa8
* "Flights into three US airports delayed due to staffing issues caused by shutdown:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/flight-delays-laguardia-newark-philadelphia-shutdown
* "Trump ends shutdown with nothing to show for damage wrought:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-ends-shutdown-with-nothing-to-show-for-damage-wrought-1432326211686
* "‘The Art of the Deal’ author on Trump: Most deals in book were failed deals:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-signs-bill-to-re-open-the-government-despite-no-funding-for-wall-1432484931751
* "Joy Reid: Trump shut the government down for 35 days. The one thing that is true is he owns it:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/government-opens-temporarily-after-longest-shutdown-in-u-s-history-1432491075628
* "Arizona Lawmaker Wants Porn To Fund Trump's Border Wall:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-tax-to-fund-trumps-border-wall_us_5c47438ae4b0bfa693c7a650
* "Brazil's sole openly gay congressman leaves country after death threats:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/24/jean-wyllys-brazils-openly-gay-congressman-leaves-job-country-amid-death-threats
* "Houston Trans Woman Shot, Misgendered By Houston Chronicle:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/01/houston-trans-woman-shot-misgendered-by.html
* "Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3:"
* "Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd: Crash Course Theater #45:"
* "By way of mdlbear the Maybe You've Been Pwned Edition:" https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/439659.html
“Hate to break up all your Happy Weekend Weekending but The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach deserves attention as it affects up to roughly three quarters of one billion of us, or so.“
* "How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa:" https://gizmodo.com/how-cartographers-for-the-u-s-military-inadvertently-c-1830758394
* "...it just hit the news that a Norwegian billionaire, Gunhild Stordalen, who bankrolled a big campaign to convince people to eat a mostly meatless diet to save the planet, spends her time junketing around with her friends to exotic places around the world in her own $26 million private jet.:" https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/45943.html
* "Missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs found alive in Wisconsin:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/us/jayme-closs-missing-wisconsin-girl-found/index.html
* "6 Amazing Facts That'll Change The Way You Look At History:" http://www.cracked.com/article_26144_6-amazing-facts-thatll-change-way-you-look-at-history.html
* "Forgotten women artists of Vienna censored by the Nazis:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46992369
* "12 Old-Timey Ways of Saying “Nonsense”:" http://mentalfloss.com/article/64162/12-old-timey-ways-saying-nonsense
* "Trump's Not-So-Subtle Witness Intimidation:"
* "Tucker Carlson Cold Open - SNL:"
* Friday, I thought I was well enough to Forage, so I went. I was not, as it turns out, and my lungs got much worse over the course of the evening, and I was just generally exhausted. I went to bed early and just stayed there. I'm doing my best to catch up tonight.
* "Why these sea slugs look so much like David Bowie:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-these-sea-slugs-look-so-much-like-david-bowie
* How to Fix the Princess Bride: https://staranise.dreamwidth.org/627145.html
* Snerk. "Gender Studies:" https://cmdr-zoom.dreamwidth.org/1039063.html
"Gender is a cryptid – I don’t believe in it, but a lot of people seem pretty convinced it's real."
"Gender is real! I saw it once in the parking lot behind Denny's!"
"If gender’s not real, how do you explain this?" *holds up a grainy picture of a bear* "Yeah, checkmate."
"Works for both uses of 'bear', too!"
* "Doctor Who: Season 11, Episode 11: Resolution:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2019/01/doctor-who-season-11-episode-11.html
*****
* 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
* 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
* The Rainbow Road and other ways to help Gay Refugees: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/160470723507/the-rainbow-railroad-is-helping-gay-men-escape
* 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
* "The strange normality of life in a breakaway state:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46510917
* "'The trash never stops': Indonesia battles to clean up rivers:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-environment-plastics/the-trash-never-stops-indonesia-battles-to-clean-up-rivers-idUSKCN1PH0CQ
* "Blind woman allegedly told to get her guide dog off bus because it's 'black':" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/blind-woman-allegedly-told-get-guide-dog-off-bus-black-011926957.html
* "U.N. Execution Expert Will Investigate Khashoggi Killing:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/world/middleeast/un-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia.html
* "Everyone Who’s Been Charged in Investigations Related to the 2016 Election:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/21/us/mueller-trump-charges.html
* "Robert Mueller indicts Trump associate Roger Stone:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roger-stone-arrested-fbi-raid-home-indictment-trump-associate-obstruction-false-statements-witness-tampering-today-2019-01-25/
* "Steve Bannon is the 'high-ranking Trump campaign official' mentioned in Roger Stone's indictment:" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/25/steve-bannon-is-high-ranking-trump-official-mentioned-in-roger-stone-indictment.html
* "Paul Manafort faces sealed Feb. 4 hearing on Mueller probe allegations he lied after pleading guilty:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/paul-manafort-due-in-court-to-face-mueller-probe-allegations-he-lied-after-pleading-guilty/2019/01/24/6e92b6f0-2001-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e15324e1716e
* "Four Revelations from the Dramatic Arrest of Roger Stone:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/roger-stone-indictment-details-784796/
* "Roger Stone's long history of dirty tricks:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/roger-stone-s-long-history-of-dirty-tricks-1432259139936
* "Roger Stone allegedly made ‘mob tactic’ threats targeting witness Randy Credico’s dog:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/roger-stone-charged-with-obstruction-witness-tampering-giving-false-statements-1432481859969
