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Mar. 15th, 2019 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* "'We don't have time to wait:' Teenagers fight for a greener planet:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/world/global-climate-strike-teenagers-school-walkout-greta-thunberg-intl/index.html
* "'There is no Planet B': Tens of thousands of students ditch school for climate change rallies:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/students-walk-out-of-class-to-protest-climate-change/10901978
* "New Zealand Muslim leaders call for calm after mosque attacks:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/new-zealand-muslim-leaders-call-for-calm-after-mosque-attacks
* "Attacks could reverse gains in Congo’s Ebola fight, says WHO:" http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/mar/14/attacks-could-reverse-gains-in-congos-ebola-fight-/
* "Theresa May has finally got the Brexiters where she wants them:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/14/theresa-may-brexit-article-50-delay
* "Venezuela’s inflation worse than Zimbabwe, Iran, amid grinding economic crisis:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article227814159.html
* "Are Kenyans still scandalized by scandals?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47554326
* "Senate rebukes Trump with vote ordering U.S. military to end support for Saudi-led war in Yemen:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-rebukes-trump-with-vote-ordering-us-military-to-end-support-for-saudi-led-war-in-yemen/2019/03/13/da6a24a8-45c2-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.86ba1e9ec343
* "Mnuchin’s Hollywood Ties Raise Ethical Questions in China Talks:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/politics/mnuchin-china-trade-hollywood.html
* "Russians may have laundered money through Trump Organization, president could be “compromised,” Schiff says:" https://www.newsweek.com/russians-laundered-money-trump-organization-1362120
* ”Mnuchin tussles with House Democrats over Trump's tax returns:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/mnuchin-trump-tax-returns-1221286
* TW: Sexual Assault "Court allows defamation suit against Trump to proceed:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/summer-zervos-trump-1221742
* "NY attorney general: Evidence shows Trump misused charity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ny-attorney-general-evidence-shows-trump-misused-charity/2019/03/14/8d7ab87e-469e-11e9-94ab-d2dda3c0df52_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d5060bcfc61c
* "House overwhelmingly approves resolution urging release of Mueller report:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/house-resolution-release-mueller-report-1221287
* "FBI’s Peter Strzok told Congress election tampering was a ‘far graver threat’ than Clinton email scandal, new transcript says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-republicans-release-transcript-of-former-fbi-official-peter-strzok/2019/03/14/96c1c3c6-4655-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c31bd3839ecf
* "GOP's transcript release gambit backfires upon actual reading:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-s-transcript-release-gambit-backfires-upon-actual-reading-1458542147704
* "Report: DNC hack may have used tech system in Steele dossier:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-dnc-hack-may-have-used-tech-system-in-steele-dossier-1458536515723
* "Beto announces bid for president:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/beto-orourke-2020-president-1207704
* "Beto O'Rourke is running for president:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/beto-o-rourke-is-running-for-president-1458432067967
* Does he realize that Social security is less than a thousand a month? Why does he think people with complex and expensive medical needs ought to have less money than the able bodied? "US presidential hopeful: Free money can help save the country from jobs lost to robots:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/andrew-yang-universal-basic-income-to-protect-jobs-from-automation.html
* "South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg Just Proved He's One to Watch for 2020:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26785867/pete-buttigieg-candidate-2020/
* "Sen. Vicki Marble Doubles Down on Threat to 9News Reporter: "I'll Ambush HIM with MY Camera Crew!":" https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2019/03/colorado-lawmaker-doubles-down-on-threat-to-9news-reporter-ill-ambush-him-with-my-camera-crew/14466/
* "Trump Jr. serves up another self-own:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-jr-serves-up-another-self-own-1458433091794
* "How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job?:" https://www.thenation.com/article/arkansas-medicaid-work-requirement-healthcare/
* "Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims can sue gunmaker Remington over 2012 attack, court says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/families-of-sandy-hook-shooting-victims-can-sue-gunmaker-remington-over-2012-attack-court-says/2019/03/14/4222b1ec-4671-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.29c1c0c6b8e5
* "Sandy Hook families win ruling to seek gun maker accountability:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sandy-hook-families-win-ruling-to-seek-gun-maker-accountability-1458545731929
* "Sandy Hook families see legal path around gun industry immunity:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sandy-hook-families-see-legal-path-around-gun-industry-immunity-1458551875837
* "Senate deals blow to Trump in vote to terminate border emergency:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/romney-alexander-national-emergency-1221317
* "Congress takes historic action blocking Trump on emergency call:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congress-takes-historic-action-blocking-trump-on-emergency-call-1458542659936
* Don't hold your breath for overturning the veto, but now is an excellent time to tell your Republican Senator to stand against the Emergency Declaration just in case. 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/
