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gwydion* "Five policemen arrested over India custody deaths:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53260209
* "Singapore votes against backdrop of pandemic:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53358650
* "Philippines top broadcaster refused renewal license:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53360925
* "Safronov’s Arrest Is a New Low for Freedom of Speech in Russia:" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/07/08/safronovs-arrest-is-a-new-low-for-freedom-of-speech-in-russia-a70820
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* "Tearful WHO director calls for global unity to fight the virus following U.S. pullout:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/07/09/tearful-who-director-calls-global-unity-fight-virus-following-us-pullout/
* "Serbia Protests Meet Violent Response in Europe’s 1st Major Virus Unrest:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/europe/serbia-protests-coronavirus.html
"“We don’t mind staying home for another three days — that wasn’t the problem,” said Dragana Grncarski, 45, a fashion events manager who protested on both days. However, they’re playing with our minds and with the truth,” Ms. Grncarski added. “When it suits them to do elections, there is no corona. They organized football matches and tennis matches, and because of that we have a situation where the hospitals are full.”
* "Serbia scraps virus curfew plan after protests:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53353854
* "With nearly 300,000 COVID-19 cases, Chile overtakes Spain as 6th worst-hit country in the world:" https://santiagotimes.cl/2020/07/06/with-nearly-300000-covid-19-cases-chile-overtakes-spain-as-6th-worst-hit-country-in-the-world/
* "Bolivian president has COVID-19 as virus hits region's elite:" https://apnews.com/5f8260ba049a79f45fd96568370d3f3d
* "Venezuela socialist party boss announces he has COVID-19:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/venezuela-socialist-party-boss-announces-covid-19-71702747
* "Brazil's Bolsonaro Faces Suit For Unmasking As He Announced Coronavirus Diagnosis:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/889268503/brazils-bolsonaro-sued-for-unmasking-as-he-announced-positive-test-for-covid-19
* "Fighting on Yemen's Covid front line:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-53342668/coronavirus-the-doctors-on-yemen-s-front-line
* "U.S. coronavirus cases pass 3 million:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/us-coronavirus-cases-pass-3-million-352578
* "More than a fifth of Americans live in counties with new highs in coronavirus cases:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/08/more-than-fifth-americans-live-counties-with-new-highs-coronavirus-cases/
* "As coronavirus hospitalizations climb, Trump sidelines health advisers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/09/coronavirus-live-updates-us/
* "A Spike in People Dying at Home Suggests Coronavirus Deaths in Houston May Be Higher Than Reported:" https://www.propublica.org/article/a-spike-in-people-dying-at-home-suggests-coronavirus-deaths-in-houston-may-be-higher-than-reported
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* "Why Trump's trade war failed:" https://theweek.com/articles/923813/why-trumps-trade-war-failed
* "Coronavirus follows Trump on tour; Next stop: New Hampshire:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/coronavirus-follows-trump-on-tour-next-stop-new-hampshire-87355973678
* "Jacksonville attorneys file lawsuit to block city from hosting Republican National Convention amid pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/florida-lawyers-sue-republican-convention/index.html
* "Supreme Court splits on Trump tax cases, potentially shielding returns until after election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns-financial-records-353428
* "SCOTUS rejects presidential immunity; renders Trump regular:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/scotus-rejects-presidential-immunity-renders-trump-regular-87354437977
* "Michael Cohen taken into custody for violating terms of his early release from prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/michael-cohen-in-custody/index.html
* "Trump scandals pass by, lose spotlight to new Trump scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-scandals-pass-by-lose-spotlight-to-new-trump-scandals-87355973702
* "Berman tells House panel that Barr's plans to replace him were 'unprecedented, unnecessary and unexplained':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/geoffrey-berman-house-testimony/index.html
* "Vindman to retire from military. His lawyer blames White House 'campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/vindman-retiring-alleged-white-house-retaliation/index.html
* "Chief Justice John Roberts was briefly hospitalized in June after a fall:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/john-roberts-hospitalized-after-fall-in-june/index.html
* "Unemployment claims are falling. But 1.3 million still applied for assistance last week:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/economy/unemployment-benefits-coronavirus/index.html
* "Televangelists, megachurches tied to Trump approved for millions in pandemic aid:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-religious-idUSKBN2480CB
* "Sanders-Biden climate task force calls for carbon-free power by 2035:" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/506432-sanders-biden-climate-task-force-calls-for-carbon-free-electricity
