Not Even Close to Caught Up.
Nov. 7th, 2019 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* "India’s losing battle against pollution: Delhi air quality reaches toxic levels, again:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/indias-losing-battle-against-pollution-delhi-air-quality-reaches-toxic-levels-again/2019/11/04/0901f378-fecc-11e9-8341-cc3dce52e7de_story.html
* "UK prime minister withholding report on Russia's role in Brexit:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uk-prime-minister-withholding-report-on-russia-s-role-in-brexit-72912453798
* "Trump confirms Turkey's Erdoğan will visit White House next week:" https://www.axios.com/trump-turkey-erdogan-white-house-visit-7a186ca7-6bc7-430e-b063-216bbcf9e897.html
* These people are going to vote next November. Make sure you do to. "PA Voters Tell CNN They Would Still Vote For Trump If He Shot Someone:" https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pa-swing-voters-tell-cnn-they-could-still-vote-for-trump-if-he-shot-someone-youd-have-to-know-why/
* "Trump wanted Barr to hold news conference saying Trump broke no laws in Ukraine call:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wapo-trump-wanted-barr-to-hold-news-conference-saying-trump-broke-no-laws-in-ukraine-call-73005637621
* "Former US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker's House testimony on Ukraine investigations:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/volker-transcript-impeachment-doc/index.html
* "US Ambassador to the European Union House testimony on Ukraine investigation:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/sondland-transcript-impeachment-doc/index.html
* "Sondland reverses himself on Ukraine, confirming quid pro quo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/sondland-reverses-himself-on-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-000318
* "5 takeaways from the Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker testimonies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/05/takeaways-gordon-sondlands-testimony/
* "Sondland revises House testimony, now recalls Trump quid pro quo:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sondland-revises-house-testimony-now-recalls-trump-quid-pro-quo-72908357620
* "4 big takeaways from Bill Taylor’s full transcript:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/06/big-takeaways-bill-taylors-full-transcript/
* "'I sensed something odd': What William Taylor told Trump impeachment investigators:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/william-taylor-impeachment-testimony-066834
* "State Department official testifying before House impeachment investigators:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/who-is-david-hale/index.html
* "Trump officials wanted Ukraine to implicate Bidens:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-officials-wanted-ukraine-to-implicate-bidens-72900677587
* "Pence aide likely to testify in impeachment inquiry:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/jennifer-williams-impeachment-inquiry/
* "Impeachment investigators ask Mick Mulvaney to testify:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/impeachment-investigators-ask-mick-mulvaney-to-testify-000317
* "Giuliani associate Parnas offers to comply with subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/lev-parnas-giuliani-subpoena-065817
* "McConnell says Senate would acquit Trump if trial held today:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/mcconell-senate-acquit-trump-066103
* "Senate Republicans consider including Bidens in Trump impeachment trial:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-consider-including-bidens-in-trump-impeachment-trial/2019/11/06/bde22272-fff3-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html
* "Lindsey Graham says he won't read House deposition transcripts:" https://www.axios.com/lindsey-graham-gordon-sondland-ukraine-transcript-427b75e1-af3e-47bd-8590-8fb320738f78.html
* "Roger Stone leaves Day 1 of trial early over food poisoning:" https://apnews.com/bf3e43dc56f244bda7dd6c4308d38e1d
* "Prosecutor says Roger Stone lied ‘because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trial-opens-for-roger-stone-accused-of-lying-about-wikileaks-and-trump-campaigns-interest-in-hacked-2016-democratic-emails/2019/11/06/647bd322-ff2b-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html
* "Stone trial opens new window on Trump's awareness of Russian help:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/stone-trial-opens-new-window-on-trump-s-awareness-of-russian-help-73014341650
* "Betsy DeVos Suffers Major Setbacks In Student Loan Lawsuits:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2019/11/06/betsy-devos-suffers-major-setbacks-in-student-loan-lawsuits/#6ffcfa60b5cc
* "Appeals Court Nominee Shaped DeVos’s Illegal Loan Forgiveness Effort:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/steven-menashi-confirmation.html
* "Trump nominee worked on illegal plan to deny help to scam victims:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-nominee-worked-on-illegal-plan-to-deny-help-to-scam-victims-73014341674
* "Cory Booker - A White House Bid Based on Inclusiveness and Courageous Empathy - Extended Interview:"
* "Julian Castro - A Bold and Fearless Presidential Campaign Against Trump in 2020 - Extended Interview:"
* "3 takeaways from Tuesday's elections in Kentucky, Virginia and Mississippi:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/2019-election-takeaways-kentucky-virginia-mississippi/index.html
* "Kentucky Elects LGBTQ-Supportive Democratic Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/05/kentucky-elects-lgbtq-supportive-democratic-governor
* "Over 80 LGBTQ Candidates Win Elections as Rainbow Wave Continues:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/06/over-80-lgbtq-candidates-win-elections-rainbow-wave-continues
* "Danica Roem Is First Out Trans Person Reelected to a State Legislature:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/05/danica-roem-first-out-trans-person-reelected-state-legislature
* "Shelly Simonds, Who Lost Random Draw in 2017 Race, Wins Handily in Virginia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/elections/shelly-simonds-virginia-house.html
