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More Than Five Weeks Behind

I'm sectioning off epidemic specific stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff. I'm putting secondary effects things in their usual slots.

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* "Nursing homes linked to up to half of coronavirus deaths in Europe, WHO says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nursing-homes-coronavirus-deaths-europe/2020/04/23/d635619c-8561-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story.html

* "Did Japan miss its chance to keep the coronavirus in check?:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/did-japan-miss-its-chance-keep-coronavirus-check#

* "Coronavirus Finds Fuel in a World of Migrants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/world/asia/coronavirus-migrants.html

* "Japan Needs to Telework. Its Paper-Pushing Offices Make That Hard.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/business/japan-coronavirus-telework.html

* "‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/europe/coronavirus-american-exceptionalism.html

* "The Science Is Clear on How to Beat This Pandemic:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-endgame-consensus-experts/

* TW: Suicide "Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

* "‘Another nail in an almost closed coffin’: Trump faces his next coronavirus test:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/trump-coronavirus-testing-197839

* "Special Report: Former Labradoodle breeder was tapped to lead U.S. pandemic task force:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci-idUSKCN2243CE

* "Our Hospital Workers Need PPE...STAT!:"





* "We Are Living in a Failed State:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/

* "Trump’s strange claim about his CDC director being ‘misquoted’ reinforces his coronavirus alternate reality:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/22/trumps-strange-quibble-with-his-cdc-directors-quote-reinforces-danger-his-coronavirus-alternate-reality/

* "Trump awareness of U.S. COVID-19 death toll difficult to discern:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-awareness-of-u-s-covid-19-death-toll-difficult-to-discern-82500165822

* "11,000 deaths: Ravaged nursing homes plead for more testing:" https://apnews.com/e34b42d996968cf9fa0ef85697418b01

* "New York antibody study estimates 13.9% of residents have had the coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo says:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/new-york-antibody-study-estimates-13point9percent-of-residents-have-had-the-coronavirus-cuomo-says.html

* "Andrew Cuomo - Battling the COVID-19 Crisis in New York:"







* "CDC issues recommendations for closed South Dakota Smithfield plant following coronavirus outbreak:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/us/cdc-report-smithfield-plant-south-dakota/index.html

* "After Six COVID-19 Deaths, Judge Orders Elkton Prison To Transfer At-Risk Inmates:" https://radio.wosu.org/post/after-six-covid-19-deaths-judge-orders-elkton-prison-transfer-risk-inmates#stream/0

* "Doctor whose prescience saved countless lives reflects on first stay-at-home order:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doctor-whose-prescience-saved-countless-lives-reflects-on-first-stay-at-home-order-82501701587

* "Prison conditions key to controlling coronavirus spread in U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prison-conditions-key-to-controlling-coronavirus-spread-in-u-s-82500165786

* "Anderson Cooper Gobsmacked by Vegas Mayor's 'Ignorant' Claims:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/23/anderson-cooper-gobsmacked-vegas-mayors-ignorant-claims

* "‘The mayor doesn’t speak for the state of Nevada:’ Gov. Sisolak on mayor’s calls to open Las Vegas:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-mayor-doesn-t-speak-for-the-state-of-nevada-gov-sisolak-on-mayor-s-calls-to-open-las-vegas-82472517970

* "Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz Spew Quackery on Fox News:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/21/dr-phil-dr-oz-spew-quackery-fox-news

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* "Trump’s first openly gay cabinet member wants to stop sharing intelligence with countries where it’s illegal to be gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/donald-trump-richard-grenell-national-intelligence-gay-sex-homosexuality-illegal/

* "How a Trump administration official is quietly exploiting the pandemic to advance her family business — and right-wing agenda:" https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/how-a-trump-administration-official-is-quietly-exploiting-the-pandemic-to-advance-her-family-business-and-right-wing-agenda/

* "Dan Scavino Promoted as Meadows Shuffles White House Communications Team:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/dan-scavino-promotion.html

* "House passes $484 billion coronavirus aid package as U.S. jobless figures soar:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/22/coronavirus-latest-news-2/

* "Layoffs wreck the states that lifted Trump to the White House:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/states-that-helped-trump-win-see-biggest-job-losses-204072

* "The risk of a US double-dip depression is real :" https://www.ft.com/content/ecca2149-ddfc-47e0-983c-9bf0a6c3fae1