* "Bernie: Joint task force policies will make Biden ‘most progressive president since FDR’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-joint-task-force-policies-will-make-biden-most-progressive-president-since-fdr-87244357520
* "GOP election lawyer explains how Trump’s war on mail-in voting could backfire:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-election-lawyer-explains-how-trump-s-war-on-mail-in-voting-could-backfire-87245893552
* "Trump threatens to cut federal funds from schools that don't reopen:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-schools-reopening-federal-funding-352311
* "Trump disavows his own administration’s guidance for reopening schools:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-white-house-reopening-schools-352236
* "Hayes on Trump push to reopen schools: The last person we should trust with safety of kids:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-trump-push-to-reopen-schools-the-last-person-we-should-trust-with-safety-of-kids-87243333568
* "States sue U.S. Department of Education over diverted virus relief funds for schools:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/states-sue-u-s-department-over-virus-relief-funds-for-schools
* "CDC director says no revised school guidelines despite Trump's push:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/cdc-guidelines-school-reopenings/index.html
* "Harvard, MIT file suit over Trump administration visa rule for international students:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/harvard-mit-visa-rule-international-students-352448
* "One million foreign students risk being frozen out of US colleges. Some might never come back:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/americas/international-student-visa-united-states-intl-hnk/index.html
* He also may be a pedophile. "Police officer charged with being a member of banned homophobic, racist, neo-Nazi terrorist organisation:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/met-metropolitan-police-officer-national-action-terrorist-nazi-group-charged-benjamin-hannam/
* Can we make this universal? "New law inspired by gay man’s ordeal will make fake, racist 911 calls a criminal offence. It’s called the CAREN Act:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/karen-caren-act-san-francisco-fake-racist-911-calls-lisa-alexander/
* "Man making racist comments caught on video identified as tech CEO Michael Lofthouse:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/07/tech-ceo-michael-lofthouse-video-racist-comments/5394122002/
* "Experts see no proof of child-abuse surge amid pandemic:" https://apnews.com/d7db9e073beb507bda0207408376cb87
* "Supreme Court upholds Trump's rollback of birth control coverage mandate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-upholds-trumps-limits-on-birth-control-coverage-352385
* "Forced conversion therapy should be considered a form of torture, says UN violence expert:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/08/un-conversion-therapy-torture-ban-lgbt-rights-gay-trans-victor-madrigal-borloz/
* "Christian group kicked out of leafy south England village after trying to recruit Pride goers into hateful conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/bethel-christian-assembly-conversion-therapy-shalford-village-pride-in-surrey/
* "Police chief gives speech about respecting young people. Days later, his officer is filmed calling a gang 'little f****ts':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/jersey-police-investigation-homophobia-coronavirus-channel-islands-robin-smith/
* "Same-sex marriages are being 'blocked' in Northern Ireland. These trailblazing lesbians say the government is to blame:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/northern-ireland-secretary-brandon-lewis-same-sex-marriage-robyn-sharni-edwards-peoples/
* "Majority of women support trans people's right to self-identify despite relentless transphobia, eye-opening polling finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/trans-self-identify-liz-truss-gender-recognition-act-yougov-polling-women-dawn-butler/
* "Community rallies behind the last Black-owned queer bar in New York after threats from homophobes and a global pandemic:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/alibi-lounge-crowdfunder-coronavirus-pandemic-pride-gofundme-alexi-minko-black/
* "Politician sent threatening letter filled with homophobic, racist and misogynistic slurs admits he wrote it himself:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/jonathan-lopez-politician-received-racist-homophobic-letter-admits-he-actually-sent-it-to-himself-oregon/
* "Non-binary people gain legal recognition and birth certificate rights in historic Oregon ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/oregon-non-binary-legal-recognition-birth-certificate-jones-hollister-gender/
* "Holding Hands Is an Act of Resistance for Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/7/08/holding-hands-act-resistance-same-sex-couples
* "70 Nations Sound Alarm: We're Running Out of HIV Meds:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2020/7/08/70-nations-sound-alarm-were-running-out-hiv-meds
* "History made as first person ever is 'cured' of HIV using medication alone:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/07/hiv-cure-cancer-aidsmap-aids-conference-nicotinamide-matthew-hodson-coronavirus/
“We need to know whether this finding will be replicated in other people, especially as it was not replicated in four other people on the trial."