* "Democrats call on Wilbur Ross to resign:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/democrats-call-on-wilbur-ross-to-resign-1458445891594
* "Hunter High School Is 9 Percent Black or Hispanic. Why Isn’t It Part of the Diversity Debate?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/hunter-high-school-diversity-exam.html
* "The surprising benefits of serving prisoners better food:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/03/prison-food-health-commissary-strike-public-health-chronic-disease-pelican-bay/
* TW: Rape, Pedophilia "New details revealed in alleged R. Kelly assault of Baltimore teenager in 1996:" https://www.newsweek.com/r-kelly-accused-1996-sexual-assault-baltimore-witness-comes-forward-1362321
* "Jacob Tobia - Promoting a "Gender-Chill" Exploration of Identity with "Sissy" :"
* "Pentagon issues new transgender policy limiting service members to birth gender:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-issues-transgender-policy-limiting-service-members-birth/story?id=61643836
* "America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-28/america-s-cities-are-running-on-software-from-the-80s
* "AI can spot the pain from a disease some doctors still think is fake:" https://qz.com/1349854/ai-can-spot-the-pain-from-a-disease-some-doctors-still-think-is-fake/
* "Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits:" http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/amazon-doesnt-pay-federal-taxes-2019/
* "X-Ray Analysis Reveals Self-Portrait Hidden Under Artemisia Gentileschi Painting:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/x-ray-analysis-reveals-self-portrait-hidden-under-artemisia-gentileschi-painting-180971653/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR33Ae8DJjUqMj0souhUQDSeDFspuZJsbywS3f_bS73cp0SCOLWlhkdSDXQ
* "Beto O'Rourke Enters the 2020 Race & Andrew Yang's Campaign for Universal Basic Income:"
* "Arrested Developments - Dumb Solutions to Policing Problems:"
* "Mike Pence Loses Some Office Space:"
* "Now That's What I Call An Alibi:"
* "Trump Told Gen. Kelly To 'Get Rid Of My Kids':"
* "A Republican Rebuke Of The President:"
* "Doin' It Donkey Style: Born To Beto:"
* "Meanwhile... The Wearable Penis Camera:"
* I not only successfully completed the scheduled phone bureaucracy, but made several other necessary phone calls. More phone calls I need to make appeared in my mail, but I ran out of time and anyway needed to food and lung. Today's scheduled bureaucracy was about a program that helps elderly and disabled home owners get repairs they can't afford. As a result, the plumbing plans are on hold, since having a licensed a bonded plumber sort it for free would be worth waiting for even if right now the kitchen sink is spewing rotted milk again.
* "G and S parody: Xena; or the Warrior Princess:" http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~valkyrie/parody/xena.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
* Upset about the abuse of big cats by people who shouldn't be allowed to keep them? Big cat rescue is trying to change laws to protect wild animals. "Cat Laws:" https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-laws/
* 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
* "'There is no Planet B': Tens of thousands of students ditch school for climate change rallies:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/students-walk-out-of-class-to-protest-climate-change/10901978
* "New Zealand Muslim leaders call for calm after mosque attacks:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/new-zealand-muslim-leaders-call-for-calm-after-mosque-attacks
* "Attacks could reverse gains in Congo’s Ebola fight, says WHO:" http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/mar/14/attacks-could-reverse-gains-in-congos-ebola-fight-/
* "Theresa May has finally got the Brexiters where she wants them:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/14/theresa-may-brexit-article-50-delay
* "Venezuela’s inflation worse than Zimbabwe, Iran, amid grinding economic crisis:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article227814159.html
* "Are Kenyans still scandalized by scandals?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47554326
* "Senate rebukes Trump with vote ordering U.S. military to end support for Saudi-led war in Yemen:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-rebukes-trump-with-vote-ordering-us-military-to-end-support-for-saudi-led-war-in-yemen/2019/03/13/da6a24a8-45c2-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.86ba1e9ec343
* "Mnuchin’s Hollywood Ties Raise Ethical Questions in China Talks:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/politics/mnuchin-china-trade-hollywood.html
* "Russians may have laundered money through Trump Organization, president could be “compromised,” Schiff says:" https://www.newsweek.com/russians-laundered-money-trump-organization-1362120
* ”Mnuchin tussles with House Democrats over Trump's tax returns:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/mnuchin-trump-tax-returns-1221286
* TW: Sexual Assault "Court allows defamation suit against Trump to proceed:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/summer-zervos-trump-1221742
* "NY attorney general: Evidence shows Trump misused charity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ny-attorney-general-evidence-shows-trump-misused-charity/2019/03/14/8d7ab87e-469e-11e9-94ab-d2dda3c0df52_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d5060bcfc61c
* "House overwhelmingly approves resolution urging release of Mueller report:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/house-resolution-release-mueller-report-1221287
* "FBI’s Peter Strzok told Congress election tampering was a ‘far graver threat’ than Clinton email scandal, new transcript says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-republicans-release-transcript-of-former-fbi-official-peter-strzok/2019/03/14/96c1c3c6-4655-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c31bd3839ecf
* "GOP's transcript release gambit backfires upon actual reading:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-s-transcript-release-gambit-backfires-upon-actual-reading-1458542147704