* "Unemployment claims top 26 million 5 weeks into pandemic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/coronavirus-unemployment-claims-numbers-203455

* "Fresh $310 billion in loans for small businesses already gone, bankers say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paycheck-protection-program-small-business-already-gone/

* "US issues new guidance for small business loans, pressures public companies to return funds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/us-issues-new-guidance-for-small-business-loans-to-make-it-harder-for-public-companies-to-get-funds.html

* "Chris Hayes: The backstory of Florida's terrible unemployment system is way worse than simple incompetence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-backstory-of-florida-s-terrible-unemployment-system-is-way-worse-than-simple-incompetence-82474053990

* "Opening up the economy won’t save the economy:" https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228651/opening-up-save-economy-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-shutdown

* "Trump says he told Kemp: ‘I totally disagree’ with move to reopen Georgia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/trump-kemp-georgia-reopen-coronavirus-202117

* "Cleve Jones: Unions Have Our Backs and We Need to Return the Favor:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/23/cleve-jones-unions-have-our-backs-and-we-need-return-favor

* "Exploiting a Health Care Emergency to Restrict Reproductive Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/23/exploiting-health-care-emergency-restrict-reproductive-rights

* "Homophobic governor spends coronavirus lockdown celebrating a ban on abortions with an anti-LGBT+ group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/abortion-ban-homophobia-texas-governor-coronavirus-jeff-leach-greg-abbott-anti-lgbt/

* "Liz Truss reveals ‘shocking’ plan to remove healthcare for trans youth, slammed as an ‘extraordinary’ attack on equality:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/liz-truss-trans-rights-gender-recognition-act-reform-healthcare-puberty-blockers-backlash/

* "Meet the UK’s first-ever openly HIV-positive mayor: ‘I hope I can show there’s no bar to what people with HIV can achieve’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/24/philip-normal-first-openly-hiv-positive-mayor-lambeth-albert-kennedy-trust-stigma-labour/

* "Trans man comes forward as the latest victim of a threatening nude Snapchat ‘blackmail’ campaign:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/21/snapchat-blackmail-trans-man-victim-nudes-explicit-pictures-dundee-scotland-virginia-police/

* "Bodies of two brutally murdered trans women found in a burned out car in Puetro Rico. Activists warn: ‘They’re hunting us’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/24/puerto-rico-trans-murder-layla-pelaez-sanchez-serena-angelique-velazquez-ramos/

* "Air pollution drops around the world amid coronavirus lockdowns:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/air-pollution-drops-around-the-world-amid-coronavirus-lockdowns-82475077908

* "Meet the bisexual war poet adored by Churchill and who WB Yeats called 'the handsomest young man in England':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/rupert-brooke-bisexual-first-world-war-poet-winston-churchill-bloomsbury-group-wb-yeats-death/

* This is so sad. "Award-winning photographer who fled Iran to live his life freely as a gay man has died from coronavirus:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/shahin-shahablou-iran-photographer-gay-lgbt-death-coronavirus-tribute-kevin-lismore/

* "Why We Need To Shut Down The Idea Of Reopening America:"





* "President Trump, You're Going To Have To Do The Unthinkable: Your Job:"





* "Las Vegas Mayor Rolls The Dice On Reopening, But Anderson Cooper Is Having None Of It:"





* "Mitch McConnell's "Screw The States" Plan Riles Lawmakers From Both Parties:"





* "Trump's Chaos Is the Only Constant During the Pandemic Crisis:"





* "The Killers perform "Mr. Brightside" | One World: Together At Home:"





* "John Legend Performs "Nothing Compares 2 U" | Let's Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute To Prince:"





* "The Rolling Stones perform "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | | One World: Together At Home:"





* " Usher and Sheila E. Honor Prince:"





* "Hozier performs "Take Me To Church" | One World: Together At Home:"





* "Lizzo performs "A Change Is Gonna Come" | One World: Together At Home:"





* "John Legend & Sam Smith perform "Stand By Me" | One World: Together At Home:"





* ""Waving Through a Window" (Virtual Chorus) by GMCW:"





* I've been dealing with a tone of cat mess and sleep disruption. I'm too tired to write about it or explain properly, but that's why posting schedules are so weird.

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks

* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* 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/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* 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

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
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