* TW: Genocide. "History's Most Dangerous Toddler:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/simon-of-trent-historys-most-dangerous-toddler
* "Jolene (Bardcore | Medieval Style):"
* "Alone Together Episode 1 - Alexander Siddig & Andrew Robinson:"
* Little Miss Update: She's compensating really well for the mild issues with her right side. she has lots of comfy nap spots and the humans are giving her attention on demand. I'm noticed Tavy's been really good to both girls and taking out his boredom and the tress of being good in other ways. I can live with being occasionally bitten and doing extra laundry, so it is very worth it.
Neither Tavy nor Livia is sitting vigil, but they are starting to treat her the way LM treated hector his last year when he was failing. My feeling is they know she's not well, but they don't think death is immanent.
She is spending the evening with Squirrel, but she's very herself when I've seen her out and about. Her quality of life is still good; it's just once strokes start, it's best to prepare oneself, because it can be really sudden.
* During the Larry Kramer memorial stuff, people made mention of the homoerotic wrestling scene in Women in Love. You'd think I'd have seen it, given my admiration for Glenda Jackson, but I hadn't. It came out the year I was born and for obvious reasons wasn't on TV for me to see growing up. I want to be clear, I have never read Lawrence in a formal educational setting, and I've not read the scholarship either, so this is just my opinion with no clue where the discourse is, academic or other wise.
At my first college, I had a friend who read that set of novels and was utterly enamored of them, Women in love in particular. I tried. I really did, but I gave up around the drownings. The world is full of books; this one wasn't assigned, and when I read on my own time I pick things that don't simultaneously bore me and make me want to smack the characters and/or the author. My friend was a delight, but I couldn't with D.H Lawrence any of the times I attempted to read him.
I thought: I should see this movie. I could at least see what the rest of it was like without torturing myself with the novel. I've seen the movie referenced a lot over the years in assorted contexts. It has cinema and queer history cred. Two birds with one stone, right?
It was 1969, so there were strict limits on what they could get away with, and this thing really was riding the leading edge in a bunch of ways even though the more clear queer content turned out to be not good. (Creepy guy who was really assholish and pretentious and boorish with boy toy). Trust me main character nude wrestling in place of mlm sex with the men talking about love and being eternally bound to each other as they lay all sweaty in the aftermath? Seriously, this is as good as it gets for bisexual coded characters in film at this point in history. I think they may only have gotten away with it because of the kind of masculinity Oliver Reed projected, much the way only someone like warren Beatty could have played a male asexual at that point (Bonnie and Clyde 1967). So props for that in a late sixties movie based on a novel from 1920.
It is beautifully shot. It is so dull for long stretches I wanted to give up. It was a good adaptation of what I remember about the parts I got through when I was... I'm guessing 19? I say that because it annoyed me in exactly the ways I remember being annoyed. At this distance I can see exactly why that particular friend was obsessed with them at that point in his intellectual development. I couldn't articulate my issues with the book at that point, and wouldn't have because pissing on something that mattered to him in the particular way it did would have been dickish.