* "Report: DNC hack may have used tech system in Steele dossier:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-dnc-hack-may-have-used-tech-system-in-steele-dossier-1458536515723
* "Beto announces bid for president:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/beto-orourke-2020-president-1207704
* "Beto O'Rourke is running for president:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/beto-o-rourke-is-running-for-president-1458432067967
* Does he realize that Social security is less than a thousand a month? Why does he think people with complex and expensive medical needs ought to have less money than the able bodied? "US presidential hopeful: Free money can help save the country from jobs lost to robots:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/andrew-yang-universal-basic-income-to-protect-jobs-from-automation.html
* "South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg Just Proved He's One to Watch for 2020:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26785867/pete-buttigieg-candidate-2020/
* "Sen. Vicki Marble Doubles Down on Threat to 9News Reporter: "I'll Ambush HIM with MY Camera Crew!":" https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2019/03/colorado-lawmaker-doubles-down-on-threat-to-9news-reporter-ill-ambush-him-with-my-camera-crew/14466/
* "Trump Jr. serves up another self-own:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-jr-serves-up-another-self-own-1458433091794
* "How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job?:" https://www.thenation.com/article/arkansas-medicaid-work-requirement-healthcare/
* "Families of Sandy Hook shooting victims can sue gunmaker Remington over 2012 attack, court says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/families-of-sandy-hook-shooting-victims-can-sue-gunmaker-remington-over-2012-attack-court-says/2019/03/14/4222b1ec-4671-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.29c1c0c6b8e5
* "Sandy Hook families win ruling to seek gun maker accountability:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sandy-hook-families-win-ruling-to-seek-gun-maker-accountability-1458545731929
* "Sandy Hook families see legal path around gun industry immunity:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sandy-hook-families-see-legal-path-around-gun-industry-immunity-1458551875837
* "Senate deals blow to Trump in vote to terminate border emergency:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/romney-alexander-national-emergency-1221317
* "Congress takes historic action blocking Trump on emergency call:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congress-takes-historic-action-blocking-trump-on-emergency-call-1458542659936
* Don't hold your breath for overturning the veto, but now is an excellent time to tell your Republican Senator to stand against the Emergency Declaration just in case. 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/
* "Democrats call on Wilbur Ross to resign:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/democrats-call-on-wilbur-ross-to-resign-1458445891594
* "Hunter High School Is 9 Percent Black or Hispanic. Why Isn’t It Part of the Diversity Debate?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/hunter-high-school-diversity-exam.html
* "The surprising benefits of serving prisoners better food:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/03/prison-food-health-commissary-strike-public-health-chronic-disease-pelican-bay/
* TW: Rape, Pedophilia "New details revealed in alleged R. Kelly assault of Baltimore teenager in 1996:" https://www.newsweek.com/r-kelly-accused-1996-sexual-assault-baltimore-witness-comes-forward-1362321
* "Jacob Tobia - Promoting a "Gender-Chill" Exploration of Identity with "Sissy" :"
* "Pentagon issues new transgender policy limiting service members to birth gender:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-issues-transgender-policy-limiting-service-members-birth/story?id=61643836
* "America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-28/america-s-cities-are-running-on-software-from-the-80s
* "AI can spot the pain from a disease some doctors still think is fake:" https://qz.com/1349854/ai-can-spot-the-pain-from-a-disease-some-doctors-still-think-is-fake/
* "Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits:" http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/amazon-doesnt-pay-federal-taxes-2019/
* "X-Ray Analysis Reveals Self-Portrait Hidden Under Artemisia Gentileschi Painting:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/x-ray-analysis-reveals-self-portrait-hidden-under-artemisia-gentileschi-painting-180971653/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR33Ae8DJjUqMj0souhUQDSeDFspuZJsbywS3f_bS73cp0SCOLWlhkdSDXQ
* "Beto O'Rourke Enters the 2020 Race & Andrew Yang's Campaign for Universal Basic Income:"
* "Arrested Developments - Dumb Solutions to Policing Problems:"
* "Mike Pence Loses Some Office Space:"
* "Now That's What I Call An Alibi:"
* "Trump Told Gen. Kelly To 'Get Rid Of My Kids':"
* "A Republican Rebuke Of The President:"
* "Doin' It Donkey Style: Born To Beto:"
* "Meanwhile... The Wearable Penis Camera:"
* I not only successfully completed the scheduled phone bureaucracy, but made several other necessary phone calls. More phone calls I need to make appeared in my mail, but I ran out of time and anyway needed to food and lung. Today's scheduled bureaucracy was about a program that helps elderly and disabled home owners get repairs they can't afford. As a result, the plumbing plans are on hold, since having a licensed a bonded plumber sort it for free would be worth waiting for even if right now the kitchen sink is spewing rotted milk again.
* "G and S parody: Xena; or the Warrior Princess:" http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~valkyrie/parody/xena.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
* Upset about the abuse of big cats by people who shouldn't be allowed to keep them? Big cat rescue is trying to change laws to protect wild animals. "Cat Laws:" https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-laws/
* 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