* "Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump Elected to Office in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/06/cyclist-who-flipped-trump-elected-office-virginia
* "Virginia extends Democratic momentum in state legislatures:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/virginia-extends-democratic-momentum-in-state-legislatures-73014341560
* TW: Sexual Assault "Trump called woman who says he sexually assaulted her, phone records show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-called-woman-who-says-he-sexually-assaulted-her-phone-records-show/2019/11/05/d973b714-ffe2-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html
* "Innocent gay couple ‘traumatised’ after being falsely accused by vigilante paedophile hunters:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/gay-couple-traumatised-vigilante-paedophile-hunters-yorkshire-child-protectors-hull/
* "Trump Admin's 'License to Discriminate' Health Care Rule Struck Down:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2019/11/06/trump-admins-license-discriminate-health-care-rule-struck-down
* "Donald Trump Jr doubles down on shameless transphobia – and news host does nothing to challenge him:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/donald-trump-jr-cbs-this-morning-trans-athletes-transphobia/
* "Iowa Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Burning LGBTQ Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/11/06/iowa-man-convicted-hate-crime-burning-lgbtq-pride-flag
* "Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html
* "New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z
* "A Blue Wave in Virginia and Kentucky, Emma Watson's Self-Partnership & The Shape of the Universe:"
* "Elizabeth Warren Terrifies the 1 Percent:"
* "Local Elections 2019: Thank you, Kentucky! We love you, Virginia!:"
* "He’s Loaded: How the Trump Re-election Campaign Raised So Much Money:"
* "Scaling The Border: The Not-So-Great Wall of America:"
* "Why Is the Alt-Right So Angry?:"
* "California's Inmate Firefighters:"
* "NYC Bids Adieu To Donald Trump (In Song):"
* When I got home from forage, I discovered experimental Livia food outside the door. I'd like to thank whoever sent it and the money.
It was definitely a bacteria, because the improvement has been pretty dramatic. I've been needing to lie down a lot and lots of extra sleep, hence the way behind on the news. Tech data entry got finished this evening, and Squirrel did the ladder work, so we got exterior Halloween decorations down in time this evening.
Squirrel’s inspection is in the morning, so I need to be up for that, plus I have scheduled afternoon phone bureaucracy, so tomorrow I’ll likely be brutally short sleeped.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help
* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru
* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate
* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the
* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e
* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html
Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around
* 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 clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com
* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047
Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
* "UK prime minister withholding report on Russia's role in Brexit:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uk-prime-minister-withholding-report-on-russia-s-role-in-brexit-72912453798
* "Trump confirms Turkey's Erdoğan will visit White House next week:" https://www.axios.com/trump-turkey-erdogan-white-house-visit-7a186ca7-6bc7-430e-b063-216bbcf9e897.html
* These people are going to vote next November. Make sure you do to. "PA Voters Tell CNN They Would Still Vote For Trump If He Shot Someone:" https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pa-swing-voters-tell-cnn-they-could-still-vote-for-trump-if-he-shot-someone-youd-have-to-know-why/
* "Trump wanted Barr to hold news conference saying Trump broke no laws in Ukraine call:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wapo-trump-wanted-barr-to-hold-news-conference-saying-trump-broke-no-laws-in-ukraine-call-73005637621
* "Former US special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker's House testimony on Ukraine investigations:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/volker-transcript-impeachment-doc/index.html
* "US Ambassador to the European Union House testimony on Ukraine investigation:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/sondland-transcript-impeachment-doc/index.html
* "Sondland reverses himself on Ukraine, confirming quid pro quo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/sondland-reverses-himself-on-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-000318
* "5 takeaways from the Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker testimonies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/05/takeaways-gordon-sondlands-testimony/
* "Sondland revises House testimony, now recalls Trump quid pro quo:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sondland-revises-house-testimony-now-recalls-trump-quid-pro-quo-72908357620
* "4 big takeaways from Bill Taylor’s full transcript:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/06/big-takeaways-bill-taylors-full-transcript/
* "'I sensed something odd': What William Taylor told Trump impeachment investigators:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/william-taylor-impeachment-testimony-066834
* "State Department official testifying before House impeachment investigators:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/who-is-david-hale/index.html
* "Trump officials wanted Ukraine to implicate Bidens:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-officials-wanted-ukraine-to-implicate-bidens-72900677587
* "Pence aide likely to testify in impeachment inquiry:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/jennifer-williams-impeachment-inquiry/
* "Impeachment investigators ask Mick Mulvaney to testify:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/impeachment-investigators-ask-mick-mulvaney-to-testify-000317
* "Giuliani associate Parnas offers to comply with subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/04/lev-parnas-giuliani-subpoena-065817