I've spent the three or so days it took me to drag myself;f through the movie in bites small enough to not throw things at the screen to figure out wording that would explain why it got my back up so much both then as a book and now as a movie. The men are infuriating in a way I was already far too familiar with at that age. Rupert thinks he's being modern and edgey, but he's just a boorish asshole who loves to hear himself philosophize. We've all met this guy, at parties and coffee shops and classrooms. He like to shock with his ideas and his theories. he loves the sound of his own voice. He thinks if he can persuade you to believe exactly what he does it will fix your life. Fuck that! Gerald is a crude and violent boor with no empathy. They just... Gah! Accurate, right? I'm not arguing with the art of it, I just wouldn't enjoy spending even a moment with any of the men in this book in real life, and I really didn't enjoy them in the movie any better despite the quality of the main cast acting.
Then there's the women. I remember how they were in the book because I'd seen in elsewhere in a lot of 20th century writing by men, although D. H. Lawrence must have been an early adopter. He writes his women exactly like a man who has a Theory about What Women are Like. Ugh. I have since studied history of feminism in enough depth to know how this particular view of women fits into various late Victorian/Edwardianish era debates. I also have the hindsight of knowing where that strand of thought was going to lead in the course of the 20th century. His women aren't real people; his women are expressions of an idea he has about women. I couldn't articulate my objection at 19 or 20, but I was instinctively grumpy about it.
So much of the characterization of the women was... not in the dialog, so I was trying to work out how they were going to manage it on screen. They clearly tried. The writer tried. The director tried. Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden tried. Really they did. They all tried so terribly hard, but often I was looking at cyphers, who would suddenly act or express opinions out of the blue.
So I really, really didn't like it. I can see why he was taken with it and why it's meant to be a classic, but I hate it even more than Catcher in the Rye, which I wouldn't have guessed was possible. (Yes, I know why catcher in the Rye is considered a classic and I've had explained to me what the author was clearly trying to do. They made me reread it for one of my re-certification continuing ed things and having the prof explain context and subtext in it did help, but there are books doing similar work with trauma that do not make me want to curse and throw the book across the room). I'm not sorry I watched the movie once, because it really did clarify why I reacted to the book like a cat reacts to water, I just never want to have to touch another Lawrence anything again.
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us
* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely
* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and
* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE
* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html
* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities
* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
* "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
* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser
* 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/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE
* 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 help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid
* 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
* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV
* 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:
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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
* "Singapore votes against backdrop of pandemic:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53358650
* "Philippines top broadcaster refused renewal license:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53360925
* "Safronov’s Arrest Is a New Low for Freedom of Speech in Russia:" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/07/08/safronovs-arrest-is-a-new-low-for-freedom-of-speech-in-russia-a70820
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* "Tearful WHO director calls for global unity to fight the virus following U.S. pullout:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/07/09/tearful-who-director-calls-global-unity-fight-virus-following-us-pullout/
* "Serbia Protests Meet Violent Response in Europe’s 1st Major Virus Unrest:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/europe/serbia-protests-coronavirus.html
"“We don’t mind staying home for another three days — that wasn’t the problem,” said Dragana Grncarski, 45, a fashion events manager who protested on both days. However, they’re playing with our minds and with the truth,” Ms. Grncarski added. “When it suits them to do elections, there is no corona. They organized football matches and tennis matches, and because of that we have a situation where the hospitals are full.”