* "Trump public conduct similar to case for Stone witness tampering:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-public-conduct-similar-to-case-for-stone-witness-tampering-1432323651923
* Sigh. "Republicans slow to staff key committee, slowing Mueller help:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-slow-to-staff-key-committee-slowing-mueller-help-1432324163767
* "House Democrats eager for Trump-Russia answers after GOP stalling:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-democrats-eager-for-trump-russia-answers-after-gop-stalling-1432323651758
* "Sen. Wyden: I will fight to make sure Mueller report is public:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-wyden-i-will-fight-to-make-sure-mueller-report-is-public-1432259139713
* "Civil penalties for polluters dropped dramatically in Trump’s first two years, analysis shows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/civil-penalties-for-polluters-dropped-dramatically-in-trumps-first-two-years-analysis-shows/2019/01/24/7384d168-1a82-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7857436a56a2
* "Malcolm Nance: I’ve never heard of editing a security clearance application like Kushner:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/kushner-security-clearance-rejection-was-overruled-by-trump-appointee-report-1432493123647
* "Trump signs bill to open the government, ending the longest shutdown in history:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-leaders-continue-to-seek-a-deal-to-end-shutdown-that-will-satisfy-trump/2019/01/25/09c898dc-20ad-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9eec97e48cf6
* "Longest shutdown in history ends after Trump relents on wall:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/trump-shutdown-announcement-1125529
* "At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work as broad shutdown disruption hits tax agency, according to House aides:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7f0f46e2dfa8
* "Flights into three US airports delayed due to staffing issues caused by shutdown:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/flight-delays-laguardia-newark-philadelphia-shutdown
* "Trump ends shutdown with nothing to show for damage wrought:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-ends-shutdown-with-nothing-to-show-for-damage-wrought-1432326211686
* "‘The Art of the Deal’ author on Trump: Most deals in book were failed deals:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-signs-bill-to-re-open-the-government-despite-no-funding-for-wall-1432484931751
* "Joy Reid: Trump shut the government down for 35 days. The one thing that is true is he owns it:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/government-opens-temporarily-after-longest-shutdown-in-u-s-history-1432491075628
* "Arizona Lawmaker Wants Porn To Fund Trump's Border Wall:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arizona-lawmaker-wants-porn-tax-to-fund-trumps-border-wall_us_5c47438ae4b0bfa693c7a650
* "Brazil's sole openly gay congressman leaves country after death threats:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/24/jean-wyllys-brazils-openly-gay-congressman-leaves-job-country-amid-death-threats
* "Houston Trans Woman Shot, Misgendered By Houston Chronicle:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/01/houston-trans-woman-shot-misgendered-by.html
* "Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3:"
* "Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd: Crash Course Theater #45:"
* "By way of mdlbear the Maybe You've Been Pwned Edition:" https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/439659.html
“Hate to break up all your Happy Weekend Weekending but The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach deserves attention as it affects up to roughly three quarters of one billion of us, or so.“
* "How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa:" https://gizmodo.com/how-cartographers-for-the-u-s-military-inadvertently-c-1830758394
* "...it just hit the news that a Norwegian billionaire, Gunhild Stordalen, who bankrolled a big campaign to convince people to eat a mostly meatless diet to save the planet, spends her time junketing around with her friends to exotic places around the world in her own $26 million private jet.:" https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/45943.html
* "Missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs found alive in Wisconsin:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/us/jayme-closs-missing-wisconsin-girl-found/index.html
* "6 Amazing Facts That'll Change The Way You Look At History:" http://www.cracked.com/article_26144_6-amazing-facts-thatll-change-way-you-look-at-history.html
* "Forgotten women artists of Vienna censored by the Nazis:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46992369
* "12 Old-Timey Ways of Saying “Nonsense”:" http://mentalfloss.com/article/64162/12-old-timey-ways-saying-nonsense
* "Trump's Not-So-Subtle Witness Intimidation:"
* "Tucker Carlson Cold Open - SNL:"
* Friday, I thought I was well enough to Forage, so I went. I was not, as it turns out, and my lungs got much worse over the course of the evening, and I was just generally exhausted. I went to bed early and just stayed there. I'm doing my best to catch up tonight.
* "Why these sea slugs look so much like David Bowie:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/why-these-sea-slugs-look-so-much-like-david-bowie
* How to Fix the Princess Bride: https://staranise.dreamwidth.org/627145.html
* Snerk. "Gender Studies:" https://cmdr-zoom.dreamwidth.org/1039063.html
"Gender is a cryptid – I don’t believe in it, but a lot of people seem pretty convinced it's real."
"Gender is real! I saw it once in the parking lot behind Denny's!"
"If gender’s not real, how do you explain this?" *holds up a grainy picture of a bear* "Yeah, checkmate."
"Works for both uses of 'bear', too!"
* "Doctor Who: Season 11, Episode 11: Resolution:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2019/01/doctor-who-season-11-episode-11.html
*****
* 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
* 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
* The Rainbow Road and other ways to help Gay Refugees: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/160470723507/the-rainbow-railroad-is-helping-gay-men-escape
* 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