* "McConnell says Senate would acquit Trump if trial held today:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/mcconell-senate-acquit-trump-066103
* "Senate Republicans consider including Bidens in Trump impeachment trial:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-consider-including-bidens-in-trump-impeachment-trial/2019/11/06/bde22272-fff3-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html
* "Lindsey Graham says he won't read House deposition transcripts:" https://www.axios.com/lindsey-graham-gordon-sondland-ukraine-transcript-427b75e1-af3e-47bd-8590-8fb320738f78.html
* "Roger Stone leaves Day 1 of trial early over food poisoning:" https://apnews.com/bf3e43dc56f244bda7dd6c4308d38e1d
* "Prosecutor says Roger Stone lied ‘because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trial-opens-for-roger-stone-accused-of-lying-about-wikileaks-and-trump-campaigns-interest-in-hacked-2016-democratic-emails/2019/11/06/647bd322-ff2b-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html
* "Stone trial opens new window on Trump's awareness of Russian help:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/stone-trial-opens-new-window-on-trump-s-awareness-of-russian-help-73014341650
* "Betsy DeVos Suffers Major Setbacks In Student Loan Lawsuits:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2019/11/06/betsy-devos-suffers-major-setbacks-in-student-loan-lawsuits/#6ffcfa60b5cc
* "Appeals Court Nominee Shaped DeVos’s Illegal Loan Forgiveness Effort:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/steven-menashi-confirmation.html
* "Trump nominee worked on illegal plan to deny help to scam victims:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-nominee-worked-on-illegal-plan-to-deny-help-to-scam-victims-73014341674
* "Cory Booker - A White House Bid Based on Inclusiveness and Courageous Empathy - Extended Interview:"
* "Julian Castro - A Bold and Fearless Presidential Campaign Against Trump in 2020 - Extended Interview:"
* "3 takeaways from Tuesday's elections in Kentucky, Virginia and Mississippi:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/2019-election-takeaways-kentucky-virginia-mississippi/index.html
* "Kentucky Elects LGBTQ-Supportive Democratic Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/05/kentucky-elects-lgbtq-supportive-democratic-governor
* "Over 80 LGBTQ Candidates Win Elections as Rainbow Wave Continues:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/06/over-80-lgbtq-candidates-win-elections-rainbow-wave-continues
* "Danica Roem Is First Out Trans Person Reelected to a State Legislature:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/05/danica-roem-first-out-trans-person-reelected-state-legislature
* "Shelly Simonds, Who Lost Random Draw in 2017 Race, Wins Handily in Virginia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/elections/shelly-simonds-virginia-house.html
* "Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump Elected to Office in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/11/06/cyclist-who-flipped-trump-elected-office-virginia
* "Virginia extends Democratic momentum in state legislatures:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/virginia-extends-democratic-momentum-in-state-legislatures-73014341560
* TW: Sexual Assault "Trump called woman who says he sexually assaulted her, phone records show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-called-woman-who-says-he-sexually-assaulted-her-phone-records-show/2019/11/05/d973b714-ffe2-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html
* "Innocent gay couple ‘traumatised’ after being falsely accused by vigilante paedophile hunters:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/gay-couple-traumatised-vigilante-paedophile-hunters-yorkshire-child-protectors-hull/
* "Trump Admin's 'License to Discriminate' Health Care Rule Struck Down:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2019/11/06/trump-admins-license-discriminate-health-care-rule-struck-down
* "Donald Trump Jr doubles down on shameless transphobia – and news host does nothing to challenge him:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/06/donald-trump-jr-cbs-this-morning-trans-athletes-transphobia/
* "Iowa Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Burning LGBTQ Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/11/06/iowa-man-convicted-hate-crime-burning-lgbtq-pride-flag
* "Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html
* "New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z
* "A Blue Wave in Virginia and Kentucky, Emma Watson's Self-Partnership & The Shape of the Universe:"
* "Elizabeth Warren Terrifies the 1 Percent:"
* "Local Elections 2019: Thank you, Kentucky! We love you, Virginia!:"
* "He’s Loaded: How the Trump Re-election Campaign Raised So Much Money:"
* "Scaling The Border: The Not-So-Great Wall of America:"
* "Why Is the Alt-Right So Angry?:"
* "California's Inmate Firefighters:"
* "NYC Bids Adieu To Donald Trump (In Song):"
* When I got home from forage, I discovered experimental Livia food outside the door. I'd like to thank whoever sent it and the money.
It was definitely a bacteria, because the improvement has been pretty dramatic. I've been needing to lie down a lot and lots of extra sleep, hence the way behind on the news. Tech data entry got finished this evening, and Squirrel did the ladder work, so we got exterior Halloween decorations down in time this evening.
Squirrel’s inspection is in the morning, so I need to be up for that, plus I have scheduled afternoon phone bureaucracy, so tomorrow I’ll likely be brutally short sleeped.
*****
* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help
* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru
* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate
* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the
* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e
* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html
Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around
* 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 clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com
* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available
* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion
* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047
Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654
* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html