* "Serbia scraps virus curfew plan after protests:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53353854
* "With nearly 300,000 COVID-19 cases, Chile overtakes Spain as 6th worst-hit country in the world:" https://santiagotimes.cl/2020/07/06/with-nearly-300000-covid-19-cases-chile-overtakes-spain-as-6th-worst-hit-country-in-the-world/
* "Bolivian president has COVID-19 as virus hits region's elite:" https://apnews.com/5f8260ba049a79f45fd96568370d3f3d
* "Venezuela socialist party boss announces he has COVID-19:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/venezuela-socialist-party-boss-announces-covid-19-71702747
* "Brazil's Bolsonaro Faces Suit For Unmasking As He Announced Coronavirus Diagnosis:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/889268503/brazils-bolsonaro-sued-for-unmasking-as-he-announced-positive-test-for-covid-19
* "Fighting on Yemen's Covid front line:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-53342668/coronavirus-the-doctors-on-yemen-s-front-line
* "U.S. coronavirus cases pass 3 million:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/us-coronavirus-cases-pass-3-million-352578
* "More than a fifth of Americans live in counties with new highs in coronavirus cases:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/08/more-than-fifth-americans-live-counties-with-new-highs-coronavirus-cases/
* "As coronavirus hospitalizations climb, Trump sidelines health advisers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/09/coronavirus-live-updates-us/
* "A Spike in People Dying at Home Suggests Coronavirus Deaths in Houston May Be Higher Than Reported:" https://www.propublica.org/article/a-spike-in-people-dying-at-home-suggests-coronavirus-deaths-in-houston-may-be-higher-than-reported
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* "Why Trump's trade war failed:" https://theweek.com/articles/923813/why-trumps-trade-war-failed
* "Coronavirus follows Trump on tour; Next stop: New Hampshire:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/coronavirus-follows-trump-on-tour-next-stop-new-hampshire-87355973678
* "Jacksonville attorneys file lawsuit to block city from hosting Republican National Convention amid pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/florida-lawyers-sue-republican-convention/index.html
* "Supreme Court splits on Trump tax cases, potentially shielding returns until after election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns-financial-records-353428
* "SCOTUS rejects presidential immunity; renders Trump regular:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/scotus-rejects-presidential-immunity-renders-trump-regular-87354437977
* "Michael Cohen taken into custody for violating terms of his early release from prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/michael-cohen-in-custody/index.html
* "Trump scandals pass by, lose spotlight to new Trump scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-scandals-pass-by-lose-spotlight-to-new-trump-scandals-87355973702
* "Berman tells House panel that Barr's plans to replace him were 'unprecedented, unnecessary and unexplained':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/geoffrey-berman-house-testimony/index.html
* "Vindman to retire from military. His lawyer blames White House 'campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/vindman-retiring-alleged-white-house-retaliation/index.html
* "Chief Justice John Roberts was briefly hospitalized in June after a fall:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/john-roberts-hospitalized-after-fall-in-june/index.html
* "Unemployment claims are falling. But 1.3 million still applied for assistance last week:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/economy/unemployment-benefits-coronavirus/index.html
* "Televangelists, megachurches tied to Trump approved for millions in pandemic aid:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-religious-idUSKBN2480CB
* "Sanders-Biden climate task force calls for carbon-free power by 2035:" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/506432-sanders-biden-climate-task-force-calls-for-carbon-free-electricity
* "Bernie: Joint task force policies will make Biden ‘most progressive president since FDR’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-joint-task-force-policies-will-make-biden-most-progressive-president-since-fdr-87244357520
* "GOP election lawyer explains how Trump’s war on mail-in voting could backfire:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-election-lawyer-explains-how-trump-s-war-on-mail-in-voting-could-backfire-87245893552
* "Trump threatens to cut federal funds from schools that don't reopen:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-schools-reopening-federal-funding-352311
* "Trump disavows his own administration’s guidance for reopening schools:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-white-house-reopening-schools-352236
* "Hayes on Trump push to reopen schools: The last person we should trust with safety of kids:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-trump-push-to-reopen-schools-the-last-person-we-should-trust-with-safety-of-kids-87243333568
* "States sue U.S. Department of Education over diverted virus relief funds for schools:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/states-sue-u-s-department-over-virus-relief-funds-for-schools
* "CDC director says no revised school guidelines despite Trump's push:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/cdc-guidelines-school-reopenings/index.html
* "Harvard, MIT file suit over Trump administration visa rule for international students:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/harvard-mit-visa-rule-international-students-352448
* "One million foreign students risk being frozen out of US colleges. Some might never come back:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/americas/international-student-visa-united-states-intl-hnk/index.html
* He also may be a pedophile. "Police officer charged with being a member of banned homophobic, racist, neo-Nazi terrorist organisation:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/met-metropolitan-police-officer-national-action-terrorist-nazi-group-charged-benjamin-hannam/
* Can we make this universal? "New law inspired by gay man’s ordeal will make fake, racist 911 calls a criminal offence. It’s called the CAREN Act:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/karen-caren-act-san-francisco-fake-racist-911-calls-lisa-alexander/
* "Man making racist comments caught on video identified as tech CEO Michael Lofthouse:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/07/tech-ceo-michael-lofthouse-video-racist-comments/5394122002/
* "Experts see no proof of child-abuse surge amid pandemic:" https://apnews.com/d7db9e073beb507bda0207408376cb87
* "Supreme Court upholds Trump's rollback of birth control coverage mandate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-upholds-trumps-limits-on-birth-control-coverage-352385
* "Forced conversion therapy should be considered a form of torture, says UN violence expert:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/08/un-conversion-therapy-torture-ban-lgbt-rights-gay-trans-victor-madrigal-borloz/
* "Christian group kicked out of leafy south England village after trying to recruit Pride goers into hateful conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/bethel-christian-assembly-conversion-therapy-shalford-village-pride-in-surrey/
* "Police chief gives speech about respecting young people. Days later, his officer is filmed calling a gang 'little f****ts':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/jersey-police-investigation-homophobia-coronavirus-channel-islands-robin-smith/
* "Same-sex marriages are being 'blocked' in Northern Ireland. These trailblazing lesbians say the government is to blame:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/northern-ireland-secretary-brandon-lewis-same-sex-marriage-robyn-sharni-edwards-peoples/
* "Majority of women support trans people's right to self-identify despite relentless transphobia, eye-opening polling finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/trans-self-identify-liz-truss-gender-recognition-act-yougov-polling-women-dawn-butler/
* "Community rallies behind the last Black-owned queer bar in New York after threats from homophobes and a global pandemic:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/alibi-lounge-crowdfunder-coronavirus-pandemic-pride-gofundme-alexi-minko-black/
* "Politician sent threatening letter filled with homophobic, racist and misogynistic slurs admits he wrote it himself:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/jonathan-lopez-politician-received-racist-homophobic-letter-admits-he-actually-sent-it-to-himself-oregon/
* "Non-binary people gain legal recognition and birth certificate rights in historic Oregon ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/oregon-non-binary-legal-recognition-birth-certificate-jones-hollister-gender/
* "Holding Hands Is an Act of Resistance for Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/7/08/holding-hands-act-resistance-same-sex-couples
* "70 Nations Sound Alarm: We're Running Out of HIV Meds:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2020/7/08/70-nations-sound-alarm-were-running-out-hiv-meds
* "History made as first person ever is 'cured' of HIV using medication alone:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/07/hiv-cure-cancer-aidsmap-aids-conference-nicotinamide-matthew-hodson-coronavirus/
“We need to know whether this finding will be replicated in other people, especially as it was not replicated in four other people on the trial."
* TW: Genocide. "History's Most Dangerous Toddler:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/simon-of-trent-historys-most-dangerous-toddler
* "Jolene (Bardcore | Medieval Style):"
* "Alone Together Episode 1 - Alexander Siddig & Andrew Robinson:"
* Little Miss Update: She's compensating really well for the mild issues with her right side. she has lots of comfy nap spots and the humans are giving her attention on demand. I'm noticed Tavy's been really good to both girls and taking out his boredom and the tress of being good in other ways. I can live with being occasionally bitten and doing extra laundry, so it is very worth it.
Neither Tavy nor Livia is sitting vigil, but they are starting to treat her the way LM treated hector his last year when he was failing. My feeling is they know she's not well, but they don't think death is immanent.
She is spending the evening with Squirrel, but she's very herself when I've seen her out and about. Her quality of life is still good; it's just once strokes start, it's best to prepare oneself, because it can be really sudden.
* During the Larry Kramer memorial stuff, people made mention of the homoerotic wrestling scene in Women in Love. You'd think I'd have seen it, given my admiration for Glenda Jackson, but I hadn't. It came out the year I was born and for obvious reasons wasn't on TV for me to see growing up. I want to be clear, I have never read Lawrence in a formal educational setting, and I've not read the scholarship either, so this is just my opinion with no clue where the discourse is, academic or other wise.
At my first college, I had a friend who read that set of novels and was utterly enamored of them, Women in love in particular. I tried. I really did, but I gave up around the drownings. The world is full of books; this one wasn't assigned, and when I read on my own time I pick things that don't simultaneously bore me and make me want to smack the characters and/or the author. My friend was a delight, but I couldn't with D.H Lawrence any of the times I attempted to read him.
I thought: I should see this movie. I could at least see what the rest of it was like without torturing myself with the novel. I've seen the movie referenced a lot over the years in assorted contexts. It has cinema and queer history cred. Two birds with one stone, right?
It was 1969, so there were strict limits on what they could get away with, and this thing really was riding the leading edge in a bunch of ways even though the more clear queer content turned out to be not good. (Creepy guy who was really assholish and pretentious and boorish with boy toy). Trust me main character nude wrestling in place of mlm sex with the men talking about love and being eternally bound to each other as they lay all sweaty in the aftermath? Seriously, this is as good as it gets for bisexual coded characters in film at this point in history. I think they may only have gotten away with it because of the kind of masculinity Oliver Reed projected, much the way only someone like warren Beatty could have played a male asexual at that point (Bonnie and Clyde 1967). So props for that in a late sixties movie based on a novel from 1920.
It is beautifully shot. It is so dull for long stretches I wanted to give up. It was a good adaptation of what I remember about the parts I got through when I was... I'm guessing 19? I say that because it annoyed me in exactly the ways I remember being annoyed. At this distance I can see exactly why that particular friend was obsessed with them at that point in his intellectual development. I couldn't articulate my issues with the book at that point, and wouldn't have because pissing on something that mattered to him in the particular way it did would have been dickish.
I've spent the three or so days it took me to drag myself;f through the movie in bites small enough to not throw things at the screen to figure out wording that would explain why it got my back up so much both then as a book and now as a movie. The men are infuriating in a way I was already far too familiar with at that age. Rupert thinks he's being modern and edgey, but he's just a boorish asshole who loves to hear himself philosophize. We've all met this guy, at parties and coffee shops and classrooms. He like to shock with his ideas and his theories. he loves the sound of his own voice. He thinks if he can persuade you to believe exactly what he does it will fix your life. Fuck that! Gerald is a crude and violent boor with no empathy. They just... Gah! Accurate, right? I'm not arguing with the art of it, I just wouldn't enjoy spending even a moment with any of the men in this book in real life, and I really didn't enjoy them in the movie any better despite the quality of the main cast acting.
Then there's the women. I remember how they were in the book because I'd seen in elsewhere in a lot of 20th century writing by men, although D. H. Lawrence must have been an early adopter. He writes his women exactly like a man who has a Theory about What Women are Like. Ugh. I have since studied history of feminism in enough depth to know how this particular view of women fits into various late Victorian/Edwardianish era debates. I also have the hindsight of knowing where that strand of thought was going to lead in the course of the 20th century. His women aren't real people; his women are expressions of an idea he has about women. I couldn't articulate my objection at 19 or 20, but I was instinctively grumpy about it.
So much of the characterization of the women was... not in the dialog, so I was trying to work out how they were going to manage it on screen. They clearly tried. The writer tried. The director tried. Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden tried. Really they did. They all tried so terribly hard, but often I was looking at cyphers, who would suddenly act or express opinions out of the blue.
So I really, really didn't like it. I can see why he was taken with it and why it's meant to be a classic, but I hate it even more than Catcher in the Rye, which I wouldn't have guessed was possible. (Yes, I know why catcher in the Rye is considered a classic and I've had explained to me what the author was clearly trying to do. They made me reread it for one of my re-certification continuing ed things and having the prof explain context and subtext in it did help, but there are books doing similar work with trauma that do not make me want to curse and throw the book across the room). I'm not sorry I watched the movie once, because it really did clarify why I reacted to the book like a cat reacts to water, I just never want to have to touch another Lawrence anything again.
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us
* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely
* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and
* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE
* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html
* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities
* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
* "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
* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser
* 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/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE
* 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 help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid
* 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
* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV
* 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:
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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